Bowater Beals (1725 - 1781)

Born 1725 in York, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Ann (Cook) Beals — married 12 Oct 1752 in Warrington Mm, York County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 9 Feb 1781 at about age 56 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Shortly after they were married in Pennsylvania in 1752^[1] , Bowater and Sarah moved to North Carolina and joined the Cane Creek Community on a certificate from the Fairfax Meeting dated July 25, 1752. They were received January 25, 1753, but would have arrived earlier than that.

Bowater was made a minister on January 30, 1779 at the New Garden Monthly Meeting.

Bowater died shortly afterwards on February 9, 1781 and is buried at the FBG at New Garden.

HISTORICAL HI-LITES 1725: Bowater Beals was born just four years before Captain James Cook who discovered the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, and Catherine the Great of Russia.

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Minutes, 1747-1786; Collection: Baltimore Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: RG2/B/W371 1.1: Name: Boater Beals Residence Place: York, Pennsylvania Spouse: Sarah Cook Event Type: Marriage Intention (Marriage) Monthly Meeting: Warrington Monthly Meeting Type (Orthodox or Hicksite): Pre-Separation Yearly Meeting: Baltimore Yearly Meeting Meeting State: Pennsylvania Meeting County: York image

• http://www.billputman.com/Beals.pdf
• Source: S28 Repository: #REPO5 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: REPO5 Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

• SOURCES: LDS FHL AF # CCD6-C3 (familysearch.org)
• AWTP: "June 2004-Family Ancestry Tree For Weavers-Sanders-Lay" David Weaver
• "Update on Dawna Herrud File" Beth Watkins
• "Carmichael Genealogy" Sandy Taylor

BOWATER BEALS was born about 1725 possibly in Pennsylvania. He died 2nd month 9, 1781 in Orange County (now Alamance), North Carolina. He married 10th month 2, 1752 Sarah Ann Cook, at Warrington Monthly Meeting in York County, Pennsylvania. Among those attending and witnessing the wedding were Alexander Underwood (the bride's grandfather) and his second wife Sarah (Bowater) Beals Underwood (the groom's mother). In 1753, 1st month 6, the Cain Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange County, North Carolina, accepted Bowater and his wife from Fairfax Meeting, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In 1761 the "travelling preacher", William Hunt (who was a cousin of the famous travelling Friend, John Woolman) started a trip through North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. His companion for this preaching trip was Bowater Beals who was uncle of Hunt's wife Sarah. When they visited Warrington on the journey they stayed with Bowater's mother who was now Sarah (Bowater) Beals Underwood. In 1779, 1st month 30, Bowater was recommended a minister. His service only lasted a little over two years. He and Sarah are among the first thirty families in the Cane Creek settlement who expressed a desire for a Monthly Meeting.

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Minutes, 1747-1786; Collection: Baltimore Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: RG2/B/W371 1.1: Name: Boater Beals Residence Place: York, Pennsylvania Spouse: Sarah Cook Event Type: Marriage Intention (Marriage) Monthly Meeting: Warrington Monthly Meeting Type (Orthodox or Hicksite): Pre-Separation Yearly Meeting: Baltimore Yearly Meeting Meeting State: Pennsylvania Meeting County: York image

• The Ancestry of Allen Grinnell Cleaver and Martha Irene Jessup -- 172 Allied Families --Page 164 under, "Beals" William Jessup Cleaver 1989