THE FAMOUS QUAKER REV.
THOMAS BEALS
(See Quaker John Story)
NOTE: Thomas
Beales great nephew, John Bowater Beales (born: 1764) was
married to
Lois
Branson
(born:
1765) who was the daughter of
Thomas Branson and
Jeane (Painter) Branson.
First
Friends Minister in Ohio
THOMAS BEALS was born in Chester
County, Pennsylvania, in 1719. He was the son of John and Sarah
Beals, formerly Sarah Bowater of an English family of Friends.
Thomas Beals had two brothers, John and Bowater, and four
sisters: Prudence, who married Richard Williams, Sarah, who
married John Mills, Mary, who married Thomas Hunt and after his
death, William Baldwin; and Phebe, who married Robert Sumner.
John Beals, Junior, married Esther Hunt and Bowater Beals married
Ann Cook, Sister of Isaac Cook, who was the husband of Charity
Cook, a noted Friends minister.
From John Beals, the father, there
descended a large number of members of the Society of Friends
located in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Oregon and California. On many of these descendants,
gifts in the ministry have been conferred. Among those of direct
descent were: Thomas Beals, Bowater Beals, Sarah Mills, Ruth
Hockett, Hannah Cloud, Nathan Hunt, Hannah Baldwin, Elizabeth
Bond, Peter Dix, Benejah Hiatt, John Bond, Jesse Bond, Jesse
Williams, Jesse Hockett, Aseneth Clark, Myseam Mendenhall, Daniel
Williams, Eleazer Beals, Asaph Hiatt, Ruth Haisley, Naomi Coffin,
Esther Carson, Levi Jessup, Jesse B. Williams, Margaret Toms,
William J. Thornberry, Anna M. Votaw, Amos Bond, Elwood Scott,
Dr. Dougan Clark, Elizabeth Beals Bond and Jehial Bond.
From Chester County, as it then
was, John Beals moved with his family to Monocacy Carols Manor,
Maryland, There, his son Thomas, the subject of this sketch,
married Sarah Ankram. From there they moved to Hopewell, near
Winchester, Virginia, where John Beals died in 1745, three years
before the family moved on to North Carolina.
Thomas Beals moved with his family
to North Carolina in 1748, being then twenty-nine years old. He
stopped first at Cane Creek, then he went to New Garden, North
Carolina, which was at that time frontier territory. In a very
short time he was joined by some other families. In the year
1753, Thomas Beals, then about thirty-four years of age, came
forth in the ministry. The next move he made was to Westfield,
Surry County, North Carolina. Here he was instrumental in the
development of a large meeting. He must have lived at New Garden
and Westfield about thirty years, during which time he paid
lengthy visits to the Indians.
In the year 1775, twenty years
before Wayne's Treaty with the Indians at Greenville, Thomas
Beals, accompanied by his nephew Bowater Sumner, William Hiatt
and David Ballard, started to pay a visit to the Delaware Indians
and some other tribes. After passing a fort not far from Clinch
Mountain in Virginia, they were arrested and carried back to the
fort to be tried for their lives on the charge of being
confederates of the hostile Indians. The officers, understanding
that one of them was a preacher, required a sermon before they
went in for trial. Thomas Beals thought it was the right time to
hold a meeting with the soldiers. This proved to be a very good
idea for a young man from the fort was converted and, some time
after joined the Friends, became a member of the group and, at a
very advanced age, bore public testimony to the truth of the
principles of which he was convinced at the fort. After the
meeting, the Friends were kindly entertained and told that they
were at liberty to go on their journey. They crossed the Ohio
River into what is now the State of Ohio; held many satisfactory
meetings with the Indians and returned home safely. Discussing
the trip, Thomas Beals told his friends that he saw with his
spiritual eye the seed of Friends scattered all over that good
land and that one day there would be a greater gathering of
Friends there than any other place in the world, and that his
faith was strong in the belief that he would live to see Friends
settle north of the Ohio River.
In the year 1777, Thomas Beals,
accompanied by William Robinson and an interpreter, Isaac
Ottoman, started to pay a religious visit to the Six Nations and
some other tribes of Indians and proceeded as far as Sewickley, a
small meeting of Friends in the western part of Pennsylvania,
where they were captured and carried to Hannelstown, not far from
Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh. There they were detained some time and
then sent home. Still having a concern in his mind for the
Indians, he made another attempt to visit them, but was again
arrested and imprisoned, under guard, in a cold, open barn. When
he was let out of confinement, he was permitted to hold a meeting
with the soldiers, but was not allowed to go any farther, and had
to return home.
In 1781, Thomas Beals moved from
Westfield, North Carolina, to Blue Stone, Giles County, Virginia,
where he lived but a few years. This move does not appear to have
had the approval of his friends, for Nathan Hunt states that they
sent a committee to induce him to return to Westfield, North
Carolina. The little meeting of twenty or thirty families was
entirely broken up at Blue Stone. Beals and his family stayed,
however, and suffered not only for the necessities of life, but
their son-in-law, James Horton, was taken prisoner by the Indians
and, from most reliable information that can be obtained, was
carried to Old Chillicothe, near Frankfort, Ohio, and there put
to death.
In the year 1785, Beals moved to
Lost Creek, in Tennessee, and in the year 1793, he came to
Grayson County, Virginia, where Nathan Hunt states that Thomas
Beals established meetings and says that he was very zealous for
the support of the testimonies of Friends. In the year 1795,
George Harlan and family, members of the Society of Friends,
settled on the Little Miami, at Deerfield, four miles from the
present town of Morrow.
In 1796, James Baldwin and Phineas
Hunt, with their families, members of the Society of Friends,
from Westfield, North Carolina, moved to the Virginia shore of
the Ohio River. Here Mary Hunt was born, on October 18, 1796,
four miles from Point Pleasant, on the Virginia shore. In
February, 1797, the Baldwins and Hunts crossed the Ohio River and
settled opposite Green Bottom near each other. Two families of
Friends now settled together in the Northwest Territory with the
one previously mentioned (the Harlans) quite remote from them.
On May 8, 1797, a group of Friends
moved from Westland, Pennsylvania, and settled at High Bank on
the east side of the Scioto River, four miles below the present
Chillicothe. In the latter part of this same year, Jesse Baldwin
moved from his first location opposite Green Bottom, some
eighteen miles down the Ohio, and settled in what was called
Quaker Bottom, in Lawrence County, opposite the mouth of the
Guyandot River, and the present town of Guyandot. So far as can
be ascertained, this was where Friends in the Northwest Territory
first sat down to hold a Meeting for divine worship.
John Warner, son of Isaac and Mary
Warner, who was born at High Bank, Ross County, Ohio, on July 12,
198, was, so far as is known, the first child born as a
birthright member of the Society of Friends northwest of the Ohio
River, and, on November 11 of that year, Rebecca Chandler,
daughter of William and Hannah Chandler, was born near the same
place. In 1798, a group of Friends from Hopewell, Virginia,
settled at High Bank, and in the same year a group of Friends,
all from North Carolina, settled at Salt Creek, near Richmondale,
Ross County, Ohio.
In 1799, Thomas Beals, who had
visited this country twenty-four years before, now moved to
Quaker Bottom, along with other members of his family. They were
accompanied by Obediah Overman and his family, all from Grayson
County, Virginia. On their arrival, they opened a meeting for
worship in the dwelling of Jesse Baldwin. There they met
regularly during their residence at that place. The nearest
Meeting to them was at Westland, Pennsylvania. Sometime during
the year, 1799, Taylor Webster and family, from Redstone,
Pennsylvania, settled at Grassy Prairies, five miles northeast of
Chillicothe.
In the spring of 1801, Thomas
Beals, Jesse Baldwin, John Beals and Daniel Beals moved from
Quaker Bottom, and they, with Enoch Cox and their families,
settled up Salt Creek, near the present town of Adelphia.
August 29, 1801, Thomas Beals died
and was buried two days later, near Richmondale, Ross County,
Ohio, in a coffin of regular shape, hollowed out of a solid white
walnut tree by his ever faithful friend, Jesse Baldwin. He was
assisted by Enoch Cox and others, who covered the coffin with a
part of the same tree, which had previously been selected for
this purpose by the deceased. Buried near him were William
Puckett, Hugh Moffett, as well as others of the small community.
A meeting house was later built on the land then owned by the
Moffett family and a Meeting was held there for some time.
In the spring of 1802, a group of
Friends settled on Lees Creek, in and near the present town of
Leesburg, which is located in Highland County, Ohio, where no
white person had lived before. In the fall of the same year,
Sarah Beals, widow of Thomas Beals, and her sons, John and
Daniel, and their families, moved from Adelphia, as did Phineas
Hunt, formerly of Raccoon Falls. All settled at Lees Creek and
Hardins Creek near each other. This community was augmented in
the spring of 1803 by the families of Jesse Baldwin, John Beals,
Bowater Beals and John Evans, and, in the fall of the same year,
two Lupton families, from Hopewell, Virginia, settled at Lees
Creek. On their arrival, Friends became concerned about a meeting
for worship. Widow Sarah Beals heartily endorsed the idea. Thus
there began a Friends Meeting at Fairfield (Leesburg), regularly
authorized in May, 1804. Sarah Beals died July 7, 1813, at the
age of 89, and was buried at Fairfield. Thomas Beals's daughter,
Margaret, whose first husband, James Horton, was captured by the
Indians, afterward married Daniel Huff, who lived in the
Fairfield community.
When Thomas Beals was captured in
1775, one recalls that a young man then in the fort was
converted. That young man was Beverly Milner, who eventually
settled near the last residence of Sarah Beals. In his later
years, after he became too feeble to attend Meeting, he often
alluded to the ministry of that "heavenly man by whom he was
converted." He died in 1848, when he was almost
eighty-seven, and was buried at Fairfield.
This sketch may give some idea of
the toil, privations, labor, struggles and sufferings of the
pioneers. In planting Quakerism in the Old Northwest, Thomas
Beals and his faithful wife and devoted family are but one of the
hundreds who struggled, nor was he the only one buried in a log
coffin. Many were buried with nothing but boards to separate them
from the lone mountains, never to be seen or marked by loved
ones. The author is convinced, however, that to Thomas Beals
belongs the credit of having been the first Friends minister to
carry the message of Christ into the vast region north and west
to the Ohio, that region which in a few years, was to become the
great center of the life of not only the Society of Friends, but
the entire Nation. Thomas Beals's prophecy of 1775 began to be
realized in his own lifetime and has long been a reality, since
one-third of the Friends of America have resided within the
limits of the old Northwest Territory for three-quarters of a
century!
Note: On September 19, 1937, a
monument was dedicated at the grave of Thomas Beals near
Richmondale, Ohio.
Rev. Thomas BEALS was the son of
John BEALS II & Sarah BOWATER. Born 14 Mar 1719 in
Nottingham, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Died 29 Aug 1801 in
Richmondale, Ross Co., Ohio. Buried in Presley Caldwell Farm 3/4
Mi. W Of Richmondale, OH.
Thomas Beals and Sarah Ancram had
declared marriage intentions in Virginia, most likely at Hopewell
MM, where their early books were lost in a fire in 1795. They
were married in Prince Georges Co., Maryland. Living within the
verge of Fairfax MM in Virginia, when that Quaker meeting was
established and set off from Hopewell MM, Virginia, they were
automatically transferred to Fairfax MM 1745-6. Thomas Beals
remained in Prince George Co., MD until 1749. On 26 Jun 1749,
Thomas and Sarah Beals and their four oldest children were
granted certificates to Carvers MM, Bladen Co., NC, from there
transferred to Cane Creek MM, Orange Co., NC when Cane Creek MM
was set up, 7 Oct 1751 and were charter members. Then when New
Garden MM (now Guilford Co., North Carolina) was set up in 1754,
the family was transferred to that MM, never having moved from
their original settlement.
Jeremiah Mills wrote in his
journal: "My grandfather died when my father was about nine
years old, leaving a weakly widow in the wilderness, with a
family of small children to support. I have no doubt they saw
hard times. Thomas Beals and family lived near grandmother's,
without seeing bread as I have often heard old people saying.
They did not know what it was when my grandfather and some other
persons came to see the country, and happening to have a few
cakes in their saddle bags, gave some to the children, they did
not know what they were, but looked at them awhile and never
offered to bite them, laying them upon a board in the cabin. The
girls wore leather petticoats, made of deerskins, and when they
were young women grown, yet enjoyed themselves as well as Queen
Victoria, dressed in silks of India and gems of Golconda. This
Thomas Beals was a Quaker preacher and like Nimrod, the mighty
hunter, he followed the game and was always forward in settling
new countries. From Guilford, he moved into the mountains of
Stokes Co., from there to Grayson Co., Virginia, from hence to
the mouth of the Gian, on the Ohio River, thence to Salt Creek on
the Scioto, there he was buried."
In 1775, Thomas traveled into
Shawnee territory with Bowater Sumner, William Hiatt and David
Ballard. During their journey, they were arrested and carried
back to the fort near Clinch Mt., VA to be tried for their lives
on the charge of being confederates with the hostile Indians. The
officers, understanding that one of them was a preacher, required
a sermon before they went in for trail. Beals thought it right to
hold a meeting with the soldiers, which proved to be a highly
favored season. A young man (Beverly Milner) then in the fort was
converted and, some time after, moved among Friends and became a
member and, at a very advanced age, bore public testimony to the
truth of the principles of which he was convinced at the fort. He
later settled near the Beals family in Ohio and in his later
years, after he became too feeble to attend Meeting, he often
alluded to the ministry of that "heavenly man by whom he was
converted." Beverly Milner died in 1848, when he was almost
87 and was buried at Fairfield, Ohio. He was the
great-grandfather of Clyde A. Milner, later President of Guilford
College in NC
After this meeting was over, the
Friends kindly entertained and were free and at liberty to go on
their journey. They crossed the Ohio River south of Fort Duquesne
(now Pittsburgh, PA) into what is now the state of Ohio and
became acquainted with Chief Tecumseh and Waw-wil-a-way and held
many meetings with the Indians with satisfaction and returned
home with much peace of mind. Thomas Beals told his friends that
he saw with his spiritual eye the seed of Friends scattered all
over that good land and that one day there would be the greatest
gathering of Friends there of any place in the world and that his
faith was strong in the belief that he would live to see Friends
settle north of the Ohio River
In 1777, Thomas was again granted
a certificate to the Mingo and Delaware Indians on the Ohio
River. William Robinson and Isaac Ottoman (interpreter) proceeded
as far as Sewickley in the western part of Pennsylvania. In his
diary, Samuel Fisher writes: "11th day of 11th month --
Thomas Bails and William Robinson, from New Garden in N.
Carolina, visited us... they were on their way to perform a
religious visit to the Indians, at the risk of their lives,
engaging in this service from a sense of duty and universal love
to be kind, engaged our sympathy and desire that they should be
preserved in this time of diligence in the arduous undertaking.
Thomas Bails expects to spend the greater part of his life among
the Indians, and having visited them before, he will be useful
among them."
On their return in 1778, they
reported that they had been detained prisoners for some weeks in
a cold, open barn. Thomas had his certificate taken from him and
the group was not allowed to go further.
In 1780, Thomas desiring to move
his family to the Ohio River to be near the Delaware Indians, was
advised by the meeting that he go himself and make inspection
before moving his family. On 25 Mar 1780 Thomas Beals, William
Hiatt, Christopher Hiatt and David Ballard were granted
certificates to travel to the Ohio River to be near and labor
with the Delaware Indians. On 7 Jul 1780,
Thomas Branson was granted a certificate to Ohio to be
with Thomas Beals. On 30 Sep 1780, Thomas Beals and David Ballard
returned the certificates which had been granted them to Ohio.
However, at some later date, Thomas Beals with his sons Daniel
and John (also Jacob) did move from Grayson Co., Virginia to
Quaker Bottom, Ohio, crossing the Ohio River on New Year's day,
1800, where Cincinnati now is. They went to what is now Ross Co.,
Ohio. Others from the family came later.
According to
Roger S. Boone, Some Quaker Families, Thomas Beals was
knocked off horse by a tree limb, coffin hewed out of solid
butternut tree by Jesse Baldwin. He was buried on the Presley
Caldwell Farm about 3/4 mi. west of Richmond Dale (Richmond),
Ross Co., Ohio (near Londonderry MH, Highland Co., Ohio). Grave
stone in Londonderry FBG.
At 2 P.M on Sunday, September 19,
1937, a public ceremony was held in a little walled plot on the
Jacob Caldwell farm near Richmond Dale, Ohio marking the grave of
a man who played a big part in the history of Ohio and Ross Co.
In this two-rod square burial plot is interred the body of Thomas
Beals, the first Quaker or Friends missionary to work among the
Indians and early settlers of southern Ohio and Kentucky. Thomas
Beals died on August 28, 1801 near the spot of burial and was
buried there three days later in a coffin hewed out of a white
walnut log. The final resting place of Thomas Beals would be lost
forever if it were not for records made by Gershom Perdue. The
grave went unpreserved until 1854 when Gershom Perdue, an
enthusiastic church organizer among the Friends, prevailed upon
the yearly meeting of Friends to take steps to preserve the
resting place of their patriarch. On June 20 of the same year the
plot was deeded to a special committee of the yearly meeting and
the stone wall enclosure built a while later.
According to The History of the
Early Settlement of Highland Co., Ohio by Daniel Scott, 1890:
"Daniel, John and Jacob Beals, sons of old Thomas Beals,
came with their widowed mother, and were the first to communicate
the sad intelligence of the death of the venerable and loved
Thomas, the preacher, which happened on their way out, and was
caused from a hurt received by his horse running under a stooping
tree. He died in a few hours afterwards in the woods on the banks
of Salt Creek. His sons and others who were with him found it
utterly impossible to get plank or any material out of which to
make a coffin, so they went to work and cut down a walnut tree
and made a trough, which they covered with a slab. Thus prepared,
they performed the sad rites, and the remains of the pure and
good man were left to repose amidst the profound solitudes of the
unbroken forests. The Friends' meeting of Fairfield, in this
county, have recently sent down a committee for the purpose of
enclosing the grave, which was done by erecting a permanent stone
wall around it"
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TIMELINE
14 1m 1719/20 - born to John Jr.
& Sarah (Bowater) BEALS, birth recorded at New Garden MM,
Chester Co., Pennsylvania
1719 - born in Chester Co.,
Pennsylvania
1741 - married at Cold Springs
Friends Mtg., Monocacy, Prince Georges Co., Maryland then move to
Opeckon/Hopewell, Frederick Co., Virginia near Winchester
1745 - chr mbrs Fairfax MM, Loudon
Co., VA
1748 - to Carvers MM, Bladen Co.,
NC, then Cane Creek MM at Snow Camp, then New Garden (never
moved)
1749 - travels into "Indian
Territory" at the age of 30
1752 - Thomas & Sarah sign the
first wedding cert. at New Garden MM, Rowan (now Guilford Co.) -
marriage of John Hiatt and Sarah Hodson
1753 - becomes Quaker minister at
age of 34
1754 - chr mbrs New Garden MM,
Guilford Co., NC
1755 - Thomas Beals & Beals
Sawmill shown on map of early residents of New Garden MM in
Guilford Co., NC
1757 - (Note from JLT: This is
probably another Thomas Beals, a cousin sent me this information)
Thomas is listed in the "Muster Rolls" of Fredericks
Co., MD. According to "The Early Settlements of Fredericks
Co., MD". Thomas & Sarah (Ancrum) were still residing in
MD 1725 Mar 1765 - Rowan Co., NC, Deed Book 6 p. 258: Thomas
Beals to Christopher Hiett - 11 acres - 5 pounds "on the
branches of the Horsepenn Creek, beginning at sd. Beals Corner
and running south twenty poles to White Oak the West eighty eight
poles to a black oak then north twenty poles to a stake on the
original line thence to the beginning." signed by Thomas
Beals and Sarah Beals and witnessed by Eleazar Hunt and John
Unthank (this land was located in that part of Rowan Co. which
became Guilford Co. in 1770)
1768 - of Rowan Co. (now
Guilford), NC
Westfield, Surry Co., NC (this is
the MM where many families who had removed to Tennessee and the
west before meetings were established in those areas deposited
their certificates -- it is right at border of NC/VA)
1771-1774 - Thomas, William,
Bowater, John and Daniel Beals are on the Surry and Wilkes Co.,
NC tax list
1774 - signs marriage record of
Ann Beals & Jacob Jackson at Tom's Creek in Surry Co., North
Carolina
1775 - travels into Shawnee
territory with nephews Bowater Sumner, William Hiatt and David
Ballard and became acquainted with Chief Tecumseh and
Waw-Wil-a-Way. They are arrested near Clinch Mtn., Virginia for
"being confederate with the hostile Indians". Beals
felt it right to hold a meeting with the soldiers, after which
they were released and they continued across the Ohio River,
cross the Ohio River below Pittsburgh, taught many Indians and
returned home with peace of mind
1777 - Religious visit to the Six
Nations and some other tribes of Indians by Rev. Beals, William
Robinson and Isaac Ottoman (interpreter). They proceed as far as
Sewickley, a Friends settlement in the western part of
Pennsylvania. They were captured and carried to Hannastown (Fort
Reed), not far from Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh. They were detained
some time and then sent home. Still having a concern in his mind
for the Indians, Thomas Beals made another attempt to visit them,
but was again arrested and imprisoned in a cold, open barn.They
were finally released, but not allowed to go further.
1780 - Thomas's request to move
his family to Ohio to be near the Delaware Indians is denied by
New Garden MM, NC. He was advised to go himself and make
inspection before moving family.
1781 - moved from Westfield, Surry
Co., North Carolina to Blue Stone, Giles Co., Virginia
1782 - visited by a Westfield
committee which recommended that they return. Beals and his
family stayed.
1785 - to Lost Creek, New Market,
Jefferson Co., Tennessee
1786 - Tom's Creek, Surry Co., NC
becomes Westfield Mtg.
1787 - Beals and a small party to
Clinch River, Kentucky
1788 - when Thomas' son (John)
married, Thomas was described as living in Hawkins Co., TN from
Center MM, NC records (Hawkins Co. est. 1786)
1790 - "Virginia"
consists of current states of VA, WV & KY
1790 - Beals, James Horton and a
dozen men from NC establish camp on Bluestone River in Kentucky.
Horton and 6 men captured. 5 men killed. Horton and
John Branson captured and taken to Chillocothe, Ross
Co., Ohio and tortured and burned at the stake. (Quaker
John)
1792 - Thomas and sons John,
Daniel and Jacob are received at Westfield MM, Surry Co., North
Carolina from Lost Creek, Jefferson Co., Tennessee
1792 - Kentucky becomes a state
1793 - Mount Pleasant, Grayson
Co., Virginia
1795 - Beals and Nathaniel Pope
(personal friend of Daniel Boone) explore area that is now
Fairfield Twp., Highland Co., Ohio. Beals introduces Pope to
Chief Waw-Wil-a-Way.
1795 - George Harlan and family
settle on the Little Miami at Deerfield, OH
1796 - James Baldwin & Phineas
Hunt, with their families, members of the Society of Friends from
Westfield, NC, moved to the Virginia shore of the Ohio River.
1796 - Jesse Baldwin, the wife and
sons of Rev. Beals, Phineas Hunt and families are already at
"The Green Bottom" when Nathaniel Pope arrives
8 May 1797 - a group of Friends
moved from Westland, PA, and settled at High Bank on the east
side of the Scioto River, four miles below the present
Chillicothe.
Late 1797 - Jesse Baldwin moved 18
miles down the Ohio River from Green Bottom to what was called
Quaker Bottom in Lawrence Co., opposite the mouth of the Guyandot
River and the present town of Guyandot.
1798 - Thos., Daniel, John &
Jacob "laid a concern before the mtg. (Westfield, NC) of
removal to Scioto River (Highland Co., OH) or thereaway".
Disapproved by QM.
1798 - a group of Friends from
North Carolina settle at Salt Creek, near Richmondale, Ross Co.,
Ohio
1799 - Quaker bottom land
(Lawrence Co., Ohio) with John & Daniel , & Jacob - just
across the Ohio River from the Guyandot River in West Virginia
1799 - Thomas & members of his
family moved to Quaker Bottom with Obediah Overman from Grayson
Co., VA
1800 - Thomas and John Belas (typo
for Beals?) and Daniel and Jacob Beals are on the 1800 census
living in Gallipolis, Washington Co., Ohio along with Nathaniel
Pope and Jessie Hiatt (all except Rev. Thomas are shown in the
early records of Fairfield Twp., Highland Co.)
Spring of 1801 - Thomas Beals,
Jesse Baldwin and Daniel Beals (and John and Jacob?) moved from
Quaker Bottom, and they, with Enoch Cox and their families,
settled on Salt Creek, near the present town of Adelphia
1801 - Was in Adelphia on Salt
Creek, Ross Co. (NE corner), Ohio
29 Aug 1801 - Thomas Beals died
and was buried near Richmondale, Ross Co. (now in Jefferson Co.),
Ohio
19 Sep 1937 - a monument was
dedicated to Thomas Beals, inscribed: First Quaker Missionary to
the Indians in the Northwest Territory, at Londonderry (now
Guernsey Co.), Ohio
He married Sarah ANCRAM, daughter
of Richard and Mary (Ashman/Matthews) ANCRAM on 12 Nov 1741 in
Cold Spr. Mtg., Monocacy, Prince Geo. Co., MD. She was born About
1724 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Died 6 Jul 1813 in Fairfield,
Highland Co., Ohio. Buried in Fairfield FBG, Fairfield, Highland
Co., Ohio.
Timeline: 1724 - born Chester Co.,
Pennsylvania?
1741 - married at Cold Springs
Mtg., Monocacy, Prince Geo. Co., MD
Sarah Antram of Prince George Co.,
MD married Thomas Beales. Witnesses: Oliver Matthews, Thomas
Matthews, Francis Henley, Amos Jenny, Evan Thomas. John Wright,
Mary Matthews, Sarah Beales, Elizabeth Matthews, Hannah
Ballinger, Susanna Moon, Mary Tannyhill
1788 - of Hawkins Co., according
to Center MM, NC records
1802 - to Lees Creek Mtg.,
Leesburg, Highland Co., OH
1804 - rocf Mt. Pleasant MM, VA at
Miami MM on cert. of son John
1813 - dies in Fairfield, Highland
Co., Ohio
1813 - buried in the old Fairfield
Friends Mtg. Cemetery near the old brick church, Leesburg,
Highland Co., Ohio