Downs Tree » James Beard (1730-1802)
Personal data James Beard
Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19Sources 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20- He was born in the year 1730 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten.Sources 11, 13, 14, 17
- Resident:
- in the year 1760: St John, Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States.Source 3
- in the year 1772: Upper Mount Bethel, Northampton, Pennsylvania.Source 5
- in the year 1786: Mount Bethel, Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 10
- in the year 1790: Lower Mount Bethel, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States.Source 9
- in the year 1800: Lower Mount Bethel, Northampton, Pennsylvania.Source 18
- about 1801: Lower Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.Source 8
- Pennsylvania, United States.Source 1
- South Carolina.Source 6
- South Carolina, United States.Source 6
- USA.Source 4
- Virginia.Source 19
- (Arrival) in the year 1772 in Charles Town, South Carolina.Source 15
- He died on March 5, 1802 in Lower MT Bethel, PA, he was 72 years old.Sources 8, 11, 13, 17
- He is buried in Martins Creek, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.Source 11
- Probate on April 2, 1802 naar Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA.Source 8
- A child of John "The Immigrant" Beard and Rebecca Florence Sterrett
Household of James Beard
(1) He is married to Isabel Newby.
They got married in the year 1746 at Pennsylvania, United States, he was 16 years old.Sources 12, 14
They got married October 1746 at Pennsylvania, United States, he was 16 years old.Sources 14, 21Child(ren):
- WILLIAM Beard -1809
- Catharine Ross 1756-1818
- Thomas Beard 1759-1817
- Sarah Beard 1761-1832
- Francis A Beard 1765-± 1852
- James Beard 1765-1831
- Mary Conolly 1767-????
- Robert Beard 1770-> 1850
- Hannah Agnes Beard 1770-1821
- Rachel Beard 1774-1848
- William Beard 1775-1846
- Benjamin Beard 1778-1848
- David Beard 1780-1852
(2) He is married to Margaret Irwin.
They got married November 1767 at Pennsylvania, UAA, he was 37 years old.
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Sources
- Pennsylvania, U.S., Revolutionary War Battalions and Militia Index, 1775-1783, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Baird and Beard families : a genealogical, biographical, and historical collection of data, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Pennsylvania, U.S., Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Pennsylvania, U.S., Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Pennsylvania, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- 1790 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Pennsylvania, U.S., Septennial Census, 1779-1863, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Pennsylvania, U.S., Compiled Marriage Records, 1700-1821, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing / Ancestry.com
- U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- 1800 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, Moss, Boby Gilmer / Ancestry.com
- Pennsylvania, U.S., Compiled Marriage Records, 1700-1821, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Day of death March 5, 1802
- The temperature on March 5, 1802 was about 2.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- In the year 1802: Source: Wikipedia
- March 25 » The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
- April 21 » Twelve thousand Wahhabis under Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad, invaded city of Karbala, killed over three thousand inhabitants, and sacked the city.
- May 19 » Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
- June 4 » King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
- September 3 » William Wordsworth composes the sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802".
- September 11 » France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
Same birth/death day
- 1770 » Crispus Attucks, American slave (b. 1723)
- 1778 » Thomas Arne, English composer and educator (b. 1710)
- 1815 » Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
- 1827 » Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1745)
- 1827 » Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
- 1829 » John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
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