| Notes |
Notes for Elizabeth (Newton) Gilson Berryman:
Source: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 33, p. 300 (1925). (Notes to Council Journals)
"Deposition of Eliza Berryman Aged 70 years or thereabouts being Sworn and Examined in a Suit between Garrad Davis and others Plts. and Richd. Lee Defendent-deposeth and Saith that John Newton the Elder. the Depts. Father informed her, he was a Yorkshire man and had three wives there and one Son by each wife namely John, Joseph and Benja. and that after the death of his last Wife he came to Virginia and married this Depts. mother and sometime after the Marriage he went Home again and brought in with him his three Sons afores'd & that the sd. John the eldest Son some time after he came to Virginia married and had issue Wm. Newton who married Barbary Johnson Daughter of James Johnson ye Elder half sister to John Gerrard the younger the said Wm. Newton had issue by the said Barbary Johnson a Son and daughter named Frances, the sd. Wm. Newton survived the sd. Barbary and afterward married Eliza. Berryman the Daughter of this Depts. last Husband by his first wife & had issue by the sd. Eliza. Wm. Newton now in King George County & others. Joseph Newton the son of the second wife had no issue now alive. Benja. Newton the son by the third wife married in Virginia and had issue one Son named Benja. & three Daughters-the last mentioned Benja. married and had issue a Son named Benja. now living and is married to a Daughter of Rachel Colclough of Stafford County & this Dept Saith that her Father had issue by her Mother who was his fourth and last wife two Sons namely Gerrard and Thos. Newton and further this Dept. Saith-----------James Johnson the Elder married Eliza. the Mother of John Gerrard ye younger and had issue by her Jas., Eliza. Frances, Barbary and Anne. ye sd. Jas died without issue. Eliza. married William Davis and had issue. Frances married one Wiggington & had issue. Barbary married the aforesd. Wm. Newton & had issue as aforesd. Anne Married Saml. Heath and had issue & further this Dept. Saith not.
Elizabeth (her X mark) Berryman
Westmoreland' Sct. The within sworn to the 10th day of February 1755 before us by Virtue of a Dedimus to us directed Dated the 15th Day of November in the twenty-------year of our Reign----
Wm. Berryman
James Berryman
A Copy teste
John Lee Jur.
P. Ben Waller C.G. Cur.
(Endorsed) Copy Berriman's Deps"
source: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gbonner/photographs/ newton_crest3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gbonner/newton.htm l&usg=__wbLpiHu2wqf1-4c2FHi8NX-UKNo=&h=417&w=425&sz=14&hl=en&start=62&um =1&tbnid=tQuy9jsUDdgwMM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBenjamin%2BBerryman,%2 BWestmoreland%2Bvirginia,%26start%3D42%26ndsp%3D21%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
|
Abt 1685 - 1763 (78 years)