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Report Of The Commission To Locate The Site
Of The Frontier Forts Of Pennsylvania - Fort Pitt.
Blockhouse At Bull Creek (Allegheny County).
In the biographical sketch of Captain Robert Orr, of Armstrong county, which
was published in the Kittanning Gazette for Sept., 1833, it is stated that
Captain Orr, on returning from his captivity at Montreal whither he had been
sent for exchange after his capture, with others taken at the massacre of
Lochry�s party in 1781 (he), in the summer of 1783, raised another company
for the defense of the frontier, to serve two months; and that "he marched
them to the mouth of Bull creek, northwest of the Allegheny river, built a
blockhouse there, and served out the necessary term."
(Quoted in Day�s Historical Coll., page 98.)
This point is now Tarentum, Allegheny county. * * * There is some evidence
to indicate that this was a place of some importance sometime earlier,
although there is nothing to indicate that there was a blockhouse here for a
rendezvous. It is probable that this was the place meant in the order which
Col. Brodhead gave to Lieut. John Jamison, Nov. 27, 1779, directing him to
evacuate Fort Armstrong (Kittanning), in which he says, after considering
that he might not be able to transport all the store by water, "if not you
must have recourse to pack horses, which you can receive from Capt.
Carnahan,
who is now with a party at Bulls town or the mouth of Kiskiminetas."
(Brodhead�s Letter Book No. 101, Arch xii. 193.)
THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER XIX, HISTORICAL CHURCHES,
1710 TO 1744. from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W.
W. H. Davis, A.M., 1876 and 1905* editions..
CHAPTER XIX HISTORICAL CHURCHES 1710 TO 1744
Charles Beatty, son of an officer of the British army, born in Ireland about
1715, and came to America in 1729. He began life as a peddler, but stopping
at the Log College with his pack, Mr. Tennent discovered he was a good
classical scholar, and advised him to dispose of his goods and study for the
ministry. He succeeded his preceptor at Neshaminy in 1743, married a
daughter of Governor Reading, of New Jersey, in 1746, was present at the
coronation of George III, and present at court, in 1758, and died in the
West Indies, in 1772. He was the ancestor of [the late*] John Beatty, of
Doylestown;
On December 1, 1743, Reverend Charles Beatty was ordained "to the
congregation of Warwick in ye forks of Neshaminy," on a salary of �60,
increased to 100 pounds, or $260 at the end of twenty years. Here Mr.
Beatty spent his life, absenting himself from his charge only on three
occasions, on a missionary visit to the frontiers in 1766, when chaplain to
Franklin's regiment in 1755 (8), and a visit to the West Indies in 1771, to
collect money for Princeton college, and where he died. In 1745 Neshaminy
and "adjacent places" raised 14 pounds .5s 10d. to build a school-house and
buy books for Brainard's Indians. The division in the
church was consummated during his pastorate. The old church was in the
present graveyard, where it stood for several years after the new one was
built. Mr. Beatty was succeeded by Reverend Nathaniel Irwin in 1774, who was
installed May 18th, and remained until he death, in 1812
(8) Franklin says: "We had for our chaplain a zealous Presbyterian minister,
Mr. Beatty, who complained to me that the men did not generally attend his
prayers and exhortations. Whey they enlisted they were promised, besides pay
and provisions, a gill of rum a day, which was fortunately served out to
them half in the morning and half in the evening, and I observed they were
punctual in attending to receive it, upon which I said to Mr. Beatty: 'It is
perhaps below the dignity of your profession to act as steward of the rum,
but if you were to distribute it out only just after prayers, you would have
them all about you.' He liked the thought, undertook the task, and with the
help of a few hands to measure out the liquor, executed it to satisfaction,
and never were prayers more generally or more punctually attended. So that I
think this method preferable to the punishment inflicted by some military
laws for non-attendance on divine service."
Bios: BEATTY, William 1807-1851: Butler,
Butler Co, PA
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
page 830
BEATTY, William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Stewartstown,
County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1787; immigrated to the United States in 1807 and
settled in Butler, Butler County, Pa.; was a sergeant in Captain Thompson's
company in the War of 1812; sheriff of Butler County 1823-1826; elected as a
Van Buren Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4,
1837-March 3, 1841); member of the State house of representatives 1840-1842;
appointed deputy sheriff of Butler County; died in Butler, Pa., April 12,
1851; interment in the Old Butler Cemetery.
Bios: Austin BEATTY, 1844-: Bell Twp,
Clearfield Co, PA
AUSTIN BEATTY, one of the best known residents of Bell Township, where he
has lived for many years, having settled on his present farm when he was
twenty one years of age, was born October 19, 1844, in Indiana County, Pa.,
and is a son of James O. and Christiana (Miller ) Beatty.
James O. Beatty was born in 1819 in the old Beatty homestead in Indiana
County, where his parents, Joseph and Catherine (Orr ) Beatty had settled
when they came from Ireland In 1831 he came to Bell Township, settling on
the old Samuel McGee farm, which he partly cleared and lived on until 1860,
when he moved to Chest Falls where he resided for seven years.
From there he moved to the present Beatty farm and during the remainder of
his life was engaged in
farming and lumbering. His death occurred in Sept. 25, 1891. He was a member
of the Methodist Protestant Church. In politics he was a Democrat and on
numerous occasions was elected to office. He married Christiana Miller who
was born in October 1819, a daughter of John and Catherine McLaren Miller.
Three children of James O. Beatty and wife still survive, namely ; Austin,
Foster, who is a farmer in Bell Township; and Huston who lives in Clarion
County, Pa. Austin Beatty was not more than twelve years of age when he
became his fathers chief helper on the homestead and he assisted his parents
until he
was twenty one years old, when he came to the farm he has occupied ever
since. He was one of the first settlers in this section of the township,
north of McGee Mills and built the first log cabin. He has followed general
farming and lumbering since twenty one years of age and has spent almost all
his life here, his longest period of absence being when he served in the
Civil War. He enlisted in 1864 in Company H, Fifty Eighth Pa. Vol. Inf. And
was mustered out near Richmond, Virginia, where he had been mainly detailed
on picket duty, following the surrender of General Lee. He then returned
home and engaged in saw milling and farming. He has long been recognized as
one of the representative men of his township, and his judgement is
consulted and his opinion is asked in all public matters in his section. He
is a Democrat
in politics and has served many terms as a School Director.
On October 5th, 1865 Mr. Beatty was married to Miss Rachel Young, who was
born in Clarion County, Pa. in 1842. A daughter of Joseph and Mary Hawk
Young, the former of whom died in 1856 and the latter in 1851. They were
natives of Butler County, Pa. Mrs Beatty has one brother, Joseph Young, who
lives in Indiana County. Mr. and Mrs. Beatty have had the following
children; Clark, who is a farmer, married Letha Baker and they have 6
children; Annis D. who is the wife of C. Flory who works in the tannery at
Mahaffey, and they have 6 children; Willis who lives in Newtonburg, Pa.
married Elizabeth Stigers and they have 5 children; John who lives near
Clearfield married Myrtle Coleman and they have 5 children; and George,
Mary, and Ward, all 3 of whom are deceased. Mr. Beatty is a leading member
of the Methodist Protestant Church in Bell Township and is one of the church
Trustees.
Bios: Thomas & Martha Beatty Johnson, 1770s:
Antrim Twp, then Cumberland Co, PA
Martha Beatty, daughter of James Beatty, was born in Antrim township,
Cumberland county, Pa., May 21, 1748. Her parents were emigrants from the
Province of Ulster, Ireland, and were the first settlers in that locality,
some three miles south of the present town of Greencastle. The daughter was
the youngest of a large family of children, grew up to be a woman of
education and refinement, and about the year 1770 married Thomas Johnston,
the son of James Johnston, an intelligent farmer, also an early settler in
the neighborhood.
Wills: Index to Will Abstracts, A-Z Surnames:
1750 - 1825: Cumberland Co, PA
BEATTY, HENRY. 2 September 1772. B. 128-129. willbka-b.txt
BEATTY, JAMES. March 7, 1795. E. 342. willbke.txt
BEATTY, SAML. September 24, 1791. E. 316. willbke.txt
BEATY, JOHN. October 22, 1790. E. 201-202. willbke.txt
ORR, JAMES. 18 August 1768. A. 189. willbka-b.txt
ORR, JOHN. December 12, 1794. E. 335. willbke.txt
ORR, MARTHA. January 3, 1821. I. 195. willbki.txt
ORR, WILLIAM. 26 March 1770. B. 35-36. willbka-b.txt
Pennsylvania Biographies
Bios: Ba-Bl Surnames: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait
Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette
County, Pennsylvania
editorially managed by John M. Gresham
assisted in the compilation by Samuel T. Wiley, A Citizen of the County
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co. Chicago: 1889
Beatty, C S Dunbar 413
CHARLES SHEARER BEATTY is a native of Dunbar township, Fayette county, Penna,
and was born July 27, 1843. He is descended from an Irish family on the
paternal and a German family on the maternal side.
His paternal great grandfather of New Jersey served as a soldier in the War
of 1812. After the war he removed to Centre county, Penna. He had three
sons: Samuel Beatty, James Beatty and John Beatty, who were in the war with
him.
Samuel Beatty engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods at New Haven, soon
removed to Belleville, Washington county, Penna, and there engaged in the
mercantile business which he followed until 1840 when he moved to "Little"
Washington, Washington county, Penna, and engaged in the woolen business.
For twenty five years he was considered one of the largest wool dealers in
the county. He is still living at Washington.
His brother James Beatty died at Cool Spring Furnace, this county, in about
1849.
John Beatty, paternal grandfather was born in New Jersey, removed to Centre
county, Penna, and settled at Cool Spring Furnace, this county, about 1820.
He was a common laborer and married Isabella Hyndman.
Her father, Charles Shearer, was a native of Germany, born about 1768, and
came to Baltimore about 1790. He engaged in the fish trade, and married
Elizabeth Gamble.
Colonel James Beatty, father, was a son of John Beatty and Isabella Hyndman
Beatty, and was born August 21, 1822, in Fayette county, Penna. He was a
farmer, colonel of a regiment of state militia that offered its services in
the Mexican war, but was never called out. Colonel Beatty was married to
Sarah J Shearer on July 25, 1842. They had nine children, five sons and four
daughters: Charles S Beatty, Mary Beatty, Isabella Beatty, William Beatty,
John Beatty, Alice Beatty, Emma Beatty, Louisa Beatty,
and Robert Beatty.
Charles S Beatty was educated in the common schools and is now engaged in
farming in Dunbar township. He has lived for twenty years in that township,
has taught school for sixteen years, and has never taught out of Dunbar
except for one year. He has served continuously from 1876 to 1879 as school
director of Dunbar township, and was secretary of the board. He was
secretary of the democratic county committee in 1873-74.
In the fall of 188, Mr Beatty was elected from Fayette county to the House
of Representatives of Pennsylvania, and was the only candidate on the
democratic ticket at that time elected. In the Pennsylvania
legislature he has been very earnest in advocating measures in the interest
of education. His bill providing for a county uniformity of textbooks to be
determined by a majority vote of the citizens of each county of the State is
one that commends itself to the careful consideration of everyone.
He is a prominent member in several secret societies: Independent Order of
Odd Fellows; withdrew in 1873 and became one of the charter members of King
David Lodge, No 826, at Dunbar, of which he was the first Noble Grand; has
filled all the offices of the subordinate lodge; was Grand Lodge
Representative several times from King David, and has been since 1874 a
member of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania of I O O F. He was charter member
of Dunbar lodge No 410, K of P, organized October, 1873, withdrew March 23,
1889, and organized a lodge at Leisenring and at present is its Grand Lodge
Representative; has filled all the offices of the subordinate lodge; and has
been a member of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania since 1874. He is a member
of the Junior O U A M and has passed the chairs; was representative to the
State Council at Wilkesbarre, July, 1888, and Harrisburg, July, 1889.
He was married August 25, 1865, to Rebekah Woodward, daughter of Davis and
Mary Woodward, natives of Dunbar township. Mr Beatty has seven children:
Louella B Beatty, Mary F Beatty, Davis W Beatty, Sarah J Beatty, Charles F
Beatty, James L Beatty, and Robert E Beatty.
Mr Beatty is a Presbyterian and for four years past, has been elder in the
Leisenring church. He is clerk of the session and has been a delegate three
years to the Presbytery. He was elected in 1888 by the Redstone Presbytery
to the Synod at Erie City, Penna.
Bios: Charles Sherrer Beatty, 1843 - : Dunbar
Twp, Fayette Co
Hon. Charles Sherrer BEATTY,
a leading citizen and successful farmer of Dunbar Township,
was born in Dunbar Township on the farm where he now resides
July,28,1843.He is the son James and Sarah Jane (Sherrer)
Beatty. James Beatty was born July 25,1822 in Dunbar Township, where
he devoted
his life to farming. He was a son of John and
Isabelle (Hyndman) Beatty.
John Beatty was born in New Jersey near Trenton, about 1796.He and his two
brothers, James the oldest and Samuel the youngest, came over the mountains
from New Jersey and settled in Dunbar Township near Laurel Furnace about
1816,they being accompanied by their mother. James Beatty, the
great-grandfather, was born in Ireland and with several brothers came to
this country, settling near Trenton in New Jersey, prior to the
Revolutionary war. He and some brothers were soldiers in the Revolutionary
war. John, a brother, was captured by the indians in 1783 and burned to
death. James Beatty died about 1790.The family remained in New Jersey until
about 1816, when the three sons, as stated above, settled with their mother
in Fayette County. The family was one of the wealthy families of the
country, but converted their property into Continental money, which became
worthless. James Beatty, the oldest son of James Beatty, the first American
ancestor, remained in Fayette County, PA until his death about 1850.He left
four children ,one son and three daughters. Thomas, the son, married a Miss
Keffer, was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil war and died in
1886,leaving three children: Mattie, who married and moved to Illinois; Mary
Jane, who married J.S. Showetter, of Virginia (now
West Virginia); and Margaret, who never married.
Samuel; the youngest son of James, the great-grandfather, was engaged in the
manufacture of paper. Later became interested in the manufacture of woolen
goods at New Haven, Fayette County, and accumulated great wealth, and
afterwards engaged in the mercantile business in Philadelphia. He moved to
Bellville, Washington county, where he was engaged in the mercantile
business. About 1840 he went to Washington, Pa,
where he for twenty years was considered as the largest wool dealer in the
county. He died about 1894;being about ninety-four years of age. He left
four children: Mary A., widow; Preston, a resident
of Washington, Pa; Elizabeth, married a Mr. Smith and resides in Allegheny,
Pa, Gazella, married a minister and went West. The mother of James, John and
Samuel Beatty, died in Fayette county about 1830..John Beatty, the
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1796,and married
Isabelle Hyndman,
a native of Fayette county about 1820.Six children blessed that
union; James (father)
born July,27,1822; Mary Jane, deceased wife of James Graham
(deceased), resided in Dunbar Township,
where Mr. Graham died (about 1884) and left
three children: Geo.B., John S., and Thomas, all of whom reside on the
homestead; Samuel, never married and died in 1891; John died in 1848 at the
age of twenty years; Joseph, married Miss Lydia
Humbert, of Fayette county, and left three children: John C of Fayette
county, married ; William, a resident of
Allegheny, Pa; Florence, unmarried, resides at home with her mother; Sarah,
married Uriah McNatt, resides in Redstone township and has three children:
Isabella, Amanda,
Katherine; and James. James
Beatty married July 26,1842 Miss Sarah Jane Sherrer,
daughter of Charles Sherrer, of Baltimore,
the latter a native of Germany, born about
1786,Jane Sherrer was born in September,1823.Nine children were born to
James and Jane (Sherrer) Beatty;
Charles S; Mary
married John Long and resides in Dunber Township and whose children were:
Granville, Albert,
Emma, Clara, Queen,
Samuel and Pearl: Isabell,
married William Long and has one child; John C,
who married Miss Ella Kelley,and both are dead,
leaving no children; James W.
a resident of North Union township married Miss Mary E Ache,
of Uniontown and has five children: Blanche,
John,
James, Edgar and
Elizabeth; Alice,
unmarried, and resides at home;
Emma married Charles Sherrer and has four
children: Gertrude,
Grace, Fern and Wilber.
Charles Sherrer Beatty attended the common schools of Fayette county.
He left school when eighteen years of age to engage in farming and
teaching-farming in the summer and teaching in the winter.
On August 25,1863,he married to Miss
Rebecca Woodward, daughter of Davis and Mary
(Boyd) Woodward, of Dunbar Township,
Pa. Eight children bless that union:
Luella B, wife of Osmond Thatcher of
Moundsville, W.VA, now of Dunbar township, and has
one child, Sidney; Mary
Florence, married Thomas Hughes,
an engineer of Scranton, Pa and resides at
Plymouth, Luzerne county,
Pa. and has four children: Annie, Maggie,
Edna and Llewellen; Davis Woodward, married
Miss Annie Hankins and has four children:
John, Robert, Lee, Lena
May, and Davis Dempsey, and resides in Dunbar
Township: Sarah, married
William A Hankins, formerly of Virginia,
but at present resides in Dunbar township and has four children:
Helen
Rebekah, ames Alfred,
Flodoris and Rhea Lafayette of Dunbar Township; Charles S,
a student of the Allegheny Theological seminary
(Presbyterian) and who will graduate in the class of 1900;James Lee,
at home; Robert Earl,
at home. Mr. Charles S Beatty purchased his
present farm in 1869;it is valuable and contains one hundred and twenty-five
acres of land well improved and in a high state of cultivation.
Mr Beatty is one of the successful farmers of the county.
He has taken an active interest in every move to advance the
agricultural interests of the county. He and his
ancestors have been lifelong Democrats; and
leaders of as well as active workers in the party.
Mr Beatty is strong in his convictions, yet
liberal in his views and is deservedly by popular with all classes.In 1873-4
he served as secretary of the Democratic county committee;
has served fourteen years as a member of the school board and
secretary of the same for Dunbar Township and previous to this taught
seventeen terms in the public schools of Dunber township.
He is one of the best and most efficient school directors the
Township has ever had. He was nominated and
elected on the Democratic ticket in 1888,and again in 1890,from Fayette
County to the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania,
which office he filled with honor to himself and credit to the
County. He was nominated in 1894 on the Democratic
ticket for State Senator, but was defeated as were
the Democratic nominees nearly all over the county.
Mr Beatty introduced a number of bills of interest to the county
while in legislature, but as his party was in the
minority, many measures were defeated for party
reasons.Mr Beatty is a member of the presbyterian church at Leisenring and
has been an elder since the organization of the church.
He has been a member of King David Lodge,No.826,Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of Dunbar,
for many years. He is a member of Leisenring
Lodge, No 334 K.P.,
formerly of Dunbar Lodge, No 410 and has been
secretary of the same for many years. He is a
member of the Junior Order of American
Merchanics, Leisenring Council,
No 184,and secretary of same; also a member
and secretary of Dunbar Grange, No 1022,A member
of and secretary of Fayette County, Pomono Grange,
No 49. Mr Beatty is a man of pleasing address,
unimpeachable business integrity and splendid intellectual endowment.
Bios: John R BEATTY, 1844 - : Fayette Co
BEATTY HISTORY
Quoted form Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical book of Fayette
County.
John R BEATTY, a sucessful merchant at No.110 North Pittsburg Street,
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, was born at Blairsville, Indiana county, Pa.
March 16,1844. He is the son of Peter and Minerva (Armstrong) Beatty, the
former of Irish and the latter of Scotch nationality. Peter Beatty was a
carpenter and contractor and died in 1889, his wife dying in 1848. Mr & Mrs
Beatty had four sons and one daughter; Samuel C, Oliver W, Alvin C, John R,
and Mrs Nancy J Kauffman. John R Beatty received his education principally
in the public schools of Cumberland, Md, and then followed steam boating on
the Ohio river from 1859 to 1861. July 5,1861, he enlisted in the First
Kentucky Battery, served until mustered out at Camp Joe Holt, September 9,
1864; re-enlisted March 22,1865; at Greensburg, Pa Company I, Third
Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Hancock, in which he served until honorably
discharged at New York, March 22,1866. He took part in the struggles of
Stone River, Pittsburg Landing, Chickamanga and other battles, and starting
with Sherman on his march to the sea, was sent back to aid Thomas in
Crushing Hood at Nashville. He was on the guard booth passed after shooting
of Lincoln and also stood on guard when Mrs.Surratt was executed. At the
battle of Perrysville his horse was shot and fell on him and when he was
taken from under the animal, he was pronounced dead. He had many escapes,
but was never wounded. Leaving the
army, he was engaged for five years as a brakeman and for seventeen years as
a car inspector on the B.& O. railraod from Pittsburg to Connellsville, and
closed his present mercantile business in Connellsville, to which he has
been devoted ever since. April 9,1867, John R Beatty was married at
Blairsville,
Indiana County, Pa by Rev. John S Wakefield to Minerva Jane Duncan, a
daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Jellison) Duncan, who were of scotch
nationality. To Mr. & Mrs Beatty have been born two sons and a daughter;
George Plummer who married Nellie Snow, and has two sons (Everett and
Ralph); Emma J., and
Thomas D., now serving in Company D, Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, which
has won renown for bravery in its campaign in the Philippine Islands. Mr.
Beatty pleasant and courteous and has won the confidence of all who know
him. He has done well in business, and has a wide circle of friends and
acquaintances. He is a democrat in politics and holds membership in Penn
Council,No.30, Order of
Chosen Friends, General Worth Lodge, No.386, I.O.O.F., and the Veteran
Legion. He and his wife are members of the Connellsville Methodist Episcopal
church.
Bios: Ba-Be Surnames: History of Luzerne
County, by H.C. Bradsby, 1893
BATES, William H.
WILLIAM H. BATES, miner, Duryea, was born in the County of Durham, England,
October 13, 1849, and is son of Henry and Matilda (Cranston) Bates, natives
of the same place, who reared a family of four children, of whom our subject
is the youngest. He went to work in the mines about the year 1859, and came
to the United States in the summer of 1873, settling in Scranton, where he
lived until 1881, when he took up his residence in Duryea. Mr. Bates was
united in marriage December 16, 1878, with Hannah J., daughter of George and
Henrietta (Payne) Glover, natives of Westmoreland, England. Their union has
been blessed with the following issue: William F., born June 3, 1880; John
E., born August 10, 1882, and Mary J., born January 7, 1885. Our subject is
a member of the Presbyterian Church, of the I.O.O.F.,
the A.O.U.W., and K. of M.S. In politics he is an adherent of the Republican
party.
Bios: Ba-Be Surnames: History of Luzerne
County, by H.C. Bradsby, 1893
BATES, William H.
WILLIAM H. BATES, horse dealer, Parsons, was born in Washington, D.C., July
29, 1861, and is a son of William and Mary (Barenger) Bates, natives of
Washington, D.C., and of New England origin. Mr. Bates came from Washington
to Parsons, this county, in May, 1884, and engaged in the horse trade, which
he has extensively carried on since, sometimes having on hand as many as
thirty five horses. He generally buys his stock in the western States and
ships them to the East. Mr. Bates is a stanch Democrat, always
faithful to the cause of that party.
Bios: Ba-Be Surnames: History of Luzerne
County, by H.C. Bradsby, 1893
BATEY, George W.
GEORGE W. BATEY, proprietor of the meat market at No. 324 East Main street,
Plymouth, was born September 2, 1857, at Hartlepool, England, and is the
ninth in the family of ten children of Atkinson and Elizabeth (Clousten)
Batey, both also natives of England, the former born in the County of
Durham, the latter in Northumberland, and of Scotch origin. Mr. Batey was
educated in his native land, and the family came to America in 1870,
locating at South Wilkes-Barre, this county, where they remained nine
months, after which they removed to Plymouth, where, in 1871, the father of
our subject established the meat business. Since the father's death in 1881,
the business has been carried on by George W., who was a former partner. The
neat brick block where his market and residence are located was recently
built by the subject of this sketch, who has spared no pains in making it
one of the finest and best markets in the borough. His many patrons are loud
in their praises both as to the quality of his meats and the neat manner in
which they are prepared for the cuisine. Mr. Batey was married, April 8,
1879, to Miss Jennie, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Smiles) Fawcett, natives
of Durham, England, and six children have been born to
this union: Bessie, John A., Margaret, George F., Ethel and Helen. Mr. Batey
is a Republican, and for three years has been councilman for Plymouth
borough. For four years he has served in the National Guard of Pennsylvania.
The family attend the Presbyterian Church.
Bios: Ba-Be Surnames: History of Luzerne
County, by H.C. Bradsby, 1893
BEATTY, Patrick A.
PATRICK A. BEATTY, miner, Plymouth. This experienced miner was born January
17, 1833, in County Mayo, Ireland, and is the second in the family of seven
children of Charles and Kate (Conway) Beatty, also natives of Ireland. Our
subject was educated in the place of his birth, and in 1864 he came to
America, settling in Schuylkill county, where he was engaged in mining for
about one year. He then came to Plymouth, Pa., where in 1866 he assisted in
sinking the famous Nottingham Shaft, where, when it was
completed, he began working as a miner, continuing as such until 1880, when
he went West, locating near Denver, Colo., and there mined silver one year.
In 1882 he returned to Plymouth, and resumed his old occupation at the
Nottingham Shaft, where he has been employed ever since. Mr. Beatty was
united in marriage February 11, 1858, with Miss Margaret, daughter of
Michael and Ann (Fraley) Murry, natives of Galway, Ireland, which union has
been blessed with four children, viz.: Charles, a resident of Olyphant,
Pa., Michael, a resident of Wilkes-Barre; and Annie and Maggie, residing at
home. The family attend the Catholic Church, and in his political
preferences Mr. Beatty is a Democrat.
THE REVEREND CHARLES BEATTY
History: Local: Chapters XLIV-XLV: Boroughs of Hatboro' and Jenkintown:
Bean's 1884 History of Montgomery Co, PA
THE UNION LIBRARY. -An institution that was established one hundred and
thirty years ago for the dissemination of useful knowledge in this county
and has flourished ever since certainly merits some notice in a historical
work of this nature��.. However, nothing was done towards the formation
thereof
until the beginning of the summer of 1755, when the same came to beseriously
considered on the 19th of July, when a meeting of conference was held on the
premises by the Rev. Charles Beatty, Rev. Joshua Potts, John Lukens and
Joseph Hart, when a plan for establishing the same was unanimously agreed
upon.
The "Instrument of Partnership," as it was called, was signed by
Charles Beatty, Jonathan DuBois, Joseph Hart, John Lukens and others
At the annual meeting held November 1, 1755, John Jarret, Samuel Erwin and
Joseph Hart were elected directors, William Loofbourrow, secretary and
Daniel Thomas, treasurer.
At the directors' meeting held on December 19th the sum of �44 7s was given
in charge to the Rev. Charles Beatty, who was directed to send the catalogue
of books ordered to the stationer in London, who was to secure the
same��..In August 1757, John Lukens was authorized to make a purchase of
books to the extent of ten pounds, which were bought on the following
November 5th. On this occasion �19 19s. 6d. were given to Mr. Beatty for an
additional purchase in London, which he was ordered to get insured." These
were received October 24, 1758, and were found to be "much damaged on
shipboard from water." At the meeting held February 10, 1759, the secretary
was permitted to hire out books, the charge for large folios being eighteen
pence, quartos one shilling, and all smaller volumes six pence. This year
the yearly payments, loans and fines amounted to �13 10.s. The secretary,
Joshua Potts, was allowed one pound for the use of the room and attendance.
May 10, 1760, books were purchased of Charles Beatty to the amount of �6 7s.
and as he was going to England, he was requested to make an additional
purchase there. Labels were ordered to be printed and placed in the books.
History: Local: Chapters XVI - XIX : Davis's 1877 History of Northampton Co,
PA
CHAPTER XVI. THE MISSIONARIES.
This discussion was about the army.
We had for our chaplain a zealous Presbyterian minister, Mr. Beatty,1 who
complained to me that the men did not generally attend his prayers and
exhortations. When they enlisted they w ere promised, besides pity and
provisions, a gill of rum a day, which was punctually served out to them,
half in the morning and half in the evening ; and I observed they were
punctual in attending to receive it; upon which I said to Mr. Beatty: 'It is
perhaps, below the dignity of your profession to act as steward of, the rum;
but if you were to distribute it, out only just after prayers, you would
have then, all about you.' He liked the thought, undertook the task, and,
with the help of a few hands to measure out the liquor, executed it to
satisfaction,and never were prayers wore punctually attended. So that I
think this method preferable to the punishment inflicted by some military
laws for non-attendance on divine service." This was a novel way of inducing
men to be devotional, but it was certainly most ingenious, as well as
original.
1 "The Rev. Charles Beatty, a native of Ireland obtained a pretty accurate
classical education in his own country; but his circumstances being narrow,
several of the first years of his residence in America in the business of a
peddler. He halted one day at Log College (Neshaminy Bucks County). The
peddler to Mr. Tennant's surprise addressed him in correct Latin, and
appeared to be familiar with that language. After much conversation �in
which Mr. Beatty manifested ferverant piety, and considerable religious
knowledge as well as a good education in other respects Mr. Tennant said 'Go
and sell the contents of your pack and return immediately and study with me.
It w ill be a sin for you to continue a peddler when you can be so
much more useful in another profession.' He accepted Mr. Tennant's offer and
in due time became an eminent minister. He was chaplain in the army, under
Dr. Franklin on the Lehigh. He died at Barbadoes, where he had gone to
solicit benefactions for the New Jersey College." - Miller's Life of Dr.
Rogers.
History: Part 4 - Pages 90-136. - CHRISTOPHER GIST'S JOURNALS, 1750-53:
William M. Darlington, 1893.
CHRISTOPHER GIST'S JOURNALS WITH HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL
NOTES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES
Bouquet's army, in 1764, made their twelfth encampment here, after leaving
Fort Pitt, from which Captain Hutchins computed the distance to be one
hundred and sixteen miles. They found "Tuscarawas a place exceedingly
beautiful in situation, lands rich, and on the northwest side an entire
level plain, upwards of five miles in
circumference," and "from the number of ruined houses, supposed the Indians
who inhabited the place and are with the Delawares to have had about one
hundred and fifty warriors." ("Journal of Bouquet's Expedition, 1765," p.
13, original edition.)
This is a noted spot in the early history of Ohio. Christian Fred Post, the
Moravian Missionary, established a station on the north side of the
Tuscarawas, in the present Stark County, in the year 1761, and erected, it
is claimed, the first house in Ohio. ("Heckwelder's Narrative," p. 61. "Life
of Zeisberger," by De Schweinitz, p. 256. "Beatty's Journal," 1766, p. 40.)
Fort [105] Laurens, the most western military post
erected by the Americans during the Revolution, stood just below the site of
Tuscarawas town.
December 25, 1750. Christmas Day.�This, no doubt, was the first Protestant
religious service ever held within the limits of the present State of Ohio.
The first Protestant sermon was preached by the Rev. Charles Beatty, on the
21st of September, 1766, at Newcomerstown, about sixteen miles farther up
the Muskingum. The Rev. George Duffield preached in the afternoon of
the same day, at the same place. These ministers were Presbyterian
Missionaries, sent out by the Synods of New York and Philadelphia.
("Beatty's Journal of a Two Month's Tour West of the Allegheny Mountains in
1766," London,
1768, pp. 55-56.)
THE FIRST RELIGIOUS SERVICES HELD IN BLAIR COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
Of one thing in this connection we are certain: namely, that Presbyterianism
was the primitive religion of the Juniata Valley, and of this particular
part of it. Of the first civilized men who took possession of this region
that now forms Blair County, the great majority were Presbyterians. One
hundred and ninety years ago, in 1756, Colonel Armstrong of Cumberland
County, Pa., at the head of three hundred men, marched from Carlisle through
Blair County to destroy the Indian town of Kittanning, west of the Allegheny
Mountains. The Rev. Charles Beatty, a Presbyterian minister, accompanied
Colonel Armstrong as Chaplain of his regiment. The troops' rendezvous, both
in going and returning from this expedition, was at the "Beaver Dams," the
flat just below where Fort Fetter was built a few years later. While
encamped here, Rev. Beatty held divine services for the soldiers - the first
religious services ever held in Blair County.
Church: Part II - Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church, Edifice Centennial
Celebration, 1894:
Letterkenney Twp, Franklin Co, PA
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ROCKY SPRING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The first ministers, most of whom had come from abroad, were soundly learned
men, and possessed of correct theological creed, but their piety was less
spiritual and earnest. A different spirit was needed for a great church of a
great country. How was the want to be met? In a way we would little have
expected. He sent here that most godly and eloquent man, Rev. George
Whitfield, bringing with him from England, the
burning spirit of the Oxford Methodists��..The God of infinite wisdom and
power has his plan ready. In the Log College, He
has a band of ten evangelists prepared, with the same doctrines and the same
spirit; but with different gifts, and different powers, as soon as his plans
are ripe; to spring forth over the whole land and
spread the system in every quarter, and plant the standard at every point
But little is this glorious movement understood.
The names of these blessed men, all taught in the Log College, sanctified by
the same spirit, and bring with them the same love to Christ and souls, must
be had in remembrance. They were the four great sons of Tennent, Gilbert,
William, John and Charles; the two brothers, Samuel and John Blair, Samuel
Finley, William Robinson, John Rowland, and Charles Beatty. These were the
men whom God prepared and sent abroad to disseminate the cause over the
whole land.
LIST OF PEW HOLDERS 1768-1794.
No. 33.
John Beatty.
Bios: BEATTY, E. Calvin : Oil City, Venango
Co, PA
E. Calvin Beatty, of Oil City, has devoted his business life to operations
in the Pennsylvania and Mid-Continent oil fields, and his extensive holdings
and prestige indicate that he possesses the high character
and substantial qualities for which all the members of his family have been
distinguished, as well as the discernment necessary to the efficient
administration of his various properties. The Beattys, father and sons, have
contributed materially to progress in the conduct of the oil industry no
less than to its expansion, their operations representing an appreciable
share in its continued growth...
E. Calvin Beatty was born March 10, 1860, on his father's farm in Mercer
county, Pa., in a log house standing near the Craig school house. He moved
with his parents to Rouseville March 27, 1867, and received his education in
the public schools of that borough. He began work in the oil fields at such
an early age that he witnessed practically all of the development of the
industry, which had hardly departed from the crude first methods in his
boyhood. When twelve years old he worked in the power house on his father's
production reversing the engine when it was used in "pulling" a well, a
process done away with by the invention of the reverse action on steam
engines, and he became familiar with all the ordinary duties about the wells
within the next few years. In 1879 he was employed on the Quintuple tract
near Song Bird, in the Bradford field, by the E. Strong Company. In 1884 he
became a member of the Oil City Oil Exchange, upon which he operated
profitable until the next year. But speculation in pipe line certificates
had declined and he resumed activities as an operator, in which capacity he
has since been most prominently associated with
the oil business. From 1884 he was in partnership with O. H. Stron and his
brother H. B. Beatty under the firm name of H. B. Beatty & Company, having a
tract of 150 acres at Tiona, in Warren count, where they brought in some
very good wells, E. C. Beatty and his father-in-law, William Helm,
eventually taking over this property, which they have worked as Beatty &
Helm. Mr. Beatty has also been interested with the firm known as the Helm,
Meley Company in operations in Warren county. He has also been engaged in
gas production, but an unfortunate investment in that line a few years ago
swept away his accumulations, leaving him to start life over again. However,
his experience led him into profitable oil operations in which he has more
than retrieved his losses, his holdings in the shallow sand development in
Oklahoma proving highly remunerative. He originally had eight hundred acres
in that territory, near Nowata, but he has been selling gradually, still
retaining ninety acres in fee, with twenty-seven producing wells. For a
number of hears Mr. Beatty was manager of the Oakwood Farm & Garden Company,
whose property in Cranberry township, near Oil City, ranks with the leading
horticultural establishments of the United States, its shipments of cut
flowers reaching enormous proportions.
He owns and manages a fine truck farm in Dorchester county, Md., on the
"East Shore" near Chesapeake Bay, having acquired 180 acres in two pieces,
all of which is under cultivation. There are fifty-five acres in wheat. He
spends the summers there with his family.
On Jan. 22, 1884, Mr. Beatty was married at Tidioute, Pa., to Barbara Ida
Elizabeth Helm, who was born July 19, 1864, daughter of William Helm, and
they are the parents of the following children:
Elliott Braham, born Nov. 29, 1884,..; Mabel Alicia, born Jan. 3, 1886, ..;
Maude Irene, born Dec. 2, 1888, ..; Vina Marguerite, born Sept, 22, 1895..;
Clara Barbara, born April 16, 1898, ..; Marshall Helm, born June 29,
1903,..; Robert Bruce, born Aug. 3, 1904,.. The family have lived in Oil
City since 1888, ... Mr. Beatty is a prominent Odd Fellow, having been a
member of Oil City Lodge, No. 589, for over thirty years and treasurer of
that body for several years. Politically he is a Republican.
Venango County, Pennsylvania Her Pioneers and People, p. 547
Bios: BEATTY, Samuel : Venango Co, PA
Samuel BEATTY, pumper and oil producer, was born in 1845, in the city of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is a son of William and Mary (English) Beatty,
of Scotch-Irish ancestry. William Beatty was a member of a regiment that was
raised in Pittsburgh to serve in the Mexican war and was killed in one of
its hardest battles. Our subject received his education in the public
schools of his native city, and was employed in the iron mills there until
March 29, 1864, when he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth
Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. He was wounded at Cold
Harbor June 3, 1864, and on recovering was transferred to Company I,
Sixteenth Reserves. After being mustered out he returned to Pittsburgh and
engaged in farming in the vicinity of that city, subsequently removing to
Lawrence county. In June, 1877, he came to Venango county, and engaged in
coal mining for Findley Surrenna, and afterward worked for the Phillips
Brothers, oil producers, with whom he remained four years. In 1882 he
entered the employ of J. N. Hovis, with whom he has since remained, being
interested in two producing wells. He was married in 1863 to Sarah B.
Haslet, who died in 1872 leaving four children: William J.; Andrew S.;
Samuel W., and Thomas J. In December, 1876, he was married to Mrs. Miranda
E. Jacobs nee Surrenna and by this union has one son, Edward E. Mr. Beatty
is a Republican and a member of John M.
Phipps Post, G. A. R.
History of Warren County, Pennsylvania
Edited by J. S. Schenck-Assisted by W. S. Rann
Syracuse, N. Y. -D. Mason & Co., Publishers -1887
Beaty, David, was born in Beaver county, Pa., on the 26th day of October,
1811. His paternal ancestry is derived from Scotland. His grandfather,
William Beaty, emigrated from Scotland to Newburg, on the Hudson, in New
York State, and thence removed to Beaver county, in this state, nearly
eighty years ago. He had a family of three daughters and four sons, of the
latter of whom William, Jr., the eldest, was the father of David Beaty.
William, the younger, was born in Newburg, N. Y., in 1764; could distinctly
remember having seen Washington; served in the War of 1812, being
stationed at Erie to protect the country from an apprehended invasion of the
enemy, and died at his home in Beaver county on the 5th of June, 1859. He
was a farmer by occupation, a Democrat of the old school, and a consistent
member of the Presbyterian church. His wife, Mary,
had four brothers and three sisters, the children of David Clark, of Irish
birth and parentage. He was a giant in stature, measuring six feet two and
one half inches in his stockings. He died in
Beaver county about the year 1822. Mary (Clark) Beaty died in the summer of
1868, of palsy. William and Mary Beaty reared a family of seven sons and six
daughters. Of this family of thirteen children, David Beaty was the sixth.
Just previous to his nineteenth birthday David Beaty came to Chautauqua
county, N. Y., where he remained at work on farms for four years, removing,
at the expiration of that time, to Tionesta, Warren county, Pa. There he
engaged in lumbering in the forests for a period of five years, when he went
to West Hickory, near Tidioute, and was married November 16, 1843, to
Abigail Mead, youngest daughter of Joseph Mead; uniting the labors of a
farmer with those of a former vocation. At the beginning of the oil
excitement, more than twenty years ago, he commenced his operations in
petroleum on Oil Creek, eight miles south of Titusville. This occupation
gradually assumed larger proportions, and in time
absorbed Mr. Beaty's entire time and attention. The material result,
however, has been most gratifying. The boy who left home with one dollar and
seventy-five cents in his pocket, and with
venturesome daring, walked 130 miles to the destination which he had
selected as the field for his labors, was bound to succeed, and has
succeeded beyond his original calculations. After erecting and furnishing
the buildings in which he now lives, Mr. Beaty removed hither from
West Hickory on the 11th of March, 1873. His home farm consists of 170 �
acres, besides which he now owns sixty acres in one lot above here, 100
acres on Hatch Run, etc., making more than five hundred acres that he owns
in Warren county, and nearly four thousand acres
in Dakota. Mr. Beaty is a stalwart member of the Democratic party, and a
member of the Presbyterian church of Warren. Joseph Mead was born in
Northunberland county, Pa., June 25, 1772; came to where Meadsville now
stands, when it was a wilderness, with his eldest brother, David Mead.
Joseph was sixteen years old at that time. They had some narrow escapes.
Their father, Darius Mead, was taken prisoner by the Indians and killed
about thirty miles from Franklin. Joseph remained there one year; returned
to Northumberland, and went to school; acquired as good an education as he
could possibly; was married in 1794 to Hannah Boone, a relative of Daniel
Boone, of Kentucky; emigrated to near Youngsville, Warren county, in 1799
with his brother Darius, and their families. They
built the first grist and saw-mill in the county. Joseph afterward came to
reside three miles below Warren, on the Allegheny River, and died there in
1846.
The family of Mr. and Mrs. Beaty consists of three sons-O. W., David W., and
Albert B., the last named of whom died on the 20th of September, 1851. The
other two are still residing in Warren county.
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