Berry Doby

1784 - 1814  (30 years)

• Name	Berry Doby  [1]
  Birth	Abt. 1784	Wake County, North Carolina, USA   [1]
  	Under age 16 for 1790 Census. Birth location is taken from the US Army Register of Enlistements. The U.S. Army Enlistement recoreds list his age at 30 in 1814 putting his birth around 1784.
  Gender	Male
  Military	18 May 1814  [1]
  	His skin color is listed as "red" on the U.S. Army Enlistment Records, which supports the hypothesis that his mother was Native American.
  Death	20 Aug 1814	Fort Hampton, Limestone County, Alabama, USA   [1]
  Possessions	27 Apr 1819  [2]
  	Land granted to Berry's half-brother and other heirs-at-law due to Berry's death in the Army.
  d'Aboville #	1.01.02.01.06
  Person ID	I232397740698	Doby
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	John Doby,   b. 17 Jul 1750, Albemarle Parish, Surry County, Virginia, British Colonial America d. aft. Sep 1835, Jasper County, Georgia, USA (Age 85 years)
  Mother	FNU LNU (Native American)   d. Abt 1783, USA
  Marriage	Abt 1768
  	His great-grandson, William Pinkey Doby, applied to the Cherokee Nation in 1909 but was rejected. In the letter, William stated that he was told his father's father was half Indian. There are no other details.
  Family ID	F709	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Based on his Army records, he was born around 1784. His records says his complexion was "red", which leads to the conclusion that his mother was the Native American women. However, Sarah White's son from another marriage, lists Berry as his half-brother on U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, which leads to the conclusion that Berry was Sarah's son. It's likely that his mother was the Native American woman and she died during child birth and John the married Sarah White. Sarah raised the baby as her own and that's why her other son listed Berry as his half-brother.

  
  

• Sources

  [S718899718] Ancestry.com, U.S., Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc). [S728422160] Ancestry.com, U.S., War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original data - U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants Used in the U.S. Military District of Ohio and Relating Papers (Acts of 1788, 1803, and 1806), 1788-1806; Microfilm Publicati).