Susan Dorris sdorris@mychoice.net My Beal lineage: Frances "Fanny" Beal Rev. War, Wagoner and Patriot. Took her husbands place. Paid for services and provisions - see S.C. Indents b. abt 1745/1748 S.C. d. 1799 Greenwood Co. S.C. md. abt 1763 Ninety-Six Dist. S.C. James Griffin * Rev War Soldier, killed in an ambush in 1781 md. 2nd Charles Astley Cooper Captain William Beal Rev. War Soldier/ Spy. b. abt 1727 prob. S.C. d. after 13 Dec 1789 Edgefield Co., Ninety-Six Dist., S.C. At the time of the revolution the Captains mother was still living. In Logan's book "History of the Upper Country of South Carolina" in given the story of how the Captains mother, name not given so I have chosen to call her "Grandma Beal", was robbed and wounded by the Tory "Bloody Bill Cunningham". The Captain on hearing this set out after bloody Bill. When he caught up to bloody Bill, the Tory shot the Captains horse out from under him. In the South Carolina "Indents" the Captain put in for a request to be paid "for a horse lost in the service of his country".