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Thomas Beauchamp (b. ? - d. circa 1815)
MSA SC 5496-050657
War of 1812 Claimant, Somerset County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Claim of Samuel Beauchamp, Case No. 784. 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.

Claim of Isaac Beauchamp, Case No. 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.

Thomas Beacham, dec'd (reps). No. 784. RG 76. Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitration. Records of the Mixed Claims Commission: Miscellaneous Records. Ca. 1814-28, 7 vols., entry 185. Vol. 10 of 11 (International Claims). National Archives, College Park.

SOMERSET COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX, (Assessment Record), 1793, [MSA C1734-1]. Thomas Beauchamp, Great Annamessex Hundred.

SOMERSET COUNTY COURT, (Marriage Licenses), 1796-1831, Film Reel: CR 7401-1, [MSA CM964-1]. Samuel Beauchamp and Ann Beauchamp, January 25, 1817.

SOMERSET COUNTY COURT, (Marriage Licenses), 1796-1831, Film Reel: CR 7401-1, [MSA CM964-1]. Thomas Beauchamp and Anne Lockwood, February 13, 1798.

Somerset County District 6, Simon J. Martenet, Map of Somerset County, 1865, Huntingfield Collection, [MSA SC 1399-1-75].

SOMERSET COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS, (Wills), 1800-1819,Liber EB 23, Folio 226, [MSA T2538-2]. Thomas Beauchamp, February 11, 1815. Probated April 1, 1815.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thomas Beauchamp, 1800, Great Annamessex Hundred, Somerset County, Page 3a, 4th line from bottom [MSA SM61-37, M 2057-2].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thomas Beachamp, 1810, Pocomoke Hundred, Somerset County, Page 1b, Line 7 [MSA SM61-57, M 2061-4].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thomas Beachump, 1820, District 3, Somerset County, Page 4a, Line 6 [MSA SM61-77, M 2067-3]. Part of slaves schedule missing.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Samuel Beachump, 1820, District 3, Somerset County, Page 4a, Line 19 [MSA SM61-77, M 2067-3]. Part of tally of slaves schedule missing.

Newspapers and Journals -

Hall, Wiley, ed. "The Colonial Marines." The Maryland Natural Resource 11.4 (Fall 2008): 9. Maryland State Archives.

Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. "Black Freedom Fighters (War of 1812)." Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. Vol. 1: A-N. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007. 62-66.

Books -

Thompson, Stith. "The Beauchamp Family." The Filson Club History Quaterly 28.2 (1954): 152-153.

Weiss, John McNish. The Merikens: Free Black American Settlers in Trinidad: 1815-1816. London, UK: McNish & Weiss, 2002.

Internet Sources -

“Beauchamp House (Long Farm, Washburn House).” Prepared by Paul Touart. S-62. Maryland Historical Trust, Inventory of Historic Properties. www.mdihp.net.

1810 U.S. Census Record (DE) for Samuel Beacham, Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Page 2a, 4th line from bottom. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

1830 U.S. Census Record (DE) for Samuel Beauchamp, Camden, Kent County, Page 39, 6th line from bottom. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Continued on Page 40, 6th line from bottom.

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