Fox and Anderson and Taylor families in USA » Edward Beeson Sr. (1665-1714)

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   WILL OF EDWARD. I Edward Beeson of Notingham, being laid on a bed of sickness & not knowing how the Lord may dispose of me as to my natural Life therefore I do make this my last will & testament and does declare all other will or wills made or done by me to be void and of none effect, first my will is that I be decently buried & my funeral expenses and all debts be duly payd 2ly, I give to my son Edward & his heirs 142 acres & a half of Land Laying by nessamoney. 3rdly, I give unto my son Richard and his heirs one tract of Land Laying near Southhampton in the County of Bucks, containing 290 acres. 4ly I give to my son Richard and his heirs one tract of Liberty Land containing 25 acres Lying on Sculkill. 5ly I do give to my son William my west Loot Laying in Notingham also I give unto him 48 pounds which my Executors is to lay out for him in building him a house & buying him such necessaryes as they may see most needfull for him for making a plantation, also I give unto him all my wearing apparell except two great coats, which two coats I give to Edward & Richard, Edward is to have which he pleased, also I give to my son William one coat of the Carsey that is at the weavers, also my will is that if my son William should dy without ishew Lawfully begotten, then the Land is to go to the Lawful heirs. 6ly I give to my Daughter Ann Cloud Twenty pounds. 7ly, my will is that after my former wifes children have had their portions, that all my personall estate be divided betwixt my widow and my Daughter Elizabeth according to a Law. 8ly, my will is that my widow shall have the plantation whereon I live with all the profits thereof during her widdowhood or natural Life & after my widows marrying or decease, then I give it to my Daughter Elizabeth & her heirs. 9ly, my will is that my executors & their heirs shall have all that Land which I have purchased of Daniel Wharley & by Warrant to me by the Commissioners bearing the date of 14th day of Septr, 1709, to dispose of as they see occasion, and I desire yt my wife shall give to the child yt she is now great with, if it should live when born, forty pounds and Lastly for a full and finall performance of this will I do by these presents make & ordain my dear and well beloved wife and son Richard the sole executors of this my last will and Testament as witness my hand & Seal this Twentieth of the sixth month, called August 1712.
   
   Signed Sealed & Delivered before us Edward Beeson (Seal) Andrew Job James King Chester County S S;
   
   Edward Beeson and his wife, Rachel, came into the colonies by way of a land grant from William Penn, a Quaker. It is not known if they were Quakers. However, it is known that they lived in Chester Co., PA. Edward is understood to have been the son of Thomas Beeson and Ann Pecke of Lancaster Co., England.
   
   Edward Beeson
   Edward was born after 1650. Edward Beeson ... He passed away in 1712. [1]
   
   Birth ABT 1652 Lincolnshire, England
   Possibly born at Stoke, Lancashire; or this may be part of the Pennington myth. See Rachel Pennington.
   Arrival 1682-1684 New Castle, Delaware
   Children
   
   Edward (1682-1725)
   Richard (1684-1777)
   William (1687-)
   Ann (1690-)
   Death MAR 1714 Chester Co.,Nottingham Twp, Pennsylvania
   Death 20 October 1712 Nottingham, Chester, PA
   Also found Death Date 1712-08-20, variancy possilby due to Style of Date, when October was the 8th month.
   SOURCES:
   
   Hinshaw's Genealogy and Genealogy Assoc.
   Pennsylvania Archives 2nd Series, Volume XIX, page 245, in the Minutes of the Meetings of William Penn's Commissioners of Property Sitting at Philadelphia, 14th, 11 month, 1701" -- C. E. Beeson. This is a petition of "Cornelius Epson for himself and several others to the number of twenty families to make settlement on a tract of land about half-way between the Delaware and Sussquehannah." Etc. On 7th, 1 month, 1701-2 land warrants were issued to these petitioners, among whom was Edward Beeson, who obtained 980 acres of land located in the southwestern corner of Chester County, Nottingham township, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland line. The land survey was made 3d month 1702.
   Edward Beeson's name appears in the following deeds and conveyances: April 28, 1702, a deed from Hance Peaterson, to Edward Beeson, 260 acres in Brandywine Hundred on the Delaware River, near Treedy Hook, is recorded in Deed Book B, Vol. 2, p. 171, New Castle County, Delaware.
   By a deed also in the same county "Edward Beeson" conveyed this same land to his son, Edward on Jan. 7, 1709-1710. Deed book F, 5, p. 546 Philadelphia, shows the following: "Daniel Warley, of Giles Chalfont, County of Buck's, England, and Mary, formerly Mary Pennington (Half sister to William Penn's first wife) conveys 1250 acres to Edward Beeson, of Irishtown, in the county of New Castle, Planter, Mar. 10, and 11, 1703." "9br., 16th, 1706 granted to Edward Beeson liberty to settle on a tract near Nottingham, in which Tho. Taylor was settled, and the refusal of it is promised him given him for this under Ed. S., T. S. and J. L.' s hands. (Initials of the three Commissioners.) On Sept. 28, 1709, a warrant was granted to Edward Beeson for 799 1/2 acres of land. In the Manuscript Department of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a warrant, this paper is dated "Phila. X br. 14, 1709." It is the original order of Jacob Taylor to Isaac Taylor, Surveyor of Chester County, to survey and lay out to Edward Beeson the 799 1/2 acres above mentioned, the back of which is endorsed in the handwriting of Edward Beeson as given below. "This eightenth day of May, 1711, I Edward Beeson of Nottingham do asign over unto Richard Buffington, Benjamin Hickman, Thomas Buefingtong and Richard Buefingtong Juner all of Westown in the county of Chester, with this warant. Ass witness my hand Edward Beeson." Note that the name is spelled both Beson and Beeson.
   
   LDS SlC UTAH: Bishop Transcripts 594970, 592579.
   
   
   
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   Ancestor of Robert E Beeson.
   
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   Richard Beason, Tom Rhodes, Lee Jackson, Karen Schroer, George Berthelson.
   

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