The Perrin Family were residents of Gloucester County, Virginia.
Gift
Processed by Ellen Strong in 1993. Bibles were re-housed into individual boxes by Kim Sims, Oct. 2014.
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Perrin Family Bibles, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
See also; John T. Perrin Papers (Mss. 65 P42), and the Eleanor W. Perrin Diaries (Mss. 96 P42), William K. Perrin (Mss. 95 P42) Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Consists of three Bibles owned by the Perrin family; a 1751, 1819, and 1838 editions that contain family information and genealogy back to the 1740s. The 1751 Bible contains a list of enslaved children's births and ages.