MY BEESON'S IN AMERICA
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Generation No. 1 (in America)
Edward Beeson (age unknown)
Born: Abt. 1575, England / Death: unknown, England
Married: Hester Hall
Children:
Edward Beeson
William Beeson (generation 2)
Generation No. 2
William Beeson (76 years old)
Born: 1606, England / Death: 1682, England
Married: unknown
Children:
Thomas Beeson (generation 3)
William Beeson
Edward Beeson
Generation No. 3
Thomas Beeson (age unknown)
Born: November 05, 1635, England / Death: unknown, England
Married: Ann Pecke
Children:
Edward Beeson (generation 4)
Richard Beeson
William Beeson
Note: An earlier spelling of Beeson was Beeston with the t silent
Generation No. 4
Edward Beeson (60 years old)
Born: June 1652, England / Death: October 20, 1712, Pennslyvania
Married: Rachel Pennington
Children:
Richard Beeson (generation 5)
Edward Beeson
Anne Beeson
William Martin Beeson
Isaac Beeson
More about Edward:
His last will was the first to be recorded in Chester County. Prior to his, all wills were recorded in Philadelphia. His will:
“I Edward Beeson of Notingham, being laid on a bed of sickness & not knowing how the Lord may dispose of me as to my natural Life therefore I do make this my last will & testament and does declare all other will or wills made or done by me to be void and of none effect, first my will is that I be decently buried & my funeral expenses and all debts be duly payd 2ly, I give to my son Edward & his heirs 142 acres & a half of Land Laying by nessamoney. 3rdly, I give unto my son Richard and his heirs one tract of Land Laying near Southhampton in the County of Bucks, containing 290 acres. 4ly I give to my son Richard and his heirs one tract of Liberty Land containing 25 acres Lying on Sculkill. 5ly I do give to my son William my west Loot Laying in Notingham also I give unto him 48 pounds which my Executors is to lay out for him in building him a house & buying him such necessaryes as they may see most needfull for him for making a plantation, also I give unto him all my wearing apparell except two great coats, which two coats I give to Edward & Richard, Edward is to have which he pleased, also I give to my son William one coat of the Carsey that is at the weavers, also my will is that if my son William should dy without ishew Lawfully begotten, then the Land is to go to the Lawful heirs. 6ly I give to my Daughter Ann Cloud Twenty pounds. 7ly, my will is that after my former wifes children have had their portions, that all my personall estate be divided betwixt my widow and my Daughter Elizabeth according to a Law. 8ly, my will is that my widow shall have the plantation whereon I live with all the profits thereof during her widdowhood or natural Life & after my widows marrying or decease, then I give it to my Daughter Elizabeth & her heirs. 9ly, my will is that my executors & their heirs shall have all that Land which I have purchased of Daniel Wharley & by Warrant to me by the Commissioners bearing the date of 14th day of Septr, 1709, to dispose of as they see occasion, and I desire yt my wife shall give to the child yt she is now great with, if it should live when born, forty pounds and Lastly for a full and finall performance of this will I do by these presents make & ordain my dear and well beloved wife and son Richard the sole executors of this my last will and Testament as witness my hand & Seal this Twentieth of the sixth month, called August 1712.
Signed Sealed & Delivered before us
Edward Beeson (Seal)
Andrew Job
James King”
Generation No. 5
Richard Beeson (93 years old)
Born: October 10, 1684, Delaware / Death: January 01, 1777,North Carolina
Married: Charity Grubb
Children:
John Beeson
Margaret Beeson
Richard Beeson
Phebe Beeson
Charity Grubb Beeson
Edward Beeson
Benjamin Beeson
William Beeson
Rachel Beeson
Stephen Beeson
Isaac Beeson (generation 6)
More about Richard Beeson: Served in the American Revolution. A warrant was given to Richard for 500 acres in Chester County December 10, 1716. Richard was on the tax rolls in West Nottingham, Pennsylvania in 1722. Richard was granted 100 acres by the Proprietory William Penn: Warrant in Lancaster County on January 16, 1732.
From William Wade Hinshaw Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol VI, page 358 under Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Virginia:
"About the year 1733 or soon after, Richard Beeson and divers others settled near a branch of Opeckon, called Tuscarora, where a meeting was held at said Beeson's house for some time, till the number of Friends being increased, land was purchased and a meeting-house built thereon, called Providence, where meetings are since held twice a week."
Permission was later asked of Chester Quarterly meeting in Pennsylvania to hold monthly meetings which then alternated between Hopewell and Cold Spring - "Hopewell and Providence make one monthly meeting and Fairfax another..."
Richard and his family moved to Nottingham after the death of Edward Beeson, Sr. and assumed management of Edward's holdings there. Richard and Charity were active members of Nottingham Monthly Meeting of Friends. They both become recognized ministers. Richard and Charity Beeson with their family lived at Nottingham until about 1732.
They moved to the new Friends settlement in the Susquehanna Valley in Lancaster County, PA and became members of Leacock Friends Meeting in approximately 1732. It was here that their daughter, Charity Beeson, married Mordecai Mendenhall in 1735.
They were on the move again in 1736, this time to Berkeley County, near the present town of Martinsburg, West Virginia.
They lived here until about 1754, when many of them left northern Virginia for North Carolina, settling in the area of present-day Guilford County, helping establish Center Friends Meeting, which became one of the larger Meetings in the North Carolina Piedmont. A certificate was issued to Richard dated November 20, 1754 from the Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia, at New Garden Monthly Meeting in Rowan County, North Carolina. Few Hopewell Meeting records exist.
In 1758, under stress of the French and Indian War, the attendance at Providence fell low in 1758 due to the dangers in the French and Indian War and the preparative meeting there was discontinued. The was apparently first suggested or allowed by Hopewell Monthly Meeting (Providence being a branch of Hopewell) and soon recognized as necessary by Chester Quarterly Meeting. The Hopewell Meeting became part of Western Quarterly Meeting, whose minutes contain the following entry: “11 Mo. 20, 1758. It having been for weighty reasons recommended by the Quarterly Meeting from which we are divided that Providence Particular Meeting (in Virginia) should be discontinued, by an account now received from Hopewell Monthly Meeting we are informed that advice is complied with.”
The Meeting House of Quaker Providence around present day Berkely County Highway 15 was erected by 1741, but it is believed that the meetings were first held in Richard Beeson's house by 1738. The cemetery for the meeting house was located in the southwest corner of Richard Beeson Jr.'s 249-acre tract. On present day maps, it is located on the north side of Berke County Highway 15 approximately 15 miles east of the Tuscaroro Church meeting house location.
Providence meeting, which seems have been the same as Tuscarora, near Martinsburg, was officially established in 1738. The minutes of Chester Quarterly Meeting September 13, 1738, show that Hopewell Monthly Meeting presented the case of Friends living near or about Richard Beeson's, who requested the liberty of building a meeting-house for worship. Liberty was granted. On June 10, 1741, Hopewell was reported in the same quarterly meeting assaying that the Friends near and about Richard Beeson's had built a meeting-house, met Richard Beeson and his wife, Charity Grubb (b. 9th Mo. 29, 1687 in Brandywine, New Castle, Del/PA d. 11th Mo., 27, 1761 in Guilford Co., NC) were very well-known and active members (and missionaries) of the Quaker church. Charity Grubb was the dtr. of John and Frances (Vane) Grubb. Richard and Charity helped form Hopewell Meeting in Virginia and were among the earliest members of New Garden Meeting in Guilford Co., NC. They both remained in Guilford Co. until their deaths.
Richard’s will was probated in Randolph County, North Carolina in 1788.
Generation No. 6
Isaac Beeson (73 years old)
Born: April 03, 1729, Pennsylvania / Death: March 03, 1802, North Carolina
Married: Phebe Stroud
Children:
Benjamin Beeson (generation 7)
Richard Beeson
Mary Beeson
Samuel Beeson
Isaac Beeson
Charity Beeson
Isaac Beeson
Edward Beeson
Phebe Beeson
William Beeson
Nathaniel Beeson
Martha Beeson
More about Isaac Beeson: June 05, 1758 he was removed from the Quaker Hopewall Meeting in Virginia and on June 24, 1758 was received at the Quaker New Garden Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina. His will was proven in May, 1802 at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina in Will Book A, p32
Generation No. 7
Benjamin Beeson (85 years old)
Born: October 23, 1750, Virginia / Death: 1835, North Carolina
Married: Rachel Green
Children:
Jehu Beeson (generation 8)
Phebe Green Beeson
Elizabeth Beeson
Isaac Beeson
Rachel Beeson
Benjamin Beeson
Mary Beeson
Thomas Beeson
Richard G. Beeson
More about Benjamin Beeson: Benjamin was disowned at the Quaker New Garden Meeting for “marrying out” on May 29, 1773.
Benjamin’s will is recorded in the Guilford County, North Carolina, Book B. His will:
“I Benjamin Beeson of Randolph county and State of North Carolina being advanced to old age and calling to mind that it is appointed for all men once to die and now bing in but a poor state of health but of a sound mind and memory thanks to the auther of all good for same, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say first all of my just Debts and funeral charges to be paid by my Executors hereafter to be named. First I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth all my Personal Estate Except the Cash notes during her widowhood, the house she now lives in, the barn and Building with one half orchard and five or Six poles Round the Dwelling home to make her a garden with wood and wather or as much as she Shall think best. Twenty five Bushels of bread stuff one fat hogg every year During her widowhood and four or five of cleared land when she Shall think best if she needs so much bread paid by my son Edward Beeson. 2nd at the end of her widowhood to be Equally Divided Amongst my five sons Isaac, William, Richard, Edward and Benjamin. 3rd and lastly at the end of my wifes widowhood all the Rest of my Movable Estate to be Equally divided amongst all my children that is living (to wit) Isaac, Benjamin, William, Richard, Edward, Frances, Ann, Charity, Betty, Mary. I do Constitute and Ordain my two sons Isaac & Edward Beeson Executors of this my last will and testament and revoke all others heretofore by me made.
Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presents of us this 2nd day of the 4th Month 1794.
Benjamin (B) Beeson (seal) his mark
William Beeson
Henry Lamb
Benjamin Lamb”
Generation No. 8
Jehu Beeson (45 years old)
Born: December 16, 1775, North Carolina/ Death: May 09, 1820, North Carolina
Married: Priscilla Saunders
Children:
Jane Beeson
Joel Beeson
Letitia Beeson
Jesse G. Beeson
Harston Wilson Beeson (generation 9)
Jehu Armistead Beeson
Generation No. 9
Harston Wilson Beeson (78 years old)
Born: October 19, 1812, North Carolina/ Death: April 15, 1890, Texas
Married: Minerva Jane Shelly
Children:
Argyle Beeson
Jehu A. Beeson (generation 10)
Alvis Beeson
Walton Beeson
Jane Beeson
William Harston Beeson
Calvin Beeson
More about Harston Wilson Beeson: Harston moved to Texas in 1836 with his family and was granted 640 acres under the existing laws at that time. "Unconditional Certificates where no Conditional had issued" were given to land grant applicants if they had already been in Texas for three uninterrupted years. Harston was a large land owner with many slaves which he freed after the Civil War. Harston served in Captain John Blair's Houston County Militia. Harston was also an Indian Fighter on the Texas frontier who worked with Elisha Clapp. Harston is buried at the Beeson-Box Cemetery just outside Crocket, Texas.
Generation No. 10
Jehu A. Beeson (57 years old) GREAT GRANDPARENTS
Born: October 18, 1842, Texas/ Death: August 10, 1899, Texas
Married: Sarah P. Read
Children:
Robert Harston Beeson
Leigh Chalmers Beeson
Horace Watts Beeson
Maude Hunter Beeson
Susan Jane Beeson
Coleman Arledge Beeson
Samuel Pinkney Beeson
Ella G. Beeson
John Reagan Beeson, Sr. (generation 11)
Letitia E. Beeson
Joel Austin Beeson
More about Jehu: He served in the Confederate 7th TX Cavalry Co. H. He is sometimes listed as John Beeson.
He was married to Sarah Read daughter of Judge Read. He is buried in Beeson-Box Cemetary in Crockett. He was also a member of Green's Brigade United Confederate Veterans in Crockett.
“I have a photographic, publication quality, copy of the Company H, 7th TMV muster roll from the National Archives. The copy is less than full size and the original wasn't easily legible, but at least it's the real deal. The date of the muster is May 1st, 1862, so it is the muster taken at the close of the New Mexico campaign. It provides the following information about your ancestor. The name on the roll seems to be ‘John Beeson’ but might also be ‘Jahu’. This was written by whoever prepared the muster.
Private Beeson was enrolled Oct. 5, 1861 in Crockett, Houston County by Isaac Adair. He was mustered into Confederate service Oct. 28th, 1861, near San Antonio by ‘TL Howard’. The muster roll places the value of Jehu's horse at $135 and the value of his "horse equipment" at $15. Relative to other men in the company, this means that he was well mounted, but his tack was a little on the cheap side. Most horse equipment was valued at about $35, but many horses were valued at less than $135.
The muster roll also contains interesting notes that read,
‘Dismounted 18th February 1862’
‘Remounted 28th February 1862’
‘Dismounted March 28th 1862’
You can read a lot of information from these notes.
The first date is just after the Sibley Brigade's demonstration before Fort Craig, but before the brigade's flanking move to Valverde Ford. We'll probably never know why Jehu was first dismounted; did his horse give out? Did he volunteer it to help pull the wagons up the rocky ravine.
The second date is clearer. Following the battle at Valverde, the brigade's transport was in a shambles. As a result the men of the 4th Regiment were dismounted and their horses were redistributed to other units. Jehu undoubtedly benefited from this redistribution.
The last reference refers to the loss of Jehu's mount at Glorieta Pass. I believe that Company H left their horses at Johnson's Ranch and lost most of them when Chivington attacked the Confederate train.
Many of the privates in Company H were illiterate and had to make a witnessed mark on the roll, not Jehu. He signed his name! It looks a lot like ‘Jahu’ or ‘John’ to me so I can see why errors might have been made.”
Generation No. 11
John Reagan Beeson, Sr. (67 years old) GRANDPARENTS
Born: March 29, 1884, Texas/ Death: August 21, 1951, Texas
Married: Laura Bell Monzingo
Children:
John Reagan Beeson, Jr. (generation 12)
William Henry Beeson
Samuel Paige Beeson
More about John Reagan Sr.: School teacher, Business owner, Master Mason and well respected.
John Reagan Beeson, Jr. (83 years old) PARENTS
Born: January 23, 1914, Texas/ Death: October 17, 1997, Texas
Married: Mary Catherine Donnan
Children:
John Donnan Beeson (generation 13A)
Richard Reagan Beeson (generation 13B)
More about John Reagan Jr: Owned several businesses, private pilot, ham radio operator, and a very well read man.
Generation No. 13A
John Donnan Beeson
Born: Texas/ Living
Married #1 Janice Lanell Bruce
Children:
Laura Lynn Beeson (generation 14A)
Bruce Reagan Beeson (generation 14B)
Robert Edward Beeson (generation 14C)
Married: #2 Margie Harris Freeze
More about John D.: Graduate of the University of Texas. Worked for NASA during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Projects. Owned and operated several private businesses. Worked in many countries as a Management Consultant on large civil design and construction projects.
Generation No. 13B
Richard Reagan Beeson Brother
Born: Texas/ Living
Married: Anna Kingsley Brace
Children:
Catherine Elizabeth Beeson (generation 14D)
Ellen Marshall Beeson (generation 14E)
More about Richard: Graduate of the University of Texas, Registared Pharmacist, Private Pilot, first mayor of Shepherd, Texas, Harley rider (for long, long, long trips!)
Generation No. 14A
Laura Lynn Beeson Daughter
Born: Texas/ Living
Generation No.14B
Bruce Reagan Beeson Son
Born: Florida/ Living
Married #1 Sheree
Children:
Chad Micheal Beeson grandson
Jason Keith Beeson grandson
Married #2 Tammy
Children:
Tiffany Dawn Beeson granddaughter married Victor Daniel Carrillo
Children: Veronica Nevaeh Carrillo Great granddaughter
Monica Danielle Carrillo Great granddaughter
Married #3 Maria Castillo
Children:
Bruce Reagan Beeson Grandson
Caleb Beeson Grandson
Generation No. 14C
Robert Edward Beeson Son
Born: Florida/ Living
Married: #1 Cindy Marie Carlton
Children:
Brent Beeson Grandson
Married: #2 Deena Francis Lawson
Children:
Conner Beeson Grandson
Generation No. 15A
Chad Micheal Beeson Grandson
Born: Texas/ Living
Married: Tiffany Nichole Church
Children:
Landon Michael Beeson Great grandson
Faith Skylar-Nichole Beeson Great granddaughter