Capt James Terry^{[1, 2, 3]}

1676 - 1744  (68 years)

• Name	Capt James Terry  [4, 5]
  Birth	1676	, Lunenburg, Virginia, USA   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Jul 1744	, Caroline, Virginia, USA   [6]
  Person ID	I11089	Master
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2019

  
  

  Father	William Terry, Jr,   b. 1649, Pytchley, Northampton, England d. 1700, , Lunenburg, Virginia, USA (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Sarah Elizabeth Groups,   b. 25 Jul 1652, Redbourn, Hertfordshire, England d. 1710, , Lunenburg, Virginia, USA (Age 57 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	14 May 1668	Frensham, Surrey, England
  Family ID	F9136	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Diana Royall,   b. 1680, , Lunenburg, Virginia, USA d. 1745, , Caroline, Virginia, USA (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	1698	, , Virginia, USA   [4, 7]
  Children	1. Stephen Terry,   b. 1690, St Martins, Hanover, Virginia, USA d. 19 Dec 1769, , Chester, South Carolina, USA (Age 79 years) + 2. Champness Terry,   b. 1700, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 25 Mar 1758, Fredricksville, Louisa, Virginia, USA (Age 58 years) + 3. James Terry, II,   b. 1702, , King William, Virginia, USA d. 1779, , Caswell, North Carolina, USA (Age 77 years) + 4. Benjamin M Terry, Sr,   b. 1704, , Lunenburg, Virginia, USA d. 28 Dec 1760, Camden, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 56 years)   5. Joseph Terry,   b. 1707, , New Kent, Virginia, USA d. Dec 1785, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F3106	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2019

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1676 - , Lunenburg, Virginia, USA Marriage - 1698 - , , Virginia, USA Death - 13 Jul 1744 - , Caroline, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Quit Rent Rolls of 1704 in King Williams Co.,Va Thomas Terry-300 acres James Terry-400 acres Stephen Terry-330 acres James and Thomas Terry received land for transporting "persons" to the Colony. At the time anyone paying the 6 Pounds Sterling for the trip to the colony of Virginia would receive 50 acres of land. For those who could not pay there alternative of selling their services for a period of 4 to 7 years and the one who paid for the transportation would receive the land. The Terrys transported a good number of indentured servants to the Colonies and therefore had to be men of wealth. Early Virginia Planters: Terry, James; King William County Terry, Stephen; King William County Terry, Thomas; King William County James Terry: NPFX:Captain; Sex M; Birth abt. 1665 in Lunenburg Co., VA; Death 1744 in Carolina Co., VA; Note: The Will of Captain James Terry was presented for probate July 13, 1744 in Caroline Co., VA Court. James Terry was an early settler and patented large bodies of land in the section. (King William Co., VA) In 1757 he moved to Orange County, North Carolina. In 1764 he sold to Nathaniel Terry, Hugh Innes, Robert Woodang, Thomas Dilliard, Sr., Thomas Dilliard, Jr., Ed. Booker, John Bates, James Dillard, Archibald Gordon, George Watkins, John Donelson, Thomas Tunstall, vestryman of Antrim Parish, for 350 pounds, 794 acres on Sandy Creek, where the said Terry formerly lived, for a Glebe for Antrim Parish. (Halifax Deed Book) In 1752 Halifax County was created out of Lunenburg and included what is today Pittsylvania. The justices of the peace were William Byrd, William Wynne, Peter Fontaine,Jr., William Irby, James Terry, Nathaniel Terry, Robert Hampton, Andrew Wade and Sherwood Walton. Old Church Ministers and Families of Virginia. Article XLVI. Virgina Land Grants and Patents: 20 April 1701 King and Queen County [later became King William Co. in 1701] Description: 418 acres in Pamunkey Neck ............ Patent #9; 1697-1706; pg. 356 Terry, James. grantee Carr, Thomas 20 Oct. 1704 New Kent County Description: 1000 acres on south side of Pumunkey River....... Patent #9; 1697-1706 pg. 631 John Munroe and James Terry. grantees 16 June 1714 King William County Description: 400acres a little below the falls and on the north side of Pamonkey River. Patent #10; 1710-1719; pg. 143 Terry, James. grantee 17 Aug 1720 King William County 200 acres on the back of John Hollodays land in St. Johns Parish Patent #11; 1719-1724; pg 25 Fleming, William. grantee Terry, James 31 Oct 1726 King William County Description: 400 acres on the north side of the Northanna and on the North Creek and on the branches of Beaverdam Creek in St. John's Parish, beginning and corner of land of John Holloday and his own land. Patent #13; 1725-1730 pg. 28 Terry, James, Capt. grantee Holloday, John The Myth of James Terry and Diana Royall The Terry Family Bible was purchased by Nathaniel Terry Jr. at the 1806 estate sale and was taken to Logan/Todd County, Kentucky. It was presented in Robertson Courthouse TN., as late as 1855. It is unknown where it is today, but a transcription from a grandson Robert Y. Lewis, is available at the TN State Archives. In the early part of the 1900’s a descendent out of one of the sons of Nathaniel Sr., who was from Virginia, mistakenly joined the SAR on the service of Nathaniel Terry Jr, who he did not descend from, he named a Miss Smith as Nathaniel Sr’s wife when Nancy Hopkins Smith was the wife of Nathaniel’s son Robert , and continued on back to Benjamin Terry who died in 1771, naming apparent siblings of his great grandfather, James A. Terry and Diana Royall Terry as the parents of Benjamin. This has never been proven by any document and was done from family lore, but is often repeated. Source: Margie Brown Mgbrown105@aol.com Note by Robert "Mike" Terry: At last count there were 37 user submitted trees on Ancestry.com for James Terry and Mary Diane Royal as the parents of Benjamin Terry d. 1771 and the list keeps growing. If you ask where this information comes from you will probably not get an answer. If they even bother to cite a source it is based on the erroneous information from the SAR record of Thaddeus McGee Terry. This same information was provided to me and appears in several publications in the 1980's. -- So like other beginning genealogists I just passed it along in old issues of the Terry Family Historian and it becomes carved in stone. PLEASE Correct your information on this family.

  
  

• Sources

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