On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:29:45 -0700 (PDT) kate ross <jkross4@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello > > I descend from Edward Beeson, Sr. in two ways;  Edward Jr. who m. >Esther/Hester Hall; > and Elizabeth who married John Everett. Is it known whether all of >Edward Beeson's children > were with his first wife Rachel Pennington or whether some were with >second wife, Elizabeth Grubb > who married second Joseph Rich? > > I would like to correspond with others interested in the above. > > Kate Ross > Kate, I see this copy of Edward Beeson's will on line http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~beeson/will1.html In it he mentions son Edward (land by "Nessamoney"--possibly Neshaminy in Bucks County), son Richard (land in Bucks County), son William (lot in Nottingham and 48 pounds money, executor to build a house for him), daughter Ann Cloud (twenty pounds money). "My will is that after my former wife's children have had their portions, that all my personal estate be divided betwixt my widow and my daughter Elizabeth according to law." "And I desire yt my wife shall give to the child yt she is now great with, if it should live when born, forty pounds" It would appear from this that Edward, Richard, Ann, and William are children of Rachel (Pennington) Beeson, and that Elizabeth and Rachel (my notes suggest that she was born in 1713, and is thus the unborn child mentioned) are Elizabeth (Grubb) (Beeson) Rich's children. My notes also include a son Isaac, son of Edward and Rachel. He evidently died young, as he is not mentioned in the will. I count Edward and Rachel's son Richard, who married Charity Grubb (a first cousin of his stepmother), as my 7g grandfather. I also believe John Rich, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Grubb) (Beeson) Rich, is my 6g grandfather. -- Dan Treadway P. O. Box 72 Gilbert IA 50105 treadway@netins.net http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway/