In previous entries I have explored the facts that deeds and tax lists can provide in helping to cluster family groups in their correct associative orders. What follows is an attempt to combine the location with names, and dates to provide a time line of both residence but also relationship.
1783 Personal Property Tax List of Botetourt Co., Va
Residences were grouped by Militia Districts and listed under the names of the men leading those groups.
Capt. Martins District - a William TORRY or TENNY (original looks like Tenny)
Capt. Neely's District - ( a known neighbor of William Terry and Rachel and will encompass lands around Black Run Branch of the Roanoke; this will be a glue in clustering these groups as one favors Little River and the other is primarily Black Run)
Wm Horton
Joseph Horton
Miles Terry (note this is the same year Miles marries Hannah Horton of the county, so these may be her relatives; one theory is that Miles took over the land of a departed Jasper Terry (with wife Mary Hart Terry) who had come into the region with William, perhaps a cousin or similar connection. He apparently left the area with his Hart in-laws circa 1760 or 1770. That Jasper Terry with Mary Hart reflcts the I-02 Haplogroup as well).
William Terry (wife Rachel; a theory is that the 300 acres of Wm Terry's land was overseen by his sons John, Jasper, Miles, William, and various others who would not appear on the tax record; three descendants of this man have been categorized with haplogroup I-02)
Capt. Eason's District (this was generally an area around Little River Branch of the Roanoke, in the area that will become Montgomery Co., Va).
Wm Terry (with wife Patience Cooper Terry; land is believed to have belonged to her father James cooper who died in the area and will probated in 1783; other records identify him as a son of William with wife Rachel; although no offspring he would no doubt fall in the I-02 range)
Josiah Terry (with wife Mary Lloyd; he and his descendants have been recorded as having the G-02 Haplogroup, indicating they do not belong to the William and Rachel group
1784 Personal Property Tax List of Botetourt Co., Va (See notes on DNA groups above)
Capt. Martin's District - Once more the Wm Tenny/Terry. Note about this time a William and Thomas Terry will be listed on the delinquent tax list, and Tory individuals by that name will also disappear from the records but appear to show up in Kentucky. These may be the same individuals and if so, may connect with the I-01 group out of eastern Virginia.
Capt. Neeley's District:
Tho Brown (matching the name of husband of Susannah Terry Brown)
Wm Terry (Rachel)
Capt. Easom's District:
Josiah Terry (Mary Lloyd)
Jasper (probable son of Josiah or brother to Josiah, with wife Margaret)
William (wife Patience, son of Wm Terry, on land probably owned by her father prior to his death)
1785 Personal Property Tax List of Botetourt Co., Va (see notes on DNA groups above)
Capt. Neely's District:
Miles Terry (Hannah Horton Terry)
Wm Terry Sr. (Rachel)
Capt. Eason's District:
Josiah Terry (Mary Lloyd)
Jasper Terry (probable son of Josiah or brother to Josiah, with wife Margaret)
Wm Terry (with wife Patience Cooper Terry, son of Wm and Rachel)
1786 Personal Property Tax List of Botetourt Co., Va (See notes on DNA groups above)
Capt. Graham's District:
Tho Brown (Susannah Terry Brown)
Wm Terry (Rachel)
Miles Terry (Hannah Horton Terry)
Jesse Terry (this man is believed to be a son of Thomas and Susan Kinkaid Terry who moved to Georgia; Jesse shows up on Kentucky records. If t his is a son of that Thomas he would be I-01 Haplogroup)
Capt. Eason's District:
Wm Terry (son of Jasper Jr.; wife is Elizabeth)
Josiah Terry (Mary Lloyd)
Jasper Jr. (believe to be Jasper Morrison, son of Josiah, thus a G-02)
Capt. William Terry (possibly son of Josiah)
William Terry (Patience -I-02)
1787 Personal Property Tax List of Botetourt Co., Va
District's not noted
Miles Terry (Hannah Horton Terry; he would be I-02)
Jessy Terry (see above, probably a I-01 group)
Wm Terry (Rachel)
Roland Madison District:
Wm Terry (patience)
Josiah Terry (Mary Lloyd)
Jesper Terry (son of Josiah? with wife Margaret)
1788 Personal Property Tax List of Botetourt Co., Va
District of Hugh Allen:
Wm Terry Sr. (Rachel)
Jessy Terry
Miles Terry (Hannah Horton Terry)
John Robinson District:
Wm Terry (Patience)
Jonah Terry ?(could be John son of Silas Terry and wife Catherine; possible gs of Jasper and Margaret)
Gasper Terry (wife Margaret)
Thomas Terry ?
Wm Terry (wife Elizabeth?)
1789 Personal Property Tax List of Botetourt Co., Va
District of Hugh Allen:
Jesse Terry (probably 1-01 group)
Wm Terry (Rachel; three of his descendants show as I-02)
Miles Terry (Hannah Horton Terry)
District of John Robinson:
Wm Terry (Patience, son of Wm)
Josiah Terry (Mary Lloyd)
Wm Terry (wife Elizabeth)
Gasper Terry (wife Margaret, assumed son of Jasper and brother to Josiah or another son of Josiah)
1790 Personal Property Tax List of Botetourt Co., Va
Miles Terry (Hannah HortonTerry - note some trees show his children born in TN,KY in these years- clearly he was in Botetourt Co., Va)
Jessy Terry
Wm Terry (Rachel; not his son Jasper with wife Ruth may have been living and working on his father's place at this time; Local authorities had decreed Wm Terry would not pay taxes due to age in 1783 so his sons and grandsons may have been working the land).
1791 Personal Property Tax List of Botetourt Co., Va
District of Hugh Allen:
Wm Terry (Rachel)
Jesse Terry
Miles Terry (Hannah Horton Terry)
1792 Personal Property Tax List of Botetourt Co., Va
District of B. Davidson:
Stephen Terry (this represents some of the eastern Virginia group of I-01 who came into the area)
District of Hugh Allen:
Jessy Terry
Wm Terry (Rachel ; note, court documents indicate that in Dec his son Jasper with wife Ruth is making claim to be named his administrator; the next Feb Miles will challenge that by asking the court to accept witness of verbal wishes to be accepted and asks his siblings to appear in court; the court will side with Jasper)
Miles Terry (Hannah Horton Terry ; after this and the apparent lose in court the family begins to drift out of the region following other siblings already transplanted into Kentucky and Tennessee).
Various legal documents will indicate that there were numerous sons and relatives of this Terry group:
The 1819 will of Jasper Terry, Montgomery Co., with wife Margaret, includes a step-daughter (married or not is unclear) Susannah Snidow, daughters Keziah Terry Graham, Karon-Happuch Terry Rose, Jemima Terry DeWeese, and inferred sons of Jonathan (wife Elizabeth), William (wife Elizabeth) , Silas (wife Catherine Rutout), and E. Terry (see transcript of his will this site).
The 1824 will of William Terry Jr.., Montgomery Co., probated 1826 names his wife Patience, his nieces by his wife's brother Washington Cooper (Elizabeth and Patience) and his nephew Isaac Terry, son of Miles and Hannah Horton. His wife's 1847 will of Floyd Co., Va will repeat those heirs.
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