John Beals Jr (1685 - 1745)

Born 28 Jan 1685 in Aston, Chester, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah C (Bowater) Underwood — married 14 Aug 1711 (to 12 Dec 1745) in Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 12 Dec 1745 at age 60 in Monocacy, Frederick, Maryland

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Biography

John was a Friend (Quaker)

Birth: Nov 28 1685 Delaware Pennsylvania

Marriage: Sarah Beals (born Bowater) Sep 14 1711 Pennsylvania

Death: 1745 Maryland

Wife: Sarah Beals (born Bowater) 1687 - 1777

Daughter: Sarah Beals 1713 - 1800 ^[1]

Children see below.

John Mills Jr. married Sarah Beals on 10 Jul 1732 in Chester Co., PA. They had 9 children, the first 7 born in Frederick Co., VA

1. Sarah, 1734

2. Phebe 1738

3. Hannah 1739

4. John 1740

5. Elizabeth 1745

6. Keziah 1746

7. Mary 1749.

The last 2 born in Rowan Co., NC, if he removed in 1752.

8. Joseph 1753

9. Rachael 1761

Quaker Birth Record

Quaker Birth Record

Name: John Beals

Birth Date: 28 Jan 1685 Pennsylvania

Monthly Meeting: Chester Monthly Meeting ^[2]

Birth

Date: 28 Jan 1685/1686 Chester County, Pennsylvania

Christening

Date: 28 NOV 1685 [alternate birth date]

Burial

According to FindAGrave^[3], John is buried in an unmarked grave at the Hopewell Friends Burial Ground in Clear Brook, Frederick County, Virginia.

Notes

John Jr. was the eldest child. He was born on28 Jan 1686 (or on the 28th day of the 11th month 1685/6 old style). He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania in Aston Township.

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

Children

The following is what Is known of the children of John Beals II and Sarah Bowater Beals.

• Sarah was born on May 29, 1713 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She married John Mills III in Chester County, at the Providence Meeting, on July 14, 1732.
• Mary Ann was born about 1715. She was married twice. First to Thomas Hunt in 1740 and then to William Baldwin in 1788.
• John was born in Chester County on February 17, 1717. He married Margaret Esther Hunt in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The marriage is record in the minutes of the Nottingham Meeting as having taken place on November 13, 1738.
• Thomas Beals was born on March 14, 1719/20 at Nottingham in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Antrim on September 12, 1741 at Monocacy in Prince George's County, Maryland.^[4]
• Phoebe was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania in about 1720. She married Charles Canaday in 1740 in Prince George's County, Maryland. It was in the Indian wars of Virginia that Charles Canaday was killed sometime in 1745. He is buried somewhere in what is now Loudon County, Virginia. Phoebe Canaday remarried the following year, September 1746, to Robert Sumner. Robert was not a Quaker at the time, so the marriage was `out of unity.' Phoebe was disowned. In 1749, Robert became a member of the Quaker faith, and the family was received and restored to membership in Fairfax (Loudon County) Virginia Monthly Meeting. Phoebe and Robert Sumner remained in what is now Guilford County (was part of Rowan County at the time) in North Carolina. They had ten more children whose birth dates are recorded in the minutes of the New Garden Monthly Meeting. She died in Guilford County, North Carolina on August 19, 1805.
• Prudence was born in 1723 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She married Richard Williams November 10, 1746 in Frederick County, Virginia at the Fairfax Monthly Meeting
• Bowater was one of the many Beals named after his grandmother. He was born in 1725. He married Sarah Cook on October 2, 1752 at the Warrington Meeting House in York County, Pennsylvania.
• Hannah was born January 31, 1729. She married Azariah Pugh. The family moved to Cane Creek and then to Newbury County in the old Ninety-Six District of upland South Carolina.

Sources

1. ↑ MyHeritage
2. ↑ Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, 1680-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.; Original data: Hinshaw, William Wade. William Wade Hinshaw's Index to Unpublished Quaker Records. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.
3. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82762204/john-beals
4. ↑ Births recorded of the children of John Beals and wife Mary Jane Clayton. Qaker Meeting Records 1681 - 1994. Chester Friends MM, Chester County, Pennsylvania (now Delaware), as cited in: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82762204 : accessed 25 August 2018 SJ Baty), memorial page for John Beals, Jr (20 Mar 1685–12 Dec 1745), Find A Grave Memorial no. 82762204, citing Hopewell Friends Burial Ground, Clear Brook, Frederick County, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Bonnie's Daughter (contributor 47137929).
   Local file: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Beals-91-7.

• https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-20691161-7-227/john-beals-in-myheritage-family-trees?s=216760841
• THE BEALS FAMILY [1]
• John Beals [2]
• "Bales Family Records" excerpted from EARLY SETTLERS OF LEE COUNTY, VA AND ADJACENT COUNTIES, Vol. 2, compiled by Hattie Byrd Muncy Bales, Medi
• Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College & Haverford College Quaker Collection. Friends Historical Library. Swarthmore College. www.swarthmore.edu
• Genealogical Research. Quaker Information Center. www.quakerinfo.org
• Glossary of Quaker Terms and Phrases: www.quakerjane.com.
• Cropper, Percy. The Sufferings of the Quakers in Nottinghamshire, 1649-1689 (Edward Hicks, London, 1892)
• http://www.billputman.com/Beals.pdf
• Source: S28 Repository: #REPO5 Ancestral File Number: 9LNF-0D, data as of 5 January 1998
• Repository: REPO5 Family History Library. 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
• Another source to consider, different dates but same years, same spouse with relationships and Quaker history and documentary of moves establishing Friends Meetings. Also speaks as to the burial which could explain not finding his grave as his death was in 1801 Virginia and he was buried in a log box hollowed out of a white walnut tree according to accompanying information.