John Beaty
David Beaty
Jean Beaty
Thomas Beaty
Samuel Beaty
William Beaty
James Beaty
Excerpt from the History of Washington Co, New York by Crisfield Johnson (https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.historyofwashing00john/?sp=156&st=image&r=0.089,1.217,0.457,0.236,0): Tells the story of Emigration from Ireland through John Beaty.
Thomas Beaty, who emigrated from Ireland, in the year 1767, October, with his wife and five children, David, Jean, Thomas, Samuel, and William, leaving one son, John, who was married, in Ireland. The family settled first in Salem, and hence were among the earliest pioneers of this part of Washington county. The ancestry were of Scotch descent, and emigrated to Ireland on account of religious persecution in Scotland. The great grandfather erected his log-cabin in the wilderness on the lot he had taken up, the greater part of which, with the assistance of his boys, he cleared. lie lived to be eighty-three years of age, and died where he had settled. John, the grandfather, with his wife and daughter, Jane, emigrated from Ireland the same year as his father, and, after a voyage of seventeen weeks, first settled in Pennsylvania, where he remained tor about two years, where he earned money enough, as a common laborer, to get to Washington county, town of Salem, where he arrived and erected his log shanty in the woods in the year 1769, taking up one lot of land.
John Beaty
David Beaty
Jean Beaty
Thomas Beaty
Samuel Beaty
William Beaty
James Beaty
Excerpt from the History of Washington Co, New York by Crisfield Johnson (https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.historyofwashing00john/?sp=156&st=image&r=0.089,1.217,0.457,0.236,0): Tells the story of Emigration from Ireland through John Beaty.
Thomas Beaty, who emigrated from Ireland, in the year 1767, October, with his wife and five children, David, Jean, Thomas, Samuel, and William, leaving one son, John, who was married, in Ireland. The family settled first in Salem, and hence were among the earliest pioneers of this part of Washington county. The ancestry were of Scotch descent, and emigrated to Ireland on account of religious persecution in Scotland. The great grandfather erected his log-cabin in the wilderness on the lot he had taken up, the greater part of which, with the assistance of his boys, he cleared. lie lived to be eighty-three years of age, and died where he had settled. John, the grandfather, with his wife and daughter, Jane, emigrated from Ireland the same year as his father, and, after a voyage of seventeen weeks, first settled in Pennsylvania, where he remained tor about two years, where he earned money enough, as a common laborer, to get to Washington county, town of Salem, where he arrived and erected his log shanty in the woods in the year 1769, taking up one lot of land.
Gravesite Details
Thomas is likely buried in an unmarked grave somewhere on the original land where the Beaty farm and house built by William J. Beaty still stand today.
Family Members
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