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From: Thomas Hamm <>
Subject: Re: Beals and Bowater
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 06:28:03 -0800
>Sarah was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Edge) Bowater. The fact that
>she was daughter of Thomas (and not John) is proven by her marriage record
>(recorded in the New Garden MM, PA records), which explicitly calls her
>the daughter of Thomas. That she was not John's daughter is further
>confirmed by the will of John Bowater, which names his daughters, but
>names no daughter Sarah.
>> Then the researchers that have JOHN and
>>FRANCES CORBETT list the >parents of JOHN BEALS II as JOHN JACOB BEALS
>>and MARY JANE CLAYTON and >the parents of JOHN JACOB are.....THOMAS BEALS
>>AND SARAH EDGE!!!
>These supposed middle names are almost certainly inventions of careless
>genealogists, and do not appear in any early records that I know of.
>John Beals Jr. was the son of John (not John Jacob) Beals Sr. and Mary
>(not Mary Jane) Clayton. To my knowledge, no satisfactory evidence
>has ever been put forward regarding the parents of John Beals Sr., and
>"unknown" would be the appropriate indication for his parents, based on
>currently known data. (Given the total lack of supporting evidence
>for the name, I think that the name "Sarah Edge" which has been submitted
>as the mother of John Beals can be dismissed as a probable blunder.)
><http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/quaker-r.htm>;
> ...BUT, John BEALS (John/Mary Clayton) & Sarah BOWATER
>had: John BEALS (b. 17 Feb 1716/17; d. 17 Apr 1796, 88
>years old) m. Margaret HUNT, dt. William Hunt & Mary Woolman.
>Katie Bond Portland, Oregon <http://www.tarkio.net/roots/genealogy.html>;
>http://www.tarkio.net/roots/genealogy.html
A minor point, since I'm descended from John Beals and Margaret Hunt. The
records of New Garden MM, Pa., give his birth as 2nd Mo. 17, 1717, which
would be April, not February. Thus he apparently died on his birthday.
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