John Berry ²

  General Notes:

This John Berry (married to Elizabeth Harris) is not known to be related to our Berry line of John Berry and Mary Grimes. However, there does seem to be a number of things that link the two families. Additional research to make the links is necessary. A linkage might be confirmed by a male descendat of this line participating in a y-DNA program like the Berry Family Project at FTDNA. One source has identified John as the grandson of Thomas Berry Sr., of Hancock Creek area in Clark Co., KY. There does not seem to be any documentation of the relationship. (see John Berry Jr., RIN 13696).

Also, please note that the data presented here is mostly the work of others (included in my sources); I have compiled and added some documents to support that work. ²

  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage Consent, 1797, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ¹
Nimrod Duncan was witness for marriage bond of 50 pounds for John Berry and Elizabeth Harris.
Consent: Robert Harris.
Witness: James Berry, Nimrod Duncan

• Marriage Bond, 1797, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ¹
Nimrod Duncan was witness for marriage bond of 50 pounds for John Berry and Elizabeth Harris.
Consent: Robert Harris.
Witness: James Berry, Nimrod Duncan

• Tax Record, May 1799, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ³
BerryJohn
1799May
book 3, page 2
1 white Male > 21
1 white male 16-21
4 horses
also (in order of listing)
Berry, William; Garrett; John (same as above); Thomas; Thomas Jr
Baxter, George; Benjamin; Edmond; Elizb; Bethuel
Barry, Jno - Dr.

• Tax Record, 25 Jun 1800, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ⁴
BerryJohn
180025 June
book 3, page 2
1 white Male > 21
0 white male 16-21
5 horses
125 acres on Muddy Cr*
60 acres on Muddy Cr"
*water course is difficult to read
Also (in order of listing)
Berry, Thomas; John (same as above); Tho Jun

• Tax Record, 1801, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ⁵
BerryJohn
1801
book 1, page 3
1 white Male > 21
0 white male 16-21
4 horses
170 acres on Muddy Cr; Entered, Surveyed, and Patented by Higgason Grubbs

Also (in order of listing)
Baxter, Epheram; Bethund; edmond; Elizabeth; Benjamin
Berry, John (same as above); Thos Jun

• Tax Record, 7 Jun 1802, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ⁶
BerryJohn
1802 June 7
book 2, page 2
1 white Male > 21
0 white male 16-21
3 horses
170 acres on Muddy Cr;

Also (in order of listing)
Baxter, Greenberry; George
Berry, Thomas; John (same as above); John (G.S.)*
* G.S. or G.L. or G. T. - difficult to read

• Tax Record, 5 Jun 1803, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ⁷
BerryJohn
1803June 5
book 1, page 2
1 white Male > 21
0 white male 16-21
4 horses
160 acres on Muddy Cr., Entered, Surveyed, and Patented by Hig Grubbs
Also on this page (in order listed)
Baxter, George; Edmond
Berry, John (same as above); Thomas

• Tax Record, 24 Mar 1804, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ⁸
BerryJohn
1804March 24
book 2, page 2
1 white Male > 21
0 white male 16-21
4 horses
150 acres on Muddy Cr.,

• Tax Record, 5 May 1805, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ⁹
BerryJohn
1805May 5
book 1, page 2
1 white Male > 21
0 white male 16-21
4 horses

Also on this page
Baxter, Benjamin
Berry, Garrett; John (same as above)

• Tax Record, 4 Jun 1806, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ¹⁰
BerryJohn
1806June 4
book 2, page 3
1 white Male > 21
0 white male 16-21
4 horses

Also on this page
Baxter, George; Bethuel

• Tax Record, 6 Sep 1807, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ¹¹
BerryJohn
1807Sep 6
book 2, page 3
1 white Male > 21
0 white male 16-21
6 horses

Also on this page
Baxter, Edmond
Berry, William

• Tax Record, 4 Jul 1808, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ¹²
BerryJohn
1808Jul 4
book 2, page 2
1 white Male > 21
0 white male 16-21
6 horses

Also on this page
Berry, John (same as above); Thomas
Baxter, Edmond

• Tax Record, 3 Jun 1809, , Madison, Kentucky, USA. ¹³
BerryJohn
1809Jun 3
book 1, page 2
1 white Male > 21
0 white male 16-21
7 horses

Also on this page
Berry, William (m Rhody Crews)

• Residence, 1810, , , Missouri, USA. ^{2 14}
The family moved to Missouri from Madison Co. in 1806 with cousin, William Berry. [note: Madison County, KY., tax records show a John Berry in Madison until 1810, so I think the 1806 is incorrect.]

"The names of the parties who settled north of the river, in Howard county, were...From Madison County, Ky. :
Lt.-Col. Benjamin Cooper. John Berry.
Francis Cooper. obert Erwin.
William Cooper. Robert Brown.
Daniel Cooper. Joseph Wolfskill.
John Cooper. William Thorp.
Capt. Sarshall Cooper. John Thorp.
Braxton Cooper, Sr. Josiah Thorp.
Joseph Cooper. James Thorp.
Stephen Cooper, r. Gilead Rupe.
Braxton Cooper, Jr. James Jones
Robert Cooper. John Peak,
James Hancock. William Wolfskill.
Albert Hancock, Adam Woods.
William Berry.

From Estill County, Ky.:-
Amos Ashcraft. Jesse Asheraft.
Otho Ashcraft. James Alexander."

• Residence, 1810, , , Missouri, USA. ¹⁵
The Coopers again started in February,
1810, for the Boonslick country, and arrived there about the 10th of March.
The following forty persons came and settled successively in the country
that spring, to wit: Col. Ben Cooper, and his sons, Francis Cooper, Wm.
Cooper, David Cooper, and John Cooper; Braxton Cooper, and his son,
Robert Cooper; Capt. Sarshall Cooper, and his sons, Braxton, Joseph and
Stephen Cooper; John Hancock and son, Abbott Hancock, unmarried;
John Busby; John Berry, and cousin Wm. Berry, unmarried; John Ferrill
and son, Henry Ferrill; Peter Popineau, unmarried; Gray Bynum, unmar-
ried; Robt. Irvin, unmarried; Jas. Cyle, unmarried; Joseph Wolfscale and
son, Wm. Wolfscale, unmarried; James Anderson, and his sons Middleton
and Wm. Anderson, unmarried; Stephen Jackson; Wm. Thorp, and son
John Thorp; Josiah Thorp and small family; James Thorp, unmarried;
Amos Ashcraft and sons, Otto and Jesse Ashcraft, latter son unmarried;
Gilliard Roop and young family; James Jones and family; James Alexander
and family. All the young Coopers were unmarried. Col. Ben Cooper and
Capt. Sarshall Cooper had leased of Mrs. Ira Nash a Spanish grant of 600
arpens claimed by her husband, so as to settle in the country under the guise
of this claim, but they all settled considerably above this claim, the precise
location of which was much in dispute for a long time. Nash never lived on
the claim at any time.
[would become part of Boone County]

• Residence, 1810, Fort Hempstead, , Missouri, USA. ¹⁶
HISTORY OF HOWARD AND CHARITON COUNTIES. [page] 97
[Big Berry from page 96]
John Berry. Ewing McLane.
William Berry. David McQuitly.
David Boggs. William Monroe (called Long
Joseph Boggs. Gun).
Muke Box. Joseph Moody.
Joseph Boyers. Susa Mulllens.
Robert Brown. Thompson Mullens.
Samuel Brown. John Peak.
William Brown. William Pipes.
Townsend Brown. Michael Poage.
Christopher Brown. Robert Poage.
Christopher Burckhartt. Joseph Poage.
Nicholas S. Burckhartt. Christopher Richardson.
Andrew Carson. Jesse Richardson.
Lindsay Carson (father of Kit James Richardson.
Carson). Silas Richardson.
Moses Carson. John Rupe.
Charles Canole. Henry Simmons.
William Canole. Reuben Smith.
Issac Clark. Andrew Smith.
Joseph Cooley. Thomas Smith.
James Cooley, John Snethan.
Ferrin Cooley. James Snethan.
Braxton Cooper, Jr. Joseph Still.
James Cockrell John Stinson.
Thomas Chandler. Nathan Teague.
James Creason. Solomon Teters.
John Creason. David Teters.
Peter Creason. John Teters.
William Creason. Isaac Thornton.
Daniel Crump. John Thornton.
Harper Davis. Davis Todd.
Jmes Douglas. Elisha Todd.
Daniel Durbin. Jonathan Todd.
John Elliott. Levi Todd.
Braxton Fugate James Turner.
Hiram Fugate Philip Turner.
Reuben Fugate. Jesse Turner.
Sarshall Fugate Thomas Vaughan.
Simeon Fugate, Robert Wilds.
Reuben Gentry. William Wadkis.

• Residence, 1810, , , Missouri, USA. ^{17 18}
The first settlement, or more properly the first cabin erected and
patch of corn planted, were the work in 1812-13, of John and Wil-
liam Berry, Wm. Baxter and Reuben Gentry, in the neighborhood, if
not on a part, of what is now known as "the Model Farm," formerly
constituting the large and rich estate of the late Hon. John W. Har-
ris, and in earlier times called "Thrall's Prairie."1 In the same
neighborhood, soon after, settled James Barnes, Robert and Mitchel
Payne, John Denham, David McQuitty and Robert Barclay, with their
families. Little progress, however, was made in the settlement of the
country, now embraced by the boundary lines of Boone County, until
after the subsidence of the war with Great Britain, and until after the
treaty of 1815 by which the Indians relinquished all claim to any
portion of the territory north of the Missouri River. In fact, it may
be affirmed as substantially true that, anterior to this time, there was
not a white settlemen t worthy of the name within the present limits
of the county.
[would be included in Boone County]

• Residence, 1810, , , Missouri, USA. ¹⁹
From the neighborhood of Rocheport to Thrall's Prairie were lo-
cated John Grey, Gaven Head, Joseph Head, John Berry, David and
Andrew McQuitty, Samuel Beattie, Robert Daly, John Copher, Sol-
omon and Zachariah Barnett, Wm. Baxter, James Boggs, David
and James Pipes, John Copeland, David Kincaid, Wm. Lientz, John
G. Philips, Michael Woods, J. R. Abernathy, Robert D. Walkup, and
Tyre Harris.
[would be included in Boone County]

• Residence, 1812, , , Missouri, USA. ²⁰
The first settlement, or more properly the first cabin erected and
patch of corn planted, were the work in 1812-13, of John and Wil-
liam Berry, Wm. Baxter and Reuben Gentry, in the neighborhood, if
not on a part, of what is now known as "the Model Farm," formerly
constituting the large and rich estate of the late Hon. John W. Har-
ris, and in earlier times called "Thrall's Prairie."

• Religion, 1812, , , Missouri, USA. ^{2 21}
John and Elizabeth were original members of Mt. Pleasant (1812) and Sugar Creek Baptist (1823) churches.
[Mt. Pleasant Church is near New Franklin in Howard County, Boone County is later formed south of the river]

1. Mount Pleasant church, near New Franklin, was organized
near its present site, April 8, 1812, by Elders David McLain, Colden
Williams and John Sneethen, presbytery. The original members,
besides these three preachers, were Samuel Brown, Abraham Grooms,
William Creson and wife, John Berry and wife, William Monroe,
Stephenson and wife, Mrs. Winscott, Nancy Goggin, Nancy Cojun,
Joseph Boty, Mrs. John Sneethen, Sophia Swearingen, Josiah Boon
and wife, Dan Rider and wife. The following have been the pastors
till now: David McLain, William Thorp, Ebenezer Rodgers, Reuben
Alexander, William Duncan, Green Corey, Noah Flood, B. F. T.
Coke, B. F. Smith, X. X. Buchner, J. D. Murphy, M. H. Williams,
H. M. King, E. D. Isbell, M. J. Breaker. The church now numbers
about forty-two members, and worship in an excellent frame house-
union.

• Military, 1812, , , Missouri, USA. ^{2 22 23}
John Berry was in the War of 1812 at Fort Hempstead, MO.
[the area was in St. Charles County, then Howard in 1816, then Boone in 1820]

It was during this war in July, 1812, that the first United States
recruiting office west of the Mississippi was opened at Ste. Genevieve
by Captain 0. Allen of the regular army, and that town made the
rendezvous for enlisted men.
In the fall of 1812 after the attack on "Ft. Bellevue" hostile
Saukees and Renards from the Rock river band and Winnebagoes
tain; David Brant, Lieutenant; Benj. Johnston, Ensign. 3d, Thos. Williams,
Captain; William Ink, Lieutenant; Hardy Ware, Ensign.
Companies of the Fourth Battalion: 1st, Benj. Hatherley, Captain; Samuel
Cantley, Lieutenant; Lewis Hall, Ensign. 2d, John Maupin, Captain; Joshua
Brock, Lieutenant; John Sappington, Ensign 3d, Augte Chouteau, Captain;
-- Lieutenant; -- Ensign.
Second Regiment, county of Ste. Genevieve, Nathaniel Cook, Lieutenant-
Colonel, commanding: Joseph Hertick, Paymaster; Wm. McFarland, Adju-
tant; John Donohue, Major 1st Battalion; John Callaway Major d Bat-
talion.
Companies of First Battalion: 1st, Thomas Oliver Captain; John Mc-
Arthur Lieutenant; Jos. Hertick, Ensign. 2d, John B. Bossueur, Captain;
James Rigdon, Lieutenant; Jos. Amouroux, Ensign. 3d, Richard Moore,
Captain; Thos. Kiney, Lieutenant; Thos. Petterson, Ensign. 4th, Frs.
R. Cissell, Captain; Mark Brooks, Lieutenant; Samuel McCall, Ensign.
Companies of Second Battalion: 1st, William Dillon, Captain; William
Hines, Lieutenant; Benj. LaChance, Ensign. 2d, Andrew Miller, Captain;
Isaac Murphy, Lieutenant; John Burnham, Ensign. 3d, Henry Posto Cap-
tain; Archd. Huddleston, Lieutenant; Alex Craighead, Ensign.
Third Regiment, county of St. Charles, Daniel M. Boone, Lieutenant-
Colonel, commanding: Henry Hight, Judge Advocate; Jas. Beatty, Adjutant;
Stephen Hempstead, Quartermaster: Peter Journey, Major 1st Battalion;
Robert Spencer, Major of Battalion: Benj. Cooper Battalion; Benj. Cooper, Major 3d Battalion.
Companies of First Battalion: 1st, John McConnell, Captain; Peter
Teague, Lieutenant; Joseph Yardley, Ensign. 2d, Isaac Vanbibber, Cap-
tain; Anthony Head, Lieutenant; William Cassio Ensign. 3d, Samuel Gib-
son, Captain; Isaac Hostetter, Lieutenant; Robert Gray, Ensign. 4th,
Nathl. Simonds, Captain; Roswell Durky, Lieutenant; Wn. Ewing, Ensign.
5th, Elisha Collard, Captain; James Lewis, Lieutenant; Jacob Groshong,
Ensign.
Companies of Second Battalion: 1st, William Hart, Captain; Osborn
Knott, Lieutenant; Ralph Flaugherty, Ensign. 2d, Henry Hight, Captain;
Sylvestre Pattie Lieutenant: Charles Dennis, Ensign. 3d, Samuel Griffith,
Captain; Charles Saucier, Lieutenant; Eben Ayres, Ensign.
Companies of the Third Battalion: 1st, Sarshall Cooper, Captain; Wm.
McMahon, Lieutenant; Benj. Cooper, Ensign. 2d, Jas. Alexander, Captain;
John Morrow, Lieutenant Amos Barnes, Ensign. 3d, William Head, Cap-
tain; David McQuitty, Lieutenant; John Berry, Ensign. A company at Cote
Sans Dessein: Frs. Coursault, Captain; Jos. Rivard, Lieutenant; Louis
Dehetre, Ensign.

• Military, Apr 1812, , , Missouri, USA. ^{22 24}
page 115 footnote:
27 Life of John Mason Peck, p. 138. The muster-roll of Capt. Sarshall
Cooper's company, dated April, 1812, and which manifestly embraced all
the settlers then living in the upper Boonslick country, on both sides of the
river, preserved in Draper's Notes, vol. xxiii, pp. 65-81, is not without interest,
and gives us the names of the following officers and men: Wm. McMahan,
1st Lieutenant; David McQuilty, 2d Lieutenant; John Monroe, 3d Lieu-
tenant; Ben Cooper, Jr., Ensign; John McMurray, 1st Sergeant; Sam Mc-
Mahan, 2d Sergeant (killed December 24, 1814); Adam Woods, 3d Sergeant;
David Todd, 4th Sergeant; John Mathews, 5th Sergeant; Andrew Smith,
Thomas Vaughn, James McMahan, John Busby (killed February, 1814),
James Barnes, Corporals. The privates were: Jesse Ashcraft, Jesse Cox,
Sam Perry, John Thorp, Solomon Cox, Henry Ferrill, Harman Gregg, Wm.
Gregg (killed December 24, 1814), John Wasson, Josiah Higgins, David
Gregg, Robert Cooper, Gray Bynums, David Cooper, Abbott Hancock, Wm.
Thorp, Wm. Cooper, John Cooper, Jos. Cooper, Stephen Cooper, Wm. Read,
Stephen Turley, Thos. McMahan, James Anderson, Wm. Anderson, Stephen
Jackson, John Hancock, Robert Irvin, Francis Cooper, Benoni Sappington,
James Cooley, Nathan Teague, James Douglass, John Snethan, Wm. Creas-
son, Jos. Cooley, Wm. McLane (killed October, 1814), James Turner, Ervin
McLane, Wm. Baxter, Peter Creasson, David Burns, Price Arnold, John
Smith (killed November, 1814), John Stephenson, Alfred Head, Gilliard Roop,
Daniel Durbin, Jas. Cockyill, Jesse Tresner, Mitchel Poage, Townsend
page 116 footnote
Brown, John Arnold, Robert Poage, Fracis Berry, Lindsay Carson, David
Boggs, Jesse Richardson, Robert Brown, John Peak, John Elliott, Jos. Beggs,
Andrew Carson, John Cooley Reuben Fugitt, Seibert Hubbard, John Berry,
Wm. Brown, Francis Woods, Wm. Allen, Robert Wells, Jos. Moody, Jos.
Alexander, Amos Barnes, Daniel Hubbard, Harris Jamison, Abraham Barnes,
Wm. Ridgeway, Enoch Taylor, Mathew Kinkead, John Barnes, Henry
eadon, Otto Ashcraft, John Pursley, Wm. Monroe, Isaac Thornton, Stephen
Feils, Dan Monroe, Giles Williams, Henry Barnes, Wm. Savage, Thomas
Chandler, John Jokey, Stephen Cole, Wm. Robertson, Wm. Bolen, Mike
Box, Sabert Scott, Jan Savage, James Cole, Stephen Cole, Jr., John Ferrill,
Delaney Bolen, James Savage, Jos. McMahan, Braxton Cooper, Robert
Hancock.

• Religion, 2 Nov 1823, , Boone, Missouri, USA. ^{2 21 25}
John and Elizabeth were original members of Mt. Pleasant (1812) and Sugar Creek Baptist (1823) churches.
[Mt. Pleasant Church is near New Franklin in Howard County]

SUGAR CREEK(BAPTIST) CHURCH.
The Sugar Creek congregation of the Baptist church was organized
November 2, 1823. The following is an abstract of the records con-
taining the report of the constitutional meeting:--
NOVEMBER THE SECOND (Saturday), 1823.
We, the Baptist Church of Christ at Sugar Creek, met at Brother John Berry's, accord-
ing to appointment, and being constituted on 25 members by Elders Wn. Tharp and Thomas
Campbell, Brother Thos. Campbell chosen moderator, we proceed--1. And agree to be
known by the name of Sugar Creek. 2. We agree to hold our church meetings on the sec-
ond Saturday and Sunday in each month. 3. A door was open for the reception of members.
Received by experience, Sisters Rachel Riddle, Elizabeth Huntsucker, Susannah Bledsoe,
and Polly Hawkins.
By order of the church. LEVI H. JONES, Clerk pro tem.
Page 995

HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY. 995

The original members of the congregation were: Wm. Barnes,Mark
Reavis, Wm. Jones, Sr., Wm. Jones, Jr., Willis Hawkins, Levi H.
Jones, John Stemmons, John Berry, John Jones, James Reavis, James
Flemming, Thos. Hart, Anthony Crosby, Benj. Dale, Gavin Bledsoe,
John Huntsucker, Thos. Huntsucker, and Sisters Lucy Reavis, Elizabeth Berry,
Tabitha Crosby, Polly Flemming, Mildred Hawkins, Anna
Jones, Patsy Jones, and Vilette, a woman of color.
The first deacons were selected on the second Saturday in January,
1824, and were Levi H. Jones and Thomas Hart. They were ordained
the same day by Elders Thos. Campbell and Elijah Foley. The first
pastor called was Elder Campbell, but he refused to accept; then Elder
Foley was called. Saith the record of October 2 (Saturday )
1824:-

• Census, 1830, , Boone, Missouri, USA. ²⁶

• Residence, 1838, Salt Pond, Saline, Missouri, USA. ²⁷
Settlement of the County from 1820-1840...
...In 1838 there were two more of the Reavis family, Odon and Doctor
Reavis, who moved into the Salt Pond country, and also John Berry, Thomas
and Robert Hickinson, James G. Beaty and Thomas Hunter, John and Robert
Owens, James Yantis, Asa, Henry and Simon Pennington, Ed Armentrout,
Captain Bright, Charles Murray and George Francisco, and William B. and
George Kincaid lived some miles east of the site of Brownsville. Thomas
Miller settled here this year, and his son, Calvin J., the following year. About
this time, John McAllister located at the springs which yet bear his name.
In I840 Beverly Carey moved down and settled Hazel Grove. Benjamin
Miller and William Brown were his neighbors. The Lynches, Doctor Yantis
and Ostrander, the Fergusons and others were on Blackwater near Browns-
ville.

• Biography, 1910, Salt Pond, Saline, Missouri, USA. ^{28 29}
...SALINE COUNTY, MISSOURI 567

THOMAS C. BERRY....
568 PAST AND PRESENT
...Mr. Berry was born in Boone county, Missouri, on the I9th day of De-
cember, 1827, and is a son of Tyre H. and Hettie B. (Cofer) Berry. Tyre
Berry was a native of Kentucky, born in January, I800, and a son of John
Berry. The latter was also a native of the Blue Grass state and emigrated to
Missouri in I806, being, it is supposed, the first white man to grow corn west
of St. Charles. He first settled in Boone county and cleared up a farm (now
known as the John Harris farm), on which he lived the remainder of his life.
His was the first body interred in the Sweet Springs cemetery. At the time
he made the journey from Kentucky to Missouri the route was infested with
wild animals and still wilder red men and the long and wearisome journey
was accompanied by many hardships and undesirable experiences....

• Census, 1840, Salt Pond, Saline, Missouri, USA. ³⁰
John Berry - 1 male 20-30
1 male 50-60
1 female 20-30
Hickason Berry - 1 male 15-20
1 male 30-40
1 female 20-30

John married Elizabeth Harris, daughter of Robert Harris and Nancy Grubbs, in Apr 1797 in , Madison, Kentucky, USA.¹ (Elizabeth Harris was born about 1780 in , , Virginia, USA,² died in 1838 in Brownsville, Saline, Missouri, USA ² and was buried in , Saline, Missouri, USA ^{2 29}.)