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bishop begged for his life but the perpetrators
of the deed were memorable. His monument in
st. Andrews was repaired In 1849. It Is proper
here TO say that the assassination Of this
ecclesiastic did not arise from religious con-
siderations, but 1t was the fruit of private re-
venge, based on private wrongs. Rathllet Of
Hackstown and Balfour of Kinlock were the
assassins: This Is true history. Ninian Beall
was not man to have lent his countenance
to assassination He was brave champion in
the cause OF freedom and friend to conStitu-
tional liberty. This evinced in the demand
which he made on Maryland to place herself
under the crown of william and Mary. 1t is
possible however, that he may have left Fife
shire about the time that Sharpe was put to
death, and he might have relinquished his
country from the hot prosecution which Charles
II was then waging in Scotland. In this way
suspicion may have been engendered and that
suspicion may have passed into a myth The
times were lawless in Scotland at that period,
and persecution was carried on with vigor and
IN such commissions a bishop may be over
whelmed as well as a layman, or king as well
as his humblest subject. James of Scotland
and William the Silent, as well as the Admi-
rable Chrichton, were assassinated Nor are we
willing, out Of the very numerous incidents Of
history to select the death Of Sharpe as the
most pathetic of them all, though we may con-
denim the deed as fanatical and atrocious
George Beall, the son of Ninian, was the
immediate progenitor of George and Thomas
Beall, who were respectable inhabitants of
Georgetown. Ninian, being friend of the
Hanoverian succession probably gave name to
his son from this fact George of George died
in 1905 and was buried in the family cemetery
which is nearly opposite to the house now oc-
cupied by DIR. Riley. He a of rather
limited education, but his head was stocked
with plain common sense. He opposed the
rotundity of the earth, thought knowledge of
accounts and the art of surveying much more
n md ne inn
was confined to JoSephus, Cooks Voyages
Morse's Gazetteer, the Bible and all the news
papers he could collect. He married a
Magruder. The clan of the McGregors had
been rather turbulent in the highlands of Scot
land, but the Magruders behaved very well
after their removal to Maryland about the
middle Of the seventeenth century They were
outlawed by the English Government in 1888
Sir Walter Scott, who was we'll posted up in
all the traditions of Scotland, states that Rob
Roy McGregor became involved in debt and
that he sold his estate, near Loeb Lomond upon
condition of its reverting when it could be re-
deemed. Rob carried the amount of the re-
demption money to the purchaser, who evaded
the contract. McGregor then intercepted the
agents who were sent to receive the rents and
took away the money. This apprehend was
not a mortal sin. 1t is unnecessary to say any
thing about the descendants of Col. George
Beall, except in connection with cur town. His
son, Thomas Brooke was at one time president
OF the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, and died
in 1920. In 1882 his eldest daughter was mar
ried to Rev. DIR. Balch once pastor of the
Presbyterian Church, Bridge street. who Is
introduced into these "reminiscences by special
request from many of our citizens
SCTHOMAS BEALL, brother of George made
one of the additions to the corporate limits
of this town. Seventy-five years ago he built
house on the heights called Dumbarton, and
died in the Fall of 1919. He married an Orme
and the Ormes were either from Cumberland
or Staffordshire, in England. He had two
daughters one of whom married great-nephew
of Gen. Washington, and the other Maj. John
Peter, who was once Mayor of Georgetown
His seat, Dumbarton, is at present the property
of the Hon. Jesse d. Bright, Senator of the
United States from Indiana. Dumbarton was
once the abode of remarkable young lady,
Miss Eleanor Washington, who is every way
worthy of place in this lecture. OF fine, COM