EDMONSTON, Archibald Thomas(Colonel)
Born: c. 1667 Prince Georges County, Md.
Died: 28 June 1734 Prince Georges County, Md.
Wife: Jane Beall of Colonel Ninian Beall and Ruth Moore
Born about 1652 Prince Georges County, Md.
Died about 1745 (found on internet that she died before 1733, see text below)
Father: Thomas Edmonstone, circa. 1648-1690
Will dated March 13, 1734
Children:
James Edmonston, 1697-99 to 16Oct1753, Both in Prince Georges Co., Md.
Mary Ann, married James Beall of James Beall and Sarah Pierce
Archibald (#2), Prince Georges County, Md., buried 14 April 1787
Eleanor, 1682-unk. Married 10Nov1735 to Edward Offutt
Margaret (from WEB) born 1700-08, died after 1740. Married 1728-32 to James Beall
of Alexander Beall and Elizabeth Dick
Ninian, born 1704, Died 1753, Prince Georges County, Md. (Both)
Ruth, Born about 1688. Married about 1708 to John Orme
Martha, Born about 1689, Married about 1705 to Thomas Allen
Thomas, Born About 1690, married about 1715 to Ruth Offutt
Jane, Born about 1715, Married 1730 to Samuel Beall of Ninean Beall and
Elizabeth Magruder
Remarks: A lot of the above information came off the internet, & a lot of it contains conflicting dates.
From the book "My Edmonstons and a few more" by Charles Ninian Edmonston (1903-1979) :
In a genealogy compiled by Dorothy Edmonstone Zimmerman Allen, "Zimmerman, Allen and allied families" published about 1902, there is the following, in part.
"Our ancestor, Archibald Edmonstone, according to tradition, reached Maryland about 1680-83. All indications point to the conclusion that he was from the family settled in County Antrim, in Ireland. The Edmonstones of Red Hall and Braidens Island. The Presbyterians in Ireland suffered greatly for their faith. Briggs, in his history of American Presbyterians says, "During the troublous times from 1670 to 1680 a considerable number of families removed from the North of Ireland to the Barbadoes, Maryland and Virginia.
"After the Battle of Worcester, 3 Sept 1651, the commissioners in Dublin issued a proclamation for removing the popular Scots of Ulster. This Proclamation specified the conditions on which it was proposed to transplant the leading Presbyterians in the Counties of Down and Antrim to certain districts in Munster. The Proclamation was accompanied with a list of 260 persons including all those who by their known attachment to monarchical and Presbyterian principles and by their station and influence were most obnoxious to the reigning faction.," That was from "Scotch-Irish in America," by Hanna, Vol. I/page 604.
"The fact that Capt. Edmonstone, evidently an active rebel was banished to Munster, made it easier for his son to take ship to America. Possibly poverty as well as religious persecution drove him, Archibald, to our shores; tradition says, to Baltimore County, Maryland. The first mention of the name in either deed or archives
places him in Prince Georges County, where a band of Scotch immigrants were already established. The leading Scotsman at that time, one Ninian Beall, was settled on the Western Shore of Maryland. Archibald Edmonstone married his daughter, Jane."
In the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, there is the following account. #51932. Filing Case A. Mrs. Harvey Thomas' genealogical collection. It contains a letter from Washington, D. C. to Mrs. Anne H. Thomas.
"Dear Madame: A Thomas Edmonston, a relative of my mother, Catherine Anne Edmonston, whose father; Ninian Edmonston was my grandfather, called at my office. He is a lawyer and his visit was some years ago. He told me that he had just returned from Scotland and had called on Admiral Edmonston, a member of Parliament, of the House of Duntreath, Scotland, and through him had procured a genealogy of the Edmonston family, printed in pamphlet form in Glasgow. Having heard my mother say that she was decended from the Royal House of Scotland. The Edmonstons were Scotch, of the House of Duntreath. Margaret Edmonston married on of the heirs of the throne of "The Candlemilk:" branch of the Royal House of Stuart. The Christian names such as Basil, Archibald, Robert, etc., are still in use and come down to the present time.
"The Edmonstons were all Roman Catholics when the House of Stuart was in bad odor; a large number of them, as exiles, came to America and first settled in Baltimore County and then settled throughout Prince Georges County and Montgomery County, Maryland. Having an abundance of wealth they bought large tracts of land and deeded a good portion of it to various persons for 99 years as was customary in those days. Edmonston Avenue in Baltimore is named after the Family. (The avenue mentioned is Edmondson Avenue and is said to have been named for another branch of the Family who may or may not be related.)
The Beall and Orme Families intermarried with the Edmonstons." The letter was written by George B. Towles. His mother, Catherine Anne or Kitty Ann Edmonston was a daughter of Brooke Edmonston )1771-1820) who was a son of Ninian and Dorothy Edmonston.
Another version of the Edmonston family beginnings comes from a report of the General Records Commission, Dist. Of Columbia D.A.R. 1934-1936, Vol. 29, part one in the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. pages 212-213. Presented by Mrs. Kathleen Birch from a letter written by Samuel Boots Edmonston, St. Louis , Missouri, 1885. He says:
"In the year 1063, three years before the Battle of Hastings, England, William Edmonston, son of County de Edmont, a Duke in Flanders, accompanied Queen Margaret of Flanders to marry King Malcolm Canmore of Scotland. His portrait is in Holy Rood Palace, Edinburgh. William Edmonstone, ancestor, founded the House of Edmonston in Scotland 1063.
"About 1670, Thomas Edmonston, with his son, Archibald, came from Scotland, together with Col. Ninian Beall, William Offutt, and others, some seventy persons in all, settled on lands, afterwards Georgetown. Archibald Edmonston married Jane Beall. Their children were: James, Mary Beall, wife of James Beall, Ruth Orme, wife of John Orme, Eleanor, wife of Edward Offutt, Archibald, Ninian, Martha, wife of Thomas Allen, and Thomas. The grandparents of Samuel Boots Edmonston were William Edmonston and Elizabeth Mackaye." Very interesting and may be partly true.
Just one more sample of the Edmonston Family beginnings should be sufficient. In "Missouri, the Center State" 1821-1915 Illustrated. Chicago-St. Louis Vol. III by S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., page 300, there is a story of the Edmonston family contained in a biographical sketch of Archibald T. Edmonston.
"Archibald T. Edmonston, Supervisor of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, 1915. Born in St. Louis, Dec. 12, 1870. His father was Samuel B. Edmonston of Georgetown, D. C. and a direct descendant of Archibald Thomas Edmonston, the first colonial owner of what is now Washington, D. C. He held the grant from Charles I and the Stuarts before the execution (regicide) and in the subsequent reign of Cromwell. Archibald T. Edmonston, the American progenitor married a daughter of Col. Ninian Beall, the founder of Georgetown. The family estates in Scotland was Dumbarton and all his ancestors were Scotch and of the Stuart Clan. The Edmonstons originally went to England nine hundred years ago with William the Conqueror. The first Edmonston, historically reported, married Margaret, a daughter of Bruce, the First King and Stuart of Scotla
As before noted, I have not found any evidence to support the claim that Archibald Edmonston was a son of a Thomas Edmonston although it is very probably true since the name, Thomas, is in almost all the Edmonston families who descended from him. There is an appraisal for an estate of a Thomas Edmonston in the records of Prince Georges Co., Maryland, dated 1698, but no other record of him that I was able to find.
In Talbot Maryland, the County, there was a Thomas Edmondson and his family and descendants who were Quakers, probably from England, but there seems to be no records of his being involved in any way with the family of our Archibald Edmonston. There are various Edmondson Families in Virginia who came to that colony in very early times, but again, there appears to be no connection with ours.
In a recorded statement made in 1733, Archibald Edmonston gave his age as "sixty-odd Years" so that the date, 1667 is as close as I can come to estimating his birth date. His birthplace then could have been either Scotland, Northern Ireland, or even Maryland,. The date of his first appearance in Maryland too is a matter conjecture unless more records can be found than the one given by Dorothy E. Z. Allen. In her book, Dorothy Allen, page 83 wrote: "In a deed concerning land claimed by two parties is this: ' Sept. 29th, 1731, Archibald Edmonston, aged sixty years and upwards, being duly sworn, etc'" The upwards being indefinite.
The date of his death can be established as being between 13 March 1734 when he made his will, and 20 June 1734 when it was proven. From Will Book TD Folio, 159. Prince Georges County Wills. He was married to Jane Beall, daughter of Ninian Beall as shown by a record of a deed of gift of a female slave from Ninian Beall to Archibald Edmonston. Book E Page 68 Land Office, Prince Georges County Maryland. "Out of love and affection…toward my loving son-in-law, Archibald Edmonston, I give and devise 1 negro woman called Moll, age 16 years, etc." While Ninian Beall, at this time, did not give the name of the wife of Archibald Edmonston, she is mentioned by name in the will of her husband.. (I found 28June1734 on the Internet as being his date of death, which conflicts with the above - Ernest Edmonston).
In a deed dated 16Feb1704, Ninian Beall sold to Archibald Edmonston, for seven thousand pounds of tobacco, the plantation called "Dunkell", of which there will be more later. In this deed, Archibald Edmonston is described as a carpenter. Ruth Beall, wife of Ninian Beall, acknowledged the deed or in effect wived her dower rights to the land. There were 490 acres of land altogether, mentioned in this deed. Two other parcels of land, one called "The Gore" and another, called "The Meadows" were sold at the same time by Beall to Edmonston. Others have stated that Archibald Edmonston assumed the rank of Colonel of Prince Georges County Militia when his father-in-law became a member of the Maryland Assembly. I have not found it expedient to explore any of his military achievements. Records about the time of his death call him "Captain". He did become the owner of large tracts of land in Prince Georges County and he made gift deeds to his sons and sons-in-law by which we may prove that Smith was married to a daughter, Jane Edmonston, who was not mentioned in his will.
I obtained a facsimile copy of the will. It was written by someone other than himself, but signed by him in a very shaky hand which would indicate that he was either very weak or very ill at the time of signing. The text of the will with punctuation added by me.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, Archibald Edmonston of Prince Georges County, in the Province of Maryland, being in good health of body & of sound and perfect mind & memory, praise therefor given to Almighty God, I do make & ordain this, my present last will and testament in manner and form as followeth:
"First, I commend my soul into ye hands of Almighty God, hoping through ye induring Death and Paftition of my Saviour, Jesus Christ, to obtain pardon & forgiveness for all my sins & to inheritt
2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
everlasting life & my body I commit to ye earth to be decently buried at ye discretion of my wife, Jane Edmonston, whom I leave & appoint to be by sole administratrix over my whole personal esteat & to sech temporal efsteat as itt hath pleased God to bestow upon me, I give and dispose thereof as followeth:
"Imprimis: Itt is my will that all my debts & funeral charges be paid without suite of law or trouble by administratrix above mentioned.
"Item: I give my son, James Edmonston, all my wearing apparell.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Mary Beall, the sum of four pounds.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Eleanor Offutt, the sum of four pounds.
"2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
Item: I give unto my daughter, Ruth Orme the sum of five pounds.
"Item: I give unto my son Archibald Edmonston the sum of twenty shillings and my cane.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Martha Allen, my now dwelling Plantation with the land thereunto belonging, itt being part of a tract of land called, Dunkell, unto her & her heirs forever, after the decease of my wife, Jane Edmonston.
"Item: I give unto my son-in-law, Thomas Allen, two hundred acres of land to be laid out of the two tracts of land, ye one called, "Dear Park", ye other, "Bare Garden" Enlarged, to be laid out on ye outermost bounds of ye sd two tracts to ye east north east of ye plantation my son, Ninian formerly lived on and joyning to my son, Archibald Edmonston's land. To him and his heirs forever.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Martha Allen, one negro man named Sam & a feather-bed & furnitue.
"Item: I give unto my grandaughter, Jane Allen, one pound five shillings to pay for a year's schooling.
"Item: I give unto my son, Thomas Edmonston, ye remaining part of the two tracts of land before mentioned called "Dear Park" & "Bare Garden Enlarged" & also a tract of land called "Ye Goar" containing sixty acres with the improvements on all ye aforesaid lands & also one malato man called John, or Jack, one negrow girl named Doll, to him & his heirs forever."
"Item: It is my will that if my son, Thomas Edmonston, die without heirs of his body lawfully begotten that those two tracts of land called "Dear Park" & "Bare Garden Enlarged" fall to my son, Archibald Edmonston & those called "Ye Goar" & "Ye addition to ye Goar" to my son, James Edmonston.
"Item: I give unto my dear and loving wife, Jane Edmonston, one negrow woman called Moll and one other negrow woman called Sarah; one other called Clare also two other negrow men called, Cephas & Ammodo, to her & her heirs forever.
"Item: I give ye remaining part of my personal esteat to be equally divided between my wife, Jane Edmonston & my youngest son, Thomas Edmonston.
Item: Itt is my will that ye negrow & malato, with ye part of ye personal esteat before left to my son, Thomas Edmonston until he arrive at ye age of twenty-one years that he have his education out of ye labor of ye negro and malato & that esteat left him be kept in my wife's pofsefsion for him till he arrive at the age of twenty-one years.
"Itt is my will that my son, James Edmonston & my wife, Jane Edmonston inspect into ye behaviour & deportment of my son, Thomas Edmonston & he to be under their controlment during his minority.
"Item: I give unto Mr. Clement Hill & his heirs forever ye other half part of parcel of a tract of land called, "Cool Springs Level" according to ye quantity and Quality fo land ye one half of which I have conveyed by deed of gift to my daughter, Elenor Offutt.
"Item: I do hereby revoak & make nell all former wills by me made as sitnefs my hand & seal this thirteenty day of March one thousand, seven hundred thirty-four.
Archibald Edmonston (Seal)
Signed, Sealed, Acknowledged, Published and declared in ye presence of us, George Wells, Samuel White, William Beall, Elizabeth White."
George Wells, William Beall & Samuel White, three of the subscribing witnefses to the within will solemnly swear on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God. Deposed and swore that the testator within mentioned, sign, seal this instrument and heard him publish and declare the same to be his last will & testament. That at the time of his so doing he was, to the best of their apprehension & judgement, of sound and disposing
2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
mend & memory and lastly that they subscribed their names as witnefses to the said will in the presence of said testator & at his request.
"Sworn to before me this 20th day of June, 1734. D. Dulany, Comm. Liber ST #238. Recorded in Will Book TD Fol 159 Prince Georges County wills. Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland.
Somehow, writers of Edmonston history gave out the information that Jane Beall Edmonston predeceased her husband. In Box 9 Folder 32 of the Hall of Records in Annapolis, Md. There is a recorded in 1734 Archibald Edmonston's estate inventory signed by his executrix, Jane Edmonton. Recorded in Liber DD 1, Folio 70, also recorded in Liber ST, Folio 216. "Jane Edmonston, Exec. Of Archibald Edmonston, do make oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the within is a true & perfect inventory etc. D. Dulany, Comm."
"An inventory of the goods, chattels, rights and credits of Capt'n Archibald Edmonston, late of Prince Georges County dec'd, apprised by us, the subscribers, in current money this eleventh day of September,
A.D. 17342." A detailed list of the inventory would be too lengthy for this work and would add little of val
ue to it. The estimated total of 418, 11 shillings and 8 1/2 pence was given by Henry Wright and Wm Smith Appraisers. Jno Magruder and James Bosswell were creditors and James Edmonston and John Beall were kin.
In her book, "Sidelignts of Maryland History", Hester Dorsey Richardson gives, on page 34, "Cool Springs Level, granted to Archibald Edmonston, April 28, 1717, 592 acres on the road from Offutt's Cross Roads to the Great Falls of the Patomac on the north bank of this road."
Page 38, "Bear Garden Enlarged, surveyed for Archibald Edmonston, Nov. 10, 1716. 1265 acres. On the same page, Deer Park, Surveyed for Archibald Edmonston Feb. 14, 1720. 682 acres. This grant lies between West Point and East Point Branches.
Mrs. Richardson did not document these statements.
JANE (BEALL) EDMONSTON, Wife of Archibald (1)
In book DD 2 Inventories of Prince Georges County, Md., there is a record of the inventory of the chattels of Madame Jane Edmonston's whole estate. The Administrator was James Edmonston. The inventory was dated 13 Oct. 1745 which would indicate that she probably died sometime during that year.
The year of her birth has been given by others as about 1685, so she would have been about thirteen when her son James was born in 1698 according to a record which will be mentioned later. Indulging in my own form of guesswork, I would say that she must have been born between 1670 and 1680. No exact record, so far as I know, has been found of her birth, marriage, or death date.
Here father was Ninian Beall, at times known as "Ringing Bell" and the name Beall is pronounced, "Bell". Her mother was Ruth Moore. Other researchers and writers have done a better job of writing the history or biography of Ninian Beall, so that I will merely repeat some of the things they said.
He was born, they say, in Scotland about 1625 and was married once before he came to America and had two children by that first marriage. Then, so tradition tells us, he was captured by Cromwellian troops at the Battle of Dunbar, 3 Sept. 1650. He, with others , were taken to England and tried on a carge of rebellion, found guilty and sentenced to a term of servitude in the British Plantations. Some say the term was seven years. Further, it is believed that his contract of bondage was bought by a William Hall, who is supposed to have taken him to the Barbadoes before bringing him to Maryland. Whether or not the story is true in every detail, it at least makes for interesting speculation.
His will, Will Book 1, page 92, Prince Georges County Wills was made 15 Jan. 1717, and signed with his mark which would probably indicate that he was too ill or weak to write his signature as he had on other earlier documents. In the will, he bequeathed to his son, George, his Rock of Dunbarton Plantation, the present site of Dunbarton Oaks in Georgetown D. C.
His son-in-law, Andrew Hambleton was mentioned as was another son-in-law, Joseph Belt. The two children of a deceased son, Ninian Beall Jrreceived bequests of land. Also mentioned was a son, Charles.
The will was witnessed by John Bussey, Rebecca Gotward, and Edward Gillett. It as proved 28 Feb. 1717. Other members of his family were not mentioned in the will. We are most interested in his daughter Jane, who married Archibald Edmonston and in the son and Daughter, Mary and Samuel Beall, children of his son, Ninian Beall, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Bell) Magruder
Born: c. 1667 Prince Georges County, Md.
Died: 28 June 1734 Prince Georges County, Md.
Wife: Jane Beall of Colonel Ninian Beall and Ruth Moore
Born about 1652 Prince Georges County, Md.
Died about 1745 (found on internet that she died before 1733, see text below)
Father: Thomas Edmonstone, circa. 1648-1690
Will dated March 13, 1734
Children:
James Edmonston, 1697-99 to 16Oct1753, Both in Prince Georges Co., Md.
Mary Ann, married James Beall of James Beall and Sarah Pierce
Archibald (#2), Prince Georges County, Md., buried 14 April 1787
Eleanor, 1682-unk. Married 10Nov1735 to Edward Offutt
Margaret (from WEB) born 1700-08, died after 1740. Married 1728-32 to James Beall
of Alexander Beall and Elizabeth Dick
Ninian, born 1704, Died 1753, Prince Georges County, Md. (Both)
Ruth, Born about 1688. Married about 1708 to John Orme
Martha, Born about 1689, Married about 1705 to Thomas Allen
Thomas, Born About 1690, married about 1715 to Ruth Offutt
Jane, Born about 1715, Married 1730 to Samuel Beall of Ninean Beall and
Elizabeth Magruder
Remarks: A lot of the above information came off the internet, & a lot of it contains conflicting dates.
From the book "My Edmonstons and a few more" by Charles Ninian Edmonston (1903-1979) :
In a genealogy compiled by Dorothy Edmonstone Zimmerman Allen, "Zimmerman, Allen and allied families" published about 1902, there is the following, in part.
"Our ancestor, Archibald Edmonstone, according to tradition, reached Maryland about 1680-83. All indications point to the conclusion that he was from the family settled in County Antrim, in Ireland. The Edmonstones of Red Hall and Braidens Island. The Presbyterians in Ireland suffered greatly for their faith. Briggs, in his history of American Presbyterians says, "During the troublous times from 1670 to 1680 a considerable number of families removed from the North of Ireland to the Barbadoes, Maryland and Virginia.
"After the Battle of Worcester, 3 Sept 1651, the commissioners in Dublin issued a proclamation for removing the popular Scots of Ulster. This Proclamation specified the conditions on which it was proposed to transplant the leading Presbyterians in the Counties of Down and Antrim to certain districts in Munster. The Proclamation was accompanied with a list of 260 persons including all those who by their known attachment to monarchical and Presbyterian principles and by their station and influence were most obnoxious to the reigning faction.," That was from "Scotch-Irish in America," by Hanna, Vol. I/page 604.
"The fact that Capt. Edmonstone, evidently an active rebel was banished to Munster, made it easier for his son to take ship to America. Possibly poverty as well as religious persecution drove him, Archibald, to our shores; tradition says, to Baltimore County, Maryland. The first mention of the name in either deed or archives
places him in Prince Georges County, where a band of Scotch immigrants were already established. The leading Scotsman at that time, one Ninian Beall, was settled on the Western Shore of Maryland. Archibald Edmonstone married his daughter, Jane."
In the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, there is the following account. #51932. Filing Case A. Mrs. Harvey Thomas' genealogical collection. It contains a letter from Washington, D. C. to Mrs. Anne H. Thomas.
"Dear Madame: A Thomas Edmonston, a relative of my mother, Catherine Anne Edmonston, whose father; Ninian Edmonston was my grandfather, called at my office. He is a lawyer and his visit was some years ago. He told me that he had just returned from Scotland and had called on Admiral Edmonston, a member of Parliament, of the House of Duntreath, Scotland, and through him had procured a genealogy of the Edmonston family, printed in pamphlet form in Glasgow. Having heard my mother say that she was decended from the Royal House of Scotland. The Edmonstons were Scotch, of the House of Duntreath. Margaret Edmonston married on of the heirs of the throne of "The Candlemilk:" branch of the Royal House of Stuart. The Christian names such as Basil, Archibald, Robert, etc., are still in use and come down to the present time.
"The Edmonstons were all Roman Catholics when the House of Stuart was in bad odor; a large number of them, as exiles, came to America and first settled in Baltimore County and then settled throughout Prince Georges County and Montgomery County, Maryland. Having an abundance of wealth they bought large tracts of land and deeded a good portion of it to various persons for 99 years as was customary in those days. Edmonston Avenue in Baltimore is named after the Family. (The avenue mentioned is Edmondson Avenue and is said to have been named for another branch of the Family who may or may not be related.)
The Beall and Orme Families intermarried with the Edmonstons." The letter was written by George B. Towles. His mother, Catherine Anne or Kitty Ann Edmonston was a daughter of Brooke Edmonston )1771-1820) who was a son of Ninian and Dorothy Edmonston.
Another version of the Edmonston family beginnings comes from a report of the General Records Commission, Dist. Of Columbia D.A.R. 1934-1936, Vol. 29, part one in the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. pages 212-213. Presented by Mrs. Kathleen Birch from a letter written by Samuel Boots Edmonston, St. Louis , Missouri, 1885. He says:
"In the year 1063, three years before the Battle of Hastings, England, William Edmonston, son of County de Edmont, a Duke in Flanders, accompanied Queen Margaret of Flanders to marry King Malcolm Canmore of Scotland. His portrait is in Holy Rood Palace, Edinburgh. William Edmonstone, ancestor, founded the House of Edmonston in Scotland 1063.
"About 1670, Thomas Edmonston, with his son, Archibald, came from Scotland, together with Col. Ninian Beall, William Offutt, and others, some seventy persons in all, settled on lands, afterwards Georgetown. Archibald Edmonston married Jane Beall. Their children were: James, Mary Beall, wife of James Beall, Ruth Orme, wife of John Orme, Eleanor, wife of Edward Offutt, Archibald, Ninian, Martha, wife of Thomas Allen, and Thomas. The grandparents of Samuel Boots Edmonston were William Edmonston and Elizabeth Mackaye." Very interesting and may be partly true.
Just one more sample of the Edmonston Family beginnings should be sufficient. In "Missouri, the Center State" 1821-1915 Illustrated. Chicago-St. Louis Vol. III by S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., page 300, there is a story of the Edmonston family contained in a biographical sketch of Archibald T. Edmonston.
"Archibald T. Edmonston, Supervisor of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, 1915. Born in St. Louis, Dec. 12, 1870. His father was Samuel B. Edmonston of Georgetown, D. C. and a direct descendant of Archibald Thomas Edmonston, the first colonial owner of what is now Washington, D. C. He held the grant from Charles I and the Stuarts before the execution (regicide) and in the subsequent reign of Cromwell. Archibald T. Edmonston, the American progenitor married a daughter of Col. Ninian Beall, the founder of Georgetown. The family estates in Scotland was Dumbarton and all his ancestors were Scotch and of the Stuart Clan. The Edmonstons originally went to England nine hundred years ago with William the Conqueror. The first Edmonston, historically reported, married Margaret, a daughter of Bruce, the First King and Stuart of Scotla
As before noted, I have not found any evidence to support the claim that Archibald Edmonston was a son of a Thomas Edmonston although it is very probably true since the name, Thomas, is in almost all the Edmonston families who descended from him. There is an appraisal for an estate of a Thomas Edmonston in the records of Prince Georges Co., Maryland, dated 1698, but no other record of him that I was able to find.
In Talbot Maryland, the County, there was a Thomas Edmondson and his family and descendants who were Quakers, probably from England, but there seems to be no records of his being involved in any way with the family of our Archibald Edmonston. There are various Edmondson Families in Virginia who came to that colony in very early times, but again, there appears to be no connection with ours.
In a recorded statement made in 1733, Archibald Edmonston gave his age as "sixty-odd Years" so that the date, 1667 is as close as I can come to estimating his birth date. His birthplace then could have been either Scotland, Northern Ireland, or even Maryland,. The date of his first appearance in Maryland too is a matter conjecture unless more records can be found than the one given by Dorothy E. Z. Allen. In her book, Dorothy Allen, page 83 wrote: "In a deed concerning land claimed by two parties is this: ' Sept. 29th, 1731, Archibald Edmonston, aged sixty years and upwards, being duly sworn, etc'" The upwards being indefinite.
The date of his death can be established as being between 13 March 1734 when he made his will, and 20 June 1734 when it was proven. From Will Book TD Folio, 159. Prince Georges County Wills. He was married to Jane Beall, daughter of Ninian Beall as shown by a record of a deed of gift of a female slave from Ninian Beall to Archibald Edmonston. Book E Page 68 Land Office, Prince Georges County Maryland. "Out of love and affection…toward my loving son-in-law, Archibald Edmonston, I give and devise 1 negro woman called Moll, age 16 years, etc." While Ninian Beall, at this time, did not give the name of the wife of Archibald Edmonston, she is mentioned by name in the will of her husband.. (I found 28June1734 on the Internet as being his date of death, which conflicts with the above - Ernest Edmonston).
In a deed dated 16Feb1704, Ninian Beall sold to Archibald Edmonston, for seven thousand pounds of tobacco, the plantation called "Dunkell", of which there will be more later. In this deed, Archibald Edmonston is described as a carpenter. Ruth Beall, wife of Ninian Beall, acknowledged the deed or in effect wived her dower rights to the land. There were 490 acres of land altogether, mentioned in this deed. Two other parcels of land, one called "The Gore" and another, called "The Meadows" were sold at the same time by Beall to Edmonston. Others have stated that Archibald Edmonston assumed the rank of Colonel of Prince Georges County Militia when his father-in-law became a member of the Maryland Assembly. I have not found it expedient to explore any of his military achievements. Records about the time of his death call him "Captain". He did become the owner of large tracts of land in Prince Georges County and he made gift deeds to his sons and sons-in-law by which we may prove that Smith was married to a daughter, Jane Edmonston, who was not mentioned in his will.
I obtained a facsimile copy of the will. It was written by someone other than himself, but signed by him in a very shaky hand which would indicate that he was either very weak or very ill at the time of signing. The text of the will with punctuation added by me.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, Archibald Edmonston of Prince Georges County, in the Province of Maryland, being in good health of body & of sound and perfect mind & memory, praise therefor given to Almighty God, I do make & ordain this, my present last will and testament in manner and form as followeth:
"First, I commend my soul into ye hands of Almighty God, hoping through ye induring Death and Paftition of my Saviour, Jesus Christ, to obtain pardon & forgiveness for all my sins & to inheritt
2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
everlasting life & my body I commit to ye earth to be decently buried at ye discretion of my wife, Jane Edmonston, whom I leave & appoint to be by sole administratrix over my whole personal esteat & to sech temporal efsteat as itt hath pleased God to bestow upon me, I give and dispose thereof as followeth:
"Imprimis: Itt is my will that all my debts & funeral charges be paid without suite of law or trouble by administratrix above mentioned.
"Item: I give my son, James Edmonston, all my wearing apparell.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Mary Beall, the sum of four pounds.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Eleanor Offutt, the sum of four pounds.
"2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
Item: I give unto my daughter, Ruth Orme the sum of five pounds.
"Item: I give unto my son Archibald Edmonston the sum of twenty shillings and my cane.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Martha Allen, my now dwelling Plantation with the land thereunto belonging, itt being part of a tract of land called, Dunkell, unto her & her heirs forever, after the decease of my wife, Jane Edmonston.
"Item: I give unto my son-in-law, Thomas Allen, two hundred acres of land to be laid out of the two tracts of land, ye one called, "Dear Park", ye other, "Bare Garden" Enlarged, to be laid out on ye outermost bounds of ye sd two tracts to ye east north east of ye plantation my son, Ninian formerly lived on and joyning to my son, Archibald Edmonston's land. To him and his heirs forever.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Martha Allen, one negro man named Sam & a feather-bed & furnitue.
"Item: I give unto my grandaughter, Jane Allen, one pound five shillings to pay for a year's schooling.
"Item: I give unto my son, Thomas Edmonston, ye remaining part of the two tracts of land before mentioned called "Dear Park" & "Bare Garden Enlarged" & also a tract of land called "Ye Goar" containing sixty acres with the improvements on all ye aforesaid lands & also one malato man called John, or Jack, one negrow girl named Doll, to him & his heirs forever."
"Item: It is my will that if my son, Thomas Edmonston, die without heirs of his body lawfully begotten that those two tracts of land called "Dear Park" & "Bare Garden Enlarged" fall to my son, Archibald Edmonston & those called "Ye Goar" & "Ye addition to ye Goar" to my son, James Edmonston.
"Item: I give unto my dear and loving wife, Jane Edmonston, one negrow woman called Moll and one other negrow woman called Sarah; one other called Clare also two other negrow men called, Cephas & Ammodo, to her & her heirs forever.
"Item: I give ye remaining part of my personal esteat to be equally divided between my wife, Jane Edmonston & my youngest son, Thomas Edmonston.
Item: Itt is my will that ye negrow & malato, with ye part of ye personal esteat before left to my son, Thomas Edmonston until he arrive at ye age of twenty-one years that he have his education out of ye labor of ye negro and malato & that esteat left him be kept in my wife's pofsefsion for him till he arrive at the age of twenty-one years.
"Itt is my will that my son, James Edmonston & my wife, Jane Edmonston inspect into ye behaviour & deportment of my son, Thomas Edmonston & he to be under their controlment during his minority.
"Item: I give unto Mr. Clement Hill & his heirs forever ye other half part of parcel of a tract of land called, "Cool Springs Level" according to ye quantity and Quality fo land ye one half of which I have conveyed by deed of gift to my daughter, Elenor Offutt.
"Item: I do hereby revoak & make nell all former wills by me made as sitnefs my hand & seal this thirteenty day of March one thousand, seven hundred thirty-four.
Archibald Edmonston (Seal)
Signed, Sealed, Acknowledged, Published and declared in ye presence of us, George Wells, Samuel White, William Beall, Elizabeth White."
George Wells, William Beall & Samuel White, three of the subscribing witnefses to the within will solemnly swear on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God. Deposed and swore that the testator within mentioned, sign, seal this instrument and heard him publish and declare the same to be his last will & testament. That at the time of his so doing he was, to the best of their apprehension & judgement, of sound and disposing
2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
mend & memory and lastly that they subscribed their names as witnefses to the said will in the presence of said testator & at his request.
"Sworn to before me this 20th day of June, 1734. D. Dulany, Comm. Liber ST #238. Recorded in Will Book TD Fol 159 Prince Georges County wills. Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland.
Somehow, writers of Edmonston history gave out the information that Jane Beall Edmonston predeceased her husband. In Box 9 Folder 32 of the Hall of Records in Annapolis, Md. There is a recorded in 1734 Archibald Edmonston's estate inventory signed by his executrix, Jane Edmonton. Recorded in Liber DD 1, Folio 70, also recorded in Liber ST, Folio 216. "Jane Edmonston, Exec. Of Archibald Edmonston, do make oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the within is a true & perfect inventory etc. D. Dulany, Comm."
"An inventory of the goods, chattels, rights and credits of Capt'n Archibald Edmonston, late of Prince Georges County dec'd, apprised by us, the subscribers, in current money this eleventh day of September,
A.D. 17342." A detailed list of the inventory would be too lengthy for this work and would add little of val
ue to it. The estimated total of 418, 11 shillings and 8 1/2 pence was given by Henry Wright and Wm Smith Appraisers. Jno Magruder and James Bosswell were creditors and James Edmonston and John Beall were kin.
In her book, "Sidelignts of Maryland History", Hester Dorsey Richardson gives, on page 34, "Cool Springs Level, granted to Archibald Edmonston, April 28, 1717, 592 acres on the road from Offutt's Cross Roads to the Great Falls of the Patomac on the north bank of this road."
Page 38, "Bear Garden Enlarged, surveyed for Archibald Edmonston, Nov. 10, 1716. 1265 acres. On the same page, Deer Park, Surveyed for Archibald Edmonston Feb. 14, 1720. 682 acres. This grant lies between West Point and East Point Branches.
Mrs. Richardson did not document these statements.
JANE (BEALL) EDMONSTON, Wife of Archibald (1)
In book DD 2 Inventories of Prince Georges County, Md., there is a record of the inventory of the chattels of Madame Jane Edmonston's whole estate. The Administrator was James Edmonston. The inventory was dated 13 Oct. 1745 which would indicate that she probably died sometime during that year.
The year of her birth has been given by others as about 1685, so she would have been about thirteen when her son James was born in 1698 according to a record which will be mentioned later. Indulging in my own form of guesswork, I would say that she must have been born between 1670 and 1680. No exact record, so far as I know, has been found of her birth, marriage, or death date.
Here father was Ninian Beall, at times known as "Ringing Bell" and the name Beall is pronounced, "Bell". Her mother was Ruth Moore. Other researchers and writers have done a better job of writing the history or biography of Ninian Beall, so that I will merely repeat some of the things they said.
He was born, they say, in Scotland about 1625 and was married once before he came to America and had two children by that first marriage. Then, so tradition tells us, he was captured by Cromwellian troops at the Battle of Dunbar, 3 Sept. 1650. He, with others , were taken to England and tried on a carge of rebellion, found guilty and sentenced to a term of servitude in the British Plantations. Some say the term was seven years. Further, it is believed that his contract of bondage was bought by a William Hall, who is supposed to have taken him to the Barbadoes before bringing him to Maryland. Whether or not the story is true in every detail, it at least makes for interesting speculation.
His will, Will Book 1, page 92, Prince Georges County Wills was made 15 Jan. 1717, and signed with his mark which would probably indicate that he was too ill or weak to write his signature as he had on other earlier documents. In the will, he bequeathed to his son, George, his Rock of Dunbarton Plantation, the present site of Dunbarton Oaks in Georgetown D. C.
His son-in-law, Andrew Hambleton was mentioned as was another son-in-law, Joseph Belt. The two children of a deceased son, Ninian Beall Jrreceived bequests of land. Also mentioned was a son, Charles.
The will was witnessed by John Bussey, Rebecca Gotward, and Edward Gillett. It as proved 28 Feb. 1717. Other members of his family were not mentioned in the will. We are most interested in his daughter Jane, who married Archibald Edmonston and in the son and Daughter, Mary and Samuel Beall, children of his son, Ninian Beall, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Bell) Magruder
EDMONSTON, Archibald Thomas(Colonel)
Born: c. 1667 Prince Georges County, Md.
Died: 28 June 1734 Prince Georges County, Md.
Wife: Jane Beall of Colonel Ninian Beall and Ruth Moore
Born about 1652 Prince Georges County, Md.
Died about 1745 (found on internet that she died before 1733, see text below)
Father: Thomas Edmonstone, circa. 1648-1690
Will dated March 13, 1734
Children:
James Edmonston, 1697-99 to 16Oct1753, Both in Prince Georges Co., Md.
Mary Ann, married James Beall of James Beall and Sarah Pierce
Archibald (#2), Prince Georges County, Md., buried 14 April 1787
Eleanor, 1682-unk. Married 10Nov1735 to Edward Offutt
Margaret (from WEB) born 1700-08, died after 1740. Married 1728-32 to James Beall
of Alexander Beall and Elizabeth Dick
Ninian, born 1704, Died 1753, Prince Georges County, Md. (Both)
Ruth, Born about 1688. Married about 1708 to John Orme
Martha, Born about 1689, Married about 1705 to Thomas Allen
Thomas, Born About 1690, married about 1715 to Ruth Offutt
Jane, Born about 1715, Married 1730 to Samuel Beall of Ninean Beall and
Elizabeth Magruder
Remarks: A lot of the above information came off the internet, & a lot of it contains conflicting dates.
From the book "My Edmonstons and a few more" by Charles Ninian Edmonston (1903-1979) :
In a genealogy compiled by Dorothy Edmonstone Zimmerman Allen, "Zimmerman, Allen and allied families" published about 1902, there is the following, in part.
"Our ancestor, Archibald Edmonstone, according to tradition, reached Maryland about 1680-83. All indications point to the conclusion that he was from the family settled in County Antrim, in Ireland. The Edmonstones of Red Hall and Braidens Island. The Presbyterians in Ireland suffered greatly for their faith. Briggs, in his history of American Presbyterians says, "During the troublous times from 1670 to 1680 a considerable number of families removed from the North of Ireland to the Barbadoes, Maryland and Virginia.
"After the Battle of Worcester, 3 Sept 1651, the commissioners in Dublin issued a proclamation for removing the popular Scots of Ulster. This Proclamation specified the conditions on which it was proposed to transplant the leading Presbyterians in the Counties of Down and Antrim to certain districts in Munster. The Proclamation was accompanied with a list of 260 persons including all those who by their known attachment to monarchical and Presbyterian principles and by their station and influence were most obnoxious to the reigning faction.," That was from "Scotch-Irish in America," by Hanna, Vol. I/page 604.
"The fact that Capt. Edmonstone, evidently an active rebel was banished to Munster, made it easier for his son to take ship to America. Possibly poverty as well as religious persecution drove him, Archibald, to our shores; tradition says, to Baltimore County, Maryland. The first mention of the name in either deed or archives
places him in Prince Georges County, where a band of Scotch immigrants were already established. The leading Scotsman at that time, one Ninian Beall, was settled on the Western Shore of Maryland. Archibald Edmonstone married his daughter, Jane."
In the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, there is the following account. #51932. Filing Case A. Mrs. Harvey Thomas' genealogical collection. It contains a letter from Washington, D. C. to Mrs. Anne H. Thomas.
"Dear Madame: A Thomas Edmonston, a relative of my mother, Catherine Anne Edmonston, whose father; Ninian Edmonston was my grandfather, called at my office. He is a lawyer and his visit was some years ago. He told me that he had just returned from Scotland and had called on Admiral Edmonston, a member of Parliament, of the House of Duntreath, Scotland, and through him had procured a genealogy of the Edmonston family, printed in pamphlet form in Glasgow. Having heard my mother say that she was decended from the Royal House of Scotland. The Edmonstons were Scotch, of the House of Duntreath. Margaret Edmonston married on of the heirs of the throne of "The Candlemilk:" branch of the Royal House of Stuart. The Christian names such as Basil, Archibald, Robert, etc., are still in use and come down to the present time.
"The Edmonstons were all Roman Catholics when the House of Stuart was in bad odor; a large number of them, as exiles, came to America and first settled in Baltimore County and then settled throughout Prince Georges County and Montgomery County, Maryland. Having an abundance of wealth they bought large tracts of land and deeded a good portion of it to various persons for 99 years as was customary in those days. Edmonston Avenue in Baltimore is named after the Family. (The avenue mentioned is Edmondson Avenue and is said to have been named for another branch of the Family who may or may not be related.)
The Beall and Orme Families intermarried with the Edmonstons." The letter was written by George B. Towles. His mother, Catherine Anne or Kitty Ann Edmonston was a daughter of Brooke Edmonston )1771-1820) who was a son of Ninian and Dorothy Edmonston.
Another version of the Edmonston family beginnings comes from a report of the General Records Commission, Dist. Of Columbia D.A.R. 1934-1936, Vol. 29, part one in the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. pages 212-213. Presented by Mrs. Kathleen Birch from a letter written by Samuel Boots Edmonston, St. Louis , Missouri, 1885. He says:
"In the year 1063, three years before the Battle of Hastings, England, William Edmonston, son of County de Edmont, a Duke in Flanders, accompanied Queen Margaret of Flanders to marry King Malcolm Canmore of Scotland. His portrait is in Holy Rood Palace, Edinburgh. William Edmonstone, ancestor, founded the House of Edmonston in Scotland 1063.
"About 1670, Thomas Edmonston, with his son, Archibald, came from Scotland, together with Col. Ninian Beall, William Offutt, and others, some seventy persons in all, settled on lands, afterwards Georgetown. Archibald Edmonston married Jane Beall. Their children were: James, Mary Beall, wife of James Beall, Ruth Orme, wife of John Orme, Eleanor, wife of Edward Offutt, Archibald, Ninian, Martha, wife of Thomas Allen, and Thomas. The grandparents of Samuel Boots Edmonston were William Edmonston and Elizabeth Mackaye." Very interesting and may be partly true.
Just one more sample of the Edmonston Family beginnings should be sufficient. In "Missouri, the Center State" 1821-1915 Illustrated. Chicago-St. Louis Vol. III by S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., page 300, there is a story of the Edmonston family contained in a biographical sketch of Archibald T. Edmonston.
"Archibald T. Edmonston, Supervisor of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, 1915. Born in St. Louis, Dec. 12, 1870. His father was Samuel B. Edmonston of Georgetown, D. C. and a direct descendant of Archibald Thomas Edmonston, the first colonial owner of what is now Washington, D. C. He held the grant from Charles I and the Stuarts before the execution (regicide) and in the subsequent reign of Cromwell. Archibald T. Edmonston, the American progenitor married a daughter of Col. Ninian Beall, the founder of Georgetown. The family estates in Scotland was Dumbarton and all his ancestors were Scotch and of the Stuart Clan. The Edmonstons originally went to England nine hundred years ago with William the Conqueror. The first Edmonston, historically reported, married Margaret, a daughter of Bruce, the First King and Stuart of Scotla
As before noted, I have not found any evidence to support the claim that Archibald Edmonston was a son of a Thomas Edmonston although it is very probably true since the name, Thomas, is in almost all the Edmonston families who descended from him. There is an appraisal for an estate of a Thomas Edmonston in the records of Prince Georges Co., Maryland, dated 1698, but no other record of him that I was able to find.
In Talbot Maryland, the County, there was a Thomas Edmondson and his family and descendants who were Quakers, probably from England, but there seems to be no records of his being involved in any way with the family of our Archibald Edmonston. There are various Edmondson Families in Virginia who came to that colony in very early times, but again, there appears to be no connection with ours.
In a recorded statement made in 1733, Archibald Edmonston gave his age as "sixty-odd Years" so that the date, 1667 is as close as I can come to estimating his birth date. His birthplace then could have been either Scotland, Northern Ireland, or even Maryland,. The date of his first appearance in Maryland too is a matter conjecture unless more records can be found than the one given by Dorothy E. Z. Allen. In her book, Dorothy Allen, page 83 wrote: "In a deed concerning land claimed by two parties is this: ' Sept. 29th, 1731, Archibald Edmonston, aged sixty years and upwards, being duly sworn, etc'" The upwards being indefinite.
The date of his death can be established as being between 13 March 1734 when he made his will, and 20 June 1734 when it was proven. From Will Book TD Folio, 159. Prince Georges County Wills. He was married to Jane Beall, daughter of Ninian Beall as shown by a record of a deed of gift of a female slave from Ninian Beall to Archibald Edmonston. Book E Page 68 Land Office, Prince Georges County Maryland. "Out of love and affection…toward my loving son-in-law, Archibald Edmonston, I give and devise 1 negro woman called Moll, age 16 years, etc." While Ninian Beall, at this time, did not give the name of the wife of Archibald Edmonston, she is mentioned by name in the will of her husband.. (I found 28June1734 on the Internet as being his date of death, which conflicts with the above - Ernest Edmonston).
In a deed dated 16Feb1704, Ninian Beall sold to Archibald Edmonston, for seven thousand pounds of tobacco, the plantation called "Dunkell", of which there will be more later. In this deed, Archibald Edmonston is described as a carpenter. Ruth Beall, wife of Ninian Beall, acknowledged the deed or in effect wived her dower rights to the land. There were 490 acres of land altogether, mentioned in this deed. Two other parcels of land, one called "The Gore" and another, called "The Meadows" were sold at the same time by Beall to Edmonston. Others have stated that Archibald Edmonston assumed the rank of Colonel of Prince Georges County Militia when his father-in-law became a member of the Maryland Assembly. I have not found it expedient to explore any of his military achievements. Records about the time of his death call him "Captain". He did become the owner of large tracts of land in Prince Georges County and he made gift deeds to his sons and sons-in-law by which we may prove that Smith was married to a daughter, Jane Edmonston, who was not mentioned in his will.
I obtained a facsimile copy of the will. It was written by someone other than himself, but signed by him in a very shaky hand which would indicate that he was either very weak or very ill at the time of signing. The text of the will with punctuation added by me.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, Archibald Edmonston of Prince Georges County, in the Province of Maryland, being in good health of body & of sound and perfect mind & memory, praise therefor given to Almighty God, I do make & ordain this, my present last will and testament in manner and form as followeth:
"First, I commend my soul into ye hands of Almighty God, hoping through ye induring Death and Paftition of my Saviour, Jesus Christ, to obtain pardon & forgiveness for all my sins & to inheritt
2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
everlasting life & my body I commit to ye earth to be decently buried at ye discretion of my wife, Jane Edmonston, whom I leave & appoint to be by sole administratrix over my whole personal esteat & to sech temporal efsteat as itt hath pleased God to bestow upon me, I give and dispose thereof as followeth:
"Imprimis: Itt is my will that all my debts & funeral charges be paid without suite of law or trouble by administratrix above mentioned.
"Item: I give my son, James Edmonston, all my wearing apparell.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Mary Beall, the sum of four pounds.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Eleanor Offutt, the sum of four pounds.
"2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
Item: I give unto my daughter, Ruth Orme the sum of five pounds.
"Item: I give unto my son Archibald Edmonston the sum of twenty shillings and my cane.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Martha Allen, my now dwelling Plantation with the land thereunto belonging, itt being part of a tract of land called, Dunkell, unto her & her heirs forever, after the decease of my wife, Jane Edmonston.
"Item: I give unto my son-in-law, Thomas Allen, two hundred acres of land to be laid out of the two tracts of land, ye one called, "Dear Park", ye other, "Bare Garden" Enlarged, to be laid out on ye outermost bounds of ye sd two tracts to ye east north east of ye plantation my son, Ninian formerly lived on and joyning to my son, Archibald Edmonston's land. To him and his heirs forever.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Martha Allen, one negro man named Sam & a feather-bed & furnitue.
"Item: I give unto my grandaughter, Jane Allen, one pound five shillings to pay for a year's schooling.
"Item: I give unto my son, Thomas Edmonston, ye remaining part of the two tracts of land before mentioned called "Dear Park" & "Bare Garden Enlarged" & also a tract of land called "Ye Goar" containing sixty acres with the improvements on all ye aforesaid lands & also one malato man called John, or Jack, one negrow girl named Doll, to him & his heirs forever."
"Item: It is my will that if my son, Thomas Edmonston, die without heirs of his body lawfully begotten that those two tracts of land called "Dear Park" & "Bare Garden Enlarged" fall to my son, Archibald Edmonston & those called "Ye Goar" & "Ye addition to ye Goar" to my son, James Edmonston.
"Item: I give unto my dear and loving wife, Jane Edmonston, one negrow woman called Moll and one other negrow woman called Sarah; one other called Clare also two other negrow men called, Cephas & Ammodo, to her & her heirs forever.
"Item: I give ye remaining part of my personal esteat to be equally divided between my wife, Jane Edmonston & my youngest son, Thomas Edmonston.
Item: Itt is my will that ye negrow & malato, with ye part of ye personal esteat before left to my son, Thomas Edmonston until he arrive at ye age of twenty-one years that he have his education out of ye labor of ye negro and malato & that esteat left him be kept in my wife's pofsefsion for him till he arrive at the age of twenty-one years.
"Itt is my will that my son, James Edmonston & my wife, Jane Edmonston inspect into ye behaviour & deportment of my son, Thomas Edmonston & he to be under their controlment during his minority.
"Item: I give unto Mr. Clement Hill & his heirs forever ye other half part of parcel of a tract of land called, "Cool Springs Level" according to ye quantity and Quality fo land ye one half of which I have conveyed by deed of gift to my daughter, Elenor Offutt.
"Item: I do hereby revoak & make nell all former wills by me made as sitnefs my hand & seal this thirteenty day of March one thousand, seven hundred thirty-four.
Archibald Edmonston (Seal)
Signed, Sealed, Acknowledged, Published and declared in ye presence of us, George Wells, Samuel White, William Beall, Elizabeth White."
George Wells, William Beall & Samuel White, three of the subscribing witnefses to the within will solemnly swear on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God. Deposed and swore that the testator within mentioned, sign, seal this instrument and heard him publish and declare the same to be his last will & testament. That at the time of his so doing he was, to the best of their apprehension & judgement, of sound and disposing
2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
mend & memory and lastly that they subscribed their names as witnefses to the said will in the presence of said testator & at his request.
"Sworn to before me this 20th day of June, 1734. D. Dulany, Comm. Liber ST #238. Recorded in Will Book TD Fol 159 Prince Georges County wills. Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland.
Somehow, writers of Edmonston history gave out the information that Jane Beall Edmonston predeceased her husband. In Box 9 Folder 32 of the Hall of Records in Annapolis, Md. There is a recorded in 1734 Archibald Edmonston's estate inventory signed by his executrix, Jane Edmonton. Recorded in Liber DD 1, Folio 70, also recorded in Liber ST, Folio 216. "Jane Edmonston, Exec. Of Archibald Edmonston, do make oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the within is a true & perfect inventory etc. D. Dulany, Comm."
"An inventory of the goods, chattels, rights and credits of Capt'n Archibald Edmonston, late of Prince Georges County dec'd, apprised by us, the subscribers, in current money this eleventh day of September,
A.D. 17342." A detailed list of the inventory would be too lengthy for this work and would add little of val
ue to it. The estimated total of 418, 11 shillings and 8 1/2 pence was given by Henry Wright and Wm Smith Appraisers. Jno Magruder and James Bosswell were creditors and James Edmonston and John Beall were kin.
In her book, "Sidelignts of Maryland History", Hester Dorsey Richardson gives, on page 34, "Cool Springs Level, granted to Archibald Edmonston, April 28, 1717, 592 acres on the road from Offutt's Cross Roads to the Great Falls of the Patomac on the north bank of this road."
Page 38, "Bear Garden Enlarged, surveyed for Archibald Edmonston, Nov. 10, 1716. 1265 acres. On the same page, Deer Park, Surveyed for Archibald Edmonston Feb. 14, 1720. 682 acres. This grant lies between West Point and East Point Branches.
Mrs. Richardson did not document these statements.
JANE (BEALL) EDMONSTON, Wife of Archibald (1)
In book DD 2 Inventories of Prince Georges County, Md., there is a record of the inventory of the chattels of Madame Jane Edmonston's whole estate. The Administrator was James Edmonston. The inventory was dated 13 Oct. 1745 which would indicate that she probably died sometime during that year.
The year of her birth has been given by others as about 1685, so she would have been about thirteen when her son James was born in 1698 according to a record which will be mentioned later. Indulging in my own form of guesswork, I would say that she must have been born between 1670 and 1680. No exact record, so far as I know, has been found of her birth, marriage, or death date.
Here father was Ninian Beall, at times known as "Ringing Bell" and the name Beall is pronounced, "Bell". Her mother was Ruth Moore. Other researchers and writers have done a better job of writing the history or biography of Ninian Beall, so that I will merely repeat some of the things they said.
He was born, they say, in Scotland about 1625 and was married once before he came to America and had two children by that first marriage. Then, so tradition tells us, he was captured by Cromwellian troops at the Battle of Dunbar, 3 Sept. 1650. He, with others , were taken to England and tried on a carge of rebellion, found guilty and sentenced to a term of servitude in the British Plantations. Some say the term was seven years. Further, it is believed that his contract of bondage was bought by a William Hall, who is supposed to have taken him to the Barbadoes before bringing him to Maryland. Whether or not the story is true in every detail, it at least makes for interesting speculation.
His will, Will Book 1, page 92, Prince Georges County Wills was made 15 Jan. 1717, and signed with his mark which would probably indicate that he was too ill or weak to write his signature as he had on other earlier documents. In the will, he bequeathed to his son, George, his Rock of Dunbarton Plantation, the present site of Dunbarton Oaks in Georgetown D. C.
His son-in-law, Andrew Hambleton was mentioned as was another son-in-law, Joseph Belt. The two children of a deceased son, Ninian Beall Jrreceived bequests of land. Also mentioned was a son, Charles.
The will was witnessed by John Bussey, Rebecca Gotward, and Edward Gillett. It as proved 28 Feb. 1717. Other members of his family were not mentioned in the will. We are most interested in his daughter Jane, who married Archibald Edmonston and in the son and Daughter, Mary and Samuel Beall, children of his son, Ninian Beall, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Bell) Magruder
Born: c. 1667 Prince Georges County, Md.
Died: 28 June 1734 Prince Georges County, Md.
Wife: Jane Beall of Colonel Ninian Beall and Ruth Moore
Born about 1652 Prince Georges County, Md.
Died about 1745 (found on internet that she died before 1733, see text below)
Father: Thomas Edmonstone, circa. 1648-1690
Will dated March 13, 1734
Children:
James Edmonston, 1697-99 to 16Oct1753, Both in Prince Georges Co., Md.
Mary Ann, married James Beall of James Beall and Sarah Pierce
Archibald (#2), Prince Georges County, Md., buried 14 April 1787
Eleanor, 1682-unk. Married 10Nov1735 to Edward Offutt
Margaret (from WEB) born 1700-08, died after 1740. Married 1728-32 to James Beall
of Alexander Beall and Elizabeth Dick
Ninian, born 1704, Died 1753, Prince Georges County, Md. (Both)
Ruth, Born about 1688. Married about 1708 to John Orme
Martha, Born about 1689, Married about 1705 to Thomas Allen
Thomas, Born About 1690, married about 1715 to Ruth Offutt
Jane, Born about 1715, Married 1730 to Samuel Beall of Ninean Beall and
Elizabeth Magruder
Remarks: A lot of the above information came off the internet, & a lot of it contains conflicting dates.
From the book "My Edmonstons and a few more" by Charles Ninian Edmonston (1903-1979) :
In a genealogy compiled by Dorothy Edmonstone Zimmerman Allen, "Zimmerman, Allen and allied families" published about 1902, there is the following, in part.
"Our ancestor, Archibald Edmonstone, according to tradition, reached Maryland about 1680-83. All indications point to the conclusion that he was from the family settled in County Antrim, in Ireland. The Edmonstones of Red Hall and Braidens Island. The Presbyterians in Ireland suffered greatly for their faith. Briggs, in his history of American Presbyterians says, "During the troublous times from 1670 to 1680 a considerable number of families removed from the North of Ireland to the Barbadoes, Maryland and Virginia.
"After the Battle of Worcester, 3 Sept 1651, the commissioners in Dublin issued a proclamation for removing the popular Scots of Ulster. This Proclamation specified the conditions on which it was proposed to transplant the leading Presbyterians in the Counties of Down and Antrim to certain districts in Munster. The Proclamation was accompanied with a list of 260 persons including all those who by their known attachment to monarchical and Presbyterian principles and by their station and influence were most obnoxious to the reigning faction.," That was from "Scotch-Irish in America," by Hanna, Vol. I/page 604.
"The fact that Capt. Edmonstone, evidently an active rebel was banished to Munster, made it easier for his son to take ship to America. Possibly poverty as well as religious persecution drove him, Archibald, to our shores; tradition says, to Baltimore County, Maryland. The first mention of the name in either deed or archives
places him in Prince Georges County, where a band of Scotch immigrants were already established. The leading Scotsman at that time, one Ninian Beall, was settled on the Western Shore of Maryland. Archibald Edmonstone married his daughter, Jane."
In the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, there is the following account. #51932. Filing Case A. Mrs. Harvey Thomas' genealogical collection. It contains a letter from Washington, D. C. to Mrs. Anne H. Thomas.
"Dear Madame: A Thomas Edmonston, a relative of my mother, Catherine Anne Edmonston, whose father; Ninian Edmonston was my grandfather, called at my office. He is a lawyer and his visit was some years ago. He told me that he had just returned from Scotland and had called on Admiral Edmonston, a member of Parliament, of the House of Duntreath, Scotland, and through him had procured a genealogy of the Edmonston family, printed in pamphlet form in Glasgow. Having heard my mother say that she was decended from the Royal House of Scotland. The Edmonstons were Scotch, of the House of Duntreath. Margaret Edmonston married on of the heirs of the throne of "The Candlemilk:" branch of the Royal House of Stuart. The Christian names such as Basil, Archibald, Robert, etc., are still in use and come down to the present time.
"The Edmonstons were all Roman Catholics when the House of Stuart was in bad odor; a large number of them, as exiles, came to America and first settled in Baltimore County and then settled throughout Prince Georges County and Montgomery County, Maryland. Having an abundance of wealth they bought large tracts of land and deeded a good portion of it to various persons for 99 years as was customary in those days. Edmonston Avenue in Baltimore is named after the Family. (The avenue mentioned is Edmondson Avenue and is said to have been named for another branch of the Family who may or may not be related.)
The Beall and Orme Families intermarried with the Edmonstons." The letter was written by George B. Towles. His mother, Catherine Anne or Kitty Ann Edmonston was a daughter of Brooke Edmonston )1771-1820) who was a son of Ninian and Dorothy Edmonston.
Another version of the Edmonston family beginnings comes from a report of the General Records Commission, Dist. Of Columbia D.A.R. 1934-1936, Vol. 29, part one in the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. pages 212-213. Presented by Mrs. Kathleen Birch from a letter written by Samuel Boots Edmonston, St. Louis , Missouri, 1885. He says:
"In the year 1063, three years before the Battle of Hastings, England, William Edmonston, son of County de Edmont, a Duke in Flanders, accompanied Queen Margaret of Flanders to marry King Malcolm Canmore of Scotland. His portrait is in Holy Rood Palace, Edinburgh. William Edmonstone, ancestor, founded the House of Edmonston in Scotland 1063.
"About 1670, Thomas Edmonston, with his son, Archibald, came from Scotland, together with Col. Ninian Beall, William Offutt, and others, some seventy persons in all, settled on lands, afterwards Georgetown. Archibald Edmonston married Jane Beall. Their children were: James, Mary Beall, wife of James Beall, Ruth Orme, wife of John Orme, Eleanor, wife of Edward Offutt, Archibald, Ninian, Martha, wife of Thomas Allen, and Thomas. The grandparents of Samuel Boots Edmonston were William Edmonston and Elizabeth Mackaye." Very interesting and may be partly true.
Just one more sample of the Edmonston Family beginnings should be sufficient. In "Missouri, the Center State" 1821-1915 Illustrated. Chicago-St. Louis Vol. III by S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., page 300, there is a story of the Edmonston family contained in a biographical sketch of Archibald T. Edmonston.
"Archibald T. Edmonston, Supervisor of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, 1915. Born in St. Louis, Dec. 12, 1870. His father was Samuel B. Edmonston of Georgetown, D. C. and a direct descendant of Archibald Thomas Edmonston, the first colonial owner of what is now Washington, D. C. He held the grant from Charles I and the Stuarts before the execution (regicide) and in the subsequent reign of Cromwell. Archibald T. Edmonston, the American progenitor married a daughter of Col. Ninian Beall, the founder of Georgetown. The family estates in Scotland was Dumbarton and all his ancestors were Scotch and of the Stuart Clan. The Edmonstons originally went to England nine hundred years ago with William the Conqueror. The first Edmonston, historically reported, married Margaret, a daughter of Bruce, the First King and Stuart of Scotla
As before noted, I have not found any evidence to support the claim that Archibald Edmonston was a son of a Thomas Edmonston although it is very probably true since the name, Thomas, is in almost all the Edmonston families who descended from him. There is an appraisal for an estate of a Thomas Edmonston in the records of Prince Georges Co., Maryland, dated 1698, but no other record of him that I was able to find.
In Talbot Maryland, the County, there was a Thomas Edmondson and his family and descendants who were Quakers, probably from England, but there seems to be no records of his being involved in any way with the family of our Archibald Edmonston. There are various Edmondson Families in Virginia who came to that colony in very early times, but again, there appears to be no connection with ours.
In a recorded statement made in 1733, Archibald Edmonston gave his age as "sixty-odd Years" so that the date, 1667 is as close as I can come to estimating his birth date. His birthplace then could have been either Scotland, Northern Ireland, or even Maryland,. The date of his first appearance in Maryland too is a matter conjecture unless more records can be found than the one given by Dorothy E. Z. Allen. In her book, Dorothy Allen, page 83 wrote: "In a deed concerning land claimed by two parties is this: ' Sept. 29th, 1731, Archibald Edmonston, aged sixty years and upwards, being duly sworn, etc'" The upwards being indefinite.
The date of his death can be established as being between 13 March 1734 when he made his will, and 20 June 1734 when it was proven. From Will Book TD Folio, 159. Prince Georges County Wills. He was married to Jane Beall, daughter of Ninian Beall as shown by a record of a deed of gift of a female slave from Ninian Beall to Archibald Edmonston. Book E Page 68 Land Office, Prince Georges County Maryland. "Out of love and affection…toward my loving son-in-law, Archibald Edmonston, I give and devise 1 negro woman called Moll, age 16 years, etc." While Ninian Beall, at this time, did not give the name of the wife of Archibald Edmonston, she is mentioned by name in the will of her husband.. (I found 28June1734 on the Internet as being his date of death, which conflicts with the above - Ernest Edmonston).
In a deed dated 16Feb1704, Ninian Beall sold to Archibald Edmonston, for seven thousand pounds of tobacco, the plantation called "Dunkell", of which there will be more later. In this deed, Archibald Edmonston is described as a carpenter. Ruth Beall, wife of Ninian Beall, acknowledged the deed or in effect wived her dower rights to the land. There were 490 acres of land altogether, mentioned in this deed. Two other parcels of land, one called "The Gore" and another, called "The Meadows" were sold at the same time by Beall to Edmonston. Others have stated that Archibald Edmonston assumed the rank of Colonel of Prince Georges County Militia when his father-in-law became a member of the Maryland Assembly. I have not found it expedient to explore any of his military achievements. Records about the time of his death call him "Captain". He did become the owner of large tracts of land in Prince Georges County and he made gift deeds to his sons and sons-in-law by which we may prove that Smith was married to a daughter, Jane Edmonston, who was not mentioned in his will.
I obtained a facsimile copy of the will. It was written by someone other than himself, but signed by him in a very shaky hand which would indicate that he was either very weak or very ill at the time of signing. The text of the will with punctuation added by me.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, Archibald Edmonston of Prince Georges County, in the Province of Maryland, being in good health of body & of sound and perfect mind & memory, praise therefor given to Almighty God, I do make & ordain this, my present last will and testament in manner and form as followeth:
"First, I commend my soul into ye hands of Almighty God, hoping through ye induring Death and Paftition of my Saviour, Jesus Christ, to obtain pardon & forgiveness for all my sins & to inheritt
2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
everlasting life & my body I commit to ye earth to be decently buried at ye discretion of my wife, Jane Edmonston, whom I leave & appoint to be by sole administratrix over my whole personal esteat & to sech temporal efsteat as itt hath pleased God to bestow upon me, I give and dispose thereof as followeth:
"Imprimis: Itt is my will that all my debts & funeral charges be paid without suite of law or trouble by administratrix above mentioned.
"Item: I give my son, James Edmonston, all my wearing apparell.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Mary Beall, the sum of four pounds.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Eleanor Offutt, the sum of four pounds.
"2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
Item: I give unto my daughter, Ruth Orme the sum of five pounds.
"Item: I give unto my son Archibald Edmonston the sum of twenty shillings and my cane.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Martha Allen, my now dwelling Plantation with the land thereunto belonging, itt being part of a tract of land called, Dunkell, unto her & her heirs forever, after the decease of my wife, Jane Edmonston.
"Item: I give unto my son-in-law, Thomas Allen, two hundred acres of land to be laid out of the two tracts of land, ye one called, "Dear Park", ye other, "Bare Garden" Enlarged, to be laid out on ye outermost bounds of ye sd two tracts to ye east north east of ye plantation my son, Ninian formerly lived on and joyning to my son, Archibald Edmonston's land. To him and his heirs forever.
"Item: I give unto my daughter, Martha Allen, one negro man named Sam & a feather-bed & furnitue.
"Item: I give unto my grandaughter, Jane Allen, one pound five shillings to pay for a year's schooling.
"Item: I give unto my son, Thomas Edmonston, ye remaining part of the two tracts of land before mentioned called "Dear Park" & "Bare Garden Enlarged" & also a tract of land called "Ye Goar" containing sixty acres with the improvements on all ye aforesaid lands & also one malato man called John, or Jack, one negrow girl named Doll, to him & his heirs forever."
"Item: It is my will that if my son, Thomas Edmonston, die without heirs of his body lawfully begotten that those two tracts of land called "Dear Park" & "Bare Garden Enlarged" fall to my son, Archibald Edmonston & those called "Ye Goar" & "Ye addition to ye Goar" to my son, James Edmonston.
"Item: I give unto my dear and loving wife, Jane Edmonston, one negrow woman called Moll and one other negrow woman called Sarah; one other called Clare also two other negrow men called, Cephas & Ammodo, to her & her heirs forever.
"Item: I give ye remaining part of my personal esteat to be equally divided between my wife, Jane Edmonston & my youngest son, Thomas Edmonston.
Item: Itt is my will that ye negrow & malato, with ye part of ye personal esteat before left to my son, Thomas Edmonston until he arrive at ye age of twenty-one years that he have his education out of ye labor of ye negro and malato & that esteat left him be kept in my wife's pofsefsion for him till he arrive at the age of twenty-one years.
"Itt is my will that my son, James Edmonston & my wife, Jane Edmonston inspect into ye behaviour & deportment of my son, Thomas Edmonston & he to be under their controlment during his minority.
"Item: I give unto Mr. Clement Hill & his heirs forever ye other half part of parcel of a tract of land called, "Cool Springs Level" according to ye quantity and Quality fo land ye one half of which I have conveyed by deed of gift to my daughter, Elenor Offutt.
"Item: I do hereby revoak & make nell all former wills by me made as sitnefs my hand & seal this thirteenty day of March one thousand, seven hundred thirty-four.
Archibald Edmonston (Seal)
Signed, Sealed, Acknowledged, Published and declared in ye presence of us, George Wells, Samuel White, William Beall, Elizabeth White."
George Wells, William Beall & Samuel White, three of the subscribing witnefses to the within will solemnly swear on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God. Deposed and swore that the testator within mentioned, sign, seal this instrument and heard him publish and declare the same to be his last will & testament. That at the time of his so doing he was, to the best of their apprehension & judgement, of sound and disposing
2. EDMONSTON, Archibald (Colonel), Continued
mend & memory and lastly that they subscribed their names as witnefses to the said will in the presence of said testator & at his request.
"Sworn to before me this 20th day of June, 1734. D. Dulany, Comm. Liber ST #238. Recorded in Will Book TD Fol 159 Prince Georges County wills. Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland.
Somehow, writers of Edmonston history gave out the information that Jane Beall Edmonston predeceased her husband. In Box 9 Folder 32 of the Hall of Records in Annapolis, Md. There is a recorded in 1734 Archibald Edmonston's estate inventory signed by his executrix, Jane Edmonton. Recorded in Liber DD 1, Folio 70, also recorded in Liber ST, Folio 216. "Jane Edmonston, Exec. Of Archibald Edmonston, do make oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the within is a true & perfect inventory etc. D. Dulany, Comm."
"An inventory of the goods, chattels, rights and credits of Capt'n Archibald Edmonston, late of Prince Georges County dec'd, apprised by us, the subscribers, in current money this eleventh day of September,
A.D. 17342." A detailed list of the inventory would be too lengthy for this work and would add little of val
ue to it. The estimated total of 418, 11 shillings and 8 1/2 pence was given by Henry Wright and Wm Smith Appraisers. Jno Magruder and James Bosswell were creditors and James Edmonston and John Beall were kin.
In her book, "Sidelignts of Maryland History", Hester Dorsey Richardson gives, on page 34, "Cool Springs Level, granted to Archibald Edmonston, April 28, 1717, 592 acres on the road from Offutt's Cross Roads to the Great Falls of the Patomac on the north bank of this road."
Page 38, "Bear Garden Enlarged, surveyed for Archibald Edmonston, Nov. 10, 1716. 1265 acres. On the same page, Deer Park, Surveyed for Archibald Edmonston Feb. 14, 1720. 682 acres. This grant lies between West Point and East Point Branches.
Mrs. Richardson did not document these statements.
JANE (BEALL) EDMONSTON, Wife of Archibald (1)
In book DD 2 Inventories of Prince Georges County, Md., there is a record of the inventory of the chattels of Madame Jane Edmonston's whole estate. The Administrator was James Edmonston. The inventory was dated 13 Oct. 1745 which would indicate that she probably died sometime during that year.
The year of her birth has been given by others as about 1685, so she would have been about thirteen when her son James was born in 1698 according to a record which will be mentioned later. Indulging in my own form of guesswork, I would say that she must have been born between 1670 and 1680. No exact record, so far as I know, has been found of her birth, marriage, or death date.
Here father was Ninian Beall, at times known as "Ringing Bell" and the name Beall is pronounced, "Bell". Her mother was Ruth Moore. Other researchers and writers have done a better job of writing the history or biography of Ninian Beall, so that I will merely repeat some of the things they said.
He was born, they say, in Scotland about 1625 and was married once before he came to America and had two children by that first marriage. Then, so tradition tells us, he was captured by Cromwellian troops at the Battle of Dunbar, 3 Sept. 1650. He, with others , were taken to England and tried on a carge of rebellion, found guilty and sentenced to a term of servitude in the British Plantations. Some say the term was seven years. Further, it is believed that his contract of bondage was bought by a William Hall, who is supposed to have taken him to the Barbadoes before bringing him to Maryland. Whether or not the story is true in every detail, it at least makes for interesting speculation.
His will, Will Book 1, page 92, Prince Georges County Wills was made 15 Jan. 1717, and signed with his mark which would probably indicate that he was too ill or weak to write his signature as he had on other earlier documents. In the will, he bequeathed to his son, George, his Rock of Dunbarton Plantation, the present site of Dunbarton Oaks in Georgetown D. C.
His son-in-law, Andrew Hambleton was mentioned as was another son-in-law, Joseph Belt. The two children of a deceased son, Ninian Beall Jrreceived bequests of land. Also mentioned was a son, Charles.
The will was witnessed by John Bussey, Rebecca Gotward, and Edward Gillett. It as proved 28 Feb. 1717. Other members of his family were not mentioned in the will. We are most interested in his daughter Jane, who married Archibald Edmonston and in the son and Daughter, Mary and Samuel Beall, children of his son, Ninian Beall, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Bell) Magruder
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