Joseph B. Berry
Male 1691 - 1749


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  • Birth  1691  St Pauls Parish, King George, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  Nov 1749  , Stafford, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I2103  Essig Family
    Last Modified  24 Feb 2007 

    Father  William Berry,   b. 22 May 1650, St Pauls Parish, King George, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jun 1721, Hanover, , King George, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Margaret Doughty,   b. 1675, , King George, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Feb 1720, Hanover, , King George, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  5 May 1686  Stafford, King George, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F766  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • Will of Joseph Berry 1749 King George, VA

      In the name of God Amen. I joseph Berry of the County of King George and
      Parish of Hannover being in good health and sound and pefect sence and
      memory as usually at other times past for which blessing I give thanks and
      praise to Almighty God, but calling to mind the uncertainty of this life
      and that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this
      to be my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to
      say first and inprimis I commend my soul into the protection of my great
      and mercifull creator and my body to the earth from whence it came to be
      decently buried at the discretion of my execurtix hereafter named in sure
      and certain hope of a joyfull resurection at the last day, and for such
      wordly goods as it hath pleased God to bless me with I give as follows,
      vizt.. Item: That, whereas by the Last Will and Testament of my father
      William Berry, deceased, bearing date the 5th of Feb. 1720 he has therein
      demised to my brother Enoch Berry the plantation and land whereon he then
      lived in the following words, vizt..I give to my son Enoch Berry the
      plantation I how live on with all the land joyning thereto now in my
      possession being the third part of a certain pattent granted to Enoch
      Doughty by computation five hundred acres to him and his heirs lawfully
      begotten of his own body and for want of such heirs to fall to my son,
      Joseph Berry and to his heirs lawfully begotten of his own body. Now that
      I am heir at law to my mother she being the daughter of said Enoch
      Doughty, I am apprehensive that the said clause or paragraff mentioned in
      my said father's will does not comvey a legal title to my said brother
      Enoch Berry in the said land, but notwithstanding as I know it was my
      Mother's desire and my father's will that my said brother enoch berry
      should have a part of the said land, I do therefore declare and am well
      contented thatit should be according to their will and desire, but as my
      brother Enoch Berry and I have formerly agreed that he the said Enoch
      should have in lieu of the said land given to him by my father's will the
      upper part of the said land being the plantation whereon I formerly lived
      before the death of my father Wm. Berry, now I do hereby desire and it is
      my will that my said brother Enock Berry do hold the said plantation
      whereon I formerly lived as above said it being the same plantation
      whereon my brother Enoch Berry now lives with all the land lying between
      the North easternmost bounds of the said Pattent and the Creek called
      Doughty's Creek which creek is the division between his land and mine, his
      land being the upper part of the whole trac,t to him and the heirs of his
      body lawfully begotten and for want of such heirs to return to the heirs
      of my body lawfully begotten in the same manner as is mentioned and
      intended in my fathers will aforesaid, but if it shall happen at any time
      hereafter that my brother Enoch Berry or his heirs or any other person or
      persons claiming under them shall claim any right or title to the land
      whereon I now live it being the same land what is mentionid in my father's
      will aforesaid or shall bring any troublesome or vexatious suit in law
      against my heirs, executors or any other person or pesons claiming by me
      or my heirs on account of the aforesaid gift intail mentioned in my
      father's will as aforesaid, that then this paragraff in my will as it
      above recited shall be utterly void and of none effect and that my heirs,
      executors or administrators or any other person claiming by them shall
      have power and authority to enter and possess the premises above mentoned
      as if this demise had never been mentioned in my will. item: It is my
      will and desire that my well beloved wife Catherine Simcock Berry do hold
      and possess my land and plantation whereon I now live during her life only
      allowing to my son Joseph Berry the liberty of the house which he has
      lately built and the liberty of building such other houses as he has
      occasion for with a reasonable portion of ground to work on provided that
      he shall have no privilige to work any land but such as his Mother is
      willing to let him have without being prejudicial to herself. Item: It is
      my will and desire that after the death of my wife Catherine Simcock, my
      land whereon I now live be equaly divided between my 2 sons Joseph and
      Benjamin Berry allowing to each part an equal breadth upon the River
      counting from the mouth of the Creek to the lower corner of the tract next
      to Col. Carter's land, the line or lines for the division to extend back
      from the River to parallell Carter's lines, my son Joseph to have the
      first choice after the division the said land to them and their heirs
      forever, but if it shall happen that either of my said sons Joseph and
      Benjamin shall die without heirs or making any legal disposition of their
      parts of the said land that then the inheritance shall descend to their
      next brother, vizt. my son Withers he being my third son, and if they
      should both dye without heirs or otherwise disposing of thier land in
      their lifetime that then the inheritance thereof shall descent to the said
      son Withers and his next brother Thomas, my fourth son, to be held by them
      in the same manner as is abovem entioned to their older brothers.
      Likewise if my 2 sons Withers and thomas should bothe or either of them
      dye then the inheritance shall descend to their 2 youngest brothers,
      Baldwin and Reuben, my 5th and 6th sons, in the same manner as is above
      mentioned to their other brothers. The meaning of my intent and desire
      that my 2 oldest sons then living or their heirs may from time to time
      hold my said land between them, and if my said sons or any of them or
      their heirs they being at the same time in right and property to sess or
      convey the whole or any part thereof belonging to them as they shall think
      fitt. Item: It is my will and desire that m wife Catherine Sim Cock do
      hold all my other estate both real and personal during her life to use and
      dispose thereof at her own discretion in paying my debts and funeral
      expenses and likewise for her own support and the support and maintainance
      of my children until the youngest come of age which I desire may be under
      her tuition and if any part of my estate or the profitts thereof(
      excepting the reversion of my land as above demised to my sons) be left at
      her death that it may go to my children to be distributed amongst them
      according to the discretion of my aforesaid wife Catherine Simcock Berry
      whom I do hereby constitute and appoint to be whole and sole Executor of
      this my last will and testament and I do hereby revoke and disannull all
      former wills by me heretofore made and do ratifie this to be my true and
      last will as witness my hand and seale.



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