I've shared the story of the Beals family on the blog before: Thomas Beals left Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1748 to establish a new Quaker meeting house in New Garden, North Carolina. He traveled far-and-wide throughout the Northwest Territory as a missionary--he was sentenced to death by hanging on more than one occasion--and opened the [...]
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York
![The [Mis]Adventures of Thomas Beals](https://applegategenealogy.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/29.png?w=720)
Thomas Beals was born in 1719 in Chester County, Pennsylvania to John and Sarah (Bowater) Beals, two prominent Quakers whose ancestors, according to family legend, arrived in America with the William Penn. He married Sarah Antrim on September 12, 1741 in Monacacy, Maryland, and the couple had five sons and eight daughters: Mary (b. 1742); [...]
Every day, I check the list of search terms used to find my blog; sometimes there's a distant cousin searching our common ancestor's name, and sometimes there's a research question along the lines of: "My AncestryDNA says I'm from Pomerania. Does this mean I'm not German?" (In case you find my site again: no, this [...]
Jozef & Michilena (Kubasik) Niedbalski, 1942
