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| PLANTATION NAME: | CASCINE | |
| ASSOCIATED LINK(s): | cousin to Elijah B. Perry Plantation | |
| OWNER: | Jeremiah Perry (1731-1777), then later to nephew, Jeremiah Perry (1761-1838) | |
| BUILT: | The older house built ca 1751, the larger one was built in the 1850's | |
| ASSOCIATED SURNAMES: | PERRY | |
| HISTORY: | Cascine is
one of the original homesteads of a family said to have been the most
numerous in Franklin County. There were 7 men who are believed to have been
brothers who first showed up in Old Granville Co. by 1751; they were
Jeremiah, John, Joshua, Nathaniel, William, Francis & Burwell (aka Burrell).
In 1752, Jeremiah Perry (1731-1777) obtained a grant for 382 acres south of
Cedar Creek from the Earl of Granville. On this tract shortly afterward he
built Cascine. By a grant dated 1763, Perry received an additional 700 acres
on the branches of Cedar Creek, no doubt contiguous to his original grant.
The name Cascine may have been taken from the
name of a well-known park in Florence, Italy, La
Cascine, where horse racing was a popular attraction. The name is
especially apt since according to tradition, horse racing was a frequent
entertainment at Perry's Cascine; the great circle of oaks near the house is
pointed out as having been a race course. The 7 Original Perry Brothers were: The line of family descended from Burwell Perry's son, Jeremiah,
were the owners of Cascine. They were his son, Col. Jeremiah Perry
(1761-1838), whose children were: Nathan, Bennett, Willis, Henry, Redding,
Algernon Sidney, Betsy (Conyers), Chloe (Neal), & Temperance Perry. |
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| SLAVE POPULATION: | In 1860, there
were 83 Slaves, with 25 houses at Cascine. The listings here have links to
full transcriptions of Wills & Estates with additional info, so be sure to
check them out, too. Col. Jeremiah Perry, owner of Cascine, & son of the original Burwell Perry, died in 1839, and left a large estate that included 105 Slaves. His Will, written in 1838, has a distribution of his Slaves and property, which can be read: Will of Jeremiah Perry, 1838. Following is the inventory of his slaves recorded December 1839: An Inventory of the Estate of Col. Jeremiah Perry, deceased; 105 Slaves |
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| BIG JACOB LUDA BIG JIM EDMON MINOR HARRY, son of SELY OLD HALL SUCKY HANDY OLD SILVA OLD PETER OLD MOURNING JORDAN BECCA MINGO PEGGY HANNER HORRACE DAVY DANIEL DICK CATHERINE HARRIOT NORFLEET JANE GREEN CRESY ELIZA DOLLY HARRY CHARLOTT AILSEY KEARNY TINER VICEY ABRAM BURTON CAROLINE HIXEY WESLEY YOUNG MOURNING LYDIA MARTIN MARIAH SAUL BARBARY SIMON YORK
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AARON BATTLE BEN PACE DRED CHLO OLD ARCH DUFFIN AMOS ARCH (a boy) EASTER RUFFIN JIM (a child) EPSIE KINCHEN ANDREW SHARPER WASHINGTON ADAM SARAH LEVENA ALSTON STEPHEN HAMP ZILPHA SUCK YOUNG PETER ELLIN PAYTON ELLIC HAYWOOD VINA OLD BEN ISAAC EPHRAM WARRIC LEWIS BARTLET FANNY SALLY WINNY WASHINGTON BRISTER YOUNG SILVA CINTHIA PATIENCE |
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****************** List of Slaves from the Will of BENNETT PERRY, 1847 (son of Col. Jeremiah Perry): |
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| OLD ANDREW LITTLE ANDREW DAVID DANIEL sometimes called HALL ISAAC JESSE GRACE SALLY CAROLINE, and all her children DENIS BEN HENDERSON MATILDA MARY TOM LUCY, and all her children JANE KINCHEN HAYWOOD SIDNEY ROWENA PINK EADY HORACE HANNAH EASTER ANDREW sometimes called PETER DAVID
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CAROLINE & her
children, JIM & FRANCES WATY and her children JACK DICK SAL HELEN SARAH JOHN KEMP ABRAM HENRY MINOR KINCHEN LOUISIANNA NANCY and her children RACHEL SILVY ADALINE JINNY ALSEY SAM AMOS DICEY MOSES SEALY ISHAM MARY SAM |
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****************** Inventory of the Slaves of
REDDING PERRY, Dec'd (son of Col. Jeremiah Perry) |
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| STEPHEN JIM HEMP WILKS FRANK JOE ISHAM DICK BOB CALVIN TOM PEYTON ADAM WILLIAM BOLING PETER WASH HANDY SOPHIA SILVY WINIFORD LITTLE SARAH JENNY & Child ELIZER MARTHA COLYER DANIEL PHILIS HENRY CAROLINE |
MILLY JANE BECKEY MARIAH PENNY WILLIS JUDITH ZILPHY & Child VINEY MARY TENER DAVY LUCY SUSAN BATTLE ELLEN & Child EMELY JOHN WILEY SAM SARAH CELAH SURRINER |
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Slaves of CHLOE C. NEAL, 1852
(dau/of Col. Jeremiah Perry)
Slaves named in her Will; Franklin County, Will Book N, Pg. 355 |
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| An
accounting of Property reported by A. S. PERRY, June Court 1852: In addition to the foregoing articles sold the following Slaves have come to the hands of the Executor and have been divided by petition, to wit: |
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SYM |
BEN |
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****************** The Estate of LEONIDAS W. NEAL, 1855 (son of Chloe Perry-Neal) The following is an inventory of the property and effects of LEONIDAS
W. NEAL, dec'd taken by his executor JOHN NEAL this the 11th Dec 1855. Viz: |
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| ABRAM BOB MOSES AUSTIN SIMON TOM JERRY NAT TOM JOBE BEN KATE JOEL BEN MARY EDITH |
ABRAM |
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****************** Will of TEMPERANCE (BODDIE) PERRY (widow of Col.
Jeremiah Perry), written Dec. 30, 1844, Probated June Court 1850 |
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| HALL MINOR JACOB HANDY HAYWOOD EDMUND SYLVIA CELIA JUDE BARBARA HARVY ELLICK ISAAC NANCY |
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| RESEARCH NOTES: | Cascine is
a 1500 acre plantation complex that consists of a small eighteenth century
dwelling, a larger mid-nineteenth century house, an office, a brick kitchen,
frame stables & carriage house, and several other outbuildings. The small
pre-Revolutionary War dwelling was repaired & refurbished in in the
mid-twentieth century. The site also contains a Slave cemetery, none of
which currently shows any engravings. In the years after Emancipation, many
of the former slaves and other workers remained and worked with new labor
contracts in place, which continued well into the early 1900s. Researched & transcribed by Deloris Williams
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| MISCELLANEOUS: | National Register of Historic Places Application-1, Application-2; The Seven Perry Brothers of Old Granville Co, NC; Cascine photo from the History Rambler; Historic Cascine Mill; Col. Jeremiah Perry, Find-a-Grave; The Seven Perry Brothers, (Sally's Family Place) | |
