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Elizabeth Beale of St. Mary's County, Province of Maryland and wife of Thomas Beale, is believed to be Elizabeth Lee of Waterford, England.
The major documentation providing inferences into Elizabeth's life is the 1687 will of Robert Lee of St. Mary's County. The will was written 28th Dec., 1687 and proved several days later on 4th Jan., 1687. (In this time period the New Year began on March 25th, not January 1). It contained the following items:[1]
On 7 Jan 1686/7 Robert Lee's inventory, St. Mary's Co, came to £54.16.5. Appraisers were Garratt Vansweringen and Thomas Beal. Debts were owed to Michall Taney, Robert Carvile, Col. Diggs, Anthony Underwood for note on Michael Taney, Thomas Marshall, George Sulivan, John Kock, George Coome, Gilbert Clark, John Skreech, John Harris, Samson Stoddart. [2]
The following observations can be made from these documents:
In fact, Skordas shows an Elizabeth Lee transported in 1672 (liber 16, folio 529.) [3] This opens the possibility that she arrived in Maryland, also perhaps aged 17 with an indenture available for purchase, in the same year that Thomas Beale, age 22, having served his indenture, was a free man. A reasonable assumption would be that Thomas Beale assumed her transportation debt and married her that same year, 1672.
Robert Lee's will makes a separate provision to confer property in Dorchester County, across the Chesapeake Bay, to John Beall, Jr, son of Thomas Beall. This would appear to be Thomas Beale and his son John. If John were born in 1673, the year after Thomas' 1672 marriage, he would have been a minor aged 14 at the time of the 1687 will, hence the need to name John's father also, in the will.
Marshall shows Elizabeth dying before 1713. [1]
Assume that Elizabeth Beale is the mother of the children of Thomas Beale:
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Categories: St. Mary's County, Province of Maryland | Waterford, Hertfordshire
Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties source, with marriage data added. Only the life events for Euphen(sp) and Elizabeth align with their WikiTree profiles. The others should be reconciled to the same source. A merger of the Thomas Beall profiles should also be proposed. David
edited by Jack Day