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From: "Tom Hill" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Thomas BEALS (pronounced and sometimes spelled "Bales")
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:05:57 -0500
In-Reply-To: <006801c753c5$fa6a4640$822cb944@joan>


Friends of a genealogical bent,

Thomas Beals is fairly well-known in southwest Ohio because of his
early travel in Ross County (along the Scioto River) and ministry to the
Indians. This is well east of the main settlements of Friends in southern
Ohio and was eventually attached to Fairfield and then Fall Creek Monthly
Meetings in Highland County. As part of our indices of all the properties
owned by the Orthodox Friends meetings (now in Wilmington Yearly Meeting),
some years ago I searched the title of the Ross County properties and
visited most of the sites mentioned by Jean Leeper. The early meeting was
known as "Salt Creek," and here is the Wilmington YM index of its
properties:

MEETINGSalt Creek Indulged
SUPERIOR MEETINGS:Fairfield M.M. until 1811/06/22
Fall Creek M.M. after 1811/06/22
Miami Q.M. until 1814/11/12
Fairfield Q.M. after 1815/02/04
Indiana Y.M.
ESTABLISHED:Voluntary beginning 1799
Indulged 1812/11/21
LAID DOWN:1818/06/20
LOCATION 1:FBG
Auditor's Parcel 18-0506042.000
East Edge of Section 33
Jefferson Twp., Sec. 33, Twp. 8N, Rge. 20W
Ross Cty., Ohio
DEEDS, etc.:* * * 3. Wilmington Y.M. Fiduciary Corporation to the
Trustees of Jefferson Township; 1999/09/27
LOCATION 2:Burying Ground for Thomas Beals, et al.
North of 34207 U.S. 35
1/2 Mi. W. of Richmondale
Auditor's Parcel 18-0505090.000
Jefferson Twp., Sec. 4, Twp. 7N, Rge. 20W
Ross Cty., Ohio
DEEDS, etc.:* * * 6. Wilmington Y.M. Fiduciary Corporation to the
Trustees of Jefferson Township; 1999/09/27

Secondly, Willard Heiss in 1974 published a typescript of an 1871
"MEMORANDA of the early settlement of Friends in the North-west Territory,
and especially of Thomas Beals, who was the first minister of the Gospel in
the Society of Friends who crossed the Ohio River" by Gershom Perdue.
Sometime in the 1980s my secretary prepared a WordPerfect typescript and
generated a family-name index. Then in 2005 I converted several WordPerfect
typescripts to PDF files and circulated them to the Quaker college libraries
and a few genealogical libraries.

For good reason, the list does not allow attachments. However, if
any of you would like me to e-mail the PDF of the Perdue memo with
family-name index (87 KB), send me an e-mail request _off-list_. (That
means, as my law partners often forget, do not "Reply All".)

Tom Hill

Thomas C. Hill
425 Walnut Street, Suite 1800
Cincinnati, OH 45202 U.S.A.
e-mail:
www.QuakerMeetings.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Joan W.
To: Zipra Morgan
Cc: Joan Whitney
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Rev. Thomas Beals -- grandson Jeremiah Mills

I started reading thru all the Quaker Yeomen newsletters and Volume 1 number
3 had this to say: Oregon State Roster of Ancestors D.A.R. 1963
Compiled by Mrs. Geo. R. Goodrich, State Registrar page 30

BEALS, Thomas Srl: rendered aid to Rev. as a Quaker Pvt. by giving sermons
to soldiers: b. 1719, Pa., d. 8-29-1801, Fairfield, Ohio; m. 9-12-1741,
Sarah Antrim, Fairfield, Ohio.
Child: Mary, b. 6-15-1742
Mary and Sarah (twins) b. 8-30-1743
Thomas, b. 10-29-1745
Patience, b. 12-9-1747, m. Benjamin Carr
William, b. 6-13-1750, m. Rachel Green
Daniel, b. 2-15-1755, m. Susannah Jackson
Elizabeth, b. 4-25-1755, m. Samuel Bond
Margaret, b. 10-12-1757, m/1 James Horton
m/2 Daniel Huff
Hannah, b. 12-13-1759
Rachel and John (twins) b. 3-9-1763. Rachel married Wm.
Thornbergh, John married Mary Carter Jacob.
494065 desc: Rae Bond Alley (James Mathew) 255 E. Dartmouth, Gladstone,
Oregon.

I bet Swarthmore and Guilford Colleges have copies as would the George Fox
College Library in Newberg, Ore. The first Quaker Yeomen was published
April, 1974. Published 4 times a year. The last one I have was published in
January, 1986. "Our" Tom Hamm of this list was a regular contributor to
this publication. James Bellarts also published a book, "A Genealogy of
Clayton, Reynolds, Beals, Brown and Descended and Related Lines-The Quaker
Yeomen- in 1973. Yes, I have a copy. I will continue to thumb thru the
issues to see what else I can find. Tom Hamm might have an idea where the
journal might be. Joan


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----- Original Message -----

From: Zipra Morgan
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:39 PM
Subject: Rev. Thomas Beals -- grandson Jeremiah Mills

Joan:

I was thrilled to see your post on Quaker-Roots this evening. I am
trying to locate the source for information that Rev. Thomas Beals delivered
sermons to soldiers during in the Revolutionary War. I found information
that grandson, Jeremiah Mills wrote a journal and am hoping that may be the
source. If your offer to do a look up in your books still holds, I'd be
very pleased if you could see if you can find the source for the following
information:

"In 1775, Thomas traveled into Shawnee territory with Bowater Sumner,
William Hiatt and David Ballard. During their journey, they were arrested
and carried back to the fort near Clinch Mt., VA confederates with the
hostile Indians. The officers, understanding that one of them was a
preacher, required a sermon before they went in for the trail. Beals
thought it right to hold a meting with _?___. A young man (Beverly Milner)
then in the fort was converted and, some time after, moved among Friends and
became a member and, at a very advanced age, bore public testimony to the
tuth [sic] fort." He later settled near the Beals family in Ohio and in his
later years, after he became too feeble to attend Meeting, he often alluded
to the ministry of that "heavenly man by whom he was almost 87 and was
burned at Fairfield, Ohio. He was the great grandfather of Clyde A. Milner,
later President of Guilford College in NC

After this meeting was over, the Friends kindly entertained and were
free and at liberty to go on their journey. They crossed the Ohio River
south of Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburg PA) into wh 9 [sic] whit Chief
Tecumseh and Waw-wil-a-way and held many meetings with the Indians with
satisfaction and returned home with much peace of mind. Thomas Beals told
his friends that he saw with his sp that good land and that one day there
would be the greatest gathering of Friends there of any place in the world
and that his faith was strong in the belief that he would live to see
Friends."

This doesn't appear to be an exact quote but if the information was
gleaned from one of your sources it should be obvious.

Thank you for your time.

Zipra Morgan
Direct descendant of Rev. Thomas Beals


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