Tazewell County, Virginia
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Biography Folder
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Major David Peery

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Source --  History Of Tazewell County And Southwest Virginia, 1748 - 1920, by Wm. C. Pendleton.  W.C. Hill Printing Company, Richmond, Virginia.  1920. pp. 419

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 Major David Peery was one of the first generations born in the present bounds of Tazewell County.  He was the son of John Peery, who settled near the forks of Clinch River in 1772.  Major Peery was an excellent man and popular citizen.  He was born in 1777, the second year of the Revolution, and died in 1862.