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| Birth |
Abt 1670 |
North of Ireland |
| Sex |
Male |
| Died |
13 Jul 1743 |
Elk Twp, Chester County, Pennslyvania |
| Buried |
Stone Graveyard, Lewisville, Chester Co, PA |
| Person ID |
I859 |
Default Tree |
| Last Modified |
16 May 2009 |
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| Family 1 |
Mary Leonard, b. Abt 1678, North of Ireland |
| Married |
1715/1716 |
North of Ireland |
| Children |
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| Group Sheet |
F345 |
Default Tree |
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| Notes |
# ID: I7867
# Name: David Wherry
# Given Name: David
# Surname: Wherry
# Sex: M
# Birth: 1670 in Northern Ireland
# Death: 13 Jul 1743 in Elk Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania
# Burial: Cecil Co., Maryland
# Event: Scottish Clan MacQuarrie
Much of the information in this file on David Wherry and his descendents comes from the modern David A. Wherry of Phoenix, Arizona, who compiled a large amount of information on the Wherrys in recent years.
From a Sept 1967 packet, originally copied from a 1904 Wherry family reunion packet, comes the following: "...So far as now know, the earliest Wherry to arrive in this country was David who came in 1718 with his wife Mary and three children from the north of Ireland and settled in Chester County, PA. So near the Maryland line that in 1730 a portion of his land was claimed by a citizen of Maryland. This occasioned much trouble and caused Gov. Gordon of Pennsylvania to write by special messenger 13 Sept. 1731 to Gov. Calvert of Marlynad, who replied by return of messenger. The whole matter is detailed in the Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. 1, pages 282-292. It all rested on boundary lines, one claiming from Lord Baltimore and Wherry claiming by conveyance from William Penn. The boundary stones were afterward found and proved the land to belong to Wherry. It is now occupied by his descendents bearing the Wherry name...
"David Wherry died 13 July 1743, by will he left his plantaion to his two sons, James and David, and appointed them executors. His daughter married Mr. John Lusk, who was killed by indians while passing through a narrow defile with troops during the Revolution. We have no record of her descendents. The elder so James, died on his homestead in 1771. In his will he mentioned four children: Mary, Ann, James and David. The two sons were in the Revolution..."
David Wherry immigrated from North Ireland about 1718, purchased lands of William Penn, and settled in East Nottingham Twp, Chester Co, PA. His wife's name has been reported as Mary Leonard, but that, too, is uncertain. The specific home in Ireland is unknown, and nothing is known of his ancestors. David, Mary, and their three children settled in East Nottingham, PA, about 1718, just about a year after the start of the great "Scotch-Irish" immigration. He was an elder of the ELK Church. Legend says he was killed by an Indian on July 13, 1743. He is buried in a stone graveyard, Elk Township, Chester County, PA. An Indian face is chiseled above the name WHERRY. However, somebody has since removed the Indian head that was chiseled in it.
All the Wherrys in America, so far as known, trace back to Ireland, and nearly all are Presbyterians. The name Wherry is said to be of Welsh origin, and, without doubt, the family emigrated from Wales to Ireland. There is a very old tomb of a Robert Wherry in Lincolnshire, England and many other Wherry tombs in Cornwall near the Wherry tin mines in Mount's Bay. A large part of Penzance is, or was, called "Wherrytown." In North Ireland is a Wherry glen, a Wherry river running through a glen, a Wherry parish, and a glen Wherry church.
There are several families of this name in the U.S. (some spelling the name "Wharry" others "Wherry" )having a distant relationship with the large family of David Wherry. One spelling the name with an "a" settled in Orange County, N.Y., about 1730 or 1731. Another family spelling with an "e" came from county Antrim, Ireland, and settled in Cumberland Co., Pa., between 1762-1764. Still another family settled in South Carolina, of whom tradition says "they came from Pennsylvania, York or Chester counties, uncertain which." There is still another branch in Tennessee, descendants of William Wherry who removed from New Berne, NC about 1799 or 1800, and died in Sumner Co, TN in 1827.
Will of David Wherry, Chester County, Pennsylvania:
The Last Will and Tesment of David Wharrey Who being frail in body but in perfit memory I do commit my Soul to God and my Body to be buried at the expense of my exetours to wit my Well Beloved Sons James and David and first of all I bequeth to my Well Beloved Wife from the whol herd her chous of a hors or mear and cow and six sheep and a achor of land yearly and labours and five bushels of wheat and six bushels of Ingen Corn yearly and the new haous to dwell in if she requer it and eight carlod of hay yearly and she to be free of any debts or expenses belonging to the plantation and Secondly I leave all my other efects and plantation to be divided in two hefs between my two sons James and David, and like wise I order that my two sons James and David shall give to my son-in-law John Lusk three pounds from their two shears in a year after administration.
Given under my hand this 12th of July, 1743
X----------------------------David Wherry's mark
Witness: Samuel Dickey
Pattrick Hanegen (his mark)
This will was probated March 27, 1744 and recorded in Will Book No. 2, page 155, West Chester, PA, Chester County |
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