THE DU BURY-BERRY FAMILY in general THE BENJAMIN BERRY FAMILY in particular by MARY Eo QUILLEN HONEYWELL Copyright by Mary E. Quillen Honeywell 1970 Dedication To my beloved father William Allen Quillen 1875-1920 and to my children and grandchildren Of Time and Spirits Brave bands Of pioneers Once walked this virgin soil Against the long and lonely miles And days. And now Their bodies sleep, But still we may believe Their spirits live as wardens of The land. I. F. Howell TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD i CHAPTER I. OUR ENGLISH BACKGROUND 1 ENGLAND IN FEUDAL TIMES . 1 COURT JURISDICTION 6 COURTS AND DEEDS 9 THE STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY 12 THE HUGUENOTS 16 ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY HOUSE OF DU BURI- BERRY 18 ORIGIN OF THE NAME BERRY 19 SURNAMES 20 THE COLLEGE OF ARMS 21 Visitations of the Heralds 24 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR COMES TO ENGLAND 25 THE LANDED GENTRY 26 CHAPTER II (A). BURY-BERRY FAMILY SEATS 27 BERRY NARBOR 27 DISCOVERIES AT BURY BARTON 29 LAPFORD MANOR 31 DESCRIPTION OF BURY BARTON 32 BRIGHTLEY 36 CHITTLEHAMPTON MANOR 38 DE LA TOUR - BERRY FAMILIES 39 MORE ON THE CHITTLEHAMPTON BRANCH 39 AVETON-GIFFARD 40 PORTLEDGE 41 ECONOMICS OF THE MANOR 43 THE PARISH OF HUNTSHAM 44 SIR JOHN BERRY OF KNOWESTONE 45 DEVON BOROUGHS 47 DEVON CHURCHES - BERRY CONNECTIONS 48 TWO VERY OLD FAMILIES MEET so SOME BERRY-HONYWILL NOTES 51 The King Borrows Money 51 The Name - Heavitree 52 The Well at Heavitree 53 VERY OLD WILLS 55 AN OLD ENGLISH LAW 55 TABI.E OF CONTENTS - 2 CHAPTER II (B). PARISHES OF DEVON 58 EXETER - EXON PARISH 58 WILLS - ADMINISTRATIONS 59 CHAPTER III. CAPTAIN JOHN BERRY 63 JOHN BERRY, DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY, AND HIS FAMILY 66 New Barbados in 1669 66 Captain John Berry - Continued 71 BERRY - DUTCH BRANCH 72 RYERSON - BERRY FAMILY 72 COURT RECORDS - BERRY 78 Will of Captain John Berry 81 STORIES REIATING TO THE BERRY FAMILY 82 John Berry, Sr. 82 Abraham I. Berry 82 John Willetts Berry 83 New Jersey Wills - Abstracts 85 Interesting Bits of Information 87 The Old Mine Road 89 Berry - Crisp 90 The Old Dutch Church at Bergen, N.J. 91 CHAPTER IV. THE FOUND ING OF MARYLAND 9 3 LORD BALTIMORE'S PIAN 94 MARYLAND'S FIRST SETTI.ERS 95 THE PURITANS 95 THE HUGUENOTS IN MARYIAND 96 THE QUAKERS IN CALVERT COUNTY 97 RICHARD PRESTON 98 JAMES BERRY 99 THOMAS MARSH 103 HENRY WOOLCHURCH 104 BERRYS AND THEIR QUAKER BACKGROUND 105 THE FIRST QUAKER LIBRARY 106 KING'S CREEK - TRED AVON 106 RELIGIOUS ZEAL - FIRE OR HEAT 107 Tred Haven Burial Ground - Easton, Md. 110 THOMAS SKILLINGTON 111 JOHN CONTEE 112 BOUNDARY DISPUTES - CROWN STONES 112 ORIGINAL PATENTEES OF IAND AT WASH- INGTON, D. C. 114 SEATS OF BERRY INTERREIATED FAMILIES TABIB OF CONTENTS - 3 INDEX TO COURT RECORDS 115 THE BERRYS OF CHARlES COUNTY, MARYLAND 117 THE MUDD FAMILY-BERRY, CHARlES COUNTY, MARYLAND 121 ADDISON-BERRY FAMILIES 122 THE COX-COXE FAMILY 122 BURIAL GROUNDS AND CHURCHES 123 MILITARY-PATRIOT'S OATHS - 1778 124 PROLOGUE TO CHAPTER V 126 CHAPTER V. THE BERRY FAMILY 129 JAMES BERRY - THE EMIGRANT, GENERATION 1 129 WILLIAM BERRY, GENERATION 2 132 JAMES BERRY, GENERATION 3 133 WILLIAM BERRY, GENERATION 3 136 BENJAMIN BERRY, GENERATION 3 137 JOSEPH BERRY, GENERATION 3 155 GENERATION 3 156 CHAPTER VI. JAMES BERRY 157 JAMES BERRY, GENERATION 4 157 PIONEER TRAILS WESTWARD 158 ABINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 161 PASTORS OF GREAT VALIBY BAPTIST CHURCH, CHESTER COUNTY, PA. 162 JOHN BERRY, NATIVE OF IRELAND 16 2 ROMANCE IN COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA 164 RANGERS ON THE FRONTIER 164 CHAPTER VII. THE BERRY FAMILY 166 THE BERRY FAMILY, GENERATION 5 166 lETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION, ESTATE OF GARRETT BERRY 169 JAMES BERRY, GENERATION 6 170 INTER-RELATED FAMILIES, PARRY-WILLIAMS- BERRY 173 THE WILLIAMS FAMILY 178 THE THREE MARYS 182 EMILY BERRY (1813-1905), GENERATION 7 183 TABLE OF CONTENTS - 4 CHAPTER VIII-A. BENJAMIN BERRY 190 BENJAMIN BERRY, GENERATION 7 190 CHAPTER VIII-B. DESCENDANTS OF BENJAMIN BERRY 194 GENERATION 8 194 GENERATIONS 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 203 INTERRELATED FAMILIES 253 Longshore-Consoliver-Crane-Ogle 253 CHAPTER IX. GIBISONVILLE COMMUNITY 259 BERRY BURIALS, MT. OLIVE E.U.B. CIWRCH- YARD 259 "BREHM" SCHOOL 261 MILITARY SERVICE ROLL - WW II, OHIO BRANCH 265 CHAPTER X. ABSTRACTS OF WILLS - MARYLAND 266 CHAPTER XI. BERRY TRADITION IN KENTUCKY 273 HANKS - BERRY - LINCOLN FAMILY 274 BARE BONES, VIRGINIA 279 BIBLI(X;RAPHY 281 INDEX I. BERRY FAMILY NAMES I-1 Christian Names of Persons who by Birth­ right have Borne the Surname of Berry INDEX II. RELATED PERSONS II-1 Original Names of Persons who have Married into the Berry Family and Names of Persons Connected with the Family in Various Ways INDEX III. PLACES III-1 FOREWORD What is genealogy? The dictionary states that it is a science that treats of pedigrees. Or, a list of ancestors and their descendants. To this writer it appears to be much more. It is "the human story" of individuals who deserve to be considered whether they were the humble ones or those who helped to shape the destiny of the land wherein they dwelt. The law of Cause and Effect is constantly manifesting. We are born, each one of us, with a native country and natural love for that country. A special study of any one family, for instance, immediately fans out in all di­ rections and we find its members participating in politics, economics, military science and commercial activities, not to mention the arts and sciences. Each member of each branch of the family plays his part as far as he is mentally and physically equipped to do so. Each one has helped to determine the shape of the world and has in his own way made the world a little better or a little worse for having lived in it for a time. Genealogy, as a science, was long a reality in the ancient nations of the East. The Chinese perfected it. Their family records are brought up to date each fifty years. They have clan and family doctrines regarding the deportment of family members. They emulate their more honorable ancestors and avoid the ignominous conduct of their less worthy forebears. Prince Khnumhotep II of Egypt recorded on the walls of his tomb at Beni Hassan all the names of his forefathers in their order. i In Europe and the British Isles the study of genealogy was not cultivated until the 15th Century. In 1483 the College of Arms was established by King Richard III of England and through its stated Visitations, records and pedigrees of individual familes have been kept. Let us not underestimate the importance of ancestry. For the individual, life will be what we make of the ample opportunities that surround us. We are apt in this rapidly changing world to neglect, forget or even lose our family records. They should be as important as the personal papers and records of the individual and just as securely kept. Due to the Social, Economic and Political trend of our country and for the protection of our American Heritage, we believe that in the not too distant future it will become necessary to maintain a Registered Family Lineage. It is with this possibility in mind that we have made an exhaustive study of this great family Berry-Du Bury, and the part it has played not only in our nation but in the great nations of England and France. We hope that in performing this labor of love that other interested persons will refer to it and find it helpful in pointing the way to further research. We hope to instill in the generations that come after us a feeling of gratitude and respect that will enable them to be ever forthright citizens, worthy of this great name, Berry. Only in one instance has the compiler of this book taken issue with the presumed estab­ lished traditions relating to the descent of the Benjamin Berry branch of the Berry family. It is the belief of the compiler of this book that ii Benjamin Berry, the ancestor of her family, is a descendant of James Berry of Virginia and Maryland, rather than a descendant of Captain John Berry of New Jersey. These findings will be made clear in the Prologue to Chapter V. Otherwise, we have made no attempt to verify, only to compile vital statistics and record items of interest that we have found. There is romance to be found in the story of the Berry family lives and homes, both here and abroad. May this compilation find a safe corner in your household for future reference. It is our wish to give recognition to the many friends, relatives, and public officials, who have given of their time and interest to supply needed information. Among such are the various Li­ brarians, Court House officials, and the Direc­ tors of Historical Societies. For their invaluable help and information, I gratefully give recognition to my relatives-­ Mary Aldenderfer, Bessie Miller, Helen McAfee, Marie Gibson, Pauline Foltz, and Lulu Seesholtz. Also, to Mrs. John Berry, Anna Graham Beach, Elizabeth Ann Chaffin, and Mary Trout, To my two living Aunts, Lucy Wilson and Margie Neff, and to my Aunt Lucy's husband, Frank Wilson, my many thanks. But most of all do I wish to give recognition to my husband, S. W. Honeywell, who has provided transportation, hotel rooms, help in research and sympathetic understanding of the problems involved in pursuing such a project. To all, again, we say "Thank You!".