Mary Billinger b. abt.1762; d. April 1808
Mary Billinger (the long-time nanny of Nathan Perry Jr.) drowned in Lake Erie while on her way to relocate to the east side of the Black River (where 20-yr.-old Nathan Perry Jr., an Indian-trader, had a small "shanty"). Mary's body was carried back to near the mouth of the Black River, and buried here ( a few-hundred feet north* of Mouth-of-Black-River Cemetery).
[After the death of his nanny, Nathan Perry Jr. moved back to Cleveland that Fall, 1808.]
{source: the various memoirs of an eye-witness, Q.F. Atkins, who asserts that Mary was "white" (not a "negress", as per some historians).}
[*- Mary's grave was presumably destroyed when the "mouth" of the Black River was re-routed slightly easterly in 1828.]
Mary Billinger (the long-time nanny of Nathan Perry Jr.) drowned in Lake Erie while on her way to relocate to the east side of the Black River (where 20-yr.-old Nathan Perry Jr., an Indian-trader, had a small "shanty"). Mary's body was carried back to near the mouth of the Black River, and buried here ( a few-hundred feet north* of Mouth-of-Black-River Cemetery).
[After the death of his nanny, Nathan Perry Jr. moved back to Cleveland that Fall, 1808.]
{source: the various memoirs of an eye-witness, Q.F. Atkins, who asserts that Mary was "white" (not a "negress", as per some historians).}
[*- Mary's grave was presumably destroyed when the "mouth" of the Black River was re-routed slightly easterly in 1828.]
Mary Billinger b. abt.1762; d. April 1808
Mary Billinger (the long-time nanny of Nathan Perry Jr.) drowned in Lake Erie while on her way to relocate to the east side of the Black River (where 20-yr.-old Nathan Perry Jr., an Indian-trader, had a small "shanty"). Mary's body was carried back to near the mouth of the Black River, and buried here ( a few-hundred feet north* of Mouth-of-Black-River Cemetery).
[After the death of his nanny, Nathan Perry Jr. moved back to Cleveland that Fall, 1808.]
{source: the various memoirs of an eye-witness, Q.F. Atkins, who asserts that Mary was "white" (not a "negress", as per some historians).}
[*- Mary's grave was presumably destroyed when the "mouth" of the Black River was re-routed slightly easterly in 1828.]
Mary Billinger (the long-time nanny of Nathan Perry Jr.) drowned in Lake Erie while on her way to relocate to the east side of the Black River (where 20-yr.-old Nathan Perry Jr., an Indian-trader, had a small "shanty"). Mary's body was carried back to near the mouth of the Black River, and buried here ( a few-hundred feet north* of Mouth-of-Black-River Cemetery).
[After the death of his nanny, Nathan Perry Jr. moved back to Cleveland that Fall, 1808.]
{source: the various memoirs of an eye-witness, Q.F. Atkins, who asserts that Mary was "white" (not a "negress", as per some historians).}
[*- Mary's grave was presumably destroyed when the "mouth" of the Black River was re-routed slightly easterly in 1828.]
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