At one time, seeing "Green" show up in trees I had wondered what the connection might be; distant relatives, honoring Revolutionary heroes, or relic of a marriage union?
Many of the TERRYS out of Botetourt Co., VA have in the first three generations the name “GREEN”. It crops up in the line of William TERRY (1724-1792) through the lines of Jasper and John. Was it merely a popular name of colonial hero? Was it something more?
The problem will be resolved as more DNA is collected from descendants of Benjamin Terry/Champness Terry ; William Terry/Rachel Manson Terry (whose son John had three lines return an I-02 (I-2a2); Jasper Terry/Mary Morrison (G-02). Apparently those three groups have three different haplogroup returns. The I-01 and I-02 reflect a distant connection but the G-02 is distinct and not connected.
One family line
stated that they had heard that somewhere “back” there was a Green TERRY.
What makes this interesting is the fact that the sister or daughter of a Col. Nathaniel TERRY allegedly married a Capt. Berryman GREEN, 6 Nov. 1789, in Halifax Co., VA. . Another group had this information: Berryman Green was born 26 Jan 1754 in Virginia; He married Nancy Terry (WIFE #2) in Halifax, Virginia, January 6, 1789; Berryman Green died 14 Sep 1825.
In the group of Terry associated with Benjamin Terry - including a Nathaniel and Champness - the answer emerges. This group, believed to descend from an English immigrant Terry in early New Kent and Orange Co., V appears to belong to haplogroup I-01.
Champness Terry (Haplogroup I-01 according to FamilyTreeDNA - TERRY Y-Chromosome DNA Surname Project) is apart of a large group found in Pittsylvania, Halifax, Louisa and the such who drifted, in larger groups and in step with others flooding southwest into new regions, into Botetourt Co. area probably around the 1750's but more strongly after the revolution.
The line is rife with names of Stephen, Joseph, Benjamin, James, Nathaniel, etc.
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