Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameJane Pottenger BEALL , 575
Birth Date1685
Birth PlaceBacon Hall Plantation, Prince George’s County, Maryland
Death Date13 Oct 1745 Age: 60
Death PlacePrince George’s County, Maryland
Spouses
Birth Date1670
Birth PlaceEngland
Death Date28 Jun 1734 Age: 64
Death PlacePrince George’s County, Maryland
Family ID7641
Marr Date1698
Marr PlacePrince George’s County, Maryland
ChildrenMary Ann , 287 (1703-1734)
Notes for Archibald Thomas (Spouse 1)
Often called Colonel Archibald Thomas Edmonston.

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ENGLISH IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR emigrated to Maryland ca. 1680-83, and settled in Prince George’s Co. Married Jane Beall.

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From Rootsweb.com:

Notes:
27 Jan 1717; Archibald Edmondson, carpenter of Prince George's Co. made deed of gift of 206 acres called Bear Garden Enlarged to James Beall, planter, and my dau. Mary his wife (PGLR F.2S; 1.550)

p. 144, TLC Genealogy, Prince George's Land Records 1743-1746; Book BB#1

Page 504. Deed, recorded at the request of Alexander Beall and Robert Beall. Jan 27, 1745/46 from James Edmonston, Thomas Catterall, and Mary, his wife, of PG, to Alexander Beall and Robert Bealls, sons of James Beall and Mary Beall, of PG. Whereas sd James Edmonston, and James Beall of PG decd, had granted to them jointly, a tract of land called Batchelors Forrest, lying in PG, containing about 810 acres, and whereas sd James Beall, by his will, devise his part of the afd land, with other lands, to sd Mary, during her natural life, and after her death, to be equally divided between his children, and as the sd Thomas Catterall, by marrying sd Mary, widow and relict of sd James Beall, became seized with one moiety of the sd lands, .and in consideration of the natural love which they, sd James Edmonston, Thomas Catterall, and Mary, his wife, have for the afd Alexander Beall and Robert Beall, give to sd Alexander Beall and Robert Beall, the eastern half of the afd tract of land called Batchelors Forrest, containing about 405 acres, in part for their part of the land devised by the sd James Beall. Signed - Thos. Catterall, Mary Catterall. Wit - Thos Waring, Thos Gantt Jr, George Scott*, Tho Owen*. Sd Mary, wife to sd Catterell, ack. her right to the within land, to be the right of sd Alexander & Robert Beall. Recorded Jan 27, 1745/46.

Would this be the document that defines her death date?
17 Apr 1758; From Allen Beall to John Hoskinson; for £20; all Hos/cinson Delight; 56 acres of James & Mary; ack. Ann Beall, wife of Allen (Frederick County LR F.435)

19 Jan 1762; Deed of partition between Allen Beall of Frederick Co. of one part and Alexander, Robert, Archibald, & James Beall, Nathaniel Crafford and Rachel his wife of Frederick Co. & Thomas Beall of Queen Anne Co.; James was the father of them all; Allen gets 184 acres of two tracts, James &Mary and Bear Garden Enlarged; adj. Cooper, Archibald's Part; ack. Jane wife of Archibald, Elizabeth wife of James, Rachel Crafford (FCLR G.370)
Birth: ABT 1698 in Prince George's County, MD
Death: BEF 17 APR 1758 in Prince George's County, MD

Posted on Ancestry by herbertmail.

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ORIGINAL AMERICAN EDMONSTON/EDMONSTONES OF DUNTREATH

The following information can be found in the book “The Family of the Edmonstones of Duntreath” by Sir Archibald Edmonstone 3rd Bt. Published 1875 with revisions and updates 1996 along with sources referenced.

The American cadet branch of the Edmonstones of Duntreath is believed to e descended from Robert Edmonstone, the third son of John Edmonstone of Broich, brother of Archibald Edmonstone, 8th of Duntreath. Archibald died in 1637 aged only thirty-seven. Upon this happening his brothers, first James and then, upon his decease, John, became “tutors” (guardians) of Archibald’s two young sons, namely William, the “Dumb Laird”, and Archibald, 9th of Duntreath.

John married his first cousin, Elizabeth Edmonstone, who brought him the lands of Ballybantry in Ireland. They had nine children, of whom the third was a son named Robert.

Following the death of Elizabeth, John married, secondly, Katherine Cunningham by whom he had another seven children, the fourth a boy named Robert. Finally, his first son by Elizabeth had ten children, the third being yet another Robert. From available records it seems that the first mentioned, namely the third son of John and Elizabeth, was probably the Robert Edmonstone who is known to have been in America in 1689, and who died there c. 1695.

He was the father of Archibald Edmonstone, the acknowledged progenitor of the Edmonstones in America, who was born c. 1668 and died in 1734 in Prince George County (Information lodged in Georgetown Public Library).

Archibald is known to have been in Maryland in 1683 (Maryland Debt Rolls etc). He married Jane Beall, youngest daughter of Ninian Beall, when he is said to have been around seventeen or eighteen years old.

Colonel Ninian Beall (Archibald’s father-in-law) was born, either in Fife or Galloway, in 1625. He fought against Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar in 1650 and was taken prisoner. Transported to Barbados, he escaped and found his way to Maryland where he became exceedingly prosperous, eventually owning 25,000 acres of land. He married Ruth Moore of Calvert County (daughter of a London barrister) by whom he had twelve children, including the youngest daughter named Jane who married Archibald Edmonstone.

Colonel Ninian Beall gave the land and founded the first Presbyterian Church in Maryland at Upper Marlborough. His son-in-law, Colonel Archibald Edmonstone, was one of the elders.

In 1910 the Society of the Colonial Wars dedicated a mammoth rock and tablet to the memory of Colonel Ninian Beall. It stands on the lawn of St. John’s Church, 33rd Street, Georgetown.

Colonel Ninian Beall lived to be ninety-seven. He was buried on his home plantation near Georgetown. On the town being expanded his remains were dug up. Then “it was found that he was six feet seven inches tall and his Scotch red hair had retained all its fiery hue”.

Most of the alliances of Colonel Beall’s children and grandchildren were with Scottish people who had settled in the part of Prince George County called New Scotland. Eliza Beall, great-great-grand-daughter of Colonel Ninian, married Colonel George C. Washington, nephew of General Washington. (A.A.Co.Judgements. 1722 June Ct. page 329).

Two of Beall’s daughters married Magruders and it was his third (and youngest) daughter Jane who married Archibald Edmonston. The spelling varies but the “e” appears to have been dropped at about this time.

Archibald Edmonston is first mentioned specifically in the land records of Annapolis. The transfer of an assignment of 1,000 acres, called Beall’s Camp, by Colonel Ninian Beall is recorded in 1680.

Archibald Edmonston, known after 1700 as Colonel Edmonston, patented various extensive tracts of land in Prince George County, part of which, after the division of that county, was within the boundaries of Frederick and later Montgomery and even Washington counties.

Colonel Archibald is said to have succeeded his brilliant father-in-law as Commander of the Prince George’s County Militia. He died in 1733 leaving several sons and daughters.

His eldest son, James (1698-1753), married his cousin, Mary Beall, granddaughter of Alexander Magruder of Prince George County. He became a justice for Montgomery County and was a Captain in the Colonial Militia. A younger son, Archibald, married Dorothy Brooke and left descendants, including a son called Roger (1730-1811) and another named Thomas (1740-1805).

“The Edmonston’s figured in the military and official life of the Colonial Revolutionary period. They married the best blood in Maryland, and their descendants are many. They are allied with the Magruders, Bealls, Ormes, Spiers, Spriggs, and Ingrams. The Carberys of Washington D. C., are also descendants.” (Extract from the Sun Baltimore Article headed “Side-Lights on Maryland History-Unsung Heroes of the Revolution”. Copyrighted 1904 by Hester Dorsey Richardson).

A document headed “To the Board of Managers of the Daughters of the American Revolution” testifies to the fact that several of the Edmonstones, or Edmonstons, as the name was generally spelt, fought on the side of the Revolutionaries.

Amongst them was Thomas Edmonston who, as already mentioned, was the younger son of Archibald Edmonston Junior, and grandson of Colonel Edmonston. He served first as an Ensign under Brigadier-General Rezin Beall, to whom he was related. Later he was promoted, firstly as Lieutenant and then as Captain.

Thomas Edmonston married his second cousin, Mary Beall, and they had five sons and two daughters. Three grandsons and a granddaughter are also recorded.

Those who can trace their decent from Colonel Archibald Edmonston and his immediate descendants include: Mr. Bill Edmonston of Hamilton, New York; Mr. Paul Edmonston of Senoia, Georgia; Mr. Charles N. Edmonston of San Francisco, California; Mr. William Edmonston of Tucson, Arizona; Doctor Frances Ann Edmonston of San Francisco, California; Mrs. H. L. Anderson of Billings, Montana;, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown of Hendersonville, North Carolina; and Mr. Ernest R. Edmonston of Roswell, New Mexico.
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