Person:Christopher Beeler (2)

Name	Christopher Beeler
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	Abt 1705
Marriage		to widow of Hans Michael Schule
Marriage		to Catharina Margaretha "Esther" Seger, wife of Christopher Beeler
Marriage	1760	to Henrietta Wilhelmina von Honing
Death`^?`	1774	Keyser, Hampshire County, Virginia[later became part of West Virginia in 1863]

Early Land Acquisition in Virginia

Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:

H-1446: Christopher Beeler of Frederick County, 333 acres in said County. Surv. Mr. Guy Broadwater. Tract No. 2 on North Branch [of Potomack River] beginning about 7 miles below the Ohio Company's Tract, John Lindsey, on New Creek. 20 Mar. 1752. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 59].

H-201: Christopher Beeler of Frederick County, 67 acres in said County. Surv. Mr. George Washington. Near Beeler's house, Mr. John Hardin. 10 Nov. 1752. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 62].

M-449: Robert Rutherford in Frederick County has land formerly granted George Johnston of Fairfax County Gent. by Deed, 467 acres Johnston conveyed to Rutherford by Deeds of Lease and Release and another tract contiguous granted 131 acres to Thomas Loftin by Deeds of Lease and Release conveyed to said Rutherford by William Loftin son and Legatee of said Thomas Loftin. Records in Frederick County County Court Resurveyed [by] Thomas Rutherford shows 7 acres surplus in said tracts. Grant for 631 acres to Robert Rutherford, on Long Marsh in Frederick County. Adj. Ralph Wormley, Esq., Capt. Thomas Speak, Abraham Pennington, Bartholomew Anderson, William Frost, John Osburn, Gerard Alexander, Christopher Beeler. 24 Aug. 1765. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 167].

O-137: Ralph Wormley Esq. of Middlesex County, possesses 8,007 acres on Shannondoah River in Frederick County, formerly granted Mann Page Esq. 23 Sept. 1730 and became property of his son Mann Page who sold to Wormley (records of the General Court). Resurveyed, 2 April 1765 by Mr. Thomas Rutherford shows 3,709 acres surplus. Caveat entered by Mr. John Hough of Loudoun County in behalf of Col. George Mercer who had purchased of Edward Snickers a tract surveyed for said Snickers in bounds of above tract also in behalf of Joshua Gore Jr. who had purchased from said Hough one other tract of land in bounds and had unjustly obtained a Deed for same in name of said Gore. Caveat by consent of said Wormley & Hough being left to Messrs Gabriel Jones, Peter Hogg & Thomas Bryan Martin who determined that Hough should reconvey same to Wormley (by Articles of Agreement entered into by said parties and by Award of Arbitrators and recorded in County of Frederick). 11,718 acres to Wormley. Adj. Morgan's Meadow Bridge, Messrs. Carter & now Mercer, Christopher Beeler's Spring Branch, foot of Blue Ridge, Bullskin March. 2 April 1768. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gray, pg. 195-196].

D-238: Joseph Beeler of Frederick County, 751 acres on Opecon [sic, s/b Opeckon] in said County. Surv. John Baylis. Adj. Jacob Brooks, Christopher Beeler, Mitchel's Road. 6 Oct. 1769. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gray, pg. 201].

P-132: Isaac Lerue of Frederick County, 343 acres in Berkeley County. Surv. Thomas Rutherford. Adj. Barten, Christopher Beeler, Gerard Alexander, Maj. Laurence Washington, Ralph Wormley Esq. 4 July 1772. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 216-217].