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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
William BEAL, [variant spelling: BEAL, BEALE] was born in Virginia, migrated to South Carolina in 1763 with his family, later settling on lands around Ninety-Six Creek, Saluda River in Ninety-Six District. "Long before the Revolution, a man named BEAL settled along what became the County Line (Abbeville-Edgefield) road, below the original Ninety-Six. Nothing is known of BEAL and his family except one son, William BEAL, captain in the American Revolutionary army and referred to by Dr. John Henry Logan, historian, as 'the well known scout of the Revolution'. In the manuscript notes for Dr. Logan's uncompleted second volume of his history, there are several stories of Captain Beal's encounters with Tories around Ninety-Six." Watson, Greenwood County Sketches. 1970, P:155. On August 27, 1764, a William BEALE was granted 300 aces land in Granville County, South Carolina. SCDAH. Series: S213019; Volume: 0011; Page: 00563; Item: 00; On September 18, 1764, a memorial for 300 acres land on Hornes Creek in Granville County, South Carolina was recorded for a William BEALE. SCDAH Series: S111001; Volume: 0006; Page: 00311; Item: 003; On October 11, 1770, a memorial for 500 acres land in Colleton County recorded for William THOMASON was adjacent to lands owned by a William BEALE and an Emanuel MILLER; SCDAH: Series: S108092; Reel: 0007; Frame: 00094 Around 1776 or later, file number 372 relating the to accounts of the military service for William BEALE's service in the American Revolutionary War were audited. SCDAH. Series: S108092; Reel: 0007; Frame: 00094; Captain William BEAL served as a Continental Soldier in the 3rd Regiment commanded by Colonel William THOMSON (see St. Matthews, Orangeburg District, S.C.) and for that he was entitled to two hundred acres of land. He also supplied 20 bushels of corn for militia use in 1781 and in 1782, he lost a horse in public service. Stories about encounters between Captain BEAL and the Tory, "Bloody Bill Cunningham" are given in the books, "Greenwood County Sketches" and also "History of the Upper County of South Carolina". "Captain Beal lived at his home near Ninety-Six for some years after the Revolution, then removed to Georgia, according to one reference, and to Alabama, according to another." Ibid. On September 6, 1784, 300 acres land on Ninety-Six Creek, Saluda River, in Ninety-Six District was surveyed for him by Bennett CRAFTON, Surveyor. SCDAH. Series: S213190; Volume: 0007; Page: 00375; Item: 002; Children of William BEAL / BEALE, 1730-1805, include: daughter, Frances BEALE, md. first, James GRIFFIIN; md. second Charles Astley COOPER; daughter, Tabitha BEAL / BEALE, 1764- ;, md. James WILSON, 1753-1823, veteran of the American Revolutionary War; son, James BEAL / BEALE, - ; did not marry; son, John BEAL / BEALE, - ; son, William BEAL, - ; "John TYSON [was] appointed guardian of William BEAL." 1798-1811. Minutes of Inferior Court--1798-1811. Davidson, Grace Gillam, The Early Records of Georgia, Volume I, Wilkes County. P:154; P: 417. June 3, 1803. William BEAL was entitled to one draw in the 1803 land lottery, P:305; in this same 1803 land lottery, John BEAL was entitled to two draws; Joseph BEAL entitled to one draw and Nathan BEAL was entitled to one draw; P:318. Early Records of Georgia. Vol: 1. Wilkes County. Grace Gillam DAVIDSON. 1933. Macon, GA. In 1805 a William BEAL resided in Wilkes County, Georgia. The estate of William BEAL was inventoried in October 1805, and Elizabeth BEAL was appointed adminitrix. "BEAL, WILLIAM, dec'd. Inventory Oct. 19, 1805. Elizabeth Beall, admx. John Dyson, John Heard, Jr., Geo. Hamilton, apprs." Inventories and Appraisements. BOOK "L L" 1806-1807, P:125. In the Georgia Land Lottery of 1805, a William BEAL was entitled to two draws. Early Records of Georgia; Of note: [Samuel PRUITT, b. Frederick County, Md] "He bought land and a tobacco house he called “Pruitt’s Purchase” from Nathaniel Beale on 22 November 1737. It was in the northernmost edge of the present District of Columbia or a little towards Bladensburg on a branch of the Anacostia River, the northernmost branch of the Potomac." Sons of the American Revolution, National Number: 93262; The Tennessee State Society, Number # 1212;
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