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[*] On 16 Dec. 1782 Perron married at Agra, Madeleine (aged 14) the daughter of the late Louis Déridan, a French Eurasian of Pondicherry. (Elle tenatt de ses parents plus de sang indien que de sang francais, Martineau, 97, 211-213.) Another daughter of Déridan, named Anne, was married to the Dutch colonet John W. Hessing (d. at Agra, 21 July 1803), whose son was George Hessing. The brother of these ladies, also named Louis Déridan, gave his daughter in marriage to Sutherland, a Scotsman. Another Miss Déridan, was married to the Eurasian J. B. Filose. We know of two Armenians in Sindhia's army, Jacob (whom Perron could not create a Captain in 1795, because his European officers refused to admit an Asiatic to their mess, and who then came away from Puna to Agra, where Hessing gave him a Captaincy), and Aratoon. We find both of them in Sindhia's service in 1813. (St. Genis, 367. PRC. xv.)