Bridget Beazley

Biography

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Bridget was born about 1735.

She was the daughter of Joseph Fuqua and Anna Sampson.[1]

She passed away about 1793.[2]

Family

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BEAZLEY FAMILY OF BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA

Buckingham County is located in central Virginia and was home to John Beazley, whose ties to other Virginia families of this name are not known. The deeds and other records of this burned county are largely destroyed, though some wills, including those of John and his wife Bridget survive.

Children of John Beazley and Bridget (Fuqua), born in Virginia, order uncertain:

i. CHARLES BEAZLEY, b. say 1749; he signed a petition from Tillotson Parish on 17 October 1787, together with his brother, John, opposing an act by the House of Delegates to seize the property of the former established Anglican Church and to request that the glebe be distributed evenly to the community.567 He may have lived as late as 1814, and his land was located at Rock Island Creek.568

ii. WILLIAM BEAZLEY, b. say 1750-52. His name appears on a list of tithables with his father and brother Jonathan in 1773 and 1774, indicating that he was likely of majority age at that time.569 He was recorded on a tax list there in 1800, being taxed on one white male and two horses.570 He was alive as late as 1814 with land adjacent to William Davis on the Appomattox River in Buckingham County.571

iii. JOHN BEAZLEY, b. say 1750-55. On 17 October 1787, he signed a petition with his brother, Charles requesting that the former glebe land of the Anglican Church be distributed evenly to parishioners.572 He continued to advocate for their sale on another petition dated 15 November 1794.573 He owned land on Fishpond Creek adjoining Thomas Hall and James S. Webb.574

iv. JONATHAN BEAZLEY, b. say 1750-52. His name appears on a list of tithables with his father and his brother William in 1773 and 1774, indicating that he was of majority age at that time.575

v. WINNEY BEAZLEY, m. in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on 19 May 1783, OBADIAH HURT.576

vi. MARY BEAZLEY, b. say 1753-60; d. before October 1803; she m. say 1780 NIXON PALMER.

vii. SALLEY BEAZLEY, b. say 1764; she m. in Buckingham County on 14 October 1782, WILLIAM CASON.577

viii. NANCY BEAZLEY, m. in Prince Edward County on 4 December 1784, ZACHARIAH ARNOLD.578

ix. JAMES BEAZLEY, under 21 in 1781. He moved to Prince Edward County, Virginia, and from there initiated a chancery suit against Floyd Hurt and others.579

x. FUQUA BEAZLEY, under 21 in 1781; he married in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on 6 October 1792, RACHEL HURT.580

xi. HIRAM BEAZLEY, under 21 in 1781; he married in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on 17 December 1798, ELIZABETH FORE.581

Notes

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Powhatan County Virginia Deed: Joseph Fuqua to Joseph Fuqua Jnr and Jacob McGehee, Powhatan Co to William Fuqua, John Fuqua, sons of Joseph; Willliam & Jane Sampson, Bridget Beasley, William & Margaret Weatherford, John & Elizabeth Hill, Sara & Jacob McGehee, daughters of Joseph. "in consideration that the said Joseph Fuqua is now advanced in age and for some time past infirm so as not to be able to look after his own business," slaves to be held in trust for his children, Rec 18 Oct 1782.[3] For unknown reasons, Joseph seems to have rescinded this trust three years later. DB VI, 340, ____ 1785. Joseph (x) Fuqua Sr. to son Joseph and son-in-law Jacob McGehee, all the slaves in the preceding deed of trust. Rec. 24 Oct. 1785. One son, Stephen, was omitted from the trust, presumably because he was dead by then.

John Beazley wrote his will in Buckingham County on 18 November 1781, and a copy survives among loose papers in the Library of Virginia. He left to his wife Bridget “the plantation and manor place whereon I now live. He also left to her his slaves and stock, afterward they would be divided equally to all of his children. He left to his four sons, Charles, William, John, and Jonathan “all my lands on the Brown Mountain in Amherst County also all my lands on Rock Island Creek, also all my land on muddy Creek also all my land I hold or claim on Arthur Creek” to be sold and the monies equally divided. To his four daughters, Winney, Mary, Salley, and Nancy, he left each 150 acres “of the back land of the Tract whereon I now live.” If any of them should die without an heir of their body, the land was to return to the estate. He left to three other sons, James, Fuqua, and Hiram, “all my River Land not before bequeathed and plantations whereon I now dwell” to be equally divided at the discretion of his executors and possessed by them when they attain 21 years of age. The stock was to be sold and equally divided, except for a horse, which he gave to his son John. He appointed his wife Bridget, his sons Charles and William, and David Walker as joint executors. [4] He signed his name as “John Beazley,” suggesting that he was literate and was preserving a spelling of the name often associated with the Caroline and Orange County Beazleys. Witnesses included Benjamin Hurt, Judith Hurt, and Thomas Wood. The will was proven on 13 May 1782.

Bridget’s will was written in Buckingham County on 1 April 1792 and named her sons Fuqua and Hiram Beazley; daughter Mary Palmer and Mary’s daughter Nancy; Susanna Robertson, whose relationship was not stated; sons William, John, and James Beazley; and daughters Winny Hurt and Sally Cason. Her son William Beazley and Nixon Palmer were appointed co-executors.[5]

References

1. ↑ Source: #S1
2. ↑ Source: #S55
3. ↑ Source: #S1
4. ↑ Source: #S8
5. ↑ Source: #S55
6. Source: S1 Deed of Trust, DB VI, 132, 21 Oct 1782, Powhatan County, Virginia, USA.
7. Source: S8 Will of John Beazley, Buckingham County, Virginia.
8. Source: S55 Will of Bridget (Fuqua) Beazley, Buckingham County, Virginia
9. The Sampsons of Virginia and the Twidwell Connection by Olen and Gina Twidwell, published by the Twidwell Family Association (2013).