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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
Author: James Harrison Frey
Basil Beall, Sr. served in the Revolutionary War as First Lieutenant in Captain Thomas Frazier’s Company, 34th Battalion, Frederick County, Maryland Militia. Born about 1725 in Prince George’s County, Maryland, he was a son of Nathaniel Beall (1699 – 1757) and Elizabeth Brooke (1707 – 1774). The Beall family has a long history in Maryland and a complex genealogy. The famous Ninian Beall established the family in Maryland in 1652 after completing a five year sentence of servitude in Barbados imposed by Cromwell’s government as punishment for his service with the Scottish army loyal to King Charles II. He encouraged his cousins in Scotland, who like him were Presbyterians, to immigrate to Maryland. One of them who did so, James Beall, Sr. (1652 – 1757), was Basil Beall’s grandfather.
It is presumed that Basil Beall was married to Harriett Gaither who predeceased him about 1813, yet documentation of the marriage and verification of his wife’s name has not yet been found. Their issue included daughters Beth Ann, Mary Ann, Cillann, Ann and Mary, and sons Citizen, Joseph W., Ninian and Basil, Jr. Citizen Beall founded Beallsville in Monroe County, Ohio. Beth Ann (1776 – 1848) married Arthur Carter (1765 – 1842) and their daughter Lee Ann (1788 – 1844) is my third great grandmother.
Sometime after 1800 Basil Beall relocated from Montgomery County, Maryland to Ohio County, West Virginia. His farm was located on property in Wheeling that was acquired by Greenwood Cemetery Association. His stone house was demolished in the 1950’s. It is assumed that he was buried on the farm near the location of the house.
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