EASTERN VIRGINIA TERRY LINES; WILLIAM TERRY AND ANN RAIFORD OF ANSON CO., NC (Haplogroup I-01)

Although not related (as proven via DNA) to the Botetourt Co., Va group of William Terry (ca 1724-1792) these DO get confused with them FREQUENTLY. To read some trees the people needed a speedway to keep popping back and forth from eastern Virginia to the SW environs.  Too many find a name and jump on it without considering the need to verify if that is the right person of that name.

Take, for instance, on William Terry who married an Anne Raiford and died in 1804 in Anson Co., NC.  Some trees present him as being the son or grandson of a William Terry who married a Keziah and married a Rachel Moredock Manson (or Marston). As anyone knows who has surveyed this blog those are connections that have no documentary evidence. There is no yet discovered information that proves there was ever a William who married a Keziah.  There is no evidence of a Rachel Moredock either.

There is no need to reach over into southwest Virginia because the eastern half was literally crawling with Terry lines. That is the home of the noted American Revolution hero Nathaniel Terry (Halifax Co.) who married Sarah Royal before 1760. Nathaniel was died 21 April 1780. He was part of a group that had several Nathaniel's in the area, along with Williams, Johns, Benjamins, and etc. Note, this Nathaniel had a son named Nathaniel as well.

(Nathaniel Jr.'s grave file reads: An Officer in the Revolution and son of Nathaniel and Sarah Terry was born in Halifax County., Va. December 3, 1755 Died Feb. 8, 1837. His son's grave reads. He married to Ann Thompson. They left Halifax County, Virginia circa 1822, and moved to Todd County Kentucky. Nathaniel received a Revolutionary War pension for his service and after his death Ann received his pension # W-3054, until her death.)

Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607-1800 (Wolfleck) lists one William b. 1736 d. 1776, served in the American Revolution from VA; m. Nancy Raiford (DAR No. 41 209).

This line has shown to have a DNA Haplogroup of I-01 (FamilyTreeDNA - TERRY Y-Chromosome DNA Surname Project). Thus, setting them apart from the William Terry with wife Rachel in Botetourt Co., Va. From the line of one of  his sons (John) three lines all have demonstrated the same I-02 Haplogroup. This infers a far distant connection and not a close relationship at all.

There are numerous military, land, marriage and other records for those eastern coast Terry lines of Virginia and North Carolina. They all appear to connect to that large body of people who descend from a John and a James Terry in early, early days who arrived from England.

This page is a good place to start in getting a handle on those Eastern Virginia people (James Terry b. Est 1666 King William Co., Colonial Virginia d. 1744 Orange Co., NC: The Reynolds Family (reynoldspatova.org)