John Beals

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82762204/john-beals

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Burial: Monocacy, Carrol County, Maryland

Note: They moved to Opeckan, Frederick Co., Virginia by 1744 where John bought 165 acres on Mills Creek from John Mills Jr. This land is now in Berkeley Co., Virginia. He was survived by his widow who married next in 1745 to Alexander Underwood at Monocacy Meeting and died 26 Dec 1777 Wellsville, York Co., Pennsylvania

Was married in Nottingham in Chester County, September 14, 1711 to Sarah Bowater.

After the death of his father in 1726, he moved to the upper portion of Prince Georges County, Maryland, and settled near a large creek by the name of Monocacy, on the extreme western frontier, where he died in 1746. Monocacy is near Frederick, Md. All of western Maryland was then one county, Prince Georges.

From Bill Putnam's information on the Beals Family (according to this, he had long since left Monocacy by the time of his death - any source on his burial there? cemetery name?):

http://www.billputman.com/Beals.pdf

JOHN BEALS, II

John junior was born January 20, 1685/6, the eldest son of John Beals and Mary Clayton Beals, in Aston Township, Chester County (now part of Delaware County), Pennsylvania.

His marriage is recorded on the minutes of the Chester Monthly Meeting as taking place on September 14, 1711. He married Sarah Bowater, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Edge) Bowater. Sarah was born August 17, 1688.

In 1725, the family moved to Monocacy, Maryland. Then the area was in Prince Georges County then, but now the area is Bealsville in Montgomery County, Maryland. The town was named for John Beals Senior and his family. They moved to the area of the Nottingham Monthly Meeting in 1726. On 4-25-1733 they requested to transfer to Nottingham from the Chester Monthly meeting, and they were officially received there on 9-15-1733. A few years later, they moved again, this time to the Fairfax Monthly Meeting in Frederick County (now Loudoun County), Virginia.

John remained in the rolling hill country of northern Virginia for the remainder of his life, farming the lands. He died there in late 1745 or early 1746 and is buried there.

Sarah remarried in Virginia. On February 16, 1748, she married Alexander Underwood, a widower. On April 25, 1748 they were granted certificates to move back to Pennsylvania and be associated with the Warrington Monthly Meeting. Sarah died in the late 1760s in Weelsville, York County, Pennsylvania. I have no information on when Alexander died.

Children:

1. Sarah Beals

• Born 29 May 1713 in Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania
• Married John Mills, III (27-Oct-1712 - 18-Apr-1794) on 14 July 1732 at Providence Friends Meeting, Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania
• Died 9 September 1800 in Guilford County, NC
• Children:
  • 1. Sarah Mills m. William Hunt, II
  • 2. Hannah Mills m. Elijah Stanley
  • 3. Phoebe Mills m. Abraham Cook
  • 4. John Mills IV m. Sarah Millikan
  • 5. Elizabeth Ann Mills m. Edward Bond
  • 6. Keziah Mills m. Joseph Hiatt
  • 7. Mary Mills m1. Thomas Cook, m2. Valentine Pegg
  • 8. Joseph Mills m. Hannah Maris
  • 9. Rachel Mills m. John Wheeler, IV

2. Mary Ann Beals

• Born c1715
• Married firstly Thomas Hunt (1-Jan-1723 Nottingham Twp PA - 15-Sep-1763 Guilford Co NC) in 1740
• Married secondly William Baldwin (d. 19-Aug-1802) on 18 June 1788 at New Garden Friends Meeting, Guilford County NC
• Died 10 July 1790 at Guilford County, NC
• Children
  • 1. Mary Hunt m. William Robenson/Robeson
  • 2. Ruth Hunt m. Thomas Thornbrough
  • 3. Sarah B. Hunt m1. John Unthank, m2. Solomon Hiatt
  • 4. Abner Hunt m. Mary Pope
  • 5. Jemima Hunt m. Allan Unthank
  • 6. Jacob Hunt m. Hannah Brittain
  • 7. Isham Hunt m1. Ann Moon, m2 Margaret Bundy
  • 8. William Hunt m. Ruth Brittain
  • 9. Thomas Hunt m. Phoebe Coffin
  • 10. Ann Hunt m. Jacob Rogers

3. John H. Beals, III

• Born on 17 February 1717 in Chester County, PA
• Married Margaret Esther Hunt (1719 Chester County PA - 11 April 1796 Guilford County NC) on 13 November 1738 at the East Nottingham Friends Meeting, Calvert, Cecil County, Province of Maryland
• Died on 17 April 1796 at Pole Cat Creek in Guilford County, NC
• Children
  • 1. John H. Beals, IV m1. Sarah Dicks, m2. Susannah Johnson (10 children)
  • 2. Ruth Beals m. John Hoggatt
  • 3. Hannah Beals m1. William Hoggatt, m2. Joseph Cloud.
  • 4. Lydia Beals m1. Christopher Hiatt, m2. Joshua Hadley
  • 5. William Beals, m1 Rachel Green, m2. Rachel Johnson
  • 6. Rachel Beals m. James Dicks

4. Thomas Beals

• Born on 14 March 1720 at Nottingham (East Nottingham Friends Meeting, Calvert, Cecil County, Province of Maryland)
• Married Sarah Antrim (d. 7-Jul-1813 Less Creek OH) on 12 September at Monocacy, Prince George's County, Maryland
• Died 29 August 1801 when knocked from a horse by a low hanging tree limb, buried at Presley Caldwell's Farm, Richmond, Ross County, OH (stone at Londonderry Friends Burial Ground)
• Children
  • 1. Mary Beals b. 1742 d. infancy
  • 2. Mary Beals-twin m. Thomas Jessup
  • 3. Sarah Beals-twin
  • 4. Thomas Beals m. Unknown
  • 5. Patience Beals m. Benjamin Carr
  • 6. William Beales m. Priscilla Horton (9 children)
  • 7. Daniel Beales m. Susannah Jackson (9 children)
  • 8. Elizabeth Beales m. Samuel Bond
  • 9. Margaret Beales m1. James Horton, m2. Daniel Huff
  • 10. Hannah Beals m. Isaac Williams
  • 11. Rachel Beals-twin m. William Thornburgh
  • 12. John Bowater Beals-twin m1. Mary Carter, m2. Mary Johnson (Widow Hiatt)
  • 13. Jacob Beals, m1. Beulah Head, m2. Mary, m3. Rebecca, m4. Ann

5. Phoebe Beals

• Born c1720 in Chester County, PA.
• Married firstly Charles Canaday (1715/1716 - 1745 killed in Indian wars in present Fairfax County VA) in 1740 in Prince George's County, Province of Maryland, two children:
  • 1. John Canaday m. Margaret Thornburg
  • 2. Charles Canaday m. Abigail Foster (10 children)
• Married secondly Robert Sumner (d. 1-Dec-1779 Guilford County NC) in September 1746. 10 children:
  • 1. William Sumner m. Eleanor Edwards
  • 2. Bowater Sumner m. Rebecca Burras
  • 3. Caleb Sumner m. Mary Carson
  • 4. Joshua Sumner m. Sarah (1 known child, Amy)
  • 5. Phoebe Sumner
  • 6. Thomas Sumner m. Hannah Hiatt
  • 7. Prudence Sumner
  • 8. Abigail Sumner
  • 9. Sarah Jane Sumner m. Nimrod Fender
  • 10. Robert Sumner d. age 9.
• Died 19 August 1805 in Guilford County NC

6. Prudence Beals

• Born in 1723 in Chester County PA
• Married Richard Williams (1726 Monacacy MD - 6 May 1781 Guilford County MD from smallpox contracted from an injured British officer) on 10 November 1746 at the Fairfax Friends Meeting in Frederick County, Virginia
• Died 25 June 1811 in Guilford County, NC, buried at the New Garden Friends Burial Ground
• Children
  • 1. Silas Williams m. Mary Hunt
  • 2. Charity Williams m. William Hiatt
  • 3. Jesse Williams m1. Eleanor Johnson m2. Sarah Lynch Terrell
  • 4. Richard Williams m1. Sarah Baldwin, m2 Susanna Clary (Widow Painter)
  • 5. Prudence Williams m Levi Coffin
  • 6. Mathias Williams
  • 7. Sarah Williams m. Samuel Stanley
  • 8. Dorcas Williams m. David Hoggatt-twin
  • 9. Ruth Williams m. Charles Gordon (widower soldier)
  • 10. Mary Williams m. Jonathan Hoggatt-twin
  • 11. John Williams m Sarah Wheeler
  • 12. Ann Williams m. Thomas Jessop

7. Bowater Beals

• Born in 1725
• Married Sarah Cook (d. after Dec-1795 in Surry County, NC) on 2 October 1752 at Warrington Meeting House, York County, Province of Pennsylvania
• Died 9 February 1781 in New Garden Friends Meeting, Guilford County NC, buried at New Garden Friends Burial Ground
• Children
  • 1. Ann Beales m. Jacob Jackson
  • 2. Ruth Beales m. Curtis Isaac Jackson
  • 3. Phebe Beales m John Jackson
  • 4. Thomas Beales, possibly died as a child
  • 5. John Bowater Beales m. Lois Branson
  • 6. Jacob Beales m. Mary Horton
  • 7. Nathan Beales m. Esther Fisher
  • 8. Mary Beales
  • 9. Sarah Beales
  • 10. Charity Beales m. Benjamin Hoggatt

8. Hannah Beals

• Born 31 January 1729
• Married Azariah Pugh
• Children
  • 1. Ruth Pugh m. Peter Julien, Jr.
  • 2. Ellis Pugh m. Phebe
  • 3. Jesse Pugh
  • 4. Mary Pugh m. Alexander Tansey III
  • 5. David Pugh m. Rachel Wright
  • 6. Azariah Pugh, Jr. m. Sophia Wright
  • 7. William Pugh m. Joanna Pearson/Pierson
  • 8. Thomas Pugh

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Birth: Mar. 20, 1685 Aston Delaware County Pennsylvania, USA Death: Dec. 12, 1745 Frederick County Virginia, USA

The first of at least five children born to John & Mary Jane (Clayton) Beals of England and late of Chester Co PA, John Jr married Sarah C Bowater on 14 Aug 1711 in Chester Co PA, daughter of Thomas & Sarah (Edge) Bowater of Edgemont Twp, Chester Co PA.

Children with Sarah: 1) Sarah Bowater Beals (1713-1800), m: John Mills Jr. 2) John Beals III (1717-1796), m: Margaret Esther Hunt. 3) Rev Thomas Beals (1719-1801), m: Sarah Esther Antrim. 4) Phebe Beals (1720-1805), m1: Charles Canaday, m2: Robert Sumner. 5) Mary Ann Beals (1723-1790), m1: Thomas J Hunt, m2: William Baldwin. 6) Bowater Beals (1726-1781), m: Sarah Ann Cook. 7) Hannah Beals (1729-aft 1800), m: Azariah Pugh. 8) Prudence Beals (1730-1815), m: Richard Williams.

May 2014, a Find A Grave volunteer reported a problem with John's tombstone photo request: "I searched the entire cemetery and could not find the grave. There are many illegible and broken stones as well as unmarked graves. This name does not appear on a headstone transcription that was completed in 2000." This is not unusual as many Quaker did not mark their resting place.

John and his family, back to grandparents, are listed in Quaker records. His tombstone must be considered as one of those "destroyed". Many thanks to the above volunteer for their effort and kindness.

Quaker Meeting Records 1681-1994: "John Baels (son of John Baels & Mary his wife) was born the 20:th day of the first mo:th 1685/6."

Since the Quakers used the Julian calendar until 1752, his birth per the Gregorian calendar, the one we use today, is 20 Mar 1685. The next child was born in Apr 1687, so the correct year of John's birth should be 1685.

Note: Removed name Jacob; did not find proof of this middle name for our John within any document.

Family links:

Parents:

 John Beals (1650 - 1726)

 Mary Clayton Beals (1665 - 1725)

Spouse:

 Sarah C Bowater Underwood (1688 - 1765)*

Children:

 Sarah Bowater Beals Mills (1713 - 1800)*

 John Beals (1717 - 1796)*

 Thomas Beals (1719 - 1801)*

 Phebe Bowater Beals Sumner (1720 - 1805)*

 Prudence Beals Williams (1723 - 1815)*

Siblings:

 John Beals (1685 - 1745)

 Jacob Beals (1689 - 1763)**

 Jacob B Beals (1689 - 1763)**

*Calculated relationship

• *Half-sibling

Note: Unmarked grave.

Burial: Hopewell Friends Burial Ground Clear Brook Frederick County Virginia, USA

Created by: Bonnie's Daughter Record added: Dec 31, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 82762204

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They moved to Opeckan, Frederick County, Virginia, by 1744 where John bought 165 acres on Mills Creek from John Mills, Jr. This land is now in Berkeley County, Virginia. He was survived by his widow, who married next in 1745 to Alexander Underwood at Monocacy Meeting and died December 26, 1777, in Wellsville, York County, Pennsylvania.

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