Nucular Nexus: Jim Beckwourth as Gandhi
BLEAK HALL - NORTHERN NECK, VA
See: Bleak Hall, Edisto Island
THE RETREAT - CLARKE COUNTY, VA
MOUNT AIRY - NORTHERN NECK, VA
The news had gotten out that the Tayloes were going to be hosting a gala at Mount Airy. "Everyone is going to be there..."
OUTLINE
PRESENT DAY - Describe the task at hand -- writing a book on Jim Beckwourth's antecedents. Talk about the difficulty in creating a "first book" and a "joint venture" so to speak. Every gem, and indeed every Jim, has many facets and an incredibly vast setting. As such, going back to the beginning, as we now know it, is the only way to show the truly big picture...
Among the present day to include:
911
Blogging (First Blog Novel)
FlashMob
Birth of WWW
Selection 2000/Tilden
Lists of Modern Authors,Musicians, Artists, etc in Rabelasian style
Gurdjieff
Dalai Lama on Dying
BIG BANG - The beginning of the material world. The birth of Matter/Mother.
COMETS: "The Cosmic Gardener" - How water and microbes get distributed.
BIRTH OF EARTH - The beginnings of life on earth
PRE-CIVILIZATION - Describe pre-boundary life. Find the good things.
THE ANCIENTS: "What they knew, and when." - Ancient wisdom
WRITING AND EDUCATION - Hermes, King Wen, Duke of Chou, Eckhart, Lao Tse, Rumi, etc
30,000 BC - MESOAMERICA, NATIVE AMERICANA - Show how the Indians were here long before even Adam. Engage the reader into considering their primacy on North America. Should the English Colonists have a right to return, once they are told to go back to Europe? This brings up the current issue of the right of return for the Palestinians...as well as the concept of "homeland". Cain means Ownership.
THE PRE-ADAMIC RECORD - Enlil and Enki, Lilith, etc
ADAM AND EVE...AND LILITH?
BARUCH
CAIN AND ABEL - OWNERSHIP
ZEDEKIAH AND TEA TEPHI
JESUS AND MARY MAGDALENE
DESPOSINI
HOLY GRAIL
TEMPLARS & FREEMASONS
JEREMIAH, BARUCH AND TEA TEPHI
EUROPEAN JOURNEYS AND HOMELANDS
THE TWO UKs
JESUS, MARY MAGDALENE (MAULDIN, MADELINE)
KING ARTHUR, MERLIN, TALIESIN, JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA
WILLIAM THE CONK
ROBERT THE BRUCE
KINGS, QUEENS AND SAINTS
CAESARS, ETC
GENEALOGY
ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
MUSIC - LANIER, BASSANO
SHAKESPEARE - COUSIN
RIPON - The many Ripons. Ripon, Wis. is where the Republican Party was started.
JENNINGS
BECKWITHSHAW
ALDBOROUGH
PONTEFRACT
WILLIAM BECKWITH AT JAMESTOWN
HENRY BECKWITH OF MARYLAND
MATTHEW BECKWITH OF CONNECTICUT
SIR MARMADUKE BECKWITH OF VIRGINIA
SIR JONATHAN
STAMP ACT
LEES, WASHINGTONS, ETC
SIR JENNINGS BECKWITH
DEPRESSION AT DEATH
FREEING SLAVES
DAVID AND SOLOMON BECKWITH/UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
JIM BECKWOURTH
SILAS BECKWITH/BLOODYARD
JAMES CARROLL BECKWITH/MARK TWAIN/HANNIBAL
ADVENTURES OF JIM
SLAVERY
JIM'S WOMEN
CROW CHIEF
SAND CREEK MASSACRE
JOHN WATROUS BECKWITH
GEORGE CONE BECKWITH/PEACE SOCIETY/PEACE MANUAL
ELIZABETH HART BECKWITH/CANADA
JIM DOES COLORADO, CALIFORNIA, TAOS, ETC
JIM'S CHIRDREN
CIVIL WAR/RUFFIN
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aug6,2003
Dave and Jude as characters.
What NOT to include. (Ask Jude)
FADE IN:
WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT?
The book is about relationships. North vs South, Black vs White, Liberals vs Conservatives, Colonists vs Natives, America vs England, Past vs Present, life vs death...and how reconciliation comes about.
WHAT IS THE ENDING?
SYNOPSIS ATTEMPTS:
Dave, an intuitive genealogist and writer finds a kindred spirit on a political forum on the internet, and together they take advantage of the computer age tools -- blogging, gensoftware, gensites, forums, etc... and in the process they discover a kindred spirit in the past.
TITLE ATTEMPTS:
"What Blacks Do"
911
new york
Precognition
Lightning
Lightning Curse
Boston
Harvard
Digression>sterne
"Gathering of the Primates"
see Anglicanism
youknowitis
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When the Yankees Came
An Interview with John Beckwith 83, of‘ Cary.
UI reckon dat I wuz ‘bout nine years old. at de surrender, but we warn‘t happy an‘ we stayed on dar till my parents died. IV~r pappy wuz nam~d Ureen an‘ ~r masnn~r wu z named Molly, an ‚ we b e longe d ter Mr • Jo e Edwards ‚ Mr Marion Gtilii an‘ Mr. Hilliard Beckwith, as de missus married all of ‘em. Dar wuz twenty-.one other slaves,an‘ we got beat ever‘ onet in a while.
“~en dey told us dat de Yankees v~uz coriiin‘ we wuz
also told dat lifen we i‘ t behave dat we ~ d be shot ; an~ we believed it. We would‘uv behaved anyhow, case we had good plank houses, good food, ant shoes. We had Saturday ant Sunday off an‘ we wuz happy.
“De missus, she raised de ni~ge.r babies so‘s de manunies could wuek. I ‘members de times when she rock me ter sleep an‘ put me ter bed in her own bed. I wuz happy den as I thinks back of it, until dem Yankees come.
UDey come on a Chuesday; an‘ dey started by
burnin‘ de cotton house an‘ kuhn‘ most of de chickens an~ pigs. Way atter awhile dey fin‘s de cellar an‘ dey drinks
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188 TOM JONES (1745) - CARR'S TOM JONES
Fairfax Harrison's Early American Turf Stock, volume 2, pages 53 and 54, says - 'Because no record was made of his breeding while he was on the turf, Pick, duly noting his age and turf form, gave him the coat and breeding of Larkin's Tom Jones, b. c. 1743 (not 1745) by Crofts' Partner, of which a full record had been made by both Heber & Pond. The consequence was that GSB (i, 216), entering the Larkin colt among the produce of his dam, was led
astray by Pick and gave him the date of the Carr colt' Fairfax Harrison's Early American Turf Stock, volume 2, page 54, says - '[Tayloe's] Tom Jones [br. c. 1758] was bred by Col. John Tayloe of Virginia: he was got by Sir Marmaduke
Beckwith's horse of the same name (that was the property of Mr. Carr, he won a King's Plate and some Fifties)' also '[Beckwith's] Tom Jones was got by [Carr's] Cyprus: his dam by Mr. Crofts' Bloody Buttocks Arabian' also 'To these testimonies for breeding is added the Rappahannock River tradition (recorded in 1826 by Advocate in AF, x, 71, No 18) that the Tom Jones imp. by Sir Marmaduke Beckwith 'in the year 1755' was a gr. c.'
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FREDERICKSBURG
BINNS VS SIBYL BECKWITH (M6818) 1828
On 1 January 1820 BINNS wanted to hire a Negro woman. He met with Jennings BECKWITH who was the son of Sibyl and it was decided that the slave woman Alcey would be the one to go to work for BINNS. BECKWITH assured BINNS that the woman was sound and healthy and not pregnant. A price of $30.00 was set. Her hire was good until 25 December of that year. Soon afterward it was discovered that Alcey was preg. And was soon unfit for labor. BINNS complained to BECKWITH who basically said too bad and indicated that BINNS would have to support Alcey and pay the midwife's fee.
NEWSPAPER Virginia Free Press (Charles Town, W. Va.)
ENTRY Died- At Mount Airy, Richmond County, Va. on Nov. 13, Sir Jennings Beckwith, son of Jonathan Beckwith, and grandson of Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, son of Jonathan Beckwith, Bart., age 72. He was the "Leather Stocking" of the Northern Neck. Much of his life was spent in the far west hunting with the Indians. Of late he had lived with such as would hunt and fish with him. (p. 3, c. 3)
DATE OF PUB. Thursday, December 3, 1835.
FILM NO. Available on microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 417).
NOTE From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.
SUBJECT Obituaries -- Virginia.
SUBJECT Charleston (Va.)
SUBJECT Charles Town (W. Va.)
ADDED ENTRY Henley, Bernard J. (Bernard John)
COLLECTION Bernard J. Henley papers.
STYLE : Beckwith vs Garnetts Exor.
PLAINTIFF(s) : Jennings Beckwith; Catharine Beckwith; Catharine Miskell
DEFENDANT(s) : William Alexander (exor.); Thomas Garnett (dec'd)
PLACES MENTIONED : Stafford
REMARK(s) : Death ref. - William Miskell - intestate - Jan. 1789
Marriage ref. - Jennings Beckwith -mr- Catharine Miskell, dau. of William
Mill ref. - acct for rent of mill - 1789-1793
CITATION : Beckwith vs Garnetts Exor. / 1800 / CR-DC-L / 560-38
~http://www.rootsweb.com/~vacfrede/crd/fbdc99.htm
Rappahannock Mines, Falmouth, Stafford Co., Virginia, USA
Ref.: Dana 6: 18. A gold mine located 10 miles from Falmouth (direction not specified).
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Some ancestors of JPB:
Abraham - 67th ggf
King Alfred - 30th ggf
King Arviragus - 51st ggf
A personage who has come to our attention in the writings of Juvenal, who mentions him in connection with resistance to Roman conquest and authority. Geoffrey of Monmouth refers to him as a British king whose brother was killed sometime during Claudius' invasion (43 AD). He has been linked with Caratacus, but more interestingly, he is said by the interpolators of William of Malmesbury's "De Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae" to be the king who granted 12 hides of land around Glastonbury to Joseph of Arimathea and his band of followers, when they brought Christianity to Britain for the first time in 63 AD.
Some scholars think that it may have been Arviragus and his people who occupied the ancient hillfort, located in the county of Somerset, known as Cadbury Castle (which would later come to be associated with King Arthur), and used it as a base for their resistance against the Romans.
Berengar, Count of Rennes - 26th ggf
Bernhard, King of Italy - 29th ggf
Bran the Blessed - 51st ggf
Charlemagne - 30th ggf
King Childeric of Franks - 40th ggf
Cleopatra - wife of 54th ggf
Clodion - 40th ggf
Clodius I - 43rd ggf
Clodius III - 48th ggf
Clodomir IV - 63rd ggf
Clothaire I - 38th ggf
Clothilde - 39th ggm
Clovis - 39th ggf
King Coel of Camulod - 49th ggf
King Cymbeline (1st pendragon) 52nd ggf
Dagobert -46th ggf
King Darda Dardanus of Troy - 62nd ggf
Elmyra of Temple Faustina - 54th ggm
King David of Israel - 91st ggf
King Edward I of England - 15th ggf
King Edward II - 14th ggf
King Edward III - 13th ggf
Faramond - 41st ggf
Frederick, Count of Luxembourg - 24th ggf
Geoffrey Plantagenet I - 19th ggf
Lady Godiva - 26th ggm
Helen of Troy - 78th ggaunt
King Henry I of England - 20th ggf
King Henry II of England - 18th ggf
King Henry III of England - 16th ggf
JC - 50th ggf
King John I - 17th ggf
Judicael, Count of Rennes - 27th ggf
Judith of Brittany - 23rd ggm
Judith of the West Franks - 28th ggm
Julius Caesar - 56th gguncle
King Lear - 52nd ggf
King Louis I of France - 29th ggf
Matilda of Flanders - 21ggm
Matilda, Princess of Saxony - 25ggm
Matilda, Queen of England - 19ggm
Matilda of France (3cousin27)
Matilda, Countess of Ringelheim - 31ggm
Odin - 53ggf
King Priam of Troy - 79ggf
King Robert I of France - 26ggf
King Robert II of France - 23ggf
King William the Conk - 21ggf
Boaz Anfortas - 43ggf
French Kings in Cement
French Queens in Cement
Saint Denis Basilique, Paris, France
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Alexander Graham Bell House...near Bleak Hall
Colonial Beach did have some good memories, though most of them were of hope. When we first moved to Colonial Beach, it was something new and exciting. It was a wow, this is great! So close to the water, and in the country too! Memories of fishing, the huge house we stayed in, the ducks, being able to buy fireworks, Rusty leaving a tan spot on the wood deck furniture, biking for hours and hours, playing baseball against my brother (because there was NOBODY else to play with). Of course, this hope would be dashed as the cruel reality of Colonial Beach actually hit, but it was fun to remember first driving into what was then called Bleak Hall (now Harbor View Colony
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BLEAK HALL, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VA
[1831] Daniel resided at "Bleak Hall", on the South side of Mattox Creek, containing 1000 acres, which he bought before his father's death. He owned a great deal of land, as is indicated by the following deeds. The writer (Brooke Payne) has been told
by old residents in Westmoreland that Daniel Payne used to remark that he could walk from the Potomac to the Rappahannock without setting foot off his own property. His father left him the Glebe (Church Point) and also 535 acres near Leedstown
originally owned by Richard Payne and purchased 1795 by said John Payne from his brother William Payne. 1818 Daniel Payne bought "Laurel Grove" from Alexander Morson, who had it from Bushrod Washington; this estate adjoined Bleak Hall. 1831 he
purchased from Mrs. Mary Lee 185 acres on Mattox Creekadjacent to Bleak Hall and Laurel Grove. 1832 he bought Locust Farm and Oak Grove, 4000 acres on Mattox Creek. In the same year he and Henry T. Garnett bought from John Gray three tracts,
including "Wakefield", the birth-place of General Washington, and an island in Pope's Creek. Mr. Gray had purchased Wakefield in 1813 from George Corbin Washington, who reserved a plot 60 by 60 feet around the site of the house, and another
plot 20 by 20 feet around the tomb. 1835 Mr. Garnett sold to Daniel Payne for $8250 his share in Wakefield. Following Daniel Payne's death, his executors sold Wakefield to John E. Wilson.
Mattox Creek as viewed from an inland road, VA Route 205
Westmoreland County, VA
Early Marriages
May 15, 1795, Marmaduke Brockenbrough Beckwith and Rebecca Beckwith
November 1, 1796, Robert S. Hipkins and Mary H. Butler,
Beckwith Butler, her father, gives his consent
January 23, 1805, Barney (Barnes?) Beckwith and Elizabeth P. Martin
Section 22, Carter, Robert (1728-1804), Correspondence, 1754-1804
...Sir Jonathan Beckwith (concerning lawyers and lawsuits pending in the county courts of Virginia)...
...Beckwith Butler (concerning supplies for the Lancaster County militia)...
Section 1, Jenings, Edmund (1703-1756), Letterbook, 1753-1769
This section consists of one item, a letterbook, 17 November 1753-29 July 1769, of Edmund Jenings. The volume has been indexed by the staff of the Virginia Historical Society. The letterbook was kept in London, England, and Richmond, Virginia.
Letters concern the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Jewish immigration to Great Britain, the Maryland Land Office, Negroes, paper currency in Virginia and Maryland, pistole fee, plantations in Virginia and Maryland, salt, the Seven Years' War, tobacco, and the Virginia and Maryland boundary.
Correspondents (pp. 1-157 of the letterbook) include Thomas Bacon, Elizabeth (Brockenbrough) Beckwith, Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, William Beverley (of Blandfield, Essex County, Virginia), Sir Thomas Bladen, John Beale Bordley, Matthias Bordley, Stephen Bordley (concerning Horatio Sharpe), [first name unknown] Bowes, John Brice ([d. 1766] concerning Richard Lee and Horatio Sharpe), John Brice ([1738-1820] concerning Edward Braddock's campaign in 1755), Doctor [first name unknown] Brown, John Bullen, [first name unknown] Butler, William Byrd III (of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia), [first name unknown] Calvert (concerning horse racing in Virginia), Benedict Calvert (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore and Horatio Sharpe), Cecilius Calvert, Charles Carter (of Cleve, King George County, Virginia, concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Halifax, the Duke of Newcastle, and John Randolph), Landon Carter (of Sabine Hall, Richmond County, Virginia), [first name unknown] Carteret, Samuel Chamberlaine, Doctor Daniel Cheston (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore and the Earl of Halifax), Francina Augustina (Frisby) Stephenson Cheston, Gawin Corbin, Richard Corbin (of Laneville, King and Queen County, Virginia, concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, William Byrd III, John Randolph, Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and the Ohio Company), [first name unknown] Cruiksshanks, Robert Dinwiddie (concerning James Abercrombie, John Randolph, Peter Randolph, and Peyton Randolph), Michael Edwards, Benjamin Fendall (concerning Horatio Sharpe), Samuel Galloway, Charles Goldsborough, [first name unknown] Gordon, Anne [Guith?], Philip Hammond, Mathias Harris, [first name unknown] Hepburne, Matthew Hutton (as Archbishop of York), [first name unknown] Hyland, Michael Inman, Robert Janssen, Stephen Theodore Janssen, Doctor [first name unknown] Jeffery, Edmund Jenings Jr., Edmund Jenings (1731-1819), [first name unknown] Key, Mrs. [first name unknown] Lambert, Philip Ludwell Lee, Richard Lee (concerning Horatio Sharpe), John Leids, [first name unknown] Lidderdale, Edward Lloyd, Philip Ludwell III (of Green Springs, James City County, Virginia, concerning John Randolph), [John Miller], George Plater (concerning Horatio Sharpe), [first name unknown] Porteus, Beilby Porteus, Elizabeth (Jenings) Porteus, Nancy Porteus, Ariana (Jenings) Randolph, John Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Robert Dinwiddie, the Earl of Halifax, Peter Randolph, and Peyton Randolph), Peter Randolph (concerning John Randolph), Peyton Randolph (concerning John Randolph and Horatio Sharpe), Onoria Razalini (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Halifax, and the Duke of Newcastle), Mrs. [first name unknown] Rogers, Doctor David Ross (concerning Horatio Sharpe and a prescription), John Ross, Horatio Sharpe, William Sharpe (concerning John Blair, John Randolph, and Horatio Sharpe), William Smythies, [first name unknown] Snowden, [first name unknown] Stewart, Doctor George Steuart, Robert Stevenson, Benjamin Tasker, John Tayloe, Edward Thompson (concerning John Randolph), Presley Thornton, unidentified addressees (concerning William Byrd III, Edmund Jenings [1731-1819], John Randolph, Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, Horatio Sharpe, and Ralph Wormeley), [James] Wardrof, John Williams, [first name unknown] Williamson, John Wollaston, Mrs. John Wollaston, Ralph Wormeley, Chessley & Co. of Bristol, England, Hill & Co. of [location unknown], and Sedgeley & Co. of Bristol, England.
Letters (pp. 161-368 of the letterbook) of Edmund Jenings ([1731-1819] of London, England) also concern the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Brafferton, Yorkshire, England, copper mines, the East India Company, slavery, pamphlets of Edmund Jenings (1731-1819) and Doctor John Mitchell, paper currency, a portrait of William Pitt, the Seven Years' War, the Stamp Act of 1765, taxation, tobacco, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Correspondents include Sir Marmaduke Beckwith (of Richmond County, Virginia), Robert Beverley (of Blandfield, Essex County, Virginia, concerning William Pitt), John Beale Bordley (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, Robert Eden, the Earl of Hillsborough, Edmund Jenings Jr., Philip Ludwell Lee, William Pitt, Horatio Sharpe, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts of London, England), Sarah (Frisby) Brice, John Brice ([d. 1766] concerning Edmund Jenings [1703-1756] and Horatio Sharpe), John Brice (1738-1820), William Byrd III (of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia), Charles Carroll (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Hillsborough, Philip Ludwell III, and William Pitt), Francina Augustina (Frisby) Stephenson Cheston, Gawin Corbin (concerning Doctor Arthur Lee and William Pitt), Richard Corbin (of Laneville, King and Queen County, Virginia, concerning Robert Beverley, William Byrd III, the Earl of Halifax, Benjamin Harrison, the Earl of Hillsborough, Edmund Jenings [1703-1756], William Lee, Philip Ludwell III, William Pitt, John Randolph, Horatio Sharpe, John Tayloe, George Washington, and Ralph Wormeley), John Dickinson, George Lee Mason Fitzhugh, Benjamin Harrison (of Lower Brandon, Prince George County, Virginia), Edmund Jenings Jr., [first name unknown] Jordan (concerning Robert Eden and William Pitt), Doctor Arthur Lee (of London, England, and Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning the Earl of Hillsborough, Philip Ludwell III, and William Pitt), Richard Henry Lee (of Chantilly, Westmoreland County, Virginia, concerning Doctor Arthur Lee and Benjamin West and a portrait of the Earl of Camden), Richard Ludwell Lee (i.e., Philip Ludwell Lee or Richard Henry Lee concerning Robert Boyle, John Randolph, and John Tayloe), Thompson Moses, George Plater (concerning William Pitt), Beilby Porteus, Robert Porteus, Ariana (Jenings) Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Robert Dinwiddie, Philip Ludwell III, John Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and John Tayloe), John Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Edmund Jenings [1703-1756], Doctor Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, William Pitt, Edmund Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and John Tayloe), [first name unknown] Reynard, Gregory Rhodes, Christopher Robinson, Doctor David Ross, Danson Roundall, William Smythies, William Stevenson (concerning Horatio Sharpe), John Tayloe (of Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, concerning Doctor Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, John Randolph, William Sharpe, and Presley Thornton), Edward Thompson (concerning the Earl of Halifax), Presley Thornton, unidentified addressees (concerning William Pitt and the Quartering Act of 1766), Edm. Wilcox, and Ralph Wormeley (of Rosegill, Middlesex County, Virginia, concerning the Earl of Hillsborough).
Section 2, Jenings, Edmund (1731-1819), Correspondence, 1789-1819
This section consists of eight items, letters, 1789-1818, written to Edmund Jenings of London, England. Letters concern land in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Correspondents include John Brice (of Baltimore, Maryland), W. Cooke (bears endorsement of James Brooks), Thomas Land Emory (of Baltimore, Maryland), Eliphalet Pearson (of Cambridge, Massachusetts, concerning the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts), David Ross (of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania), and Ralph Randolph Wormeley (of Blackheath, England, and Winchester, Virginia, bears letters [copies] of Thomas Lane Emory and Doctor Gerard Hopkins Snowden and seal of Wormeley).
Section 3, Jenings, Edmund (1731-1819), Land Papers, 1783-1795
This section consists of two items, a letter, 1783, written by Lloyd Kenyon (of London, England, and bears seal) to John Randolph Grymes (of London, England) concerning American property rights in England; and an act (copy made by John Gwinn), 1795, of the Maryland General Assembly concerning land of Edmund Jenings in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (by authority of William Harwood, John Hoskins Stone, and Henry Warfield).
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~Genealogy Data Page 245 (Notes Pages)
Beckwith, Jennings (b. 1762, d. 14 NOV 1835)
Given Name: Jennings
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Jennings Beckwith
Title: Histsorical Southern Families vol. 3 p 28,29
Author: Boddie
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Miskell, Augustine "Austin" (b. 1 SEP 1772)
Given Name: Augustine "Austin"
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~Genealogy Data Page 291 (Family Pages) Spouse: Beckwith, Eloise Lloyd
Gender: Female
Parents:
Father: Beckwith, Frank
Mother: McDonald, Anne Leachy
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~land patents, 1839 BECKWITH Jennings 04/01/1839 17176MO2300__.162
BECKWITH Jennings 04/01/1839 18440MO2320__.392
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~Richmond Co. taxlist 1789
Includes Thomas Beale, Sir Jonathan Beckwith, etc...
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~Ditto... Jennings Beckwith
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More... Illustration #4
MRS. FRANCES MORTON HUBARD
(1739?-1800?)
Frances Morton was the daughter of Joseph Morton (1715-1759) of Richmond County and James City County and Frances Colston Morton, daughter of William Colston of King George County (d. 1721) and Mary Meriwether Colston (d. 1752). Mrs. Hubard was kin and connected to the first families of Virginia: Gooch, Beale, Bathurst, Beckwith, Jennings, Belfield, Meriwether, Mountjoy, etc. (See genealogical chart.)
Mrs. Morton's father was a Burgess from James City County 1756-1758. He was the son of Captain John Morton of Richmond County and Mary Mountjoy Morton. Joseph Morton became a distributing agent for a group of Yorkshire horse breeders. Traveller, an imported stud and race horse, was owned by Morton from 1748-1757. "He was bred by Mr. Crofts at Raby in Yorkshire (who was the fortunate breeder and owner of some of the first horses in England) and was got by his famous horse, Partner, grandsire of King Herod. The dam of Traveller was by Bloody Buttocks (an Arabian) ... Traveller sired horses owned by Thomas Mann Randolph, Robert Skipwith, John Hartwell Cocke, Richard Lee, Littlebury Hardyman, Secretary Thomas Nelson, Lewis Burwell and James Southall."
Following his marriage to Frances Colston c. 1739 Morton continued to live in Richmond County or King George County. In 1742 he owned two lots, #25 and 26, at Leeds Town. Following the death of his mother-in-law, Mary Meriwether2
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~Genealogy Data Page Extended 68 (Pedigree Pages)Beckwith, Miskell, Brockenbrough, Samford, etc...
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http://www.geocities.com/heartland/pointe/9126/beatty.html <> Thomas & Sarah Beatty of Montgomery County, Kentucky
Thomas is the oldest established ancestor that has been traced for this Beatty family. Thomas is identified by his will as the father of Nancy "Batty" (sic) who married Joseph See. His relationship to the See family is also identified through family recollection. There is a strong See family tradition that Joseph See Jr. was the son of Nancy Batty. These traditions are reflected in death certificates and early oral family history in at least two branches of the See family. The tradition of a Beatty ancestress was recalled well into the 19th century; however, beyond the name recognition no additional oral family history remains about the family today. The Beatty family is traced to Montgomery County, Kentucky where Thomas Beatty left a very lengthy and detailed will, as well as, documentation of two estate sales. This family has received little if none genealogical research.
Some researchers have identified Thomas Beatty as having married Sarah Turner, the daughter of William and Sarah (Ellzey) Turner of Fairfax and Loudoun counties, Virginia. The documentation of this connection is in the estate papers of Thomasin Ellsey of Fairfax County, Virginia [re: Will Books Q1-R1, 1830-36]. In the estate settlement the record states, "Jennings Beckwith and Henry Harrison are the joint owners of the 4/5th of the share of Sarah Beatty, daughter of Sarah Turner, having purchased out the interest of Thomas, Polly Beatty
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The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Beckerman to Bedel
BECKWITH: See also Steven Beckwith Ayres.
Beckwith, Abijah Member of New York state senate 5th District, 1835-38. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Cecile of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1944. Female. Still living as of 1944.
Beckwith, Charles of Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y. Delegate to New York state constitutional convention 30th District, 1894. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Charles Dyer (1838-1921) -- also known as Charles D. Beckwith -- of Paterson, Passaic County, N.J. Born near Coveville, Saratoga County, N.Y., October 22, 1838. Republican. Mayor of Paterson, N.J., 1887-88; U.S. Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1889-91. Died March 27, 1921. Interment at Chatham Center Rural Cemetery, Chatham Center, N.Y. See also: congressional biography.
Beckwith, Clinton Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Corydon Justice of Illinois state supreme court, 1864. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Cyrus G. of New London, New London County, Conn. Member of Connecticut state senate 9th District, 1887-88. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Elmer F. Democrat. Secretary of state of Colorado, 1899-1901. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Ernest of Kanawha County, W.Va. Republican. Candidate for West Virginia state house of delegates from Kanawha County, 1934. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Frank of Jefferson County, W.Va. Member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Jefferson County, 1881, 1887; member of West Virginia state senate 15th District, 1915-17. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Frank R. Republican. Candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1964. Still living as of 1964.
Beckwith, Fred A. of Niantic, East Lyme, New London County, Conn. Republican. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from East Lyme, 1907, 1927-29, 1939-40; member of Connecticut state senate, 1925. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Gladys of Lansing, Ingham County, Mich. Democrat. Member of Michigan Democratic State Central Committee, 1977. Female. Still living as of 1977.
Beckwith, Louise Taylor (b. 1882) -- also known as Louise Beckwith -- of Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Bowling Green, Warren County, Ky., August 15, 1882. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1944. Female. Episcopalian. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Sandra Shank (b. 1943) Born in Norfolk, Va., February 4, 1943. Lawyer; municipal judge, 1977-79, 1982-87; common pleas court judge, 1987-89; Judge of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 1992-. Female. Still living as of 2000. See also: federal judicial profile.
Beckwith, Sutherland of Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1940. Burial location unknown.
Beckworth, Gary See Lindley Garrison Beckworth, Sr.
Beckworth, Lindley Garrison, Sr. (1913-1984) -- also known as Lindley Beckworth; Gary Beckworth -- of Gilmer, Upshur County, Tex.; Gladewater, Gregg County, Tex. Born in South Bouie, Kaufman County, Tex., June 30, 1913. Democrat. Member of Texas state house of representatives, 1937-38; U.S. Representative from Texas 3rd District, 1939-53, 1957-67; candidate for U.S. Senator from Texas, 1952; Judge of U.S. Customs Court, 1967-68; member of Texas state senate, 1971-72. Baptist. Member, Freemasons; Odd Fellows. Died in Tyler, Smith County, Tex., March 9, 1984. Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Tex. See also: congressional biography.
Beckworth, Raymond Democrat. Candidate for U.S. Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1994. Still living as of 1994.
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Current News about the Shakespeare Authorship Debate Hughes sided with A.L. Rowse in identifying the Dark Lady as Emilia Bassano Lanier, a lady of some distinction in the Court in the 1590s, of Mediterranean extraction (and hence "olive-skinned"), and intellectually an equal of Oxford/Shakespeare (she published a book of her original poetry under her own name in 1611, the first such book ever published by a woman in England, and a book that--like the Sonnets--had very few surviving copies).
~Lanier Marriages in England * LANIER, Alphonse, son of Nicholas Lanier and Lucreece Bassano, married on 18 Oct 1592 in England to BASSANO, Emelia, feminist poet, daughter of Italian musician Baptisa Bassano and Margaret Johnson.
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Mujeres Barrocas The sudden appearance of Emilia Bassano (Madame Lanier) might seem strange in this series on women musicians, for Emilia was not a musician, and it is above all as a poet that she is present for us today. But when researching the musical life of Venice in the late 16th century by chance one discovers the Bassano family and the fascinating destiny (though still laden with mystery) of Emilia, how can one resist the desire of sharing this stroke of luck? In the wake of Emilia, the beautiful Moor, appear other characters who are more well known, including a certain Shakespeare....
~Aemilia Lanyer (1569 - 1645)Daughter of Baptista Bassano, court musician of Elizabeth I (and later Charles I) of England, Aemilia frequented the fringes of the court of Elizabeth I and became the mistress of Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, forty-five years her senior. Pregnant at the age of twenty-three, she married her cousin by marriage, Alphonso Lanyer, also a Queen's musician in October 1592. Lanyer was granted a monopoly for the weighing of hay and straw in London, a monopoly that would provide Aemilia with a precarious income after his death in 1613.
Published in the same year as the King James Bible (1611), Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail, God, King of the Jews, 1611) is a poem about the Passion of Christ. Dedicated to women and addressed to women, Lanyer makes no apology for publishing a serious work of poetry under her own name. Arguing for women's religious and social equality in the introductory dedicatory poems, Lanyer continues her feminist theme when she reinterprets the biblical creation story as well as the stories of Christ's life and death from a feminist point of view. Indeed, her entire Passion story is viewed from a feminist perspective.
Here is her introduction
. To the Virtuous Reader.
Often have I heard, that it is the property of some women, not only to emulate the virtues and perfections of the rest, but also by all their powers of ill speaking, to eclipse the brightness of their deserved fame: now contrary to this custom, which men I hope unjustly lay to their charge, I have written this small volume, or little book, for the general use of all virtuous Ladies and Gentlewomen of this kingdom; and in commendation of some particular persons of our own sex, such as for the most part, are so well known to myself, and others, that I dare undertake Fame dares not to call any better. And this have I done, to make known to the world, that all women deserve not to be blamed though some forgetting they are women themselves, and in danger to be condemned by the words of their own mouths, fall into so great an error, as to speak unadvisedly against the rest of their sex; which if it be true, I am persuaded they can show their own imperfection in nothing more: and therefore could wish (for their own ease, modesties, and credit) they would refer such points of folly, to be practiced by evil disposed men, who forgetting they were borne of women, nourished of women, and that if it were not by the means of women, they would be quite extinguished out of the world, and a final end of them all, do like Vipers deface the wombs wherein they were bred, only to give way and utterance to their want of discretion and goodness. Such as these, were they that dishonored Christ his Apostles and Prophets, putting them to shameful deaths. Therefore we are not to regard any imputations, that they undeservedly lay upon us, no otherwise than to make use of them to our own benefits, as spurs to virtue, making us fly all occasions that may color their unjust speeches to pass currant. Especially considering that they have tempted even the patience of God himself, who gave power to wise and virtuous women, to bring down their pride and arrogance. As was cruel Cesarus by the discreet counsel of noble Deborah, Judge and Prophetess of Israel: and resolution of Jael wife of Heber the Kenite: wicked Haman, by the divine prayers and prudent proceedings of beautiful Hester: blasphemous Holofernes, by the invincible courage, rare wisdom, and confident carriage of Judeth: & the unjust Judges, by the innocency of chaste Susanna: with infinite others, which for brevity sake I will omit. As also in respect it pleased our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, without the assistance of man, being free from original and all other sins, from the time of his conception, till the hour of his death, to be begotten of a woman, borne of a woman, nourished of a woman, obedient to a woman; and that he healed woman, pardoned women, comforted women: yea, even when he was in his greatest agony and bloody sweat, going to be crucified, and also in the last hour of his death, took care to dispose of a woman: after his resurrection, appeared first to a woman, sent a woman to declare his most glorious resurrection to the rest of his Disciples. Many other examples I could allege of divers faithful and virtuous women, who have in all ages, not only been Confessors, but also endured most cruel martyrdom for their faith in Jesus Christ. All which is sufficient to enforce all good Christians and honorable minded men to speak reverently of our sex, and especially of all virtuous and good women. To the modest sensors of both which, I refer these my imperfect endeavors, knowing that according to their own excellent dispositions, they will rather, cherish, nourish, and increase the least spark of virtue where they find it, by their favorable and best interpretations, than quench it by wrong constructions. To whom I wish all increase of virtue, and desire their best opinions.
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Fayette County Park, West Virginia
The park lies on Laurel Creek approximately 2-1/2 miles above Beckwith, WV. From Rt. 19 at the Fayetteville intersection, travelers need to take Rt. 16 N toward Beckwith and Gauley Bridge. It is 4-1/2 miles form the intersection to a left turn off Rt. 16 N, onto a two lane road which is marked as Fayette County Park Road. It is then approximately 1-1/2 miles to the welcome sign for the Park road enterance.
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James Tarpley I Family
I bequeath my Soul to God who Gave it a my body to be Buryed as my Executors hereafter mentioned Shall think fitt. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my two Sons Thomas and Charles Tarpley two hundred and Sixty acres of Land Lying on the head of Farnham Creek to them and their heirs for ever Equally to be divided.
NOTE: Who know all the goings on in Richmond County? Well, that would be the one who wrote it all down; documented it...i.e...Sir Marmaduke Beckwith.
posted by Dave 12:58 PM <2003_06_01_beckwith_archive.html>
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The Family History of - Tarpley The name Tarpley appears in two other Richmond County families. We cannot connect either family with a Tarpley daughter.
Tarpley Beckwith was born 2 October 1718, a son of Sir Marmaduke Beckwith and his wife, Elizabeth Brockenbrough.
Tarpley Tune was born 24 February 1741/2, a son of William Tune (- 20 May 1755 ) and his wife, Joanna. Tarpley was underage when his father made his will in Richmond County in 1755 and died of smallpox at the home of his brother, Samuel Tune, by 20 July 1763.
Tommy Tune?
ALSO: The characters of Tune, Tarpley, Beckwith, Glascock, Tayloe, Carter, Winifred, Barber, Griffin, Scott, Peachey, Daniel
posted by Dave 1:04 PM <2003_06_01_beckwith_archive.html>
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The Family History of Unknown
Catherine Miskell [2450.1.2.3.3.6] married Jennings Beckwith in Richmond County 2 April (bond) 1787.
Maj. John Belfield [2450.1.3.1.8.1] (1751-1792) married Mary Beckwith 5 December (bond) 1785. The bride was a daughter of Sir Jonathon Beckwith and Rebecca Barnes. They had one child. Sir Beckwith was very wealthy, having owned fifty-three slaves in 1783.
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William3 Thornton, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Mary Ransdell, first appears in the Richmond Co. records in 1704, when Thomas James (probably his grandfather) made him a deed of gift, as mentioned in the section on his father, Luke2 Thornton. He inherited the land of his father and his grandfather, and the Richmond Co. Order Books from 1732 to 1740 (Nos. 10 and 11) show long-drawn out suits against John Jones (who married his cousin, Sarah Mountjoy) regarding the Luke1 land left him and the Joneses by Thornton, and against Evan Thomas, Sr. and Jr. regarding the boundaries of the land deeded his father by Joseph Beale in 1704. The suit against the Thomases was settled by a division of the land Sept. 2, 1740 (Account Book, 1724-83, p. 163). The dispute with John Jones seems never to have been settled. Jones later deeded the land to Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, and the unsettled dispute about this land left by Luke1 Thornton to Ann Mountjoy and Sarah Jones on the one hand, and to William Thornton on the other, was to cause great trouble later to William3 Thornton's son, Jesse. William3 Thornton died in Richmond Co. in 1741, his inventory being ordered Aug. 3, 1741, and his widow, Elizabeth, being appointed administratrix (W. B. 5, p. 389; O.B. 11, p. 197). Elizabeth (Ransdell) Thornton died in 1742. Her will, dated April 6, 1742 and probated May 3, 1742, leaves all her estate to her son, Jesse Thornton, who is to be kept in school until 15, and appoints Richard Lawson his guardian (W. B. 5, p. 397). Jesse Thornton, only son of William and Elizabeth, will be treated later. He was born in 1735.
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Jesse4 Thornton, son of William3 and Elizabeth (Ransdell) Thornton, was born in Richmond Co., Va. in 1735, as he was still a minor Feb. 5, 1753, when he chose John Redman as his guardian (O. B. 13, p. 16), and apparently still under age May 6, 1755, when Richard Lawson, his mother's executor, brought suit in connection with the estate against Thomas James and Edmund Bulger (same, p. 238). However, he was appointed constable July 5, 1756, showing that he was 21 years of age, which makes 1735 about the right date for his birth. He and Samuel Eskridge were granted a license to keep an ordinary Dec. 6, 1762 (O. B. 15, p. 33), and he and William Bragg (son of Moore Bragg, mentioned below) petitioned to build a mill on their land July 4, 1770 (O. B. 17, p. 148). We have mentioned the unsettled dispute regarding the land left by Luke1 Thornton in his will to Jesse's father, William3 Thornton, and the latter's aunt and cousin, Ann Mountjoy and her daughter Sarah Jones. Sarah Jones and her husband, John Jones, seem to have finally deeded their share of the old Luke Thornton land to Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, Bart., Clerk of Richmond Co. for many years, and in 1770 Beckwith revived the old land dispute and sued Jesse Thornton (O. B. 17, pp. 19, 21, 141, 160). In response to this suit, Jesse Thornton and Hannah his wife, sold the land inherited from his father and grand father to his friend, Moore Bragg, in 1769, exchanging it with Bragg for another piece of land (D. B. 13, p. 158, p. 228, and p. 231). In connection with this land dispute, we learn from the diary of Col. Landon Carter that Sir Marmaduke (who was a very old man at the time) had Jesse Thornton jailed, but that Jesse broke jail and went home, and that on April 26, 1770 the aged knight applied for a warrant against Moore Bragg, who had purchased the land (WM (1), 13, p. 48). Col. Carter indicates that he felt that Sir Marmaduke had little claim to the land ("Sir Marmaduke fancied it to be his"). Sir Marmaduke seems to have been persistent, however, for apparently the dispute was revived in 1775, when Jesse Thornton and Hannah, Moore Bragg and Sarah his wife, and Joseph Bragg (apparently a son of Moore Bragg) again exchanged the two pieces of land Vincent Redman, a relative of Hannah Thornton, being a witness (D. B. 14, pp. 346, 349, and 364). Jesse4 Thornton died in Richmond Co. in 1778 at the age of 43, his wife, Hannah, being appointed his administratrix Sept. 3, 1778, her securities being Vincent Redman and John Eskridge (O. B. 18, p. 53; W. B. 7, p. 333). She died in 1784. On Mar. 1, 1784, Moore Bragg and Sarah his wife deeded to Richard Asbury (Hannah Thornton's son-in-law) 133 1/2 acres that had formerly been owned by Jesse Thornton (D. B. 15, p. 102); and the Land Books show: "Aug., 1784, Hannah Thornton, decd., Credit for Moore Bragg's sale to Richard Asbury".
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~celticlady/thornton/Boddie-Thorntons.htm
Shetterly and Bragg Family Tree - pafg03 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File On 2 August 1727 at Richmond Co., Virginia, was recorded in the court records "Joseph Bragg is appointed surveyor of the highways for this ensuing year from Rappahannock Bridge to Colls Carter's Mill and from the upper bridge by John Metcalfe's Mill into Westmoreland County and from the main road by Leonard Dozier's to Duke Beckwith's Mill and from the said road by John ___ plantation to Pantill run and from Michael Windor's ___ field along the Howling road to Lisson's Landing and ordered that he forewith clear all the said roads according to law.
Pantill Run = Pantico Run?
Windors=Winders?
Lisson=Sisson?
Duke=Marmaduke
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gwt1/d_9d.html
>From the Journal of the House of Burgesses of Virginia:
> Mulattoes 1702/3-12 - employment of, as millers or overseers,
> prohibited.
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> In the Lineages report, 13 Feb 1992, p 14, John Mozingo leased Marmaduke
> Beckwith's mill on 24 Dec 1730 for seven years. If Edward (I) was black
> would his son John be able to lease and operate that mill given the
> above law? Or am I missing something here. I didn't see a reference to
> an entry repealing this law.
What follows is the text of the document (with signatures) known as Leedstown Resolves, or Westmoreland Resolves, a courageous protest against the Stamp Act,executed on 27 February 1766 by the Westmoreland County, Virginia citizens whose names are listed at the end of the document -- this identical text may be seen on a marble plaque which hangs in the hallway of the Old Circuit Court building in Montross, Virginia:
THE ASSOCIATION OF WESTMORELAND
The following articles prepared and offered by Richard Henry Lee were passed by the patriots of that day at Leedstown, Virginia, on the 27th of February 1766:
"Roused by danger and alarmed at attempts, foreign and domestic, to reduce the people of this country to a state of abject and detestable slavery by destroying that free and happy condition of government under which they have hitherto lived,
We, who subscribe this paper, have associated and do bind ourselves to each other, to God, and to our country, by the firmest ties that religion and virtue can frame, most sacredly and punctually to stand by and with our lives and fortunes, to support, maintain, and defend each other in the observance and execution of these following articles -
FIRST: We declare all due allegiance and obedience to our lawful Sovereign, George the Third, King of Great Britain. And we determine to the utmost of our power to preserve the laws, the peace and good order of this Colony, as far as is consistent with the preservation of our Constitutional rights and liberty,
SECONDLY: As we know it to be the Birthright privilege of every British subject (and of the people of Virginia as being such) founded on Reason, Law, and Compact; that he cannot be legally tried, but by his peers; that he cannot be taxed, but by consent of a Parliament, in which he is represented by persons chosen by the people, and who themselves pay a part of the tax they impose on others. If, therefore, any person or persons shall attempt, by any action, or proceeding, to deprive this Colony of these fundamental rights, we will immediately regard him or them, as the most dangerous enemy of the community; and we will go to any extremity, not only to prevent the success of such attempts, but to stigmatize and punish the offender.
THIRDLY: As the Stamp Act does absolutely direct the property of the people to be taken from them without their consent expressed by their representatives and as in many cases it deprives the British American Subject of his right to trial by jury; we do determine, at every hazard, and paying no regard to danger or to death, we will exert every faculty, to prevent the execution of the said Stamp Act in any instance whatsoever within this Colony. And every abandoned wretch, who shall be so lost to virtue and public good, as wickedly to contribute to the introduction or fixture of the Stamp Act in this Colony, by using stampt paper, or by any other means, we will, with the utmost expedition, convince all such profligates that immediate danger and disgrace shall attend their prostitute purposes.
FOURTHLY: That the last article may most surely and effectually be executed, we engage to each other, that whenever it shall be known to any of this association, that any person is so conducting himself as to favor the introduction of the Stamp Act, that immediate notice shall be given to as many of the association as possible; and that every individual so informed, shall, with expedition, repair to a place of meeting to be appointed as near the scene of action as may be.
FIFTHLY: Each associator shall do his true endeavor to obtain as many signers to this association, as he possibly can.
SIXTHLY: If any attempt shall be made on the liberty or property of any associator for any action or thing to be done in consequence of this agreement, we do most solemnly bind ourselves by the sacred engagements above entered into, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, to restore such associate to his liberty and to protect him in the enjoyment of his property."
In testimony of the good faith with which we resolve to execute this association we have this 27th day of February 1766 in Virginia, put our hands and seals hereto.
Richard Henry Lee * Will. Robinson * Lewis Willis * Thos. Lud. Lee * Saml. Washington * Chas. Washington * Moore Fauntleroy * Francis Lightfoot Lee * Thomas Jones * Rodham Kenner * Spencer M. Ball * Richard Mitchell * Joseph Murdock * Richd. Parker * Spence Monroe * John Watts * Robt. Lovell * John Blagge * Charles Weeks * Willm. Booth * Geo. Turbeville * Alvin Moxley * Wm. Flood * John Ballatine, Jr. * William Lee * Thos. Chilton * Richard Buckner * Jos. Pierce * Will. Chilton * John Williams * William Sydnor * John Monroe * William Cocke * Willm. Grayson * Wm. Brockenbrough * Saml. Selden * Richd. Lee * Daniel Tibbs * Francis Thornton,Jr. * Peter Rust * John Lee Jr. * Francis Waring * John Upshau * Meriwether Smith * Thos. Roane * Jas. Edmondson * Jas. Webb. Jr. * John Edmondson * Jas. Banks * Smith Young * Laur. Washington * W . Roane * Richd. Hodges * Jas. Upshau * Jas. Booker * A . Montague * Richd. Jeffries * John Suggett * John S. Woodcock * Robt. Wormeley Carter * John Blackwell * Winder S. Kenner * Wm. Bronaugh * Wm. Peirce * John Berryman * John Dickson * John Browne * Edwd. Sanford * Charles Chilton * Edward Sanford * Jos. Lane * John Beale, Jr. * John Newton * Will. Beale, Jr. * Chs. Mortimer * Wm. Pierce * John Berryman * John Dickson * John Broone * Edwd, Sanford * Charles Chilton * Edward Sanford * Daniel McCarty * Jer. Rush * Edwd. Ransdell * Townshend Dade * John Ashton * W . Brent * Francis Foushee * John Smith, Jr. * Wm. Ball * Thos. Barnes * Jos. Blackwell * Reuben Meriwether * Edw. Mountjoy * Wm. J. Mountjoy * Thos. Mountjoy * Gilbt. Campbell * John Edmondsen, Jr. * Charles Beale * Peter Grant * Thompson Mason * Jona. Beckwith * Jas. Samford * John Belfield * W . Smith * John Augt. Washington * Thos. Belfield * Edgcomb Suggett * Henry Francks * John Bland, Jr. * Jas. Emerson * Thos. Logan * Jo. Milliken * Ebenezer Fisher * Hancock Eustace * John Richards * Thos. Jett * Thos. Douglas * Max Robinson * John Orr
http://www.ragerlaw.com/leedstownresolutionspage.htm
http://www.greatamericantrails.com/nature_trails/virginia/northern_neck/northern_neck_015.html
http://www.greatamericantrails.com/nature_trails/virginia/index.html
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Lunenburg Parish (Richmond 1732-) in 1732 was formed from North Farnham and Sittingbourne, and described as "… be divided into two distinct parishes; by Totaskey, and the Cross Creek thereof, to Colonel John TAYLOE'S mill, and up that mill branch, to the Forest-Quarter road, and by that road till it intersects with Westmoreland County, and that all that part of the said county of Richmond, which lies below the said bounds, shall… North Farnham; and all that other part of the said county which lies above those bounds, shall thereafter be called and known by the name of Lunenburg…" (4 Hening 367)
Cople Parish (Westmoreland, ca1664) embraced the eastern portion of Westmoreland County and extended westward to unmarked eastern line of Washington Parish. In 1923 [sic] the Council of the Diocese [CofE] established the boundary between Cople and Montrose Parish (est. 1850) as: "… beginning on the Maryland line [nb: water line] at the mouth of Nomini Creek, thence up the said Creek to a headwater thereof approximately one half mile southeast of Nomini Grove, on main County road, thence by a line between Cople and Montross Magisterial districts to the line of Richmond County, All that portions of Westmoreland County lying east of this line to be and remain Cople Parish…" (DV, 1923, 24)
http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/va/parish.htm#lunenburg
http://www.melungeons.com/early_va/1746_richmond_county.htm
On 1 March 1784 at Lunenburg Parish, Richmond Co., Virginia, Moore Bragg, planter and Sarah his wife sold to Richard Asbury, for £100 current money of VA, a tract of land lying in the county of Richmond, containing 133 1/2 acres, beginning at a hickory tree on the line of Sir Jonathan Beckwith's land whereon John Jone's widow now lives ... thence along Thomas's line to Pantico Run near the said Bragg's Mill to a chestnut oak. Recorded 5 April 1784.
http://shetterlyandbragg.50megs.com/pafg12.htm
Another interesting part of the records of St. Catherine's is the index. One could believe one was reading a list of the families living in the Northern Neck of Virginia in the 18th century. Some names included were Rich. Hawkins, Thomas Beckworth, Barkers, Higginses, Morrises, Bentleys, Sneads, Balls, Matthew Davis, John Bartley, Barneses, Bowerses, Connallys, Garlands, Humphreys, Iredells, Jenningses, Jenkinses, Jeffersons, Joneses (one Penelope), Charles McCarty, Jacob Marks, Samuel and Thomas Morton, Richardsons, Kellys, Mary and Richard Nash, Hills, Willsons, Christophers, Charles and Anne Collins, and Arthurs. As was mentioned earlier, the Eidson family probably switched their membership to the Wood Street Church after Hannah's brother, Joseph, became the minister there. Those records are lost.
http://www.imt.net/~gedison/eidson/pafg01.htm
TIPPING POINT - USE
"From Rappahannock Bridge to the crossroads, then the road leading over Ports Swamp to Gordon's Rd., Joshua Willson, Overseer, John Wilson, James Frairy, Elias Wilson, Joe Scates, Griffin Fauntleroy, JOHN EIDSON, (this John Eidson was the son of Edward and Penelope. He d. in 1774) Wm. Pegg, Wm. Jones, Ben Burrass, Matthew Kelly, Morton Wilson, Christopher Collins, Geo. Newman, Wm. Pratt, Jesse Pully." Other roads described were "From Naylor's hole to Porridge Pot, From the road making out of Nailor's hole road over Mr. Beckwith's Mill into the County road of the Coachroad coming into Nailor's hole road above Marks, and From Porridge Pot to the Beaverdam and the road round the Beaverdam."
See Shandy Hall Road, Richmond County
Mary Matilda SIMONSON
26 Feb 1878 -
BIRTH: 26 Feb 1878, Shandy Hall, Richmond, Va
Father: John SIMONSON <../d0001/g0000074.html>
Mother: Mariah Louisa HEADLEY <../d0000/g0000017.html>
Family 1 : George EVERETT <../d0001/g0000078.html>
MARRIAGE: Oct 1895
Mary Lillian EVERETT <../d0000/g0000079.html>
Blanch Lucille EVERETT <../d0001/g0000079.html>
http://webs.lanset.com/gkemper/headley/d0000/g0000075.html
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Mariah Louisa HEADLEY
26 Dec 1852 - 18 Sep 1930
BIRTH: 26 Dec 1852, Mt Airy, Sharps, Va
DEATH: 18 Sep 1930
Father: Henry William HEADLEY <../d0001/g0000013.html>
Mother: Mary Catherine THRIFT <../d0000/g0000014.html>
Family 1 : John SIMONSON <../d0001/g0000074.html>
MARRIAGE: Dec 1874
Unnamed SIMONSON <../d0000/g0000078.html>
+Mary Matilda SIMONSON <../d0000/g0000075.html>
Louretta SIMONSON <../d0001/g0000075.html>
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Henry William HEADLEY
13 Jan 1826 - 20 Dec 1855
BIRTH: 13 Jan 1826
DEATH: 20 Dec 1855
Father: Thomas H. HEADLEY <../d0001/g0000058.html>
Mother: Jane C. MINOR <../d0000/g0000099.html>
Family 1 : Mary Catherine THRIFT <../d0000/g0000014.html>
MARRIAGE: 25 Jan 1849
+Thomas William HEADLEY <../d0000/g0000016.html>
+Mariah Louisa HEADLEY <../d0000/g0000017.html>
James H. HEADLEY <../d0001/g0000016.html>
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John HEADLEY
ABT. 1758 - 1791
BIRTH: ABT. 1758
DEATH: 1791
Father: Henry HEADLEY <../d0001/g0000095.html>
Mother: Ann PUGH <../d0001/g0000077.html>
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John HEADLEY
[NI0001] <../notes.html>
BEF. 1660 - 31 Oct 1711
BIRTH: BEF. 1660, Blind 1696, England
DEATH: 31 Oct 1711, Westmoreland Co, Va, WP
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http://mdhsimage.mdhs.org/Library/Images/Mellon%20Images/Z6access/z6-1534.jpg
White Oak at Shandy Hall, Harford County, MD
http://www.mdhs.org/library/library.html
http://ashtcohs.com/shandy.html - Shandy Hall in Ashtabula County, OH
http://ashtcohs.com/harpersfield.html
http://solomonspalding.com/SRP/saga2/1878Ast3.htm
Austinburg, OH founded by George Beckwiths & near Harpersfield also Samuel Beckwith
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http://www.imt.net/~gedison/
Historic Ties To Richmond County
Excerpts from the speech of Charles H. Rylander
County Historian
This morning we gather at Sabine Hall, one of the most historic places in Virginia, and it is my particular pleasure to address you on the significance of the tercentenary of Richmond County.
The beginnings of our County started much earlier than 1692. The people who lived in Richmond County were, of course, the indians, and the chief tribe of this area when the first settlers arrived were the Rappahannocks. Their small tribe, with others in the Rappahannock Valley, belonged to what is generally known as the "Pawhatan Confederacy," a fairly strong group on the East Coast. Their influence did not extend beyond Piedmont and there were probably not over five thousand indians inhabiting the entire area of the valley between the falls of the River and the Chesapeake Bay.
There remains little today of their influence but the names -- Totuskey, Menokin, Morattico. Indian Banks, and Indian Field. These names are testimony of these having been the first families of our County.
The first county to be formally organized in the Northern Neck was Northumberland -- in 1648. From Northumberland came Lancaster three years later in 1651. Then from Lancaster came our own Old Rappahannock County in 1656. Rappahannock was an unusual County geographically since it lay astride the Rappahannock River. It lasted 36 years and its demise was occasioned primarily by the insurmountable problems of administration caused by the great river which flowed between its two halves and so, its representatives in the House of Burgesses introduced a bill for dividing it into two counties.
The bill being favorably reported by the Committee on April 16, 1692, it was laid before the House on April 18th., read for the first and second time on April 19th, and passed that same day. So, there came into being a Richmond County, named for His Grace, the First Duke of Richmond, who was cousin to both King William and Queen Mary.
The earliest record of a visit by an Englishman to this are was the expedition of Captain John Smith from Jamestown. While exploring the Chickahominy River with a small company in the winter of 1607-08, Smith was surprised by a large force of Indians and made Prisoner. He was carried from one Indian settlement to another, being led to the town of the Tobagoes on the Rappahannock and then across the Rappahannock through what is now Richmond County to a place lying on Nomini Creek in Westmoreland County. He was then taken to the seat of King Powhatan in Gloucester County where he was sentenced to death, and the story of Pocahontas takes up at this point in securing his deliverance.
The following summer he (Captain Smith) undertook an exploration of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in a small open boat with 14 companions, equipped with oars and a small sail. After a trip of six weeks exploring primarily the Potomac and areas of the Bay, he returned to Jamestown and later that same summer set out with 12 men to explore other rivers. It was on this expedition that he ascended the Rappahannock to the falls where Fredericksburg is today, and on his return down the river, his account tells of being on the Essex side of the river and crossing over to this side to visit the Rappahannocks. He states ".... and so crossed to the Rappahannocks .... There were some 12 or 16 standing on the shore .... directed us to a little narrow creek where there were good landing accommodaties for us, with three or four canoes, which we saw there." I like to think this was the mouth of Cat Point Creek.
This little County on the Northern Neck, its population just over 7,000 people, but containing 203 square miles, composed of fields, farms, forests, streams, marshes, homes and small businesses, its ancient County seat and colonial Court House -- a quite place, a safe place, it is a unique place in modern America. It was part of the Grant by Charles II in exile to five of his Nobles which became known as Fairfax Proprietorship. The last Lord Fairfax was a friend and benefactor of the youthful George Washington.
At the risk of overlooking the names of many who served the county so well, Mr. Rylander selected four:
Landon Carter, the son of Robert (King) Carter of Carotoman was born in 1710 and was sent to England at the age of nine for his education, returning at the age of sixteen to be trained by his father in Plantation management. At his father's death in 1732 (the same year his neighbor Edward Eidson died), he settled on his lands in Richmond County and shortly thereafter constructed this home, Sabine Hall. He was a student of law and a Justice of Richmond County for more than 40 years. He was an Agricultural Scientist whose writings gained him admission to the American Philosophical Society. He spent 44 years in public life and after 1763 constantly opposed British encroachment upon American rights. He claimed to raise the first alarm against the Stamp Act in the House of Burgesses and is said by competent authority to have had as much to do with the repeal of the Stamp Act as any man in the colonies. He was the most prolific and most published author of his generation in Virginia. He was a close friend of many leaders of the American revolution and his correspondence remains as a testimony of his concern for that dark hour in our history. He is perhaps the only man in America who addressed George Washington as "Dear Chum."
(Wanda Eidson notes that in and around 1757, Landon Carter kept a diary. This diary is the source of information proving that Boyse Eidson worked as an overseer on some of Carter's property in Prince William County.) The second man of distinction chosen by Mr. Rylander was John Tayloe:
The second of these four men requires a little introduction: The enactment and enforcement of Governor Gooch's Tobacco Inspection Law of 1730 inaugurated in the Colony of Virginia an era of prosperity and consequent extravagance, the like of which had never been known before. It in this period that the local magnates abandoned their plantation houses, erected "after the Virginia manner of building," of which Tuckahoe survives as an example, to construct mansion houses in the English tradition, such as Westover and Mt. Airy, Sabine Hall and many others -- to import and use "chariots" for occasions of ceremony -- to drink imported madeira, ride formally to the hounds -- and to keep horses for racing only. With this era came the importation of Proven strains of Arabian race horses.
No place in America was more noted in this regard than Mt. Airy. In the stable still standing have been quartered the famous race horses of the colonial and post-colonial era: two of the John Tayloes of this place, whose lives span the period from 1721 to 1828, imported and kept here the finest race horses in America. In the annals of American Horse Racing no place is more sacred than those grounds and the blood lines from this stable are found to this very day upon the famous race tracks of the world.
It was the second John Tayloe who, although educated at Eaton and Cambridge, proved himself a practical example of the early American captain of industry. Not only did he produce thirty thousand bushels of wheat in one season on the low ground of his farm, but he was a successful iron master, bank director, and pioneer organizer of transportation. He was the builder of the Octagon House in Washington and set the tone of the social life of his time.
The third son of Richmond County, of whom I would make special mention, is Cyrus Griffin, one of the important men of the early life of this republic. He was born in 1748 in the home of his father, Captain Leroy Griffin, on the banks of the Rappahannock River below Downings on property now owned by the Mothershead family. At the age of 18, his father having died, he took his share in his fathers estate and studied for three years at Edinburg University. While abroad, he married Lady Christina, the daughter of Lord Linton, in 1770. In 1775 he returned to Virginia with his family and made for himself in subsequent years a firm place in our history.
Returning to London in 1775, he attempted to interest Lord Dartmouth in his proposed "Plan of Reconciliation" between England and the colonies. This failed and he returned to Virginia and in 1776 was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. Thus began a life of public service that continued for more than thirty years. He served on the Committee of Courts of Justice of the House of Delegates, along with other distinguished members, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. In 1778, Griffin was one of seven delegates elected by the Virginia Legislature to the National Congress. For a time, he served both the House of Delegates and the Congress.
The Congress created a Court of Appeals in case of capture. Cyrus Griffin was named as one of the three judges. The success of this Court has caused some historians to say that it was the Predecessor of the United States Supreme Court. And in 1789, Griffin was elected President of The Congress and his title was President of the United States in Congress Assembled. He was referred to as President Griffin and was, in fact, George Washington's immediate predecessor as President, since Griffin held his office under Articles of Confederation and not under our Constitution.
The fourth son of Richmond County named by Mr. Rylander, William Akinson Jones, was from a later period of time. He was born 21 March 1849 in Warsaw, the son of Thomas Jones and Mary Lee, the daughter of Richard Lee of Westmoreland County and a first cousin to Richard Henry Lee. He studied law at the University of Virginia and was admitted to the bar in 1870, was elected to Congress of the United States in 1890. He took a leading role in removing Virginia from the Readjuster movement. He became the acknowledged leader of the Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party in Virginia and led the fight in Virginia for the direct Primary and the popular election of United States Senators.
Downing Bridge
For over 240 years, the only way to reach the town of Tappahannock from Warsaw was by ferry. This was the reason that people in the Northern Neck formed earlier ties with Washington, which they could reach by traveling up-river by boat, than they formed with Richmond which lay to the west across the Tappahannock River and, in early times, non existent roads. It was not until 1927, with the completion of the Downing Bridge, named after Thomas J. Downing, spanning the Rappahannock, that roadway transportation into and out of the "Neck" increased. No longer was the Northern Neck removed from the rest of the state and the city of Richmond. Prior to the opening of the bridge, Baltimore was the major city frequented by residents of the Northern Neck. Richmond then became part of the trade and commerce of the Northern Neck with the assistance of the import job of Bridge tender who had the responsibility of keeping commerce flowing smoothly both across and under the bridge spanning the Rappahannock.
Naylors Hole
Today, Naylors, located on the Rappahannock River between Cat Point Creek and Doctors Creek, is a quite, residential area that comes alive in warm weather with the influx of summer people and beach goers. However, 300 years ago, Naylors was a bustling port of entry and the first county seat of newly formed Richmond County.
Naylors was supposedly named for John or Avery Naylor who settled in that area in the late 17th. century. John Naylor, a merchant who dealt with firms in Liverpool, was an early settler in Richmond and King George Counties. At that time, the point of land where Cat Point Creek met the Rappahannock River was called Cat Point. The name was changed to Naylors Point, and the area nearby was called Naylors Hole. The family name Naylor is now extinct in that area.
The most distinguished resident of Naylors, however, was Moore Fauntleroy who came to the Northern Neck about 1650 during the Cavalier migration from England. At first, he lived in Lancaster County (as did Edward Eidson), which was formed from Northumberland County in 1751. In fact, the first court in Lancaster County was held in his home in 1652. Elizabeth Combs Pierce in the Northern Neck Historical Magazine in December 1951 wrote "Before the first courthouse was built, Court was held in the home of the justices and the first recorded session was held in the home of Col. Moore Fauntleroy on January 1st."
In April 1651, Fauntleroy purchased from the Rappahannock Indians a tract of land that extended from the Rappahannock River to the Potomac and from Rappahannock Creek (now Cat Point Creek) to Marattico Creek (now Morattico), virtually all of the present-day Richmond County. The agreement was signed by Accopatough, king of the Rappahannock Indians. He, Fauntleroy, settled on this property and eventually built a mansion on the bluff above the river where the present Naylors Beach is. After Fauntleroy settled at Naylors, a wharf was established, and from 1682-1778, Southin's Ferry ran between Naylors Point (then called Cat Point) and a place called Hobbes Hole Daingerfield Landing. Moore Fauntleroy's son, William, later sold some land to William Tayloe whose son John lived in what was known as "Old House" which had been built in 1683. John Taylor, who succeeded his father on County Court in 1710, occasionally held Court sessions there. He built Mount Airy between 1748 and 1758.
(Wanda Eidson notes that in 1768 John Eidson was the Tobacco Inspector at Cat Point and Beckwith warehouse. This position was usually held for life and in John's will he is designated as inspector. The diary of Landon Carter in 1758 notes that wheat was sold to Col. Fauntleroy, Charles Carter, J. Beckwith, and John Eidson who, in a footnote, was identified as a small planter in Richmond County who died in 1774.
Death and Taxes -- And Politics
Often called the only certainties in this life are Death and taxes; perhaps we should add Politics! In this election year it might seem appropriate to recall an unusual roll played in Richmond County following the Civil War. While many Republicans may have come to the Northern Neck following the Civil War, some had probably always been there due to the closer ties it had to Washington, DC.
As blacks became voters after the Civil War, they naturally voted Republican, the party of Abraham Lincoln; and by 1876 the numbers of voters in each of the Northern Neck Counties had doubled, largely due to these black voters. The Republican Party also gained strength during the late 1870's by aligning itself with the Readjusters.
General Billy Mahone, who had been passed over for his parties nomination for governor in 1877, bolted the Virginia Conservative Democratic party and organized the Readjuster Party after the Conservative Democratic Party committed itself to complete repayment ("funding") of the state debt, most of which had been accumulated by state funding of antebellum railroads, most of which were owned by Northern and foreign bondholders.
The Readjuster Party promised to scale down the debt, increase school expenditures, repeal the poll tax (enacted in 1876 by Conservatives with hopes to avoid the rule of an elected Radical government), and carry out a generally liberal program. Many Conservative Democrats considered repudiation of the debt to be dishonorable, but there were also a number of Democrats who became Readjuster/Republicans during this time. Gradually joining with the Republicans, the Readjusters took over the legislature in 1879, the Governorship in 1881, and kept their promises, increasing poll tax repeal.
There was also a strong movement to defend this new Readjuster/Republican Party and to this end a local newspaper, The Northern Neck News, was born in 1879 as an opposing political force published mainly to get its founders viewpoint across. The Readjuster Party faded away, but the Northern Neck has remained a two-party area and in 1978 Richmond County Republicans sent a full slate of delegates to the State Convention.
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BECKS IN THE WAKE
-an archbishopric, time was, a tradesmen's entrance; beckburn
-did ye ever, filly Fortescue? with a beck, with a spring, all her
-his corns were growning. At last he listed back to beckline how
-burns it so leste. A claribel cumbeck to errind. Hers before his
-Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette,
-kailly kellykekkle and savebeck to Brownhazelwood from all the
-hill rockcoach their dance McCaper in retrophoebia, beck from
-tered. Attent! Couch hear! I have becket my vonderbilt hutch
-allabalmy, and her troutbeck quiverlipe, ninyananya. And her
-chang chap sugay kaow laow milkee muchee bringing becker
-Hotel. Brancherds at: Bullbeck, Oldboof, Sassondale, Jorsey
-that blanko berbecked fischial ekksprezzion Machinsky Scapolo
-linns mid which were an old knoll and a troutbeck, vainyvain of
-poteentubbs, lacrimal vases, hoodendoses, reekwaterbeckers,
-during the effrays round fatherthyme's beckside and the regents
WAKES IN THE BECK
[1:3 64.31] Fammfamm! Fammfamm!
Come on, ordinary man with that large big nonobli head, and
that blanko berbecked fischial ekksprezzion Machinsky
Scapolopolos, Duzinascu or other. Your machelar's mutton leg's getting
musclebound from being too pulled. Noah Beery weighed stone
[1:4 76.26] in a fairly fishy kettlekerry, after the Fianna's foreman had taken
his handful, enriched with ancient woods and dear dutchy
deeplinns mid which were an old knoll and a troutbeck, vainyvain of
her osiery and a chatty sally with any Wilt or Walt who would
ongle her as Izaak did to the tickle of his rod and watch her
[1:4 77.30] But t'house and allaboardshoops ! Show coffins, winding sheets,
goodbuy bierchepes, cinerary urns, liealoud blasses, snuffchests,
poteentubbs, lacrimal vases, hoodendoses, reekwaterbeckers,
breakmiddles, zootzaks for eatlust, including upyourhealthing
rookworst and meathewersoftened forkenpootsies and for that
[1:4 90.7] changing the venders, from the king's head to the republican's
arms, as to the pugnaxities evinxed from flagfall to antepost
during the effrays round fatherthyme's beckside and the regents
in the plantsown raining, with the skiddystars and the
morkernwindup, how they appealed to him then? That it was wildfires
[1:6 134.29] herald hairyfair, alloaf the wheat; husband your aunt and endow
your nepos; hearken but hush it, screen him and see; time is,
an archbishopric, time was, a tradesmen's entrance; beckburn
brooked with wath, scale scarred by scow; his rainfall is a couple
of kneehighs while his meanst grass temperature marked three in
[1:6 193.30] are up, mesdames, while Parimiknie wears popular short legs,
and twelve hows to mix a tipsy wake, did ye hear, colt Cooney?
did ye ever, filly Fortescue? with a beck, with a spring, all her
rillringlets shaking, rocks drops in her tachie, tramtokens in
her hair, all waived to a point and then all inuendation, little
[2:8 220.32] matthued heaven. He soughed it from the luft but that bore ne
mark ne message. He luked upon the bloomingrund where ongly
his corns were growning. At last he listed back to beckline how
she pranked alone so johntily. The skand for schooling.
With nought a wired from the wordless either.
[2:8 229.16] And around its scorched cap she has twilled a twine of flame to
let the laitiest know she's marrid. And pim it goes backballed. Tot
burns it so leste. A claribel cumbeck to errind. Hers before his
even, posted ere penned. He's your change, thinkyou methim.
Go daft noon,madden, mind the step. Please stoop O to please.
[2:9 264.12] pursuant on briefest glimpse from gladrags, pretty
Proserpronette whose slit satchel spilleth peas.
Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette,
unmesh us! That grene ray of earong it waves
us to yonder as the red, blue and yellow flogs
[2:10 369.15] Because they wonted to get out by the goatweigh afore the sheep
was looset for to wish the Wobbleton Whiteleg Welshers
kaillykailly kellykekkle and savebeck to Brownhazelwood from all the
dinnasdoolins on the labious banks of their swensewn
snewwesner, turned again weastinghome, by Danesbury Common, and
[3:12 409.10] whorl of the Boubou from Bourneum has thus come to taon!),
and with tambarins and cantoridettes soturning around his
eggshill rockcoach their dance McCaper in retrophoebia, beck from
bulk, like fantastic disossed and jenny aprils, to the ra, the ra, the
ra, the ra, langsome heels and langsome toesis, attended to by a
[3:14 537.11] feshest cheoilboys so that they are allcalling on me for the song
of a birtch: the more secretely bi built, the more openly
palastered. Attent! Couch hear! I have becket my vonderbilt hutch
in sunsmidnought and at morningrise was encampassed of
mushroofs. Rest and bethinkful, with licence, thanks. I
[3:14 572.21] old missness wipethemdry! Well, well, wellsowells!
Donauwatter! Ardechious me! With her halfbend as proud as a peahen,
allabalmy, and her troutbeck quiverlipe, ninyananya. And her
steptojazyma's culunder buzztle. Happy tea area, naughtygay
frew! Selling sunlit sopes to washtout winches and rhaincold
[4:15 600.21] cocklyhearted dreamerish for that magic moning with its ching
chang chap sugay kaow laow milkee muchee bringing
beckerbrose, the brew with the foochoor in it. Sawyest? Nodt? Nyets,
I dhink I sawn to remumb or sumbsuch. A kind of a thinglike
all traylogged then pubably it resymbles a pelvic or some kvind
[4:15 601.16] attraverse of its milletestudinous windows, ricocoursing
themselves, as staneglass on stonegloss, inplayn unglish Wynn's
Hotel. Brancherds at: Bullbeck, Oldboof, Sassondale, Jorsey
Uppygard, Mundelonde, Abbeytotte, Bracqueytuitte with
Hockeyvilla, Fockeyvilla, Hillewille and Wallhall. Hoojahoo
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[1:6 134.29]
...herald hairyfair, alloaf the wheat; husband your aunt and endow your nepos; hearken but hush it, screen him and see; time is, an archbishopric, time was, a tradesmen's entrance; beckburn brooked with wath..."Finnegans Wake" - James Joyce
Wath Registers 1598-1779/Memoranda - Wath, Yorkshire
FROM THE WEBSITE
(selections)
WATH-UPON-DEARNE PARISH REGISTERS - 1598-1779
Memoranda and Miscellaneous Notes
Memorand that the 22th day of November 1607 John Bearde, George Hoyland [Holland?], John Addy with others put our hands to a certificate for Ann Addy, that she was free to be hired a maid servant where she best liked and had the consent of her father and mother to be hired with Thomas Adams by Pontefract.
Memorand that the 24th day of May 1604 William Hepworth of Wath upon Dearne within the county of York, yeoman had a stall place set forth in the Church of Wath the highest place and the south side of the Church nearest Thornell hall quire to continue to him and his heirs dwelling in the house wherein he now dwelleth in Skyterick.
Memorandum that Ann the daughter of John Wharom of West Melton was 15 years of age upon Saint Luke Day in Anno p'dict (1604)...
That upon the 10th of June 1615 I Thomas Benson Master of Arts and Vicar of Wath upon Dearne did give my free consent and assent somuch as in me did lay, that Henry Saville of the same parish, gentleman, should remove his stall or pew (for the more convenient hearing of divine service and sermons) from the Lady Quire unto the uppend of the right hand of the south part of the body of the same Church, next to .... his stall. In witness whereof I have set to my hand the day and year above written. By me Thomas Benson.
March 1615, Baptised Ellin the supposed daughter of Thomas Maykin begotten of the body of Anne Settle the same day which child, though she was born in Wath; yet was sent and was kept at Bolton; the sixth day after she was christened: by a warrant from Sir Thomas Wentworth and Master Rookebye; because the inhabitants of Wath did make it appear to them that the mother of the said child was borne at Bolton...
Memorand that Nicholas Sha of Hoober in the parish of Wath, yeoman, was admitted and licensed by us whose names are hereunder written to set a stall or seat made of this pp charges for himself and other his own family in the south side of the church of Wath adjoining uopn Sir Thomas Wentworth's stall or pew in the upper end of the South alley there seen in the year of our Lord God 1624 the 19th of November and there to continue without disturbance of any person in pain of Ecclesiastical Censure.
Henry Taylor, Clerk, John Baxter, Robert Hawslyn
A license under the hands of Master Doctor Benson was shown and allowed dated the 8th of December anno domini 1630. Whereby Peter Man of Wentworth and in the parish of Wath, gentleman is licensed to eat flesh meat of such kinds only as are admitted by his Ma(ties) laws upon Fridays Saturdays Wednesdays and all other fasting days during his time of Infirmity and present sickness.
Ralph Goodyear, Curate, + The mark of William Pearson, Churchwarden
Memorandum the 2nd of April, 1633: John Carr of Wath was licensed by us whose names are here under written to re-edify a stall in the north alley which he usually hath sitten and to continue there without molestation of any one in pain of ecclesiatical censure.
Radulphus Goodyear, minister, John Sisson, Jarvis Smith, Humphray Jackson....
Ringing of the bell at eight of the clock at night and six at morn was begun March the 25th in the beginning of the year 1646
Nicholas Hunt, Clerk...
Thursday the 27th of April 1648 Anthony Sawdrye parish clerk of Harwood deluded to William Coulbrand of Swinton, John Baldrick [see: Baldric, Balder]of Wath and to me Nich Hunt Thirty & Six pounds, £30 whereof were to be let at 16 pence per pound upon treble security to such inhabitants within the Town of Wath as should be of good report and had occasions to imploy the same. And the interest thereof was unto the Schoolmaster of Wath for the time being to be paid him at Christmas day for the teaching of four poor children of the Town of Wath and two of that part of Swinton which belongs wholey thereunto. The other £6 was for repair of West Melton Town Causeway: £2 for repair of part of Ardsley Lane, £2 to the poor of Brampton Bierley, £1 6s 8d to the poor of Wath, 10s to the poor of Swinton, 3s 4d which money and certain lands given by the said Anthony by his last will and also confirmed by deed unto the Inhabitants of Brampton Bierley for maintenance of six poor children at School with the yearly Rent thereof to be paid to the Schoolmaster as aforesaid if it were from time and at all times for ever imployed to the only use and to return unto the heirs of the said Anthony within one year and a day after the same was otherwise imployed.
Nich. Hunt, John Baldrick, William Coulbrand
Be it remembred that the tenth day of April 1656 Lawrence Wade of Wath in the West Riding of the County of Yorke was sworne Register for the said towne (beinge chosen to the said office by the consent of the inhabitants of the said towne) according to a late Act of parliament.
before me
William Beckwith
Briggswath, Yorkshire
posted by Dave 11:38 PM <2003_06_01_beckwith_archive.html>
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Map of Briggswath
Note proximity to Ugglebarnby
posted by Dave 11:40 PM <2003_06_01_beckwith_archive.html>
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Map of Wath, Yorkshire
Note proximity to Dacre and Pateley Bridge...which is just a few miles from Beckwith and Beckwithshaw.
Was Joyce signalling through the flames?
The Ancestors of Randy Wilson - pafg194 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File 446172864. Hugh WAKE was born about 1101 in Liddel, England. He died in 1175/1176 in England. He married Emma Fitzgilbert DE CLARE about 1144 in England.
446172865. Emma Fitzgilbert DE CLARE was born about 1114 in England. She died in 1156/1168.
Hugh?
The Ancestors of Randy Wilson - pafg98 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File John TIPTOFT was born about 1400 in England. He died on 27 Jan 1442/1443. He married Joyce DE CHERLETON after 28 Feb 1421/1422. [Parents]
435715. Joyce DE CHERLETON was born in 1403 in England. She died on 22 Sep 1446.
See: James Joyce; Finnegans Wake
WATH JOYTH THIGNALLING FROM THE FLAMTHE?
[2:10 368.7] had hord from fard a piping. As? Of?
Dour douchy was a sieguldson. He cooed that loud nor he
was young. He cud bad caw nor he was gray Like wather parted
from the say.
Ostia, lift it! Lift at it, Ostia! From the say! Away from the say!
[2:10 368.20] For be all rules of sport 'tis right That youth bedower'd to
charm the night Whilst age is dumped to mind the day When
wather parted from the say.
The humming, it's coming. Insway onsway.
Fingool MacKishgmard Obesume Burgearse Benefice, He was
[2:10 368.31] they.
From Dancingtree till Suttonstone There's lads no lie would
filch a crown To mull their sack and brew their tay With wather
parted from the say.
Lelong Awaindhoo's a selverbourne enrouted to Rochelle
[2:10 369.26] mirification and the lutification of our paludination.
His bludgeon's bruk, his drum is tore. For spuds we'll keep the
hat he wore And roll in clover on his clay By wather parted
from the say.
Hray ! Free rogue Mountone till Dew Mild Well to corry awen
[2:10 370.10] Waves.
The gangstairs strain and anger's up As Hoisty rares the can
and cup To speed the bogre's barque away O'er wather parted
from the say.
Horkus chiefest ebblynuncies!
[3:14 489.23] as I am delightful to be able to state, with the joy of lifing in my
forty winkers, that a handsome sovereign was freely pledged
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Barnes & Noble.com - Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and Peace Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and Peace
George C. Beckwith (Editor)
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Vogue Stories
FROM THE WEBSITE
Lady Isabella, who at 19-years-old already exhibits campaigns for Chanel and Dior in her portfolio, recently signed a contract with Models Frontiers, a hip new agency backed by millionaire brothers Peter and John Beckwith (father and uncle of the original It-girl Tamara Beckwith). "It's a new agency run by models for models," Isabella explains, adding that she'll be working on the "shopfloor", manning the phones and running the books, as well as modelling - just like her working girl sister. The pair's mother, meanwhile, can see subtle differences in the two girls' careers, putting them down to their different personalities. "I think [Isabella] will go far," Yvonne, Marchioness of Bristol, tells Mandrake. "While Victoria is a free spirit, Isabella is a very different animal -
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Dr. John Beckwith at Wayne County, NC
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. . .Margaret Cogdell Stanley b 3-26-1787 m 12-3-1807 Dr John Beckwith. Dr Beckwith was one or the commissioners for building the capitol in Raleigh which was completed in 1840, He died in Petersburg, Va. Dr Thomas Stanley Beckwith b 5-16-1813 d 11-16-1865 m 6-6-1838 Agnes Ruffin b 10-3-1816, son Charles: Charles M Beckwith b in Prince George Co, Va. 6-3-1851 m 7-31-1888 Lucy Cooke in Houston, Texas. He was 4th Bishop of Alabama
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~Biographies B - Mississippi Co. MoGenWeb
FROM THE WEBSITE
Thomas Beckwith was born in Mississippi County, Mo., on January 24, 1840. His father, Quiros Beckwith, was a native of Fairfax Court House, Va., and was the son of Newman Beckwith, who was also born in the "Old Dominion", and remained there until the year of 1812, when he immigrated to Missouri. He came all the way from Wheeling, Va., in a flatboat, bringing his family with him. He settled at Norfolk, Mississippi County, where he remained three years, and removed to what is known as the O'Brien farm, where he resided until his death. While a resident of Virginia he possessed considerable wealth, but lost it by going security. Quiros Beckwith was but eleven years of age, when he came with his parents to Mississippi County. He remained on his father's farm until he reached manhood, when he was married to Susan Johnston, who was born near Nashville, Tenn. After his marriage Mr. Beckwith engaged in tilling the soil, which he continued the most of his life, together with dealing in live-stock. At the time of his death he owned about 100 slaves, some of whom he had bought at considerable cost. He turned his attention entirely to business interests, and took no part whatever in politics. He died in 1862. His wife died on August 17, 1849. They were the parents of five children, four of whom are dead, viz: Quiros, Ellen W., Margaret A. and Matthew J. Thomas, the only living member of the family, was reared on his father's farm, which consisted of about 1,100 acres of land, besides a large wood-yard. He labored on the farm and about the wood-yard and saw-mill until he became of age. In 1862 the overflow of the Mississippi River swept away one of the best farms. In 1861 he enlisted in Price's company, which was organized under the old system. He served about three months, with the rank of third lieutenant, when he was taken down with the measles and
resigned. In February 1862, he was captured at Long Prairie, and was confined in prison about five months, during which time he suffered many hardships, as the prison was dirty and filthy, and the chances of life were few, where the prisoners were confined for any length of time. After his release he returned home and resumed farming. On March 11, 1863, he was united in marriage with Laura, daughter of John and Sallie (Lee) Swank, who immigrated to Mississippi County in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith have three daughters: Lillie M., Minnie L. and Ollie L. All the members of the family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Beckwith is one of the substantial men of Southeast Missouri. He owns over 3,000 acres of land in his own title, and a half interest in 4,000 more. He deals some in stock, horses, etc. and, makes loans. He now has his farms rented, and spends his spare time in exploring the mounds left by the Mound Builders in Southeast Missouri, and has one, of finest collections of stones and pottery in this portion of the State.
81. SUSAN H.6 JOHNSTON (MARTHA (PATSEY)5 HARDING, GILES4, WILLIAM3, THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) died 1849. She married (1) ANDREW A. F. ALLEN. She married (2) QUIROS BECKWITH 02 Apr 1839. He was born 1801 in VA, and died 1862.
Children of SUSAN JOHNSTON and ANDREW ALLEN are:
i. CATHERINE E.7 ALLEN.
145. ii. MARTHA TENNESSEE ALLEN, b. 1834, Albion Co., TN.
146. iii. MARY JANE ALLEN, b. Sep 1836, Mississippi Co., MO.
Children of SUSAN JOHNSTON and QUIROS BECKWITH are:
iv. QUIROS7 BECKWITH, b. Nov; d. Deceased.
v. THOMAS BECKWITH, b. Jan 1840; d. 1916.
vi. ELEANOR BECKWITH, b. Oct 1842; d. Jun 1958.
vii. MARGARET BECKWITH, b. Oct 1844; d. Sep 1851.
viii. MATTHEW BECKWITH, b. Oct 1846; d. Jan 1847.
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~ARE YOU RELATED TO STONEWALL JACKSON?
FROM THE WEBSITE
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was born in Clarksburg, (W)V. on Jan. 21, 1824. He was the son of Jonathan Jackson and Juliet Beckwith Neale, the daughter of Thomas Neale who settled in Wood Co., WV.
*You can claim relationship to Stonewall if you can prove your lineage back to one of Stonewall's grandparents Thomas Neale, his wife, Edward Jackson or his wife Mary Hadden.
Stonewall's great grandparents John Jackson and Elizabeth Cummins were the immigrants of his Jackson family. They had eight children who lived to maturity and raised families...
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Pontefract Castle
FROM THE WEBSITE:
On the land in 1, above, Peter built a two-story log house with a basement. His daughter Susan was married to Valentine DeVault in this house. The property was occupied until about 1808 when Peter sold it and moved to the land in 4. above, which at the time was near Gray's Station. On this land Peter built a three story house which is now located at 307 Twin Falls Drive in Johnson City, Tennessee. Peter also built a grist mill at this site, but it burned down in 1940. Peter's stone residence is now owned by Marmaduke Beckwith Morton VII and it has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.When Peter died, the land on Sinking Creek may have passed to his son Peter, Jr., as James and William Range, sons of Peter, Jr., resided in this area.
The first record of Peter is in the land records of Washington County when he acquired the following tracts:
1. Feb 12, 1790, 300 acres on Knob Creek from Pharoh Cobb
Nov 2, 1804, 150 acres on Knob Creek from John Engle
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~JOSEPH HUNTER/PLANNETTA BECKWITH
FROM THE WEBSITE
Joseph Hunter, one of the most distinguished pioneers of Southeast Missouri, came to New Madrid District in 1805, and located on a grant purchased from Joseph La Plante, near New Madrid. Very soon after he removed to Big Prairie, and with his brother-in-law, Samuel Phillips, located near the present town of Sikeston. Joseph Hunter was a son of a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, who immigrated to America from the North of Ireland prior to the Revolutionary War. During the early settlement of Kentucky the family removed to Louisville. A brother of Joseph, who had been an officer in the continental army, received a grant of land on the river above the town in what is still known as "Hunter's Bottom." The mother Joseph and a sister were killed by the Indians while in a flax-field near their home; a brother, Abraham, also met his death at the hands of savages. Nancy Hunter, another member of the family, is mentioned in connection with the history of Ste. Genevieve.
Upon the organization of the Missouri Territory, Joseph Hunter was appointed by President Madison a member of the territorial council. He had a large family, and his descendants are very numerous, embracing many of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of this State. His eldest son, Milford, removed to Grand Gulf, Miss. The second son, Abraham, married Sally Ogden, and became the father of three sons and three daughters, viz: Issac, a judge of Scott County Court; Joseph, a wealthy citizen of New Madrid, and Benjamin F., living near Sikeston, one of the largest land owners in Southeast Missouri; Catherine, who married first Americus Price, and second Marmaduke Beckwith; MORE...
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Monday, May 26, 2003
~Biographies S - Mississippi Co. MoGenWeb - Underwood Beckwith
FROM THE WEBSITE:
In December, 1883, he (James B. Smith) engaged in the mercantile business at Bird's Point, with Underwood Beckwith, with whom he has since continued in business. They were in the grocery business until February 1888, when they sold their stock, and now carry a general line of dry-goods, boots and shoes and general notions.
Underwood was the sister of Lucy, and son of Marmaduke.
Sir Marmaduke Beckwith of Virginia>Marmaduke Beckwith>Newman Beckwith>Marmaduke Beckwith>Underwood Beckwith
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Mississippi County Missouri 1880 Federal Census
FROM THE WEBSITE
268B 27 Beckwith Allie L.
305B 25 Beckwith Bird
334C 24 Beckwith Eda
311A 20 Beckwith Eliza A.
334C 23 Beckwith G.
268B 29 Beckwith Harding J.
322B 7 Beckwith Julia
268B 24 Beckwith Laura S.
305B 26 Beckwith Lee
268B 25 Beckwith Lilla
268B 26 Beckwith Minnie L.
322B 8 Beckwith Slina
268B 23 Beckwith Thos.
322A 49 Beckwith Thos. B.
315A 21 Beckwith Underwood
311A 19 Beckwith William
268B 28 Beckwith Willie T. E.
268B 30 Beckwith Zuinas E.
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WHMC-Columbia--U.S. Work Projects Administration, Historical Records Survey, Missouri, 1935-1942 (C3551)--INDEX
FROM THE WEBSITE
Beckwith, Carroll
Beckwith, E.M.
Beckwith, Edward M.
Beckwith, Gares
Beckwith, Marmaduke
Beckwith, Montare
Beckwith, Newman
Beckwith, Quiros
Beckwith, Thomas
Beckwith, Underwood
Beckworth, E.M.
Beckworth, E.W.
Beckworth, Jennings (Beckwith) (father of Jim Beckwourth)
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Women Writers of Early Canada
The first Canadian-born novelist to publish was also a woman: Julia Beckwith
Hart (1796-1867), author of the romance St. Ursula's Convent (1824).
Matthew Beckwith Immigrant of Connecticut>Matthew Beckwith II>James Beckwith>Renald Beckwith>Nehemiah Beckwith>Julia Beckwith married George Henry Hart
From the Rare Book Collection... - June 1998 - issue 30, 6 - National Library News - Julia Beckwith Hart
FROM THE WEBSITE
Saint Ursula's Convent is the earliest recorded novel written by a native-born Canadian and published in book form in Canada. The author, Julia Beckwith, was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the daughter of a Loyalist father and a French mother. After her father's death, she moved to Kingston to live with her aunt. She established a school for young ladies and, in 1822, married George Henry Hart, a bookbinder from England.
Saint Ursula's Convent had been in preparation for almost 10 years when Julia offered it for publication to Hugh Christopher Thomson, politician, banker and publisher of the Upper Canada Herald. In June 1823, Thomson sent a proposal to gather subscriptions to the novel. It was published anonymously in May of the following year in an edition of 200 copies, 175 already sold to subscribers. This melodramatic, action-filled novel, written primarily for young people, was partially based on family stories Julia had heard as a child, and adhered faithfully to many of the more spectacular conventions prevailing in early 19th-century fiction, such as shipwrecks, separated families and happy (if unlikely) restorations brought about by amazing coincidences. Julia published a second novel, Tonnewonte, or, the Adopted Son of America (Watertown, New York, 1825), after the Harts moved to Rochester. The family returned to Fredericton in 1831, and she died there in 1867, her role as a pioneer Canadian fiction-writer still unheralded.
~Biographies T - Mississippi Co. MoGenWeb
FROM THE WEBSITE
Dr. Jackson L. Travis (deceased) was born in North Carolina, November 6, 1824, and at the age of five years removed with his parents to Tennessee, where he grew to manhood, and studied medicine under the direction of an uncle. In 1853 he came to Southeast Missouri, and located in Lucas Bend. Dr. Travis, with a single exception, was the oldest practitioner in Mississippi County. He was a good and useful neighbor, and a kind friend. He died at his home, near Bratcher's Lake, on Tuesday, January 18, 1881. He was first married on October 19, 1858, to Martha J. Hicks, who was born on June 9, 1835. By this union were born four children: Jackson (who died on January 4, 1879, aged twenty-two years, two months and four days); Leulla (born December 11, 1858,died on February 9, 1875); the other two, Mary J. and Martha I., died in infancy. Their mother died on February 19, 1866. Dr. Travis was married, on November 19, 1866, to Lucy H. Beckwith, born on April 17, 1843. She is the daughter of Marmaduke and Susan (Griffith) Beckwith, both now deceased. Mr. Beckwith came to Southeast Missouri in 1812, and was one of the prominent men of his day. He had two children by his marriage with Susan Griffitt: Underwood and Lucy H. Mrs. Beckwith died when the latter was three weeks old. Mr. Beckwith afterward married Mrs. Catherine Price, a daughter of Abram Hunter, one of the pioneer settlers of Southeast Missouri. By this marriage were born Amanda (Medley) of Arcadia, Mo., Anna (Mrs. Henry Pease, of St. Francois County, Mo., and four who are dead: Richard, Newman, Thomas and Yancy. Mr. Beckwith died in March, 1881. Dr. Travis had six children by his marriage with Lucy H. Beckwith: Lucien (born September
10, 1867); Lucy (born on June 23, 1869); Lulella (born on September 13, 1871); Ada (born on January 1, 1875); Anna (died in infancy) and Jackson L. (born on September 5, 1878). Mrs. Travis and her five children live on the home place, near Bratcher's Lake, in Mississippi County.
Sir Marmaduke Beckwith of Virginia>Marmaduke Beckwith>Newman Beckwith>Marmaduke Beckwith>Lucy Beckwith
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Civil War Battles of 1861
FROM THE WEBSITE
Beckwith Farm, MO -or-
Bird's Point, MO
U.S.A.- 2 Killed, 5 Wounded
C.S.A.- 1 Killed, 2 Wounded
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eHistory.com - Periodicals: A History of the Civil War: Section Two
FROM THE WEBSITE
October, 1861
13-Beckwith Farm (12 miles from Bird's Point), Mo. Tuft's Cav. Union 2 killed, 5 wounded. Confed. 1 killed, 2 wounded
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Official Records : Page 244 | OPERATIONS IN MO., ARK., KANS., AND IND. T. Chapter X.
BATTLE OF BECKWITH FARM
CAMP LYIN, BIRD'S POINT, MO., October 15, 1861.
SIR: Pursuant to orders, I proceeded, with 26 men of my company (Captain Noleman's Centralia Cavalry), on a scout out upon the Rushes Ridge road, taking a direction towards the Beckwith farm. When mounted rebels, about 100 strong, supposed to be Mississippi or Tennessee Mounted Rifles, armed with breech-loading rifles and revolvers. My advance guard, after giving the usual signal (the enemy continuing to advance), discharged their carbines and fell back upon the column. We were moving down the road through a clearing, the enemy being in the timber. I immediately ordered the advance, and advanced into the open timber, taking a position within 180 yards of where the enemy were forming, and engaged the enemy, who were partly concealed by dense underbrush and heavy timer. The enemy poured a rapid fire upon our position until we were nearly surrounded and our ammunition almost exhausted. We then retired, the enemy following close upon our rear, and engaged my rear guard for about 1 1/2 miles, when the enemy retreated. We brought our wounded men and horses off of the field, with the exception of Corporal H. H. Fletcher, his horse, equipments, and arms. Corporal Fletcher was shot in the temple, some distance in awards discovered still living by Dr. Baker, residing in the vicinity, and by him removed to his residence. Private Louis Krenyhoff received a flesh wound in the arm, the ball passing across the chest and lodging inside the shirt. Several others received slight scotches from shattered balls. The horses of Privates J. Copeland, S. T. Maxy, W. Hutter, and E. T. Amadan were mortally wounded and left on the road. Seven other horses were wounded more or less seriously. The enemy on their retreat stripped Corporal Fletcher of his arms and spurs. Two others lost their carbines. The loss of the enemy, as near as could be ascertained, was from 6 to 10 men either killed or seriously wounded, including the officer in command. Of their horses one was left dead upon the field and others taken off evidently wounded. My men deserve great praise for the coolness, bravery, and implicit obedience to my commands exhibited throughout the engagement, several of whom stood firmly, receiving the fire of the enemy, with by one shot held in reserve, and awaiting my orders. They retired in as good order as circumstances would permit, the rear guard contesting their ground nobly.
Respectfully, &c.,
S. P. TUFTS,
Lieutenant, Commanding Expedition.
Colonel W. H. L. WALLACE, Commanding.
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The Cape Rock Gazetteer | Mississippi County
Towns of Mississippi County, Missouri
Including:
Beckwith (Historical place)
Alternate name: Bickwith
Probably located on a county road north of Crosno near the old channel of the river. In its day, Beckwith was a ferry landing on the Mississippi but the river's course has changed since then.
Maps: 1838, 1857 Johnson, 1862 War Colton (Bickwiths), 1869, 1872
Named for Newman Beckwith, who settled here from Virginia in 1812.
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National Register of Historical Places - MISSOURI), Mississippi County - Beckwith's Fort
Beckwith's Fort Archeological Site
FROM THE WEBSITE
Also known as Missouri Archaeological Survey Number 23MI2;Towosahgy State
Address Restricted, Wolf Island
Historic Significance: Information Potential
Area of Significance: Prehistoric
Cultural Affiliation: Early Middle Baytown, Middle Mississippian
Period of Significance: 1499-1000 AD
Owner: State
Historic Function: Domestic, Religion
Historic Sub-function: Ceremonial Site, Village Site
Current Function: Landscape
Current Sub-function: Park
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Pitter's Cherokee Trails - Native Americans in Mississippi County, Missouri
FROM THE WEBSITE
Reavis, in 1878, described his impression of the Mounds. "These Mounds are invariably situated on the banks of some body of water, and are of various sizes, ranging from 3 feet to 20 in height."
There are nearly one thousand of them in Mississippi County. Twenty-five miles south of Charleston, back of Wolf Island. On the Beckwith Farm is situated one of the most remarkable mounds erected by these strange people. It is about 40 feet high, 200 feet square at the base, and 150 square at the top.
On the east is a bayou, supposed to have once been the bed of the Mississippi River, while the other three sides area surrounded by a canal, which was deep enough and wide enough to float an ordinary steamboat. On the top of the mounds are eleven smaller ones, there being one in the center, the other on the edges.
No exploration has been made, except some incidental digging. The owner of the land upon which it is situated has conscientious convictions against any disturbance the sanctity of the graves of any people, whether ancient or modern.
In a mound a few miles east of Charleston, from which many pieces of pottery have been taken, many fragments of skeletons were discovered, which evidence almost as much care as was bestowed on the bodies of the ancient Egyptians. The bodies were placed in a reclining position, with the faces turned to the east.
On the farm of J. H. Drew, eight miles south of East Prairie, on north side of Upton Slough the most famous site in Mississippi County, earlier called Beckwith Fort, has now been renamed Towosaghy State Park. Archaeologists on the Towosaghy site claim it may prove to be one of the most important remaining Indian city sites in the southeastern part of the United States. In the future years Towosaghy is to be excavated, and the original buildings reconstructed, providing a "living museum" of the life of the ancient peoples who inhabited Mississippi County.
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Charleston Missouri - History
FROM THE WEBSITE
In 1812 Newman Beckwith came from Virginia and located between Norfolk and Wolf Island.
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MO Census 1880
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The Records of Earls Colne: Documents of Record concerning Testaments: Wills: 2501174
FROM THE WEBSITE
Wills (PROB11/54/44 Jeff Game 1556 1572 transcript only)
29.8.1556 (Saturday 29 August 1556)
document 2501174
I Jeff Game butcher of Earls Colne the 29.8.1556 now deceased whole mind soul to god Wm Becwith and Marion his wife my sister all my reversions in these my two messuages called Bells and Perchmeners with croft of land and annexed meadow called Winters set in Colne aforesaid for life after their deaths to their daughter Eliz Beckwith and her heirs lawfully begotten if default to the heirs lawfully begotten of the said Wm or Marion forever to Margt my sister 11s of money within three months after the decease of Margt Game my mother by the hand of Wm Beckwith whom I make my executor witnesses Vincent Papworthe Jn Dickson and Thos Williams
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The Records of Earls Colne: Copyhold Property of Colne Priory Manor: Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls: 53800916
FROM THE WEBSITE
Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr20)
14.6.1557 (Monday 14 June 1557)
document 53800916
it is presented that Robt Jollye 20d and Wm Bekwith 20d staying in the house of Jn Lomkyn did not celebrate or observe the feast of the ascension nor divers other feast days etc and also they went into the lord's wood called Chalkney Wood and cut down divers ash trees growing there and took them away without licence
amercement 3s4d
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The Records of Earls Colne: Images: ERO D/DPr77
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The Records of Earls Colne: Freehold Property: Freehold Titles: 52400297
FROM THE WEBSITE
Freehold Titles (CP25/2/)
michaelmas 26Eliz1-27Eliz1 (1585)
document 52400297
Roger Herlakenden plaintiff Rich# Symons and his wife Eliz deforciants three messuages three gardens 2a of meadow 4a of pasture in Earls Colne warranty also against Robt Jarvis and his heirs Edw Huberd esq and his heirs and Wm Beckwith and his heirs consideration 80li
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Earls Colne Priory
FROM THE WEBSITE
Following the battle of Hastings in 1066, William of Normandy gave the manor of Colne to Aubrey de Vere his brother in law.
When Geoffrey, the son of Aubrey and Beatrix, fell gravely ill they sought the help of Faricius, the abbot of Abingdon. He was a skilled physician and a man of wide culture originally from Arezzo in Umbria. Geoffrey recovered under the care of Faricius. In gratitude Geoffrey gave the Abbey of Abingdon the church of St. Andrew in the Colne and a church in Kensington. Faricius arranged two monks to establish a chantry in the Church of St. Andrew to pray for the souls of the de Vere family.
The de Veres later planned to establish a monastery at the Colne, linked to Abingdon. Faricius agreed as did Maurice Bishop of London and this was confirmed by royal charter c. 1105. After the death of Beatrix, Aubrey became a monk, he later died and was buried in the monastery around 1112.
The funeral was conducted by Abbot Faricius, who increased the number of monks from six to twelve. When the priory church was finished in 1148 it was dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint John the Evangelist by Robert, Bishop of London.
Local people gave many gifts of land to finance the building and the upkeep of the monastery.
he priory church was a noble Norman Structure, twice as large as the present parish church. At the centre was great tower of flint and freestone and at the west end were a pair of smaller towers. The purpose of the monastery was the offering of prayer and praise to God, according to the Benedictine rule in 1321 the priory became independent of the Abbey of Abingdon, and freer to include local people in the life of the priory.
issolution
In the 1530's Henry VIII suppressed the monasteries taking their possessions and land. Colne was unusual in that the lands were returned to the de Veres probably because their family tombs were there. In 1583 Edward deVere sold the manor of Earls Colne to Roger Harlackenden, his steward and nine years later he sold the priory to Richard Harlackenden. Gradually the monastery buildings fell in to ruin, and most of the remains were progressively swept away when the present house was built in 1826. the exception being the base of the north west tower which remained as a ruined fragment until 1988.
The site of the old church and monastery is now scheduled as a national monument. The Earls Colne Society has taken the occasion of the second millennium to record these events and to place a cross (based on a design by Constantinople just before the end of the first millennium) beyond which the site of the monastery can be viewed.
To view the cross, walk along the path opposite St. Andrews Church which runs alongside the graveyard turning right at the end or follow the path which starts to the left of the main entrance to the priory.
Family Chronicle - The Agincourt Honor Roll
Including:
Bekwith, John.
Bekwyth, John.
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’457 York Bridgemasters Accounts List of Occupations List of Persons
Bekwith,Agnes; Bekwith, John; Bekwith, Ralph; Bekwyth, Ralph;
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YCA/C83:1
See:
Bekwyth, Bekwith and John Hart
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Hebden & Bekwyth
FROM THE WEBSITE
Sir Richard’s younger brother, Sir Nicholas de Hebden was born around 1359 in Gosberton Lincolnshire. He married a lady called Katherine de Wyhom who was the heiress of Rye & Whyam and the Marmions. Before Nicholas died in 1417, they had three children, William de Hebden who died young, Elizabeth de Hebden ( b circa 1380 in Howell, Lincoln) and Grace de Hebden. Although they were born in Lincolnshire, links were clearly kept with the north as Grace married Sir Piers Tempest who was the son of Sir Richard Tempest of Bracewell in Craven. The Tempests at some stage gained Conistone.
Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Dymoke, who one of the Dymokes of Scrivelsby, Lincoln, the Kings champions. Thus the primary line of Hebden died out though both Grace and Ellizabeth had children. One in particular achieved some level of historical notoriety. Elizabeth had two sons, Sir Philip, who married Joan Conyers and Sir Thomas who married Margaret de Welles. It was this Sir Thomas who joined a Lancastrian rising in 1469 and the penalty of his treason to the then King Edward IV was execution. The family were not unduly penalized though as his son Sir Robert had the estates restored to him and the descendants were Kings champions at he coronations of Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII and even George IV. The Dymoke in question on that occasion was Henry who was accompanied by the Duke of Wellington. The eldest child, Sir Richard had been born around 1355 and he married a widow, Joan Chammond. daughter of Richard Wateby, Mayor of York in 1365 and she had a daughter Johanna from her first marriage. Johanna was married to a gentleman called Ffitlyng. Richard and Joan probably married around 1380 and as Sir Richard was buried at Ousebridge in 1385, so it was not long before Joan found herself a widow again.
Joan and Richard’s children were
Thomas who died about 1435 and would seem to have entered the church and become Dean of Aukland in 1431. Some documentation shows his kin to have been Elizabeth Bekwyth, Roger Plumpton, John & Margaret Burton though heaven only knows where they fit in. Anastasia de Hebden was also referred to in the will of Thomas, as a sister.
There was also a John, who was the last Lord of Hebden 1460.
At this time there was also a Sir John Hebden of Coldstonefold (Hebden), Parish of Ripon and the Hebden family of Ripon, Wakemen to Ripon City from 1400 onwards, during the time of the Hebden domicile at Hebden in Craven. The Ripon Hebdens occupied much of Fountains Abbey lands. What is not clear is where this Sir John fits in to the Hebden line. Could he have been a descendant of Auray or Duket ? Who knows. This was the time of the Wars of the Roses and many records were destroyed leaving missing links between various lines of the Hebden family.
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S2 Thomas de H Dean Auckland died 1435, kin Elizabeth
Bekwyth, Roger Plumpton, John and Margaret Burton.
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Lancelor?
FROM THE WEBSITE
Thomas H Dean of Auckland, son of Sir Richard H, will made 0709 elder bro John sis's Johanna ffitlying, Matilda Hotham, prioress Johanna Chawman, Anastasia H [since found to be John's wife], nephew John Hotham and kin Elizabeth Bekwyth, Roger Plumpton, John Burton, Margaret Burton and Thomas son of Margaret Burton legatees Robert Vavasour 5 mks William Richman 40s Elizabeth Glasyer Newcastle on T gown + 20s Isabella Yure a French book 'Lancelor' John Gardiner & Matilde h.w. once my mother's cook in York 13/4 servant William Batty bed horse 10mks Master John Autage Master Thomas London Robert Alne parson Cath ch York Sir John Spanyell of York wit W.R., R.V., J.B. Prob Rob Alne John Autage
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§-14. Lancelot and Guinevere. XII. The Arthurian Legend. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 190721
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Inmans of Nidderdale - 4th Generation
FROM THE WEBSITE
In the time of this Michael, the family had a small estate at Harefield, in Low Bishopside, but within the Monastery of Fountains; when they acquired it has not appeared. On May 23, a. 1681, Thos. Furnis, clerk, renounced the 'executorship of the Will of Judith Darnbrooke in favour of Michael Inman of Harefield and Elizabeth, his wife; it has been suggested above that entry into Harefield may have been made ahout the time (a. 1678) of the marriage of Robert Inman. It is not unlikely that Harefield was the tenement, rented at 1. 2. 9, in the tenure of John Hodgeson, 'on the bank of the Nidde', late in the tenure of John Ploumelande, which is returned under Bishopside in an account of lands formerly of Fountains Abbey (Min. Acc., 35-36 Hen. VIII., say, a. 1544); the same tenant was still there in a. 1557, and at the same rent (Min. Act., 3-5 Ph. and Mary). In a. 1570. Christopher Hardcastell, of Heayrfeald, of the Chappelrye of Patelabrige, mentions his lease of Hearfeild, which he holds of John Beckwythe, gent. [probably of Scough, par. Fewston]; the Feet of Fines (Feinnes?) (a. 1598) point to a conveyance to a Christopher Hardcastle, and others, of messuages and lands 'in Bishopside, 'Pateley Bridge, and Netherdale', with proviso to warrant against the heirs of John Beckwith, deceased, in a. 1627, Anna Hardcastle is described in her Will (York Reg.) as of the Hairfeeld; it is very unlikely that the Inmans had an interest here before this date, and it, of course, does not follow that the Harefield they owned was exactly coincident with the tenement 'on the bank of the Nidde', supposing that they have been rightly connected.. Harefield was in the township, but not in the manor of Bishopside; it had belonged to the Monastery, and should he represented in the Fountains Calls, under Pateley Bridge. There are Calls, naming Pateley Bridge, for a. 1667, 1668, 1750, and onwards,. but the name Inman does not seem to occur for Harefield till the Call Roll for a.. 1720-1723; then, at the end of the Fellbeck district entries, occurs a note, afterwards crossed out, Hairfield, Mr. Chris. Inman, adm. It is, notwithstanding, fairly clear that the family owned the estate from c.a. 1681 to a. 1790; the fact that the name of Inman does not appear under Pateley Bridge in a. 1667, 1668, is no positive proof of non-ownership at those dates and I rather incline to suppose that Michael Inman bought a freehold estate at Harefield after his father's' death (early in a. 1662) and not later than a. 1681. In a Bishopside Court Roll, Robert lnman is described as of Harefleld in a. 1684, and the Par. Reg. of P. B. mentions one seat on the north of the 'Quire' erected by Mr. Michael Inman for Harefield House; these, with other facts, are in favour of ownership in the 17th c. It is most unlikely that Harefield was part of the inheritance of a. 1681*; (*See Note C) it is not openly mentioned in the Will of John Darnbrooke (or in that of his father), nor is his name in the Fountains Calls, a. 1667, 1668, under Pateley Bridge. Judith Dambrooke was yet in life on April 18, a. 1681,at which date Michael Inman was probably living at, and owner of, Harefleld; at any rate, he was described as of Harefield, yeoman, in the next month.
Something maybe said as to the chronology of migrations of the family in the last quarter of the 17th c.; it would appear that Michael Inman was still at or near North Pasture in a. 1676, and that, in that year, or probably a little later, he removed to Harelield, which he seems to have purchased in a. 1662-1681 This change of residence may have been due to the marriage (a. 1678) of his son, Robert, who appears to have been living at North Pasture House or at Fellbeck as late as a. 1681/2. About this time, and, at any rate, suppose not later than a. 1684, Michael inman and his wit~ removed to a place in the township of Bewerley, and Robert and Katherine Inman went to Harefield; in a. 1690 both father and son were living in Bewerley township, neither of them residing in a Darnbrooke house which had been inherited in a. 1681.
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Inman Genealogy
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Variants of Beckwith
Beckwith
Beckworth
Beckworthe
Beckwourth
Bekwith
Bekworth
Bekworthe
also see:
Beschewitz
Beschwittz
Beschwitz
Bechewitz
Bechwitz
Bekenham
Beket
Bekete
Bekett
Bekette
Bekingham
Bekinham
Bekinhame
Beckwith Graveyard, Wood Co., WV
BECKWITH GRAVEYARD
Wood Co. WV
Some Pioneer Graveyards of Wood Co. by John A. House
Winter wind temper thy icy blast.
Harm not those beneath the mound.
Summer breeze whisper softly for at last
Here asleep they wait the trumpet sound.(R. H.)
In passing over the gravelled road from Parkersburg to Belleville, after leaving the village of Lubeck, which lies on the flatlands on
the "divide" between the waters of Neal's Run and Little Sandy Creek, one goes to the head of one branch of the latter, crosses a very low gap in a white oak and hickory ridge, and comes over on to Lee Creek (South Fork - the "Broad Run" of the pioneers), just below the mouth of Woodyard's Fork, at the old Beckwith home.
Here, on a low point to the left of the road, in a little enclosure about One hundred by one hundred twenty-five feet, is the private burying ground of this family of Wood County pioneers, who settled at this spot in early pioneer days.
The farm has passed into the hands of others, strangers or descendants so far removed they seem to have lost interest in their ancestry. Though enclosed by a good fence, the cemetery is grown up with brush, briers, burrs and weeds, until one can scarcely get among the decayed and neglected tombstones.
I noted names and dates:
Barnes Beckwith, March 22nd, 1855, aged seventy-eight years,
four months. (Born August 23rd, 1776)
Betsey Beckwith, August 18th, 1826, aged thirty-nine years, 10 months
(Born July 29th, 1787).
Betsey Beckwith, September 24th, 1846, aged thirty-two years, five months
(born April 1st, 1814). (She was twelve years old when her mother died.)
Rebecca Beckwith, March 16th, 1839, aged twenty-seven years, four months
(born October 9th, 1811). (About fifteen years old when her mother
died.)
Barnes Beckwith, 1818 - 1905.
Virginia (his wife), 1820 - 1899.
Barnes Beckwith married Virginia Samuels in 1840.
L. A. Beckwith (Lewis) born 1816 - died 1896. *Lewis marked out and
Lawrence penciled in.
Mary A. (wife) born 1813 - died 1893.
They probably inherited the old homestead, as around them in the
old cemetery sleep many of their children.
Elizabeth Beckwith, 1846 - 1916.
Tapley Beckwith, 1848 - 1919.
Richard B. Beckwith, 1845, two years old.
Lewis Beckwith, 1841 - 19-- (no date) Flag. *23 penciled in after 19.
Elizabeth (wife) 1892, aged forty-three (49).
Adaline, daughter to A. N. Beckwith, died May 16th, 1890, in her
sixty-sixth year.
Philip Wigal died June 17th, 1852, in his fifty-first year.
Elizabeth Napier ("Mother") 1819 - 1905. *Gilchrist penciled in between
Elizabeth and Napier.
Infant of P. and S. Wigal, April 19th, 1815.
Otto F. Eberhardt, January 12th, 1878, aged fifty-one.
Sarah G. (his wife) August 18th, 1828 - October 16th, 1896.
Mary Smith, January 8th, 1854 - 1898.
Two children of Charles and Mary Smith. These last graves in an
outside row, away from the family burying plot.
Lewis Beckwith, who was an extensive landholder on Big Run, dying about 1815, could hardly have been of this immediate family,
nor is it shown if he were buried in Wood County. If he was a resident, his deeds would disclose the fact.
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Penelope S. (Beckwith) wife, 1821 - 1893, aged seventy-two years,
four months.
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Monday, May 19, 2003
’St Marys Manors circa 1640
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Sunday, May 18, 2003
carpatho-rusyn.org
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~Lorraine Cemetery, Hancock County, Illinois
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~Palmyra Village Cemetery
Beckwith, Minerva Nye, dau. of Nathaniel, June 9, 1837, 16y
Beckwith, Sophia, wife of Nathaniel, Aug. 11, 1838, 41y 3m 14d
Beckwith, Cynthia, dau. of Nathanial, Feb. 1, 1835, 15y 7m
Beckwith, Minerva, wife of Nathaniel, Apr. 6, 1821, 24y 14d
Beckwith, Samuel Oscar, son of Nathaniel, Apr. 3, 1821, 5y 21d
Beckwith, Daughter & Son of Nathaniel, June 22, 1824 & August 24, 1814
Beckwith, Cynthia Ann, dau. of Nathaniel, July 17, 1818, 2y 10m 18d
Beckwith, Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel, Feb. 19, 1832, 4y 6m
Beckwith, Jane Sophia, dau. of Nathaniel, Aug. 19, 1831, 1y 7m
Beckwith, Nathaniel H., husband of Minerva, Apr. 25, 1834, 47y 6m, War of 1812
Beckwith, Foster, 1886
Beckwith, Geo. Whitfield, son of George, Aug. 19, 1832, 10m
Beckwith, Infant son of George, Aug. 2, 1821
Beckwith, Ruth M. C., wife of George, Jan. 30, 1881, 88y
Beckwith, George, Dec. 20, 1867, 78y, War of 1812
Beckwith, Samuel Jr., Nov. 9, 1839, 56y
Beckwith, Hannah, wife of Samuel, July 21, 1846, 90y
Beckwith, Samuel, Sept. 28, 1821, 71y
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~1850 Census of Jackson County, (W)VA
14 621 Beckwith Lewis 34 M Famer Va
614 621 Beckwith Hester 29 F Va
614 621 Beckwith Oscar 7 M Va
614 621 Beckwith Isabella 5 F Va
Early Studbook T
*Tom Jones (c. 17--) by Cyprus (c. by Lonsdale Bay Arabian) - Bloody Buttocks. Imported by Sir Marmaduke Beckwith of Virginia in 1753. His dam has not been identified. He sired Tayloe's Smiling Tom (ch.c. 1759).
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http://www.pastportal.com/Archive/Research%20Reports/Html/RR1047.htm
~Genealogy Data Page 210 (Descendancy Pages)Thomas Newman/Beckwiths
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Many Beckwith references
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
ELDER JOHNSON OLIVE
was born in Chatham county, North Carolina, June 7th, 1816. His boyhood was spent on a farm, attending, at intervals, such primary schools as the neighborhood afforded. During his youth he often felt concerned for his soul's salvation. In that
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day camp-meetings were quite common. He attended one at Buckhorn, Chatham county, in 1837. Here he repented and believed, and was soon after baptized by Elder P. W. Dowd, a member of Shady Grove Church. In the neighborhood prayer-meetings he first began to lead in public prayer - then in the church. Having a good voice for singing, and being otherwise gifted, his pastor, Elder Dowd, took special interest in him, urging him to go to school and prepare himself for future usefulness, not hinting that some day he might want to preach. Taking his pastor's advice, he entered Thompson's Academy (George W. Thompson, Principal), in the northern. part of Wake county. He also attended Pleasant Hill Academy, in Chatham county, Baxter Clegg, Principal. After thus having been at school some time, he returned home. He soon began to teach in the family of his old pastor, in 1841. Elder Dowd and wife were exceedingly kind to him and interested in him, which begot in him a life-long attachment for them.
During this year (1841), he married Martha Hunter, daughter of Alsey Hunter, of Wake county, and settled near where Olive's Chapel now is, where for a time he engaged in farming. During this time he was much impressed and concerned about his duty to enter the ministry. He felt that he must do something more than he was doing. The great question in his mind was, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" He began to make appointments for "religious services" at the neighboring churches.
He talked with much freedom and effect. Pastors around him began to have him fill their appointments. In after life he often spoke of this period, and always made most affectionate allusions to Elders Dowd, James Dennis and Jesse Howell. He was licensed to preach soon, and five years later, by request of his church, he was ordained at the Raleigh Association, meeting at Cumberland Union Church (now in Harnett), in the year 1847. Ministers present: John Purefoy. James S. Purefoy, William Jones, David Williams, S. Senter, Ezekiel Holland, James Dennis and Robert J. Dennis. He then took
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charge of and held the pastorate for a number of years of the churches at Shady Grove, Mt.. Pisgah, Holly Spring and Cedar Fork.
He was very active in the ministry till 1861; he then was afflicted with "spiritual darkness" - such he called it. His many friends were much saddened by it, for he ceased to preach entirely. Some thought he had lost his mind, but he always insisted that such was not the case; that his judgment, memory, mental powers, all were the same as ever. He said for some purpose the Lord had withdrawn spiritual light from him; that he could not hold communion with God as he had done before, and as he did afterwards. Be this as it may, he was for nearly four years a very miserable man. Gradually the darkness began to lift, and light and joy began to break in upon his spirit. He again, in 1865, entered actively upon his ministry, and remained at his post till the Master called him home to rest. This took place at his new home in Apex, January 24th, 1885. At the time of his death he was pastor of Cary, Holly Springs, Swift Creek and New Bethel churches. His last sermon was at Holly Springs, from the text, Phil. 2: 16., "Holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain" It seems almost prophetic. Many thought it his best sermon. His body lies in the village and church burying- ground at Apex, N. C.
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Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900- 1989. Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History: Electronic Edition.
The general practitioner usually performed operations upon the head whenever such cases arose, for there were few specialists in this field of surgery in the State. One such specialist, however, was Dr. John Beckwith of Raleigh who treated diseases of the eye for a period of more than twenty years until his removal to Petersburg, Virginia, in the forties. In the issue of September 7, 1839, the Raleigh Register referred with pride to his operations for the relief of blindness, declaring that he had as few instances of failure as the more famed doctors at the North.
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Female Benevolent Society (Raleigh, N.C.). Revised Constitution and By-Laws of the Raleigh Female Benevolent Society, Adopted July 23d, 1823. With the Reports of the Society, from Its Commencement
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Freedmen's Convention (1866 : Raleigh, N.C.). Minutes of the Freedmen's Convention, Held in the City of Raleigh on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th of October, 1866.
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North Carolina. Dept. of Public Instruction. North Carolina Day. Friday, November 11, 1921. Armistice Day. North Carolina in the World War
BUNCOMBE COUNTY:
BRYAN BECKWITH, second lieutenant, Company F, 119th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near Ypres, Belgium, August 25, 1918. At imminent peril to his life, Lieutenant Beckwith (then a sergeant) and two companious extinguished a fire in an ammunition dump, caused by a bursting shell, thereby preventing the explosion of the dump and saving the lives of a large number of men who were in the vicinity.
Home address, Robert B. Beckwith, Black Mountain, N. C. (G. O. 44, W. D., 1919.)
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High Strangeness: When Flesh and Blood Fell from the Sky
When Flesh and Blood Fell from the Sky
by John Hairr*
The fall of flesh and blood from the sky would generate no small amount of curiosity, even in our technologically advanced society acquainted with air travel. We can only imagine the consternation that such events had upon people in the days before powered flight. Falls of blood, and in some cases even flesh, have been chronicled throughout history from all over the world. Understandably, these events sometimes caused consternation among the people, and were often seen as portents of ill luck or doom.
In North Carolina in the nineteenth century, two different incidents of blood and flesh falling from the sky were recorded. The episodes, one in Sampson County and the other in Chatham County, occurred 34 years apart.
The first flesh fall recorded in North Carolina occurred on 15 February 1850 on the farm of Thomas Clarkson, thirteen miles southwest of the county seat of Clinton. His account of the incident, and a sample of the material, was taken to Fayetteville by a Mr. Holland.
Clarkson's description of the event was taken down by Mr. Holland and printed in the North Carolinian, a newspaper published in Fayetteville. He noted, "On the 15th Feb'y, 1850, there fell within 100 yards of the residence of Thos. M. Clarkson in Sampson county, a shower of Flesh and Blood, about 250 or 300 yards in length. The pieces appeared to be flesh, liver, lights, brains and blood. Some of the blood ran on the leaves, apparently very fresh. Three of his (T.M.C.'s) children were in it, and ran to their mother exclaiming, "Mother there is meat falling!" Their mother went immediately to see, but the shower was over; but there lay the flesh, &c. Neill Campbell, Esq. living close by, was on the spot shortly after it fell, and pronounced it as above. One of his children was about 150 yards from the shower and came running to the rest saying he smelt something like blood. During the time it was falling there was a cloud overhead, having a red appearance like a wind cloud. There was no rain." (1)
The writer for the North Carolinian went on to note that the materials brought in by Mr. Holland was examined "with two of the best microscopes in the place." All who looked at the samples agreed that it was flesh and blood, but from what was unknown. (2)
The second flesh fall recorded in North Carolina occurred on 25 February 1884. Mrs. Kit Lasater, wife of a black tenant farmer who lived on the farm of Silas Beckworth in New Hope Township in Chatham County on the north side of the Pittsboro-Raleigh Road, was standing in a freshly plowed field near a barn a short distance from her family's one room cabin when blood fell from a clear sky upon the ground, bushes and fence all around her.
As word spread of the event, curious people dropped in to investigate the site. At first it was neighbors and friends, but as the news spread, curiosity seekers from further afield came by. Soon, the event was chronicled in the local newspaper, the Chatham Record. Of the event, the paper reported, "Many of the neighbors, after hearing of her statement, visited the spot and they all say that the ground--embracing an area of about 60 feet in circumference--was covered with splotches of something like blood: and an examination of the trees in this place showed blood on the branches. We are informed that a reputable physician of the neighborhood visited the spot and said it was blood." (3)
S.A. Holleman was one of the first people to visit the site. He reported the following particulars. "The space covered was about fifty by seventy feet, and nearly in a rectangular form. The drops were of sizes varying from that of a small pea to that of a man's finger and averaged about one to the square foot. Smaller drops were instantly absorbed, larger ones, with those on the wood, coagulated. Some fell in the bushes and coagulated upon the limbs."
BeckwithWWI
"CHARLES BECKWITH COLLECTION
Watkinson Library, Trinity College
The Watkinson Library has recently purchased 50 letters written by Charles Beckwith, a young Pennsylvanian who served in the United States army during World War I. These letters, written to his sisters back home, document Beckwith’s stint at Fort Monroe, Virginia, his departure overseas, and his year in France. Beckwith was an ordinary soldier, whose responsibilities included repairing guns and tractors. His letters are full of homesickness (“every time I think of home I get hungry”), plans for wrangling leave and supplying himself with cigarettes, remarks about the weather, and his struggles with the French language (“donnez ma amour du ma petit soeur”). He also describes the army’s inscrutable inefficiency (“I sure hope they do something as I am getting tired of not knowing what I am going to do next”) and the destruction wrought by war (“All the towns we go into are all blown to pieces & we can hardly find a place to sleep except the ground & there is plenty of room there”). Charles Beckwith’s letters home are a significant addition to the Watkinson’s collection of World War I materials, affording a glimpse of catastrophic events through one soldier’s eyes. "
Page 56 Ripon MI Book
"No. 194. To the memory of Matthew Beckwith, Alderman and twice Mayor of Ripon, who died the 5th day of February, 1780, aged 78 years. He married Alice, the youngest daughter of Mr. Richard Austin of this town, Bookseller, by whom he had issue 6 sons & 6 daughters, of which 3 of the former & 4 of the latter lay here inter'd, viz., Matthew, who died in 1759, aged 15; Elizabeth died in 1774, aged 34; the rest died in their infancy; also, Alice, wife of the said Matthew Beckwith, died 29th August, 1783, aged 76 years; also, Richard Beckwith, Alderman and twice Mayor of this Town, son of the above Matthew Beckwith, who departed this life the 25th of May, 1796, aged 63 years; Alice Olroyd, daughter of the above Matthew Beckwith, died Jany. 27th, 1810, aged 66 years."
BECKWITH HOUSES
The Wm. E. Beckwith House
http://myweb.dwu.edu/amfische/beckwith_house.htm
http://www.city.richmond.bc.ca/planning/HeritageInventory/HeritageInventory_Details.asp?ID=69
http://www.ohiopreservation.org/Euclid.htm
http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/030203/new_030203027.shtml
http://www.melrosehomes.co.uk/wakefield.html
http://www.ghostzoo.com/beckwith.html
http://www.svcn.com/archives/saratoganews/11.01.00/historic-0044.html
http://www.faheyrealtors.com/lt_map.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~majorville/majtombstones/barb_miranda.html
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:JB4BFTMdVx4C:www.aaanet.org/gad/history/063MacCurdy.pdf+%22Beckwith+House%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://home.sprynet.com/~awb02/ham3.htm
Truman Beckwith House
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bentleygt/pannal/pannal_hall/grainge.html
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/columbia/chatham/chat_centr_hist.htm
The Beckwith house, was also an inn, known as Tobias' Inn, where the horses were changed and the horns blown, as the stage rolled gaily on its way.
http://www.marlow-nh.org/PlacesToSee/OldMarlowPhotoGallery/pages/01.htm
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William Dean Howells at the Beckwith House
http://memory.loc.gov/award/mymhiwe/mv155/mv155.txt
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~Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-. . .
~Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-
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Fountains Abbey/Marmadukes
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GENUKI: North Riding Land Owners - Letter B.
~The 1850 Census of Henry County Missouri - Jennings Beckwith
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
-Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern PlantationsSeries M:
Mss1J4105a, Jenings Family Papers, 1737-1837,
Virginia, Maryland, and England
Description of the Collection
This collection comprises twenty-one items that are arranged in sections by name of individual and type of document.
Section 1, Jenings, Edmund (1703-1756), Letterbook, 1753-1769
This section consists of one item, a letterbook, 17 November 1753-29 July 1769, of Edmund Jenings. The volume has been indexed by the staff of the Virginia Historical Society. The letterbook was kept in London, England, and Richmond, Virginia.
Letters concern the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Jewish immigration to Great Britain, the Maryland Land Office, Negroes, paper currency in Virginia and Maryland, pistole fee, plantations in Virginia and Maryland, salt, the Seven Years' War, tobacco, and the Virginia and Maryland boundary.
Correspondents (pp. 1-157 of the letterbook) include Thomas Bacon, Elizabeth (Brockenbrough) Beckwith, Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, William Beverley (of Blandfield, Essex County, Virginia), Sir Thomas Bladen, John Beale Bordley, Matthias Bordley, Stephen Bordley (concerning Horatio Sharpe), [first name unknown] Bowes, John Brice ([d. 1766] concerning Richard Lee and Horatio Sharpe), John Brice ([1738-1820] concerning Edward Braddock's campaign in 1755), Doctor [first name unknown] Brown, John Bullen, [first name unknown] Butler, William Byrd III (of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia), [first name unknown] Calvert (concerning horse racing in Virginia), Benedict Calvert (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore and Horatio Sharpe), Cecilius Calvert, Charles Carter (of Cleve, King George County, Virginia, concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Halifax, the Duke of Newcastle, and John Randolph), Landon Carter (of Sabine Hall, Richmond County, Virginia), [first name unknown] Carteret, Samuel Chamberlaine, Doctor Daniel Cheston (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore and the Earl of Halifax), Francina Augustina (Frisby) Stephenson Cheston, Gawin Corbin, Richard Corbin (of Laneville, King and Queen County, Virginia, concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, William Byrd III, John Randolph, Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and the Ohio Company), [first name unknown] Cruiksshanks, Robert Dinwiddie (concerning James Abercrombie, John Randolph, Peter Randolph, and Peyton Randolph), Michael Edwards, Benjamin Fendall (concerning Horatio Sharpe), Samuel Galloway, Charles Goldsborough, [first name unknown] Gordon, Anne [Guith?], Philip Hammond, Mathias Harris, [first name unknown] Hepburne, Matthew Hutton (as Archbishop of York), [first name unknown] Hyland, Michael Inman, Robert Janssen, Stephen Theodore Janssen, Doctor [first name unknown] Jeffery, Edmund Jenings Jr., Edmund Jenings (1731-1819), [first name unknown] Key, Mrs. [first name unknown] Lambert, Philip Ludwell Lee, Richard Lee (concerning Horatio Sharpe), John Leids, [first name unknown] Lidderdale, Edward Lloyd, Philip Ludwell III (of Green Springs, James City County, Virginia, concerning John Randolph), [John Miller], George Plater (concerning Horatio Sharpe), [first name unknown] Porteus, Beilby Porteus, Elizabeth (Jenings) Porteus, Nancy Porteus, Ariana (Jenings) Randolph, John Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Robert Dinwiddie, the Earl of Halifax, Peter Randolph, and Peyton Randolph), Peter Randolph (concerning John Randolph), Peyton Randolph (concerning John Randolph and Horatio Sharpe), Onoria Razalini (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Halifax, and the Duke of Newcastle), Mrs. [first name unknown] Rogers, Doctor David Ross (concerning Horatio Sharpe and a prescription), John Ross, Horatio Sharpe, William Sharpe (concerning John Blair, John Randolph, and Horatio Sharpe), William Smythies, [first name unknown] Snowden, [first name unknown] Stewart, Doctor George Steuart, Robert Stevenson, Benjamin Tasker, John Tayloe, Edward Thompson (concerning John Randolph), Presley Thornton, unidentified addressees (concerning William Byrd III, Edmund Jenings [1731-1819], John Randolph, Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, Horatio Sharpe, and Ralph Wormeley), [James] Wardrof, John Williams, [first name unknown] Williamson, John Wollaston, Mrs. John Wollaston, Ralph Wormeley, Chessley & Co. of Bristol, England, Hill & Co. of [location unknown], and Sedgeley & Co. of Bristol, England.
Letters (pp. 161-368 of the letterbook) of Edmund Jenings ([1731-1819] of London, England) also concern the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Brafferton, Yorkshire, England, copper mines, the East India Company, slavery, pamphlets of Edmund Jenings (1731-1819) and Doctor John Mitchell, paper currency, a portrait of William Pitt, the Seven Years' War, the Stamp Act of 1765, taxation, tobacco, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Correspondents include Sir Marmaduke Beckwith (of Richmond County, Virginia), Robert Beverley (of Blandfield, Essex County, Virginia, concerning William Pitt), John Beale Bordley (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, Robert Eden, the Earl of Hillsborough, Edmund Jenings Jr., Philip Ludwell Lee, William Pitt, Horatio Sharpe, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts of London, England), Sarah (Frisby) Brice, John Brice ([d. 1766] concerning Edmund Jenings [1703-1756] and Horatio Sharpe), John Brice (1738-1820), William Byrd III (of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia), Charles Carroll (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Hillsborough, Philip Ludwell III, and William Pitt), Francina Augustina (Frisby) Stephenson Cheston, Gawin Corbin (concerning Doctor Arthur Lee and William Pitt), Richard Corbin (of Laneville, King and Queen County, Virginia, concerning Robert Beverley, William Byrd III, the Earl of Halifax, Benjamin Harrison, the Earl of Hillsborough, Edmund Jenings [1703-1756], William Lee, Philip Ludwell III, William Pitt, John Randolph, Horatio Sharpe, John Tayloe, George Washington, and Ralph Wormeley), John Dickinson, George Lee Mason Fitzhugh, Benjamin Harrison (of Lower Brandon, Prince George County, Virginia), Edmund Jenings Jr., [first name unknown] Jordan (concerning Robert Eden and William Pitt), Doctor Arthur Lee (of London, England, and Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning the Earl of Hillsborough, Philip Ludwell III, and William Pitt), Richard Henry Lee (of Chantilly, Westmoreland County, Virginia, concerning Doctor Arthur Lee and Benjamin West and a portrait of the Earl of Camden), Richard Ludwell Lee (i.e., Philip Ludwell Lee or Richard Henry Lee concerning Robert Boyle, John Randolph, and John Tayloe), Thompson Moses, George Plater (concerning William Pitt), Beilby Porteus, Robert Porteus, Ariana (Jenings) Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Robert Dinwiddie, Philip Ludwell III, John Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and John Tayloe), John Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Edmund Jenings [1703-1756], Doctor Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, William Pitt, Edmund Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and John Tayloe), [first name unknown] Reynard, Gregory Rhodes, Christopher Robinson, Doctor David Ross, Danson Roundall, William Smythies, William Stevenson (concerning Horatio Sharpe), John Tayloe (of Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, concerning Doctor Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, John Randolph, William Sharpe, and Presley Thornton), Edward Thompson (concerning the Earl of Halifax), Presley Thornton, unidentified addressees (concerning William Pitt and the Quartering Act of 1766), Edm. Wilcox, and Ralph Wormeley (of Rosegill, Middlesex County, Virginia, concerning the Earl of Hillsborough).
Section 2, Jenings, Edmund (1731-1819), Correspondence, 1789-1819
This section consists of eight items, letters, 1789-1818, written to Edmund Jenings of London, England. Letters concern land in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Correspondents include John Brice (of Baltimore, Maryland), W. Cooke (bears endorsement of James Brooks), Thomas Land Emory (of Baltimore, Maryland), Eliphalet Pearson (of Cambridge, Massachusetts, concerning the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts), David Ross (of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania), and Ralph Randolph Wormeley (of Blackheath, England, and Winchester, Virginia, bears letters [copies] of Thomas Lane Emory and Doctor Gerard Hopkins Snowden and seal of Wormeley).
Section 3, Jenings, Edmund (1731-1819), Land Papers, 1783-1795
This section consists of two items, a letter, 1783, written by Lloyd Kenyon (of London, England, and bears seal) to John Randolph Grymes (of London, England) concerning American property rights in England; and an act (copy made by John Gwinn), 1795, of the Maryland General Assembly concerning land of Edmund Jenings in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (by authority of William Harwood, John Hoskins Stone, and Henry Warfield).
Section 4, Various Persons, Legal Papers, 1737-1790
This section consists of five items, legal papers, 1737-1790, of various persons. Items include a will (copy made by Benjamin Waller), 1737, of John Clayton (1665-1737) probated in the James City County, Virginia (witnessed by Solomon Heathcote, Benjamin Needler, and William Robertson and recorded by Matthew Kemp); a will (copy made by Christopher Pryor), 1774, of John Clayton (1694-1773) probated in Gloucester County, Virginia (witnessed by John James Beckley, Augustine Curtis, and Michael Driskill; recorded by Thomas Nelson; and bears affidavit of Machen Boswell); and affidavits, 1790, of John Bacon (of New Kent County, Virginia, concerning John Clayton [1694-1773] and William Clayton), Charles Hay (bears seal), and Beverley Randolph (concerning John Bacon, Machen Boswell, Charles Hay, and Benjamin Waller and bears seal of Virginia).
Section 5, Various Persons, Letters, 1837 and Undated
This section consists of two items, a letter, undated, of Margy [last name unknown] written to Charlie [last name unknown] concerning the Jennings family coat of arms and Jennings Hall, Yorkshire, England; and a letter, 1837, of E. J. Jenings (of London, England) written to John Richard Walbran (of Ripon, Yorkshire, England, concerning the Jenings family).
Section 6, Jenings Family, Miscellany, 1821 and Undated
This section consists of three items, a biographical sketch, 1821, of Edmund Jenings (1731-1819); notes on the Jennings family; and tombstone inscriptions at Kensington Church, London, England (concerning John Randolph Grymes, Susanna Beverley (Randolph) Grymes, Edmund Jenings [1731-1819], Mrs. Elizabeth Jenings, and Ariana (Jenings) Randolph).
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Fauntleroy, Moore. 12 Nov., 1754-6 - 6 March, 1758. Eldest son Moore, son John and the
child my wife is now with; friends and relatives: Col. Landon Carter, Col. John Tayloe,
William Brockenbrough and Charles Beale executors.
Lyne, Thomas. 13 March, 1762. Sons Robert and Thomas and James; daughters Mary and Bathea,
Ann and Elizabeth.
Barnes, Richard. 10 July, 1757 - 2 March, 1761. Brother Major Abraham Barnes and his two
sons John Barnes and Richard Barnes; wife Penelope, son Thomas, daughter Mary Kelsick, daughter
Rebecca Beckwith, daughter Elinor Barnes, daughter Sarah, daughter Elizabeth, Jonathan Beckwith
and his wife, Rebecca Barnes, my daughter. Since the making of my will, my daughter Elinor is
married to John Morton Jordan; at the making this codicil my daughter is dead.
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Index of /pub/usgenweb/va/richmond
Publications for Richmond County, VA; wills, deeds, cemeteries, etc...
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April 28, 1779 - Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, Baronet, of the parish of
Lunenburg, and county of Rappahannock...
~"The Colonial Virginian"
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Friday, April 25, 2003
~British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses
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Castles with Ghosts
"Featherstone Castle, Northumberland
The castle is associated with a ghostly bridal party. Baron Featherstonehaugh had arranged for his daughter to marry a relative of his choice, even though the daughter was in love with someone else. The wedding party left for the "traditional hunt" after the wedding, leaving the baron behind to make arrangements for the banquet. When the party failed to return by midnight, the baron began to fear the worst. Sitting alone at the table, he heard horses crossing the drawbridge. The door opened and the party entered. But, they made no sound and passed through furniture.
The wedding party had been ambushed and killed. On the anniversary of the wedding, the party can still be seen heading towards the castle. "
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Hever Castle, Kent
The ghostly figure of Anne Boleyn has been seen gliding over the bridge.
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Rochester Castle, Kent
The ghost of Lady Blanche de Warenne has been seen walking the castle battlements.
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St. Mary's Families/Manor map
Page 19 Ripon MI Book
Nuncius é cœlo, tandem componcre lites,
Fati, descendens, ultima jussa refert.
Tum moriens animam cœlo, corpusque sepulchro,
Nobis ingenii clara troph?a dedit.
[TRANSLATION.]
Heaven, earth and men, for one thing do contend,
Each one doth Fowler challenge as his own;
God's messenger from heaven, the strife to end,
Descends; and thus his will performs, and's gone!
His soul to heaven; his body to the grave;
To us the trophies of his wit he gave.
No. 104. Near this place are deposited the remains of Robert Porteus, Esq., a native of Virginia and a member of His Majesty's Council or Upper House of Legislature in that Province, from thence he moved to England, and resided first at York, afterwards in this Town, where he died August 8, 1758, aged 79 years.
No. 105.-To the memory of Edmund Jennings, formerly of this place, and of the Middle Temple London, Esquire, who was born at Anapolis, in the then British Province of Maryland, in the month of August, 1731, and died at Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, on the 29th of July, 1819, aged nearly 88 years. His widow and only surviving child grateful for his conjugal and parental tenderness erect this marble.
No. 106. Here lieth the body of Sir Roger Beckwith, Bart., late of Aldborough, who dyed at Ripon, 6th of December, 1700.
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Council, John D. Born Feb. 7. 1866 Died Sept. 26, 1910 Council
"A light from our household is gone. A voice we loved is silent. A
place is vacant in our hearts. Which never can be filled."
Council, T. J. Born Nov. 24, 1852 Died Feb. 24, 1937 "At Rest"
Council, Alice Born March 12, 1869 Died Oct. 4, 1919
Wife of T.J. Council "Gone but not forgotten"
Children of T.J. & Alice Council
Council, Humey Born May 1889 Died July 1895
Council, Charley Born June 1899 Died Oct. 1905
Council, J. B. Died Feb 25, 1910?? Lived 55 years "A Faithful Brother"
Council, Eugenia Died Jan. 6, 1906 Lived 66 years Wife of James Council
"She Was A Faithful Mother"
Horton, Mequary Born Feb. 1, 1857 Died August 17, 1922 "At Rest"
Wife of J.T. Horton
Goodwin, Wiley Born Nov. 18, 1837 Died Mar. 11, 1921
"A Confederate Soldier and a Mason"
Goodwin, Isley Born Oct. 8, 1839 Died Jan. 19, 1918 Wife of Wiley
Goodwin
Beckwith, Ava A. Born July 30, 1873 Died Mar. 31, 1943 J.A. Adcock
Beckwith, W. D. Born Oct. 8, 1868 Died July 19, 1936
"His memory is blessed"
Beckwith, Burlena Sears Born Dec. 2, 1874 Died May 6, 1940 "A Peaceful
Sole"
Beckwith, Silas Born Feb. 19, 1815 Died Aug. 16, 1882
"A Good Husband And A Kind Father"
Beckwith, Matildia Born April 20th 1820 Died June 11th 1875
"A Devoted Wife A Kind Mother" Wife of Silas Beckwith
Beckwith, Lorna J. June 20, 1848?? Daughter of S & M Beckwith
Beckwith, S. M. Born Nov 1, 1841 Died Aug. 21, 1907
Beckwith, Mary Born Feb.28, 1841 Died Feb. 11, 1927
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Jackson, (W)VA 1850 Federal Census
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James Beckwourth's manumission
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Chronicles of Virginia
Alexander Walker and Penelope, his wife, vs. Jennings Beckwith--O. S.
16; N. S. 6--Bill filed 9th June, 1799. In 1764 Sir Marmaduke Beckwith,
of Richmond County, grandfather of Penelope, gave her by deed in 1764,
which was proved in Richmond County, and her sister, Elizabeth Beckwith,
two negroes. During minority of Penelope and Elizabeth, their father, Sir
Jonathan Beckwith, took the negroes as guardian. Elizabeth married
Thomas Jones and died in 1777. Jennings Beckwith was brother of Penelope.
Sir Jonathan died in December, 1796. Alexander and Penelope were
married in 1797.
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~A LINE
From Land Records of Allegany County, Maryland, Book D., page 437, 25 October 1805: "Samuel Osman of Allegany County, having lost his original deed to a tract of land in Allegany County known as "Linns Purchase," asks a commission consisting of Orvil McCracken, William Sherecliff, James Tidball, Jennings Beckwith, and John Devilbliss of Allegany County to cause a resurvey on said land with sworn wittness to testify as to boundary lines. The witnesses were: John Weatherington of Hampshire County, Va. (W. Va.), who swore that as a hired man to William Lynn, former owner of "Linn's Purchase," he could point out a boundary. Ignatius Bevins of Allegany County, Maryland, swore that about 18 years ago he was at the house of Charles Hettrick with Thomas Darnel and at that time was shown a boundary. Thomas Flora of Hampshire County, Va. (W.Va.), aged about 69 years, swore that about 34 years ago one See (Lee?) employed him and one John McDonald to carry the chain for a survey and that he could point out a boundary. Advertisements were placed on the door of the Allegany Court House and at Joseph Clarkes, Basil Bevins and Samuel Osmans announcing the meeting for marking the boundary of "Linn's Purchase."
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GO BRITANNIA! Travel Guide: England's Top Attractions - Fountains Abbey and Studley Water Garden, Yorkshire
Four miles west of Ripon, Yorkshire off B6265 to Pateley Bridge, signposted from the A1.
Tel. (0) 1765 608 888
Spectacular ruin of 12th century Cistercian Abbey in beautiful rural setting. The Water Garden has ornamental lakes, cascades, temples and walks. St. Mary's Church by the cascade is a must see. AV program and exhibition centre. National Trust. A World Heritage Site. For full details and opening hours see the Web site and the National Trust Web site.
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~Tayloe Family Genealogy
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Welcome to Eastern Plumas Chamber of Commerce/Beckwourth Pass, Beckwourth Cabin
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Beckwourth Trail and Beckwourth Pass
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~AMM Discussion List Archive: Re: MtMan-List: Re: AMM-List: Jim Beckwourth
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Stories of Exploration - Stories to be Told - African American History in Your National Parks - National Park Service
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Utah History To Go - James Beckwourth
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The Lincoln Family
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~Robert Lincoln
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~Robert E. Lee letter to John Watrus Beckwith
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Summary description of James P. Beckwith Papers, Mss. Dept., UNC-Chapel Hill
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Summary description of Beckwith Family Papers
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Ruffin Beckwith
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Bells Baptist Church Cemetery, Chatham County, NC
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~Virginia Taxlist Index, Richmond County 1800
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The Menokin Foundation
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~Genealogy Data Page Extended 67 (Pedigree Pages) Isaac Edmund Jennings Beckwith
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Bleak Hall, Westmoreland County, Va. - gen
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Bleak Hall (now Harbor View Colony)
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More Bleak Hall genealogy
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The Wm. E. Beckwith House
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Encyclopedia Titanica: First Class Passenger: Richard Leonard Beckwith
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The sinking of the Titanic, ch. 15: Boy's desperate fight for life (1912) by Jay Henry Mowbray An Interesting account of Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith and party as the Titanic sank.
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~Beckwith etc. of Richmond County
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Ancestors of Damon Milton Floyd - Person Page 166
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~Ruth Beckwith and Doris Barb circa 1918
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Beckwith Family History Report (1848-Present)
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Beckwith, Sir Marmaduke Richmond County, Virginia Richmond County Will Book No. 8 1787-94 p 71-74
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Block 2
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Utah History To Go - James Beckwourth
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The Jeronimo Bassano and Nicholas Lanier Families
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Anthony van Dyck. Nicholas Lanier. - Olga's Gallery
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ECU Archives Photographs - Kate Beckwith
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Gardens in Beckwithshaw
Royal Horticultural Society - Gardens
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But who is Freeman Beckwith?
Or more correctly, what is Freeman Beckwith?
Freeman Beckwith is what more and more people refer to these days as a blogger. But he himself admits that it may not be ever so, and, in fact, it is of relatively recent inheritance, so little so as to make the label feel rather like an unhaberdashered suit of clothing. Not exactly skin.
But he does love to write, and he is cross with the poor quality of coverage being doled out like so many Eminems. Deep down, however, he feels more like Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, or Baruch the angel that gave Adam the Apple, who spoke to Heracles, Moses and Jesus, and comes back periodically to make sure there are still those whose receptors are appropriately attuned -- as it is they, and certainly not the whores who now gladly part the wallet for hush tickets and fame...and look only to each other for inspiration, information and a pat on the back.
Well, I shant be doing that. Wisdom is from whence I hope to gather my pearls, and thus to diseminate to you, my fair and only reader. And mixed with this stew, I hope to bid adieu to the vinegars and astringents, and focus the eye upon more beautiful vistas, sweeter to the taste, yet cradling golden nuggets from the Ancients.
Well...sometimes. Other times I may just bitch.
If I am lucky, they will generally contain a title, and be roughly the length of a standard column, so as not to bore too long.
Topics, I should think, will include Politics, Religion, Humor, Language, Culture, Southern Life, Music, and other entirely related subjects.
Where's that Publish Button?
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UNRELATED NOTES
Jennifer Borland?
Kevin Phillips
In retrospect, it's unclear whether the Bush dynasty built Enron or vice versa. In 1985, when Enron was formed, the Bushes were an important political family. George Bush, as vice president, headed the Reagan administration's task force on energy policy. But in terms of Texas oil money and stature, the Bushes were third echelon. When George W. ran for governor of Texas in 1994, Ann Richards, the Democratic incumbent, joked that of the oil companies he had started or been involved with, none had made a profit. Enron's rise, with the Bush family's help, in the 1990s rearranged the energy power structure in Texas and the nation, and put the Bush entourage in clover. The question now is whether what went up together will come down together.
See: Bleak Hall, Edisto Island
THE RETREAT - CLARKE COUNTY, VA
MOUNT AIRY - NORTHERN NECK, VA
The news had gotten out that the Tayloes were going to be hosting a gala at Mount Airy. "Everyone is going to be there..."
OUTLINE
PRESENT DAY - Describe the task at hand -- writing a book on Jim Beckwourth's antecedents. Talk about the difficulty in creating a "first book" and a "joint venture" so to speak. Every gem, and indeed every Jim, has many facets and an incredibly vast setting. As such, going back to the beginning, as we now know it, is the only way to show the truly big picture...
Among the present day to include:
911
Blogging (First Blog Novel)
FlashMob
Birth of WWW
Selection 2000/Tilden
Lists of Modern Authors,Musicians, Artists, etc in Rabelasian style
Gurdjieff
Dalai Lama on Dying
BIG BANG - The beginning of the material world. The birth of Matter/Mother.
COMETS: "The Cosmic Gardener" - How water and microbes get distributed.
BIRTH OF EARTH - The beginnings of life on earth
PRE-CIVILIZATION - Describe pre-boundary life. Find the good things.
THE ANCIENTS: "What they knew, and when." - Ancient wisdom
WRITING AND EDUCATION - Hermes, King Wen, Duke of Chou, Eckhart, Lao Tse, Rumi, etc
30,000 BC - MESOAMERICA, NATIVE AMERICANA - Show how the Indians were here long before even Adam. Engage the reader into considering their primacy on North America. Should the English Colonists have a right to return, once they are told to go back to Europe? This brings up the current issue of the right of return for the Palestinians...as well as the concept of "homeland". Cain means Ownership.
THE PRE-ADAMIC RECORD - Enlil and Enki, Lilith, etc
ADAM AND EVE...AND LILITH?
BARUCH
CAIN AND ABEL - OWNERSHIP
ZEDEKIAH AND TEA TEPHI
JESUS AND MARY MAGDALENE
DESPOSINI
HOLY GRAIL
TEMPLARS & FREEMASONS
JEREMIAH, BARUCH AND TEA TEPHI
EUROPEAN JOURNEYS AND HOMELANDS
THE TWO UKs
JESUS, MARY MAGDALENE (MAULDIN, MADELINE)
KING ARTHUR, MERLIN, TALIESIN, JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA
WILLIAM THE CONK
ROBERT THE BRUCE
KINGS, QUEENS AND SAINTS
CAESARS, ETC
GENEALOGY
ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
MUSIC - LANIER, BASSANO
SHAKESPEARE - COUSIN
RIPON - The many Ripons. Ripon, Wis. is where the Republican Party was started.
JENNINGS
BECKWITHSHAW
ALDBOROUGH
PONTEFRACT
WILLIAM BECKWITH AT JAMESTOWN
HENRY BECKWITH OF MARYLAND
MATTHEW BECKWITH OF CONNECTICUT
SIR MARMADUKE BECKWITH OF VIRGINIA
SIR JONATHAN
STAMP ACT
LEES, WASHINGTONS, ETC
SIR JENNINGS BECKWITH
DEPRESSION AT DEATH
FREEING SLAVES
DAVID AND SOLOMON BECKWITH/UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
JIM BECKWOURTH
SILAS BECKWITH/BLOODYARD
JAMES CARROLL BECKWITH/MARK TWAIN/HANNIBAL
ADVENTURES OF JIM
SLAVERY
JIM'S WOMEN
CROW CHIEF
SAND CREEK MASSACRE
JOHN WATROUS BECKWITH
GEORGE CONE BECKWITH/PEACE SOCIETY/PEACE MANUAL
ELIZABETH HART BECKWITH/CANADA
JIM DOES COLORADO, CALIFORNIA, TAOS, ETC
JIM'S CHIRDREN
CIVIL WAR/RUFFIN
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Dave and Jude as characters.
What NOT to include. (Ask Jude)
FADE IN:
WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT?
The book is about relationships. North vs South, Black vs White, Liberals vs Conservatives, Colonists vs Natives, America vs England, Past vs Present, life vs death...and how reconciliation comes about.
WHAT IS THE ENDING?
SYNOPSIS ATTEMPTS:
Dave, an intuitive genealogist and writer finds a kindred spirit on a political forum on the internet, and together they take advantage of the computer age tools -- blogging, gensoftware, gensites, forums, etc... and in the process they discover a kindred spirit in the past.
TITLE ATTEMPTS:
"What Blacks Do"
911
new york
Precognition
Lightning
Lightning Curse
Boston
Harvard
Digression>sterne
"Gathering of the Primates"
see Anglicanism
youknowitis
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When the Yankees Came
An Interview with John Beckwith 83, of‘ Cary.
UI reckon dat I wuz ‘bout nine years old. at de surrender, but we warn‘t happy an‘ we stayed on dar till my parents died. IV~r pappy wuz nam~d Ureen an‘ ~r masnn~r wu z named Molly, an ‚ we b e longe d ter Mr • Jo e Edwards ‚ Mr Marion Gtilii an‘ Mr. Hilliard Beckwith, as de missus married all of ‘em. Dar wuz twenty-.one other slaves,an‘ we got beat ever‘ onet in a while.
“~en dey told us dat de Yankees v~uz coriiin‘ we wuz
also told dat lifen we i‘ t behave dat we ~ d be shot ; an~ we believed it. We would‘uv behaved anyhow, case we had good plank houses, good food, ant shoes. We had Saturday ant Sunday off an‘ we wuz happy.
“De missus, she raised de ni~ge.r babies so‘s de manunies could wuek. I ‘members de times when she rock me ter sleep an‘ put me ter bed in her own bed. I wuz happy den as I thinks back of it, until dem Yankees come.
UDey come on a Chuesday; an‘ dey started by
burnin‘ de cotton house an‘ kuhn‘ most of de chickens an~ pigs. Way atter awhile dey fin‘s de cellar an‘ dey drinks
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188 TOM JONES (1745) - CARR'S TOM JONES
Fairfax Harrison's Early American Turf Stock, volume 2, pages 53 and 54, says - 'Because no record was made of his breeding while he was on the turf, Pick, duly noting his age and turf form, gave him the coat and breeding of Larkin's Tom Jones, b. c. 1743 (not 1745) by Crofts' Partner, of which a full record had been made by both Heber & Pond. The consequence was that GSB (i, 216), entering the Larkin colt among the produce of his dam, was led
astray by Pick and gave him the date of the Carr colt' Fairfax Harrison's Early American Turf Stock, volume 2, page 54, says - '[Tayloe's] Tom Jones [br. c. 1758] was bred by Col. John Tayloe of Virginia: he was got by Sir Marmaduke
Beckwith's horse of the same name (that was the property of Mr. Carr, he won a King's Plate and some Fifties)' also '[Beckwith's] Tom Jones was got by [Carr's] Cyprus: his dam by Mr. Crofts' Bloody Buttocks Arabian' also 'To these testimonies for breeding is added the Rappahannock River tradition (recorded in 1826 by Advocate in AF, x, 71, No 18) that the Tom Jones imp. by Sir Marmaduke Beckwith 'in the year 1755' was a gr. c.'
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FREDERICKSBURG
BINNS VS SIBYL BECKWITH (M6818) 1828
On 1 January 1820 BINNS wanted to hire a Negro woman. He met with Jennings BECKWITH who was the son of Sibyl and it was decided that the slave woman Alcey would be the one to go to work for BINNS. BECKWITH assured BINNS that the woman was sound and healthy and not pregnant. A price of $30.00 was set. Her hire was good until 25 December of that year. Soon afterward it was discovered that Alcey was preg. And was soon unfit for labor. BINNS complained to BECKWITH who basically said too bad and indicated that BINNS would have to support Alcey and pay the midwife's fee.
NEWSPAPER Virginia Free Press (Charles Town, W. Va.)
ENTRY Died- At Mount Airy, Richmond County, Va. on Nov. 13, Sir Jennings Beckwith, son of Jonathan Beckwith, and grandson of Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, son of Jonathan Beckwith, Bart., age 72. He was the "Leather Stocking" of the Northern Neck. Much of his life was spent in the far west hunting with the Indians. Of late he had lived with such as would hunt and fish with him. (p. 3, c. 3)
DATE OF PUB. Thursday, December 3, 1835.
FILM NO. Available on microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 417).
NOTE From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.
SUBJECT Obituaries -- Virginia.
SUBJECT Charleston (Va.)
SUBJECT Charles Town (W. Va.)
ADDED ENTRY Henley, Bernard J. (Bernard John)
COLLECTION Bernard J. Henley papers.
STYLE : Beckwith vs Garnetts Exor.
PLAINTIFF(s) : Jennings Beckwith; Catharine Beckwith; Catharine Miskell
DEFENDANT(s) : William Alexander (exor.); Thomas Garnett (dec'd)
PLACES MENTIONED : Stafford
REMARK(s) : Death ref. - William Miskell - intestate - Jan. 1789
Marriage ref. - Jennings Beckwith -mr- Catharine Miskell, dau. of William
Mill ref. - acct for rent of mill - 1789-1793
CITATION : Beckwith vs Garnetts Exor. / 1800 / CR-DC-L / 560-38
~http://www.rootsweb.com/~vacfrede/crd/fbdc99.htm
Rappahannock Mines, Falmouth, Stafford Co., Virginia, USA
Ref.: Dana 6: 18. A gold mine located 10 miles from Falmouth (direction not specified).
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Some ancestors of JPB:
Abraham - 67th ggf
King Alfred - 30th ggf
King Arviragus - 51st ggf
A personage who has come to our attention in the writings of Juvenal, who mentions him in connection with resistance to Roman conquest and authority. Geoffrey of Monmouth refers to him as a British king whose brother was killed sometime during Claudius' invasion (43 AD). He has been linked with Caratacus, but more interestingly, he is said by the interpolators of William of Malmesbury's "De Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae" to be the king who granted 12 hides of land around Glastonbury to Joseph of Arimathea and his band of followers, when they brought Christianity to Britain for the first time in 63 AD.
Some scholars think that it may have been Arviragus and his people who occupied the ancient hillfort, located in the county of Somerset, known as Cadbury Castle (which would later come to be associated with King Arthur), and used it as a base for their resistance against the Romans.
Berengar, Count of Rennes - 26th ggf
Bernhard, King of Italy - 29th ggf
Bran the Blessed - 51st ggf
Charlemagne - 30th ggf
King Childeric of Franks - 40th ggf
Cleopatra - wife of 54th ggf
Clodion - 40th ggf
Clodius I - 43rd ggf
Clodius III - 48th ggf
Clodomir IV - 63rd ggf
Clothaire I - 38th ggf
Clothilde - 39th ggm
Clovis - 39th ggf
King Coel of Camulod - 49th ggf
King Cymbeline (1st pendragon) 52nd ggf
Dagobert -46th ggf
King Darda Dardanus of Troy - 62nd ggf
Elmyra of Temple Faustina - 54th ggm
King David of Israel - 91st ggf
King Edward I of England - 15th ggf
King Edward II - 14th ggf
King Edward III - 13th ggf
Faramond - 41st ggf
Frederick, Count of Luxembourg - 24th ggf
Geoffrey Plantagenet I - 19th ggf
Lady Godiva - 26th ggm
Helen of Troy - 78th ggaunt
King Henry I of England - 20th ggf
King Henry II of England - 18th ggf
King Henry III of England - 16th ggf
JC - 50th ggf
King John I - 17th ggf
Judicael, Count of Rennes - 27th ggf
Judith of Brittany - 23rd ggm
Judith of the West Franks - 28th ggm
Julius Caesar - 56th gguncle
King Lear - 52nd ggf
King Louis I of France - 29th ggf
Matilda of Flanders - 21ggm
Matilda, Princess of Saxony - 25ggm
Matilda, Queen of England - 19ggm
Matilda of France (3cousin27)
Matilda, Countess of Ringelheim - 31ggm
Odin - 53ggf
King Priam of Troy - 79ggf
King Robert I of France - 26ggf
King Robert II of France - 23ggf
King William the Conk - 21ggf
Boaz Anfortas - 43ggf
French Kings in Cement
French Queens in Cement
Saint Denis Basilique, Paris, France
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Alexander Graham Bell House...near Bleak Hall
Colonial Beach did have some good memories, though most of them were of hope. When we first moved to Colonial Beach, it was something new and exciting. It was a wow, this is great! So close to the water, and in the country too! Memories of fishing, the huge house we stayed in, the ducks, being able to buy fireworks, Rusty leaving a tan spot on the wood deck furniture, biking for hours and hours, playing baseball against my brother (because there was NOBODY else to play with). Of course, this hope would be dashed as the cruel reality of Colonial Beach actually hit, but it was fun to remember first driving into what was then called Bleak Hall (now Harbor View Colony
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BLEAK HALL, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VA
[1831] Daniel resided at "Bleak Hall", on the South side of Mattox Creek, containing 1000 acres, which he bought before his father's death. He owned a great deal of land, as is indicated by the following deeds. The writer (Brooke Payne) has been told
by old residents in Westmoreland that Daniel Payne used to remark that he could walk from the Potomac to the Rappahannock without setting foot off his own property. His father left him the Glebe (Church Point) and also 535 acres near Leedstown
originally owned by Richard Payne and purchased 1795 by said John Payne from his brother William Payne. 1818 Daniel Payne bought "Laurel Grove" from Alexander Morson, who had it from Bushrod Washington; this estate adjoined Bleak Hall. 1831 he
purchased from Mrs. Mary Lee 185 acres on Mattox Creek
including "Wakefield", the birth-place of General Washington, and an island in Pope's Creek. Mr. Gray had purchased Wakefield in 1813 from George Corbin Washington, who reserved a plot 60 by 60 feet around the site of the house, and another
plot 20 by 20 feet around the tomb. 1835 Mr. Garnett sold to Daniel Payne for $8250 his share in Wakefield. Following Daniel Payne's death, his executors sold Wakefield to John E. Wilson.
Mattox Creek as viewed from an inland road, VA Route 205
Westmoreland County, VA
Early Marriages
May 15, 1795, Marmaduke Brockenbrough Beckwith and Rebecca Beckwith
November 1, 1796, Robert S. Hipkins and Mary H. Butler,
Beckwith Butler, her father, gives his consent
January 23, 1805, Barney (Barnes?) Beckwith and Elizabeth P. Martin
Section 22, Carter, Robert (1728-1804), Correspondence, 1754-1804
...Sir Jonathan Beckwith (concerning lawyers and lawsuits pending in the county courts of Virginia)...
...Beckwith Butler (concerning supplies for the Lancaster County militia)...
Section 1, Jenings, Edmund (1703-1756), Letterbook, 1753-1769
This section consists of one item, a letterbook, 17 November 1753-29 July 1769, of Edmund Jenings. The volume has been indexed by the staff of the Virginia Historical Society. The letterbook was kept in London, England, and Richmond, Virginia.
Letters concern the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Jewish immigration to Great Britain, the Maryland Land Office, Negroes, paper currency in Virginia and Maryland, pistole fee, plantations in Virginia and Maryland, salt, the Seven Years' War, tobacco, and the Virginia and Maryland boundary.
Correspondents (pp. 1-157 of the letterbook) include Thomas Bacon, Elizabeth (Brockenbrough) Beckwith, Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, William Beverley (of Blandfield, Essex County, Virginia), Sir Thomas Bladen, John Beale Bordley, Matthias Bordley, Stephen Bordley (concerning Horatio Sharpe), [first name unknown] Bowes, John Brice ([d. 1766] concerning Richard Lee and Horatio Sharpe), John Brice ([1738-1820] concerning Edward Braddock's campaign in 1755), Doctor [first name unknown] Brown, John Bullen, [first name unknown] Butler, William Byrd III (of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia), [first name unknown] Calvert (concerning horse racing in Virginia), Benedict Calvert (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore and Horatio Sharpe), Cecilius Calvert, Charles Carter (of Cleve, King George County, Virginia, concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Halifax, the Duke of Newcastle, and John Randolph), Landon Carter (of Sabine Hall, Richmond County, Virginia), [first name unknown] Carteret, Samuel Chamberlaine, Doctor Daniel Cheston (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore and the Earl of Halifax), Francina Augustina (Frisby) Stephenson Cheston, Gawin Corbin, Richard Corbin (of Laneville, King and Queen County, Virginia, concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, William Byrd III, John Randolph, Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and the Ohio Company), [first name unknown] Cruiksshanks, Robert Dinwiddie (concerning James Abercrombie, John Randolph, Peter Randolph, and Peyton Randolph), Michael Edwards, Benjamin Fendall (concerning Horatio Sharpe), Samuel Galloway, Charles Goldsborough, [first name unknown] Gordon, Anne [Guith?], Philip Hammond, Mathias Harris, [first name unknown] Hepburne, Matthew Hutton (as Archbishop of York), [first name unknown] Hyland, Michael Inman, Robert Janssen, Stephen Theodore Janssen, Doctor [first name unknown] Jeffery, Edmund Jenings Jr., Edmund Jenings (1731-1819), [first name unknown] Key, Mrs. [first name unknown] Lambert, Philip Ludwell Lee, Richard Lee (concerning Horatio Sharpe), John Leids, [first name unknown] Lidderdale, Edward Lloyd, Philip Ludwell III (of Green Springs, James City County, Virginia, concerning John Randolph), [John Miller], George Plater (concerning Horatio Sharpe), [first name unknown] Porteus, Beilby Porteus, Elizabeth (Jenings) Porteus, Nancy Porteus, Ariana (Jenings) Randolph, John Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Robert Dinwiddie, the Earl of Halifax, Peter Randolph, and Peyton Randolph), Peter Randolph (concerning John Randolph), Peyton Randolph (concerning John Randolph and Horatio Sharpe), Onoria Razalini (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Halifax, and the Duke of Newcastle), Mrs. [first name unknown] Rogers, Doctor David Ross (concerning Horatio Sharpe and a prescription), John Ross, Horatio Sharpe, William Sharpe (concerning John Blair, John Randolph, and Horatio Sharpe), William Smythies, [first name unknown] Snowden, [first name unknown] Stewart, Doctor George Steuart, Robert Stevenson, Benjamin Tasker, John Tayloe, Edward Thompson (concerning John Randolph), Presley Thornton, unidentified addressees (concerning William Byrd III, Edmund Jenings [1731-1819], John Randolph, Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, Horatio Sharpe, and Ralph Wormeley), [James] Wardrof, John Williams, [first name unknown] Williamson, John Wollaston, Mrs. John Wollaston, Ralph Wormeley, Chessley & Co. of Bristol, England, Hill & Co. of [location unknown], and Sedgeley & Co. of Bristol, England.
Letters (pp. 161-368 of the letterbook) of Edmund Jenings ([1731-1819] of London, England) also concern the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Brafferton, Yorkshire, England, copper mines, the East India Company, slavery, pamphlets of Edmund Jenings (1731-1819) and Doctor John Mitchell, paper currency, a portrait of William Pitt, the Seven Years' War, the Stamp Act of 1765, taxation, tobacco, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Correspondents include Sir Marmaduke Beckwith (of Richmond County, Virginia), Robert Beverley (of Blandfield, Essex County, Virginia, concerning William Pitt), John Beale Bordley (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, Robert Eden, the Earl of Hillsborough, Edmund Jenings Jr., Philip Ludwell Lee, William Pitt, Horatio Sharpe, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts of London, England), Sarah (Frisby) Brice, John Brice ([d. 1766] concerning Edmund Jenings [1703-1756] and Horatio Sharpe), John Brice (1738-1820), William Byrd III (of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia), Charles Carroll (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Hillsborough, Philip Ludwell III, and William Pitt), Francina Augustina (Frisby) Stephenson Cheston, Gawin Corbin (concerning Doctor Arthur Lee and William Pitt), Richard Corbin (of Laneville, King and Queen County, Virginia, concerning Robert Beverley, William Byrd III, the Earl of Halifax, Benjamin Harrison, the Earl of Hillsborough, Edmund Jenings [1703-1756], William Lee, Philip Ludwell III, William Pitt, John Randolph, Horatio Sharpe, John Tayloe, George Washington, and Ralph Wormeley), John Dickinson, George Lee Mason Fitzhugh, Benjamin Harrison (of Lower Brandon, Prince George County, Virginia), Edmund Jenings Jr., [first name unknown] Jordan (concerning Robert Eden and William Pitt), Doctor Arthur Lee (of London, England, and Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning the Earl of Hillsborough, Philip Ludwell III, and William Pitt), Richard Henry Lee (of Chantilly, Westmoreland County, Virginia, concerning Doctor Arthur Lee and Benjamin West and a portrait of the Earl of Camden), Richard Ludwell Lee (i.e., Philip Ludwell Lee or Richard Henry Lee concerning Robert Boyle, John Randolph, and John Tayloe), Thompson Moses, George Plater (concerning William Pitt), Beilby Porteus, Robert Porteus, Ariana (Jenings) Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Robert Dinwiddie, Philip Ludwell III, John Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and John Tayloe), John Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Edmund Jenings [1703-1756], Doctor Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, William Pitt, Edmund Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and John Tayloe), [first name unknown] Reynard, Gregory Rhodes, Christopher Robinson, Doctor David Ross, Danson Roundall, William Smythies, William Stevenson (concerning Horatio Sharpe), John Tayloe (of Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, concerning Doctor Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, John Randolph, William Sharpe, and Presley Thornton), Edward Thompson (concerning the Earl of Halifax), Presley Thornton, unidentified addressees (concerning William Pitt and the Quartering Act of 1766), Edm. Wilcox, and Ralph Wormeley (of Rosegill, Middlesex County, Virginia, concerning the Earl of Hillsborough).
Section 2, Jenings, Edmund (1731-1819), Correspondence, 1789-1819
This section consists of eight items, letters, 1789-1818, written to Edmund Jenings of London, England. Letters concern land in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Correspondents include John Brice (of Baltimore, Maryland), W. Cooke (bears endorsement of James Brooks), Thomas Land Emory (of Baltimore, Maryland), Eliphalet Pearson (of Cambridge, Massachusetts, concerning the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts), David Ross (of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania), and Ralph Randolph Wormeley (of Blackheath, England, and Winchester, Virginia, bears letters [copies] of Thomas Lane Emory and Doctor Gerard Hopkins Snowden and seal of Wormeley).
Section 3, Jenings, Edmund (1731-1819), Land Papers, 1783-1795
This section consists of two items, a letter, 1783, written by Lloyd Kenyon (of London, England, and bears seal) to John Randolph Grymes (of London, England) concerning American property rights in England; and an act (copy made by John Gwinn), 1795, of the Maryland General Assembly concerning land of Edmund Jenings in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (by authority of William Harwood, John Hoskins Stone, and Henry Warfield).
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~Genealogy Data Page 245 (Notes Pages)
Beckwith, Jennings (b. 1762, d. 14 NOV 1835)
Given Name: Jennings
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Jennings Beckwith
Title: Histsorical Southern Families vol. 3 p 28,29
Author: Boddie
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Miskell, Augustine "Austin" (b. 1 SEP 1772)
Given Name: Augustine "Austin"
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~Genealogy Data Page 291 (Family Pages)
Gender: Female
Parents:
Father: Beckwith, Frank
Mother: McDonald, Anne Leachy
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~land patents, 1839
BECKWITH Jennings 04/01/1839 18440MO2320__.392
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~Richmond Co. taxlist 1789
Includes Thomas Beale, Sir Jonathan Beckwith, etc...
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MRS. FRANCES MORTON HUBARD
(1739?-1800?)
Frances Morton was the daughter of Joseph Morton (1715-1759) of Richmond County and James City County and Frances Colston Morton, daughter of William Colston of King George County (d. 1721) and Mary Meriwether Colston (d. 1752). Mrs. Hubard was kin and connected to the first families of Virginia: Gooch, Beale, Bathurst, Beckwith, Jennings, Belfield, Meriwether, Mountjoy, etc. (See genealogical chart.)
Mrs. Morton's father was a Burgess from James City County 1756-1758. He was the son of Captain John Morton of Richmond County and Mary Mountjoy Morton. Joseph Morton became a distributing agent for a group of Yorkshire horse breeders. Traveller, an imported stud and race horse, was owned by Morton from 1748-1757. "He was bred by Mr. Crofts at Raby in Yorkshire (who was the fortunate breeder and owner of some of the first horses in England) and was got by his famous horse, Partner, grandsire of King Herod. The dam of Traveller was by Bloody Buttocks (an Arabian) ... Traveller sired horses owned by Thomas Mann Randolph, Robert Skipwith, John Hartwell Cocke, Richard Lee, Littlebury Hardyman, Secretary Thomas Nelson, Lewis Burwell and James Southall."
Following his marriage to Frances Colston c. 1739 Morton continued to live in Richmond County or King George County. In 1742 he owned two lots, #25 and 26, at Leeds Town. Following the death of his mother-in-law, Mary Meriwether2
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http://www.geocities.com/heartland/pointe/9126/beatty.html <> Thomas & Sarah Beatty of Montgomery County, Kentucky
Thomas is the oldest established ancestor that has been traced for this Beatty family. Thomas is identified by his will as the father of Nancy "Batty" (sic) who married Joseph See. His relationship to the See family is also identified through family recollection. There is a strong See family tradition that Joseph See Jr. was the son of Nancy Batty. These traditions are reflected in death certificates and early oral family history in at least two branches of the See family. The tradition of a Beatty ancestress was recalled well into the 19th century; however, beyond the name recognition no additional oral family history remains about the family today. The Beatty family is traced to Montgomery County, Kentucky where Thomas Beatty left a very lengthy and detailed will, as well as, documentation of two estate sales. This family has received little if none genealogical research.
Some researchers have identified Thomas Beatty as having married Sarah Turner, the daughter of William and Sarah (Ellzey) Turner of Fairfax and Loudoun counties, Virginia. The documentation of this connection is in the estate papers of Thomasin Ellsey of Fairfax County, Virginia [re: Will Books Q1-R1, 1830-36]. In the estate settlement the record states, "Jennings Beckwith and Henry Harrison are the joint owners of the 4/5th of the share of Sarah Beatty, daughter of Sarah Turner, having purchased out the interest of Thomas, Polly Beatty
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The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Beckerman to Bedel
BECKWITH: See also Steven Beckwith Ayres.
Beckwith, Abijah Member of New York state senate 5th District, 1835-38. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Cecile of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1944. Female. Still living as of 1944.
Beckwith, Charles of Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y. Delegate to New York state constitutional convention 30th District, 1894. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Charles Dyer (1838-1921) -- also known as Charles D. Beckwith -- of Paterson, Passaic County, N.J. Born near Coveville, Saratoga County, N.Y., October 22, 1838. Republican. Mayor of Paterson, N.J., 1887-88; U.S. Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1889-91. Died March 27, 1921. Interment at Chatham Center Rural Cemetery, Chatham Center, N.Y. See also: congressional biography.
Beckwith, Clinton Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Corydon Justice of Illinois state supreme court, 1864. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Cyrus G. of New London, New London County, Conn. Member of Connecticut state senate 9th District, 1887-88. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Elmer F. Democrat. Secretary of state of Colorado, 1899-1901. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Ernest of Kanawha County, W.Va. Republican. Candidate for West Virginia state house of delegates from Kanawha County, 1934. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Frank of Jefferson County, W.Va. Member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Jefferson County, 1881, 1887; member of West Virginia state senate 15th District, 1915-17. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Frank R. Republican. Candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1964. Still living as of 1964.
Beckwith, Fred A. of Niantic, East Lyme, New London County, Conn. Republican. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from East Lyme, 1907, 1927-29, 1939-40; member of Connecticut state senate, 1925. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Gladys of Lansing, Ingham County, Mich. Democrat. Member of Michigan Democratic State Central Committee, 1977. Female. Still living as of 1977.
Beckwith, Louise Taylor (b. 1882) -- also known as Louise Beckwith -- of Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Bowling Green, Warren County, Ky., August 15, 1882. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1944. Female. Episcopalian. Burial location unknown.
Beckwith, Sandra Shank (b. 1943) Born in Norfolk, Va., February 4, 1943. Lawyer; municipal judge, 1977-79, 1982-87; common pleas court judge, 1987-89; Judge of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 1992-. Female. Still living as of 2000. See also: federal judicial profile.
Beckwith, Sutherland of Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1940. Burial location unknown.
Beckworth, Gary See Lindley Garrison Beckworth, Sr.
Beckworth, Lindley Garrison, Sr. (1913-1984) -- also known as Lindley Beckworth; Gary Beckworth -- of Gilmer, Upshur County, Tex.; Gladewater, Gregg County, Tex. Born in South Bouie, Kaufman County, Tex., June 30, 1913. Democrat. Member of Texas state house of representatives, 1937-38; U.S. Representative from Texas 3rd District, 1939-53, 1957-67; candidate for U.S. Senator from Texas, 1952; Judge of U.S. Customs Court, 1967-68; member of Texas state senate, 1971-72. Baptist. Member, Freemasons; Odd Fellows. Died in Tyler, Smith County, Tex., March 9, 1984. Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Tex. See also: congressional biography.
Beckworth, Raymond Democrat. Candidate for U.S. Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1994. Still living as of 1994.
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Current News about the Shakespeare Authorship Debate
~Lanier Marriages in England
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Mujeres Barrocas
~Aemilia Lanyer (1569 - 1645)
Published in the same year as the King James Bible (1611), Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail, God, King of the Jews, 1611) is a poem about the Passion of Christ. Dedicated to women and addressed to women, Lanyer makes no apology for publishing a serious work of poetry under her own name. Arguing for women's religious and social equality in the introductory dedicatory poems, Lanyer continues her feminist theme when she reinterprets the biblical creation story as well as the stories of Christ's life and death from a feminist point of view. Indeed, her entire Passion story is viewed from a feminist perspective.
Here is her introduction
. To the Virtuous Reader.
Often have I heard, that it is the property of some women, not only to emulate the virtues and perfections of the rest, but also by all their powers of ill speaking, to eclipse the brightness of their deserved fame: now contrary to this custom, which men I hope unjustly lay to their charge, I have written this small volume, or little book, for the general use of all virtuous Ladies and Gentlewomen of this kingdom; and in commendation of some particular persons of our own sex, such as for the most part, are so well known to myself, and others, that I dare undertake Fame dares not to call any better. And this have I done, to make known to the world, that all women deserve not to be blamed though some forgetting they are women themselves, and in danger to be condemned by the words of their own mouths, fall into so great an error, as to speak unadvisedly against the rest of their sex; which if it be true, I am persuaded they can show their own imperfection in nothing more: and therefore could wish (for their own ease, modesties, and credit) they would refer such points of folly, to be practiced by evil disposed men, who forgetting they were borne of women, nourished of women, and that if it were not by the means of women, they would be quite extinguished out of the world, and a final end of them all, do like Vipers deface the wombs wherein they were bred, only to give way and utterance to their want of discretion and goodness. Such as these, were they that dishonored Christ his Apostles and Prophets, putting them to shameful deaths. Therefore we are not to regard any imputations, that they undeservedly lay upon us, no otherwise than to make use of them to our own benefits, as spurs to virtue, making us fly all occasions that may color their unjust speeches to pass currant. Especially considering that they have tempted even the patience of God himself, who gave power to wise and virtuous women, to bring down their pride and arrogance. As was cruel Cesarus by the discreet counsel of noble Deborah, Judge and Prophetess of Israel: and resolution of Jael wife of Heber the Kenite: wicked Haman, by the divine prayers and prudent proceedings of beautiful Hester: blasphemous Holofernes, by the invincible courage, rare wisdom, and confident carriage of Judeth: & the unjust Judges, by the innocency of chaste Susanna: with infinite others, which for brevity sake I will omit. As also in respect it pleased our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, without the assistance of man, being free from original and all other sins, from the time of his conception, till the hour of his death, to be begotten of a woman, borne of a woman, nourished of a woman, obedient to a woman; and that he healed woman, pardoned women, comforted women: yea, even when he was in his greatest agony and bloody sweat, going to be crucified, and also in the last hour of his death, took care to dispose of a woman: after his resurrection, appeared first to a woman, sent a woman to declare his most glorious resurrection to the rest of his Disciples. Many other examples I could allege of divers faithful and virtuous women, who have in all ages, not only been Confessors, but also endured most cruel martyrdom for their faith in Jesus Christ. All which is sufficient to enforce all good Christians and honorable minded men to speak reverently of our sex, and especially of all virtuous and good women. To the modest sensors of both which, I refer these my imperfect endeavors, knowing that according to their own excellent dispositions, they will rather, cherish, nourish, and increase the least spark of virtue where they find it, by their favorable and best interpretations, than quench it by wrong constructions. To whom I wish all increase of virtue, and desire their best opinions.
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Fayette County Park, West Virginia
The park lies on Laurel Creek approximately 2-1/2 miles above Beckwith, WV. From Rt. 19 at the Fayetteville intersection, travelers need to take Rt. 16 N toward Beckwith and Gauley Bridge. It is 4-1/2 miles form the intersection to a left turn off Rt. 16 N, onto a two lane road which is marked as Fayette County Park Road. It is then approximately 1-1/2 miles to the welcome sign for the Park road enterance.
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James Tarpley I Family
I bequeath my Soul to God who Gave it a my body to be Buryed as my Executors hereafter mentioned Shall think fitt. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my two Sons Thomas and Charles Tarpley two hundred and Sixty acres of Land Lying on the head of Farnham Creek to them and their heirs for ever Equally to be divided.
NOTE: Who know all the goings on in Richmond County? Well, that would be the one who wrote it all down; documented it...i.e...Sir Marmaduke Beckwith.
posted by Dave 12:58 PM <2003_06_01_beckwith_archive.html>
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The Family History of - Tarpley
Tarpley Beckwith was born 2 October 1718, a son of Sir Marmaduke Beckwith and his wife, Elizabeth Brockenbrough.
Tarpley Tune was born 24 February 1741/2, a son of William Tune (- 20 May 1755 ) and his wife, Joanna. Tarpley was underage when his father made his will in Richmond County in 1755 and died of smallpox at the home of his brother, Samuel Tune, by 20 July 1763.
Tommy Tune?
ALSO: The characters of Tune, Tarpley, Beckwith, Glascock, Tayloe, Carter, Winifred, Barber, Griffin, Scott, Peachey, Daniel
posted by Dave 1:04 PM <2003_06_01_beckwith_archive.html>
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The Family History of Unknown
Catherine Miskell [2450.1.2.3.3.6] married Jennings Beckwith in Richmond County 2 April (bond) 1787.
Maj. John Belfield [2450.1.3.1.8.1] (1751-1792) married Mary Beckwith 5 December (bond) 1785. The bride was a daughter of Sir Jonathon Beckwith and Rebecca Barnes. They had one child. Sir Beckwith was very wealthy, having owned fifty-three slaves in 1783.
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William3 Thornton, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Mary Ransdell, first appears in the Richmond Co. records in 1704, when Thomas James (probably his grandfather) made him a deed of gift, as mentioned in the section on his father, Luke2 Thornton. He inherited the land of his father and his grandfather, and the Richmond Co. Order Books from 1732 to 1740 (Nos. 10 and 11) show long-drawn out suits against John Jones (who married his cousin, Sarah Mountjoy) regarding the Luke1 land left him and the Joneses by Thornton, and against Evan Thomas, Sr. and Jr. regarding the boundaries of the land deeded his father by Joseph Beale in 1704. The suit against the Thomases was settled by a division of the land Sept. 2, 1740 (Account Book, 1724-83, p. 163). The dispute with John Jones seems never to have been settled. Jones later deeded the land to Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, and the unsettled dispute about this land left by Luke1 Thornton to Ann Mountjoy and Sarah Jones on the one hand, and to William Thornton on the other, was to cause great trouble later to William3 Thornton's son, Jesse. William3 Thornton died in Richmond Co. in 1741, his inventory being ordered Aug. 3, 1741, and his widow, Elizabeth, being appointed administratrix (W. B. 5, p. 389; O.B. 11, p. 197). Elizabeth (Ransdell) Thornton died in 1742. Her will, dated April 6, 1742 and probated May 3, 1742, leaves all her estate to her son, Jesse Thornton, who is to be kept in school until 15, and appoints Richard Lawson his guardian (W. B. 5, p. 397). Jesse Thornton, only son of William and Elizabeth, will be treated later. He was born in 1735.
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Jesse4 Thornton, son of William3 and Elizabeth (Ransdell) Thornton, was born in Richmond Co., Va. in 1735, as he was still a minor Feb. 5, 1753, when he chose John Redman as his guardian (O. B. 13, p. 16), and apparently still under age May 6, 1755, when Richard Lawson, his mother's executor, brought suit in connection with the estate against Thomas James and Edmund Bulger (same, p. 238). However, he was appointed constable July 5, 1756, showing that he was 21 years of age, which makes 1735 about the right date for his birth. He and Samuel Eskridge were granted a license to keep an ordinary Dec. 6, 1762 (O. B. 15, p. 33), and he and William Bragg (son of Moore Bragg, mentioned below) petitioned to build a mill on their land July 4, 1770 (O. B. 17, p. 148). We have mentioned the unsettled dispute regarding the land left by Luke1 Thornton in his will to Jesse's father, William3 Thornton, and the latter's aunt and cousin, Ann Mountjoy and her daughter Sarah Jones. Sarah Jones and her husband, John Jones, seem to have finally deeded their share of the old Luke Thornton land to Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, Bart., Clerk of Richmond Co. for many years, and in 1770 Beckwith revived the old land dispute and sued Jesse Thornton (O. B. 17, pp. 19, 21, 141, 160). In response to this suit, Jesse Thornton and Hannah his wife, sold the land inherited from his father and grand father to his friend, Moore Bragg, in 1769, exchanging it with Bragg for another piece of land (D. B. 13, p. 158, p. 228, and p. 231). In connection with this land dispute, we learn from the diary of Col. Landon Carter that Sir Marmaduke (who was a very old man at the time) had Jesse Thornton jailed, but that Jesse broke jail and went home, and that on April 26, 1770 the aged knight applied for a warrant against Moore Bragg, who had purchased the land (WM (1), 13, p. 48). Col. Carter indicates that he felt that Sir Marmaduke had little claim to the land ("Sir Marmaduke fancied it to be his"). Sir Marmaduke seems to have been persistent, however, for apparently the dispute was revived in 1775, when Jesse Thornton and Hannah, Moore Bragg and Sarah his wife, and Joseph Bragg (apparently a son of Moore Bragg) again exchanged the two pieces of land Vincent Redman, a relative of Hannah Thornton, being a witness (D. B. 14, pp. 346, 349, and 364). Jesse4 Thornton died in Richmond Co. in 1778 at the age of 43, his wife, Hannah, being appointed his administratrix Sept. 3, 1778, her securities being Vincent Redman and John Eskridge (O. B. 18, p. 53; W. B. 7, p. 333). She died in 1784. On Mar. 1, 1784, Moore Bragg and Sarah his wife deeded to Richard Asbury (Hannah Thornton's son-in-law) 133 1/2 acres that had formerly been owned by Jesse Thornton (D. B. 15, p. 102); and the Land Books show: "Aug., 1784, Hannah Thornton, decd., Credit for Moore Bragg's sale to Richard Asbury".
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~celticlady/thornton/Boddie-Thorntons.htm
Shetterly and Bragg Family Tree - pafg03 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Pantill Run = Pantico Run?
Windors=Winders?
Lisson=Sisson?
Duke=Marmaduke
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gwt1/d_9d.html
>From the Journal of the House of Burgesses of Virginia:
> Mulattoes 1702/3-12 - employment of, as millers or overseers,
> prohibited.
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> In the Lineages report, 13 Feb 1992, p 14, John Mozingo leased Marmaduke
> Beckwith's mill on 24 Dec 1730 for seven years. If Edward (I) was black
> would his son John be able to lease and operate that mill given the
> above law? Or am I missing something here. I didn't see a reference to
> an entry repealing this law.
What follows is the text of the document (with signatures) known as Leedstown Resolves, or Westmoreland Resolves, a courageous protest against the Stamp Act,executed on 27 February 1766 by the Westmoreland County, Virginia citizens whose names are listed at the end of the document -- this identical text may be seen on a marble plaque which hangs in the hallway of the Old Circuit Court building in Montross, Virginia:
THE ASSOCIATION OF WESTMORELAND
The following articles prepared and offered by Richard Henry Lee were passed by the patriots of that day at Leedstown, Virginia, on the 27th of February 1766:
"Roused by danger and alarmed at attempts, foreign and domestic, to reduce the people of this country to a state of abject and detestable slavery by destroying that free and happy condition of government under which they have hitherto lived,
We, who subscribe this paper, have associated and do bind ourselves to each other, to God, and to our country, by the firmest ties that religion and virtue can frame, most sacredly and punctually to stand by and with our lives and fortunes, to support, maintain, and defend each other in the observance and execution of these following articles -
FIRST: We declare all due allegiance and obedience to our lawful Sovereign, George the Third, King of Great Britain. And we determine to the utmost of our power to preserve the laws, the peace and good order of this Colony, as far as is consistent with the preservation of our Constitutional rights and liberty,
SECONDLY: As we know it to be the Birthright privilege of every British subject (and of the people of Virginia as being such) founded on Reason, Law, and Compact; that he cannot be legally tried, but by his peers; that he cannot be taxed, but by consent of a Parliament, in which he is represented by persons chosen by the people, and who themselves pay a part of the tax they impose on others. If, therefore, any person or persons shall attempt, by any action, or proceeding, to deprive this Colony of these fundamental rights, we will immediately regard him or them, as the most dangerous enemy of the community; and we will go to any extremity, not only to prevent the success of such attempts, but to stigmatize and punish the offender.
THIRDLY: As the Stamp Act does absolutely direct the property of the people to be taken from them without their consent expressed by their representatives and as in many cases it deprives the British American Subject of his right to trial by jury; we do determine, at every hazard, and paying no regard to danger or to death, we will exert every faculty, to prevent the execution of the said Stamp Act in any instance whatsoever within this Colony. And every abandoned wretch, who shall be so lost to virtue and public good, as wickedly to contribute to the introduction or fixture of the Stamp Act in this Colony, by using stampt paper, or by any other means, we will, with the utmost expedition, convince all such profligates that immediate danger and disgrace shall attend their prostitute purposes.
FOURTHLY: That the last article may most surely and effectually be executed, we engage to each other, that whenever it shall be known to any of this association, that any person is so conducting himself as to favor the introduction of the Stamp Act, that immediate notice shall be given to as many of the association as possible; and that every individual so informed, shall, with expedition, repair to a place of meeting to be appointed as near the scene of action as may be.
FIFTHLY: Each associator shall do his true endeavor to obtain as many signers to this association, as he possibly can.
SIXTHLY: If any attempt shall be made on the liberty or property of any associator for any action or thing to be done in consequence of this agreement, we do most solemnly bind ourselves by the sacred engagements above entered into, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, to restore such associate to his liberty and to protect him in the enjoyment of his property."
In testimony of the good faith with which we resolve to execute this association we have this 27th day of February 1766 in Virginia, put our hands and seals hereto.
Richard Henry Lee * Will. Robinson * Lewis Willis * Thos. Lud. Lee * Saml. Washington * Chas. Washington * Moore Fauntleroy * Francis Lightfoot Lee * Thomas Jones * Rodham Kenner * Spencer M. Ball * Richard Mitchell * Joseph Murdock * Richd. Parker * Spence Monroe * John Watts * Robt. Lovell * John Blagge * Charles Weeks * Willm. Booth * Geo. Turbeville * Alvin Moxley * Wm. Flood * John Ballatine, Jr. * William Lee * Thos. Chilton * Richard Buckner * Jos. Pierce * Will. Chilton * John Williams * William Sydnor * John Monroe * William Cocke * Willm. Grayson * Wm. Brockenbrough * Saml. Selden * Richd. Lee * Daniel Tibbs * Francis Thornton,Jr. * Peter Rust * John Lee Jr. * Francis Waring * John Upshau * Meriwether Smith * Thos. Roane * Jas. Edmondson * Jas. Webb. Jr. * John Edmondson * Jas. Banks * Smith Young * Laur. Washington * W . Roane * Richd. Hodges * Jas. Upshau * Jas. Booker * A . Montague * Richd. Jeffries * John Suggett * John S. Woodcock * Robt. Wormeley Carter * John Blackwell * Winder S. Kenner * Wm. Bronaugh * Wm. Peirce * John Berryman * John Dickson * John Browne * Edwd. Sanford * Charles Chilton * Edward Sanford * Jos. Lane * John Beale, Jr. * John Newton * Will. Beale, Jr. * Chs. Mortimer * Wm. Pierce * John Berryman * John Dickson * John Broone * Edwd, Sanford * Charles Chilton * Edward Sanford * Daniel McCarty * Jer. Rush * Edwd. Ransdell * Townshend Dade * John Ashton * W . Brent * Francis Foushee * John Smith, Jr. * Wm. Ball * Thos. Barnes * Jos. Blackwell * Reuben Meriwether * Edw. Mountjoy * Wm. J. Mountjoy * Thos. Mountjoy * Gilbt. Campbell * John Edmondsen, Jr. * Charles Beale * Peter Grant * Thompson Mason * Jona. Beckwith * Jas. Samford * John Belfield * W . Smith * John Augt. Washington * Thos. Belfield * Edgcomb Suggett * Henry Francks * John Bland, Jr. * Jas. Emerson * Thos. Logan * Jo. Milliken * Ebenezer Fisher * Hancock Eustace * John Richards * Thos. Jett * Thos. Douglas * Max Robinson * John Orr
http://www.ragerlaw.com/leedstownresolutionspage.htm
http://www.greatamericantrails.com/nature_trails/virginia/northern_neck/northern_neck_015.html
http://www.greatamericantrails.com/nature_trails/virginia/index.html
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Lunenburg Parish (Richmond
Cople Parish (Westmoreland, ca1664) embraced the eastern portion of Westmoreland County and extended westward to unmarked eastern line of Washington Parish. In 1923 [sic] the Council of the Diocese [CofE] established the boundary between Cople and Montrose Parish (est. 1850) as: "… beginning on the Maryland line [nb: water line] at the mouth of Nomini Creek, thence up the said Creek to a headwater thereof approximately one half mile southeast of Nomini Grove, on main County road, thence by a line between Cople and Montross Magisterial districts to the line of Richmond County, All that portions of Westmoreland County lying east of this line to be and remain Cople Parish…" (DV, 1923, 24)
http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/va/parish.htm#lunenburg
http://www.melungeons.com/early_va/1746_richmond_county.htm
On 1 March 1784 at Lunenburg Parish, Richmond Co., Virginia, Moore Bragg, planter and Sarah his wife sold to Richard Asbury, for £100 current money of VA, a tract of land lying in the county of Richmond, containing 133 1/2 acres, beginning at a hickory tree on the line of Sir Jonathan Beckwith's land whereon John Jone's widow now lives ... thence along Thomas's line to Pantico Run near the said Bragg's Mill to a chestnut oak. Recorded 5 April 1784.
http://shetterlyandbragg.50megs.com/pafg12.htm
Another interesting part of the records of St. Catherine's is the index. One could believe one was reading a list of the families living in the Northern Neck of Virginia in the 18th century. Some names included were Rich. Hawkins, Thomas Beckworth, Barkers, Higginses, Morrises, Bentleys, Sneads, Balls, Matthew Davis, John Bartley, Barneses, Bowerses, Connallys, Garlands, Humphreys, Iredells, Jenningses, Jenkinses, Jeffersons, Joneses (one Penelope), Charles McCarty, Jacob Marks, Samuel and Thomas Morton, Richardsons, Kellys, Mary and Richard Nash, Hills, Willsons, Christophers, Charles and Anne Collins, and Arthurs. As was mentioned earlier, the Eidson family probably switched their membership to the Wood Street Church after Hannah's brother, Joseph, became the minister there. Those records are lost.
http://www.imt.net/~gedison/eidson/pafg01.htm
TIPPING POINT - USE
"From Rappahannock Bridge to the crossroads, then the road leading over Ports Swamp to Gordon's Rd., Joshua Willson, Overseer, John Wilson, James Frairy, Elias Wilson, Joe Scates, Griffin Fauntleroy, JOHN EIDSON, (this John Eidson was the son of Edward and Penelope. He d. in 1774) Wm. Pegg, Wm. Jones, Ben Burrass, Matthew Kelly, Morton Wilson, Christopher Collins, Geo. Newman, Wm. Pratt, Jesse Pully." Other roads described were "From Naylor's hole to Porridge Pot, From the road making out of Nailor's hole road over Mr. Beckwith's Mill into the County road of the Coachroad coming into Nailor's hole road above Marks, and From Porridge Pot to the Beaverdam and the road round the Beaverdam."
See Shandy Hall Road, Richmond County
Mary Matilda SIMONSON
26 Feb 1878 -
BIRTH: 26 Feb 1878, Shandy Hall, Richmond, Va
Father: John SIMONSON <../d0001/g0000074.html>
Mother: Mariah Louisa HEADLEY <../d0000/g0000017.html>
Family 1 : George EVERETT <../d0001/g0000078.html>
MARRIAGE: Oct 1895
Mary Lillian EVERETT <../d0000/g0000079.html>
Blanch Lucille EVERETT <../d0001/g0000079.html>
http://webs.lanset.com/gkemper/headley/d0000/g0000075.html
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Mariah Louisa HEADLEY
26 Dec 1852 - 18 Sep 1930
BIRTH: 26 Dec 1852, Mt Airy, Sharps, Va
DEATH: 18 Sep 1930
Father: Henry William HEADLEY <../d0001/g0000013.html>
Mother: Mary Catherine THRIFT <../d0000/g0000014.html>
Family 1 : John SIMONSON <../d0001/g0000074.html>
MARRIAGE: Dec 1874
Unnamed SIMONSON <../d0000/g0000078.html>
+Mary Matilda SIMONSON <../d0000/g0000075.html>
Louretta SIMONSON <../d0001/g0000075.html>
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Henry William HEADLEY
13 Jan 1826 - 20 Dec 1855
BIRTH: 13 Jan 1826
DEATH: 20 Dec 1855
Father: Thomas H. HEADLEY <../d0001/g0000058.html>
Mother: Jane C. MINOR <../d0000/g0000099.html>
Family 1 : Mary Catherine THRIFT <../d0000/g0000014.html>
MARRIAGE: 25 Jan 1849
+Thomas William HEADLEY <../d0000/g0000016.html>
+Mariah Louisa HEADLEY <../d0000/g0000017.html>
James H. HEADLEY <../d0001/g0000016.html>
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John HEADLEY
ABT. 1758 - 1791
BIRTH: ABT. 1758
DEATH: 1791
Father: Henry HEADLEY <../d0001/g0000095.html>
Mother: Ann PUGH <../d0001/g0000077.html>
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John HEADLEY
[NI0001] <../notes.html>
BEF. 1660 - 31 Oct 1711
BIRTH: BEF. 1660, Blind 1696, England
DEATH: 31 Oct 1711, Westmoreland Co, Va, WP
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http://mdhsimage.mdhs.org/Library/Images/Mellon%20Images/Z6access/z6-1534.jpg
White Oak at Shandy Hall, Harford County, MD
http://www.mdhs.org/library/library.html
http://ashtcohs.com/shandy.html - Shandy Hall in Ashtabula County, OH
http://ashtcohs.com/harpersfield.html
http://solomonspalding.com/SRP/saga2/1878Ast3.htm
Austinburg, OH founded by George Beckwiths & near Harpersfield also Samuel Beckwith
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http://www.imt.net/~gedison/
Historic Ties To Richmond County
Excerpts from the speech of Charles H. Rylander
County Historian
This morning we gather at Sabine Hall, one of the most historic places in Virginia, and it is my particular pleasure to address you on the significance of the tercentenary of Richmond County.
The beginnings of our County started much earlier than 1692. The people who lived in Richmond County were, of course, the indians, and the chief tribe of this area when the first settlers arrived were the Rappahannocks. Their small tribe, with others in the Rappahannock Valley, belonged to what is generally known as the "Pawhatan Confederacy," a fairly strong group on the East Coast. Their influence did not extend beyond Piedmont and there were probably not over five thousand indians inhabiting the entire area of the valley between the falls of the River and the Chesapeake Bay.
There remains little today of their influence but the names -- Totuskey, Menokin, Morattico. Indian Banks, and Indian Field. These names are testimony of these having been the first families of our County.
The first county to be formally organized in the Northern Neck was Northumberland -- in 1648. From Northumberland came Lancaster three years later in 1651. Then from Lancaster came our own Old Rappahannock County in 1656. Rappahannock was an unusual County geographically since it lay astride the Rappahannock River. It lasted 36 years and its demise was occasioned primarily by the insurmountable problems of administration caused by the great river which flowed between its two halves and so, its representatives in the House of Burgesses introduced a bill for dividing it into two counties.
The bill being favorably reported by the Committee on April 16, 1692, it was laid before the House on April 18th., read for the first and second time on April 19th, and passed that same day. So, there came into being a Richmond County, named for His Grace, the First Duke of Richmond, who was cousin to both King William and Queen Mary.
The earliest record of a visit by an Englishman to this are was the expedition of Captain John Smith from Jamestown. While exploring the Chickahominy River with a small company in the winter of 1607-08, Smith was surprised by a large force of Indians and made Prisoner. He was carried from one Indian settlement to another, being led to the town of the Tobagoes on the Rappahannock and then across the Rappahannock through what is now Richmond County to a place lying on Nomini Creek in Westmoreland County. He was then taken to the seat of King Powhatan in Gloucester County where he was sentenced to death, and the story of Pocahontas takes up at this point in securing his deliverance.
The following summer he (Captain Smith) undertook an exploration of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in a small open boat with 14 companions, equipped with oars and a small sail. After a trip of six weeks exploring primarily the Potomac and areas of the Bay, he returned to Jamestown and later that same summer set out with 12 men to explore other rivers. It was on this expedition that he ascended the Rappahannock to the falls where Fredericksburg is today, and on his return down the river, his account tells of being on the Essex side of the river and crossing over to this side to visit the Rappahannocks. He states ".... and so crossed to the Rappahannocks .... There were some 12 or 16 standing on the shore .... directed us to a little narrow creek where there were good landing accommodaties for us, with three or four canoes, which we saw there." I like to think this was the mouth of Cat Point Creek.
This little County on the Northern Neck, its population just over 7,000 people, but containing 203 square miles, composed of fields, farms, forests, streams, marshes, homes and small businesses, its ancient County seat and colonial Court House -- a quite place, a safe place, it is a unique place in modern America. It was part of the Grant by Charles II in exile to five of his Nobles which became known as Fairfax Proprietorship. The last Lord Fairfax was a friend and benefactor of the youthful George Washington.
At the risk of overlooking the names of many who served the county so well, Mr. Rylander selected four:
Landon Carter, the son of Robert (King) Carter of Carotoman was born in 1710 and was sent to England at the age of nine for his education, returning at the age of sixteen to be trained by his father in Plantation management. At his father's death in 1732 (the same year his neighbor Edward Eidson died), he settled on his lands in Richmond County and shortly thereafter constructed this home, Sabine Hall. He was a student of law and a Justice of Richmond County for more than 40 years. He was an Agricultural Scientist whose writings gained him admission to the American Philosophical Society. He spent 44 years in public life and after 1763 constantly opposed British encroachment upon American rights. He claimed to raise the first alarm against the Stamp Act in the House of Burgesses and is said by competent authority to have had as much to do with the repeal of the Stamp Act as any man in the colonies. He was the most prolific and most published author of his generation in Virginia. He was a close friend of many leaders of the American revolution and his correspondence remains as a testimony of his concern for that dark hour in our history. He is perhaps the only man in America who addressed George Washington as "Dear Chum."
(Wanda Eidson notes that in and around 1757, Landon Carter kept a diary. This diary is the source of information proving that Boyse Eidson worked as an overseer on some of Carter's property in Prince William County.) The second man of distinction chosen by Mr. Rylander was John Tayloe:
The second of these four men requires a little introduction: The enactment and enforcement of Governor Gooch's Tobacco Inspection Law of 1730 inaugurated in the Colony of Virginia an era of prosperity and consequent extravagance, the like of which had never been known before. It in this period that the local magnates abandoned their plantation houses, erected "after the Virginia manner of building," of which Tuckahoe survives as an example, to construct mansion houses in the English tradition, such as Westover and Mt. Airy, Sabine Hall and many others -- to import and use "chariots" for occasions of ceremony -- to drink imported madeira, ride formally to the hounds -- and to keep horses for racing only. With this era came the importation of Proven strains of Arabian race horses.
No place in America was more noted in this regard than Mt. Airy. In the stable still standing have been quartered the famous race horses of the colonial and post-colonial era: two of the John Tayloes of this place, whose lives span the period from 1721 to 1828, imported and kept here the finest race horses in America. In the annals of American Horse Racing no place is more sacred than those grounds and the blood lines from this stable are found to this very day upon the famous race tracks of the world.
It was the second John Tayloe who, although educated at Eaton and Cambridge, proved himself a practical example of the early American captain of industry. Not only did he produce thirty thousand bushels of wheat in one season on the low ground of his farm, but he was a successful iron master, bank director, and pioneer organizer of transportation. He was the builder of the Octagon House in Washington and set the tone of the social life of his time.
The third son of Richmond County, of whom I would make special mention, is Cyrus Griffin, one of the important men of the early life of this republic. He was born in 1748 in the home of his father, Captain Leroy Griffin, on the banks of the Rappahannock River below Downings on property now owned by the Mothershead family. At the age of 18, his father having died, he took his share in his fathers estate and studied for three years at Edinburg University. While abroad, he married Lady Christina, the daughter of Lord Linton, in 1770. In 1775 he returned to Virginia with his family and made for himself in subsequent years a firm place in our history.
Returning to London in 1775, he attempted to interest Lord Dartmouth in his proposed "Plan of Reconciliation" between England and the colonies. This failed and he returned to Virginia and in 1776 was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. Thus began a life of public service that continued for more than thirty years. He served on the Committee of Courts of Justice of the House of Delegates, along with other distinguished members, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. In 1778, Griffin was one of seven delegates elected by the Virginia Legislature to the National Congress. For a time, he served both the House of Delegates and the Congress.
The Congress created a Court of Appeals in case of capture. Cyrus Griffin was named as one of the three judges. The success of this Court has caused some historians to say that it was the Predecessor of the United States Supreme Court. And in 1789, Griffin was elected President of The Congress and his title was President of the United States in Congress Assembled. He was referred to as President Griffin and was, in fact, George Washington's immediate predecessor as President, since Griffin held his office under Articles of Confederation and not under our Constitution.
The fourth son of Richmond County named by Mr. Rylander, William Akinson Jones, was from a later period of time. He was born 21 March 1849 in Warsaw, the son of Thomas Jones and Mary Lee, the daughter of Richard Lee of Westmoreland County and a first cousin to Richard Henry Lee. He studied law at the University of Virginia and was admitted to the bar in 1870, was elected to Congress of the United States in 1890. He took a leading role in removing Virginia from the Readjuster movement. He became the acknowledged leader of the Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party in Virginia and led the fight in Virginia for the direct Primary and the popular election of United States Senators.
Downing Bridge
For over 240 years, the only way to reach the town of Tappahannock from Warsaw was by ferry. This was the reason that people in the Northern Neck formed earlier ties with Washington, which they could reach by traveling up-river by boat, than they formed with Richmond which lay to the west across the Tappahannock River and, in early times, non existent roads. It was not until 1927, with the completion of the Downing Bridge, named after Thomas J. Downing, spanning the Rappahannock, that roadway transportation into and out of the "Neck" increased. No longer was the Northern Neck removed from the rest of the state and the city of Richmond. Prior to the opening of the bridge, Baltimore was the major city frequented by residents of the Northern Neck. Richmond then became part of the trade and commerce of the Northern Neck with the assistance of the import job of Bridge tender who had the responsibility of keeping commerce flowing smoothly both across and under the bridge spanning the Rappahannock.
Naylors Hole
Today, Naylors, located on the Rappahannock River between Cat Point Creek and Doctors Creek, is a quite, residential area that comes alive in warm weather with the influx of summer people and beach goers. However, 300 years ago, Naylors was a bustling port of entry and the first county seat of newly formed Richmond County.
Naylors was supposedly named for John or Avery Naylor who settled in that area in the late 17th. century. John Naylor, a merchant who dealt with firms in Liverpool, was an early settler in Richmond and King George Counties. At that time, the point of land where Cat Point Creek met the Rappahannock River was called Cat Point. The name was changed to Naylors Point, and the area nearby was called Naylors Hole. The family name Naylor is now extinct in that area.
The most distinguished resident of Naylors, however, was Moore Fauntleroy who came to the Northern Neck about 1650 during the Cavalier migration from England. At first, he lived in Lancaster County (as did Edward Eidson), which was formed from Northumberland County in 1751. In fact, the first court in Lancaster County was held in his home in 1652. Elizabeth Combs Pierce in the Northern Neck Historical Magazine in December 1951 wrote "Before the first courthouse was built, Court was held in the home of the justices and the first recorded session was held in the home of Col. Moore Fauntleroy on January 1st."
In April 1651, Fauntleroy purchased from the Rappahannock Indians a tract of land that extended from the Rappahannock River to the Potomac and from Rappahannock Creek (now Cat Point Creek) to Marattico Creek (now Morattico), virtually all of the present-day Richmond County. The agreement was signed by Accopatough, king of the Rappahannock Indians. He, Fauntleroy, settled on this property and eventually built a mansion on the bluff above the river where the present Naylors Beach is. After Fauntleroy settled at Naylors, a wharf was established, and from 1682-1778, Southin's Ferry ran between Naylors Point (then called Cat Point) and a place called Hobbes Hole Daingerfield Landing. Moore Fauntleroy's son, William, later sold some land to William Tayloe whose son John lived in what was known as "Old House" which had been built in 1683. John Taylor, who succeeded his father on County Court in 1710, occasionally held Court sessions there. He built Mount Airy between 1748 and 1758.
(Wanda Eidson notes that in 1768 John Eidson was the Tobacco Inspector at Cat Point and Beckwith warehouse. This position was usually held for life and in John's will he is designated as inspector. The diary of Landon Carter in 1758 notes that wheat was sold to Col. Fauntleroy, Charles Carter, J. Beckwith, and John Eidson who, in a footnote, was identified as a small planter in Richmond County who died in 1774.
Death and Taxes -- And Politics
Often called the only certainties in this life are Death and taxes; perhaps we should add Politics! In this election year it might seem appropriate to recall an unusual roll played in Richmond County following the Civil War. While many Republicans may have come to the Northern Neck following the Civil War, some had probably always been there due to the closer ties it had to Washington, DC.
As blacks became voters after the Civil War, they naturally voted Republican, the party of Abraham Lincoln; and by 1876 the numbers of voters in each of the Northern Neck Counties had doubled, largely due to these black voters. The Republican Party also gained strength during the late 1870's by aligning itself with the Readjusters.
General Billy Mahone, who had been passed over for his parties nomination for governor in 1877, bolted the Virginia Conservative Democratic party and organized the Readjuster Party after the Conservative Democratic Party committed itself to complete repayment ("funding") of the state debt, most of which had been accumulated by state funding of antebellum railroads, most of which were owned by Northern and foreign bondholders.
The Readjuster Party promised to scale down the debt, increase school expenditures, repeal the poll tax (enacted in 1876 by Conservatives with hopes to avoid the rule of an elected Radical government), and carry out a generally liberal program. Many Conservative Democrats considered repudiation of the debt to be dishonorable, but there were also a number of Democrats who became Readjuster/Republicans during this time. Gradually joining with the Republicans, the Readjusters took over the legislature in 1879, the Governorship in 1881, and kept their promises, increasing poll tax repeal.
There was also a strong movement to defend this new Readjuster/Republican Party and to this end a local newspaper, The Northern Neck News, was born in 1879 as an opposing political force published mainly to get its founders viewpoint across. The Readjuster Party faded away, but the Northern Neck has remained a two-party area and in 1978 Richmond County Republicans sent a full slate of delegates to the State Convention.
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BECKS IN THE WAKE
-an archbishopric, time was, a tradesmen's entrance; beckburn
-did ye ever, filly Fortescue? with a beck, with a spring, all her
-his corns were growning. At last he listed back to beckline how
-burns it so leste. A claribel cumbeck to errind. Hers before his
-Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette,
-kailly kellykekkle and savebeck to Brownhazelwood from all the
-hill rockcoach their dance McCaper in retrophoebia, beck from
-tered. Attent! Couch hear! I have becket my vonderbilt hutch
-allabalmy, and her troutbeck quiverlipe, ninyananya. And her
-chang chap sugay kaow laow milkee muchee bringing becker
-Hotel. Brancherds at: Bullbeck, Oldboof, Sassondale, Jorsey
-that blanko berbecked fischial ekksprezzion Machinsky Scapolo
-linns mid which were an old knoll and a troutbeck, vainyvain of
-poteentubbs, lacrimal vases, hoodendoses, reekwaterbeckers,
-during the effrays round fatherthyme's beckside and the regents
WAKES IN THE BECK
[1:3 64.31] Fammfamm! Fammfamm!
Come on, ordinary man with that large big nonobli head, and
that blanko berbecked fischial ekksprezzion Machinsky
Scapolopolos, Duzinascu or other. Your machelar's mutton leg's getting
musclebound from being too pulled. Noah Beery weighed stone
[1:4 76.26] in a fairly fishy kettlekerry, after the Fianna's foreman had taken
his handful, enriched with ancient woods and dear dutchy
deeplinns mid which were an old knoll and a troutbeck, vainyvain of
her osiery and a chatty sally with any Wilt or Walt who would
ongle her as Izaak did to the tickle of his rod and watch her
[1:4 77.30] But t'house and allaboardshoops ! Show coffins, winding sheets,
goodbuy bierchepes, cinerary urns, liealoud blasses, snuffchests,
poteentubbs, lacrimal vases, hoodendoses, reekwaterbeckers,
breakmiddles, zootzaks for eatlust, including upyourhealthing
rookworst and meathewersoftened forkenpootsies and for that
[1:4 90.7] changing the venders, from the king's head to the republican's
arms, as to the pugnaxities evinxed from flagfall to antepost
during the effrays round fatherthyme's beckside and the regents
in the plantsown raining, with the skiddystars and the
morkernwindup, how they appealed to him then? That it was wildfires
[1:6 134.29] herald hairyfair, alloaf the wheat; husband your aunt and endow
your nepos; hearken but hush it, screen him and see; time is,
an archbishopric, time was, a tradesmen's entrance; beckburn
brooked with wath, scale scarred by scow; his rainfall is a couple
of kneehighs while his meanst grass temperature marked three in
[1:6 193.30] are up, mesdames, while Parimiknie wears popular short legs,
and twelve hows to mix a tipsy wake, did ye hear, colt Cooney?
did ye ever, filly Fortescue? with a beck, with a spring, all her
rillringlets shaking, rocks drops in her tachie, tramtokens in
her hair, all waived to a point and then all inuendation, little
[2:8 220.32] matthued heaven. He soughed it from the luft but that bore ne
mark ne message. He luked upon the bloomingrund where ongly
his corns were growning. At last he listed back to beckline how
she pranked alone so johntily. The skand for schooling.
With nought a wired from the wordless either.
[2:8 229.16] And around its scorched cap she has twilled a twine of flame to
let the laitiest know she's marrid. And pim it goes backballed. Tot
burns it so leste. A claribel cumbeck to errind. Hers before his
even, posted ere penned. He's your change, thinkyou methim.
Go daft noon,madden, mind the step. Please stoop O to please.
[2:9 264.12] pursuant on briefest glimpse from gladrags, pretty
Proserpronette whose slit satchel spilleth peas.
Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette,
unmesh us! That grene ray of earong it waves
us to yonder as the red, blue and yellow flogs
[2:10 369.15] Because they wonted to get out by the goatweigh afore the sheep
was looset for to wish the Wobbleton Whiteleg Welshers
kaillykailly kellykekkle and savebeck to Brownhazelwood from all the
dinnasdoolins on the labious banks of their swensewn
snewwesner, turned again weastinghome, by Danesbury Common, and
[3:12 409.10] whorl of the Boubou from Bourneum has thus come to taon!),
and with tambarins and cantoridettes soturning around his
eggshill rockcoach their dance McCaper in retrophoebia, beck from
bulk, like fantastic disossed and jenny aprils, to the ra, the ra, the
ra, the ra, langsome heels and langsome toesis, attended to by a
[3:14 537.11] feshest cheoilboys so that they are allcalling on me for the song
of a birtch: the more secretely bi built, the more openly
palastered. Attent! Couch hear! I have becket my vonderbilt hutch
in sunsmidnought and at morningrise was encampassed of
mushroofs. Rest and bethinkful, with licence, thanks. I
[3:14 572.21] old missness wipethemdry! Well, well, wellsowells!
Donauwatter! Ardechious me! With her halfbend as proud as a peahen,
allabalmy, and her troutbeck quiverlipe, ninyananya. And her
steptojazyma's culunder buzztle. Happy tea area, naughtygay
frew! Selling sunlit sopes to washtout winches and rhaincold
[4:15 600.21] cocklyhearted dreamerish for that magic moning with its ching
chang chap sugay kaow laow milkee muchee bringing
beckerbrose, the brew with the foochoor in it. Sawyest? Nodt? Nyets,
I dhink I sawn to remumb or sumbsuch. A kind of a thinglike
all traylogged then pubably it resymbles a pelvic or some kvind
[4:15 601.16] attraverse of its milletestudinous windows, ricocoursing
themselves, as staneglass on stonegloss, inplayn unglish Wynn's
Hotel. Brancherds at: Bullbeck, Oldboof, Sassondale, Jorsey
Uppygard, Mundelonde, Abbeytotte, Bracqueytuitte with
Hockeyvilla, Fockeyvilla, Hillewille and Wallhall. Hoojahoo
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[1:6 134.29]
...herald hairyfair, alloaf the wheat; husband your aunt and endow your nepos; hearken but hush it, screen him and see; time is, an archbishopric, time was, a tradesmen's entrance; beckburn brooked with wath..."Finnegans Wake" - James Joyce
Wath Registers 1598-1779/Memoranda - Wath, Yorkshire
FROM THE WEBSITE
(selections)
WATH-UPON-DEARNE PARISH REGISTERS - 1598-1779
Memoranda and Miscellaneous Notes
Memorand that the 22th day of November 1607 John Bearde, George Hoyland [Holland?], John Addy with others put our hands to a certificate for Ann Addy, that she was free to be hired a maid servant where she best liked and had the consent of her father and mother to be hired with Thomas Adams by Pontefract.
Memorand that the 24th day of May 1604 William Hepworth of Wath upon Dearne within the county of York, yeoman had a stall place set forth in the Church of Wath the highest place and the south side of the Church nearest Thornell hall quire to continue to him and his heirs dwelling in the house wherein he now dwelleth in Skyterick.
Memorandum that Ann the daughter of John Wharom of West Melton was 15 years of age upon Saint Luke Day in Anno p'dict (1604)...
That upon the 10th of June 1615 I Thomas Benson Master of Arts and Vicar of Wath upon Dearne did give my free consent and assent somuch as in me did lay, that Henry Saville of the same parish, gentleman, should remove his stall or pew (for the more convenient hearing of divine service and sermons) from the Lady Quire unto the uppend of the right hand of the south part of the body of the same Church, next to .... his stall. In witness whereof I have set to my hand the day and year above written. By me Thomas Benson.
March 1615, Baptised Ellin the supposed daughter of Thomas Maykin begotten of the body of Anne Settle the same day which child, though she was born in Wath; yet was sent and was kept at Bolton; the sixth day after she was christened: by a warrant from Sir Thomas Wentworth and Master Rookebye; because the inhabitants of Wath did make it appear to them that the mother of the said child was borne at Bolton...
Memorand that Nicholas Sha of Hoober in the parish of Wath, yeoman, was admitted and licensed by us whose names are hereunder written to set a stall or seat made of this pp charges for himself and other his own family in the south side of the church of Wath adjoining uopn Sir Thomas Wentworth's stall or pew in the upper end of the South alley there seen in the year of our Lord God 1624 the 19th of November and there to continue without disturbance of any person in pain of Ecclesiastical Censure.
Henry Taylor, Clerk, John Baxter, Robert Hawslyn
A license under the hands of Master Doctor Benson was shown and allowed dated the 8th of December anno domini 1630. Whereby Peter Man of Wentworth and in the parish of Wath, gentleman is licensed to eat flesh meat of such kinds only as are admitted by his Ma(ties) laws upon Fridays Saturdays Wednesdays and all other fasting days during his time of Infirmity and present sickness.
Ralph Goodyear, Curate, + The mark of William Pearson, Churchwarden
Memorandum the 2nd of April, 1633: John Carr of Wath was licensed by us whose names are here under written to re-edify a stall in the north alley which he usually hath sitten and to continue there without molestation of any one in pain of ecclesiatical censure.
Radulphus Goodyear, minister, John Sisson, Jarvis Smith, Humphray Jackson....
Ringing of the bell at eight of the clock at night and six at morn was begun March the 25th in the beginning of the year 1646
Nicholas Hunt, Clerk...
Thursday the 27th of April 1648 Anthony Sawdrye parish clerk of Harwood deluded to William Coulbrand of Swinton, John Baldrick [see: Baldric, Balder]of Wath and to me Nich Hunt Thirty & Six pounds, £30 whereof were to be let at 16 pence per pound upon treble security to such inhabitants within the Town of Wath as should be of good report and had occasions to imploy the same. And the interest thereof was unto the Schoolmaster of Wath for the time being to be paid him at Christmas day for the teaching of four poor children of the Town of Wath and two of that part of Swinton which belongs wholey thereunto. The other £6 was for repair of West Melton Town Causeway: £2 for repair of part of Ardsley Lane, £2 to the poor of Brampton Bierley, £1 6s 8d to the poor of Wath, 10s to the poor of Swinton, 3s 4d which money and certain lands given by the said Anthony by his last will and also confirmed by deed unto the Inhabitants of Brampton Bierley for maintenance of six poor children at School with the yearly Rent thereof to be paid to the Schoolmaster as aforesaid if it were from time and at all times for ever imployed to the only use and to return unto the heirs of the said Anthony within one year and a day after the same was otherwise imployed.
Nich. Hunt, John Baldrick, William Coulbrand
Be it remembred that the tenth day of April 1656 Lawrence Wade of Wath in the West Riding of the County of Yorke was sworne Register for the said towne (beinge chosen to the said office by the consent of the inhabitants of the said towne) according to a late Act of parliament.
before me
William Beckwith
Briggswath, Yorkshire
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Map of Briggswath
Note proximity to Ugglebarnby
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Map of Wath, Yorkshire
Note proximity to Dacre and Pateley Bridge...which is just a few miles from Beckwith and Beckwithshaw.
Was Joyce signalling through the flames?
The Ancestors of Randy Wilson - pafg194 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
446172865. Emma Fitzgilbert DE CLARE was born about 1114 in England. She died in 1156/1168.
Hugh?
The Ancestors of Randy Wilson - pafg98 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
435715. Joyce DE CHERLETON was born in 1403 in England. She died on 22 Sep 1446.
See: James Joyce; Finnegans Wake
WATH JOYTH THIGNALLING FROM THE FLAMTHE?
[2:10 368.7] had hord from fard a piping. As? Of?
Dour douchy was a sieguldson. He cooed that loud nor he
was young. He cud bad caw nor he was gray Like wather parted
from the say.
Ostia, lift it! Lift at it, Ostia! From the say! Away from the say!
[2:10 368.20] For be all rules of sport 'tis right That youth bedower'd to
charm the night Whilst age is dumped to mind the day When
wather parted from the say.
The humming, it's coming. Insway onsway.
Fingool MacKishgmard Obesume Burgearse Benefice, He was
[2:10 368.31] they.
From Dancingtree till Suttonstone There's lads no lie would
filch a crown To mull their sack and brew their tay With wather
parted from the say.
Lelong Awaindhoo's a selverbourne enrouted to Rochelle
[2:10 369.26] mirification and the lutification of our paludination.
His bludgeon's bruk, his drum is tore. For spuds we'll keep the
hat he wore And roll in clover on his clay By wather parted
from the say.
Hray ! Free rogue Mountone till Dew Mild Well to corry awen
[2:10 370.10] Waves.
The gangstairs strain and anger's up As Hoisty rares the can
and cup To speed the bogre's barque away O'er wather parted
from the say.
Horkus chiefest ebblynuncies!
[3:14 489.23] as I am delightful to be able to state, with the joy of lifing in my
forty winkers, that a handsome sovereign was freely pledged
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Barnes & Noble.com - Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and Peace
George C. Beckwith (Editor)
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Vogue Stories
FROM THE WEBSITE
Lady Isabella, who at 19-years-old already exhibits campaigns for Chanel and Dior in her portfolio, recently signed a contract with Models Frontiers, a hip new agency backed by millionaire brothers Peter and John Beckwith (father and uncle of the original It-girl Tamara Beckwith). "It's a new agency run by models for models," Isabella explains, adding that she'll be working on the "shopfloor", manning the phones and running the books, as well as modelling - just like her working girl sister. The pair's mother, meanwhile, can see subtle differences in the two girls' careers, putting them down to their different personalities. "I think [Isabella] will go far," Yvonne, Marchioness of Bristol, tells Mandrake. "While Victoria is a free spirit, Isabella is a very different animal -
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Dr. John Beckwith at Wayne County, NC
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. . .Margaret Cogdell Stanley b 3-26-1787 m 12-3-1807 Dr John Beckwith. Dr Beckwith was one or the commissioners for building the capitol in Raleigh which was completed in 1840, He died in Petersburg, Va. Dr Thomas Stanley Beckwith b 5-16-1813 d 11-16-1865 m 6-6-1838 Agnes Ruffin b 10-3-1816, son Charles: Charles M Beckwith b in Prince George Co, Va. 6-3-1851 m 7-31-1888 Lucy Cooke in Houston, Texas. He was 4th Bishop of Alabama
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~Biographies B - Mississippi Co. MoGenWeb
FROM THE WEBSITE
Thomas Beckwith was born in Mississippi County, Mo., on January 24, 1840. His father, Quiros Beckwith, was a native of Fairfax Court House, Va., and was the son of Newman Beckwith, who was also born in the "Old Dominion", and remained there until the year of 1812, when he immigrated to Missouri. He came all the way from Wheeling, Va., in a flatboat, bringing his family with him. He settled at Norfolk, Mississippi County, where he remained three years, and removed to what is known as the O'Brien farm, where he resided until his death. While a resident of Virginia he possessed considerable wealth, but lost it by going security. Quiros Beckwith was but eleven years of age, when he came with his parents to Mississippi County. He remained on his father's farm until he reached manhood, when he was married to Susan Johnston, who was born near Nashville, Tenn. After his marriage Mr. Beckwith engaged in tilling the soil, which he continued the most of his life, together with dealing in live-stock. At the time of his death he owned about 100 slaves, some of whom he had bought at considerable cost. He turned his attention entirely to business interests, and took no part whatever in politics. He died in 1862. His wife died on August 17, 1849. They were the parents of five children, four of whom are dead, viz: Quiros, Ellen W., Margaret A. and Matthew J. Thomas, the only living member of the family, was reared on his father's farm, which consisted of about 1,100 acres of land, besides a large wood-yard. He labored on the farm and about the wood-yard and saw-mill until he became of age. In 1862 the overflow of the Mississippi River swept away one of the best farms. In 1861 he enlisted in Price's company, which was organized under the old system. He served about three months, with the rank of third lieutenant, when he was taken down with the measles and
resigned. In February 1862, he was captured at Long Prairie, and was confined in prison about five months, during which time he suffered many hardships, as the prison was dirty and filthy, and the chances of life were few, where the prisoners were confined for any length of time. After his release he returned home and resumed farming. On March 11, 1863, he was united in marriage with Laura, daughter of John and Sallie (Lee) Swank, who immigrated to Mississippi County in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith have three daughters: Lillie M., Minnie L. and Ollie L. All the members of the family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Beckwith is one of the substantial men of Southeast Missouri. He owns over 3,000 acres of land in his own title, and a half interest in 4,000 more. He deals some in stock, horses, etc. and, makes loans. He now has his farms rented, and spends his spare time in exploring the mounds left by the Mound Builders in Southeast Missouri, and has one, of finest collections of stones and pottery in this portion of the State.
81. SUSAN H.6 JOHNSTON (MARTHA (PATSEY)5 HARDING, GILES4, WILLIAM3, THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) died 1849. She married (1) ANDREW A. F. ALLEN. She married (2) QUIROS BECKWITH 02 Apr 1839. He was born 1801 in VA, and died 1862.
Children of SUSAN JOHNSTON and ANDREW ALLEN are:
i. CATHERINE E.7 ALLEN.
145. ii. MARTHA TENNESSEE ALLEN, b. 1834, Albion Co., TN.
146. iii. MARY JANE ALLEN, b. Sep 1836, Mississippi Co., MO.
Children of SUSAN JOHNSTON and QUIROS BECKWITH are:
iv. QUIROS7 BECKWITH, b. Nov; d. Deceased.
v. THOMAS BECKWITH, b. Jan 1840; d. 1916.
vi. ELEANOR BECKWITH, b. Oct 1842; d. Jun 1958.
vii. MARGARET BECKWITH, b. Oct 1844; d. Sep 1851.
viii. MATTHEW BECKWITH, b. Oct 1846; d. Jan 1847.
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~ARE YOU RELATED TO STONEWALL JACKSON?
FROM THE WEBSITE
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was born in Clarksburg, (W)V. on Jan. 21, 1824. He was the son of Jonathan Jackson and Juliet Beckwith Neale, the daughter of Thomas Neale who settled in Wood Co., WV.
*You can claim relationship to Stonewall if you can prove your lineage back to one of Stonewall's grandparents Thomas Neale, his wife, Edward Jackson or his wife Mary Hadden.
Stonewall's great grandparents John Jackson and Elizabeth Cummins were the immigrants of his Jackson family. They had eight children who lived to maturity and raised families...
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Pontefract Castle
FROM THE WEBSITE:
On the land in 1, above, Peter built a two-story log house with a basement. His daughter Susan was married to Valentine DeVault in this house. The property was occupied until about 1808 when Peter sold it and moved to the land in 4. above, which at the time was near Gray's Station. On this land Peter built a three story house which is now located at 307 Twin Falls Drive in Johnson City, Tennessee. Peter also built a grist mill at this site, but it burned down in 1940. Peter's stone residence is now owned by Marmaduke Beckwith Morton VII and it has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.When Peter died, the land on Sinking Creek may have passed to his son Peter, Jr., as James and William Range, sons of Peter, Jr., resided in this area.
The first record of Peter is in the land records of Washington County when he acquired the following tracts:
1. Feb 12, 1790, 300 acres on Knob Creek from Pharoh Cobb
Nov 2, 1804, 150 acres on Knob Creek from John Engle
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~JOSEPH HUNTER/PLANNETTA BECKWITH
FROM THE WEBSITE
Joseph Hunter, one of the most distinguished pioneers of Southeast Missouri, came to New Madrid District in 1805, and located on a grant purchased from Joseph La Plante, near New Madrid. Very soon after he removed to Big Prairie, and with his brother-in-law, Samuel Phillips, located near the present town of Sikeston. Joseph Hunter was a son of a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, who immigrated to America from the North of Ireland prior to the Revolutionary War. During the early settlement of Kentucky the family removed to Louisville. A brother of Joseph, who had been an officer in the continental army, received a grant of land on the river above the town in what is still known as "Hunter's Bottom." The mother Joseph and a sister were killed by the Indians while in a flax-field near their home; a brother, Abraham, also met his death at the hands of savages. Nancy Hunter, another member of the family, is mentioned in connection with the history of Ste. Genevieve.
Upon the organization of the Missouri Territory, Joseph Hunter was appointed by President Madison a member of the territorial council. He had a large family, and his descendants are very numerous, embracing many of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of this State. His eldest son, Milford, removed to Grand Gulf, Miss. The second son, Abraham, married Sally Ogden, and became the father of three sons and three daughters, viz: Issac, a judge of Scott County Court; Joseph, a wealthy citizen of New Madrid, and Benjamin F., living near Sikeston, one of the largest land owners in Southeast Missouri; Catherine, who married first Americus Price, and second Marmaduke Beckwith; MORE...
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Monday, May 26, 2003
~Biographies S - Mississippi Co. MoGenWeb - Underwood Beckwith
FROM THE WEBSITE:
In December, 1883, he (James B. Smith) engaged in the mercantile business at Bird's Point, with Underwood Beckwith, with whom he has since continued in business. They were in the grocery business until February 1888, when they sold their stock, and now carry a general line of dry-goods, boots and shoes and general notions.
Underwood was the sister of Lucy, and son of Marmaduke.
Sir Marmaduke Beckwith of Virginia>Marmaduke Beckwith>Newman Beckwith>Marmaduke Beckwith>Underwood Beckwith
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Mississippi County Missouri 1880 Federal Census
FROM THE WEBSITE
268B 27 Beckwith Allie L.
305B 25 Beckwith Bird
334C 24 Beckwith Eda
311A 20 Beckwith Eliza A.
334C 23 Beckwith G.
268B 29 Beckwith Harding J.
322B 7 Beckwith Julia
268B 24 Beckwith Laura S.
305B 26 Beckwith Lee
268B 25 Beckwith Lilla
268B 26 Beckwith Minnie L.
322B 8 Beckwith Slina
268B 23 Beckwith Thos.
322A 49 Beckwith Thos. B.
315A 21 Beckwith Underwood
311A 19 Beckwith William
268B 28 Beckwith Willie T. E.
268B 30 Beckwith Zuinas E.
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WHMC-Columbia--U.S. Work Projects Administration, Historical Records Survey, Missouri, 1935-1942 (C3551)--INDEX
FROM THE WEBSITE
Beckwith, Carroll
Beckwith, E.M.
Beckwith, Edward M.
Beckwith, Gares
Beckwith, Marmaduke
Beckwith, Montare
Beckwith, Newman
Beckwith, Quiros
Beckwith, Thomas
Beckwith, Underwood
Beckworth, E.M.
Beckworth, E.W.
Beckworth, Jennings (Beckwith) (father of Jim Beckwourth)
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Women Writers of Early Canada
The first Canadian-born novelist to publish was also a woman: Julia Beckwith
Hart (1796-1867), author of the romance St. Ursula's Convent (1824).
Matthew Beckwith Immigrant of Connecticut>Matthew Beckwith II>James Beckwith>Renald Beckwith>Nehemiah Beckwith>Julia Beckwith married George Henry Hart
From the Rare Book Collection... - June 1998 - issue 30, 6 - National Library News - Julia Beckwith Hart
FROM THE WEBSITE
Saint Ursula's Convent is the earliest recorded novel written by a native-born Canadian and published in book form in Canada. The author, Julia Beckwith, was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the daughter of a Loyalist father and a French mother. After her father's death, she moved to Kingston to live with her aunt. She established a school for young ladies and, in 1822, married George Henry Hart, a bookbinder from England.
Saint Ursula's Convent had been in preparation for almost 10 years when Julia offered it for publication to Hugh Christopher Thomson, politician, banker and publisher of the Upper Canada Herald. In June 1823, Thomson sent a proposal to gather subscriptions to the novel. It was published anonymously in May of the following year in an edition of 200 copies, 175 already sold to subscribers. This melodramatic, action-filled novel, written primarily for young people, was partially based on family stories Julia had heard as a child, and adhered faithfully to many of the more spectacular conventions prevailing in early 19th-century fiction, such as shipwrecks, separated families and happy (if unlikely) restorations brought about by amazing coincidences. Julia published a second novel, Tonnewonte, or, the Adopted Son of America (Watertown, New York, 1825), after the Harts moved to Rochester. The family returned to Fredericton in 1831, and she died there in 1867, her role as a pioneer Canadian fiction-writer still unheralded.
~Biographies T - Mississippi Co. MoGenWeb
FROM THE WEBSITE
Dr. Jackson L. Travis (deceased) was born in North Carolina, November 6, 1824, and at the age of five years removed with his parents to Tennessee, where he grew to manhood, and studied medicine under the direction of an uncle. In 1853 he came to Southeast Missouri, and located in Lucas Bend. Dr. Travis, with a single exception, was the oldest practitioner in Mississippi County. He was a good and useful neighbor, and a kind friend. He died at his home, near Bratcher's Lake, on Tuesday, January 18, 1881. He was first married on October 19, 1858, to Martha J. Hicks, who was born on June 9, 1835. By this union were born four children: Jackson (who died on January 4, 1879, aged twenty-two years, two months and four days); Leulla (born December 11, 1858,died on February 9, 1875); the other two, Mary J. and Martha I., died in infancy. Their mother died on February 19, 1866. Dr. Travis was married, on November 19, 1866, to Lucy H. Beckwith, born on April 17, 1843. She is the daughter of Marmaduke and Susan (Griffith) Beckwith, both now deceased. Mr. Beckwith came to Southeast Missouri in 1812, and was one of the prominent men of his day. He had two children by his marriage with Susan Griffitt: Underwood and Lucy H. Mrs. Beckwith died when the latter was three weeks old. Mr. Beckwith afterward married Mrs. Catherine Price, a daughter of Abram Hunter, one of the pioneer settlers of Southeast Missouri. By this marriage were born Amanda (Medley) of Arcadia, Mo., Anna (Mrs. Henry Pease, of St. Francois County, Mo., and four who are dead: Richard, Newman, Thomas and Yancy. Mr. Beckwith died in March, 1881. Dr. Travis had six children by his marriage with Lucy H. Beckwith: Lucien (born September
10, 1867); Lucy (born on June 23, 1869); Lulella (born on September 13, 1871); Ada (born on January 1, 1875); Anna (died in infancy) and Jackson L. (born on September 5, 1878). Mrs. Travis and her five children live on the home place, near Bratcher's Lake, in Mississippi County.
Sir Marmaduke Beckwith of Virginia>Marmaduke Beckwith>Newman Beckwith>Marmaduke Beckwith>Lucy Beckwith
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Civil War Battles of 1861
FROM THE WEBSITE
Beckwith Farm, MO -or-
Bird's Point, MO
U.S.A.- 2 Killed, 5 Wounded
C.S.A.- 1 Killed, 2 Wounded
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eHistory.com - Periodicals: A History of the Civil War: Section Two
FROM THE WEBSITE
October, 1861
13-Beckwith Farm (12 miles from Bird's Point), Mo. Tuft's Cav. Union 2 killed, 5 wounded. Confed. 1 killed, 2 wounded
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Official Records : Page 244 | OPERATIONS IN MO., ARK., KANS., AND IND. T. Chapter X.
BATTLE OF BECKWITH FARM
CAMP LYIN, BIRD'S POINT, MO., October 15, 1861.
SIR: Pursuant to orders, I proceeded, with 26 men of my company (Captain Noleman's Centralia Cavalry), on a scout out upon the Rushes Ridge road, taking a direction towards the Beckwith farm. When mounted rebels, about 100 strong, supposed to be Mississippi or Tennessee Mounted Rifles, armed with breech-loading rifles and revolvers. My advance guard, after giving the usual signal (the enemy continuing to advance), discharged their carbines and fell back upon the column. We were moving down the road through a clearing, the enemy being in the timber. I immediately ordered the advance, and advanced into the open timber, taking a position within 180 yards of where the enemy were forming, and engaged the enemy, who were partly concealed by dense underbrush and heavy timer. The enemy poured a rapid fire upon our position until we were nearly surrounded and our ammunition almost exhausted. We then retired, the enemy following close upon our rear, and engaged my rear guard for about 1 1/2 miles, when the enemy retreated. We brought our wounded men and horses off of the field, with the exception of Corporal H. H. Fletcher, his horse, equipments, and arms. Corporal Fletcher was shot in the temple, some distance in awards discovered still living by Dr. Baker, residing in the vicinity, and by him removed to his residence. Private Louis Krenyhoff received a flesh wound in the arm, the ball passing across the chest and lodging inside the shirt. Several others received slight scotches from shattered balls. The horses of Privates J. Copeland, S. T. Maxy, W. Hutter, and E. T. Amadan were mortally wounded and left on the road. Seven other horses were wounded more or less seriously. The enemy on their retreat stripped Corporal Fletcher of his arms and spurs. Two others lost their carbines. The loss of the enemy, as near as could be ascertained, was from 6 to 10 men either killed or seriously wounded, including the officer in command. Of their horses one was left dead upon the field and others taken off evidently wounded. My men deserve great praise for the coolness, bravery, and implicit obedience to my commands exhibited throughout the engagement, several of whom stood firmly, receiving the fire of the enemy, with by one shot held in reserve, and awaiting my orders. They retired in as good order as circumstances would permit, the rear guard contesting their ground nobly.
Respectfully, &c.,
S. P. TUFTS,
Lieutenant, Commanding Expedition.
Colonel W. H. L. WALLACE, Commanding.
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The Cape Rock Gazetteer | Mississippi County
Towns of Mississippi County, Missouri
Including:
Beckwith (Historical place)
Alternate name: Bickwith
Probably located on a county road north of Crosno near the old channel of the river. In its day, Beckwith was a ferry landing on the Mississippi but the river's course has changed since then.
Maps: 1838, 1857 Johnson, 1862 War Colton (Bickwiths), 1869, 1872
Named for Newman Beckwith, who settled here from Virginia in 1812.
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National Register of Historical Places - MISSOURI), Mississippi County - Beckwith's Fort
Beckwith's Fort Archeological Site
FROM THE WEBSITE
Also known as Missouri Archaeological Survey Number 23MI2;Towosahgy State
Address Restricted, Wolf Island
Historic Significance: Information Potential
Area of Significance: Prehistoric
Cultural Affiliation: Early Middle Baytown, Middle Mississippian
Period of Significance: 1499-1000 AD
Owner: State
Historic Function: Domestic, Religion
Historic Sub-function: Ceremonial Site, Village Site
Current Function: Landscape
Current Sub-function: Park
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Pitter's Cherokee Trails - Native Americans in Mississippi County, Missouri
FROM THE WEBSITE
Reavis, in 1878, described his impression of the Mounds. "These Mounds are invariably situated on the banks of some body of water, and are of various sizes, ranging from 3 feet to 20 in height."
There are nearly one thousand of them in Mississippi County. Twenty-five miles south of Charleston, back of Wolf Island. On the Beckwith Farm is situated one of the most remarkable mounds erected by these strange people. It is about 40 feet high, 200 feet square at the base, and 150 square at the top.
On the east is a bayou, supposed to have once been the bed of the Mississippi River, while the other three sides area surrounded by a canal, which was deep enough and wide enough to float an ordinary steamboat. On the top of the mounds are eleven smaller ones, there being one in the center, the other on the edges.
No exploration has been made, except some incidental digging. The owner of the land upon which it is situated has conscientious convictions against any disturbance the sanctity of the graves of any people, whether ancient or modern.
In a mound a few miles east of Charleston, from which many pieces of pottery have been taken, many fragments of skeletons were discovered, which evidence almost as much care as was bestowed on the bodies of the ancient Egyptians. The bodies were placed in a reclining position, with the faces turned to the east.
On the farm of J. H. Drew, eight miles south of East Prairie, on north side of Upton Slough the most famous site in Mississippi County, earlier called Beckwith Fort, has now been renamed Towosaghy State Park. Archaeologists on the Towosaghy site claim it may prove to be one of the most important remaining Indian city sites in the southeastern part of the United States. In the future years Towosaghy is to be excavated, and the original buildings reconstructed, providing a "living museum" of the life of the ancient peoples who inhabited Mississippi County.
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Charleston Missouri - History
FROM THE WEBSITE
In 1812 Newman Beckwith came from Virginia and located between Norfolk and Wolf Island.
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MO Census 1880
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The Records of Earls Colne: Documents of Record concerning Testaments: Wills: 2501174
FROM THE WEBSITE
Wills (PROB11/54/44 Jeff Game 1556 1572 transcript only)
29.8.1556 (Saturday 29 August 1556)
document 2501174
I Jeff Game butcher of Earls Colne the 29.8.1556 now deceased whole mind soul to god Wm Becwith and Marion his wife my sister all my reversions in these my two messuages called Bells and Perchmeners with croft of land and annexed meadow called Winters set in Colne aforesaid for life after their deaths to their daughter Eliz Beckwith and her heirs lawfully begotten if default to the heirs lawfully begotten of the said Wm or Marion forever to Margt my sister 11s of money within three months after the decease of Margt Game my mother by the hand of Wm Beckwith whom I make my executor witnesses Vincent Papworthe Jn Dickson and Thos Williams
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The Records of Earls Colne: Copyhold Property of Colne Priory Manor: Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls: 53800916
FROM THE WEBSITE
Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr20)
14.6.1557 (Monday 14 June 1557)
document 53800916
it is presented that Robt Jollye 20d and Wm Bekwith 20d staying in the house of Jn Lomkyn did not celebrate or observe the feast of the ascension nor divers other feast days etc and also they went into the lord's wood called Chalkney Wood and cut down divers ash trees growing there and took them away without licence
amercement 3s4d
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The Records of Earls Colne: Images: ERO D/DPr77
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The Records of Earls Colne: Freehold Property: Freehold Titles: 52400297
FROM THE WEBSITE
Freehold Titles (CP25/2/)
michaelmas 26Eliz1-27Eliz1 (1585)
document 52400297
Roger Herlakenden plaintiff Rich# Symons and his wife Eliz deforciants three messuages three gardens 2a of meadow 4a of pasture in Earls Colne warranty also against Robt Jarvis and his heirs Edw Huberd esq and his heirs and Wm Beckwith and his heirs consideration 80li
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Earls Colne Priory
FROM THE WEBSITE
Following the battle of Hastings in 1066, William of Normandy gave the manor of Colne to Aubrey de Vere his brother in law.
When Geoffrey, the son of Aubrey and Beatrix, fell gravely ill they sought the help of Faricius, the abbot of Abingdon. He was a skilled physician and a man of wide culture originally from Arezzo in Umbria. Geoffrey recovered under the care of Faricius. In gratitude Geoffrey gave the Abbey of Abingdon the church of St. Andrew in the Colne and a church in Kensington. Faricius arranged two monks to establish a chantry in the Church of St. Andrew to pray for the souls of the de Vere family.
The de Veres later planned to establish a monastery at the Colne, linked to Abingdon. Faricius agreed as did Maurice Bishop of London and this was confirmed by royal charter c. 1105. After the death of Beatrix, Aubrey became a monk, he later died and was buried in the monastery around 1112.
The funeral was conducted by Abbot Faricius, who increased the number of monks from six to twelve. When the priory church was finished in 1148 it was dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint John the Evangelist by Robert, Bishop of London.
Local people gave many gifts of land to finance the building and the upkeep of the monastery.
he priory church was a noble Norman Structure, twice as large as the present parish church. At the centre was great tower of flint and freestone and at the west end were a pair of smaller towers. The purpose of the monastery was the offering of prayer and praise to God, according to the Benedictine rule in 1321 the priory became independent of the Abbey of Abingdon, and freer to include local people in the life of the priory.
issolution
In the 1530's Henry VIII suppressed the monasteries taking their possessions and land. Colne was unusual in that the lands were returned to the de Veres probably because their family tombs were there. In 1583 Edward deVere sold the manor of Earls Colne to Roger Harlackenden, his steward and nine years later he sold the priory to Richard Harlackenden. Gradually the monastery buildings fell in to ruin, and most of the remains were progressively swept away when the present house was built in 1826. the exception being the base of the north west tower which remained as a ruined fragment until 1988.
The site of the old church and monastery is now scheduled as a national monument. The Earls Colne Society has taken the occasion of the second millennium to record these events and to place a cross (based on a design by Constantinople just before the end of the first millennium) beyond which the site of the monastery can be viewed.
To view the cross, walk along the path opposite St. Andrews Church which runs alongside the graveyard turning right at the end or follow the path which starts to the left of the main entrance to the priory.
Family Chronicle - The Agincourt Honor Roll
Including:
Bekwith, John.
Bekwyth, John.
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’457 York Bridgemasters Accounts List of Occupations List of Persons
Bekwith,Agnes; Bekwith, John; Bekwith, Ralph; Bekwyth, Ralph;
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YCA/C83:1
See:
Bekwyth, Bekwith and John Hart
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Hebden & Bekwyth
FROM THE WEBSITE
Sir Richard’s younger brother, Sir Nicholas de Hebden was born around 1359 in Gosberton Lincolnshire. He married a lady called Katherine de Wyhom who was the heiress of Rye & Whyam and the Marmions. Before Nicholas died in 1417, they had three children, William de Hebden who died young, Elizabeth de Hebden ( b circa 1380 in Howell, Lincoln) and Grace de Hebden. Although they were born in Lincolnshire, links were clearly kept with the north as Grace married Sir Piers Tempest who was the son of Sir Richard Tempest of Bracewell in Craven. The Tempests at some stage gained Conistone.
Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Dymoke, who one of the Dymokes of Scrivelsby, Lincoln, the Kings champions. Thus the primary line of Hebden died out though both Grace and Ellizabeth had children. One in particular achieved some level of historical notoriety. Elizabeth had two sons, Sir Philip, who married Joan Conyers and Sir Thomas who married Margaret de Welles. It was this Sir Thomas who joined a Lancastrian rising in 1469 and the penalty of his treason to the then King Edward IV was execution. The family were not unduly penalized though as his son Sir Robert had the estates restored to him and the descendants were Kings champions at he coronations of Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII and even George IV. The Dymoke in question on that occasion was Henry who was accompanied by the Duke of Wellington. The eldest child, Sir Richard had been born around 1355 and he married a widow, Joan Chammond. daughter of Richard Wateby, Mayor of York in 1365 and she had a daughter Johanna from her first marriage. Johanna was married to a gentleman called Ffitlyng. Richard and Joan probably married around 1380 and as Sir Richard was buried at Ousebridge in 1385, so it was not long before Joan found herself a widow again.
Joan and Richard’s children were
Thomas who died about 1435 and would seem to have entered the church and become Dean of Aukland in 1431. Some documentation shows his kin to have been Elizabeth Bekwyth, Roger Plumpton, John & Margaret Burton though heaven only knows where they fit in. Anastasia de Hebden was also referred to in the will of Thomas, as a sister.
There was also a John, who was the last Lord of Hebden 1460.
At this time there was also a Sir John Hebden of Coldstonefold (Hebden), Parish of Ripon and the Hebden family of Ripon, Wakemen to Ripon City from 1400 onwards, during the time of the Hebden domicile at Hebden in Craven. The Ripon Hebdens occupied much of Fountains Abbey lands. What is not clear is where this Sir John fits in to the Hebden line. Could he have been a descendant of Auray or Duket ? Who knows. This was the time of the Wars of the Roses and many records were destroyed leaving missing links between various lines of the Hebden family.
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S2 Thomas de H Dean Auckland died 1435, kin Elizabeth
Bekwyth, Roger Plumpton, John and Margaret Burton.
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Lancelor?
FROM THE WEBSITE
Thomas H Dean of Auckland, son of Sir Richard H, will made 0709 elder bro John sis's Johanna ffitlying, Matilda Hotham, prioress Johanna Chawman, Anastasia H [since found to be John's wife], nephew John Hotham and kin Elizabeth Bekwyth, Roger Plumpton, John Burton, Margaret Burton and Thomas son of Margaret Burton legatees Robert Vavasour 5 mks William Richman 40s Elizabeth Glasyer Newcastle on T gown + 20s Isabella Yure a French book 'Lancelor' John Gardiner & Matilde h.w. once my mother's cook in York 13/4 servant William Batty bed horse 10mks Master John Autage Master Thomas London Robert Alne parson Cath ch York Sir John Spanyell of York wit W.R., R.V., J.B. Prob Rob Alne John Autage
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§-14. Lancelot and Guinevere. XII. The Arthurian Legend. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 190721
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Inmans of Nidderdale - 4th Generation
FROM THE WEBSITE
In the time of this Michael, the family had a small estate at Harefield, in Low Bishopside, but within the Monastery of Fountains; when they acquired it has not appeared. On May 23, a. 1681, Thos. Furnis, clerk, renounced the 'executorship of the Will of Judith Darnbrooke in favour of Michael Inman of Harefield and Elizabeth, his wife; it has been suggested above that entry into Harefield may have been made ahout the time (a. 1678) of the marriage of Robert Inman. It is not unlikely that Harefield was the tenement, rented at 1. 2. 9, in the tenure of John Hodgeson, 'on the bank of the Nidde', late in the tenure of John Ploumelande, which is returned under Bishopside in an account of lands formerly of Fountains Abbey (Min. Acc., 35-36 Hen. VIII., say, a. 1544); the same tenant was still there in a. 1557, and at the same rent (Min. Act., 3-5 Ph. and Mary). In a. 1570. Christopher Hardcastell, of Heayrfeald, of the Chappelrye of Patelabrige, mentions his lease of Hearfeild, which he holds of John Beckwythe, gent. [probably of Scough, par. Fewston]; the Feet of Fines (Feinnes?) (a. 1598) point to a conveyance to a Christopher Hardcastle, and others, of messuages and lands 'in Bishopside, 'Pateley Bridge, and Netherdale', with proviso to warrant against the heirs of John Beckwith, deceased, in a. 1627, Anna Hardcastle is described in her Will (York Reg.) as of the Hairfeeld; it is very unlikely that the Inmans had an interest here before this date, and it, of course, does not follow that the Harefield they owned was exactly coincident with the tenement 'on the bank of the Nidde', supposing that they have been rightly connected.. Harefield was in the township, but not in the manor of Bishopside; it had belonged to the Monastery, and should he represented in the Fountains Calls, under Pateley Bridge. There are Calls, naming Pateley Bridge, for a. 1667, 1668, 1750, and onwards,. but the name Inman does not seem to occur for Harefield till the Call Roll for a.. 1720-1723; then, at the end of the Fellbeck district entries, occurs a note, afterwards crossed out, Hairfield, Mr. Chris. Inman, adm. It is, notwithstanding, fairly clear that the family owned the estate from c.a. 1681 to a. 1790; the fact that the name of Inman does not appear under Pateley Bridge in a. 1667, 1668, is no positive proof of non-ownership at those dates and I rather incline to suppose that Michael Inman bought a freehold estate at Harefield after his father's' death (early in a. 1662) and not later than a. 1681. In a Bishopside Court Roll, Robert lnman is described as of Harefleld in a. 1684, and the Par. Reg. of P. B. mentions one seat on the north of the 'Quire' erected by Mr. Michael Inman for Harefield House; these, with other facts, are in favour of ownership in the 17th c. It is most unlikely that Harefield was part of the inheritance of a. 1681*; (*See Note C) it is not openly mentioned in the Will of John Darnbrooke (or in that of his father), nor is his name in the Fountains Calls, a. 1667, 1668, under Pateley Bridge. Judith Dambrooke was yet in life on April 18, a. 1681,at which date Michael Inman was probably living at, and owner of, Harefleld; at any rate, he was described as of Harefield, yeoman, in the next month.
Something maybe said as to the chronology of migrations of the family in the last quarter of the 17th c.; it would appear that Michael Inman was still at or near North Pasture in a. 1676, and that, in that year, or probably a little later, he removed to Harelield, which he seems to have purchased in a. 1662-1681 This change of residence may have been due to the marriage (a. 1678) of his son, Robert, who appears to have been living at North Pasture House or at Fellbeck as late as a. 1681/2. About this time, and, at any rate, suppose not later than a. 1684, Michael inman and his wit~ removed to a place in the township of Bewerley, and Robert and Katherine Inman went to Harefield; in a. 1690 both father and son were living in Bewerley township, neither of them residing in a Darnbrooke house which had been inherited in a. 1681.
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Inman Genealogy
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Variants of Beckwith
Beckwith
Beckworth
Beckworthe
Beckwourth
Bekwith
Bekworth
Bekworthe
also see:
Beschewitz
Beschwittz
Beschwitz
Bechewitz
Bechwitz
Bekenham
Beket
Bekete
Bekett
Bekette
Bekingham
Bekinham
Bekinhame
Beckwith Graveyard, Wood Co., WV
BECKWITH GRAVEYARD
Wood Co. WV
Some Pioneer Graveyards of Wood Co. by John A. House
Winter wind temper thy icy blast.
Harm not those beneath the mound.
Summer breeze whisper softly for at last
Here asleep they wait the trumpet sound.(R. H.)
In passing over the gravelled road from Parkersburg to Belleville, after leaving the village of Lubeck, which lies on the flatlands on
the "divide" between the waters of Neal's Run and Little Sandy Creek, one goes to the head of one branch of the latter, crosses a very low gap in a white oak and hickory ridge, and comes over on to Lee Creek (South Fork - the "Broad Run" of the pioneers), just below the mouth of Woodyard's Fork, at the old Beckwith home.
Here, on a low point to the left of the road, in a little enclosure about One hundred by one hundred twenty-five feet, is the private burying ground of this family of Wood County pioneers, who settled at this spot in early pioneer days.
The farm has passed into the hands of others, strangers or descendants so far removed they seem to have lost interest in their ancestry. Though enclosed by a good fence, the cemetery is grown up with brush, briers, burrs and weeds, until one can scarcely get among the decayed and neglected tombstones.
I noted names and dates:
Barnes Beckwith, March 22nd, 1855, aged seventy-eight years,
four months. (Born August 23rd, 1776)
Betsey Beckwith, August 18th, 1826, aged thirty-nine years, 10 months
(Born July 29th, 1787).
Betsey Beckwith, September 24th, 1846, aged thirty-two years, five months
(born April 1st, 1814). (She was twelve years old when her mother died.)
Rebecca Beckwith, March 16th, 1839, aged twenty-seven years, four months
(born October 9th, 1811). (About fifteen years old when her mother
died.)
Barnes Beckwith, 1818 - 1905.
Virginia (his wife), 1820 - 1899.
Barnes Beckwith married Virginia Samuels in 1840.
L. A. Beckwith (Lewis) born 1816 - died 1896. *Lewis marked out and
Lawrence penciled in.
Mary A. (wife) born 1813 - died 1893.
They probably inherited the old homestead, as around them in the
old cemetery sleep many of their children.
Elizabeth Beckwith, 1846 - 1916.
Tapley Beckwith, 1848 - 1919.
Richard B. Beckwith, 1845, two years old.
Lewis Beckwith, 1841 - 19-- (no date) Flag. *23 penciled in after 19.
Elizabeth (wife) 1892, aged forty-three (49).
Adaline, daughter to A. N. Beckwith, died May 16th, 1890, in her
sixty-sixth year.
Philip Wigal died June 17th, 1852, in his fifty-first year.
Elizabeth Napier ("Mother") 1819 - 1905. *Gilchrist penciled in between
Elizabeth and Napier.
Infant of P. and S. Wigal, April 19th, 1815.
Otto F. Eberhardt, January 12th, 1878, aged fifty-one.
Sarah G. (his wife) August 18th, 1828 - October 16th, 1896.
Mary Smith, January 8th, 1854 - 1898.
Two children of Charles and Mary Smith. These last graves in an
outside row, away from the family burying plot.
Lewis Beckwith, who was an extensive landholder on Big Run, dying about 1815, could hardly have been of this immediate family,
nor is it shown if he were buried in Wood County. If he was a resident, his deeds would disclose the fact.
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Penelope S. (Beckwith) wife, 1821 - 1893, aged seventy-two years,
four months.
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Monday, May 19, 2003
’St Marys Manors circa 1640
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Sunday, May 18, 2003
carpatho-rusyn.org
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~Lorraine Cemetery, Hancock County, Illinois
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~Palmyra Village Cemetery
Beckwith, Minerva Nye, dau. of Nathaniel, June 9, 1837, 16y
Beckwith, Sophia, wife of Nathaniel, Aug. 11, 1838, 41y 3m 14d
Beckwith, Cynthia, dau. of Nathanial, Feb. 1, 1835, 15y 7m
Beckwith, Minerva, wife of Nathaniel, Apr. 6, 1821, 24y 14d
Beckwith, Samuel Oscar, son of Nathaniel, Apr. 3, 1821, 5y 21d
Beckwith, Daughter & Son of Nathaniel, June 22, 1824 & August 24, 1814
Beckwith, Cynthia Ann, dau. of Nathaniel, July 17, 1818, 2y 10m 18d
Beckwith, Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel, Feb. 19, 1832, 4y 6m
Beckwith, Jane Sophia, dau. of Nathaniel, Aug. 19, 1831, 1y 7m
Beckwith, Nathaniel H., husband of Minerva, Apr. 25, 1834, 47y 6m, War of 1812
Beckwith, Foster, 1886
Beckwith, Geo. Whitfield, son of George, Aug. 19, 1832, 10m
Beckwith, Infant son of George, Aug. 2, 1821
Beckwith, Ruth M. C., wife of George, Jan. 30, 1881, 88y
Beckwith, George, Dec. 20, 1867, 78y, War of 1812
Beckwith, Samuel Jr., Nov. 9, 1839, 56y
Beckwith, Hannah, wife of Samuel, July 21, 1846, 90y
Beckwith, Samuel, Sept. 28, 1821, 71y
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~1850 Census of Jackson County, (W)VA
14 621 Beckwith Lewis 34 M Famer Va
614 621 Beckwith Hester 29 F Va
614 621 Beckwith Oscar 7 M Va
614 621 Beckwith Isabella 5 F Va
Early Studbook T
*Tom Jones (c. 17--) by Cyprus (c. by Lonsdale Bay Arabian) - Bloody Buttocks. Imported by Sir Marmaduke Beckwith of Virginia in 1753. His dam has not been identified. He sired Tayloe's Smiling Tom (ch.c. 1759).
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http://www.pastportal.com/Archive/Research%20Reports/Html/RR1047.htm
~Genealogy Data Page 210 (Descendancy Pages)Thomas Newman/Beckwiths
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Many Beckwith references
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
ELDER JOHNSON OLIVE
was born in Chatham county, North Carolina, June 7th, 1816. His boyhood was spent on a farm, attending, at intervals, such primary schools as the neighborhood afforded. During his youth he often felt concerned for his soul's salvation. In that
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day camp-meetings were quite common. He attended one at Buckhorn, Chatham county, in 1837. Here he repented and believed, and was soon after baptized by Elder P. W. Dowd, a member of Shady Grove Church. In the neighborhood prayer-meetings he first began to lead in public prayer - then in the church. Having a good voice for singing, and being otherwise gifted, his pastor, Elder Dowd, took special interest in him, urging him to go to school and prepare himself for future usefulness, not hinting that some day he might want to preach. Taking his pastor's advice, he entered Thompson's Academy (George W. Thompson, Principal), in the northern. part of Wake county. He also attended Pleasant Hill Academy, in Chatham county, Baxter Clegg, Principal. After thus having been at school some time, he returned home. He soon began to teach in the family of his old pastor, in 1841. Elder Dowd and wife were exceedingly kind to him and interested in him, which begot in him a life-long attachment for them.
During this year (1841), he married Martha Hunter, daughter of Alsey Hunter, of Wake county, and settled near where Olive's Chapel now is, where for a time he engaged in farming. During this time he was much impressed and concerned about his duty to enter the ministry. He felt that he must do something more than he was doing. The great question in his mind was, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" He began to make appointments for "religious services" at the neighboring churches.
He talked with much freedom and effect. Pastors around him began to have him fill their appointments. In after life he often spoke of this period, and always made most affectionate allusions to Elders Dowd, James Dennis and Jesse Howell. He was licensed to preach soon, and five years later, by request of his church, he was ordained at the Raleigh Association, meeting at Cumberland Union Church (now in Harnett), in the year 1847. Ministers present: John Purefoy. James S. Purefoy, William Jones, David Williams, S. Senter, Ezekiel Holland, James Dennis and Robert J. Dennis. He then took
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charge of and held the pastorate for a number of years of the churches at Shady Grove, Mt.. Pisgah, Holly Spring and Cedar Fork.
He was very active in the ministry till 1861; he then was afflicted with "spiritual darkness" - such he called it. His many friends were much saddened by it, for he ceased to preach entirely. Some thought he had lost his mind, but he always insisted that such was not the case; that his judgment, memory, mental powers, all were the same as ever. He said for some purpose the Lord had withdrawn spiritual light from him; that he could not hold communion with God as he had done before, and as he did afterwards. Be this as it may, he was for nearly four years a very miserable man. Gradually the darkness began to lift, and light and joy began to break in upon his spirit. He again, in 1865, entered actively upon his ministry, and remained at his post till the Master called him home to rest. This took place at his new home in Apex, January 24th, 1885. At the time of his death he was pastor of Cary, Holly Springs, Swift Creek and New Bethel churches. His last sermon was at Holly Springs, from the text, Phil. 2: 16., "Holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain" It seems almost prophetic. Many thought it his best sermon. His body lies in the village and church burying- ground at Apex, N. C.
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Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900- 1989. Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History: Electronic Edition.
The general practitioner usually performed operations upon the head whenever such cases arose, for there were few specialists in this field of surgery in the State. One such specialist, however, was Dr. John Beckwith of Raleigh who treated diseases of the eye for a period of more than twenty years until his removal to Petersburg, Virginia, in the forties. In the issue of September 7, 1839, the Raleigh Register referred with pride to his operations for the relief of blindness, declaring that he had as few instances of failure as the more famed doctors at the North.
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Female Benevolent Society (Raleigh, N.C.). Revised Constitution and By-Laws of the Raleigh Female Benevolent Society, Adopted July 23d, 1823. With the Reports of the Society, from Its Commencement
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Freedmen's Convention (1866 : Raleigh, N.C.). Minutes of the Freedmen's Convention, Held in the City of Raleigh on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th of October, 1866.
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North Carolina. Dept. of Public Instruction. North Carolina Day. Friday, November 11, 1921. Armistice Day. North Carolina in the World War
BUNCOMBE COUNTY:
BRYAN BECKWITH, second lieutenant, Company F, 119th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near Ypres, Belgium, August 25, 1918. At imminent peril to his life, Lieutenant Beckwith (then a sergeant) and two companious extinguished a fire in an ammunition dump, caused by a bursting shell, thereby preventing the explosion of the dump and saving the lives of a large number of men who were in the vicinity.
Home address, Robert B. Beckwith, Black Mountain, N. C. (G. O. 44, W. D., 1919.)
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High Strangeness: When Flesh and Blood Fell from the Sky
When Flesh and Blood Fell from the Sky
by John Hairr*
The fall of flesh and blood from the sky would generate no small amount of curiosity, even in our technologically advanced society acquainted with air travel. We can only imagine the consternation that such events had upon people in the days before powered flight. Falls of blood, and in some cases even flesh, have been chronicled throughout history from all over the world. Understandably, these events sometimes caused consternation among the people, and were often seen as portents of ill luck or doom.
In North Carolina in the nineteenth century, two different incidents of blood and flesh falling from the sky were recorded. The episodes, one in Sampson County and the other in Chatham County, occurred 34 years apart.
The first flesh fall recorded in North Carolina occurred on 15 February 1850 on the farm of Thomas Clarkson, thirteen miles southwest of the county seat of Clinton. His account of the incident, and a sample of the material, was taken to Fayetteville by a Mr. Holland.
Clarkson's description of the event was taken down by Mr. Holland and printed in the North Carolinian, a newspaper published in Fayetteville. He noted, "On the 15th Feb'y, 1850, there fell within 100 yards of the residence of Thos. M. Clarkson in Sampson county, a shower of Flesh and Blood, about 250 or 300 yards in length. The pieces appeared to be flesh, liver, lights, brains and blood. Some of the blood ran on the leaves, apparently very fresh. Three of his (T.M.C.'s) children were in it, and ran to their mother exclaiming, "Mother there is meat falling!" Their mother went immediately to see, but the shower was over; but there lay the flesh, &c. Neill Campbell, Esq. living close by, was on the spot shortly after it fell, and pronounced it as above. One of his children was about 150 yards from the shower and came running to the rest saying he smelt something like blood. During the time it was falling there was a cloud overhead, having a red appearance like a wind cloud. There was no rain." (1)
The writer for the North Carolinian went on to note that the materials brought in by Mr. Holland was examined "with two of the best microscopes in the place." All who looked at the samples agreed that it was flesh and blood, but from what was unknown. (2)
The second flesh fall recorded in North Carolina occurred on 25 February 1884. Mrs. Kit Lasater, wife of a black tenant farmer who lived on the farm of Silas Beckworth in New Hope Township in Chatham County on the north side of the Pittsboro-Raleigh Road, was standing in a freshly plowed field near a barn a short distance from her family's one room cabin when blood fell from a clear sky upon the ground, bushes and fence all around her.
As word spread of the event, curious people dropped in to investigate the site. At first it was neighbors and friends, but as the news spread, curiosity seekers from further afield came by. Soon, the event was chronicled in the local newspaper, the Chatham Record. Of the event, the paper reported, "Many of the neighbors, after hearing of her statement, visited the spot and they all say that the ground--embracing an area of about 60 feet in circumference--was covered with splotches of something like blood: and an examination of the trees in this place showed blood on the branches. We are informed that a reputable physician of the neighborhood visited the spot and said it was blood." (3)
S.A. Holleman was one of the first people to visit the site. He reported the following particulars. "The space covered was about fifty by seventy feet, and nearly in a rectangular form. The drops were of sizes varying from that of a small pea to that of a man's finger and averaged about one to the square foot. Smaller drops were instantly absorbed, larger ones, with those on the wood, coagulated. Some fell in the bushes and coagulated upon the limbs."
BeckwithWWI
"CHARLES BECKWITH COLLECTION
Watkinson Library, Trinity College
The Watkinson Library has recently purchased 50 letters written by Charles Beckwith, a young Pennsylvanian who served in the United States army during World War I. These letters, written to his sisters back home, document Beckwith’s stint at Fort Monroe, Virginia, his departure overseas, and his year in France. Beckwith was an ordinary soldier, whose responsibilities included repairing guns and tractors. His letters are full of homesickness (“every time I think of home I get hungry”), plans for wrangling leave and supplying himself with cigarettes, remarks about the weather, and his struggles with the French language (“donnez ma amour du ma petit soeur”). He also describes the army’s inscrutable inefficiency (“I sure hope they do something as I am getting tired of not knowing what I am going to do next”) and the destruction wrought by war (“All the towns we go into are all blown to pieces & we can hardly find a place to sleep except the ground & there is plenty of room there”). Charles Beckwith’s letters home are a significant addition to the Watkinson’s collection of World War I materials, affording a glimpse of catastrophic events through one soldier’s eyes. "
Page 56 Ripon MI Book
"No. 194. To the memory of Matthew Beckwith, Alderman and twice Mayor of Ripon, who died the 5th day of February, 1780, aged 78 years. He married Alice, the youngest daughter of Mr. Richard Austin of this town, Bookseller, by whom he had issue 6 sons & 6 daughters, of which 3 of the former & 4 of the latter lay here inter'd, viz., Matthew, who died in 1759, aged 15; Elizabeth died in 1774, aged 34; the rest died in their infancy; also, Alice, wife of the said Matthew Beckwith, died 29th August, 1783, aged 76 years; also, Richard Beckwith, Alderman and twice Mayor of this Town, son of the above Matthew Beckwith, who departed this life the 25th of May, 1796, aged 63 years; Alice Olroyd, daughter of the above Matthew Beckwith, died Jany. 27th, 1810, aged 66 years."
BECKWITH HOUSES
The Wm. E. Beckwith House
http://myweb.dwu.edu/amfische/beckwith_house.htm
http://www.city.richmond.bc.ca/planning/HeritageInventory/HeritageInventory_Details.asp?ID=69
http://www.ohiopreservation.org/Euclid.htm
http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/030203/new_030203027.shtml
http://www.melrosehomes.co.uk/wakefield.html
http://www.ghostzoo.com/beckwith.html
http://www.svcn.com/archives/saratoganews/11.01.00/historic-0044.html
http://www.faheyrealtors.com/lt_map.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~majorville/majtombstones/barb_miranda.html
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:JB4BFTMdVx4C:www.aaanet.org/gad/history/063MacCurdy.pdf+%22Beckwith+House%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://home.sprynet.com/~awb02/ham3.htm
Truman Beckwith House
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bentleygt/pannal/pannal_hall/grainge.html
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/columbia/chatham/chat_centr_hist.htm
The Beckwith house, was also an inn, known as Tobias' Inn, where the horses were changed and the horns blown, as the stage rolled gaily on its way.
http://www.marlow-nh.org/PlacesToSee/OldMarlowPhotoGallery/pages/01.htm
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William Dean Howells at the Beckwith House
http://memory.loc.gov/award/mymhiwe/mv155/mv155.txt
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~Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-. . .
~Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-
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Fountains Abbey/Marmadukes
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GENUKI: North Riding Land Owners - Letter B.
~The 1850 Census of Henry County Missouri - Jennings Beckwith
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
-Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern PlantationsSeries M:
Mss1J4105a, Jenings Family Papers, 1737-1837,
Virginia, Maryland, and England
Description of the Collection
This collection comprises twenty-one items that are arranged in sections by name of individual and type of document.
Section 1, Jenings, Edmund (1703-1756), Letterbook, 1753-1769
This section consists of one item, a letterbook, 17 November 1753-29 July 1769, of Edmund Jenings. The volume has been indexed by the staff of the Virginia Historical Society. The letterbook was kept in London, England, and Richmond, Virginia.
Letters concern the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Jewish immigration to Great Britain, the Maryland Land Office, Negroes, paper currency in Virginia and Maryland, pistole fee, plantations in Virginia and Maryland, salt, the Seven Years' War, tobacco, and the Virginia and Maryland boundary.
Correspondents (pp. 1-157 of the letterbook) include Thomas Bacon, Elizabeth (Brockenbrough) Beckwith, Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, William Beverley (of Blandfield, Essex County, Virginia), Sir Thomas Bladen, John Beale Bordley, Matthias Bordley, Stephen Bordley (concerning Horatio Sharpe), [first name unknown] Bowes, John Brice ([d. 1766] concerning Richard Lee and Horatio Sharpe), John Brice ([1738-1820] concerning Edward Braddock's campaign in 1755), Doctor [first name unknown] Brown, John Bullen, [first name unknown] Butler, William Byrd III (of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia), [first name unknown] Calvert (concerning horse racing in Virginia), Benedict Calvert (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore and Horatio Sharpe), Cecilius Calvert, Charles Carter (of Cleve, King George County, Virginia, concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Halifax, the Duke of Newcastle, and John Randolph), Landon Carter (of Sabine Hall, Richmond County, Virginia), [first name unknown] Carteret, Samuel Chamberlaine, Doctor Daniel Cheston (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore and the Earl of Halifax), Francina Augustina (Frisby) Stephenson Cheston, Gawin Corbin, Richard Corbin (of Laneville, King and Queen County, Virginia, concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, William Byrd III, John Randolph, Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and the Ohio Company), [first name unknown] Cruiksshanks, Robert Dinwiddie (concerning James Abercrombie, John Randolph, Peter Randolph, and Peyton Randolph), Michael Edwards, Benjamin Fendall (concerning Horatio Sharpe), Samuel Galloway, Charles Goldsborough, [first name unknown] Gordon, Anne [Guith?], Philip Hammond, Mathias Harris, [first name unknown] Hepburne, Matthew Hutton (as Archbishop of York), [first name unknown] Hyland, Michael Inman, Robert Janssen, Stephen Theodore Janssen, Doctor [first name unknown] Jeffery, Edmund Jenings Jr., Edmund Jenings (1731-1819), [first name unknown] Key, Mrs. [first name unknown] Lambert, Philip Ludwell Lee, Richard Lee (concerning Horatio Sharpe), John Leids, [first name unknown] Lidderdale, Edward Lloyd, Philip Ludwell III (of Green Springs, James City County, Virginia, concerning John Randolph), [John Miller], George Plater (concerning Horatio Sharpe), [first name unknown] Porteus, Beilby Porteus, Elizabeth (Jenings) Porteus, Nancy Porteus, Ariana (Jenings) Randolph, John Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Robert Dinwiddie, the Earl of Halifax, Peter Randolph, and Peyton Randolph), Peter Randolph (concerning John Randolph), Peyton Randolph (concerning John Randolph and Horatio Sharpe), Onoria Razalini (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Halifax, and the Duke of Newcastle), Mrs. [first name unknown] Rogers, Doctor David Ross (concerning Horatio Sharpe and a prescription), John Ross, Horatio Sharpe, William Sharpe (concerning John Blair, John Randolph, and Horatio Sharpe), William Smythies, [first name unknown] Snowden, [first name unknown] Stewart, Doctor George Steuart, Robert Stevenson, Benjamin Tasker, John Tayloe, Edward Thompson (concerning John Randolph), Presley Thornton, unidentified addressees (concerning William Byrd III, Edmund Jenings [1731-1819], John Randolph, Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, Horatio Sharpe, and Ralph Wormeley), [James] Wardrof, John Williams, [first name unknown] Williamson, John Wollaston, Mrs. John Wollaston, Ralph Wormeley, Chessley & Co. of Bristol, England, Hill & Co. of [location unknown], and Sedgeley & Co. of Bristol, England.
Letters (pp. 161-368 of the letterbook) of Edmund Jenings ([1731-1819] of London, England) also concern the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Brafferton, Yorkshire, England, copper mines, the East India Company, slavery, pamphlets of Edmund Jenings (1731-1819) and Doctor John Mitchell, paper currency, a portrait of William Pitt, the Seven Years' War, the Stamp Act of 1765, taxation, tobacco, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Correspondents include Sir Marmaduke Beckwith (of Richmond County, Virginia), Robert Beverley (of Blandfield, Essex County, Virginia, concerning William Pitt), John Beale Bordley (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, Robert Eden, the Earl of Hillsborough, Edmund Jenings Jr., Philip Ludwell Lee, William Pitt, Horatio Sharpe, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts of London, England), Sarah (Frisby) Brice, John Brice ([d. 1766] concerning Edmund Jenings [1703-1756] and Horatio Sharpe), John Brice (1738-1820), William Byrd III (of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia), Charles Carroll (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Hillsborough, Philip Ludwell III, and William Pitt), Francina Augustina (Frisby) Stephenson Cheston, Gawin Corbin (concerning Doctor Arthur Lee and William Pitt), Richard Corbin (of Laneville, King and Queen County, Virginia, concerning Robert Beverley, William Byrd III, the Earl of Halifax, Benjamin Harrison, the Earl of Hillsborough, Edmund Jenings [1703-1756], William Lee, Philip Ludwell III, William Pitt, John Randolph, Horatio Sharpe, John Tayloe, George Washington, and Ralph Wormeley), John Dickinson, George Lee Mason Fitzhugh, Benjamin Harrison (of Lower Brandon, Prince George County, Virginia), Edmund Jenings Jr., [first name unknown] Jordan (concerning Robert Eden and William Pitt), Doctor Arthur Lee (of London, England, and Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning the Earl of Hillsborough, Philip Ludwell III, and William Pitt), Richard Henry Lee (of Chantilly, Westmoreland County, Virginia, concerning Doctor Arthur Lee and Benjamin West and a portrait of the Earl of Camden), Richard Ludwell Lee (i.e., Philip Ludwell Lee or Richard Henry Lee concerning Robert Boyle, John Randolph, and John Tayloe), Thompson Moses, George Plater (concerning William Pitt), Beilby Porteus, Robert Porteus, Ariana (Jenings) Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Robert Dinwiddie, Philip Ludwell III, John Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and John Tayloe), John Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Edmund Jenings [1703-1756], Doctor Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, William Pitt, Edmund Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and John Tayloe), [first name unknown] Reynard, Gregory Rhodes, Christopher Robinson, Doctor David Ross, Danson Roundall, William Smythies, William Stevenson (concerning Horatio Sharpe), John Tayloe (of Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, concerning Doctor Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, John Randolph, William Sharpe, and Presley Thornton), Edward Thompson (concerning the Earl of Halifax), Presley Thornton, unidentified addressees (concerning William Pitt and the Quartering Act of 1766), Edm. Wilcox, and Ralph Wormeley (of Rosegill, Middlesex County, Virginia, concerning the Earl of Hillsborough).
Section 2, Jenings, Edmund (1731-1819), Correspondence, 1789-1819
This section consists of eight items, letters, 1789-1818, written to Edmund Jenings of London, England. Letters concern land in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Correspondents include John Brice (of Baltimore, Maryland), W. Cooke (bears endorsement of James Brooks), Thomas Land Emory (of Baltimore, Maryland), Eliphalet Pearson (of Cambridge, Massachusetts, concerning the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts), David Ross (of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania), and Ralph Randolph Wormeley (of Blackheath, England, and Winchester, Virginia, bears letters [copies] of Thomas Lane Emory and Doctor Gerard Hopkins Snowden and seal of Wormeley).
Section 3, Jenings, Edmund (1731-1819), Land Papers, 1783-1795
This section consists of two items, a letter, 1783, written by Lloyd Kenyon (of London, England, and bears seal) to John Randolph Grymes (of London, England) concerning American property rights in England; and an act (copy made by John Gwinn), 1795, of the Maryland General Assembly concerning land of Edmund Jenings in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (by authority of William Harwood, John Hoskins Stone, and Henry Warfield).
Section 4, Various Persons, Legal Papers, 1737-1790
This section consists of five items, legal papers, 1737-1790, of various persons. Items include a will (copy made by Benjamin Waller), 1737, of John Clayton (1665-1737) probated in the James City County, Virginia (witnessed by Solomon Heathcote, Benjamin Needler, and William Robertson and recorded by Matthew Kemp); a will (copy made by Christopher Pryor), 1774, of John Clayton (1694-1773) probated in Gloucester County, Virginia (witnessed by John James Beckley, Augustine Curtis, and Michael Driskill; recorded by Thomas Nelson; and bears affidavit of Machen Boswell); and affidavits, 1790, of John Bacon (of New Kent County, Virginia, concerning John Clayton [1694-1773] and William Clayton), Charles Hay (bears seal), and Beverley Randolph (concerning John Bacon, Machen Boswell, Charles Hay, and Benjamin Waller and bears seal of Virginia).
Section 5, Various Persons, Letters, 1837 and Undated
This section consists of two items, a letter, undated, of Margy [last name unknown] written to Charlie [last name unknown] concerning the Jennings family coat of arms and Jennings Hall, Yorkshire, England; and a letter, 1837, of E. J. Jenings (of London, England) written to John Richard Walbran (of Ripon, Yorkshire, England, concerning the Jenings family).
Section 6, Jenings Family, Miscellany, 1821 and Undated
This section consists of three items, a biographical sketch, 1821, of Edmund Jenings (1731-1819); notes on the Jennings family; and tombstone inscriptions at Kensington Church, London, England (concerning John Randolph Grymes, Susanna Beverley (Randolph) Grymes, Edmund Jenings [1731-1819], Mrs. Elizabeth Jenings, and Ariana (Jenings) Randolph).
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Fauntleroy, Moore. 12 Nov., 1754-6 - 6 March, 1758. Eldest son Moore, son John and the
child my wife is now with; friends and relatives: Col. Landon Carter, Col. John Tayloe,
William Brockenbrough and Charles Beale executors.
Lyne, Thomas. 13 March, 1762. Sons Robert and Thomas and James; daughters Mary and Bathea,
Ann and Elizabeth.
Barnes, Richard. 10 July, 1757 - 2 March, 1761. Brother Major Abraham Barnes and his two
sons John Barnes and Richard Barnes; wife Penelope, son Thomas, daughter Mary Kelsick, daughter
Rebecca Beckwith, daughter Elinor Barnes, daughter Sarah, daughter Elizabeth, Jonathan Beckwith
and his wife, Rebecca Barnes, my daughter. Since the making of my will, my daughter Elinor is
married to John Morton Jordan; at the making this codicil my daughter is dead.
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Index of /pub/usgenweb/va/richmond
Publications for Richmond County, VA; wills, deeds, cemeteries, etc...
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April 28, 1779 - Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, Baronet, of the parish of
Lunenburg, and county of Rappahannock...
~"The Colonial Virginian"
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Friday, April 25, 2003
~British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses
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Castles with Ghosts
"Featherstone Castle, Northumberland
The castle is associated with a ghostly bridal party. Baron Featherstonehaugh had arranged for his daughter to marry a relative of his choice, even though the daughter was in love with someone else. The wedding party left for the "traditional hunt" after the wedding, leaving the baron behind to make arrangements for the banquet. When the party failed to return by midnight, the baron began to fear the worst. Sitting alone at the table, he heard horses crossing the drawbridge. The door opened and the party entered. But, they made no sound and passed through furniture.
The wedding party had been ambushed and killed. On the anniversary of the wedding, the party can still be seen heading towards the castle. "
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Hever Castle, Kent
The ghostly figure of Anne Boleyn has been seen gliding over the bridge.
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Rochester Castle, Kent
The ghost of Lady Blanche de Warenne has been seen walking the castle battlements.
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St. Mary's Families/Manor map
Page 19 Ripon MI Book
Nuncius é cœlo, tandem componcre lites,
Fati, descendens, ultima jussa refert.
Tum moriens animam cœlo, corpusque sepulchro,
Nobis ingenii clara troph?a dedit.
[TRANSLATION.]
Heaven, earth and men, for one thing do contend,
Each one doth Fowler challenge as his own;
God's messenger from heaven, the strife to end,
Descends; and thus his will performs, and's gone!
His soul to heaven; his body to the grave;
To us the trophies of his wit he gave.
No. 104. Near this place are deposited the remains of Robert Porteus, Esq., a native of Virginia and a member of His Majesty's Council or Upper House of Legislature in that Province, from thence he moved to England, and resided first at York, afterwards in this Town, where he died August 8, 1758, aged 79 years.
No. 105.-To the memory of Edmund Jennings, formerly of this place, and of the Middle Temple London, Esquire, who was born at Anapolis, in the then British Province of Maryland, in the month of August, 1731, and died at Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, on the 29th of July, 1819, aged nearly 88 years. His widow and only surviving child grateful for his conjugal and parental tenderness erect this marble.
No. 106. Here lieth the body of Sir Roger Beckwith, Bart., late of Aldborough, who dyed at Ripon, 6th of December, 1700.
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Council, John D. Born Feb. 7. 1866 Died Sept. 26, 1910 Council
"A light from our household is gone. A voice we loved is silent. A
place is vacant in our hearts. Which never can be filled."
Council, T. J. Born Nov. 24, 1852 Died Feb. 24, 1937 "At Rest"
Council, Alice Born March 12, 1869 Died Oct. 4, 1919
Wife of T.J. Council "Gone but not forgotten"
Children of T.J. & Alice Council
Council, Humey Born May 1889 Died July 1895
Council, Charley Born June 1899 Died Oct. 1905
Council, J. B. Died Feb 25, 1910?? Lived 55 years "A Faithful Brother"
Council, Eugenia Died Jan. 6, 1906 Lived 66 years Wife of James Council
"She Was A Faithful Mother"
Horton, Mequary Born Feb. 1, 1857 Died August 17, 1922 "At Rest"
Wife of J.T. Horton
Goodwin, Wiley Born Nov. 18, 1837 Died Mar. 11, 1921
"A Confederate Soldier and a Mason"
Goodwin, Isley Born Oct. 8, 1839 Died Jan. 19, 1918 Wife of Wiley
Goodwin
Beckwith, Ava A. Born July 30, 1873 Died Mar. 31, 1943 J.A. Adcock
Beckwith, W. D. Born Oct. 8, 1868 Died July 19, 1936
"His memory is blessed"
Beckwith, Burlena Sears Born Dec. 2, 1874 Died May 6, 1940 "A Peaceful
Sole"
Beckwith, Silas Born Feb. 19, 1815 Died Aug. 16, 1882
"A Good Husband And A Kind Father"
Beckwith, Matildia Born April 20th 1820 Died June 11th 1875
"A Devoted Wife A Kind Mother" Wife of Silas Beckwith
Beckwith, Lorna J. June 20, 1848?? Daughter of S & M Beckwith
Beckwith, S. M. Born Nov 1, 1841 Died Aug. 21, 1907
Beckwith, Mary Born Feb.28, 1841 Died Feb. 11, 1927
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Jackson, (W)VA 1850 Federal Census
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James Beckwourth's manumission
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Chronicles of Virginia
Alexander Walker and Penelope, his wife, vs. Jennings Beckwith--O. S.
16; N. S. 6--Bill filed 9th June, 1799. In 1764 Sir Marmaduke Beckwith,
of Richmond County, grandfather of Penelope, gave her by deed in 1764,
which was proved in Richmond County, and her sister, Elizabeth Beckwith,
two negroes. During minority of Penelope and Elizabeth, their father, Sir
Jonathan Beckwith, took the negroes as guardian. Elizabeth married
Thomas Jones and died in 1777. Jennings Beckwith was brother of Penelope.
Sir Jonathan died in December, 1796. Alexander and Penelope were
married in 1797.
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~A LINE
From Land Records of Allegany County, Maryland, Book D., page 437, 25 October 1805: "Samuel Osman of Allegany County, having lost his original deed to a tract of land in Allegany County known as "Linns Purchase," asks a commission consisting of Orvil McCracken, William Sherecliff, James Tidball, Jennings Beckwith, and John Devilbliss of Allegany County to cause a resurvey on said land with sworn wittness to testify as to boundary lines. The witnesses were: John Weatherington of Hampshire County, Va. (W. Va.), who swore that as a hired man to William Lynn, former owner of "Linn's Purchase," he could point out a boundary. Ignatius Bevins of Allegany County, Maryland, swore that about 18 years ago he was at the house of Charles Hettrick with Thomas Darnel and at that time was shown a boundary. Thomas Flora of Hampshire County, Va. (W.Va.), aged about 69 years, swore that about 34 years ago one See (Lee?) employed him and one John McDonald to carry the chain for a survey and that he could point out a boundary. Advertisements were placed on the door of the Allegany Court House and at Joseph Clarkes, Basil Bevins and Samuel Osmans announcing the meeting for marking the boundary of "Linn's Purchase."
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GO BRITANNIA! Travel Guide: England's Top Attractions - Fountains Abbey and Studley Water Garden, Yorkshire
Four miles west of Ripon, Yorkshire off B6265 to Pateley Bridge, signposted from the A1.
Tel. (0) 1765 608 888
Spectacular ruin of 12th century Cistercian Abbey in beautiful rural setting. The Water Garden has ornamental lakes, cascades, temples and walks. St. Mary's Church by the cascade is a must see. AV program and exhibition centre. National Trust. A World Heritage Site. For full details and opening hours see the Web site and the National Trust Web site.
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~Tayloe Family Genealogy
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Welcome to Eastern Plumas Chamber of Commerce/Beckwourth Pass, Beckwourth Cabin
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Beckwourth Trail and Beckwourth Pass
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~AMM Discussion List Archive: Re: MtMan-List: Re: AMM-List: Jim Beckwourth
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Stories of Exploration - Stories to be Told - African American History in Your National Parks - National Park Service
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Utah History To Go - James Beckwourth
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The Lincoln Family
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~Robert Lincoln
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~Robert E. Lee letter to John Watrus Beckwith
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Summary description of James P. Beckwith Papers, Mss. Dept., UNC-Chapel Hill
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Summary description of Beckwith Family Papers
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Ruffin Beckwith
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Bells Baptist Church Cemetery, Chatham County, NC
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~Virginia Taxlist Index, Richmond County 1800
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The Menokin Foundation
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~Genealogy Data Page Extended 67 (Pedigree Pages) Isaac Edmund Jennings Beckwith
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Bleak Hall, Westmoreland County, Va. - gen
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Bleak Hall (now Harbor View Colony)
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More Bleak Hall genealogy
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The Wm. E. Beckwith House
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Encyclopedia Titanica: First Class Passenger: Richard Leonard Beckwith
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The sinking of the Titanic, ch. 15: Boy's desperate fight for life (1912) by Jay Henry Mowbray
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~Beckwith etc. of Richmond County
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Ancestors of Damon Milton Floyd - Person Page 166
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~Ruth Beckwith and Doris Barb circa 1918
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Beckwith Family History Report (1848-Present)
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Beckwith, Sir Marmaduke Richmond County, Virginia Richmond County Will Book No. 8 1787-94 p 71-74
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Block 2
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Utah History To Go - James Beckwourth
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The Jeronimo Bassano and Nicholas Lanier Families
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Anthony van Dyck. Nicholas Lanier. - Olga's Gallery
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ECU Archives Photographs - Kate Beckwith
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Gardens in Beckwithshaw
Royal Horticultural Society - Gardens
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But who is Freeman Beckwith?
Or more correctly, what is Freeman Beckwith?
Freeman Beckwith is what more and more people refer to these days as a blogger. But he himself admits that it may not be ever so, and, in fact, it is of relatively recent inheritance, so little so as to make the label feel rather like an unhaberdashered suit of clothing. Not exactly skin.
But he does love to write, and he is cross with the poor quality of coverage being doled out like so many Eminems. Deep down, however, he feels more like Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, or Baruch the angel that gave Adam the Apple, who spoke to Heracles, Moses and Jesus, and comes back periodically to make sure there are still those whose receptors are appropriately attuned -- as it is they, and certainly not the whores who now gladly part the wallet for hush tickets and fame...and look only to each other for inspiration, information and a pat on the back.
Well, I shant be doing that. Wisdom is from whence I hope to gather my pearls, and thus to diseminate to you, my fair and only reader. And mixed with this stew, I hope to bid adieu to the vinegars and astringents, and focus the eye upon more beautiful vistas, sweeter to the taste, yet cradling golden nuggets from the Ancients.
Well...sometimes. Other times I may just bitch.
If I am lucky, they will generally contain a title, and be roughly the length of a standard column, so as not to bore too long.
Topics, I should think, will include Politics, Religion, Humor, Language, Culture, Southern Life, Music, and other entirely related subjects.
Where's that Publish Button?
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