Jno. Beall
(b. circa 1811 - d. 1889)
MSA SC 5496-015323
Slave owner and property owner, Prince George's County, Maryland
Biography:
John B. Beall, Jr., was born in 1811 to Jonathan Beall and Elizabeth Williams Beall. He resided in the Vansville District of Prince George’s County with his wife, Catherine Walker Beall, born in 1814 to Nathan and Elizabeth Walker. Although the 1850 census lists John Beall as a merchant with no significant amount of personal property, by 1860 he was working as a farmer with $1,000 in real estate. John and Catherine Beall had eight children: Jamima E. (b. 1837), William H. (b. 1839), Elizabeth A. (b. 1841), Charles R. (b. 1843), Samuel W. (b. 1845), George W. (b. 1849), Philiproni or Fillmore (b. 1852), and Fannie (b. 1856). Both John and Catherine Beall died intestate in 1889 and 1900, respectively. They were buried at St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery in Beltsville.
John Beall owned no slaves in 1840, but by 1850 he owned six slaves—one man, one woman, one teenage boy, two girls, and one male infant. In October of 1853, Catherine Beall bought back a twenty-six year old male slave named Pick, whom her husband had sold to Jonathan T. Walker in January of 1851. By 1860, they owned only two slaves, one seventy year old woman and one thirty-five year old man. The man was probably Richard Wells, who appeared in the Slave Statistics of 1864 as one of the Beall’s two slaves.The 1864 Slave Statistics show that both slaves belonged to Mrs. Catherine Beall, with John Beall acting as her agent. In 1864, her second slave was the sixty-five year old Jennie Clark. Since few slaves knew their exact age, Jennie Clarke may also have been the seventy year old woman in the 1860 slave census.
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