EARLY TERRY LINES
Some preliminary research into early lines, attaching identified DNA or
other history as known.
7/26/2021 Marilyn A. Hudson
1273 – David Filius Tirry, Cumberland County, England
Notes:
1273? – Richard Terry,
Huntington shire, England
Notes:
1273? – Georffry Terri,
Oxfordshire, England
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1379 – Johannes Tyrre,
Yorkshire, England
Notes: Other, more recent (see 1705), men from Yorkshire by
that name *Terry) have reported an R-BY22713 Haplogroup
Late 14th century – Petrous Terre
Notes:
1524 – John Terri,
London, England
Notes:
[ ] –
Brothers James Terry and Thomas Terry,
Barnet, near London, England
Notes:
[ ] – John Tirri md widow Elizabeth (nee
Gale) Pierpont and had three sons. William, Stephen and John. It is reported
that Stephen and John migrated to America about 1630.
Notes: Descendants from “John”(?) have reported a I-01
Haplogroup. Probable descendants of this group include Zachariah, Champness,
Nathaniel, Thomas, Stephen (2), Benjamin (b ca 1700, Halifax, Va had I-BY33210)
and a William Terry of Anson Co., NC who
md Ann Raiford had the same (with I-Y131236). There was also a Wm Terry who
died in Anson ,NC 1798 with R-ib-02 (RM-173, R-AA5897 among descendants)
1635 – Three brothers (or two brothers and a cousin)
arrived on THE JAMES (13 July 1635) in Massachusetts and were said to have come
from Kent, England. The men were Thomas
Terry (28), Robert Terry (25) and Richard Terry (17). They migrated into
first New York (Flushing and Southold, Long Island areas) and then into New
Jersey (their children) and some (Robert’s line especially) branched off into
Pennsylvania (Bucks Co.).
Notes: Recent DNA research has proven a connection between
Robert Terry of Flushing, New York and the founding Terry of Bucks Co., Pa,
Thomas Terry, his son (both lines have the I-02 Haplogroup).
Notes: One exception
is believed to be a son adopted and that is why his DNA is different.
Note: Of note too, is that this larger group of Terry’s
(children of Thomas and Richard marry people named HORTON).
1650 – A Samuel
Terry (1637, Barnet, England – d. 1731, Enfield, Hartford, CT) migrated
aboard the PHYCHON, 1650.
Notes: He settled in first CT and then Springfield,
Massachusetts. He married 1660 Ann (Ann) Lobdell.
Notes: Descendants of this man have DNA Haplogroup of R-ib
(RM 269 and R-L48)
[Early 1600’s?] – Father and seven sons from Scotland. The
History of Barren Co., Kentucky, contains information on a Bennet W. Terry, son of a Stephen
Terry who had been in Botetourt Co., Va (his will was probated there in
1825). His children were Nathaniel
Davis Terry, Bennet W., John Alfred, and Drucilla Terry.
Notes: Bennet W. Terry was born 1802 in Botetourt Co., VA
(and thus matches the group who do show up in a different area of the county in
late 1780’s tax lists than the groups around Little River and Black Run
branches of the Roanoke; indicating separate family groups).
Notes: Kentucky Genealogy & Biography (vol.2 pg 138-139)
contains the story that the father of Bennett (Stephen Terry) was one of seven
brothers who arrived with their father from Scotland (the father was Scottish
and the woman an “Irish lady of rank”). Said Stephen apparently married twice
(or his record is confused with another Stephen Terry (and there were several)
in Virginia.
Notes: In 1739 and
1745 a Stephen Terry is buying and selling land in Orange Co. Va (then a
massive county covering almost all of Virginia).
Notes: The same, or possibly another, Stephen Terry arrived
aboard the JOHN &MARY in 1630, Massachusetts. Passengers of the John &
Mary, vol.9 p. 133, with ancestors and 4 generations of descendants). There is
possibility the Scottish group arrived directly to a Virginia port, but more
research is needed.
Notes: He might have been married to a Sarah Young and a
Sarah Davis.
Notes: Court records indicate there was a divorce case
between a Stephen Terry and wife Sarah in Botetourt Co. Deed Books (14:59)
between Stephen, wife Sarah, ”youngest” children named were Bennett W. , John Alfred,
Drucilla Terry. There may have been an older son named Stephen as a Stephen
Terry md an Eleanor Biggs 1793 in Botetourt Co. That same year in Louisa Co.,
Va a Stephen Terry married a Sarah Davis (since his son Nathaniel is identified
as Nathaniel Davis Terry with wife Martha Bagby Terry in court proceedings, it
can be assumed that they were in Orange County area out of which Louisa was
eventually formed).
Notes These Scottish brothers may include men named William
and Thomas who appear to have drifted in and through the Botetourt County area
on their way someplace else. A Jesse
Terry who is on the Tax list for two short years may be a son of the group
that; probable son of Thomas and Sarah Kincaid Terry. The Thomas is believed to be the Thomas who
married Sarah Kincaid and removed to Wilkes Co., Georgia (they have reported a
Haplogroup of I-01).
1704 – VA Quit Rent Rolls, lists in King William Co., A Stephen Terry, James Terry, and Thomas
Terry (eastern Virginia coastal region).
Notes: There is an early James Terry in eastern Virginia who
is categorized in Haplogroup I-01.
1705 – A John Tirrey, b 1705 Akrigg, Yorkshire,
Haplogroup R-BY227213
Notes:
Early 1700’s – Pittsylvania Co., Va
Notes: Many listed, appear wealthy and prominent in the
area.
C1744 – A William
Terry and a Jasper Terry arrive in Augusta County (a large early county
encompassing the area of later Botetourt, Montgomery, etc.) and purchase items
at an estate sale.
Notes: They quickly acquire land through purchase and patent
(bounty for services to govt.; both were apparently surveyors and may have come
down the trails George Washington had used to reach the same areas a few years
earlier). They have property next to each other.
Notes: Court records clearly identify the man whose children
received 1/8 shares of his estate is the same man who rec’d land patents 9 Sept
1755. He died late fall 1792 according to court records when his son Jasper
with wife Ruth filed to be named administrator. His son Miles challenged that
but was defeated in subsequent actions of the court. His children through court
actions and records, were William Jr., Jasper (with wife Ruth), John, Miles,
Susannah Terry Brown, Mercy Terry Harrison, Rachel Terry Martin and Jemima
Terry Boucher. His wife was named Rachel in same records.
Notes: Nearly all the land dealings of this group, with the
exception of William Jr., possibly, revolved around land on the Black Run
Branch of the Roanoke. Three sons of John Terry have been tested and reveal
Haplogroup in the I-02 group.
C1760 – A Jasper
Terry, with wife Mary Morrison, arrives in the same Augusta County area.
Notes: He and his offspring will cluster around the Little
River Branch of the Roanoke. Note too, that these two groups will be in
different tax districts as well during several years in the 1780’s and 1790’s.
This geographical separation into distinct groups suggests they were not
related to the William Terry group in the way many have suggested.
Notes: Recent DNA research has concluded that the
descendants of Jasper Terry and wife Mary Morrison who had , at least, one son Josiah who married
Mary Lloyd and that son had sons Jasper Morrison Terry and Aaron Burr Terry,
along with a William wo married a Jane Winters – are all G-02 Haplogroup.
Notes: A theory I present is that it may be possible that
this Jasper had another son, Jasper Terry who married a woman named Margaret
and names three daughters in his will (Keziah Terry Graham, Karon-Happuck Terry
Rose, and Jemima Terry DeWeese, along with a Jonathan, Silas, William and
Elijah) several individuals when he dies in Montgomery Co., Va 1819. Numerous
researchers have merged this Jasper with the Jasper who files to be
administrator of William Terry’s estate in 1792. His wife was named Ruth in
late 1790’s and early 1800’s deeds. It is a simple way to resolve the problem
of who these people all are – except – for the DNA evidence indicating that
there were two (at least) distinct DNA Haplogroup in the region at the
time. If DNA tests are studied for
Jonathan, Silas, William and Elijah, as well as his daughters, more information
may appear that clarifies the connections.
C1744 – Jasper Terry with wife Mary Hart, drifted into
Augusta County as the land was just being opened.
Notes: There were many labeled squatters in the area so
records may not reflect all activity in the region (a problem considering how
sorely the state was decimated by conflict when it came to historic records.
Armies made bonfires of rare and irreplaceable deeds, records, and maps.).
Notes: They came in the company of Hart relatives (Arron
Hart, Miles Hart, John Hart, and others), fellow Pennsylvanian and Quakers
Henry Brown and his extended family, and others, including the probable cousin,
William Terry. The elder Hart, a minister and adventurer probably did not stay
long in the Augusta County area. He dies in Union County, South Carolina some
decades later and in the region are the sons and grandsons of he and several of
his co-travelers.
Notes: I theorize that Jasper and Mary, who had one son, Joseph
Terry, believed to have been fostered into Jasper’s brother John’s keeping in
Bucks Co., PA, followed this group eastward. His land may have been left with
William or sold to someone else and the record lost. This line of Jasper Terry
and Mary Hart, being descended from the Bucks Co., Terry, are Haplogroup I-02.
Notes: Seen in this light, the distancing of the two Terry
groups, one on Black Run and the others along Little River, makes some sense.
They were neighbors but not relatives.
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