(Beriah) Littleberry "Greenberry" Roach, Jr

There are quite a few "Littleberry" Roaches in this family. As best I can sort them out, they are as follows:

• 1. Beriah Littleberry Roach (Beriah) Littleberry Roach, Sr. b. Ireland 1670
• 2. Beriah Littleberry Roach, Jr. (Beriah) Littleberry "Greenberry" Roach, Jr 1730-1763 (m. Margaret See), perhaps the same as "Greenberry Roach" 1730-1763 who m. Sarah See, killed at Greenbriar Massacre (Muddy Creek). Son of #1.
• 3. Beriah Littleberry Roach, Jr. Littleberry Roach, Jr. 1757-c.1833 (m. Jane Bell), (nephew of #2) son of William Henry Roach (m. Sarah Catherine Ashcroft) b. 1710, who was brother of #2
• 4. Beriah Littleberry Roach 1757-1850 Littleberry Roach (m. Rebecca), nephew of #2, son of John Roach (m Sarah Williamson), b. 1720 was brother of #2
• 5. Littleberry Roach Littleberry Roach (1799-1860) son of #3

And more in succeeding generations...

Were Littleberry and Greenberry the same person? Both were supposed to have been killed in the Greenbriar Massacre in 1763, but Littleberry was said to have married Margaret See, and Greenberry married Sarah See.

Children born after 1763 were not fathered by a person who died in 1763.

Beriah LittleBerry was born about 1730. Beriah LittleBerry's father is Beriah LittleBerry Roach Sr and his mother is <Unknown>. His paternal grandfather was Henry Roach and his paternal grandmother is <Unknown>. He had three brothers named William Henry, Lewis and John. He is the youngest of the four children.

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Personal Details Beriah LittleBerry Roach Jr Beriah LittleBerry was born about 1730. Margaret See Margaret was born about 1740.

Children

1. Absalom Roach Absalom was born about 1759.
2. Jonathan Roach Jonathan was born about 1762.
3. Samuel Roach Samuel was born about 1768.
4. Richard Roach
5. Ann Roach
6. Reuben Roach
7. David Roach
8. Jeremiah Roach

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128.Beriah Littleberry Roach, Jr., born Bet. 1730 - 1735 in Virginia; died Unknown.He was the son of 256. Beriah Littleberry Roach, Sr. and 257. <Unnamed>.He married 129. Margaret See 1758 in Greenbrier Co., Virginia.

129.Margaret See, born 1745 in South Branch, Augusta Co., Virginia; died March 11, 1815 in Franklin Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio.She was the daughter of 258. Frederick Michael Zeh and 259. Catherine Vanderpool.

Notes for Beriah Littleberry Roach, Jr.:

GREENBRIER MASSACRE: John Ewing, captured at Muddy Creek, said that the massacre took place on July 15, 1763, and that the captives were released at Pittsburgh May 14th, 1765. (Chalkley, Vol. 2, page 93).

There are many and diversified accounts of the events that took place on 7/15/1763.One book relating the history of Monroe County Virginia, clearly states there was one person who escaped the day of the massacre, and then goes on to describe two persons who each related their escape.So far, the events that have been related do not exclude the ancestry that is described here, but there are some who would refute this.These persons maintain that that by one account of an escapee, the oldest child of Littleberry Roach was thrown against a tree and killed, and that there were therefore no surviving children to carry on the line.I am not certain how one could determine which child was thrown against a tree that day, and whether or not if was a member of the Roach family, but even if that were accurate, Littleberry and Margaret were wed in 1758, and there were supposedly at least two children older that Jonathan who was supposed to have been born in 1762. Both Michael and William do not show as having any descendants, nor have I found any birth or death dates for them as yet.What I do find as confusing however, is the list of children who were supposedly born after that date if Littleberry was indeed killed that day. There is always they possibility that the family was not even in the area that day, or that Littleberry himself was gone from home.Obviously more extensive research is necessary to prove relationships of further ancestry.

If you read the original reference again, it indicates that John Ewing was captured at muddy Creek and released two years later.At least one other account I read indicates there were no men taken captive (perhaps John Ewing was a child at the time) and the women and children who were taken captive were relapsed seven years later.

More About Margaret See:

Burial: Robinson Cemetery, Coshocton Co., Ohio

Children of Beriah Roach and Margaret See are:

• i. Jeremiah Roach, born Bet. 1750 - 1767 in Virginia; died September 09, 1839 in Jackson Co., Ohio; married Elizabeth Null August 09, 1790 in Greenbrier Co., Virginia; born 1766 in Virginia; died 1848 in Jackson Co., Ohio.
• ii. Absalom Roach, born 1759 in Virginia; died Unknown; married <Unnamed> Abt. 1783 in Rockingham Co., Virginia.
• 64 iii. Jonathan Roach, born July 29, 1762 in Rockingham Co., Virginia; died June 14, 1842 in Monroe Co., Virginia; married (1) Margaret Abt. 1780; married (2) Rutha Meadows October 1782 in Augusta Co., Virginia.
• iv. Ann Roach, born Abt. 1763; died Unknown.
• v. Reuben Roach, born Abt. 1763 in Virginia; died 1780.

Notes for Reuben Roach:
Reuben died in the Revolutionary War.
More About Reuben Roach:> Military service: 1780, Revolutionary War

• vi. Richard Roach, born Abt. 1763 in Louisa Co., Virginia; died Unknown; married Nancy Rittenhouse November 01, 1799 in Louisa Co., Virginia; born Unknown in Virginia; died Unknown.
• vii. David Roach, born Bet. 1763 - 1786 in Virginia; died Bet. 1860 - 1870; married Elizabeth; born Unknown; died Unknown.
• viii. Samuel Roach, born 1765 in Virginia; died 1815 in Rockingham Co., Virginia; married Nancy Davis June 03, 1812 in Rockingham Co., Virginia; born 1780; died April 16, 1860 in Highland Co., Virginia.

Notes for Nancy Davis:
Nancy was the daughter of Lewis and Sarah Davis.

• ix. Robert Roach, born Abt. 1767; died Unknown.
• x. Michael Berry Roach, born Abt. 1785 in Rockingham Co., Virginia; died 1815 in Monroe Co., Virginia.
• xi. William Roach, born Unknown; died Unknown