Sarah Bowater Beals

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Learn about removing the ads from this memorial... Birth: May 29, 1713 Chester Delaware County Pennsylvania, USA Death: Sep. 9, 1800 Guilford County North Carolina, USA

Sarah was the daughter of John H. Beals II and Sarah Bowater of PA. She married John Mills, Jr. on July 14, 1732 in Chester, Chester, PA. They had 18 children, Thomas, Sarah, Phebe, Hannah, John, William, Rebeckah, Elizabeth, Anne, Keziah, Benjamin, George,

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Burial: Deep River Friends Church Cemetery High Point Guilford County North Carolina, USA

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Maintained by: William S. McDowell Originally Created by: Roberta Record added: Jun 21, 2004 Find A Grave Memorial# 8964141

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John Beals was the son of John & Mary Clayton Beals of Chester County, Pennsylvania. We are indebted to Bill Putman who has researched this family extensively and provided us with a large packet of material.

Sarah Bowater was of English descent. She was a probable niece of John & Frances Corbet Bowater and was daughter of Thomas & Sarah Edge Bowater. Family records showing her as granddaughter of John & Frances Corbet cannot possibly be right as the dates do not fit! Sarah's birthdate is contemporaneous with those of the children of John and Frances Corbet Bowater. John & Thomas were both involved in land purchases in Chester County, Pennsylvania, beginning as early as 1685. John had arrived in America in 1677 and held a number of religious visits to Friends Meetings on the eastern shore of Virginia in 1677 and 1678. He was imprisoned in London from 1681 to 1683 for his religious beliefs. John presented a certificate at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting on November 4, 1684. Thomas had immigrated to America the year before. He is shown as father on Sarah's marriage certificate. John Beals born 1/20/1686 Chester Co, Pa died about 1745 Virginia Sarah Bowater born 8/17/1688, Chester Co, Pa died 1777 York County, Pa

 	Married: 8/14/1711 Chester MM, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Children: Sarah Beals born 5/29/1713 Chester Co, Pa; married John Mills, Jr. Mary Ann Beals born about 1715; married (1) Thomas Hunt, (2) William Baldwin John Beals born 2/17/1717 Chester Co, Pa; married Margaret Esther Hunt, sister of Thomas Hunt (More below) Thomas Beals born 3/14/1719 Chester Co, Pa; married Sarah Ankram Phebe Beals born 1720 Chester Co, Pa; married (1) Charles Canaday (2) Robert Sumner Prudence Beals born about 1723; married Richard Williams at Fairfax MM in Virginia (more at bottom of the page) Bowater Beals born about 1725; married Sarah Cook at Warrington MM in York Co, Pennsylvania (More below) Hannah Beals born 1/31/1729; married Azariah Pugh in Virginia Rachel Beals born 1730.

History of Beals and Bowaters in Pennsylvania John Beals Sr and Jr The will of John Beals [Sr.father of this John], written the 11th day 8th month 1726 in Nottingham, proven Dec 17, 1726, verifies the names of John Beals, Jr.'s first five children. Abstract: To eldest son John, bed and furniture and 5 pounds, he paying to his five children; viz Sarah, John, Thomas, [Mary] Ann and Phebe, 10 shillings when of age. To daughter Mary Harrold 8 [pounds], she paying to each of her children, viz Elizabeth, Rachel, Jonathan and Richard 10 shillings each when of age. To son Jacob, 12 pounds, he paying to each of his 4 children, viz John, Jacob, Mary and William 10 shillings when of age. To daughter Patience Jones the 8-15 pounds that is due of bond of her husband and five pounds more paying to their 4 children, viz Judith, Mary, Sarah and Charity 10 shillings each, when of age. To James Wright 40 shillings. To kinswoman Mary Davis of Philadelphia 20 shillings. Executors: sons John and Jacob. Witnesses: James McMullin, Wm. House.

John Beal is listed as one of the 24 original landholders in Concord in 1681 (see Land). A deed in Aston Township 5 Dec 1688 between a Richards father and son mentions a tract in Aston bounded by land of ...John Beales... . This is shown on "Holme's Map of the Province of Pennsylvania, with Names of Original Purchasers from William Penn, 1681." along Chester Creek in "Ashton Township." We don't find a Beal listing in Concord on that map. John Beale [Sr.] witnessed a land deed on 10 March 1691 in Chichester in Chester County. In 1695 John Beales witnessed another deed for land bounded by Chester Creek. In 1709 John Beals witnessed another deed in Chichester bounded by Broad Street and the Great Road. We do not know if the Chichester John Beals is the same as the one owning land along Chester Creek but the distances between the townships was not great and he might have witnessed for friends who lived nearby. We did not find a deed for the Beals themselves, but then we do not find the Woodwards early deeds in the land records, only in the court records. Chichester and Chester Townships were located right along the coast in present day Delaware County (See Chester County Map Page) as was Ashton Township in 1681. An Abraham Beals witnessed a deed in 1696 for land along Chester Creek. He was probably a brother of John, Sr.. A deed in 1708 refers to land of Abraham Beales that he had purchased of John Simcock. This land was in Edgmont. John and Thomas Bowater The Bowaters also lived in Edgmont. John Bowater purchased 50 acres in Edgmont 24 November 1685 and resold it on 9 August 1704 to Joseph Baker, husband of Martha Woodward. A tract of 250 acres was sold for 20 pounds to John Bowater of Chester, farmer, on 24 September 1697. On 14 December 1697 John Bowater sold 100 acres for 10 pounds in Middletown, bounded by Ridley Creek, that he had previously purchased. On 10 March 1700 a 150 acre tract was sold for 25 pounds to John Bowater of Middletown, yeoman. Thomas Bowater was also involved in land transactions: he purchased 100 acres in Edgmont on Ridley Creek on 2 March 1695, but released his interest on 15 September 1697. In 1711 a lease in Goshen describes the tract lying by land of Thomas Bowater and others.

On 4 March 1705 John Bowater is deceased and his widow Frances Bowater of Westtown granted his 400 acre plantation in Westtown for 350 pounds to George Smedley. Analysis of acreage and names of neighbors shows that the 400 acre plantation was probably composed of the 150 acre and 250 acre tracts above. Probably the names of the areas were changing, not the location. On 21 December 1708 widow Frances Bowater bought a 115 acre tract called "Podington" located on the west side of the Delaware River and bounded partially by Chichester Creek. She sold Podington 22 August 1713.

Frances wrote her will 29 January 1720 and names daughters but does not name Sarah - hence we know those family records showing Sarah as daughter of Frances and John are not correct!

Abstract of Will of Frances Bowater (Book A, page 110, Chester County, Pa): "Frances Bowater of Concord, widow. January 29, 1720/1. 12/28/1720/1. To daughter Mary Ails �10. To daughter Eliza Pusey �5. To daughter Ann Chandler �16. To daughter Eales [Alice] Mendenhall remainder of household goods. To daughter Phebe Scarlet �25. To grandson Saml Pyle �4 at 21, to be paid his mother Ealse Mendenhall. Executors: sons in law, Wm. Pusey, Moses Mendenhall. Witnesses: Wm. Brinton, Nathan Newlin, Jean Brinton."

John & Sarah Bowater Beals named their first two sons John & Thomas, John for John Beals, Sr. and Thomas for Thomas Bowater.

After John, Jr., died in 1745, Sarah Bowater Beals transferred back to Pennsylvania on a certificate on 4/25/1748 to Warrington Monthly Meeting in York County where she married Alexander Underwood. She was accompanied by son, Bowater Beals, who married Sarah Cook, granddaughter of Alexander Underwood. More Beals History In 1871 Gersham Perdue wrote a letter to a William Foster outlining the history of the Beals family. (The letter was published in an article "Early Settlement of Friends in N. C.: Traditions and Reminiscences II," The Southern Friend) Perdue writes: "From that worthy man, John Beals, descended a very large number say some thousands of the members of our widely extended Yearly Meeting of Friends in Indiana, Western ?, and Iowa (added by editor - and now 1894, Kansas and Oregon and Wilmington, Ohio) and some yet remain in North Carolina and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. On many of these descendants precious gifts in the ministry have been conferred...From Chester County, as it then was, John Beals, with his family moved to Monocacy, Carroll's Manor, Maryland. At what time, or how long they stayed at that place I have no account, but while here, son Thomas married, and from Monocacy they moved to Opequan, near Hopewell, near Winchester, Va. I find it told that John Beals died in the year 1745, three years before the family moved to North Carolina, but did not say where he died, I presume it was in Virginia." There are a couple of sources for Monocacy: Pioneers of Old Monocacy, the Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland 1721-1743 by Tracey & Dern, 1987. (A portion of this book is online at Pioneer Quakers of Monocacy.) The Beals genealogy is a little off in this book but it is interesting history. The Monocacy book also refers to Poverty in a Land of Plenty, Tenancy in Eighteenth Century Maryland by Stiverson, 1977. Carroll's Manor is not listed in that book but again it is good history.

In preparing the page for son Thomas Beals, we found several errors in dates in Perdue's letter. Above he implies that the family moved about 1748. In the minutes of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting set up in 1751 only Robert and Phebe Beals Sumner are mentioned as charter members but others are mentioned in the first 18 months after setup. Mentioned are Bowater Beals, Sarah Beals, Thomas Beals, John Mills (husband of Sarah, Jr.), Thomas Hunt (husband of Mary). Some of these witnessed a marriage 4/22/1752 so were there by that date.

John Beals, Jr., followed by certificate to New Garden Monthly Meeting on 5/27/1758. More on the Children of John and Sarah Bowater Beals John (III) and Margaret Hunt Beals We have a lot of information on this family but will only include an outline here. John Beals married Margaret Hunt, daughter of William and Mary Woolman Hunt, on 13 May 1738 at Hopewell Monthly Meeting. They had children: John Beals IV (b abt 1738 Va m (1)Sarah Dicks and (2)Susanna Johnson); Rachel Beals (m James Dicks); Ruth Beals (m. John Hoggatt); Lydia Beals (b abt 1739 m Christopher Hiatt); Hannah Beals (b abt 1745 m. (1) William Hoggatt and (2) Joseph Cloud); William Beals (b Aug 1743 m. (1)Rachel Green and (2) Rachel Johnson).

James and Rachel Beals Dicks had daughter Elizabeth Dicks who married Thomas Beard. Bowater and Sarah Cook Beals Bowater Beals married Sarah Ann Cook, daughter of Thomas and Mary Underwood Cook 10 Feb 1752 at Warrington MM, York County, Pa. Bowater Beals was received on certificate from Fairfax MM, Montgomery Co, Pa as noted at Cane Creek MM in North Carolina. Bowater Beals was recommended a minister at New Garden MM in North Carolina 1/30/1779. Their children are listed at New Garden MM (all as Beales): Ann (b 9/3/1755 NC m. Jacob Jackson);Ruth (b 17 Jun 1757 m Curtis Jackson); Phebe (b 23 Mar 1759 m John Jackson)(the three Jacksons were brothers, sons of Samuel); Thomas (b 12 Jun 1762); John (b 26 May 1764 m. Lois Branson); Jacob (b 27 Nov 1766); Nathan (b 25 Jan 1769 m. Esther Fisher); Mary (b 17 Jan 1771); Sarah (b 17 Aug 1776); Charity (b. abt 1778 m Benjamin Hoggatt).

There is a Branson/Cook Website with information on Lois Branson who married John Beals, son of Bowater.

Lydia Jackson, daughter of Jacob and Ann Beals Jackson m Joseph Thornbrough 6 Feb 1812 at Fairfield MM in Highland County, Ohio. Joseph was son of Joseph and Rachel Brown Thornbrough and granddaughter of Joseph and Ann Armfield Thornbrough. Richard and Prudence Beals Williams The location of the home of Richard and Prudence Beals Williams in North Carolina is shown on a map of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Richard Williams died there in 1781 from smallpox incurred from wounded British officers quartered in his home after the battle. Marvin Miller has submitted information on the Richard and Prudence Beals Williams family to the Rootsweb World Connect Project.

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John Mills came as a young man to America from England. He was married twice, once to Rebecca and second to Rebeckah. The surnames of the two Rebecca's are not known. An excellent and well researched Quaker Mills Family Web Site previously told of the early life of John Mills and included a link to John Mills' will but the site is no longer available. We did locate archived information used in this site and have included it in a paragraph at the bottom of this page.

John Mills born about 1688 England died 11/24/1760 Rowan Co, NC Rebecca Unknown born Unknown died After 1730

 	Married: Probably about 1708 in Pennsylvania

Children: Thomas Mills born about 1709 Pennyslvania; married Elizabeth Harrold. John Mills, Jr. born 10/27/1712 Pennsylvania; married Sarah Beals (more below) Hur Mills born about 1716 Pennsylvania; married Rachel Harrold Henry Mills born 9/23/1720 Pennsylvania; married Hannah Thornbrough (more below) Mary Mills born 1/17/1724 Pennsylvania; married William Beeson

John Mills married second Rebeckah Unknown, probably about 1740 at Hopewell, Frederick County, Virginia

Children: William Mills born 8/27/1742, Hopewell, Frederick Co, Va Rebeckah Mills born 12/15/1744, Hopewell, Frederick Co, Va; married Henry Humphries George Mills (twin) born 10/8/1747 Hopewell, Frederick Co, Va; married Anny Benjamin Mills (twin) born 10/8/1747 Hopewell, Frederick Co, Va Alice Mills born 6/22/1750 Hopewell, Frederick Co, Va Tabitha Mills born 4/8/1753 Rowan County, North Carolina Jonathan Mills born 5/14/1757 Rowan County, North Carolina

The Move to North Carolina John Mills was received at Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in North Carolina on 8/1/1752 on a certificate from Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Opeckan, Virginia dated 6/1/1752. Cane Creek Meeting at that time embraced a large area but John probably settled in Rowan County as he was a charter member of New Garden Monthly Meeting, Rowan County, when it was established in 1754. Sons Thomas, John, Hur & Henry followed on 9/1/1753 by certificate from Hopewell dated 5/7/1753.

John Mills and son John, Jr., are called "Fathers of the Colony" by Hinshaw in writing of Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia. Unfortunately the early Hopewell records have been lost and we only know of the Mills family move to North Carolina from the minutes of the receiving meeting. Fortunately, as was often the case, children were recorded at New Garden Monthly Meeting even though born in Virginia and it is here that we learn that Rebeckah was second wife of John and find birth dates for the second set of children. It is also born out by John's will, abstracted below. Abstract of John Mills Sr’s Will Rowan County (A:122) John (X) Mills. Sept. 28, 1759. prb. July 1761. Wife Rebecah. 4 sons are each to have 1 shilling and what they have already received. Sons of a former wife, they are: Thomas, John, Hur, Henry. Dau., Mary Beeson, by former wife. Exr: wife, Rebeckah. Wit: William Buis, William Baldwin, John Baker. More on the Children of John Mills Sr John and Sarah Beals Mills, Jr Son John Mills, Jr married Sarah Bowater Beals, daughter of John and Sarah Bowater Beals, about 1733. John was reported 7/14/1734 at Providence Monthly Meeting as married out of unity by a priest.

John Mills, Jr. died 4/18/1794 and Sarah died 9/9/1800 in Guilford Co, NC, and both are buried at Deep River Monthly Meeting. John had apparently made his peace with the Quakers as he was received on certificate at Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in NC along with his brothers on 5/7/1753. John Mills, Jr. and his Beals in-laws signed a petition in 1788 as residents of the County of Guilford, petitioning the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina that their part of Guilford County be added to Randolph County, so they apparently lived very near the County line. Abraham Woodward also signed this petition so they were no doubt neighbors.

John and Sarah Beals Mills had children: Sarah Mills (b abt 1734 Va m William Hunt); John Mills III (b abt 1740 Va m. Sarah Millikan); Phebe Mills (b Va m. Abraham Cook); Ann Elizabeth Mills (b abt 1745 Va m Edward Bond); Hannah Mills (m Elijah Stanley); Mary Mills (b. Va m Thomas Cook br of Abraham); Joseph Mills (b 1/1/1753 Va; m Hannah Maris); Keziah Mills (m. Joseph Hiatt); Rachel Mills (m John Wheeler, Jr.). Henry and Hannah Thornbrough Mills Son Henry Mills married Hannah Thornbrough, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Thornbrough about 1742 at Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Frederick County, Virginia.

Henry and Hannah had children: Moses Mills (b 11/4/1743 Va, d 8/1759 NC) Sarah Mills (b 8/17/1745 Va, m Tarleton Johnson 3/7/1765 at Deep River MM) Margaret Mills (b 10/17/1747 Va, d 10/1759 NC) Aaron Mills (b 12/22/1749, Va, m Charity Mendenhall) Hannah Mills (b 8/25/1752 Va, m Manlove Wheeler Hur Mills (b 2/24/1755 Rowan Co NC) Charity Mills (b 4/25/1758 m Samuel Hoggatt Joshua Mills (b 2/14/1761, d 8/1762 NC) Ruth Mills (b 9/8/1763 NC, m James Johnson) Rebecka Mills (b 9/1/1765 NC) Additional information and sources for John Mills and the two Rebecca/Rebeccahs In 2011 we learned that the Quaker Mills site online on geocities was no longer available but a source online of archives in Ancestry.com found the following pertinent information. It had been posted in 2001 by Cheska Wheatley who has since passed away. We will post a limited amount of this information here.

Cheska Wheatley mentions that the Quaker John Mills family is not her line but she helped a friend with research who was descended from this line so had quite a bit of information on them.

She gives information from son Thomas Mills' marriage certificate recorded at New Garden Monthly Meeting, Pa. In the right hand column customarily reserved for parents and close family members is a signature of John Mills followed by that of Rebecca Mills who is held to be his first wife. John Mills is described in 1730 as living on "Manoquisy near ye River Potomack."

The New Garden Monthly Meeting records, Guilford Co., NC contain the birth records of John's children by a woman named Rebecca who is clearly identified as his second wife. Their first child was born in 1742 some twelve years after John's eldest son by his first wife was married.

In 1742 and 1743 John Mills of Prince George, Md made several deeds of land to his sons Thomas, Henry, Hur and John J. who were then residents of Opeckan, Frederick Co, Va and no doubt members of Hopewell MM, Va. The records no doubt contain information on the death of the first wife and marriage to the second wife but the records are unavailable due to destruction in a fire.

Between 1752 and 1753 John Sr. and his four sons transferred their memberships from Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Va to Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, NC according to the men's minutes of that meeting. In 1754 New Garden MM, NC was set off from Cane Creek MM and the four Mills brothers are recorded as original members of that meeting.

In 1759, John made his will which made bequests of 1 shilling each to his children Thomas, Henry, Hur, John and Mary "by my former wife." The rest of his estate was left to his wife Rebeckah and her whildren who were unnamed in the will. John died in 1760 and this will was probated 1761 in Rowan Co.l, NC that year.

Nothing is known about the widow Rebeccah other than one written account in 1840 which states she went to Montgomery Co, NC. Her oldest son William was disowned by New Garden MM, NC in 1763 for attending his sister Rebecca's marriage to a non-Quaker. There is no mention of the remaining children in the Quaker records. Updates: 3/2011 Disconnected from the Quaker Mills site on Geocities which is no longer available and added source material from Ancestry.com archives in its place at the bottom of the page.

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At New Garden MM, Guilford Co., NC, Sarah Mills, of Deep Rier, was recommended as a minister on 28 September 1765.

Sarah was the daughter of John H. Beals II and Sarah Bowater of PA. She married John Mills, Jr. on July 14, 1732 in Chester, Chester, PA. They had 18 children, Thomas, Sarah, Phebe, Hannah, John, William, Rebeckah, Elizabeth, Anne, Keziah, Benjamin, George.

Sarah was the daughter of John H. Beals II and Sarah Bowater of PA. She married John Mills, Jr. on July 14, 1732 in Chester, Chester, PA. They had 18 children, Thomas, Sarah, Phebe, Hannah, John, William, Rebeckah, Elizabeth, Anne, Keziah, Benjamin, George.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Nov 30 2021, 21:31:26 UTC