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Facts and Events
Land Records in Virginia
Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:
- G-373: Peter Beller of Frederick County, 400 acres in said County. Surv. Mr. Guy Broadwater. At edge of barren. 16 July 1750. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 41].
Other Land Records:
- H-112: John Lindsey Gent. of Frederick County, 424 acres in said County. Surv. Mr. William Baylis. Adj. Abraham Vanmeter. Rentfrow's Spring, Opeckon Creek, Peter Beller. 2 March 1752. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 57].
- H-531: Mr. John Keywood of Frederick County, 383 acres in said County. Surv. Mr. John Baylis. Adj. Parson William Wiliams, Peter Beller, on Opeckon, Abraham Vanmeter, John Lindsey. 2 Nov. 1754. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 79].
- 2 June 1756 Between Peter Beller of Frederick Co., shoemaker, & Catherine Beller, his wife, [to] Van Swearengen of Co. aforesaid, farmer,... Whereas said Peter Beller by Decree of the Co. Court dated May 1746 recovered against Jonathan Seaman an infant heir at law to Jonathan Seaman late of Frederick County a certian tract of land containing 317 acres...said Jonathan Seaman, the infant, ...within 6 mos. after his coming of age to make over and convey to said Peter Beller possession of a purchase made of said Jonathan Seaman in his life time ... Peter Beller & Catherine, his wife, for & in consideration of 135 Lbs. paid by Van Swearengen ... confirm unto said Van Swearengen their rt. & title to said 317 acres .. sig. Peter Beller & Cathr. ( ) Beller.
- K-25: Jacob Virtree of Frederick County, 92 acres in said County adj. Peter Beller, Jacob Vanmeter on Opeckon Creek, John Lindsey. Surv. William Baylis. 27 Oct. 1757. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 113].
- K-235: Mr. Joseph Chaplin of Maryland and Mr. Benjamin Chambers of Pennsylvania, 427 acres adj. Mr. William Williams dec'd. on Opeckonn, John Strode, Peter Beller, Vanmeter's line, in Frederick County. Surv. John Baylis. 26 Feb. 1761. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 123].
- M-120: Moses Keywood of Frederick County, 127 acres on Opeckon in said County. Surv. Mr. William Baylis. Adj. Jacob Virtrees, Jacob Vanmeter, William Williams, Peter Beller. 20 Jan. 1763. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 149].
References
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1742 - Peter Beller, a German shoemaker (wooden clogs?), and his wife Catherine, with 6-year old son Jacob were living on the patented property Jonathon Simmons had purchased 6 years previously near Terrapin Neck (now the Springwood portion of NCTC). They eventually purchased the property from Jonathon Simmons - but the transaction wasn’t recorded at the courthouse until sometime after Simmons death four years later (FCDB 4, p.121-123). Beller may have lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Dunkers around 1728, and followed a common German settlement pattern by continuing south into the Shenandoah Valley. There were other German Protestant groups settling just to the west on the other side of the Opequon River, an area off-limits to the Hites. Many German settlers preferred to continue on toward North Carolina in order to avoid the contentious land ownership disputes between Hite and Fairfax, and others (Couper 1952). Beller probably followed the typical German style of growing crops and animal husbandry, and likely had a cabin and a barn on the property that would become NCTC (see chapter in Kercheval 1833).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
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