Have: LDS IGI members submission of birth & marriage.
Donna Lamb, Rt. 1, Box 25, Drummond, Ok. 73735 has a slightly different date
of birth, hers as 28 Mar 1685, and that he died at Carroll Manor, Cold Springs Friend Meeting, Md. However, we do know that Cold Springs was in Virginia as there were many others whom we know about that were there also. LDS AFN# GWTW-6N.
From notes of Annis and Mayme Beals-Bales, NOTE: This is also the line of Jack Ehrig. John Beals married at Chester Co., MM. Also, has birth date as Jan and not NOVEMBER?
Sent by Thomas Hamm. After John and Sarah were married they lived in
Nottingham and New Garden townships in Chester Co. In 1728, they moved back to the neighborhood of Chester. In all of his time, it appears that they were never able to purchase a farm of their own in Chester Co., where land was being increasingly expensive. So in 1733 John and Sarah joined a New Quaker settlement of Friends from Chester Co., who were taking up land on the upper waters of the Potomac, in Prince George Co., Maryland. Here the Bealses became members of Hopewell MM of Friends, and her they remained until John Beals died in 1745.
Sarah remained a widow only 3 years after her husband's death. In 1748 she married again, her second husband being Alexander Underwood (ca. 1688-1767) a Quaker minister of some prominence from Warrington in York Co., Penn. After their marriage, she moved to Warrington with him. In Jun 1761, William Hunt Jr., a Quaker minister from N.C. who had married Sarah's granddaughter Sarah Mills, visited her. He wrote in his diary that Sarah was "an ancient worthy Friend with whom I had much comfort." Sarah died at Warrington in the fall of 1761.
Notes from Margery Freas. After the death of his father, John Jr., and all of his family moved to the upper portion of Prince Georges Co., MD, and settled near Monocacy Creek on the central piedmont on the extreem western frontier where he died in 1746. Monocacy was the most west white settlement.Information from "Davis - A Quaker Family"
Born in Jan or June 1688. Other spouses Alexender Underwood (1748)
Donna Lamb has her date of birth as 17 Aug. 1688, the difference probably due
to Quaker dating as compared to the newly adapted Julian Calender of the day.
Have: LDS IGI member submission of birth. LDS Film: #1260962 Batch #8124606 #54.1LDS AFN# GWTW-G2, FRN1-SC.
According to pg. 899 of Davis: A Quaker Family by Eleanor Davis, Sarah was born 6-17-1689 in Prince Georges Co., Md. and John Beals was born 1-28-1685 in Chester Co., Pa. and d. ca. 1745 in Prince Georges Co., Md.
Information from Carol Holt of Olympia, Wash. provides a date of birth as 17 Aug 1689 in Chester Co., Penn. and the death as 5 June 1781.
Notes from Margery Freas: Sarah m. 2nd Alexander Underwood of York CO.,
PA, 2 Feb 1748, and joined Warrington MM 25 Apr 1748. Henry Ballinger and
Daniel Matthews were appointed by the meeting to settle the affairs between
Sarah and her children in accordance with her husband's will.
Information from "Davis - A Quaker Family"
Born in Jan or June 1688. Other spouses Alexender Underwood (1748)
Donna Lamb has her date of birth as 17 Aug. 1688, the difference probably due
to Quaker dating as compared to the newly adapted Julian Calender of the day.
Have: LDS IGI member submission of birth. LDS Film: #1260962 Batch #8124606 #54.1LDS AFN# GWTW-G2, FRN1-SC.
According to pg. 899 of Davis: A Quaker Family by Eleanor Davis, Sarah was born 6-17-1689 in Prince Georges Co., Md. and John Beals was born 1-28-1685 in Chester Co., Pa. and d. ca. 1745 in Prince Georges Co., Md.
Information from Carol Holt of Olympia, Wash. provides a date of birth as 17 Aug 1689 in Chester Co., Penn. and the death as 5 June 1781.
Notes from Margery Freas: Sarah m. 2nd Alexander Underwood of York CO.,
PA, 2 Feb 1748, and joined Warrington MM 25 Apr 1748. Henry Ballinger and
Daniel Matthews were appointed by the meeting to settle the affairs between
Sarah and her children in accordance with her husband's will.
Information from "Davis - A Quaker Family"
Born in Jan or June 1688. Other spouses Alexender Underwood (1748)
Donna Lamb has her date of birth as 17 Aug. 1688, the difference probably due
to Quaker dating as compared to the newly adapted Julian Calender of the day.
Have: LDS IGI member submission of birth. LDS Film: #1260962 Batch #8124606 #54.1LDS AFN# GWTW-G2, FRN1-SC.
According to pg. 899 of Davis: A Quaker Family by Eleanor Davis, Sarah was born 6-17-1689 in Prince Georges Co., Md. and John Beals was born 1-28-1685 in Chester Co., Pa. and d. ca. 1745 in Prince Georges Co., Md.
Information from Carol Holt of Olympia, Wash. provides a date of birth as 17 Aug 1689 in Chester Co., Penn. and the death as 5 June 1781.
Notes from Margery Freas: Sarah m. 2nd Alexander Underwood of York CO.,
PA, 2 Feb 1748, and joined Warrington MM 25 Apr 1748. Henry Ballinger and
Daniel Matthews were appointed by the meeting to settle the affairs between
Sarah and her children in accordance with her husband's will.
Information from "Davis - A Quaker Family"
Jesse Day. William Hunt and Sarah Mills Their Ancestors and Ours.
Thomas came to America in 1683 on the "Bristol Comfort", John Read, Captain, arriving in the Delaware River. He paid for his passage by indenturing himself for three years as a servant to Francis Fincher, a glover from Worcester, who came with his wife, Mary, bringing a certificate dated 14 March 1683 to the Philadelphia Meeting of Society of Friends. On October 1st, at Upland, Thomas took up his headrights in Edgemont Twp. Chester CO., PA and on August 4, 1686, when he was 21 years old, he married Sarah Edge, after his period of indenture was finished. Sarah died February 26, 1692 Chester Co., Pa. and Thomas married second: Frances Barnett in February 1701, Chester Co., Pa. Thomas died after 1750 New Garden, Guilford Co., N.C.
Information from "Davis - A Quaker Family"
Sent by Margery Freas.Information from "Davis - A Quaker Family"
Information form "Davis - A Quaker Family"
Sent by Margery Freas, states that parents (Grandparents) are George and Joan Edge.
LDS AFN# 1THB-1T, GWTW-DP. Married, approx. 18 year old. Died, approx. 22 year old.LDS AFN# 1THB-1T, GWTW-DP.
Other dates given: Birth, Jul 1657, in Enlgand. married 26 Feb. 1692/1693 in Chester Co., PA. If 18 yrs old that would be born app. 1674, so the date of Sep. 1668 sounds much closer. This needs documentation for clarification.
Married 3 days after William Penn arrived with followers on ship "Welcome".
Chester Co., PA, first called MECO-POONAVK by Indians, meaning large patato; then called UPLAND when Sweds settled area in 1645.The Names BEALS is also spelled BAYLES.
He was a sueveyor who assisted in laying out Philadelphia, PA.
Very active in Society of Friends (Quaker).
Buried in an unmarked grave. Will probated 17 Feb 1726, Chester Co., PA
LDS AFN# D3N5-X6.
Will was probated on 17 Dec 1726. Sent by Edith Edna Jackson Hankins,
Memphis, Tenn.
IMMIGRANT JOHN BEALS and their five Children
Immigrated to America in 1682. Ref: Friends Library, Swathmore College,
Penn.
Edna Joseph, Jasper, Indiana.; Marie (BALES) Patton, McCook, Neb.
Marie (BALES) Patton, McCook, Neb.
Grace (BALES) Howard, Lindsey, Calif.
John and Mary liberated to marry, 1st. of the 11 month, 1682, at Chester
Men's and women's Meeting.
Place of Burial is close to the "Old Brick Church" at E. Nottingham, now
in Calvert Co., Maryland.
John and Mary liberated to marry 1 of 11th Month, 1682 at Chester Men's
and Women's meeting.
John Belas thought to be the surveyor who laid out the city of
Philadelphia.
Concord Minutes: John Beals reeleased 1712-2mo-14 for Nottingham, Pa.Sent by Thomas Hamm
Our earliest known Beals ancestor is John Beals. We can say nothing with
certainty about his early life. He was undoubtedly born in England, probably
between 1655-1660, but research thur far has failed to provide any definite
information. One tradition has it that John's father's name was William Beals, but even this is open to question.
Part of the problem in researching the early generations of this family lies in the variety of spellings found in the old records. John himself was
illiterate, leaving him at the mercy of an assortment of cleaks and scribes.
Variations of the name found before 1800 include Beals, Beales, Bales, Bale,
Bailes, Bails, Bayles, and Bealls. Indications are, however, that the name has always been pronounces "Bales" the first indisputable evidence of John Beal's presence in America comes from a court case involving some land in Chester Co., Penn. In 1691 John testified that he had plowed the ground in question fourteen years earliers, in 1677. This means that John must have come to Penn. with one of the earliest groups of Quakers colonists, although his name is not on any of the surviving passenger lists.
Just how John Beals came to be a Quaker, whether by birth or by convincement in unknown. But he was a member of the Society of Friends when he appeared in Chester MM., 8th Mo 2, 1681, and annouced his intention to marry Mary Clayton, daughter of William and Prudence Lanckford Clayton. Mary was born in the parish of Rumbaldsweek in Sussex, England, 6th Mo, 29, 1665. Her father, William Clayton had come to America in 1677 aws one of the commissioners that William Penn sent out to oversee his interests in New Jersey; later he moved across the Delaware River to Chester Co., where he served as a justice of the county court, as a member of the governor's council, and for a few months in 1684-1685, as acting governor of the colony. Later in 1682 John and Mary were married in a Quaker ceremony at the house of Robert Wade.
After his marriage, John Beals entered the civil and religious life of
Chester Co., in a modest way. By 1684, he had taken up land in Aston Twp,
Chester Co. Tradition also has it that he served as a surveyor, although his
illiteracy makes this doubtful. He served the county court as a juror,
although his company may not always have been of the best character. In 1693
he served as security for the behavior of one John Powell, who had been brought before the court for drunkenness and porfanity "allso attempting to ride over several Indian women and being withheld drew his knife threatened to rip them up." A year later, however, John became the constable to Aston Twp. He also occasionally served on the committees of his monthly meeting of Friends. John himself was a conscientious Quaker, as a 1694 court case shows. John's neighbor Joseph Richard had built a fence on John's land, for which the court allowed John damages of thirty shillings. Having won his point at law, John refused the damages, saying that he would move his own fence so "that they might live together lovingly for the future."
In 1701 John joined a number of other Chester Co., Friends, including his
brother-in-law James Brown and Henry Reynolds, in obtaining a grant of land
known as the Nottingham Lots. This land lay in what was then considered to be part of Chester Co., but which the survey of the Mason-Dixon Line in 1767
placed in Cecil Co., Maryland. John's share of the grant was one thousand
acres. After moving to Nottingham, John and Mary become increasingly active in Quaker affairs. John was appointed an overseer for the Nottingham meeting, charged with detecting deviations from the Discipline of Friends among the membership, while Mary also held a number of offices. John's accomplishments are all the more impressive because we know that he was lame for most of his later life.
John Beals died late in 1726, when his will was proved in Chester Co., There is no record of Mary's death, although since John did not mention her in his will it seems certain that she predeceased him. Doubtless both are buried in the old Brick Meetinghouse Cem. in the hamlet of Calvert, Maryland, where they attended meeting.Carol Hoyt of Olympia, Wash provides a date of death as 17 Oct 1726 in the Brick FBG Cecil Co., Maryland.
Notes from Margery Freas: The source of the name of Beals has had several
conjectural sources. The most probable is that is was Anglo-Saxon was derived from the occupation of "bealer" or one who packed textiles and woolens. The name is sometimes writtern Beales, Bailes, Bayles and Bales. Earliest known of the name was William Beale, port-reeve of Maidstone in the fourteenth century. His descendant, Sir John Beale of Farmington Court, Kent, was High Sheriff of County Kent in 1665. The Arms: Sable on a chevron between three griffins' heads erased argent as many estoiles gules; crests: A unicorn's head erased or semee of estoiles gules.
Edward Byllynge, Quaker partner of John Fenwick in West Jersey was forced by financial difficulties to turn over his NJ land to 3 of his creditors, among them William Penn. Two companies of Quakers from Yorkshire and London were among the subsequent buyers. John Beals, Quaker, was among the company that came, though the ship in which he arrived in not known for sure. It is assumed that he was on the Griffin in 1675. In 1677 came the Kent (Aug) on which William Clayton sailed, the Martha (Oct), and the William Mind, (Nov). The group settled New-Beverly, now Burlington & Salem, and set up Burlington Quarterly Mtg. in 1682, which came to include the area from Mt. Holly to Trenton. Most authorities assume that John came with his father from High Layland, Yorkshire.
He came to PA in 1675, while his father, William Belas, settled in Salem
N.J. John's farm was along Chester Creek in 1679 in Aston Twp., across the
line from Chester Twp. He moved to Nottingham, PA, in 1704. Nottingham was a part of Maryland until 1681 when William Penn recieved his grand. John had 100 ac. in Aston Twp., Chester Co., PA, in 1701. Nottingham Lotts was laid out in 1702, John Beales had a double lot on the north side of the St. Nottingham was a part of Maryland until 1681 when Wm. Penn received his grant. John Beals lived along Chester Creek in Aston Twp. across the line from Chester Twp.
John Beals' will which did not mention Mary (indicating that she had
pre-deceased him) named his children and his grandchildren.
There is another theory that Mary Clayton was born in the Parish of
Rumbaldswick, Sussex, and that her mother was Prudence Lanckford, wife of
William Clayton of Chichester.
Information from "Davis - A Quaker Family"
Have LDS IGI member submission of birth.
Was a birthright member of Society of Friends.
Birth record: LDS Film #1126453 #93.
Born in May or June 1665.
Carol Hoyt provides the date of death as before 1726 in a FBG, Nottingham
Maryland.
Sent by Margery Freas.Have LDS IGI member submission of birth.
LDS AFN# D3N5-ZC.
Information from "Davis - A Quaker Family"
LDS AFN # GWTW-BC.