Research Notes:
"Jacob Beery. b Sept. 11, 1769, York Co., Pa., farmer; emigrated to Rockingham Co., Va.; listed for personal property tax with one horse 1792, Linville Creek district; on Oct. 16, 1800, paid $400 to Leonard Herring and Abigail his wife for 112 acres on branch of Linville Creek Joining land of his brother Abraham Beery; deeded land in Rockingham Co. to brother Abraham, April 1805; emigrated to Ohio 1806 and purchased large tract of land near Lancaster; Mennonite; d April 2._, 1842, near Lancaster; cem. 4 miles east of Lancaster; m Mary Good. b May 13, 1777, Rockingham Co., Va. (da Jacob and Frances Good and sister of Bishop Daniel Good and Barbara Good, see 7-1, and aunt of Fanny Good, see 8-11-2, and Mary Good, see 8-11-6); Mennonite; d Dec:. 8, 1848, near Lancaster, Ohio; cem. 4 miles east of Lancaster." [1]
"4) Jacob Beery, born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 11, 1769, died near Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, April 2, 1842. His wife, Mary Good, of Rockingham county, Virginia, was born May 13, 1777, died Dec. 8, 1848. Both were buried in the cemetery four miles east of Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, near Lewis Beery's. Mary Good was a Sister to Bishop Daniel Good, of Rockingham county, Virginia, who was a well-known minister in the Mennonite church in that county. It is singularly strange that nothing more of this family could be found." [2]
See also: [3]
[1] William Beery, Judith B. Garber, Beery Family History (1997), 71-72, [GoogleBooks].
[2] Joseph H. Wenger, History of the descendants of Abraham Beery: Born in 1718 (1905), 15, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 21, GC226.