Hello Carolyn, I'll try to answer your last e-mail. > > I think the "key" to whether or not the Thomas BEAL (call him #1) who > married Mary C. WHITE and the Thomas BEAL (call him #2) who married > Grace YEATON are the same individual is whether or not there is any > evidence that Mary C. WHITE died before 1827. Do any of you have any > evidence one way or the other on this?? No I have no evidence as to when she died - none at all. > (2) Abigail A. BEAL, born 10 Apr 1827 at New Castle, NH; died 31 Aug > 1891 at New Castle, NH; married [I don't have a date] to John TARLTON > (1828-1863), son of Capt Elias TARLTON & Ann J. YEATON. Married (2) 2 > June 1878 at Kittery, ME to John AMAZEEN (1815-1904) son of William > Christopher AMAZEEN and Jane JONES and his second wife. William Amazeen m. Jane Jones Amazeen not Jane Jones. See below. 1) Mary and Sarah Jones were indeed sisters, the only children of William and Jane Jones. He leaves in his will (dated 15 June, 1795) 4/5 of estate to Mary Amazeen and 1/5 to Jane Jones Amazeen, dau of Sarah after his widow's decease or remarriage. Tax list for 1797 and '98 list property as "widow Jane Jones", but after this says 'estate of Wm. Jones dec'd', so she might have died or remarried (don't see her on New Castle marriage lists, though). A petition on this estate was made on behalf of the above heirs in 1806 by Joseph Amazeen "husband of only surviving child of dec'd" and by William Amazeen "husband of the only child of the other daughter dec'd", "the 2 daughters being the only children of the deceased". I wish I had something more to offer, but I don't. Carol

I have spent most of the day trying to research whether or not the "Mary JONES" who married Joseph AMAZEEN (1761/66-1857, son of Joseph and Dorcas) was the daughter of William & Jane JONES [as it appears from William JONES' probate documents] or the daughter of Samuel JONES & Mary PINKHAM [as claimed by Charlie Gale and Dana Cobb--but not documented by them] I am inclined to believe that Mary, wife of Joseph AMAZEEN, was indeed the daughter of William & Jane. Supposedly the "Mary JONES, dau of Samuel" was from Dover, but I can find no birth or christening entry for her in the collections of the Dover NH Historical Society. I also checked the Vital Records of Rye, NH, but found no family of a "Samuel JONES" there. I was able to locate the probate records of a "Samuel JONES" of Somersworth, husbandman, who fits into the right time period. His will was made 1 Apr 1758 and proved 11 May 1774. Legatees include his wife *Mary*, sons John, Ebenezer & Benjamin, and daughters Abigail FALL, Dorcas GOWELL, Elizabeth SANDS, Esther HEARD, Lois WENTWORTH , *Mary HORSOM* and other relatives. I think it is likely that the "Mary, dau of Samuel" found by Gale and Cobb actually married into the HORSOM, rather than the AMAZEEN family. So--unless we turn up something further later on--I'm officially making the 'switch' and listing our "Mary JONES" as the "Mary, daughter of William", based on William's probate records. ~ Carolyn Depp ----- Original Message ----- From: Carol White To: Carolyn G Depp Cc: [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:45 PM Subject: Re: BEAL-WHITE-YEATON Tangle [Snip] 1) Mary and Sarah Jones were indeed sisters, the only children of William and Jane Jones. He leaves in his will (dated 15 June, 1795) 4/5 of estate to Mary Amazeen and 1/5 to Jane Jones Amazeen, dau of Sarah after his widow's decease or remarriage. Tax list for 1797 and '98 list property as "widow Jane Jones", but after this says 'estate of Wm. Jones dec'd', so she might have died or remarried (don't see her on New Castle marriage lists, though). A petition on this estate was made on behalf of the above heirs in 1806 by Joseph Amazeen "husband of only surviving child of dec'd" and by William Amazeen "husband of the only child of the other daughter dec'd", "the 2 daughters being the only children of the deceased". I wish I had something more to offer, but I don't. Carol