Redmond Dillon Barry1

#21349, (say 1775 - )

Family

Jane Alexander b. c 1786, d. 1841
Children 1.Thomas Barry+4 (c 1808 - )
 2.Polly Barry4 (s 1810 - )
 3.Rachel J Barry+4 (1812 - 1843)
 4.David Barry+4 (c 1817 - )
Birth*say 1775He was born say 1775 at Co. Kildare, IrelandG.2 
20 November 1797He received a land grant of 640 acres, on the Cony Fork of the west Fork of Drakes Creek at Sumner Co., TennesseeG, on 20 November 1797.3 
Marriage*He married Jane Alexander, daughter of William Alexander and Mary Brandon.1,2 

Citations

  1. [S1888] Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008, online Ancestry.com, Sumner Co., Will Books, 1789-1842, Sumner County, Tennessee; imgs. 146-147/385. Original Work: Tennessee, Records of Sumner County, Will Book, Vol. 1. WPA Project 65-44-1499. Copied by Mrs. Alice Baker Guthrie, Mrs. Walter Witherspoon, Miss Ruby Dillon. Typed by Mrs. Paul Barry Jones. Will of Redmond B [sic, as in manuscript] Barry (undated). Names wife Jane, sons Thomas and David, and daus. Polly and Rachel. Executors William Hall and Elijah Boddie. Winesses William A Keep, Thomas Daniel and John Strode. Proved at Sumner Co. Court, May Term, 1821. Additional securities with bond of $40,000 by William L Alexander and John H Bowen [note, spelling of Redmond and of Barry is irregular].
  2. [S1909] Jay Guy Cisco, Historic Sumner County, Tennessee (Nashville: Folk-Keelin Printing Co., 1909), pp. 220-221, "Some Sumner Countians." Dr. Edmund D Barry, b. Co. Kildare, Ireland; A.M and M.D. from Trinity College, Dublin; practiced medicine in Liverpool. Migrated to America, settled in North Carolina, then removed to Sumner Co. TN. There he marr. Jane Alexander (of a family with six signers of the Declaration of Independence). Added a successful law career, "accumulated a large fortune and left many descendants."
  3. [S1911] North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, online Ancestry.com, Roll 07: Revolutionary Warrants, 1783-1799 (Nos. 4135-4520), img. 462/608. No. 3254. Redmond Dillon Barry, 640 acres in Sumner Co.
  4. [S1888] Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008, online Ancestry.com, Sumner Co., Will Books, 1789-1842, Sumner County, Tennessee; imgs. 146-147/385. Original Work: Tennessee, Records of Sumner County, Will Book, Vol. 1. WPA Project 65-44-1499. Copied by Mrs. Alice Baker Guthrie, Mrs. Walter Witherspoon, Miss Ruby Dillon. Typed by Mrs. Paul Barry Jones. Will of Redmond B [sic, as in manuscript] Barry (undated). Names wife Jane, sons Thomas and David, and daus. Polly and Rachel. Executors William Hall and Elijah Boddie. Witnesses William A Keep, Thomas Daniel and John Strode. Proved at Sumner Co. Court, May Term, 1821. Additional securities with bond of $40,000 by William L Alexander and John H Bowen [note, spellings of Redmond and of Barry is irregular].