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Elizabeth (Hunter) Beeson (1718 - abt. 1794)

Elizabeth Beeson formerly Hunter
Born in Randolph Co., North Carolinamap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
Wife of — married 14 Jun 1738 in Frederick, Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , , , , , , , , and
Died about at about age 76 in Randolph Co., North Carolinamap
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Elizabeth (Hunter) Beeson was a North Carolina colonist.

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Biography

Elizabeth, whose surname, dates and parents are uncertain, was probably born about 1718 and died after 2 Jul 1794 when she was mentioned in her husband's will.

She married Benjamin BEESON Sr, son of Richard BEESON and Charity GRUBB, on 14 Jun 1738 at Hopewell MM, Frederick County, VA; children (dob old style; surname BEESON):[1][2]

  1. Isaac Beeson (1739-1811) - m. Isabel PEARSON
  2. Benjamin Beeson Jr. (1741-1811) - m. Bethia LAMB
  3. William Beeson (1744-abt.1809)- m1. Ruth SISNEY; m2. Elizabeth NORTON
  4. Frances (Beeson) Lamb (1744-bef.1820) - m. Joseph LAMB
  5. Richard Beeson (1747-1817) - m. Abigail DIMMITT
  6. Ann (Beeson) Lewis (1749-1812) - m. David LEWIS
  7. Charity (Beeson) Crow (1751-abt.1809)
  8. Elizabeth (Beeson) Elliott (1754-1791) - m. Jacob/Joab ELLIOTT
  9. Edward Beeson (1757-1837) - m1. __ LAMB; m2. Ann PENNINGTON; m3. Dicy MULLEN
  10. Rachel Beeson (1759-1775)
  11. Jane (Beeson) Bond (1760-1792) - m. John BOND
  12. Mary (Beeson) Wells (1762-abt.1802) - m. Isaac WELLS

Martha Beeson (1778-) and Joseph Beeson (1780-) are probably not their children because Elizabeth (Hunter-1538) was older than 55 when they were born.

On 6 May 1751, Elizabeth and Benjamin removed to Cane Creek Meeting, Orange County, NC, from Hopewell, VA.[3]

She was called "my beloved wife Elizabeth" by the will of Benjamin BEESON Sr dated 2 Jul 1794 at Randolph County, NC.[4]

Two pewter platters that Elizabeth Hunter brought to this marriage came to America from England and have been handed down in the Beeson family.

Research Notes

Much of the information about Elizabeth needs further research and documentation. See below for specific uncertainties. FR

Birth: Two merged profiles here had 1715 and 1718 as her birth year. I have seen no official records, so I can't say what is correct. Fifty-three user-submitted records at FamilySearch.org, most frequently have 1718, but there are several other dates given. FR
Marriage: Similarly to the birth date, I have seen no official record of the marriage. The same FamilySearch.org records give 14 June 1738 most often, but there are other dates given. FR
Parents: Elizabeth's parents are unproven and were removed. She cannot be daughter of John Hunter and Margaret Albin because John Hunter's will list his daughter Elizabeth as "Elizabeth Steel." An Elizabeth Hunter married a Robert Steel and they died leaving two orphans before 1736, therefore I would deduce that this Elizabeth Steel is John and Margaret's daughter, not Elizabeth Hunter Beeson. FR
Other user-submitted records say her father was Jacob Hunter, but John and Nicholas Hunter also appear. Her mother is given variously as Margaret Albin or Albans, Sarah Hill, and called Rebecca Hardy on the record that gives Nicholas Hunter as her father. I suspect, but am far from certain, that the Elizabeth Hunter who was the daughter of Nicholas and Rebecca is a different person. FR

The Beesons were staunch Quakers! The record of the Society of Friends (Quakers) of New Garden, Guilford County. [5]

Bethia Lamb ... was married to Benjamin Beeson Jr (son of Benjamin Beeson Sr and "Betty" Elizabeth Hunter ... [note: source for preferred name] on 9 Jul 1761 in New Garden, Guilford, NC. The marriage of Benjamin Beeson, Jr and Bethia Lamb, and the names of their children are documented in Hinshaw, Vol I, NC. pp. 526, 556, 648.
"Benjamin Beeson, son of Benjamin, Rowan County, married Bethia Lamb, daughter of Henry, deceased, 9 July 1761. Witnesses Benjamin Beeson, Thomas Lamb, Richard Beeson, Elizabeth Beeson, Isabel Beeson, and others." ... From the archives of Guilford College, Greensboro NC. New Garden Monthly Meeting Minutes, Volume 1:
"Whereas Benjamin Beeson, son of Benjamin Beeson, of Roan[Rowan]County North Carolina, and Bethia Lamb, daughter of Henry Lamb, deceased, of the same place, having declared their intentions of marriage with each other before several Monthly Meetings of the people called Quakers held at New Garden and having consent of parents and parties concerned that said proposals was approved and allowed of by said meetings & they left to their Liberty to accomplish their marriage according to good order; the which they did on the 9th day of the 5th month [July] 1761 in the presents of many witnesses, 12 of whose names are here inserted, to wit:
{Signed}
Elizabeth Beeson [mother of the groom]
Margaret Beales
Isabel Beeson [Isabel Parson, married Benjamin's brother Isaac]
Rebeckah Ozburn
Lydia Beales
Sarah Ozburn
Benjamin Beeson [father of the groom]
Thomas Lamb [brother of the bride]
Jeremiah Reynolds
Christopher Nation
John Nation
Richard Beeson [grandfather of the groom]

Sources

  1. ↑ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, (Provo UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2014), North Carolina, Guilford, New Garden monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1783-1800, p 12 (image 178 of 413); giving dob old style of ch Isaac, Benja., William, Frances, Richard, Ann, Charity, Betty, Edward, Rachel, Jane, Mary.
  2. ↑ Henry Hart Beeson, A genealogy of the Beeson-Beason family, (US: H H Beeson, 1968), sec III, p. 17; giving c1738, VA, ch info.
  3. ↑ Beeson, A genealogy of the Beeson-Beason family, sec III, p. 17; giving 6th day 3rd month 1751.
  4. ↑ North Carolina, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998, Ancestry.com, (Provo UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2015), Randolph, Original Wills, Barker, Robert - Hinshaw, Rebecca, image 51 of 1917, Benjamin Beeson.
  5. ↑ Marshall L. Styles, Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Lamb of North Carolina: A Quaker Family Legacy, 1697 - 2000, (Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., ©2000), pp. 70-1 and pp. 33-4; regarding marriage of her son, Benjamin Jr.

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Kay (Offutt) Schmidt
Unknown-571696 and Hunter-1538 do not represent the same person because: Elizabeth (b. 1718) was wife of Benjamin Beeson in 1738 and is prob. not the one called daughter Elizabeth Steele by the will of Capt John Hunter dated 30 Jan 1734. She would have been only 16 in 1734, leaving little time for her to have married Josiah Harvey either before or after Robert Steele. And according to an online query by Linda Doty, "Elizabeth HUNTER m. 1. Robert STEELE Elizabeth HUNTER STEELE m. 2. Josiah Harvey 15 May 1722 Christ's Church Philadelphia PA Elizabeth HUNTER STEELE HARVEY married J. (or Benjamin) BEESON in 1738, VA LINDA [email address removed] Certainly someone b. in 1718 cannot marry in 1722.
posted by Kay (Offutt) Schmidt
Risa (Palmer) Taylor
Unknown-571696 and Hunter-1538 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicate. This is not the Elizabeth Hunter that was married to Robert Steel.
posted by Risa (Palmer) Taylor
Kay (Offutt) Schmidt
We really know nothing more about Benjamin Beeson's wife than her name was probably Elizabeth and she was still alive when he made his will in July 1794. The dob, dom, and dod of Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth are suspicious as they all fall on the 14th of the month. That could be due to a computer default so dates should be verified.

I am creating a separate profile for Elizabeth [Unknown] as Benjamin's wife with what is known about her. Then it can be merged or corrected if more evidence comes to light.

posted by Kay (Offutt) Schmidt
Stills-18 Michael Stills
There is obviously a lot of conflation here that needs sorting out. Thank you for starting that work.
posted by Michael Stills
McCunney-1 Richard McCunney
Regarding the place of the birth of Elizabeth Hunter:

1. John Woolf Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Volume 2 (New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Page 1454:

"John Hunter, native of Durham, England, and a descendant of the Hunters of Meadowsly Hall, Gateshead, Durham, who removed to Ireland; married at Rathdrum, county Wicklow, in 1693, Margaret Albin, and later came to Chester county, where he died in 1734."

2. John Woolf Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Volume 2 (New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Page 1618-1619:

"John Hunter, father of Elizabeth Hunter, was originally a resident of the north of England. He was a strong churchman, and probably by his acts had made himself somewhat offensive to other religionists. Upon the accession of James II to the throne, in order to escape prosecution, he removed to Rathdrum, Wicklow county, Ireland."

"William Hill, who married the daughter of John Hunter, and with his wife had previously emigrated to Pennsylvania, settled in Middletown township. John Hunter, with his family followed his son-in-law to America and settled in Newtown township, then Chester county, where he purchases a large tract of land, which he occupied during his life."

"He is interred in the ground of St. David's [at Radnor, PA]. The date of his death on his tombstone, still plainly legible, being April, 1734."

3. Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1713-1825 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2000):

Will of John Hunter, Newtown, yeoman. Dated January 30, 1734. Proven May 19, 1736.

"Provides for wife Margaret. To son George, son John daughters Martha Cole, Ann Baker 5 shillings each. To granddaughter Margaret Baker £20 at 21. To daughter Elizabeth Steel £20. To daughter Mary Hill £20. To daughter Margaret Hunter £30, household goods. To son Peter £50 at 21. To sons William and James, my plantation in Newtown and remainder of personal estate, also executors."


If John Hunter married in Ireland in 1693, came to Pennsylvania in 1722 where he died and was buried in 1734, how could his daughter Elizabeth be born in North Carolina? Note the Chester county, PA will of John Hunter where he bequeaths to daughter Elizabeth Steel.

See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steel-2829 for the profile of Robert Steel who was married at Christ Church, Philadelphia, May 15, 1722, to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Margaret Albin Hunter, of Newtown, Newtown Township, Chester county, now Delaware county, Pennsylvania.

posted by Richard McCunney
McCunney-1 Richard McCunney
Concerning Elizabeth Hunter's first marriage to Robert Steel, their children, and her subsequent marriages -

1. Albin, Ethel Winfred. The Virginia Albin's. Decorah, IA: The Anundsen Publishing Company, page 13:

"Elizabeth Hunter, daughter of John and Margaret (Albin) Hunter, married 1) Robert Steel, who had a mill on Darby Creek, Chester County, PA. Steel's death (intestate) she married 2) Josiah Harvey and they went 'to Virginia' (?Frederick Co.?). She is said to have married a third time in 1738 in Virginia to J. Beeson. There was a Beeson family found early in what in now Berkeley Co, VA/WV, but it is understood that they moved on into North Carolina. This may account for the tradition in the Beeson family of the Elizabeth Hunter who handed down in the Beeson family two pewter platters. The compiler was told this story by a Beeson descendant who had married an Albin descendant and was then living in Delaware Co. Indiana (1973). The writer has not investigated further."

2. Jordan, John Wolff (1911). Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Volume 2. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, page 1619:

"Robert and Elizabeth (Hunter) Steel had four sons, John, Andrew, Peter and James." The account continues discussing each of these four sons in some detail. See https://www.google.com/books/edition/Colonial_Families_of_Philadelphia/3kc2AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=colonial+families+of+philadelphia+volume+2&printsec=frontcover

posted by Richard McCunney
Stills-18 Michael Stills
I believe Fred (FR) is correct about this being the wrong Eizabeth Hunter. See more here: John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. I & II (The Lewis Publishing Co.), Vol. II, p. 1618.

I believe we need to remove this Elizabeth (Hunter-1538) from her parents.

posted by Michael Stills
Stills-18 Michael Stills
More source material to review here: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ski/katie/family_pages/steel.html#5
posted by Michael Stills
Smith-75958 Jerry Smith
Hunter-7835 and Hunter-1538 appear to represent the same person because: Same person
posted by Jerry Smith

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