10/7/1753 Brunswick Parish, King George Co, VA. He sold 87 1/4 acrest o Joel Anchoram in preparation to moving.
1774 Frederick Co, Benjamin bought land there. He is often confusedw ith his cousin Benjamin (son of Joseph), also in Frederick County.
10/6/1776 He served in the VA militia during the Rev War as a gunsmitha nd was discharged 10/1777.
Frederick Co. Records:
Deed Book 16 pg. 64? George Mercer and others, etc., to Benjamin Berryo f Frederick Co., son of Henry Berry late of King Geo. Co., Va. -324.5 a cres on Shendoah River.
Deed Book 30 pg. 421 3/27/1804 recorded 7/6/1807 Benjamin Berry ofFred erick Co., Deed of Gift to daughter Sarah Stribling of same place- 4 n egroes. Deed of Gift to heirs of daughter Dully Benson, deceasedof cou nty of Stafford in Va., 7 negroes.
10/10/1795 - Deposition of Benjamin Berry borned 1725, age 70regarding M organ's land.
From Shenandoah Valley Pioneers;
....Later on the town was granted a charter Jany. 15, 1798, andincorpo rated and named Berryville for its founder Benjamin Berry.Twenty acres o f land, the property of Benjamin Berry and SarahStrebling, was taken. C larke County was formed March 8, 1836;Berryville was chosen as the cou nty seat, where the first court washeld March 28th."
Marker in Rose Park, Berryville, Virginia:
Benjamin Berry, son of Henry Berry of King George County, settled inwh at is now Clarke County (VA) prior to the Revolution, and in 1798,he p rocured the formal establishment of the town of Berryville, thetown ha ving been platted by him, and consisting of a portion (twentyacres) of a l arger tract of land owned by him and his daughter, SarahStribling. He a nd she are buried in the northeast section of the yardof Grace Episcop al Church.
From Clarke Co, VA web site:
Clarke County is named for George Rogers Clark, spelled without the"e" , the county seat is Berryville. Berryville, laid out on landowned by B enjamin Berry at the crossroads where the tavern communityknown as Bat tletown was located.
Benjamin's will was dated 8/18/1810 and proved 10/2/1810. In it hegav e to Betsy Lane, late B. T. Stribling, one half personal estateand tha t part of my real estate called "Berry Farm" adjoining theTown of Berr yville to Bellah Stribling, other half of personal estateand farm I bo ught of Benjamin Taylor.
