Perry | |
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Current region | South Kingstown, Rhode Island, and New England |
Place of origin | England Ireland Scotland |
Connected families | Rodgers family Belmont family Whitney family Vanderbilt family Randolph family De Peyster family |
Estate(s) | Commodore Oliver Perry Farm, Sion Hill (Havre De Grace, Maryland), Belcourt |
Military career | |
Allegiance | United States of America |
Years of service | 1799– |
The Perry family is an American naval and political dynasty from Rhode Island whose members have included several United States naval commanders, naval aviators, politicians, artists, clergymen, lawyers, physicians, and socialites. Progeny of a mid-17th-century English immigrant to South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the Perry family patriarch, Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, and his two sons Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and Commodore Matthew C. Perry, were seminal figures in the legitimization of the United States Navy and establishment of the United States Naval Academy.