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Author: James H. Berry, Jr.
Benjamin Berry was the son of Humphrey Berry Sr.(1705-1772), and his second wife Ann Lovejoy (1712-1798). From what we can gleam from the records, he lived in the Upper Port Tobacco 100, Charles County, MD. He married Chloe maiden name suspected to be Nally. He took the Fidelity Oath and during the Revolutionary War in 1777, Benjamin was a private in the Charles County Militia. He was a member of Capt. Samuel Smallwood’s Company, 26th Battalion. His sister Martha Ann was married to Capt. Samuel Smallwood. Benjamin fathered eight possibly nine children before his death in 1804. He was a property owner with his brother Joseph Lovejoy Berry. The properties lead to a court suit between his sons that took over 20 years to be settled. The two hundred and six acres were composed of tracts called Nutwell, Bachelors Forrest & Berryʼs Content, all in Charles County, MD. Fielder Berry the eldest and administer of his father’s estate, moved to West Virginia as a bricklayer and was petitioned many times to divide the land by his brother John Nally Berry (my line) and his sister Virlinder and her husband William Richardson. The court finally appointed a commission to determine the outcome in 1823. Chloe Berry, his wife, died in 1812.
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