Person:Prudence Bury (1)

Name^[1]	Prudence Berry
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	5 Nov 1754	Gloucester, Virginia, United States
Marriage	12 Oct 1771	Virginiato Major George Blackburn, Sr.
Death^[1]	14 Jun 1836	Woodford, Kentucky, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Prudence Berry 'Bury' on Headstone, in Find A Grave.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58434272
Kinkead, June Lee Mefford. Our Kentucky pioneer ancestry: a history of the Kinkead and McDowell families of Kentucky and those families associated by marriage. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Gateway Press, 1992).

The Berrys were from Gloucester Co. VA. Prudence Berry b. 5 Nov 1754 VA (dau of Maj. William Berry of Gloucester Co. VA and Mollie Pryor) m. 12 Oct 1771.
George Blackburn b. 1746 of the Blackburn family of Scotland, seated in Kilcain, son of Edward and Anne Blackburn, and grandson of William and Elizabeth Blackburn of Middlesex Co. VA.

George and Prudence together with the Rev. Gideon Blackburn and a sister, Elizabeth Blackburn (who m. Richard Bohannon), with other relatives and friends, made the journey in 1784 to Kentucky via the Wilderness Road to what is today Woodford County. They had 12 children.