Item: • Court: Cherokee Claims, after death. Wilson McGraw; Claim No. 44207; Miles Terry, Annie Terry Estep's father's father was Miles Terry Sr., who was called Devil Jet and belonged to Chief John Ross.
Some trees have a daughter attached to Miles named Annie Terry and have her born in 1792 in Pike Co., Kentucky but the problem is that tax records for Botetourt Co., Virginia show Miles Terry there from 1783-1792, court records further show him there into, at least 1795, and other children's lines have them exiting Botetourt circa 1805 (about the time his mother died) and going into Kentucky.
Second, Anne Terry Estep's father's father was William Terry by all accounts and there is no other "Miles"; there is a "Mills Terry" in eastern Virginia but the name appears to be drawn from that man's mother's maiden name of Mills.
Miles Terry, son of William, is believed to be named for the brother-in-law of William's cousin, Jasper Terry who arrived with him in Augusta Co., Va ca 1744, Miles HART. He was brother of Mary Hart Terry and all came from Bucks Co., Pa.
Item: Ruby McGraw Vencill, Claim no. 44159, "My great grandparents was Cornelius Estep and Annie (Terry) Estep's father's father was Miles Terry Sr., who was called Devil Jet and belonged to Chief John Ross Tribe of Cherokee Indians." Most of our ancestor's claim forms stated that "Devil Jet" belonged to Principle Chief, John Ross of the Eastern Branch of the Cherokee. Ross was born October 3, 1790 and died in 1866. From 1819 to 1826, Ross served as president of the National Council of the Cherokee and assumed his position as Principle Chief of the Eastern Cherokee in 1828. His Cherokee name was GU'WISGUWI' and in boyhood was known as TSAN'USDI, "LITTLE JOHN".http://genforum.genealogy.com/terry/messages/6268.html
The most obvious point made by this collection of statements is the birth date of John Ross is twenty years AFTER the birth date of Miles Terry of Botetourt Co., Va. How could he have served John Ross when he was Cherokee Principal Chief when that event would have had to have occurred circa 1820?
Item: Hannah Horton parents are said to be " Miles married Hannah HORTON, daughter of William HORTON and Rachel MARTIN, on 30 Jan 1782 in Botetourt, VA. (Hannah HORTON was born in 1765 in Botetourt, VA"
There was a William Horton and a Joseph Horton, neighbors of Wm and Miles Terry n 1783, and it is assumed one of them was her father and one a brother or other relative. The wife of this William Horton as Rachel Martin is thoroughly undocumented.
Item: "Other names for Miles were Devel Jett, Devil Jet, Miles "Devil Jet" TERRY and Miles B TERRY."
A concerted effort to add a "Burris" middle name to this line of Terry's (from John Terry, Miles' brother to numerous other individuals, not even the same surname!). There is an apparent link to a Burris name through the eldest son of John Terry, son of William and a nephew of this Miles. Josiah Terry, from his first marriage had two sons Joseph and William. Joseph married a woman whose GRANDMOTHER was a BURRIS. So - absolutely NO RELATIONSHIP to John Terry, Miles Terry, etc.
Item: Miles a child of Native woman, "The above collection reports Miles was born in 1750, but reports his mother as Rachel Manson. Records indicate his father did not marry Rachel Manson until 1759. Other sources report a first wife, a Cheraw native woman named Cheepoake Harris. The people's name was written as Seraw or Saura in early Virginia and North Carolina records. Cheepoake died in 1758, which would match with a remarriage by William in 1759. "A full blooded Cheraw Indian. Cheraw often written as Saraw or Saura in early VA & NC records. The Cheraw Indians ceased to exist as a tribe around 1730 and were absorbed into the related Catawba and Cherokee Tribes, but most seem to have become the mixed-blood "Lumbee" of Robeson County Indians. Cheraw Cheepoake was the first wife of fur trader William Terry of Botetourt County, Virginia. Only two of their children (Esther Terry and Miles "Devil Jett" Terry) had offspring. Cheepoake died when Miles was a baby, and William remarried." -- Cheepoake "Cheraw-Cherokee" Harris Terry, Geni, https://www.geni.com/people/Cheepoake-Cheraw-Cherokee-Harris-Terry/6000000045614461881?through=6000000014630414171
A horrifically resourced claim - of a first marriage to a native woman - infests many trees of the Terry line. Most appear to be dubious at best and at worst a mistaken connection of a eastern Va and NC Terry line with the Botetourt Co., Terry group. They are questioned because they keep attaching themselves, like leeches, to any number of potential victims. I have seen the same story attached to people of at least five different surnames, in four generations, and across five states!!!
Item: What is the DNA for male descendants of this Miles Terry? That should quickly determine if Miles was not a child of Wm and Rachel (as most researchers believe), if Miles was a son of a Native American woman and a male Terry it should be able to tell which Terry Haplogroup that Miles line fits.
The lines of three sons of William and Rachel, through their son John Terry who married Esther Brown and died in Perry Co., Indiana, have returned the same Haplogroup. Sons Josiah Terry, William Terry and John Terry Jr. all returned I-02 Haplogroup readings.
Some sources - or pages discussing this story - include :
Miles B TERRY 1750-1810 (objgenealogy.com)
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