Jefferson/Burke Cos. GA, Land Grants to Andrew Berryhill Submitted by David Morgan dmorgan@efn.org ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** State of Georgia By the Court of Justice of the County of Burke To Thos. Lewis, Esq. County Surveyor for the said County. You are hereby authorized and required to admeasure and lay out, or cause to be ameasured and laid out unto ANDREW BERRYHILL, a Tract of Land, which shall contain TWO HUNDRED ACRES in the said County of BURK on McBean, adjoining land OF HIS OWN, ALEX'R BERRYHILL and [unreadable] FORRESTER, in lieu of a Warrant heretofore ordered him for the same place, on his HEAD RIGHT ---- Taking special care that the same has not heretofore been laid out to any other person or persons. And you are hereby also directed and required to record the plat of the same in your office and transmit a copy thereof, together with this Warrant to the Surveyor General, within the Term of Two years from this date --- Given under my hand as Senior Justice of the said County, this Third Day of July 1786 Tho's Lewis Jun'r Attest Will'm Lord C of C't There was a Land Warrant issued for Andrew Berryhill in Burke County, Georgia dated 17 March 1785 and surveyed 18 March 1786 for two hundred and fifty acres of land next to John Galphin, son of the old George Galphin and his Creek Indian wife. Andrew Berryhill, Sr., fought in Captain Patrick's Company of Rangers, Colonel James McKay's Regiment of Georgia Militia from 16 September 1781 to 18 January 1782. Andrew Berryhill, Sr. had another land grant in Jefferson County, Georgia. Georgia No. 18 By the Court of Justice of Jefferson Cty. To Richard Gray Esq'r Surveyor for said County. You are hereby authorized and required to admeasure and lay out or caused to be admeasured and laid out unto ANDREW BERRYHILL a tract of Land which shall contain two hundred acres adjoining land of STEPHEN DERESO on Headrights in Jefferson County Taking special care that the same has not been heretofore been laid to any person or persons And you are hereby required to Record a Platt of the same in your office and transmit a copy this Off. together with this Warrant to the Surveyor General within two years from the date hereof given under our hands as presiding Justices of said Court This 2nd day of May 1776 Attest R. Whitaker Jas Bozeman Joseph Jackson Charles Harvey The Stephen Dereso in the preceding document was the son of old Daniel Durouzeaux, who was in the Province of Georgia in the early 1740s and left a Will in St. George Parish in 1766 Michael and Peter Durouzeaux, Stephen's brothers, had land next to Stephen James Durouzeaux, the Interpreter for the Creek Nation whose daughter Elizabeth married my John Berryhill, I believe, was of this family. The Story of John Berryhill and Elizabeth Derrisaw and Their Descendants This is an unpublished manuscript done by Thelma Nolen Cornfeld before her death in 1996. Her daughter Barbara gave me permission to put her research online. David Morgan dmorgan@efn.org