George Mayberry, brother of William Mayberry, Sr., was born about 1757;
George Mayberry, "was an Irish gentleman, having emigrated to America in early life";
John Pennybacker Mayberry, son of George Mayberry, "was born March 1, 1790 at Pine Forge near New Market, Virginia;
In the year 1810 George Mayberry, accompanied by his son, John P., moved the family to Wood County, Virginia, "purchasing plantations near Belleville".
William Mayberry, Sr. and his son, William Mayberry, Jr. also lived in Wood County, Virginia, but later moved to Muskingham County, Ohio.
From The History of Shenandoah County, Virginia by John W. Wayland (Regional Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1980), we learn more about George Mayberry and his father-in-law, Dirk Pennybaker:
"In the autumn of 1781, according to a tradition in the family, Dirk Pennybacker (1737-1799) came up into the Shenandoah Valley from Maryland and located on the Hawksbill Creek, near the site of Luray. There he built Redwell Furnace….Pennybacker, a few years earlier, had moved from Pennsylvania to a place near Sharpsburg, Md., where he had built an iron-working establishment, but a freshet had destroyed it; so he came up into the Valley
From the best information obtainable it appears that Columbia Furnace was built about 1803 or 1804; Liberty Furnace about 1822; and Van Buren Furnace about 1838. In the establishment of both Columbia and Liberty the agency and the influence of the Pennybackers were patent and potential….Columbia Furnace was built and operations commenced by George Mayberry and Benjamin Pennybacker…who were in the business as George Mayberry & Co.".
There is undocumented evidence that at least one of the three brothers owned property in Berks County near a descendant of one of his Bucks County cousins. If so, it may well have been George, whose wife, Rebecca Pennybacker, was a daughter of Dirk Pennybacker of Amity Twp., Berks County, Pennsylvania. In 1783 the Pennybackers moved to Washington County, Maryland and then a short time later to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. George Mayberry also moved to the Shenandoah Valley64 where he and Benjamin Pennybacker jointly built and operated the Columbia Furnace near Woodstock, Virginia as "George Mayberry & Co." William Mayberry, Sr., the "refiner of iron", was also active for a time in Shenandoah County.
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