Richard Beck (1650 - 1678)

Descendants

Died Mar 1678 at about age 28 in Charles, Maryland

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Biography

Transportation Patent: On September 22, 1688, Daniell Caroll, assignee of Thomas Maishorman, was patented 500 acres for the transportation of Richard Beck and others into the Province of Maryland. The patent was based upon a declarationof transportaton in September of 1658.^[1]

Land Transactions:

By indenture dated March 2, 1667, John Godsall of Charles County, Maryland, Planter, for 2000 lbs. of tobacco, covneyed 100 acres of a Maryland Patent issued to Godsall on July 29, 1664, on the east side of the Avon River, formerly Nengemy Creek, lying alongside Poynton Manor, to Rich Becke of the same county.^[2]

Death: RIchard Beck died intestate in March of 1678 in Charles County, Maryland.

Probate:

Richard Beck Inventory Index Card

March 27, 1698 Inventory of Richard Beck by John Good and John Godshall, Charles County, Maryland

1678 Final Account of Richard Beck by Elizabeth his wife, Charles County, Maryland

Maryland Chancery Court Case:

At the October of 1677 term of the Maryland Chancery Court, in St. Mary's County, heard the case of Elizabeth Beck, Mary Beck, and Margret Beck infants & Daughters & Coheirs of Richard Beck, dec'd, of Charles County being infants under the age of one and twenty years by Elizabeth Beck their mother and guardian, Plaintiffs, and George Godfrey of Charles County, Defendant, to quiet title to 200 acres of land in Charles County, Maryland known as Howland. The opinion of the Court recites that Richard Beck died in October of 1677 in Charles County; defendant claims Richard "had a great estate [received from his mother] in this Province and in Virginia which he sold and disposed off to his owne use without leaveing any thing in case hee dyed for the mainteyance of his said wife or the Complainants;" and Plaintiffs claimed that Richard and his brother John entered into a series of transactions which included trusts for Howland, but those trusts were ignored and the land wrongfully possessed by others including Godfrey. After trial, the Court ordered that "said mother and gardian or in trust for them [Elizabeth Beck, Mary Beck, and Margret Beck, infants & Daughters & Coheirs of Richard Beck, dec'd,] or to such as shee or they shall appoint to receive the same the quiet and peaceable possession of the said Land Called Howland Free and clere of all Incumbrances."^[3] Defendant held in contempt of court on February 11, 1679 for failing to pay costs.

Post Death Order for Resurvey to His Daughters:

Order for resurvey dated May 10, 1685, stating that George Brett, Planter, or Charles County, Province of Maryland, in the right of his wife Elizabeth in possession of certain tract of land purchased of George Howes, containing 200 acres, known as Howland, now owned by the daughters of Richard Beck, be resurveyed to its antient metes and bounds and laid out in the same of the daughters of Richard Beck.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Maryland Original Patent Book, CB2, 168-1681, p. 53
2. ↑ Proceedings of the County Courts of Charles County 1666-1674, Volume 60, Page 413
3. ↑ Elizabeth Beck, Mary Beck, and Margret Beck infants & Daughters & Coheirs of Richard Beck, dec'd, of Charles County being infants under the age of one and twenty years by Elizabeth Beck their mother and guardian, Plaintiffs, and George Godfrey of Charles County, Defendant, Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712, pp. 144-148
4. ↑ Maryland Warrant Book, W.C. 4, i, 1681-1685 p. 491