References:
(1) Anglo Saxon Bishops, Kings, and Nobles, page 351.
(2) The Complete Peerage, vol. 6, apge 446, 447.
(3) Burke's Peerage, page 1840.
(4) Plantagenet Ancestry, page 100.
References:
(1) Information supplied by John F. Gaither, 730 Colony Road, Evansville,
Indiana 47714.(2) Archive Records, The International Society of the Descendants of
Charlemagne.
Henry II "Fitz Empress" PLANTAGENET
Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjoy, King of England.
References:
(1) Plantagenet Ancestry, page 41.
(2) Dict. of Nat'l. Biog. page 175-178.
(3) Royal Dau. of England vol 1, page 57.
(4) Kings of England, page 59-87.
(5) Tab. Gen. Souv. # 39.
(6) Information supplied by Rosalia E. A. Kelsch, of Salt Lake City, Utah.
(7) Index Card to Arizona Temple Records, No. 3667, Book 62, page 164.Historical Notes:
(1) Henry II, King of England, Duke of Normandy.
Hudson Berry, born September 10, 1752 in Virginia, is mentioned in the colonial and State Papers of North Carolina as receiving a vauls of land. On June 27, 1775 Hudson Berry married Sarah Anthony. She was born November 3, 1756 in Virginia, and she belonged to a celebrated Quaker family. They finally settled in South Carolina. Hudson owned a mill and factory in Anderson District, S. C., being a rich man. His fourth son, Micajah Berry, fell heir to it. The Harrison descendants own it. The mill is east of Anderson Court House at Cedar Falls. Hudson Berry and Sarah Anthony Berry are buried at Forn Shaves. Church, one mile from the mill. Hudson Berry died January 13, 1840, Greenville, South Carolina. Sarah Anthony Berry died April 26, 1842 in Forn Shoals, South Carolina.
The first tax roll of Caswell County lists Hudson Berry as residing in Gloucester District and John Berry as residing in St. David's District. On January 11, 1779, application was made for 610 acres of land in the vicinity of Tom's and Country Line Creeks. This land was granted to Rebecca Berry on October 13, 1783; the indication is that at this time she was a widow. Her name appears in the tax list of St. David's District for 1780 and 1781; but thereafter she is not listed. In 1782, Hudson paid taxes on 350 acres; and John paid taxes on 260 acres. But in 1784, Hudson paid taxes on 400 acres; and John paid taxes on only 210 acres.
Hudson Berry joined the North Carolina Militia and served during a portion of the Revolutionary War. He was not a regular soldier; but as a member of the militia, he spent part of his time in the military service in defense of the state and part conducting his farming operations. Like other militiamen, he received very little compensation for military service.
Hudson, Sarah, and their young children lived on the 400 acre farm which was part of the 610 acre grant of Rebecca Berry. She had sold this part to Hudson in 1787; and he, in turn, sold it on January 28, 1790, when he was "of Lawrence County, South Carolina." In 1779 and 1780, Hudson applied for 500 acres on Jordan's Creek in Orange County, North Carolina; this grant was made to him in 1784 and was sold by him in 1793.
Hudson Berry demonstrated that he was a man of considerable business ability, and he was highly regarded by his neighbors for this. In 1781, he was appointed constable of Gloucester
District and served with his father-in-law, John Anthony, who was tax assessor 'and collector. Both rendered distinctive service as public officials.Hudson was a close associate with his father-in-law in business operations; and John Anthony indicated his confidence in Hudson's ability by issuing on March 3, 1785, the power of attorney to Hudson which authorized him to represent the family in the division of the James Anthony estate in Hanover County, Virginia. This estate was probably partitioned after the death of John Anthony's mother. Some years prior to this, the will of James Anthony was admitted to probate. The terms of this will probably specified that his plantation, slaves, and other property were to be given to his wife for the remainder of her life; and then upon her death, his estate was to be divided among his children. In 1785, Hudson helped in the partition of that estate.
Late in 1788, Hudson and Sarah with their four children Nancy, William, Elizabeth, and Micajah, together with their slave, moved to the Piedmont section of South Carolina which had been opened to white settlement in 1777. They first settled in the Laurens portion of District Ninety-six. Hudson's first purchase of land was made on December 13, 1788; and on January 2,
1789, he bought an adjoining 150 acres. A short time thereafter, he purchased another adjoining tract of land. On this 530 acre farm he built a substantial home. This farm was located on Durbin's Creek, a tributary of the Enoree River. On this rich, fertile creek land, with the help of the slave he had brought with him from North Carolina and other slaves which he had purchased, he engaged in extensive farming operations. He was successful and prosperous in all his endeavors. Three of his children, David, Nathan, and Mary, were born on this Laurens County farm.On April 3, 1795, he purchased the Michael B. Purkle plantation on the Reedy River in the southern part of Greenville County. This land was only a few miles from his original 530 acre farm in Laurens County. He selected as his homesite a high rolling hill at Cedar Falls which overlooked the junction of the Big Creek with the Reedy River. This was about a mile from Fork Shoals. On this beautiful site he built his permanent two and one-half story plantation home in which he lived during the remaining forty-five years of his life. His other two children, Hudson, Jr., and Sarah, were born on this plantation.
The public records reflect that between the date of his purchase of the Purkle plantation and 1809, he purchased 2,003 additional acres in Greenville County that surrounded the Purkle plantation. At the same time, he purchased other lands across the Reedy River in what is now Anderson County. The Deed Records also indicate his love for South Carolina soil in that he continued to buy additional lands until 1830 when he was seventy-eight years of age. During this same period he sold his land in North Carolina, which included the additional land that Sarah had inherited upon the death of her mother.
The prudent, cautious, and careful financial habits of Hudson and his wife, Sarah, are indicated by the fact that he paid cash for every tract of land that he purchased. He and his wife were pioneers in this Piedmont section; and through hard work, strict economy, and the exercise of sound business judgment, he accumulated sizable plantations located in Greenville, Anderson, and Laurens Counties.
At Cedar Falls, he made commercial use of the Reedy River. Here he operated a grist mill to grind the corn for himself and the other planters in this area. He established a large saw mill and a cotton factory, all of which he and his sons operated profitably with the use of slave labor. The large concrete piers at the falls in the Reedy River which were used in the operation of the
saw mill and cotton factory are still standing-a tribute to the resourcefulness of this great pioneer.
At the time of his death, he owned sixty-seven slaves; he operated his cotton plantations, his grist mill, his saw mill, his cotton factory, and his general store. However, he always had time to serve his church, his community, and his state. He died in Greenville, South Carolina, on January 13, 1840. He was eighty-eight years of age. His wife, Sarah, died two years later on April 26; she was eighty-six. Hudson and Sarah are buried at the Fork Shoals Baptist Church Cemetery. All the land for this church was given to the Baptists from the land of their Greenville County plantation. Many of their descendants are buried in this cemetery.
In 1838, at the age of eighty-six, Hudson Berry prepared his own will. It is a thoroughly prepared will. In setting apart plantations in Anderson, Laurens, and Greenville Counties, he described each plantation in detail, giving the names of the persons from whom he had bought each tract of land and the exact price that he had paid for the land and the exact price that each son was to be charged on final accounting. He gave certain slaves and other property to his four daughters but directed that a complete equalization of his estate be made among his children. In a memorandum attached to his will, he named sixty-one of his slaves by name, giving the value of each. He divided the slaves into nine lots of equal value, and gave one lot to each of his nine children. The effect of this division was that each of his nine children received about seven slaves in addition to the specific bequest of certain slaves and other property to his four daughters and specific plantations to his five sons. Hudson indicated his love for his plantation home, his cotton factory, and his saw mill by stipulating that if anyone should wish to sell his or her share in the home place, he or she should sell to some other legatee who might wish to buy. His will indicates that he had an intimate knowledge of every detail of his large estate and a high sense of fairness in the disposition of his property.
The life span of Hudson Berry covered a long, an interesting, and a rapidly changing period in the history of America. At the time of his birth, his native colony was at peace with England, the home of his ancestors. During his youth, he saw the growth of the controversies between the colonies and England. As a soldier in the North Carolina Militia, his principal compensation for his services was the consciousness of a patriotic service well
performed. On his North Carolina farm, he and his wife lived through the period of the Continental Congress. Possessing, as many other men did, the pioneering spirit, he moved to the newly opened country in South Carolina; and here, he and his ever increasing family lived during the administration of ten Presidents-Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, and Tyler. He actively participated in the election of all these men. In 1796, these pioneers participated in their first contested presidential election. John Adams of Massachusetts, a Federalist, like Alexander Hamilton, believed in a strong central government and believed that the rights of the people emanated from the federal government. Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, a Democrat, believed that the power of the federal government emanated from the people and that the government's powers were limited to those expressly granted by the people. Hudson Berry and the other planters were strong supporters of Jefferson. In that election of 1796, Jefferson was defeated; but he was elected four years later.
During this period when our government was being firmly established, when new states were being admitted to the Union and the older states were being developed, Hudson Berry was successfully operating his constantly expanding plantation, grist mill, and cotton factory which were the forerunners of the vast textile mills in that area today.
His life span of almost eighty-eight years covered the really formative period of our American government and of our American way of life. He and his wife, who lived to celebrate their sixty-fourth wedding anniversary with their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, transmitted to each of them a love for the American way of life and a strong belief in our system of free enterprise which the two had helped to establish.Hudson Berry was a member of the militia of the State of North Carolina, which was in active service during the Revolutionary 'War. In April, 1783, according to the North Carolina records, Volume 19, page 165, the Senate of North Carolina ordered new certificates to be issued to Hudson Berry and others to replace certificates formerly issued to them but later lost. In Volume 21, page 175, the following resolution of the House of North Carolina was passed on December 5, 1788:
Whereas !Ws represented that a resolution of the General Assembly in April, 1783, directing the Auditors of the Hillsboro District to issue sundry certificates therein mentioned, in lieu of others which have been destroyed, was lost and the Certificates never issued agreeably thereto; Resolved therefore, that the Comptroller be, and he is hereby directed to grant Certificates in favor of ... Hudson Berry ... for the sum of Nine Pounds, Four Shillings, each, in lieu of the aforesaid, to have interest from the time to which the aforesaid would have done, had they been granted agreeably to the said receipted resolution.
The family of Hudson and Sarah Berry were closely associated with the family of William and Elizabeth Halbert of Anderson County, South Carolina, in that two of Hudson and Sarah's sons, William and David, married William and Elizabeth's daughters, Elizabeth and Lucinda.
Hudson Berry and his wife were also closely associated with the Gaines family. One of his sons, Micajah, and two of his granddaughters, Elizabeth and Clarissa Arnold, married into this family.
Hudson Berry and his wife likewise were intimately associated with another pioneer family of this section, the Harrisons. Micajah Berry and his wife, Sarah Gaines Berry, had only one child, Nancy. She married Dr. James P. Harrison.
Hudson Berry, his wife, and their four children had. Moved from Caswell County, North Carolina, into the Laurens District and a little later into the Fork Shoals area in Greenville County.CHAPTER 3
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE BERRY FAMILY TO SOUTH CAROLINA
In 1788 when Hudson Berry, his wife, and four children moved from North Carolina to what is now Laurens County, South Carolina, and when William Halbert, his wife, and children moved from Virginia to what is now Anderson County, South Carolina. there were practically no churches or schools in this
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pioneer section. These families, like all the others who had migrated from various sections of the country to this section, had as their first problem the making of shelter for themselves and the clearing of sufficient land from which they could make a living. They first built log cabins which could serve as a shelter until they could become established. Then they built large and comfortable plantation homes. One of the first thoughts in the minds of these families who settled in this new country was to establish churches in their communities. When Hudson Berry first settled on Durbins Creek in the Enoree section of Laurens County, he and a few other settlers organized the Big Branch Enoree Baptist Church. This was in 1789. Yh-lichtirCh had only fifteen members. At that time, the only Baptist Association in South Carolina was the Charleston Baptist Association, which had been organized in 1751. This Association was also the first Baptist Association that had been organized in the South. The second Association to be formed in the state was the Bethel Association (1789), which included a small group of small churches established by these settlers. Hudson Berry was a messenger from the Big Branch Enoree naptist Church to the organization meet-ingot the Bethel Association and represented the same small church until 17995 when he bought the Purkle Plantation on the Reedy River which included the present Fork Shoals Community. In 1799, the Big Branch Enoree Baptist Church, w)----Tirthen had only thirteen members, and the Horse Creek Baptist Church, which also had only a few members, consolidated with the Fork Shoals Baptist Church and moved the location of the church to a part of the Hudson Berry plantation. He and his wife continued to be active members of the Fork Shoals Baptist Church until they died. For a period of slightly over one hundred and fifty years, he or some of his descendants have served continuously as deacons in that church.This Circular Letter reflected the general views of the denomination on the subject assigned. The Berrys, the Halberts, the Gaineses, their children and grandchildren were always in attendance at the sessions of this Association. One can readily visualize the pride of Hudson and Sarah when they attended the session of the Association at Nears Creek Baptist Church in 1822 and heard their son.
In like manner, the sons and sons-in-law of William Halbert establish home in the Big_Creek community. Elizabeth Halbert died in 1836. Hudson Berry died in1840; and. his wife Sarah, died. in. 1842. Their, estates were divided and settled among their children: The second generation of their families, some of whom had married, inherited the pioneering spirit of their grandparents and migrates to Mississippi and Texas.
Hudson Bert Senior b 10 Sep 1752 d 13 Jan 1840 m 27 June 1775
Sarah Anthony, b 3 Nov 1756 ' d 26 Ap r 1842 dau of John Anthon • Caswell Co. N. C., son of James Anthonv. Hanover county, Virginia.
Children:
I. Nancy Berry b 17 Aug 1777 N.C. d 1811 Greenville Co., S.C.
II. William Berry b 17 Aug 1780 N.C. d 14 June 1857 Tippah Co., Miss.
III. Elizabeth Berry b 14 Mar 1784 N.C. d 18 Apr 1839-Greenville Co., S.C.
IV. Micajah Berry b 3 Aug 1786 N.C. d 8 Jan 1859 Greenville Co., S.C.
V. David Berry b 30 Aug 1789 d 29 Aug 1843 Pontotoc Co., Miss.
VI. Nathan Berry b 3 Nov 1791 d 25 Feb 1840 Greenville Co. S.C. VW VII. Mary Berry b 17 Apr 1794 d 30 Apr 1872 Anderson Co., S.C.
VIII. Hudson Berry Jr b 5 June 1796 d 27 July 1853. In the 1850 Census of Tippah Co., Miss. he appears with the family of his brother. David Berry who had died seven years before.
IX. Sarah Berry b 8 Mar 1801 d 1855. "
Sarah's father , John Anthony , a son of James Anthony of Hanover County, Virginia , moved from Virginia to Caswell County, North Carolina about 1777. By 1784, he moved 900 acres of on the fourth fork of County Line Creek. John and his wife, Ursley, reared a family of ten children : Jonathan, Elijah, John, William, Joseph, Sarah, Nancy, Jean, and Elizabeth. All these children had been born in Virginia before John anfd Ursely moved to North Carolina.
Sarah Anthony Berry and Elizabeth Hill Halbert had been born and reared on plantations and were accustomed to planta-
tion life in a pioneer country. They were, therefore, prepared by birth and rearing to help their husbands in the establishment and the development of their plantations in this pioneer country in the upland section of South Carolina.
7 Hudson Berry
Hudson Berry was born in 1796; he died in 1893. He never married.
VIII. Hudson Berry Jr b 5 June 1796 d 27 July 1853. In the 1850 Census of Tippah Co., Miss. he appears with the family of his brother. David Berry who had died seven years before.
References:
(1) Royal Ancestors of Some American Families, compiled by Michel L. Call.
(2) The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, George
Andrews Moriarty.
(3) Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Frederick Lewis Weis.
(4) Stammtafeln Zur Geschichte Der Europaischen Staaten, Wilhelm Karl, Prinz
Von Isenburg.
(5) Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne.
(6) The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Gerald Paget.
(7) The American Genealogist.
(8) The Genealogist.
(9) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
(10) The Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet and Cecily Neville, Ernst Friedrick
Kraentzler.
(11) The Plantagenet Ancestry, W. H. Turton.
(12) Tableaux Genealogiques des Souverains de la France et de seu Grands
Feudataires, Paris, 1863.
(13) The House of Adam, Georgia B. Schwartz, 4 volumes.
(14) Archive Records, The Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
(15) Tablettes Chronologiques.
(16) From Whence We Came, Burdick.
(17) Magna Charta Sureties.
(18) Manga Charta Barons.
(19) Magna Charta, Wurts.
(20) Americans of Royal Descent, Browning.595. EARL OF SALISBURY (108-27)
References:
(1) Royal Ancestors of Some American Families, compiled by Michel L. Call.
(2) The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, George
Andrews Moriarty.
(3) Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Frederick Lewis Weis.
(4) Stammtafeln Zur Geschichte Der Europaischen Staaten, Wilhelm Karl, Prinz
Von Isenburg.
(5) Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne.
(6) The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Gerald Paget.
(7) The American Genealogist.
(8) The Genealogist.
(9) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
(10) The Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet and Cecily Neville, Ernst Friedrick
Kraentzler.
(11) The Plantagenet Ancestry, W. H. Turton.
(12) Tableaux Genealogiques des Souverains de la France et de seu Grands
Feudataires, Paris, 1863.
(13) The House of Adam, Georgia B. Schwartz, 4 volumes.
(14) Archive Records, The Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
(15) Tablettes Chronologiques.
(16) From Whence We Came, Burdick.
(17) Magna Charta Sureties.
(18) Manga Charta Barons.
(19) Magna Charta, Wurts.
(20) Americans of Royal Descent, Browning.
(21) Index Card to Salt Lake Temple Records, No. 13620, Book 5 Q, page 595.