Beatty cousins, One of these days I am going to drive south to the bottom of our state of Michigan, and I want to meet, personally, with my good friend Alice, who is so intrigued with all branches of my family. She explained that, because both sides of her family came from Belgium to this country in the mid-1800s, she finds my family very interesting, since all of my branches have been in this country since the beginning. In her words, it makes her feel successful, because she thinks my ancestors are easier to research and there is no Belgium language barrier. Plus, she thinks my ancestors are easier to find! I tell her that she finds ancestors and that former family historians have tried to find for the last 200 years! If anyone has any advice or tips that I can pass on to Alice, I would love to be able to help her with her family history for a change. She is very thoughtful and adds the source titles, credits, and a link if I want to see what else is on the website. If you would like to read my humorous-but-true story that centers around my friend Alice, take a look at the recently updated and growing website of our Muskegon County Genealogical Society. My story is featured under "Articles and Trivia" after clicking on "Research Information." http://www.rootsweb.com/~mimcgs/Articles.htm Lois (GRIFFES) KORTERING, L-39 & L-134. My grandparents: ALLEN, BAKER, BARABU, BARBER, BARSTOW, BEALS, BEATTY, BEATY, BICKFORD, BLAND, BONNEY, BOONE, BORDEN, CHAPMAN, CLARKE, CLARK, CLAYTON, CLEMENTS, COLE, DAMON, DAVIS, DELASHMENT, DENNIS, DOAN, DOANE, ELWELL, ENSING, ENSIGN, EVES, FISH, GRAHAM, GRAHAM, GRIFFEE, GRIFFIS, GRIFFES, GRIFFITHS, HAGGERTY, HAYDEN, HOPKINS, HUBBARD, HUDSON, HUNT, JONES, JOYNER, KAHL, KEHL, KNOWLES, LATHROP, LITCHFIELD, LITTLE, LOTHROP, McDONALD, MOORE, PAINE, PARRIS, PAYNE, PEAKS, PYLCHER, PILCHER, REDNER, ROGERS, SIMMONS, SMALLEY, SNOW, TEETERS, TILDEN, TILLOTTSON, WADE, WALKER, WALLING, WEISER, WEBB, WILCOX, WILLARD, WILLIAMS, WILLEY, WILLITS. Below is the interesting biography/obituary on Charles Beatty from Antrim Ireland: http://www.famousamericans.net/charlesbeatty/ Charles Beatty BEATTY, Charles, clergyman, born in county Antrim, Ireland, about 1715 ; died in Bridgeton, Barbadoes, 13 August 1772. While very young he sailed for America, and, with other passengers, was landed on Cape Cod in a nearly famished condition, the ship having run short of provisions. Making his way to the neighborhood of Philadelphia, he began peddling in the vicinity. On one of his excursions he stopped at the " Log College " near Neshaminy, and fell into conversation with its founder, the Rev. William Tennent, who, discovering that the young peddler had a classical education, and possessed the true missionary spirit, persuaded him to study for the ministry, and he was ordained on 13 October 1742. He became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at the Forks of Nesharainy, Pennsylvania, 26 May 1748. The Presbyterians were at that time divided into two factions, the "Strict" or " Old Side " and the " New Side," and Mr. Beatty joined the former. He was associated with David Brainerd! in some of his missionary labors among the Indians, and accompanied Franklin as chaplain on a military expedition to establish frontier posts in the northwest, in 1755. Franklin relates, in his account of the expedition, that, noting the punctual attendance of the soldiers when the daily allowance of grog was served out, and contrasting it with their dilatory attendance at the regular religious services, he suggested to the chaplain the expediency of serving this popular ration immediately after prayers. The chaplain thought the idea good, accepted the task, and, adds Franklin, "never were prayers more generally and punctually attended, so that I think this method preferable to punishment inflicted by severe military laws for non-attendance on divine services." In 1766 Mr. Beatty made a prolonged missionary tour through the frontier settlements of Pennsylvania. Some of his sermons were printed, and he published the " Journal of a Two Months' Tour among the Frontier Inhabita! nts of Pennsylvania" (London, 1768), also a letter to the Rev. John Erskine, advocating the theory that the American Indians are the descendants of the lost Hebrew tribes. He was much interested in raising money for the struggling College of New Jersey (Princeton), and died of yellow fever while on a visit to Barbadoes with this object in view. Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 & edited Stanley L. Klos, 1999 Estoric.com. We rely on volunteers to edit historic biographies on a continual basis.