Joseph Beaman

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Joseph Beaman, Jr., b. 27 Jan 1785 Wilmington, Windham County, Vermont son of Joseph Beaman, a Revolutionary Soldier, and Sarah Davis, m. 21 Dec 1808 Lucy Cady b. 24 July 1778 Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont daughter of Cornelius Cady and Elizabeth Armstrong Safford. They are related to have removed from Bennington, Vermont in company with Joseph's sister, Lucinda Beaman and her husband David Haswell in 1808, both families settling in northwestern Columbia Township. History of Bradford County by Bradsby relates their arrival was 1806, however Lucinda and David were not married until December 1807. A letter from David R. Haswell dated June 19, 1808 Cabot (Connecticut Township name of Columbia Township) to his father in Vermont stated they made the trip in fifteen days and that he bought 200 acres, Joseph taking one half of it. Joseph was not enumerated in the 1810 census of Smithfield Township, Lycoming County (Columbia Township included in that census before Columbia Township and Bradford County were formed), Pennsylvania. Joseph appears on the 1813 assessment list of Smithfield Township (Columbia Township not yet created) as a “new settler.” Joseph voted in the first election in the newly created Bradford County on 13 Oct 1812. Joseph appears on the first assessment of Columbia Township in 1814. Joseph is related to have been interested in the education of the children in the Aspinwall (now Coryland, Wells Township) neighborhood and established a school in a vacant house on his farm. Later, he is related to have established a school that stood on the northwest corner of Beaman Corners, which also served as a place of worship. Lucy d. 5 May 1833 (ts) buried Beaman Family Cemetery on Beaman farm. Joseph m. 12 June 1833 (Bradford County marriage by Justice Harry Morgan and Rev. John Sawyer) (2)Almira Burrell b. 12 Sept 1813 daughter of Silas Burrell and Sarah Granger of Rutland Township, Tioga County. Joseph was a Baptist minister and was instrumental in forming a Baptist Society, which later built a church at Baptist Hill in northern Columbia. Joseph d. 12 Aug 1872. Almira was enumerated in household of daughter Mary in Canton, Bradford County in 1880 and home of son John in Troy, Bradford County in 1900. Almira d. 22 Mar 1906 buried Beaman Family Cemetery with Lucy and Joseph. Of later date was a copy of the Argus on November 27th, 1862, published during the terrible epidemic of typhoid fever that devastated this country at that time. Particularly poignant was the notice of the death of four children of Elder Joseph Beaman. Joseph, 25, died on October 5th, William, 18, on November 6th, Lydia, 16, on November 11th, and the last death was that of Ruth L, 20, on the 17th of November. Elder Beaman, pioneer resident of the Coryland section, was the grandfather of Miss. Frances Beaman, W. W. Beaman and others of their family. Brothers and sisters of their father, the late John W Beaman, the four typhoid victims are buried, side by side, in a private cemetery on the Beaman farm in Coryland. It is said of Elder Beaman that he wanted a school at Coryland and that the County Commissioners of that day refused to build it, claiming that there were not enough pupils. Nothing daunted, he told them that he would build it himself and fill it with children-which he did. 1. Mary Elizabeth Beaman b. 22 May 1834. 2. Martha M. Beaman b. 1835. 3. Joseph L. Beaman b. 14 Apr 1837 d. 6 Sept 1862 (ts). 4. Sarah Beaman b. Mar 1839. 5. David G. Beaman b. 17 Oct 1841 d. 18 Apr 1843 (ts). 6. Ruth L. Beaman b. 27 Feb 1843 d. 18 Nov 1862 (ts). 7. William Beaman b. 11 Oct 1844 d. 10 Nov 1862 (ts). 8. Lydia E. Beaman b. 3 June 1846 d. 11 Nov 1862 (ts). 9. John Wesley Beaman b. 3 Nov 1848. 10. Lucy C. Beaman b. Sept 1851.

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