Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameJohn BEALS III 
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690Birth Date17 Feb 1717
Birth PlaceChester County, Pennsylvania
Death Date17 Apr 1796 Age: 79
Death PlaceGreensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina
Burial PlaceGreensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, New Garden Friends Cemetery
Spouses
Birth Date1721
Birth PlaceBucks County, Pennsylvania
Death Date1796 Age: 75
Death PlaceGuilford County, North Carolina
Burial PlaceGreensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, New Garden Friends Cemetery
Family ID8533
ChildrenLydia (~1740-1801)
Notes for John BEALS III
John Beals was born the 17th of 2d mo 1717 (Old Style) in Chester County, PA, the son of John and Sarah (Bowater) Beals. He married about 1738 to Margaret Hunt, almost certainly under the care of Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Frederick County, Virginia. Some secondary sources give a marriage date of 13 May, but this can not be proven using primary sources. Friends meeting records would not have used a "pagan" date of a named month, but would have used a numbered month. In 1758 the records for the Hopewell Meeting burned in a house fire, so there are no contemporary records of their marriage. In 1758 John and Margaret were received at New Garden Friends Meeting from Hopewell, although they had probably moved south earlier. John and his wife's deaths are recorded in the records of Centre Friends Meeting in Guilford County with the notation that they are buried at New Garden. Their graves are unmarked after the manner of early Friends.
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Grave is unmarked.
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Gravesite Details
Grave is unmarked.
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Notes for Margaret (Spouse 1)
Margaret Hunt was born about 1721 in Bucks County, PA, the daughter of William and Mary (Woolman) Hunt. About 1738 she married John Beals, almost certainly under the care of Hopewell Monthly Meeting of Friends in Frederick County, Virginia, whose records for this period are lost. In 1758 they were received at New Garden Friends Meeting on a certificate from Hopewell, although they had probably moved south earlier.
Some secondary sources give Margaret an alternate or middle name of Esther, but this is likely not accurate. The name of Esther appears for the first time in 1871 in a biography of Margaret's brother-in-law Thomas Beals, a noted Friends minister, written by Gershom Perdue. No record made during Margaret's lifetime called her anything other than Margaret Hunt, and the addition of Esther was likely an error on the part of Perdue almost eighty years after her death.
Margaret was recorded a minister in the Society of Friends in 1761. She was the cousin of early anti-slavery leader John Woolman.
She was the mother of six known children: Ruth, Lydia, John, Hannah, William and Rachel. Three others, David, Mary and Jacob, may have been hers as well. Her death is recorded at Centre Friends Meeting in 1796, with the notation that she was buried at New Garden. Her grave is unmarked after the manner of early Friends.
Gravesite Details
Grave is unmarked
On Find A Grave.
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Some secondary sources give Margaret an alternate or middle name of Esther, but this is likely not accurate. The name of Esther appears for the first time in 1871 in a biography of Margaret's brother-in-law Thomas Beals, a noted Friends minister, written by Gershom Perdue. No record made during Margaret's lifetime called her anything other than Margaret Hunt, and the addition of Esther was likely an error on the part of Perdue almost eighty years after her death.
Margaret was recorded a minister in the Society of Friends in 1761. She was the cousin of early anti-slavery leader John Woolman.
She was the mother of six known children: Ruth, Lydia, John, Hannah, William and Rachel. Three others, David, Mary and Jacob, may have been hers as well. Her death is recorded at Centre Friends Meeting in 1796, with the notation that she was buried at New Garden. Her grave is unmarked after the manner of early Friends.
Gravesite Details
Grave is unmarked
On Find A Grave.
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