ROBERT BERRY HOME

ANCESTORS Generation 1 Robert and Elizabeth Cate Berry

MARRIAGES Generation 2 Elizabeth Berry never married but had a child (MARY) by William Riley

ELIZABETH BERRY was born in Orange County NC about 1770 and died in Person County in 1816, she never married and lived with her family at Fiddleton until sometime after 1810. She did have a daughter that she named Mary. We know this because Robert Berry mentioned Mary in his will that he wrote in 1812. William Riley was apparently Mary's Father.
TO VIEW LARGER VIEW OF BOND CLICK HERE. Elizabeth took out a Bastardy Bond against William Riley on August 19, 1791 and the Court had issued a warrant against William Riley to have him apprehended. On August 20,1781 The Bastaqrdy Bond was issued charging William Riley as the Father. You will notice that William Armstrong one of Robert Berry's neighbors signed the bond with William Riley at the courthouse. TO VIEW LARGER VIEW OF BOND CLICK HERE After reading the warrant to arrest William Riley I think that Elizabeth Berry was at least 5 months pregnant in August 1791. This means that Mary was born in November or December 1791 or early in 1792. This is the closest record of a birthday for any of the Robert Berry family of Orange County North Carolina that I have found. You will see in the 1800 census listed by Robert Berry Senior that there is a female under 10 years old. This was Mary who was probably only 9 years old at that time. There is a listing for a female who is over 25 but not yet 44 years old. This is a listing for Roberts Daughter, Elizabeth Berry because she was about 30 years old in 1800. The other female listed in this census was Elizabeth Cate Berry who was listed over 45 years of age. We know that she was about 65 years old. The only Female listed in Robert Berry Senior's 1810 census was his Wife. Elizabeth Berry his daughter may have moved in with Mary and her new Son-in-law. Mary Married Thomas Berry in 1809. She was 18 years old when she married. Mary Berry and Thomas Berry were married on May 7, 1809. VIEW LETTER FROM AUBURN ALABAMA CONCERNING HEIR OF ELIZABETH BERRY. You may view the Marriage Bond information by clicking the sidebar information button, MARRIAGE BOND/LICENSE. Mary and Thomas removed to Alabama sometime after they were married but Elizabeth Berry's will was probated in Orange County North Carolina. I do not have a copy of that will. I do have a letter from Alabama written in 1862 requesting a copy of it from Orange County N.C by Obediah Echols. YOU MAY VIEW THE BACK OF THE LETTER FROM AUBURN ALABAMA HERE.
The slave Doll mentioned in Robert Berry's will as Elizabeth Berry's inheritance is also mentioned in the letter from Auburn Alabama in 1862. REFER TO ROBERT BERRY'S 1812 WILL FOR ELIZABETH BERRY'S INHERITANCE.

ELIZABETH BERRY"S ONLY CHILD:

MARY BERRY born in 1782.