Richard Beeson (abt. 1684 - 1777)

Born about Dec 1684 in New Castle County, Delaware

Ancestors

Husband of Charity (Grubb) Beeson — married 24 Oct 1706 in Nottingham MM, Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 1 Jan 1777 at about age 92 in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Richard was a Friend (Quaker)

Richard Beeson was a North Carolina colonist.

Richard Beeson was born in New Castle County, Delaware Colony, in December 1684. He moved with his parents to Berkley County, Virginia, and from there to Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Richard was a Quaker minister throughout most of his life and traveled from place to place in carrying on his work. Records of him are found in various Quaker settlements in Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina.

Richard married Charity Grubb, daughter of John Grubb and Frances Vane, at the Nottingham Meeting of Friends in 1706 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Richard and Charity became active members of Nottingham Monthly Meeting of Friends. They appear to both become recognized ministers. Charity was appointed Minister at Nottingham Meeting and continued in the ministry for many years and preached at meetings until a few years before her death.

Upon the death of his father, Edward Beeson, Sr., in 1712, Richard and wife Charity and family moved to Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and assumed management of Edward's holdings there.

A Pennsylvania Archives record, dated 10 Dec 1716, shows that Richard Beeson was given a warrant for 500 acres of land in Chester County. He had moved to West Nottingham by 1722 and the tax rate assessment for that year shows he was assessed 11 shillings, 3 pence as a tax on land owned by him in that county.

Richard and Charity and family lived at Nottingham until about 1732, when they moved to the new Friends settlement in the Susquehanna Valley in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and became members of Leacock Friends Meeting.

He was granted 100 acres in Lancaster County by the Proprietor William Penn, the warrant for the survey was dated 16 Jan 1733.

"At New Garden 11-26-1733/4, Richard Beeson produced a certificate for himself and family from Nottingham, dated 10-15-1733. The next information concerning his family is from Lancaster County Pennsylvania; they having moved and settled in Leacock township then within the limits of New Garden Monthly Meeting, but on 1-27-1736, Leacock preparative meeting informs that Richard Beeson and wife desire a certificate to Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Virginia, for themselves and family."

From William Wade Hinshaw Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol VI, page 358 under Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Virginia: "About the year 1733 or soon after, Richard Beeson and divers others settled near a branch of Opeckon, called Tuscarora, where a meeting was held at said Beeson's house for some time, till the number of Friends being increased, land was purchased and a meeting-house built thereon, called Providence, where meetings are since held twice a week."

Richard was an appraiser of the first court of Frederick County, Virginia. He later owned 1650 acres on the banks of the Tuscarora branch of the Opeckan (Opequon) River.

It was here that their daughter, Charity Beeson, married Mordecai Mendenhall early in 1735. By 1736 the Beeson family was on the move again, this time to Berkeley County, near the present town of Martinsburg, West Virginia. Here the Beeson clan lived until about 1754, when many of them left northern Virginia for North Carolina, settling in the area of present-day Guilford County, helping establish Center Friends Meeting, which became one of the larger Meetings in the North Carolina Piedmont.

Richard Beeson's family was received on certificate dated 11/20/1754, from the Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia, at New Garden Monthly Meeting in Rowan County, North Carolina.

Charity died Nov. 22, 1761 at the age of 74; and Richard died Jan. 1, 1777 at age 93. Both were buried in Guilford County, North Carolina.

His will was probated in Randolph County, North Carolina.

Children

Marriage 24 OCT 1706 Nottingham Mm, Chester Co., PA

Husband: Richard Beeson

Wife: Charity Grubb

Child: John Beeson

Child: Phebe Beeson

Child: Richard Beeson

Child: Benjamin Beeson

Child: Charity Beeson

Child: Edward Beeson

Child: William Beeson

Child: Rachel Beeson

Child: Stephen Beeson

Child: Isaac Beeson

Marriage

Date: 24 OCT 1706

Place: West Nottingham Mm, Chester Co, PA

Page: Birth year: 1684; Birth city: New Castle County; Birth state: DE.

Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=184985&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

Text: Birth date: 10 October 1684, Birth place: New Castle County, DEDeath date: 1 January 1777Death place: New Garden Mm, Guilford Co, NCMarriage date: 24 October 1706, Marriage place: West Nottingham Mm, Chester Co, PA

Death and burial

Death Age 92 Death Date 1 Jan 1777 Death Date on Image 01 First 1777 Death Place Guilford, North Carolina Event Type Death Monthly Meeting Centre Monthly Meeting Historical Meeting Data Centre Monthly Meeting Yearly Meeting North Carolina Yearly Meeting Meeting State North Carolina Meeting County Guilford

Death 1 JAN 1777 Guilford Co., North Carolina ^[1]

Needs to be merged to biography:

Berkley County, Virginia (now West Virginia) In the area of the Hopewell Meeting: The Meeting House of Quaker Providence around present-day Berkely County Highway 15 was erected by 1741, but it is believed that the meetings were first held in Richard Beeson's house by 1738. The cemetery for the meeting house was located in the southwest corner of Richard Beeson Jr.'s 249-acre tract. On present day maps, it is located on the north side of Berkely County, Highway 15 approximately 15 miles east of the Tuscarora Church meetinghouse location.

"The Tax Rate Assessment for the year 1722 of West Nottingham, PA shows that Richard Beeson was assessed 11 shillings, 3 pence, as a tax on land owned by him."

"On 3d month 8, 1725, the preparative meeting of Nottingham have offered Richard Beeson for an overseer, for ye west end of Nottingham whom this meeting approves of until further order."

"11-27-1727, William Reynolds is appointed overseer in room of Richard Beeson, released."

"14-xbr-1727, Richard Beeson and Daniel Smith, both of Nottingham and Bona Griffiths of the Manor of Rocklands, request the grant of each of them a percel of land at or near Fishing Creek, which flows into the Susquehannah, viz:

Richard Beeson for his children, 1000 acres; Daniel Smith, for his sons, 500 acres; and Bona Griffiths, 300 acres."

(Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, Vol. XIX, p. 753.)

"Under the heading of "Old Rights" Philadelphia, County, Richard Beeson was given a Warrant for 500 acres; the date of the Warrant being 12-10-1733."

The following quotations are from Quaker records, collected by C. E. Beeson, of Pittsburgh, PA.

"1-30-1728, Nottingham preparative Meeting proposed to this meeting for Charity Beeson, to have a certificate to recommend her to ye meeting of ministers, so this meeting appoints Thos. Brown and William Reynolds to enquire into their conversation and ministry and to give an acount to ye next Monthly Meeting."

"2-17-1728, Thos. Brown and William Reynolds hath sent an account yt ye meeting of ministers so this meeting have recommended her to ye said meeting."

"7-27-1729, Richard Beeson, (Whose re-appointment was overlooked) is succeeded by Thomas Brown as overseer of West Nottingham Meeting." Nottingham Monthly Meeting was established in 1730 by division of New Garden."

"At New Garden 11-26-1733-4, Richard Beeson produced a certificate for himself and family from Nottingham, dated 10-15-1733. The next information concerning his family is from Lancaster County Pennsylvania; they having moved and settled in Leacock township then within the limits of New Garden Monthly Meeting, but on 1-27-1736, Leacock preparative meeting informs that Richard Beeson and wife desire a certificate to Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Virginia, for themselves and family."

This removal certificate was signed for them on 2-24-1736. Many Friends or Quakers first located in the original counties of Pennsylvania, known as Philadelphia and Chester and in their vicinities, but with the expansion of the province, joined the Southern and Western movement which was first to Maryland and then across the Potomac; then settling at Hopewell a place about ten miles north of the town of Winchester, Frederick County in Virginia about 1732-35. At that time Friends under the leadership of Alexander Ross settled on one hundred thousand acres which was called Hopewell on the Qpaquan Creek, they having obtained a charter from the government of Virginia for this land. Hopewell Monthly Meeting was established in 1735 by a division of Nottingham Monthly Meeting, but in 1759 nearly all their records were totally destroyed by fire.

"At Nottingham Monthly Meeting 3-20-1738, Richard Beeson request a certificate on behalf of himself and wife to be joined to Hopewell Monthly Meeting, in Virginia. Thomas Brown and William Reynolds were therefore appointed to make an inquiry into his conversation and affairs and prepare one."

"On Friday the 11th day of November, 1743, the first court of Frederick County, Virginia was held at Winchester, Among the first business attended to was the appointment of appraisers on the Bryant NcNamee Estate. The minutes of this Court show that the McNamee Will was the first will to be probated in Frederick County. The appointment of appraisers were as follows: Morgan Bryan, Richard Beeson, Edward hughes and Israel Robinson. (Ref Cartmell's History of Frederick County, VA p. 20.)

"4-17-1738, the Friends appointed to prepare a certificate for Richard Beeson and wife hath so done, which this meeting approves."

The next information concerning them comes from Roan (Rowan) County, N. C.

Their removal to this part of the country is evidenced by the following letter:

"Roan County, North Carolina."

"Loving Sister: This is to let thee know that we have received three letters from ye and three presents therein I sent to the no letters; I had not freedom last winter was a year, I had a long time of sickness which brought me very loe in body, and mind and now I am troubled with short breath so that I think I am going home softly. I thought it would trouble thee more to let thee know my condition, then send no letters.

"I goes to meeting sometimes; we have a meting every other fifth day at our house, my husband gose weakly; the Lord who lifted ou candles hath not put them out. Our children remember their loves to you all. I have sent two presents to the as a toacon of love and youenity. We donte know that thear heath bene any mischif done in this government as yetby the Indians, but dont know how soon thear may be for some is doubtful thear may be before the truble come time be over. I desire the to remember our kind loves to ll oure neare relation and friends. We understand that oure brother John Grubb is decesed, but we have no certunty of it. I desire thee to let me know what is become of Peter Grubb's widow. Remember my love to brother Henry Grubb in particular. So we ad no more at present but remembering our kind loves to thee and thy family the 28th of the fifth month, 1758. Richard Beeson, Charity Beeson."

"the tocens which I sente was love and Youenity."

"Family Genealogy" needs to be paraphrased and merged into the bio

From the book Pioneers of Old Frederick Country, Virginia By Cecil O'Dell: Richard Beeson (b. 1684), son of Edward, married Charity Grubb, daughter of John and Frances Vane Grubb, in 1706. Both families lived in the area of the present-day Wilmington, DE. Richard and Charity were living in West Nottingham Township in 1718 where they were taxed until 1732. While in West Nottingham their son Richard married Ann Brown (daughter of Messer and Jane Brown of East Nottingham) on December 15, 1730. Their daughter Phebe married John Harris (son of William Harris) on May 3, 1731. Richard and Charity moved to Leacock Township (about 10 mi east of present-day Lancaster, PA) c. 1733. Their son John (b. 1707) married Mary Varman on December 7, 1733. Their daughter Charity married Mordecai Mendenhall (son of John Mendenhall) in Leacock. The book goes on to describe the activities of the many members of the family in Pennsylvania and Virginia, including their attendance at many Quaker services.

Beeson Genealogy, Line of descent of the St. Clair County Beesons, of Alabama. In "the Grubb Family of Pennsylvania and Delaware" by Gilbert Cope on pg. 5, under the head of children of John and Frances Grubb, one finds the following: 4. Charity Grubb married before her father's death, Richard Beeson, son of Edward Beeson, of New Castle County, and later of Nottingham, on the borders of Maryland. They became Friends, and in 1728 Nottingham Meeting gave her the endorsement of minister. Five years later they removed to Leacock, Lancaster County, and after a few years sojourn there, went to Frederick County, Virginia. In a letter to her sister, Phebe, written 12th of 11 mo. 1742-3, Charity says:"My son William hath a daughter born the 30th of last month, and calls her name Welmett". This unusual name was doubtless given in remembrance of the ancestress in far away Cornwall and is strong evidence that Henry of Burlington, and John of New Castle County, were brothers. A memorandum, made a few years later, gives the children and grand-children of Richard and Charity Beeson as follows: "John, married to Grace Varman, had a son, Nathaniel; Richard, married to Anne Brown, had Charith, Hannah, Richard, Messar, Jacob, Henry, John, and Edward; Charity married to Mordecai Mendenhall had Richard, John , thomas, Moses, and Stephen; Phebe, married to John Harris, had Elizabeth, Charity, Richard, Phebe, and Dinah; Edward, married to Martha, had Edward, Charity, Mary and Micajah; Benjamin was the father of Isaac, Benjamin, William, Francis, and Richard. William had Welmet, Charity, and Rachel. Stephen was the father of Stephen, Micajah and Phebe."

All of the children of the sons, Benjamin and William, were probably not born when the memorandum was made. They moved from Hopewell, VA and settled in North Carolina March 6, 1751, and the records of the entire family of each are to be found in the Minutes of New Garden Quarterly Meeting, now at Guilford College, North Carolina, in Volume I. The complete family record of Benjamin Beeson (II-VI) is to be found in the first genealogy of this publication, land that of William (12-VII) in the Beeson Genealogy by Pervis H. Beeson.

Research Notes

• Sources to flesh out:

[Lineage Book of Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors]

• The book "Kissin Kin" mentions that Richard Beeson was a minister in the Society of Friends and traveled for the society in VA, NC, and SC. He moved to Hopewell, VA on 2/24/1736.^{[citation needed]}

• Birthdate:

The entry for Richard's birthdate "Tenth 1684," is December, not October. The Quaker calendar started in March and the 10th month was December. He was born in December and an attribution of an October birth month is likely a transcriber who was ignorant of the Quaker Calendar:

Birth OCT 1684 or Dec 1694 ,New Castle County, Delaware ^{[2] [3]} two records show different dates of birth,

Name Richard Beeson

Birth Date on Image Eighth 1684

Translated Birth Date Oct 1684

Monthly Meeting Center Monthly Meeting recorded in

Volume Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol. /OR/

Name Richard Beeson, Birth Date Dec 1684

Birth Date on Image Tenth 1684, Monthly Meeting, Centre Monthly Meeting

• Previously, the biography had the entry: Richard was a Patriot during the American Revolution. This entry is uncited. If anyone has a source for this, please add it with our thanks and return this line to the biography in the appropriate location. Baty-260 16:37, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

DNA

A triangulated group has been discovered that shares Richard Beeson and Charity (Grubb) Beeson as most-recent common ancestors. They share an 18.4 cM segment on chromosome 11.

• Duane Kelly is a descendant of Margaret (Beeson) Thornburg (*Note: Margaret's status as daughter of Richard & Charity is disputed)
• NB is a descendant of William Beeson
• DK is a descendant of Charity (Beeson) Mendenhall

Sources

1. ↑ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, Guilford College; Greensboro, North Carolina; Records, 1775-1903; Collection: North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes
2. ↑ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records,Guilford College; Greensboro, North Carolina; Records, 1775-1903; Collection: North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes
3. ↑ U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607–1943

See also:

• FamilySearch Person: LBW5-4X3
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MCX9-9RB : accessed 2016-02-17), entry for Richard BEESON.
• Title: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy; Author: Hinshaw, William Wade; Publication: Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., 1936.; Page: 649, Volume I.; Text: "Richard Beeson b. 10—1684; d. 1- 1-1777, 93 yrs. old."
• Title: Family history; Author: Don Billingsley
• Title: Grubb Family History; Author: Nancy Bugner
• Title: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy; Author: Hinshaw, William Wade; Publication: Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., 1936.; Page: p. 649; Text: "Charity (Grubb) Beeson, ... married 10-24-1706."
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52036793/richard-beeson : accessed 26 October 2021), memorial page for Richard Beeson (10 Dec 1684–1 Jan 1777), Find A Grave: Memorial #52036793, citing Centre Friends Meeting Cemetery, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Salkeld Genealogy Research (contributor 48113546) .
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