This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/odB.2ACI/806.1 Message Board Post: not the data you wanted but perhaps this deed will help establish earlier Beatty connections. Cumberland co., PA Deeds Surviving Executors & Heirs of John Beaty, deceased to James Power. This indenture witnesseth that Robert Sturgeon obtained a patent from the Hon. Proprietors of PA dated at Philadelphia 28 May 1770 for 101 acres & one quarter of an acre plus allowance in Rye twp., now Juniata (twp.), county of Cumberland and state of PA ....beginning at a marked birch standing on the side of the Juniata River....land of Andrew Stevens....David English land...called Sturgeon's Hall. Robert Sturgeon & Jane, his wife for 1000£ conveyed this piece of land to John Beatty as by deed 3 April 1779 and the said John Beatty, now deceased did by his last will & testament recorded in Carlisle, did will among other things that in five years after his decease the said described tract should be sold by his two sons Andrew & John who he appointed sole executors of his last will & testament and the money arising to be divided among his children as therein mentioned. Now the said John Beatty, surviving executor, and the rest of the surviving heirs Viz. Margaret, the widow of the said deceased, William, John, Robert, and Joseph Beaty, and Michael Marshal & Elizabeth, his wife for 400£ paid by James Power of Juniata twp., Cumberland co., PA ........ John Beatty Margaret (her 0 mark) Beatty Wm. Beatty Robert Beatty Joseph Beatty Michael Marshall Elizabeth Marshall Cumberland co. SS Deed acknowledged 15 Aug. 1795 Recorded Jan. 6, 1796