Ancestry of Commodore
Matthew C. Perry

Led Black Ships Expedition to Japan

Matthew Calbraith Perry

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Christopher Raymond Perry 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Wallace Alexander   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Apr 1794 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Mar 1858 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Notes: 

  • Commander of the Black Ships expedition to open Japan.

• Marriages for Matthew Calbraith Perry

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  • Spouse:
  • Jane Slidell

• Sources for Matthew Calbraith Perry

  • ¹ Davenport, Charles Benedict, Naval Officers: Their Heredity and Development, Washington, D.C.: The Carnegie Institution of Washington (1919), 168.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 13, 475.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 615.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Matthew C. Perry", (accessed 03/30/2013).