Thomas Beals (b. August 29, 1719, d. August 19, 1801)
Thomas Beals (son of John Beals and Sarah Bowater) was born August 29, 1719 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died August 19, 1801 in Richmond, Ross County, Ohio. He married Sarah Ankrum on November 12, 1741 in Prince George County, Maryland113, daughter of Richard Ancram and Mary Ashman.
Notes for Thomas Beals: Hinshaw-Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, v. 1 Sarah Ankrum m. Thomas Beales 1741,9,12 Prince George Co. MD (married in MD or VA). Sources: Article taken from the DAR magazine, Mar. 1982
The grave of Thomas Beals, Revolutionary Patriot and Quaker minister was marked with a bronze DAR marker .... Thomas Beals, born 1719, was a minister of the Society of Friends, and the first Friends Minister to preach to the Indians of the Northwest Territory having gone there from NC. At an earyly date he began making hazardous trips into the Indian territory. The great experience of his life was when, in 1775, he, accompanied by nephew Bowater Sumner and 2 other young Quakers William Hiatt and David Ballar, started out to pay a visit to the Shawnee and Delaware Indians beyond the great river into the Ohio Country. Thomas Beals died on Aug. 29, 1801 and was buried near Richmond Dale, Ross County, Ohio in a coffin hollowed out a white walnut log. His grave is located in a tiny Quaker cemetery "Salt Creek Graveyard" .....
From http://www.billputman.com/Beals.pdf: While they were living in Prince George's County, the new Meeting House in Fairfax VA was set off from the Hopewell Meeting and the Beals became members of the new Fairfax MM in 1746. On June 26, 1749, Thomas, Sarah and their four oldest children were granted certificates to move to Carvers MM in Bladen County, NC. In 1751, they were transferred to the new Cane Creek MM, which was established on October 7, 1751. They were charter members of the Cane Creek Meeting. They probably remained on the same farm in what was then Rowan County, NC as it encompassed the entire western part of NC and all of the present TN. But, as new and more convenient meeting houses were set up, they were automatically transferred. In 1754, they therefore became charter members of the newly formed New Garden Monthly Meeting. On June 29, 1776, Thomas was made a minister of the Quaker Church at the New Garden MM. In late Sep 1777, he requested to go to visit the Mingo and Delaware Indians. While there he was held prisoner for a short while and then returned in March of 1778. On February 28, 1779, he requested that he move his family up to the Ohio River area. He was told to go first and make an inspection. He left on March 25, 1780. Thomas returned to NC on Sep. 30, 1780. It seems he decided against moving to Ohio at that time. In 1781 he had moved to Jefferson County, TN and was a member of the Lost Creek MM there in 1785. In 1798, Thomas decided to again try to move to Ohio. His request of February 17, 1798 was disapproved by the Quarterly Meeting. However in 1799, he did move to Ohio in what was then the old Northwest Territory and this time he took Sarah and others with him. In 1801, he was received by the Fairfield MM in Highland Co. OH. He settled with his family near Adelphia on Salt Creek. On August 29, 1801, he was killed when he was knocked off his horse by a low hanging tree limb. He was buried in a hand-hewn coffin on the farm of Presley Caldwell, 3-4 miles west of Richmond in Ross County, Ohio. Richmond was near the Londonderry Meeting Hall in Highland Co. OH and a stone was placed there in the Friends Burial Grounds. In the fall of 1802, Sarah moved to Less Creek, Ohio. She died on July 7, 1813 at the age of eighty-nine. She is buried at the Fairfield FBG in Highland County, Ohio.
From Roger Saunders, Rootsweb: First Friends Minister in Ohio THOMAS BEALS was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1719. He was th e son of John and Sarah Beals, formerly Sarah Bowater of an English famil y of Friends. Thomas Beals had two brothers, John and Bowater, and four s isters: Prudence, who married Richard Williams, Sarah, who married John M ills, Mary, who married Thomas Hunt and after his death, William Baldwin ; and Phebe, who married Robert Sumner. John Beals, Junior, married Esthe r Hunt and Bowater Beals married Ann Cook, Sister of Isaac Cook, who wa s the husband of Charity Cook, a noted Friends minister. From Chester County, as it then was, John Beals moved with his family t o Monocacy Carols Manor, Maryland, There, his son Thomas, the subject o f this sketch, married Sarah Ankram. From there they moved to Hopewell, n ear Winchester, Virginia, where John Beals died in 1745, three years befo re the family moved on to North Carolina. Thomas Beals moved with his family to North Carolina in 1748, being the n twenty-nine years old. He stopped first at Cane Creek, then he went t o 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 yea r 1753, Thomas Beals, then about thirty-four years of age, came forth i n the ministry. The next move he made was to Westfield, Surry County, Nor th Carolina. Here he was instrumental in the development of a large meeti ng. He must have lived at New Garden and Westfield about thirty years, du ring which time he paid lengthy visits to the Indians. In the year 1775, twenty years before Wayne's Treaty with the Indians a t Greenville, Thomas Beals, accompanied by his nephew Bowater Sumner, Wil liam Hiatt and David Ballard, started to pay a visit to the Delaware Indi ans and some other tribes. After passing a fort not far from Clinch Mount ain in Virginia, they were arrested and carried back to the fort to be tr ied for their lives on the charge of being confederates of the hostile In dians. The officers, understanding that one of them was a preacher, requi red a sermon before they went in for trial. Thomas Beals thought it was t he right time to hold a meeting with the soldiers. This proved to be a ve ry good idea for a young man from the fort was converted and, some time a fter joined the Friends, became a member of the group and, at a very adva nced age, bore public testimony to the truth of the principles of which h e was convinced at the fort. After the meeting, the Friends were kindly e ntertained and told that they were at liberty to go on their journey. The y crossed the Ohio River into what is now the State of Ohio; held many sa tisfactory meetings with the Indians and returned home safely. Discussin g the trip, Thomas Beals told his friends that he saw with his spiritua l eye the seed of Friends scattered all over that good land and that on e day there would be a greater gathering of Friends there than any othe r place in the world, and that his faith was strong in the belief that h e would live to see Friends settle north of the Ohio River. In the year 1777, Thomas Beals, accompanied by William Robinson and an in terpreter, Isaac Ottoman, started to pay a religious visit to the Six Nat ions and some other tribes of Indians and proceeded as far as Sewickley , a small meeting of Friends in the western part of Pennsylvania, where t hey were captured and carried to Hannelstown, not far from Fort Pitt, no w Pittsburgh. There they were detained some time and then sent home. Stil l having a concern in his mind for the Indians, he made another attempt t o visit them, but was again arrested and imprisoned, under guard, in a co ld, open barn. When he was let out of confinement, he was permitted to ho ld a meeting with the soldiers, but was not allowed to go any farther, an d 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 doe s not appear to have had the approval of his friends, for Nathan Hunt sta tes that they sent a committee to induce him to return to Westfield, Nort h Carolina. The little meeting of twenty or thirty families was entirel y broken up at Blue Stone. Beals and his family stayed, however, and suff ered not only for the necessities of life, but their son-in-law, James Ho rton, was taken prisoner by the Indians and, from most reliable informati on 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 yea r 1793, he came to Grayson County, Virginia, where Nathan Hunt states tha t Thomas Beals established meetings and says that he was very zealous fo r the support of the testimonies of Friends. In the year 1795, George Har lan and family, members of the Society of Friends, settled on the Littl e Miami, at Deerfield, four miles from the present town of Morrow. In 1796, James Baldwin and Phineas Hunt, with their families, members o f the Society of Friends, from Westfield, North Carolina, moved to the Vi rginia shore of the Ohio River. Here Mary Hunt was born, on October 18, 1 796, four miles from Point Pleasant, on the Virginia shore. In February , 1797, the Baldwins and Hunts crossed the Ohio River and settled opposit e Green Bottom near each other. Two families of Friends now settled toget her in the Northwest Territory with the one previously mentioned (the Har lans) quite remote from them. On May 8, 1797, a group of Friends moved from Westland, Pennsylvania, an d settled at High Bank on the east side of the Scioto River, four miles b elow the present Chillicothe. In the latter part of this same year, Jess e Baldwin moved from his first location opposite Green Bottom, some eight een miles down the Ohio, and settled in what was called Quaker Bottom, i n Lawrence County, opposite the mouth of the Guyandot River, and the pres ent town of Guyandot. So far as can be ascertained, this was where Friend s in the Northwest Territory first sat down to hold a Meeting for divin e worship. John Warner, son of Isaac and Mary Warner, who was born at High Bank, Ros s County, Ohio, on July 12, 198, was, so far as is known, the first chil d born as a birthright member of the Society of Friends northwest of th e Ohio River, and, on November 11 of that year, Rebecca Chandler, daughte r 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 i n the same year a group of Friends, all from North Carolina, settled at S alt Creek, near Richmondale, Ross County, Ohio. In 1799, Thomas Beals, who had visited this country twenty-four years bef ore, now moved to Quaker Bottom, along with other members of his family . They were accompanied by Obediah Overman and his family, all from Grays on County, Virginia. On their arrival, they opened a meeting for worshi p in the dwelling of Jesse Baldwin. There they met regularly during thei r residence at that place. The nearest Meeting to them was at Westland, P ennsylvania. Sometime during the year, 1799, Taylor Webster and family, f rom Redstone, Pennsylvania, settled at Grassy Prairies, five miles northe ast of Chillicothe. In the spring of 1801, Thomas Beals, Jesse Baldwin, John Beals and Danie l Beals moved from Quaker Bottom, and they, with Enoch Cox and their fami lies, settled up Salt Creek, near the present town of Adelphia. August 29, 1801, Thomas Beals died and was buried two days later, near Ri chmondale, Ross County, Ohio, in a coffin of regular shape, hollowed ou t 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 wit h a part of the same tree, which had previously been selected for this pu rpose by the deceased. Buried near him were William Puckett, Hugh Moffett , as well as others of the small community. A meeting house was later bui lt on the land then owned by the Moffett family and a Meeting was held th ere for some time. In the spring of 1802, a group of Friends settled on Lees Creek, in and n ear the present town of Leesburg, which is located in Highland County, Oh io, 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, an d their families, moved from Adelphia, as did Phineas Hunt, formerly of R accoon 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 J esse Baldwin, John Beals, Bowater Beals and John Evans, and, in the fal l of the same year, two Lupton families, from Hopewell, Virginia, settle d at Lees Creek. On their arrival, Friends became concerned about a meeti ng for worship. Widow Sarah Beals heartily endorsed the idea. Thus ther e began a Friends Meeting at Fairfield (Leesburg), regularly authorized i n May, 1804. Sarah Beals died July 7, 1813, at the age of 89, and was bur ied at Fairfield. Thomas Beals's daughter, Margaret, whose first husband , James Horton, was captured by the Indians, afterward married Daniel Huf f, who lived in the Fairfield community. When Thomas Beals was captured in 1775, one recalls that a young man the n in the fort was converted. That young man was Beverly Milner, who event ually 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 m inistry of that "heavenly man by whom he was converted." He died in 1848 , when he was almost eighty-seven, and was buried at Fairfield. Note: On September 19, 1937, a monument was dedicated at the grave of Tho mas Beals near Richmondale, Ohio. Rev. Thomas BEALS was the son of John BEALS II & Sarah BOWATER. Born 14 M ar 1719 in Nottingham, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Died 29 Aug 1801 in Ric hmondale, Ross Co., Ohio. Buried in Presley Caldwell Farm 3/4 Mi. W Of Ri chmondale, OH. Thomas Beals and Sarah Ancram had declared marriage intentions in Virgini a, most likely at Hopewell MM, where their early books were lost in a fir e in 1795. They were married in Prince Georges Co., Maryland. Living with in the verge of Fairfax MM in Virginia, when that Quaker meeting was esta blished and set off from Hopewell MM, Virginia, they were automatically t ransferred to Fairfax MM 1745-6. Thomas Beals remained in Prince George C o., MD until 1749. On 26 Jun 1749, Thomas and Sarah Beals and their fou r oldest children were granted certificates to Carvers MM, Bladen Co., NC , from there transferred to Cane Creek MM, Orange Co., NC when Cane Cree k MM was set up, 7 Oct 1751 and were charter members. Then when New Garde n MM (now Guilford Co., North Carolina) was set up in 1754, the family wa s transferred to that MM, never having moved from their original settleme nt. Jeremiah Mills wrote in his journal: "My grandfather died when my fathe r was about nine years old, leaving a weakly widow in the wilderness, wit h a family of small children to support. I have no doubt they saw hard ti mes. Thomas Beals and family lived near grandmother's, without seeing bre ad as I have often heard old people saying. They did not know what it wa s when my grandfather and some other persons came to see the country, an d happening to have a few cakes in their saddle bags, gave some to the ch ildren, they did not know what they were, but looked at them awhile and n ever offered to bite them, laying them upon a board in the cabin. The gir ls wore leather petticoats, made of deerskins, and when they were young w omen grown, yet enjoyed themselves as well as Queen Victoria, dressed i n silks of India and gems of Golconda. This Thomas Beals was a Quaker pre acher and like Nimrod, the mighty hunter, he followed the game and was al ways forward in settling new countries. From Guilford, he moved into th e mountains of Stokes Co., from there to Grayson Co., Virginia, from henc e to the mouth of the Gian, on the Ohio River, thence to Salt Creek on th e Scioto, there he was buried." In 1775, Thomas traveled into Shawnee territory with Bowater Sumner, Will iam Hiatt and David Ballard. During their journey, they were arrested an d carried back to the fort near Clinch Mt., VA to be tried for their live s on the charge of being confederates with the hostile Indians. The offic ers, understanding that one of them was a preacher, required a sermon bef ore they went in for trail. Beals thought it right to hold a meeting wit h 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, move d among Friends and became a member and, at a very advanced age, bore pub lic testimony to the truth of the principles of which he was convinced a t the fort. He later settled near the Beals family in Ohio and in his lat er years, after he became too feeble to attend Meeting, he often allude d to the ministry of that "heavenly man by whom he was converted." Beverl y 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 Presiden t of Guilford College in NC After this meeting was over, the Friends kindly entertained and were fre e and at liberty to go on their journey. They crossed the Ohio River sout h of Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh, PA) into what is now the state of Ohi o and became acquainted with Chief Tecumseh and Waw-wil-a-way and held ma ny meetings with the Indians with satisfaction and returned home with muc h peace of mind. Thomas Beals told his friends that he saw with his spiri tual eye the seed of Friends scattered all over that good land and that o ne day there would be the greatest gathering of Friends there of any plac e in the world and that his faith was strong in the belief that he woul d live to see Friends settle north of the Ohio River In 1777, Thomas was again granted a certificate to the Mingo and Delawar e Indians on the Ohio River. William Robinson and Isaac Ottoman (interpre ter) proceeded as far as Sewickley in the western part of Pennsylvania. I n his diary, Samuel Fisher writes: "11th day of 11th month -- Thomas Bail s and William Robinson, from New Garden in N. Carolina, visited us... the y were on their way to perform a religious visit to the Indians, at the r isk of their lives, engaging in this service from a sense of duty and uni versal love to be kind, engaged our sympathy and desire that they shoul d be preserved in this time of diligence in the arduous undertaking. Thom as 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 prison ers for some weeks in a cold, open barn. Thomas had his certificate take n 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 nea r the Delaware Indians, was advised by the meeting that he go himself an d make inspection before moving his family. On 25 Mar 1780 Thomas Beals , William Hiatt, Christopher Hiatt and David Ballard were granted certifi cates to travel to the Ohio River to be near and labor with the Delawar e Indians. On 7 Jul 1780, Thomas Branson was granted a certificate to Ohi o to be with Thomas Beals. On 30 Sep 1780, Thomas Beals and David Ballar d returned the certificates which had been granted them to Ohio. However , at some later date, Thomas Beals with his sons Daniel and John (also Ja cob) did move from Grayson Co., Virginia to Quaker Bottom, Ohio, crossin g the Ohio River on New Year's day, 1800, where Cincinnati now is. They w ent to what is now Ross Co., Ohio. Others from the family came later. According to Roger S. Boone, Some Quaker Families, Thomas Beals was knock ed off horse by a tree limb, coffin hewed out of solid butternut tree b y 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 l ittle walled plot on the Jacob Caldwell farm near Richmond Dale, Ohio mar king the grave of a man who played a big part in the history of Ohio an d Ross Co. In this two-rod square burial plot is interred the body of Tho mas Beals, the first Quaker or Friends missionary to work among the India ns and early settlers of southern Ohio and Kentucky. Thomas Beals died o n August 28, 1801 near the spot of burial and was buried there three day s later in a coffin hewed out of a white walnut log. The final resting pl ace of Thomas Beals would be lost forever if it were not for records mad e by Gershom Perdue. The grave went unpreserved until 1854 when Gershom P erdue, an enthusiastic church organizer among the Friends, prevailed upo n the yearly meeting of Friends to take steps to preserve the resting pla ce of their patriarch. On June 20 of the same year the plot was deeded t o a special committee of the yearly meeting and the stone wall enclosur e built a while later. According to The History of the Early Settlement of Highland Co., Ohio b y Daniel Scott, 1890: "Daniel, John and Jacob Beals, sons of old Thomas B eals, came with their widowed mother, and were the first to communicate t he sad intelligence of the death of the venerable and loved Thomas, the p reacher, which happened on their way out, and was caused from a hurt rece ived by his horse running under a stooping tree. He died in a few hours a fterwards in the woods on the banks of Salt Creek. His sons and others wh o were with him found it utterly impossible to get plank or any materia l out of which to make a coffin, so they went to work and cut down a waln ut 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 ma n were left to repose amidst the profound solitudes of the unbroken fores ts. The Friends' meeting of Fairfield, in this county, have recently sen t down a committee for the purpose of enclosing the grave, which was don e by erecting a permanent stone wall around it" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- TIMELINE 14 1m 1719/20 - born to John Jr. & Sarah (Bowater) BEALS, birth recorde d 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 Wi nchester 1745 - chr mbrs Fairfax MM, Loudon Co., VA 1748 - to Carvers MM, Bladen Co., NC, then Cane Creek MM at Snow Camp, th en 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, Rowa n (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 Ne w Garden MM in Guilford Co., NC 1757 - (Note from JLT: This is probably another Thomas Beals, a cousin se nt me this information) Thomas is listed in the "Muster Rolls" of Frederi cks Co., MD. According to "The Early Settlements of Fredericks Co., MD" . Thomas & Sarah (Ancrum) were still residing in MD 1725 Mar 1765 - Rowa n Co., NC, Deed Book 6 p. 258: Thomas Beals to Christopher Hiett - 11 acr es - 5 pounds "on the branches of the Horsepenn Creek, beginning at sd. B eals Corner and running south twenty poles to White Oak the West eighty e ight poles to a black oak then north twenty poles to a stake on the origi nal line thence to the beginning." signed by Thomas Beals and Sarah Beal s and witnessed by Eleazar Hunt and John Unthank (this land was located i n 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 remo ved to Tennessee and the west before meetings were established in those a reas deposited their certificates -- it is right at border of NC/VA) 1771-1774 - Thomas, William, Bowater, John and Daniel Beals are on the Su rry and Wilkes Co., NC tax list 1774 - signs marriage record of Ann Beals & Jacob Jackson at Tom's Cree k in Surry Co., North Carolina 1775 - travels into Shawnee territory with nephews Bowater Sumner, Willia m Hiatt and David Ballard and became acquainted with Chief Tecumseh and W aw-Wil-a-Way. They are arrested near Clinch Mtn., Virginia for "being con federate with the hostile Indians". Beals felt it right to hold a meetin g with the soldiers, after which they were released and they continued ac ross the Ohio River, cross the Ohio River below Pittsburgh, taught many I ndians and returned home with peace of mind 1777 - Religious visit to the Six Nations and some other tribes of Indian s by Rev. Beals, William Robinson and Isaac Ottoman (interpreter). They p roceed as far as Sewickley, a Friends settlement in the western part of P ennsylvania. They were captured and carried to Hannastown (Fort Reed), no t far from Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh. They were detained some time and th en sent home. Still having a concern in his mind for the Indians, Thoma s Beals made another attempt to visit them, but was again arrested and im prisoned in a cold, open barn.They were finally released, but not allowe d to go further. 1780 - Thomas's request to move his family to Ohio to be near the Delawar e Indians is denied by New Garden MM, NC. He was advised to go himself an d make inspection before moving family. 1781 - moved from Westfield, Surry Co., North Carolina to Blue Stone, Gil es Co., Virginia 1782 - visited by a Westfield committee which recommended that they retur n. 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 i n 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 Blue stone River in Kentucky. Horton and 6 men captured. 5 men killed. Horto n and John Branson captured and taken to Chillocothe, Ross Co., Ohio an d tortured and burned at the stake. (Quaker John) 1792 - Thomas and sons John, Daniel and Jacob are received at Westfield M M, 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) explor e area that is now Fairfield Twp Ohio. Beals introduces P ope to Chief Waw-Wil-a-Way. 1796 - Jesse Baldwin, the wife and sons of Rev. Beals, Phineas Hunt and f amilies are already at "The Green Bottom" when Nathaniel Pope arrives 8 May 1797 - a group of Friends moved from Westland, PA, and settled at H igh Bank on the east side of the Scioto River, four miles below the prese nt Chillicothe. 1798 - Thos., Daniel, John & Jacob "laid a concern before the mtg. (Westf ield, NC) of removal to Scioto River (Highland Co., OH) or thereaway". Di sapproved by QM. 1798 - a group of Friends from North Carolina settle at Salt Creek, nea r Richmondale, Ross Co., Ohio 1799 - Quaker bottom land (Lawrence Co., Ohio) with John & Daniel , & Jac ob - just across the Ohio River from the Guyandot River in West Virginia 1799 - Thomas & members of his family moved to Quaker Bottom with Obedia h Overman from Grayson Co., VA 1800 - Thomas and John Belas (typo for Beals?) and Daniel and Jacob Beal s are on the 1800 census living in Gallipolis, Washington Co., Ohio alon g with Nathaniel Pope and Jessie Hiatt (all except Rev. Thomas are show n in the early records of Fairfield Twp., Highland Co.) 1800 - Thomas and John Belas (typo for Beals?) and Daniel and Jacob Beal s are on the 1800 census living in Gallipolis, Washington Co., Ohio alon g with Nathaniel Pope and Jessie Hiatt (all except Rev. Thomas are show n in the early records of Fairfield Twp., Highland Co.) Spring of 1801 - Thomas Beals, Jesse Baldwin and Daniel Beals (and John a nd Jacob?) moved from Quaker Bottom, and they, with Enoch Cox and their f amilies, 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: Firs t Quaker Missionary to the Indians in the Northwest Territory, Spring of 1801 - Thomas Beals, Jesse Baldwin and Daniel Beals (and John a nd Jacob?) moved Spring of 1801 - Thomas Beals, Jesse Baldwin and Daniel Beals (and John a nd Jacob?) moved from Quaker Bottom, and they, with Enoch Cox and their f amilies, 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: Firs t Quaker Missionary to the Indians in the Northwest Territory, at 8. The May 1807 enumeration of Fairfield Twp. in the "Early Settlement o f Highland Co., OH" lists the following sons of Thomas: JACOB, Daniel an d John Beals and two sons of Daniel (Jacob and Curtis who are over 21 a t the time). Also listed is Benjamin CARR (husb. of Patience who is dau . of Thomas & Sarah), David BRANSON (hus. of Hannah JACKSON, gr dau. of B owater/Sarah COOK); John JACKSON (husb. of Phebe, dau. of Bowater/Sarah C ook). I didn't recognize ANY names from the immediate family of John & Ma rgaret (Hunt) BEALS. In a nutshell: There were two Jacobs there when th e mill was started up. One was Daniel's son Jacob. One was OUR Jacob, so n of Thomas! 7. The book "Early Settlement of Highland Co., Ohio" says Thomas's 3 sons , John, Daniel and JACOB came to Fairfield Twp. and the Jacob who "came e arly" started up a tubmill on Hardin's Creek. Jacob and Rebecca had prope rty and a mill on this creek. W
More About Thomas Beals: Burial: Unknown, Salt Creek Cemetery, Ross County, OH. Occupation: Famous Quaker minister.
More About Thomas Beals and Sarah Ankrum: Marriage: November 12, 1741, Prince George County, Maryland.113
Children of Thomas Beals and Sarah Ankrum are:
+Mary Beals, b. August 30, 1743, Virginia113, d. August 18, 1822, Sand Creek, Washington County, Indiana.
+Elizabeth Beals, b. April 25, 1755, New Garden MM, Guilford Co. NC113, d. April 13, 1848, Wayne County, Indiana.
Thomas Beals (b. August 29, 1719, d. August 19, 1801)
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