Dr. John H. Beall (b. circa ? - d. circa ?)
MSA SC 5496-5766
Property owner, Calvert County, Maryland
Biography:
Dr.
John Hillen Beall owned property in Calvert County as well as Prince George's
County. Records listed Beall as a "Doctor of Physic" as early as 1806.1
He married Sarah Gantt in Prince George's County on April 7, 1808.2
Beall served as a surgeon's mate in the U.S. Army from 1812 to March 1814.3
Through his wife, he also owned property on God's Graces Point overlooking
the Patuxent River, on the western border of Calvert County.4
The point was later the location of
Leitch's
Wharf, as shown in an 1865 map.5 In 1814, the slave Frisby
Harris escaped to the British from Beall's property.6 Harris
was the slave of William
Harris, but was working on Beall's property at the time. The British
forces also burned down the 18th-century brick plantation house.7
Beall also owned property in Prince George's County, including Beall's
Mill near Bladensburg, where he had a residence.8 In 1824, he
and George W. Fletchall purchased slaves, farm equipment, and livestock
from John Spriggs of Montgomery County.9 By 1830, he was living
in Washington D.C., where he lived with his wife Elizabeth G. Price. That
year, he sold the slaves Clary and Mary to William H. Turton, another Prince
George's County resident.10 In 1831, he sold four slaves to
his John Thomas Gantt Beall: Jupiter, Tom, Henry, and Kitty.11
1. PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
COURT (Land Records) Liber JRM 11, p. 0451 [MSA CE 65-40]. Bailey Erles
Clark to John Hillen Beall, August 26, 1806.
1.
CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers) [MSA S512-11]. William Potts et al vs.
Philip Thomas Potts et al. Calvert and Frederick counties. Petition to
partition Resurvey on Tuscarora in Frederick County. Also Godsgrace Levels,
Prevention in Calvert County. Case 4040, September 4, 1810.
2. PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Marriage Licenses) [MSA CM783-2, CR 50230-2]. John H. Beall and Sarah Gantt, April 7, 1808.
3. U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 Record for John H Beall, Ancestry.com.
4. CHANCERY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [MSA S512-11]. William Potts et al vs. Philip Thomas Potts et al.
4.
Henry Gannett, A Gazetteer of Maryland, Bulletin 231, Series F,
Geography, 39 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904) 36.
5. Calvert County District
2, Simon J. Martenet, Map of Calvert County, 1865, Huntingfield Collection,
[MSA SC 1399-1-75].
5.
"Leitch's Wharf," CT-1194, Maryland Historical Trust. Inventory of Historic
Properties. www.mdihp.net.
6. Claim of William Harris, Case 773, Case Files, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828, documenting the period ca. 1814 - ca. 1828. *ARC Identifier 1174160 / MLR Number PI 177 190*. National Archives, College Park.
7. Charles Francis Stein, History of Calvert County, Maryland (Baltimore, MD: Published by the author, 1976) 265.
8. PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
COURT (Land Records) Liber JRM 11, p. 0451 [MSA CE 65-40]. Bailey Erles
Clark to John Hillen Beall, August 26, 1806.
8.
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Land Records) Liber
JRM 13, Folio 303 [MSA CE 65-42]. Bailey Erles Clark to John Hillen Beall,
1809.
9. CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers) [MSA S512-11]. William Potts et al vs. Philip Thomas Potts et al.
10. PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Land Records) Liber AB 6, Folio 198 [MSA CE 65-53]. John H. Beall to William H. Turton, September 4, 1830.
11. PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Land
Records) Liber AB 6, Folio 585 [MSA CE 65-53]. John H. Beall to John Thomas
Gantt Beall, October 18, 1831.
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