Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Isaac Beauchamp (b. circa ? - d. 1848)
MSA SC 5496-050656
War of 1812 Claimant, Somerset County, Maryland

Biography:

Isaac Beachamp was the son of Thomas and Jane Beauchamp, and had one brother, Thomas George.1 In 1777, his grandfather, also named Isaac, bequeathed him the family plantation, which he received after the death of his grandmother and father.2

On October 15, 1814, Isaac's slave Mentor Beauchamp escaped to the British forces at Tangier Sound.3 Three of his father's slaves, Elijah Beauchamp, Stephen Beauchamp and Jack Teagle, also escaped the same day.

Isaac Beauchamp was still living in 1840, when he had twenty-three slaves working on his farm.5 When he died in 1848, he left his estate to his children, George Henry James, Samuel Outerbridge, Isaac Thomas, and Mary Ann. He identified their mother as Elizabeth Summers.6
 

1.     “Beauchamp House (Long Farm, Washburn House),” Prepared by Paul Touart, S-62, Maryland Historical Trust, Inventory of Historic Properties. www.mdihp.net.
3.     F. Edward Wright, Maryland Calendar of Wills, 1774-1777, Vol. 16 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2007) 193.

2.     SOMERSET COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS, (Wills), 1770-1777, Liber EB 5, Folio 98, [MSA C1815-5]. Isaac Beauchamp, September 26, 1775. Probated January 21, 1777.
3.     “Beauchamp House (Long Farm, Washburn House),” Prepared by Paul Touart, S-62, Maryland Historical Trust, Inventory of Historic Properties. www.mdihp.net.
3.     Wright 193.

3.     Claim of Isaac Beachamp, Case 706, 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.

4.     U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Isaac Beauchamp, 1840, Somerset County, Lower District, Page 51, Line 6 [MSA SM61-117, M 4724-2].

5.     SOMERSET COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS, (Wills), 1837-1859, Liber JP 5, Folio 142, [MSA T2538-3]. Isaac Beauchamp, August 3, 1843. Probated May 9, 1848.
 

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