this was posted to another rootsweb forum ...................................... Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:11:49 -0600 From: Standcedargrove@aol.com Source: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RICH GRUBB BEESON HOLMES This pertains to recent mailings to Quaker-Roots from Jim Peacock, Dan Treadway, Gregory McReynolds, and Leslie Hope. ---- I am a descendant of Edward Beeson through one of his older sons, Richard Beeson who married Charity Grubb, daughter of John Grubb and Frances ______. Charity Beeson, daughter of Richard Beeson and Charity Grubb, married Mordecai Mendenhall. Richard Mendenhall, son of Mordecai Mendenhall and Charity Beeson, married Jane Thornbury. Gilbert Cope determined through correspondence with an English genealogist that Edward Beeson and Rachel Pennington were married in England, perhaps on 7 November 1682, I believe they are said to have been married in Leiscestershire, but I do not have the reference source. ---- There seems to be no proof that Rachel Penningon was closely related to the noted early Quaker, Isaac Pennington. I have noted that there were many members of the Pennington family who were members of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting. centered in Lancashire, in the late seventeenth century, but I cannot find Rachel's name among them. I do not know that Rachel (Pennington) Beeson appears in any early American Quaker records. The Edward Beeson family seems to have come to northern Delaware at an early time, perhaps as early as 1684. They settled in Brandywine Hundred. I once located the probable area where they lived, near the old Baltimore Pike northeast of Wilmington. Thirty years ago there was a small shopping mall in the locality. They probably had some connection with the Newark Friends Meeting which dates from as early as 1682, located near the present Friends burial ground in the vicinity of the Wilmington suburb of Carrcroft. According to the will of Edward Beeson, there were four surviving children from his first family: Edward, Richard, William, and Ann. The son Edward (Jr.) married Esther Hall under the care of Newark Monthly Meeting, ca. 1704 and took over his father's holdings in Brandywine Hundred. Richard Beeson, probably the second son, was born in Tenth Month 1684 and married Charity Grubb on the 4th of Tenth Month 1706, William, probably the third son, seems to have returned to England. Ann Beeson, daughter of Edward Beeson, Sr. married John Cloud, son of William Cloud. About 1703 Edward Beeson, Sr. arranged for the acquisition of one of the Nottingham Lots which had been laid out under the direction of William Penn and his agent, James Logan, in an attempt to nail down the ownership of an area of contested land on the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Edward Beeson, Sr. moved to this new location, to a lot in West Nottingham. There is no record of the date of death of his first wife. By about 1810 he seems to have married as his second wife, Elizabeth ______., with whose background I am not acquainted. Edward and Elizabeth had two daughters, Elizabeth Beeson, born ca. 1712, who married John Everett, and Rachel Beeson, born 1712/1713, who married on the 9th of 12th Month 1730/1731 at the East Nottingham Meetinghouse, Richard Brown, son of William Brown and Ann Mercer. Rachel (Beeson) Brown was probably born a few months after the death of her father, Edward Beeson, Sr. After the death of Edward Beeson, Sr., his widow, Elizabeth, married 2nd, Joseph Rich. They had four children: John, Joseph, Martha, and Peter. I believe that the work bey David N. Grubb noted in the Quaker-Roots Archives a year or two ago is the most accurate and up-to-date work concerning the ancestry of John Grubb (1652-1708). Earlier work published in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century is filled with errors. It appears that the ancestry of Frances, wife of John Grubb, is not known as of the present. She was not the daughter of a Sir Francis Vane, as was once postulated. Frances (_____) Grubb married 2nd ,Richard Buffington, a chum of John Grubb. Frances (____) (Grubb) Buffington seems to have died in 1712. Nottingham Meeting seems to date from as early as 1702, when a number of the Brown and related families, moved to the Nottingham Lots from the vicinity of Chichester Friends Meeting in Chichester Twp., now Delaware County, PA. Chichester Meeting and Concord Meeting both belonged to the same Chichester-Concord Monthly Meeting. While there is some mention of Nottingham Friends in the records of New Garden Monthly Meeting after 1718, I fear that there are few Quaker records of Nottingham before this time. ----- Herbert Standing.