Beale Wills and Estate Records: Calvert County, MD File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Lisa Simms . Transcribed by Raphael T. Semmes in his book The Semmes and Allied Families, Baltimore, 1918. ======================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ======================================================================= July 19, 1674. Came John Beale of the Resurrection Hundred in Calvert County, Md., who married Joane, who was the relict of George Reade, late of the came place and county, and also the relict and extrix of Robert Tyler, late of the same place and county, and showed the Judge here that the said Joane on July 30, 1674, and before the marriage with him, the said Jno. Beale, by the name of Joane Tyler, did make certain deeds of trust of all her lands. etc., movables and immovables, unto Thomas Sprigg, of Calvert County, Gent, and that the same day and before marriage the said John Beale entered into bond unto the said Thomas Sprigg in the sum of £500 sterling. The conditions being that whereas the said Jno. Beale shall shortly marry and take to wife Joane Tyler. widow of Robert Tyler, deceased, shall allow her to make her will and give and dispose of her lands, etc., this obli gation then to be void. ------------------------------------------------------------- p. 130 Power of Attorney from Jane Bealle, dated Columbia County, Ga., January 25, 1810, to Zachariah Nally, to claim and collect her portion of the estate of her brother, Francis Shepherd, and to dispose of her dower or interest in tract of land. She mentions a tract of 200 acres in Charles County, Md., on the Potomac River, and lately bounded by lands of Samuel Harrison, Wm. D. Harrison, Jno. Perry and others, which tract was devised by her father, John Shepherd, to the said Francis Shepherd. Dated January 25, 1810. Proven in Columbia County, Ga., June 29, 1810, before Peter Crawford, clerk. ------------------------------------------------------------- p. 130 Data from the will of William Maddox, written October 2, 1832: Wife, Anna Maddox. Son, John Maddox. Daughter, Polly Gibson. Grandson, William Maddox, the son of Leonard Maddox. Son, James S. Maddox, guardian for his brother, John Maddox. Son Jesse Maddox. NOTE: This Polly Gibson, nee Maddox, first married Thomas Beale, of Columbia County, Ga., and became the mother of Harriet Shepheard Beale, who in turn became the first Mrs. Thos. Semmes, Jr., and was my father s mother. After the death of Thomas Beale, above mentioned, his widow married Judge Gibson, of Columbia County, Ga. This lady, first Miss Maddox, then Mrs. Thomas Beale and later Mrs. Gibson, was the maternal grandmother of Alphonso Thomas Semmes, my father.-Raphael Thomas Semmes. ------------------------------------------------------------- p. 130 Will of Francis Shepperd Bealle: Brother Augustus Bealle. Mother Jane Bealle, nee Shepherd. Sister Martha Tennason Bealle. Brothers Thos. Bealle, Reason D. Bealle, Wm. L. Bealle, Jno. S. Bealle and Chas. T. Bealle. Will of Wm. Bealle, recorded September 16, 1812: Wife Nancy Bealle. Son Jno. Bealle. Daugllter Elizabeth Yarbrough. Son Hezekiah Bealle. Son Wm. Penn Bealle. Daughter Mary Simms. Son Charles T. Bealle.