John Deberry1

John Deberry||p3975.htm|Peter Deberry|d. 1713|p4035.htm|Mary Brantley||p4036.htm|||||||Edward Brantley||p4047.htm||||

5th great-grandfather of William Lemuel Horn Jr.
7th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Horn and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for William Lemuel Horn II
     John Deberry was the son of Peter Deberry and Mary Brantley.2 He married Jane Sowerby, daughter of John Sowerby and Lydia Norwood, before 2 January 1726/27.1,3 His will was probated at February Court in 1763 in Northampton County, North Carolina.4 His will was proved in February 1763 in Northampton County, North Carolina.5
     
Additional Data
John Deberry was mentioned in his father Peter Deberry's will dated 30 December 1712 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.6

On 4 and 5 May 1716, John Deberry deeded away the land in Isle of Wight County inherited from his mother Mary Deberry and his grandfather Edward Brantley.7

On 20 April 1745, he was granted 200 acres of land in Northampton County, North Carolina.

John Deberry was appointed a Justice of Northampton County, North Carolina, 11 October 1749.8

He was also a Captain in the militia of the county, as shown by his will which was dated 2 December 1762. The will leaves over 1000 acres of land and nine negro slaves to his nine children.9,10

Children of John Deberry and Jane Sowerby

Citations

  1. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia," in Historical Southern Families, Mrs. John Bennett Boddie, editor. (Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1968), 12: 192.
  2. [S554] John Bennett Boddie, Virginia Historical Genealogies (Redwood City, California: Clearfield Company, 1954; reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999), 338.
  3. [S554] John Bennett Boddie, Virginia Historical Genealogies, 337-338.
  4. [S594] Margaret M. Hofmann, Northampton County, North Carolina, 1759-1808, Genealogical Abstracts of Wills (Weldon, North Carolina: Roanoke News Company, 1975), 13.
  5. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, comp. and ed., Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition, Vol. One, Families A-F (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004), 707, citing Northampton Co., N.C., Will Bk. 1, p. 76.
  6. [S554] John Bennett Boddie, Virginia Historical Genealogies, 338, citing Chapman I, p. 76.
  7. [S554] John Bennett Boddie, Virginia Historical Genealogies, 338, citing Great Bk. 4, p. 74; D.B. 9, p. 270.
  8. [S554] John Bennett Boddie, Virginia Historical Genealogies, 338, citing N.C. Col. and State Records, IV, 966.
  9. [S554] John Bennett Boddie, Virginia Historical Genealogies, 338, citing Will Bk. A, p. 18.
  10. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 707, citing Northampton Co., N.C., Will Bk. 1, p. 76 (date only).
  11. [S554] John Bennett Boddie, Virginia Historical Genealogies, 339.