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Rachel Beeson was daughter of Richard and Charity Grubb Beeson of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. She married (1) Stephanus Haworth and (2) Anthony Chamness.
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Stephanus Haworth born Bucks Co, Pa died before 1766, Guilford Co, NC |
Rachel Beeson born Chester Co, Pa died 3/19/1775, Guilford Co, NC burial Deep River |
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Married: About 1740 probably in Virginia
Children: Stephanus Haworth born about 1741 Virginia; married Elizabeth Shepherd Phebe Haworth born Virginia; married Joseph Hoggatt, son of Philip. Their children are documented at New Garden Monthly Meeting in North Carolina. Sarah Haworth born about 1750 Virginia; married unknown Wheeler Rachel Haworth born at (?); married John Hunt Welmet Haworth born at (?); married Joseph Kemp, son of Richard and Susannah George Haworth born about 1757, probably NC; married (1)Margaret Thornbrough (2) Deborah Day |
More on Stephanus and Rachel Beeson HaworthRachel Beeson's parents were received on certificate from Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia at New Garden Monthly Meeting in Rowan County, North Carolina on 11/20/1754. We do not know for sure when they went to Virginia. We also do not know for sure if Rachel and Stephanus were married there because of the loss of many Hopewell Meeting records.Stephanus Haworth's parents were married at Falls Meeting House in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on 9/28/1710. They had at least four known children, James Frederick, Stephanus, Absalom, and John Haworth. Stephanus Haworth and brother Absalom were granted a certificate to Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia by Buckingham Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania on 8/4/1738. James was granted a certificate from Buckingham MM to Hopewell on 6/6/1739. This would be in line with a marriage date of about 1740 for Rachel and Stephanus at Hopewell. We do not find a certificate for transfer of Stephanus and Rachel Haworth to North Carolina but, if we assume they came with Rachel's parents, they came in 1754. Unfortunately, their children's birth records are not found in either Virginia or North Carolina Quaker records. Stephanus Haworth died in Rowan County, North Carolina, sometime before 1766 and on 9/1/1766 Rachel Beeson Haworth married Anthony Chamness at New Garden Monthly Meeting. In addition to her own six children Rachel now had twelve stepchildren, the youngest age 5. For more on Anthony Chamness see http://www.garlock-elliott.org/narrative/chamness_02.html Anthony Chamness�s will is given on that site but he had married again after Rachel�s death so she is not the step mother mentioned in the will. More on Children of Stephanus and Rachel Beeson HaworthPhebe Haworth HoggattDaughter Phebe Haworth married Joseph Hoggatt, son of Philip and Mary Glendennings Hoggatt, on 1/6/1763 at New Garden Monthly Meeting in Rowan County, North Carolina. They had a son, Phillip, born 7/12/1765, who married Mary Thornbrough, daughter of Henry and Rachel Moon Thornbrough, on 8/15/1787 at Deep River Monthly Meeting. They had another son, Mahlon, born 6/13/1772, who married Sarah Millikan, daughter of Samuel and Ann Baldwin Millikan, on 11/18/1795 at Springfield Monthly Meeting, Guilford County, North Carolina.Stephanus and Elizabeth Shepherd HaworthSon Stephanus Haworth married Elizabeth Shepherd 1/15/1768 at New Garden Monthly Meeting in Rowan County, North Carolina. This is the Stephanus Haworth named in the will of Richard Beeson as grandson. They remained in North Carolina, their deaths being recorded at Deep River Monthly Meeting.George and Margaret Thornbrough HaworthSon George Haworth married Margaret Thornbrough, daughter of Henry and Rachel Moon Thornbrough, on 1/8/1777, at New Garden Monthly Meeting, Guilford County, North Carolina. Their children are documented at Deep River and Springfield Monthly Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina. Margaret Thornbrough Haworth died 7/20/1812 and is buried at Springfield Monthly Meeting in Guilford County. On 10/5/1814 George Haworth married Deborah Day at Springfield Monthly Meeting.Rachel Haworth HuntDaughter Rachel Haworth married John Hunt, son of William and Sarah Mills Hunt, on 5/9/1780, at New Garden Monthly Meeting, Guilford County, North Carolina. Their children are documented in Quaker records at New Garden and Deep River Monthly Meetings. On 9/2/1805 John & Rachel Hunt were granted a certificate to Miami Monthly Meeting in Ohio.A note of caution on the descendants of Stephanus and Rachel Beeson HaworthRecords of Stephanus and Rachel's descendants are further complicated by the arrival at Newhope Monthly Meeting in Greene County, Tennessee, in 1796, of some of Stephanus's brother James Haworth's descendants from Bush River, South Carolina, where his widow, Sarah Wood Haworth, and family had transferred from Hopewell.James & Sarah Wood Haworth had sons named George, James, and Richard, all of whom immigrated to Tennessee. Some of James & Sarah's descendants then immigrated north to Ohio and Indiana. Stephanus's brother James had a son James who married Mary Rees. James and Mary had son's named George & James Haworth. James, Mary and children transferred to Miami Monthly Meeting in Ohio on 7/21/1804 from Newhope Meeting in Greene County, Tennessee. James Haworth (Jr.) married Phebe Thornbrough in 1810 in Highland County, Ohio. George Haworth married Jane Thornbrough in 1812 in Highland County, Ohio. Phebe Thornbrough Haworth and Jane Thornbrough Haworth were daughters of Edward and Phebe Sumner Thornbrough. Edward Thornbrough, his children and his second wife, Keziah Wright, had transferred to Miami Monthly Meeting in Ohio in 1806. The two marriages of James & Phebe and George & Jane were civil marriages. James Haworth and wife Phebe were restored to Quaker membership on 7/28/1821 at Lees Creek Monthly Meeting. George Haworth and wife Jane were restored to Quaker membership at Fairfield Monthly Meeting in Indiana on 3/27/1830. (The two dates given are the dates that Fairfield Monthly Meeting in Ohio gave permission for their restoration to membership.) |