Taverner Beale, Jr.

Notes

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 4 edited by Philip Alexander Bruce, William Glover Stanard. < GoogleBooks >

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.

Origins

Named in his father’s will:

1744-1778 Orange County, Virginia Will Book 2: [John Frederick Dorman]: Pages 238-39. Will of Taverner Beale of the County of Orange, being sick and weak in body, dated 3 Nov. 1755.

… If my wife shall marry before my son Taverner arives to twenty one years then all my slaves and personal estate to be equally divided between my said wife and five children, Taverner, Charles, Frances, Elizabeth and Ann. If my wife shall not marry my slaves and personal estate be divided when Taverner shall arrive to full age.

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