Person:John Beals (8)

Research Notes

• cos 1776 Note: per W.W. Hinshaw [1] , Nottingham Monthly Meeting, in Cecil County, Maryland, was "set off" from New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1730, and held its first monthly meeting on 20th of 4, mo. 1730. This being the nearest monthly meeting to Hopewell, Fairfax, Providence and Cold Spring (Monocacy), their monthly reports were made to Nottingham Monthly Meeting until Hopewell Monthly Meeting was firmly established in 1736. Their records of births, deaths and marriages, therefore, before 1736 should be found in the books of Nottingham Monthly Meeting. In fact, they are so found.

Disputed Lineages

Several different theories about parents contributed from various GEDCOM uploads. Additional research needed. No documentation has been presented for any of the proposals indicating all are speculation. Proposed families include:

• Family:William Beals and Sarah Edge (2)
• Family:Thomas Beals and Margaret Weston (1)
• Family:William Beales and Johanna Unknown (2)
• Family:Thomas Beals and Unknown (1)
• Family:William Beals and Unknown (2)
• Family:Thomas Beals and Sarah Edge (1)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Will Transcript of John Beales, in Source needed.

   I John Beals of Nottingham In ye County of Chester being sick & weak of body but of sound & Disposing mind & Memory do make this my last will & Testament revoking all other wills that have heretofore been made or done by me.
   
   First My will is that my just Debts & Funeral Charge be Defrayed as so on as possible after my Death., and also that my body be decently buried.
   
   Secondly I give and bequeath Unto my Eldest Son John Beals my bed & a ll ye furniture there unto belonging & five pounds he paying unto his 5 children Sarah, John, Thomas, Ann & Phebe to each of them Tenn Shillings wh en they come of age.
   
   Thirdly I give unto my son William Beals Eight pound he paying to ea ch of his 3 children; Lydia, Mary & Ruth Tenn Shillings when of age.
   
   Fourthly I give unto my daughter Mary Harrold, Eight poud shee paying to each of her children; Rachell, Jonathan & Richard Tenn Shillings when th ey come of age.
   
   Fifthly I give unto my son Jacob Beals Twelve pound he paying to his 4 children; John, Jacob, Mary & William to each of them Tenn Shillings wh en of age.
   
   Sixthly I give unto my daughter Patience Jones ye Eight pound fifteen shil lings that is due from her husband by Bond & Five pound more to be pa id by my Executors willing Shee or husband to pay unto their 4 children; J udith, Mary,Sarah & Charity to Each Tenn Shillings all of ye afore said Le gacys to be paid Unto ye grand Children when they are deemed by l aw to be of age.
   
   Sevently I give unto my daughter Mary Harrold & Patience Jones my warming pan & Spice box; Also I give Unto James Wright fourty shillings.
   
   Eightly I give unto my Kinswoman Mary Davis of Philadelphia Twenty Schillings. Also my will is that my son William Shall be paid his Legacy fir st my Daughter Mary Harrold Next & Patience her five pound next as ye Mon ey that is out upon Bond becomes due.
   
   Lastly I ordaine and Constitute My Two Sons John & Jacob Beals Sole Executors of this my Last Will & testament witness my hand & seall dated in Nottingham ye 11 of ye 8th mo: 1726 John Beals his X mark
   
   Sealed & Deliver ed In ye presence of:
   Ja McMillan VIth 10 mo 1726 - McMillen Jurist and ye others aforesaid
   his William House X
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   [Note: "ye 11 of ye 8th mo" 1726 O.S. Quaker = 11 Oct 1726 N.S.]
   [Note: "VIth 10 mo 1726" O.S. Quaker = 6 Dec 1726 N.S.]

2.   Beals and Bowater Families.

   http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mygermanfamilies/BealsJohn.html

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland Quaker Records [database on-line].

   Maryland Quaker Records: Nottingham Monthly Meeting, Cecil County
   Book F - 1808-1836
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   Name: John Beals
   Comment: Historical (by James Trimble) (the emigrant) "was an early settler in the lower part of Aston, Delaware Co, PA; he married 1682 Mary Clayton, daughter Wm & Prudence Clayton. Their children were John, William, Jacob, Mary & Patience. The fam rem to E Nottingham 1704."
   Name: Mary Clayton
   Marriage Date: - - 1682
   Child: John, Jr
   Birth Date: 20 Mar 1685/6
   Marriage Date: 14 Sep 1711
   Spouse: Sarah Bowater
   Comment: daughter Thomas
   Child: William
   Birth Date: 01 Apr 1687
   Marriage Date: 26 Apr 1712
   Spouse: Rebeckah Chambers
   Comment: daughter John
   Child: Jacob
   Birth Date: 28 Sep 1689
   Marriage Date: 20 Jun 1714
   Spouse: Mary Brooks
   Comment: daughter John, deceased
   Child: Mary
   Birth Date: 24 Jun 1692
   Marriage Date: 01 Jun 1710
   Spouse: Richard Harrold
   Child: Patience
   Birth Date: 16 Mar 1695/6
   Marriage Date: 20 Jun 1717
   Spouse: Joseph Jones
   Comment: son John

4.   Family Notes, in Source Needed.

   in 1675 John Bales/Beales and his father arrived Salem, NJ on "Griffin" the first ship to America from London or Yorkshire. In 1677 he was living on a farm in Delaware Co., PA. In 1679 had a farm in Chester Co ., PA along Chester Creek in Aston Township across the line from Chester Township. In 1682 he married and in 1704 moved to Notthingham, PA. In 1726 he died in Chester Co., PA. It has been estimated from a list of inhabitants that included John Bales and from a 1691 Court record of a boundary dispute (in which John Bales testified he had ploughed certain land fourteen years ago) that John came to America abt 1677.
   
   From Meeting Records of Chester MM, Chester Co ., PA the following: " At a Monthly Meeting at Chester the 2nd day of ye 8th mo, 1682, John Bales and Mary Clayton did propose their intentions of marriage. At a Monthly Meeting at Chester the 1st day of ye 11th mo., 1682 John Bales and Mary Clayton did propose their intentions of marriage. It being the second time and nothing appeared to obstruct Friends left them to their liberty to proceed."
   
   The home of John and Mary Clayton Beales served as the first meeting place of Quakers in PA. Near neighbors of John Beales and William Clayton, J r., in Chester Co., PA were John Mendenhall, Thomas Hall, William Ashan, N. Pile, Peter Dicks and William Cloud. Most of these were Quakers. Descendants of Mendenhall, Dicks and Clouod families traveled along with the Beales family to VA, NC and TN and there were many intermarriages.