Frances Hite

Frances Maddison

• Gender: Female
• Born: 8 Mar 1726 Place: Montpelier, Orange County, Virginia
• Died: seen as 9 Aug 1776 but actually after 1786 Place: Greenville, South Carolina
• Buried: Place:
• Father: Ambrose Maddison (14 Mar 1700 - 27 Aug 1732) 1
• Mother: Frances Taylor (30 Aug 1700 - 25 Oct 1761) 2

Family

Spouse: Taverner Beale (1713 - 29 Oct 1756) Married: 1741 Place: St. Thomas Parish, Orange County, Virginia

Children:

• 1 Taverner Beale (3 Feb 1742 - 5 Jun 1810)
• 2 Charles Beale (Abt 1747 - Aft 1770)
• 3 Frances Madison Beale (1 Oct 1749 - Dec 1806)
• 4 Elizabeth Beale (Abt 1751 - )
• 5 Anne Beale (31 Mar 1754 - Nov 1785)

Spouse: Jacob Hite (14 Mar 1719 - 1 Jul 1776) Married: 15 Dec 1761 Place: Orange County, Virginia 3

Children:

• 1 Sarah Hite (1765 - 1776)
• 2 Eleanor Hite (1763 - Aft 1778)
• 3 George Hite (Abt 1762 - 1816)

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Frances Madison Beale Hite was born 6 Mar 1726 and died 9 Aug 1776.[1]. She is the daughter of Ambrose Madison and Frances Taylor. Frances Madison wed first Taverner Beale and second Jacob Hite[2]

Biography

THE FATE OF FRANCES MADISON.

Ambrose Madison of Orange, married Frances Taylor, daughter of Col. James Taylor and his wife Martha Thompson of Caroline, and afterwards of Orange county, Va.

The issue of this marriage, was Col. James Madison, Sr., father of the President, and Frances Madison, who married, ist, Tavener Beale, and 2nd, Jacob Hite, son of Joist Hite. Elizabeth Madison married, ist, John Willis, son of Col. Harry Willis, of Willis Hall, near Fredericksburg, and 2nd, Richard Beale, brother of Tavener Beale. Among the children of Frances Madison, was Col. Tavener Beale of the Revolution, who lived at Clifton Forge.

Before the Revolution, an Englishman named Pearis, bought ten thousand acres of land from the Cherokees, embracing the present site of Greenville, South Carolina, and this purchase was confirmed by a grant afterwards Pearis was a wealthy man; he had two beautiful daughters, and built a house on the site of Greenville, and lived there surrounded by the Indians, who were very friendly to him, and over whom he had much influence.

Jacob Hite of Virginia, who married Miss Frances Madison Beale, bought land of Pearis, and moved with his family to South Carolina in or about 1773; he too lived in the midst of the Cherokees, and assiduously cultivated their friendship. His son, John Obanion Hite, became engaged to a Miss Pearis.

When the Revolution broke out, Hite sided with the Colonies, but British agents induced the Indians to take up arms against the Colonies. Hearing of the activity of these agents, Jacob Hite sent his son John Obanion with presents to some of the Indian towns, hoping to defeat the efforts of the English, for his son who was a lawyer, and much beloved by the Indians, expected to be able to influence them favorably.

Unfortunately however, he was too late, and met a large war party in march for the white settlements, he was at once killed and his mangled body was left on the banks of the Estote river, or buried there. The Indians proceeded to Pearis' house, but were friendly to him. Miss Pearis learned the sad fate of her lover, and that they intended next to destroy the Hites, who lived a few miles distant, and she at once started on foot through the woods, and reached them in time to save them, but they lingered, and would not believe that the Indians were hostile to them. The Indians did attack the Hites, killed Jacob Hite and probably, others, but most of the sons escaped by flight. They captured Mrs. Hite and her daughters, and it is said by some, that they were killed on their way to the Indian towns. This however, is not probable, for after the war was over, in 1786, Col. Tavener Beale, who had married a daughter of Jacob Hite by his first wife, went to South Carolina and employed Pearis to visit the Indians, and ransom his mother and sister. If they had been killed by the Indians in 1776, Pearis most probably would have known about it. It seems that he was an old and trusted friend of the Cherokees, for one Pearis commanded a contingent of these Indians who were auxilliary to Virginia in the French and Indian war.

There is no note in the Beale papers in reference to the success of Pearis' mission, and information in regard to it is wished. The Hites who escaped massacre or capture, returned to Virginia.

A. G. GRINNAN.

Notes

• The Virginia Genealogist Volume 4, 1960 [John Frederick Dorman]
• 1776-1796 Berkeley County, Va Guardian Bonds
• Tavenor Beale, gdn. of George Hite and Nelly Hite, orphans of Jacob Hite. 17 Aug. 1779. For £100,000.
• Sec. William Drew, William Slaughter, William Hancher (sig. Henshaw), Philip Pendleton.

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Contributed by: James Hughes
URL: http://www.jmu.edu/madison/center/main_pages/madison_archives/life/... hy/genealogy.htm URL title: MADISONS OF COLONIAL VIRGINIA

Note: On 15 December 1760, Frances Beale, widow, deeded 1000 acres in Orange County, VA, to James Madison and Richard Beale, Gentlemen, in trust, land whereon the grantor, Frances Beale, widow, now lives and being the same which was given to her by her father, Ambrose Madison by his last Will and Testament dated 31 July 1732 and remaining of record in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The trust gives the beneficial use of the land to Frances Beale, widow, during her lifetime and on her death to Taverner Beale, eldest son and heir apparent to the said Frances Beale. [Orange County, VA, Deed Book 13, page 183]

(a) Note: Frances Beale was about to remarried to Jacob Hite and she created the trust to prevent the lands from coming under the control of Jacob Hite and to protect the inheritance of her children eldest son by her first husband

References

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Oct 28 2017, 15:45:16 UTC
• Thomas Kemp Cartmell, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia (illustrated) from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908 Joist Hite, The Pioneer Ch. XLVII, pp. 252-269. (Google eBook). Eddy Press Corporation, 1909 - Berkeley County (W. Va.) < GoogleBooks >
• The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 4 edited by Philip Alexander Bruce, William Glover Stanard. < GoogleBooks >
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I2897...