Bewley Roots Newsletter Vol 7 No 4 December 1986 p174-175
"The Bewleys were early settlers to East Tennessee when the area was still a frontier. In 1783, at the end of the Revolutionary War, Anthony Bewley obtained a grant of 100 acres in what is now East Tennessee. Anthony paid 50 shillings or 2 1/2 pounds plus an annual fee for the land. The land Anthony acquired was located at this point a "little below the Lick (Creek) running into the Nolichucky" (River). Shortly afterwards, probably in 1785, Anthony Bewley, his wife Sallie Phillips and their four children moved from Virginia to their land in East Tennessee.
In 1786 Anthony decided to move his family again; this time 40 miles South of Knoxville to what is now Blount County, Tennessee, living most of the time in a fort near the Little Tennessee River. Knoxville had not been established by 1786; in that same year James White built his fort as the first settlement in what we now know as Knoxville.
On August 8, 1788, Anthony's eldest son Rev. George Bewley was killed on the Little Tennessee River in a battle with the Cherokees. After this happened the family returned to the Nolichucky River presumably to the land Anthony had acquired from the State of North Carolina.
It is interesting that the land grant originally acquired in George Anthony Bewley is found under the listing Anthony in most records 1783 was not registered in Tennessee until 1792. By this time his son John (Rev. John G. Bewley) had acquired land in the same area. Five years later in 1797 Anthony sold his land to son John. If as the land grant registration stated Anthony paid 2 1/2 pounds plus an annual fee for the land he made a handsome profit in selling the land to his son for 100 pounds."
Link to Bewleys Chapel Cenotaph Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240894764/george-anthony-bewley#:~:text=MEMORIAL%20ID-,240894764%20%C2%B7,-View%20Source∼
George was born in Bucks, New York. He married Sallie Phillips in 1768 in Loudoun County, Virginia. We believe they had twelve children together.
George died in, what I have listed as, Little Chuckey, Greene County, Tennessee.
"The Bewleys were early settlers to East Tennessee when the area was still a frontier. In 1783, at the end of the Revolutionary War, Anthony Bewley obtained a grant of 100 acres in what is now East Tennessee. Anthony paid 50 shillings or 2 1/2 pounds plus an annual fee for the land. The land Anthony acquired was located at this point a "little below the Lick (Creek) running into the Nolichucky" (River). Shortly afterwards, probably in 1785, Anthony Bewley, his wife Sallie Phillips and their four children moved from Virginia to their land in East Tennessee.
In 1786 Anthony decided to move his family again; this time 40 miles South of Knoxville to what is now Blount County, Tennessee, living most of the time in a fort near the Little Tennessee River. Knoxville had not been established by 1786; in that same year James White built his fort as the first settlement in what we now know as Knoxville.
On August 8, 1788, Anthony's eldest son Rev. George Bewley was killed on the Little Tennessee River in a battle with the Cherokees. After this happened the family returned to the Nolichucky River presumably to the land Anthony had acquired from the State of North Carolina.
It is interesting that the land grant originally acquired in George Anthony Bewley is found under the listing Anthony in most records 1783 was not registered in Tennessee until 1792. By this time his son John (Rev. John G. Bewley) had acquired land in the same area. Five years later in 1797 Anthony sold his land to son John. If as the land grant registration stated Anthony paid 2 1/2 pounds plus an annual fee for the land he made a handsome profit in selling the land to his son for 100 pounds."
Link to Bewleys Chapel Cenotaph Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240894764/george-anthony-bewley#:~:text=MEMORIAL%20ID-,240894764%20%C2%B7,-View%20Source∼
George was born in Bucks, New York. He married Sallie Phillips in 1768 in Loudoun County, Virginia. We believe they had twelve children together.
George died in, what I have listed as, Little Chuckey, Greene County, Tennessee.
Bewley Roots Newsletter Vol 7 No 4 December 1986 p174-175
"The Bewleys were early settlers to East Tennessee when the area was still a frontier. In 1783, at the end of the Revolutionary War, Anthony Bewley obtained a grant of 100 acres in what is now East Tennessee. Anthony paid 50 shillings or 2 1/2 pounds plus an annual fee for the land. The land Anthony acquired was located at this point a "little below the Lick (Creek) running into the Nolichucky" (River). Shortly afterwards, probably in 1785, Anthony Bewley, his wife Sallie Phillips and their four children moved from Virginia to their land in East Tennessee.
In 1786 Anthony decided to move his family again; this time 40 miles South of Knoxville to what is now Blount County, Tennessee, living most of the time in a fort near the Little Tennessee River. Knoxville had not been established by 1786; in that same year James White built his fort as the first settlement in what we now know as Knoxville.
On August 8, 1788, Anthony's eldest son Rev. George Bewley was killed on the Little Tennessee River in a battle with the Cherokees. After this happened the family returned to the Nolichucky River presumably to the land Anthony had acquired from the State of North Carolina.
It is interesting that the land grant originally acquired in George Anthony Bewley is found under the listing Anthony in most records 1783 was not registered in Tennessee until 1792. By this time his son John (Rev. John G. Bewley) had acquired land in the same area. Five years later in 1797 Anthony sold his land to son John. If as the land grant registration stated Anthony paid 2 1/2 pounds plus an annual fee for the land he made a handsome profit in selling the land to his son for 100 pounds."
Link to Bewleys Chapel Cenotaph Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240894764/george-anthony-bewley#:~:text=MEMORIAL%20ID-,240894764%20%C2%B7,-View%20Source∼
George was born in Bucks, New York. He married Sallie Phillips in 1768 in Loudoun County, Virginia. We believe they had twelve children together.
George died in, what I have listed as, Little Chuckey, Greene County, Tennessee.
"The Bewleys were early settlers to East Tennessee when the area was still a frontier. In 1783, at the end of the Revolutionary War, Anthony Bewley obtained a grant of 100 acres in what is now East Tennessee. Anthony paid 50 shillings or 2 1/2 pounds plus an annual fee for the land. The land Anthony acquired was located at this point a "little below the Lick (Creek) running into the Nolichucky" (River). Shortly afterwards, probably in 1785, Anthony Bewley, his wife Sallie Phillips and their four children moved from Virginia to their land in East Tennessee.
In 1786 Anthony decided to move his family again; this time 40 miles South of Knoxville to what is now Blount County, Tennessee, living most of the time in a fort near the Little Tennessee River. Knoxville had not been established by 1786; in that same year James White built his fort as the first settlement in what we now know as Knoxville.
On August 8, 1788, Anthony's eldest son Rev. George Bewley was killed on the Little Tennessee River in a battle with the Cherokees. After this happened the family returned to the Nolichucky River presumably to the land Anthony had acquired from the State of North Carolina.
It is interesting that the land grant originally acquired in George Anthony Bewley is found under the listing Anthony in most records 1783 was not registered in Tennessee until 1792. By this time his son John (Rev. John G. Bewley) had acquired land in the same area. Five years later in 1797 Anthony sold his land to son John. If as the land grant registration stated Anthony paid 2 1/2 pounds plus an annual fee for the land he made a handsome profit in selling the land to his son for 100 pounds."
Link to Bewleys Chapel Cenotaph Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240894764/george-anthony-bewley#:~:text=MEMORIAL%20ID-,240894764%20%C2%B7,-View%20Source∼
George was born in Bucks, New York. He married Sallie Phillips in 1768 in Loudoun County, Virginia. We believe they had twelve children together.
George died in, what I have listed as, Little Chuckey, Greene County, Tennessee.
Inscription
Tennessee pioneer and patriarch of the Bewley family. Born in PA, son of Ann Kimble and John Bewley. ca. 1769, married Sallie Phillips in Loudoun Co. Va. 11 children: 4 sons Methodist Ministers, 1 son served in TN General Assembly.
ca. 1784, settled on Nolachuckey at Lick Creek, later lived on Little Chuckey Creek at Warrensburg, where he died. Sallie and Anthony Bewley lie in unmarked graves in Old Ayers Family Cemetery at Warrensburg.
Their descendants made important contributions to the political, governmental, religious, educational, cultural, business, and professional life of Tenn. and other states to which they migrated.
Erected by his heirs in 1989
Gravesite Details
Unmarked Grave (as stated on the Cenotaph marker that is located in the Bewleys chapel cemetery)
