Ambrose (Beasley) Pitts (bef. 1728 - bef. 1794)

Born before Nov 1728 in Essex, Virginia

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Descendants

Died before 29 Aug 1794 at about age 65 in Nottoway, Nottoway, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Name

Ambrose Beasley alias Pitts. He appears in records both under Pitts and Beasley. Perhaps this is due to the fact that he was born out of wedlock to Ann Pitts who later married Richard Beasley (See below)

Birth

AMBROSE BEASLEY alias PITTS, the son of Richard Beasley and Ann Pitts, was born before November 1728, out-of-wedlock but was later legitimized. On 19 March 1728/9 the court presented his father for having a bastard child with Ann Pitts, whom he had just married. He confessed Judgm't to the church wardens of S't. Anns Parish for five hundred Pounds of tobacco & Caske or fifty shillings Curr't mony & costs, which he was ordered to pay.^[1]

Death

He served as executor of his father’s will in 1770. His children are identified from his father’s will. He died before 29 August 1794 in Nottoway County, Virginia.

Issue

Children of Ambrose Beasley and Sarah (Ryland), born in Essex or Amelia County, Virginia:

1. RICHARD BEASLEY II (called “Richard Beasley Jr.” in his grandfather’s will), b. say 1748; d. Wilkes County, Georgia, 17 May 1810, m. JANE “JINSEY” YARBROUGH. He was in Wilkes County before 1807, when he gave to his daughter Martha Beasley of Nottoway County, Virginia, power of attorney to act on his behalf there.^[2]
2. WILLIAM BEASLEY, b. say 1750; d. 4 December 1802; m. MARY (___).
3. ANN BEASLEY, b. say 1752; m. ARCHIBALD YARBROUGH.

Sources

1. ↑ Essex, Virginia, Order Book 7 (1725-1729), p. 287.
2. ↑ Nottoway, Virginia, Deed Book 3, p. 263.

• Beatty, John D., Beasley Genealogy Project. SOME BEASLEY FAMILIES OF THE COLONIAL SOUTH A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF CERTAIN FAMILIES WITH THE SURNAME OF BEASLEY-BEAZLEY-BEEZLEY-BEESLEY IN VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, AND NORTH CAROLINA, FROM THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. Fort Wayne, Indiana Privately Published 2014