Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03

gives the Ramblo reasC
hand YOU all facts he has
n about Ninian Beall the Brooke
family and other families set
tied in this region in 1900 OF eaiI.er
In Richard MarSham'S will, which you
read in last Sundays Star, and which
was filed at Marlboro in April 1713,
the teStator wrote that he bought the
tract Enclosure from Ninian Beall,
who patented it in 1857. This is the
land on which Queens chapel. the
Lutheran Home, Langdon, Brookland
Catholic University, I believe Wood
ridge and other parts of Northeast
Washington are built. Richard Mar
sham, who left that land to his grand
children, Samuel MarSham, William,
Catherin and Margaret Queen in 1T13,
came from England to Maryland in
1868 and married, first, Katherine
Brent and second, Ann. daughter of
Leonard Calvert, governor of the
province, and widow Of Baker Brooke.
ST., surveyor general Of the province.
This must be story of genealogY
and a dull one TO subscribers who read
the rambles for information instead
of ancestors, but the Rambler believes
that most persons who use their spec
taCleS on these stories do ii in search
of ancestors who owned land in the
Potomac valley and who held office
n the colonies as high sheriff, justice
OF the peace, jailer. hangman or such.
Some persons search for ancestors be-
cause they like them, and other per-
sons try To dignity themselves by find
ing respectable ancestors, and in their
enthusiasm they sometimes miSrepre-
sent the character of the ancestors.
80. let's go.
/ HAVE a clipping from Il Marlboro
newspaper of about 1916. Neither
the date nor the name of the news
paper appears on the clipping. 1t was
written by Minnie Lowrie Wallis of
Locust Valley, near Nottingham.
l'rince Georges County. She sent it to
me in March, 1916, and I recently
found it among my indeXed papers.
Under my original index system it was
not in the "Bs' under "Beall," but in
The ''C's" under Chimes" Here it
is:
In a recent issue of your paper l
was much interested in an article
not the only Beall who came to this
country, as he had three brothers,
Thomas, John and George. Thomas
brother of Ninian) will was probated
In 1908 and he married Elizabeth Lee
and they had large family John
married Joan Tyler. Col Ninan Beall
was born in F'ifeshire, Scotland. in
1924 and came to Maryland in 1858.
lie married Ruth Moore, daughter of
Richard Moore, London barrister,
and his wife Jane. They had eight
children. His will, made in I'LL, gave
many large tracts of land, among
them Bacon Hail. Mount Calvert
mill on COllington Branch and many
estates on the Eastern Shore of Mary
D., I I. L.. i
and founded the first Presbyterian
church in Maryland at Upper Marl-
borough. His son-in- law. Col. Archi-
build Edmonson, was one of the
Elders. Col Ninian Beall was Comm
Surveyor of Charles County in
1854 and the many positions of honor
he held are proven by the Maryland
archives.
"A son of Col Ninian Beall. Captain
Charles Beall. had a son, Col. Joshua
Beall, who. like his father and grand
father. was a prominent man in his
day. He was born in 1919 and was
haptised by the Rev. Hugh Conn.
ttlugh Conn was pastor of the Pres
hyterian church near where Bladens-
burg was laid out, and bought from
one Of the Queens the land on which
the National Industrial School, the
ruins of Fort Lincoln and Battery
Jameson, many suburban cottages and
Fort Lincoln Cemetery are now) He
married Elinor Smith Greenfield.
Col Joshua Beall was a member of
the Maryland Assembly, judge of the
Court at Upper Marlborough and
colonel of Militia under General Rein
BealI. He died in 1896. His funeral
service was preached by the Rev.
Stephen Balch. Col. Joshua Bealls
daughter, Amelia. married Gen. Rein
Beall, son of Nathaniel Beall. General
Rein Beall was adjutant of the Fred
erick Battalion, Commander of the
Independent Company of Regulars, and
was wounded at Charles River. He
was Brigardier General. in 1916, of the
Maryland Flying Camp. He died Oc-
tober 4, 1909, and was buried on his
estate, Flying Turkey near Belts
Vile.
Among Gen. BealIs direct descend
ants are the Misses Mccormick of
Jennings, d. c., and Admiral Nc
'ormick, L. S. N. Retired. Annapolis.
Gen. Rein Beall of the War of 1872
was born in Rockville and was an in
innate friend of William Henry Harri-
son, died in 1913, and was buried in
Wooster Cemetery, Wooster, Ohio. He
Was Comm. Ensign (signed by
George Washington in 1888, Captain
III 1894 and Brigadier General in 1903,
in which capacity he served in the
War of 1872. Among the tracts OF
land taken up by Col Joshua Beall is
Fife Enlarged on the Eastern
Branch. now in possession of his de-
Scendants, the heirs of the late Mrs.
Susan Bean Sheriff of Bennings. The
Court of Arms used by the descend
ants of the Bealls are unlike those
given by your correspondent. The
Arms are three wolves, crest, a demi-
wolf rampant holding erect tasselled
III IT,,
"f Bealls given in 'Burkes Peerage'
granted to an English Beall but all of
col. Ninian Beall's descendants have
The right to use those accorded to
Robert Beall of Scotland
The Rambler has a copy of a letter