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Facts and Events
| Name |
Nicholas Beery |
| Alt Name |
Nicholas Bieri |
| Alt Name |
Nicholas Peery |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2][3] |
16 Oct 1697 |
Palatine, Upper Emmenthal, Bern, Switzerland |
| Marriage |
1 Dec 1728 |
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United StatesPequea Settlement
to Barbara Ann Miller |
| Death? |
1 Oct 1762 |
Shrewsbury Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Alt Death[2][3][4][5] |
1 Oct 1762 |
East Manchester, York, Pennsylvania, United States |
About Nicholas Beery
Nicholas Beery ("Piere" on ship list) arrived on the ship "Friendship" in Philadelphia on 16 Oct 1727 with a large group of Mennonites and is listed on the Friendship's passenger records. He settled in York County shortly after his arrival and was granted a patent for 200 acres on 11 Oct 1736 along Codorus Creek. He patented more land in York County in 1742 and 1755. His land was sold to son Abraham Beery in 1767 by his wife Barbara and stepfather Jacob Kegy.
Acquisition of Land by Nicholas Beery
- 1733 - Nicholas Beery obtained a "Blunston License" (temporary licenses issued to citizens of Pensylvania) for land in Springettsbury Manor, then considered part of Maryland. [Note: this area was involved in a border dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania (that led to the drawing of the "Mason-Dixon" line), which was not resolved for at least a decade. Beery and his neighbors found themselves deceived and discriminated against by the Maryland government, declared themselves as under the protection of Pennsylvania, and were promptly arrested by Maryland for sedition and jailed on 21 October 1736. Nicholas Beery gave bail for release and was allowed to keep his land until the dispute was settled between Maryland and Pennsylvania].
- 11 October 1736 - Nicholas Beery received a grant from Thomas Penn for 200 acres "on Codorus Creek". [Note: 172 acres of this land was "re-surveyed" to Capt. Charles Higgenbotham of Maryland on 2 May 1737, and granted to Higgenbotham by Lord Baltimore on 5 May 1737, but Beery refused to give up his land, and Higgenbotham took Beery to Court in Philadelphia in 1748. Higgenbotham was supposedly unsuccessful in his attempt].
Sources
- "History of the Beery Family of Page County, Iowa", by Phyllis Fulk and Lois Brown Miller, 1976
- "The Beery Family from Switzerland to Pennsylvania", by Helen Ummel Harness, 2006.
- "Beery Family History", by William Beery and Judith Beery Garber, 1957.
- http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/menn/surnames/bieri.shtml
- http://www.dgatx.com/family/people/Nicholas-Beery/hs.html
- http://home.grandecom.net/~jeffcotham/Kagay%20Migrations/Europe.htm
References
- ↑ Edmund West (compiler). Family Data Collection - Births (not a reliable source). (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Edmund West (compiler). Family Data Collection - Individual Records (not a reliable source). (Ancestry.com Operations Inc)
Birth year: 1697; Birth city: Philadelphia; Birth state: PA.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970.
- ↑ Edmund West (compiler). Family Data Collection - Deaths: [database on-line] (not a reliable source). (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001).
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014. (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
- Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research, 2006)
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1727; Page Number: 17.
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