-- [ From: Jackson H. Day * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] -- In response to R Davenport's query, I searched my DB on John Yates Beall and found the following. Sounds like you may be on the trail of an interesting person! Thomas Balch Beall, b. G1830. "John Yates Beall and Thomas Balch Beall, my maternal grandfather, were first cousins. For the past several years I have been doing extensive research on JYB, with the invaluable assistance of a scholar who is writing a new biography of John Wilkes Booth. Booth and Beall quite probably became acquainted when both were members of militia units on guard duty; during John Brown's trial and execution in Charlestown, Virginia in the fall of 1859. They may have met again when both were in Canada in 1864. It is possible, though unlikely, that Booth visited Lincoln to plead for Beall's life. Booth did express anger when he learned of Beall's hanging...[however]...Booth was three years younger than Beall and they were not boyhood friends. Booth never attended the University of Virginia, where Beall's roommate was Daniel Bedinger Lucas, later his memoirist. Beal enlisted as an army private when war broke out, but was badly wounded on October 1861 and saw no further service. He received a medical discharge from the army in March 1863 and was then commissioned in the Confederate Navy as an "acting master", not in line for promotion." As leader of two commando groups, one on the Chesapeake, one on Lake Erie, he was addressed as "Captain", thus leading to much confusion about his actual rank and branch of service. In January 1865 he was tried by a military commission, not a court martial, at Fort Lafayette (destroyed in 1868). After one reprieve, he was transferred to Fort Columbus (now Fort Jay) on Governor's Island a few days before his execution, which occurred on February 24, 1865. Beall's prison diary makes no mention of a visit by Booth. (Cameron S. Moseley, 21 Whiffletree Way, Riverside, CT 06878. (203) 637-2901. In "Bell-A-Peal", 11:2, 12147 Holly Knoll Circle, Great Falls, VA; AMJ, 1997.) Jack Day

-- [ From: Jackson H. Day * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] -- Candee, now that I'm on the list, let me post this information here. It looks like your descent involves Col. Ninian Beall once plus Alexander Beall, Immigrant, twice. Here's my revised database entry based on what you and others have supplied: B-ALEX-231-361 Thomas Beall or J. Thomas Beall, b. 1795. Paternal Ancestry: (6 Asa Brooke Beall/1774, 5 Richard Beall/1738, 4 Col. Samuel Beall, Jr/1713; 3 John Beall/1688, 2 Alexander Beall, Immigrant/1649, 1 Alexander Beall of Scotland, G1621) Maternal Ancestry: Thomas' mother was B-NIN-11c-6 Elizabeth Beall/1772 (4 Capt .Thomas Beall/1744, 3. General Samuel Beall, Sr, 1706, 2. Ninian Beall Jr, G1673, Col. Ninian Beall, Immigrant, 1625 ) Thomas ' grandmother, wife of Captain Thomas Beall, was B-ALEX 239 Verlinda Beall/1731, daughter of 3 John Beall/1688 listed above. Events. 1827 Thomas was living out of MD. 1837 son Richard underage. 1850 Census Thomas age 53 with wife Massa 52 and children Elizabeth, William and Alpheus in Alegany Co, same page as descendents of Thomas of Ninian? Probably same Thomas also known as J. Thomas Beall. Marriage Same as Thomas Beall, b. 1795, d. 1864, m. ca 1816 Massey Dunn, b. 1797, d. 1863. She had sister Maria. (Mrs. W. G. Barneyback, P O. Box B, Currryville, MO 63239-0181.) Massa Ann Dunn was b. 1797, from Frankfort, VA (now KY), and d. 1864, Frostburg, MD. Candee (genealogy6@aol.com) Residence. Lived near Frostburg, MD. 1. Louis Dunn Beall, m. Isabella H. Frey. Thier son Louis erwin Beall, lived Uniontown, Penna.

Virginian John Beall began his Civil War career at 26 as a private in the 2d Virginia Infantry Regiment and fought in the 1st Battle of Bull run as a part of the Stonewall Brigade. he then led a company of Gen. Turner Ashby's cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley until he was severely wounded in the chest while leading a charge on October 16, 1861. Beall was given a medical discharge from the army during his long convalescence, but he was not ready to stop fighting. In spring 1863, Beall won the War Department's approval of a daring plan for raiding union shipping vessels in the Chesapeake Bay. He was appointed an acting master in the Confederate navy and was authorized to raise a band of partisan raiders. The group would have to provide its own ship, and the raiders' only payment would be a share of the booty they captured from Northern vessels. On the evening of September 17, 1863, Beall and 18 men set out into the bay in two ships and quickly captured a Union sloop and two fishing scows. The next night, Beall's men captured a Yankee sloop carrying $200,000 worth of sutler's stores that was bound for Port Royal, SC Three more ships were captured by September 21, and then the raiders returned safely to their Mathews County base. Union response to the first raid was slow and ineffectual. But when Beall's crew set out again in November, they were quickly captured, strapped in irons in old Fort McHenry, MD, and held as pirates. southern authorities ordered the same number of Union prisoners to be held in similar conditions, eventually forcing the federals to treat the raiders as prisoners of war. After being exchanged on May 5, 1864, Beall found approval to continue his partisan activities slow to come and went to Canada to look for other opportunities to strike the enemy. The commander of confederate secret operations in Canada, Jacob Thompson, recruited Beall to form a force of refugees and escaped confederate prisoners who were in Canada to disrupt Northern trade on Lake Erie. Stephen T. Foster Atlas Editions, USA

After his arrival in Canada, 29 year old John Y. Beall, a law graduate of the University of Virginia, was assigned to disrupt Northern trade on Lake Erie. Specifically, Beall was to free Confederate prisoners of war being held on Johnson's Island, off Sandusky in Lake Erie, as well as those at Camp Chase at Columbus, Ohio. If successful, the enterprise was suppose to result in the establishment of a Confederate Department of the Army on Lake Erie. With the aid of Charles H. Cole, fresh from Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry, Beall made plans to capture two Union ships. He hoped to use the ships to over power the "USS Michigan", which was protecting the area, free the Rebel prisoners on Johnson Island, and begin an overland route to Columbus by a commandeered train. Meanwhile, in preparation, Cole had endeared himself to some Union officers and became a guest aboard the "Michigan", from which he intended to send important signals to guide Beall's attack. On September 19, 1864, Beall and his men captured the passenger ship "Philo Parsons", which was on a trip from Detroit to Sandusky, Ohio. Then, Beall and his crew quickly took the "Island Queen" and moved into position near the "Michigan", close to Johnson's Island, to await the signals from Cole. As night fell, Beall's crew peered through the darkness, looking for Cole's messages, but none came. Unknown to the raiders, Cole had been discovered and word had been sent to the "Michigan's" captain, who arrested Cole. As time passed, Beall's crew became increasing concerned, until they mutinied and forced Beall to pull back and to destroy the "Philo Parsons" at Sandwich, Canada. While Beall's plan had failed, his mere attempt, along with his reputation, sent shock waves through Lincoln's cabinet and left Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in a state of "excited panic." News traveled to Buffalo, where the locals were expecting "piratical craft sailing boldly in and firing upon [their] defenseless houses." A. M. Gambone Atlas Editions, USA

-- [ From: Jackson H. Day * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] -- Greetings to other Beall researchers. I think I've gotten onto the Beall list finally. I still don't have much time for genealogy but hope I can help out occasionally. Lisa Simms has posted my database on the internet. I haven't had time to change it much since 1996, but anyone who wants a current copy is welcome to it--send me an email with your line of descent form a Beall (I stick these in the database in case there's a chance you may run into a cousin) and I'll give you my postal address. Send me a disk and SASE and I'll copy the database. It attempts to capture every bit of stuff I can find on Bealls in Maryland before 1800, and it's in Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS, which will import into most any Windows based PC program. Mac users are on your own! The DB now takes up just about a full 1.4 meg floppy. I put the DB together to try to find some trace of a connection between my ancestor and the rest of the Bealls. The entry for my earliest ancestor is below. Note the combination of William and Alexander--where have we heard that before? I'm surprised there's not a Ninian too. And none of them connect. Note also my codes -- G = Guess. Absolutely. The database is arranged by birthdate, so it's a place to hang the data. LESS reliable than "circa." B-WILLSIMP William Beall, b. G1720, father of Alexander Beall, Landowner, and therefore probably grandfather of William Simpson Beall. Presume not younger than age 21 when granted virgin property to clear, a task for younger men; not likely to be born later than 1734, which would make him 18 years old on the latest likely date for son Alexander's birth. Since Alexander was called on to transfer property immediately after William's death, assume death in 1763 and Alexander 21 at that time, or b. G1742. If William in turn was m. at age 21 & aged 22 when Alexander born, William b. G1720. m. G1741 at age 21. Oct 3 1753 receives warrant for 10 acres of land; surveyed Jan 10 1754 as Long Lookt For. "...For and in consideration that William Beall of Frederick County... hath due unto him 42 acres of land....ten acres part thereof by virtue of a warrant for that quantity granted him the third of October 1753... and for the remaining 32 acres has paid the sum of One Pound Twelve Shillings Sterling Caution for the same as appears in our land office and upon such conditions and terms as are expressed in our conditions of Plantation of our said Province bearing date five April 1684 remaining upon record in our Province together with such alterations as in them are made by our further Conditions bearing date Four December 1696 - together also with the alterations, etc...We do therefore grant unto William Beall... parcel of land called Long Lookt For Beginning at a white Oak standing near the head of a Branch called Mapple Branch, a draught of lower Bennetts Creek...containing forty two acres...and laid out for 42 acres of land to be held of Conigocheige Manor....William Beall his heirs and assignees for ever to be holden of us and our heirs as of our Manor of Conococheague in fee and common...by fealty only for all Manner of Services Yielding and paying therefore yearly unto us and our heirs at our Receipt at our City of Saint Mary's at the two most usual feasts in the year viz. the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Michael Arch Angel by even and equal portions the rent of One Shilling Eight Pence Half Penny Sterling in silver or Gold and for a fine upon every alienation of the land or any part or parcel thereof one whole years rent in Silver or Gold or the full value thereof in such commodities as we and our heirs...etc....Seal Ten Janury 1754 The (Horatio Sharpe was Governor of Maryland Horatio Great Sharpe at this time.) Seal (Hall of Records, BC&GS#1:183; Y&S#8:704) William Bealles cert 42oo Long Lookt For Pat 10 January 1754. Frederick County: By virtue of a warrant granted out of his Lordship's land office of this province to William Bealle of the aforesaid County for 10 acres of land bearing date October 3d 1754. I therefore certify as Deputy Surveyor under his excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq, Governor of Maryland that I have carefully laid out...that tract of land called Long Lookt For beginning at a bounded white oak standing near the head of a Branch called Mapple Branch a draught of lower Bennets Creek...and now laid out for 42 acres of land to be held of Conigocheige Manor surveyed Jan'ry 10th 1754. Isaac Brooke. 1755-1756 William Beall listed in Frederick County Debt Books for Long Looked For, 42a and Close Tract, 34a. 25 Feb 1762 grantee of Long Looked For (MCLO K:549, 19 Jul 1803; date erroneously appears as 25 Feb 1732 in FCLO K:1310, 18 Jun 1767). Could be same as B-ALEX-221-1, William Beall of William if that William had additional son Alexander. Could be B-ALEX-13/1700 William of William [1647], Immigrant. Died between 1762 and 1767: "Indenture...between Alexander Beall eldest son and heir at law of William Beall of Frederick Co. deceased...and Stephen West of Prince Georges Co. merchant...whereas the said William Beall father - of the said Alexander Beall...did in his lifetime on or about 21 June 1762 execute a bond or writing obligatory unto or between John Bayne...of Frederick Co. planter for a valuable consideration had and recieved of him well and truly to make over and convey unto the aforesaid John Bayne ...part of a tract of land called the "Resurvey On Long Looked For" containing 505 acres...and whereas the said William Beall happened to die before the said deed of land be executed and the said John Bayne hath sold the said land to the above named Stephen West for a valuable consideration and hath duly assigned...bond to Stephen West and whereas the said Alexander Beall upon due notice of the said assignment... willing to...make over and convey to Stephen West the land according to his Fathers bond...doth give, grant, etc....all that tract or parcel ofland lying in Frederick Co. being part of a tract of land called the "Resurvey On Long Looked For" patented to the said William Beall 25 February 1732 beginning for said part at the end of the ninth line course of the said Resurvey...etc...containing by estimation 505 acres.. .(FCLO K:1310 18 Jun.1767) 1. Alexander, b. G/NLT 1742, eldest son. To make over property at his father's death ca 1763, Alexander must have been 21 in 1763, therefore born NLT 1742; if William not younger than 22 at Alexander's birth, then William b. NLT 1720. (+) 2. John, (probably) b. G/NLT 1744 (+) My complete line of descent: William Beall (above) Alexander Beall, Revolutionary War soldier, fought under Lt William Simpson William Simpson Beall, m. Elizabeth Walker, sister of George Bryan Walker Elisha Beall George Washington Wesley Walker Survila Ann Beall m. Jackson Day Rachel Vivia Cochel Walker Roby F. Day, b. 1872 m. Rachel Vivia Cochel Walker Jackson Wesley Day, b. 1910 Jackson Harvey Day, b. 1942 -- TDHM26A@Prodigy.com I would be delighted if anyone sees any connection to any of this! Jack Day

I have been lurking on this list for some time. I can't recall ever seeing a posting regarding my BEAL line. I am wondering if there are any decendants of MATHES BUHL from Germany on this list. His son Peter Biel was born 1747 in PA. Alot of this line settled in Greenville Twp Somerset Co PA late 1700's . Today, there are alot of decendants in Maryland and Western PA from this line. I would be willing to share my BEAL line information if there are others on this list. I would like to see some postings regarding this line if there is an interest. Maybe, I subcribed to a wrong list ? Doug Beal

Found this on the Internet 4/14/97...sorry, no URL. I suspect Robert H. Beall is somehow related to the Brooke County Ninian Beall--2 of his children married Hammonds... Wellsburg, West Virginia, is one of the centers of an industry about which little has been written, but whose products are familiar to all- The paper bag industry. Here in 1835, McClung and Mayhall (later McClung and Grimes Company) started the manufactur of paper. Harvey, Manser, and company and Jones and McCrea made straw paper in 1851 and 1852. Samuel George and W. Harvey bought the Gould, Pierce and Company cotton mill and converted this to the manufacture of paper bags from straw. T S. George Company is one of the foremost manufaturers of rope paper in the United States today. Since 1882, S. George and Company have limited their production to the manufacture of paper bags. At one time, W.C. Barclay was a partner in this firm. Later Mr. George employed Archibald Rae to to supervise the addition of printing presses and machinerey for cutting and folding. The George and Sherrard Paper Company started operations at 18th street about 1908. This Company was purchased by the International Paper Company, who sold it to the Hammond Bag and Paper Company in 1937. T.H. Hammond, having completed five successful years with the Taggert Brothers of Watertown, New York, returned in 1922 to his native Brooke County where he was joined in his venture with Merrit J. Davis, who came to Wellsburg from Watertown, New York. Others in this corporation included Robert H. Beall.

I am searching for Three Margaret RAMSEY ancestors!!!!! #1 Margaret RAMSEY who married Alexander BELL May 21, 1646 in Parish, Scotland. They were part of the BEALL Clan of Scotland. #2 Margaret RAMSEY b ca 1760 in Frederick County, VA who married Samuel CLEAVENGER. They lived during their marriage years around Winchester, VA in the late 1700's. Samuel CLEAVENGER died as a result of a runaway horse and cart in 1803. He was a wagoneer. It is suggested that she is the widow of John VANORT Would really appreciate any info that you can give. #3 Margaret RAMSEYwife of John RAMSEY owned land in Frederick county, VA. John and Margaret RAMSEY are possible in-laws of Samuel CLEAVENGER. The deed in Frederick County, VA, was entered on January 1803 in which the legal description of the land includes a mention of the Cleavenger property, adjoining John Ramsey's land. To the best of my ability it says: "Beginning at the White Oak comes to Joseph CLEAVENGER & Jacob POINTER& ___ Emmons coming thence with EMMONS South 23 1/4 West 14 op a White Oak comes to _ Emmons & Thomas Fossett ....... to John BOMINE and Joseph Clevinger ....Clevenger's line N66 1/4 W 117....Daniel Strom's ......Thomas Farley." I would be grateful for any assistance in tracing these three Margaret Ramsey ancestor. Candee

I am looking for information on the family of John Yates Beall, who was a confederate soldier. I have located a letter that says he may be a part of my family. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, RDavenp606@aol.com

Thought I'd print out a list of the resources I've used to research the Bealls and the resources Jackson H. Day (Jack) put in his database. Jack's cites aren't in perfect format, but you should be able to find the books he's used by title: 1. Jackson H. Day's Beall Database, 200+ pgs., Received Dec. 1996, Jackson H. Day, 11892 Blue February Way, Columbia, MD 21044, Jackson H. Day <TDHM26A@prodigy.com> available http://www.world.std.com/~lsimms/files/daymega.zip Among numerous others, Jack employs the following sources: Fielder M. M. Beall, Bell and Beall Families of Maryland, Maryland Room, Prince Georges County Library, Hyattsville, Md Elizabeth B. Heterick, Five Families Beall of Maryland (Montgomery County Historical Society) Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church from Original Sources, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1993 Fielder Beall: Colonial Families of the US descended from the Immigrants Bell, etc. Genealogy of the Beall Families, located in Montg. Co. Hist. Soc; quoted by Barbara Collins Western Maryland Genealogy (journal) Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin (journal) Alice Norris Parran, Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families, Baltimore: H. G. Roebuck, 1935 J. Thomas Scharf, History of Western Maryland, Philadelphia, 1882, repr. Baltimore, Regional Publishing Co., 1968. George Norbury Mackenzie, Beall & Edmonstone Colonial Families of America, Bk II Charles Ninian Edmonston, "Mary Edmonston" in My Own Edmonstons and a few others, " Katherine Beall Adams, Maryland Heritage, A Family History Pioneers of Old Monocacy Millard Milburn Rice, This was the life: Excerpts from the Judgement Records of Frederick Co, MD 1748-1765, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, 1984 Effie Gwynn Bowie, Across the Years in Prince George's County. Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1947 Millard Milburn Rice, This was the Life: Excerpts from the Judgment Records of Frederick County, Maryland, 1748-1765, Redwood City, CA: Monocacy Book Co., 1979 Heitman, F. B., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution April 1775 to December 1783. Washington, DC: W. H. Lowdermilk & Co, 1893 F. Edward Wright, compiler, Marraiges and Deaths in the Newspapers of Frederick and Montgomery Counties, Maryland, 1820-1830, Westminster, Maryland: J. D. Warfield, The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland, Baltmore: 1973, Regional Publishing Company Patriotic Maryland and the Maryland Society Sons of the American Revolution. Baltimore, 1930 Charles Francis Stein, Jr, Origin and History of Howard County, Maryland. Baltimore, 1972 Frederick C. Beall, Robert Beall (Bell): His Ancestors and Descendents Virgil D. White, Abstractor, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Vol. I. Muster Rolls of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1972 Robert Barnes, Marriages & Deaths from the Maryland Gazette 1727-1839. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing House, 1973 Helen W. Ridgley, Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1967. Originally published NY: The Grifton Press, 1908 Maryland German Church Records, Historical Society of Carroll Co, Westminster, MD 1992 F. S. Weiser, Frederick Maryland Lutheran Marriages and Burials 1743-1811, Washington, DC: National Genealogical Society, 1972 Anderson, Grant James, Genealogy, in Part, of the Anderson-Owen-Beall Families, October 1909 2. Anne Arundel Gentry, Harry Wright Newman, Maryland Pioneer Series, 1933. 3. Magruder's Maryland Colonial Abstracts: Will, Accounts and Inventories, 1772-1777, James M. Magruder, Jr., Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1968. 4. Index of Maryland Colonial Wills, 1634-1777 In the Hall of Records Annapolis, MD, compiled by James M. Magruder, Jr., Baltimore, Genealogicical Publishing Company, 1967. 5. History of Frederick County Maryland, TJC Williams and Folger McKinsey, 2 vols., Baltimore, 1910 and 1967, Regional Publishing Co. 12. Magruder's Maryland Colonial Abstracts: Will, Accounts and Inventories, 1772-1777, James M. Magruder, Jr., Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1968. 15. History of Western Maryland, J. Thomas Scharf, Philadelphia, 1882, repr. Baltimore, Regional Publishing Co., 1968. 16. Albert S. Edwards, Historical Sketches of the Beall and Edwards Families, W.W. Rokker, Printer and Binder, 1910. 19. Ministerial Records of Prince George's Parish Register of Baptism 1792-1845. Prince George's Parish, Montgomery County, Maryland - with other records - Mutilated condition" Baptisms 20. TO MARYLAND FROM OVERSEAS __A Complete Digest of the Jacobite Loyalists Sold into __White Slavery in Maryland, and the British and __Continental Background of Approximately 1400 __Maryland Settlers from 1634 to the early Federal __Period with Source Documentation By Harry Wright Newman 21. MARYLAND RECORDS - KILTY'S LAWS REVOLUNTIONARY WAR PENSIONS BTW, it seems that just about any book by Harry Wright Newman has some mention of the Bealls and most other MD families, so I've just perused 'em all. You can use your Public Library's Interlibrary Loan Network to request any book. I live on the East Coast and have received books about MD genealogy thru ILL from California. Lisa

Gee, Candee, thanks for re-posting this. Made my day to think that it was worth posting again. Now that time passed, I've got a correction...or two. I discovered that Georgetown really wasn't named after George Beall, but King George. He was, however, one of the incorporators of the town. I seem to remember that there was some reluctance on his part to do so...feel like I read about it in Scharf's History of Western MD. Maybe someone can elucidate. And, it turns out that the Ninian Beall buried under a large concrete spire is the Ninian Beall of whom I wrote not long ago who married Anna Maria Stricker. He died in Brooke County, WV. According to Albert S.Edward's book, Historical Sketches of the Beall and Edwards Families, W.W. Rokker, Printer and Binder, 1910, Georgetown urbanization encroached upon the Beall burying grounds and they exhumed Colonel Ninian. Apparently, it proved his great height and...believe it or not...his flaming red hair. I believe it was in this book that I read that Colonel Ninian d. 1717 frequently wore his armor. I still get a kick out of that. I'm certain it contributed to his living to the ripe old age of 92.

In the archives I found the following excerpt in the Beall list. Now I realize that I should have been looking for Massa ANN Dunn Beall, wife of J. Thomas BEALL. She was from Frankfort VA(now KY). Born in 1797, and died in 1864 in Frostburg, MD. My grandfather, who had done the orig. documentation, said her name was Ann. However, she is buried in Frostburg, as Massa Beall and the land records say Massa Beall. Can anyone help me. Candee A National Register of the Society Sons of the American Revolution, p.436 LOUIS ERWIN BEALL, Uniontown, Penna. (9659). Son of Louis Dunn and Isabella H. (FREY) Beall; grandson of Thomas and M. Ann (DUNN) Beall; great-grandson of Aza and Eliza (Beall) BEALL; great2-grandson of Thomas and Valinda Beall; great2-grandson of Samuel B. Beall, Member of Maryland State Constitutional Convention, Judge of Frederick County Court.

found the following post in the archives and thought it was so interesting. From: Lisa Simms <lsimms@world.std.com> Fun Facts about Ninian Beall: Ninian was a very tall man, 6' 7" with flaming red hair. While this had been oral history, they exhumed his body at some point because of DC urbanization and confirmed these facts at that time. If memory serves me correctly, his relatives replaced him in a concrete resting place with a tall spire. After his indenture to Robert Hall (Quaker) was completed, Ninian was hired to defend the populace against Indian attack. He was a Green Ranger who roamed the forests between 4 forts in MD. .. As early as 1692, it had been considered wise to establish a chain of fortifications in our colony, from Piscataway in Charles County on the south to the Pennsylvania line on the north. The sites of these forts, and the lists of their officers and rangers may be followed today, and under the leadership of the canny Scot, Col. Ninian Beall, and the discipline of Col. John Addison, the people were ready to encounter "the copper-colored cannibal, or the wily French savage"...The range had on it two cabins at fifteen miles interval toward the Susquehanna and two at ten miles interval toward the Patapsco To add just a bit more spice to the lonely Ranger life the state of MD proffered: when they be Required to Range out of Public Service...they were given...2 Holy Bibles, 2 bookes of the Whole Duty of man, 2 Books of Catechism, a Brief Discourse on the Whole Duty of Man. (all of above from Old Baltimore, Sioussant, Annie Leakin, Macmillan, New York, 1931, p 41.) Ninian was taken prisoner in the Cromwell uprising and was transported as a "political prisoner" to Maryland (with perhaps a side trip to Barbados.) Rumor has it, he brought his armor with him and he frequently wore it around town. You can imagine what native Americans might have thought of that...or anyone else for that matter. In the Catholic-baiting times of the Protestant Revolution in MD, Ninian is credited with the idea of compromise by creating the Church of England as the state religion... thinking it to be a good solution as the Anglicans are "one step from Rome." Ninian is known as the "Father of American Presbyterianism" and much can be found about him in their literature. Recently, I came across a chatty Presbyterian newsletter from a church in OH on the Web which mentions the Beall Fund still doing good works (might not be Ninian's per se, but certainly one of his kin.) Ninian created a Scottish empire in MD by convincing his relatives to emigrate. He received land (as lawful) for every emigration. All this land was needed because all of the Bealls consistently had large families, 10 or more children is not unusual. Not unlike many Colonial families, the Bealls gave new meaning to the term "kissin' cousins." The Beall line is filled with Beall-Beall marriages. They also were so united that they named their children after each other....so there are at least 15 Ninians in the family. A genealogist's nightmare. Ninian's son George is thought to be the namesake for Georgetown, DC. George's brother Thomas built a house in Georgetown which was purchased by Jackie after President Kennedy's assassination in Dec. 1963. Now, I am, by no means a Beall genealogist that can help you with your family because I'm hopelessly ensnarled, but I do have more Ninian Beall info from original sources that I can send as attachments. So, give me a holler.

Hi, Dennis, nice to hear from someone who's part of the ones who stayed behind! I sure don't have a digital picture of Ninian but if anyone has a non-digital one, I'd be happy to scan it and make it available on my website (email me personally and ask for my snailmail address.) Dennis wrote: >I'm particularly interested in finding some sort of detailed account of what > happened to Ninian during and after the Battle of Dunbar, his march to > Durham Cathedral, imprisonment there by the Cromwellians, deportation to > Barbados a few months later. His time in the Caribbean and subsequent > shipment to Maryland around 1657. I'm interested in this part of the story too (I continue to entertain the thought that the life story of Col. Ninian would make a stunning screenplay!) but to date I know of nobody but yourself who is studying it. If anyone knows where I might could go (particularly if it is on the web) for more information on that period in Scottish history, I'd be delighted to hear from you. I am also very interested in finding out how I could find a ship's list of passengers, well, prisoners, on that ship that brought Ninian and about 150 other Highlanders to Barbados. I would at least like to know their surnames - Call me silly, but I can't help feeling that those families are all kind of linked somehow as one big spiritual family! Far off in sunlit places Sad are the Scottish faces Yearning to feel the kiss of sweet Scottish rain Where tropic skies are beaming Love sets the heart a-dreaming Longing and dreaming for the homeland again kim -- ~~~~~~ epic7@pagesz.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \_/3 Had a good cup of tea lately? __________http://www.geocities.com/Athens/beallstuff.html ___

Hi Bealls: My name is Dennis Bell and I'm descended, I'm 99 per cent sure, from Alexander Beall of Largo, Fife Scotland, ca. 1565. From the Bells who stayed behind in Largo after the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. In fact my grandfather and great grandfather were both born in Largo in the last century. I'm fascinated with Col. Ninian Beall, the seven-foot giant who ended up owning most of Georgetown. I wondering if anybody out there has a computerized picture of him that can be emailed to me. I'm particularly interested in finding some sort of detailed account of what happened to Ninian during and after the Battle of Dunbar, his march to Durham Cathedral, imprisonment there by the Cromwellians, deportation to Barbados a few months later. His time in the Caribbean and subsequent shipment to Maryland around 1657. I need all the help I can get. Many thanks. Dennis Bell Burnaby, BC Canada dennis@cafe.net

Dale, There is an Eleazar BEALS recorded on pg. 124 in the 1800 Norfok Co., MA census with age ranges 31110-212100 He is also recorded in the Norfolk co., Randolph, MA census, pg 136. Likewise for his wife Sarah BEALS. Isaac G. BLANCHARD is recorded in 1820, 1840, 1860 census There is also a Isaac J. BLANCHARD recorded on pg 137, Norfolk Co., Stoughton 1860 census. Eunice BEALS appears on pg. 160, Harrison Co., Harrison Twp. 1860 IN census. You might try Broderbund's Family Tree Maker's World family trees, CDs # 9 & 8. They seem to have all the individuals and families you are seeking. I do not have these CDs. I do not know the specific tree #s. The one in # 9 is called Gill, Billings 0f MA & ME Happy Hunting, Chuck Beal

Are you putting out information about yourself, your children, and other living relatives over the internet? If so, this message is for you!!! Missing Links, Vol.2 #22 Where Are Your GEDCOMS Tonight? By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG Is personal information about you, your children and living relatives posted on a web page where any crook or kook can find it? It may be if you have shared your genealogical data via GEDCOM, pedigree charts or family group sheets. (Use any search engine and look for your names and check GenDex (http://www.gendex.com/ ) as well as visit some of the commercial vendors' websites who encourage software owners to contribute their GEDCOMS.) Are you guilty of invading the privacy of others, such as your living relatives, by passing along their genealogical data to someone else without their expressed written permission? You are, if you have shared your genealogical databases or research notes with a third party. The dead do not have a right to privacy, but the living do. Genealogists are sharing, caring people, and most of us think nothing of handing over all of our genealogical data to distant cousins, even strangers. "We should start thinking," says a Prodigy member in the Genealogy BB's COFFEE SHOP topic under "Sharing Data on the Web." The idea of sharing is good and technology has made it easy. However, technology is not an exclusive tool for honest people. If detailed personal information about you and your living relatives is on the internet, crooks can and do find it, and some scam artist may use it to hoodwink your grandmother into giving out the secrets that will open her bank account. It has happened. Your relatives have the same rights to privacy that you do and among these rights are: 1. Appropriation of one's name or likeness by another without consent; 2. The right to be free of unreasonable and highly offensive intrusions into one's seclusion, including the right to be free of highly objectionable disclosure of private information in which the public has no legitimate interest; and 3. False light in the public eye -- the right to avoid false attributions of authorship or association. Publishing (and putting it on a GEDCOM, chart or on the web is publishing) genealogical information about a living person without their consent may involve all three aspects of their right to privacy and they may be able to seek legal relief through a civil lawsuit. What can you do? -- If you find someone has posted information about you or living relatives on the internet, ask them to take it down. Be as forceful as is necessary. -- Exclude information about any living persons from your GEDCOMS and charts before sharing with others. Most genealogy software will allow you to exclude all persons born after a particular date, which you can pick as 1920, 1910 or 1900, for example. Or use a handy utility program called GEDClean (http://members.aol.com/tomraynor2/gedclean.htm). A copy of this freeware (Windows 3.x or Win95) is posted in the Genealogy File Library or your can download it from the above web site. -- Educate yourself about privacy issues on the internet: (http://genealogy.tbox.com/jog/aug96/advanced.html) Share your genealogical data, but don't intrude on others' privacy and do not allow them to violate yours. Michele in MO Please visit any or all my pages below. FAMILY GENEALOGY RESEARCH: http://members.tripod.com/~genealogy_thomas FLUVANNA CO. VIRGINIA: http://members.aol.com/leeintn/private/fluvanna/michele.htm KIDD MAIL LIST: send message "subscribe " to <Kidd-L-request@rootsweb.com> To "unsubscibe" send message to the address above. To Post a message: send message to Kidd-L@rootsweb.com BRAGG MAIL LIST To Post a message: send message to <BRAGG-L@rootsweb.com>

Hello I do not know who you are . But I will say this . I do not give out any information on my family that is living unless they say it is ok. I respect their personal lives. I have been doing Genealogy to long to cross that LINE. Bye Karen

My great-grandfather was Charles Beall who was born in West Virginia. He married Cora Penniston (from Indiana). My grandfather was Harry V. Beall, born May 27, 1893 in Evansville, Indiana; died November 20, 1939 at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis. He is buried in the National Cemetery at Jefferson Barracks. Any information would be appreciated.

Hi All: I just found this in an old notebook I haven't looked at in awhile. Does anyone know anything about these properties? 1828 Prince Georges County MD taxes Piscataway Hundred Barrette, James;Lucy Beall Baynes Lot Second Ditto and Fenlys Chance 169 acres Also, I have found in St John baptismal records reference to a Lucy born to Patrick Beall and his wife. Further checking, found Patrick as administrator to mother-in-lawl Jane Goddards will. (Patricks wife was Eleanor Goddard according to this will). I think these may be her (Lucys) parents, the time and place fit. Now, does anyone know anything about Patrick BEALL? Thanks. Violet Atchison