Richard Beeson

  General Notes:

Richard Beeson and his wife, Charity Grubb (b. 9th Mo. 29, 1687 in
Brandywine, New Castle, Del/PA d. 11th Mo., 27, 1761 in Guilford Co., NC)
were very well-known and active members (and missionaries) of the Quaker
church. Charity Grubb was the dtr of John and Frances (Vane) Grubb.
Richard and Charity helped form Hopewell Meeting in Virginia and were
among the earliest members of New Garden Meeting in Guilford Co., NC.
They both remained in Guilford Co. until their deaths.

  Research Notes:

Richard Beeson, son of Edward Beeson, Sr., married Charity Grubb ca. 1706. It may be that Richard and Charity first settled in the vicinity of North Wales in Montgomery County, Pa., but with the death of Edward Beeson, Sr., they relocated at Nottingham. Although Richard and Charity may neither have been birthright Friends, they became very active Quaker leaders in their adult lives. They lived at Nottingham ca. 1712 to 1732 or 1733. Then they moved to the new Friends settlement on the Susquehanna River in Lancaster, Pa. and were members of Leacock Friends Meeting until 1736 when they moved to Berkeley County, now in West Virginia, and helped organize a Meeting known as Providence, which was a subordinant Meeting of Hopewell Monthly Meeting, centered at Hopewell Meeting near Winchester, Virginia. By 1754 Richard and Charity and a number of their family were on the move again to the North Carolina Piedmont. Richard and Charity again helped to organize a new Meeting, which became Center Friends Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina.

Richard married Charity Grubb, daughter of John Grubb and Frances Vane, on 24 Dec 1706 in New Castle Hundred, New Castle, Delaware.¹ (Charity Grubb was born on 29 Nov 1687 in New Castle, New Castle, Delaware, USA and died on 27 Nov 1761 in Guilford, North Carolina, USA.)