Abraham Beasley (abt. 1741 - abt. 1803)

Born about 1741 in Beasley Island, Craven County, North Carolina

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Died about 1803 at about age 62 in New Hanover North Carolina

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Biography

Named 1st in the Will of Solomon Beesley Sr ^[1]

Supplemental Biographical information from "Some Beasley Families" by John Beatty.^[2]

ABRAHAM BEESLEY, b. say 1735-40; d. New Hanover County, North Carolina, before September 1803, testate.^[3] Abraham was a witness to deeds in Craven County in 1760 (with his father) and 1763, which indicates that he was likely of age by 1760.^[4] He married MARY (___), whose surname is sometimes shown as Heath without direct or even indirect evidence. Abraham moved to Duplin County before 1778, and on 21 July 1780, entered 50 acres on the north side of Carr’s Branch.^[5] He served from Duplin County during the Revolutionary War as a Private in the state militia, with the evidence based on a single pay voucher.^[6] (His birth date is stated incorrectly as 1750 by J. D. Lewis). Abraham later moved to New Hanover County. In his will, dated 5 January 1803, he left a third of his estate to his wife, Mary, which estate, at her death, was to go to his four youngest children: John, James, Rachel, and Elizabeth. To his daughters Rachel and Elizabeth he left two-thirds of his cattle, equally divided. To his son James he left that part of the Moore Survey below Horse Branch. He also left tracts to Rachel and Elizabeth. His elder sons Abraham and Solomon served as co-executors.

Abraham Beasley, RS, Duplin Co., N.C. BEASLEY, Abraham, Private, NC Militia. Soldier is on one RW pay voucher. Soldier was born about 1750 to Solomon Beasley Sr. and Rachel Taylor Beasley at Beasley Island in Craven Co. NC. He lived in Duplin from about 1779 to 1788. Soldier married Mary Heath and had:

1- Solomon Beasley II 1770-1850+ Covington County , AL,

2-Rachel Beasley

3-Elizabeth Beasley

4-Abraham Beasley Jr. bDec. 26, 1770 in Duplin, married Mary Armstrong in 1797 in New Hanover and died Oct. 11, 1864 near W rens, Jefferson Co. GA. Abraham Jr. was married twice, 1) Mary Armstrong 2) Rebecca 1798-1850+,

5-John Beasley,

6-James Beasley.

Soldier wrote his will in New Hanover Co. NC in 1803.

Sources

1. ↑ Solomon Beesley will (1789), Craven County, North Carolina, Will Book A: 240.
2. ↑ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Some_Beasley_Families_of_the_Colonial_South
3. ↑ Abraham Beesley will (1803), New Hanover County, North Carolina, Will Book AB: 81, abstracted in Mae B. Graves, New Hanover County Abstracts of Wills (Wilmington, North Carolina: Old New Hanover Genealogical Society, 1981), 24.
4. ↑ Pruitt, Abstracts of Deeds, Craven co., NC, Books 2, 3, & 4, 1708-1765, 50, #1554; 87, #1813.
5. ↑ A B. Pruitt, Abstract of Land Entries, Duplin Co., NC, 1778-1795, Sampson Co., NC, 1784-1795 and 1853-1860 (No place: A. B. Pruitt, 1990), 90.
6. ↑ J. D. Lewis, NC Patriots 1775-1783: Their Own Words (Little River, SC: J. D. Lewis, 2012), 2 (Part 2): 56.

• Source: Duplin County, NC - Revolutionary War Military Services, Surnames A-D
• Source: S10 Repository: #REPO7 Title: Ancestral File (R) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
• Repository: REPO7 Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

Acknowledgment

• WikiTree profile Beasley-144 created through the import of janicepaf.ged on Jun 20, 2011 by Mark Olsen.