Family
of Edmund Beauchamp
Edmund Beauchamp
b. 1629
m. June 22, 1668, to Sarah Dixon (may be June 11)
d. 1691, will executed April 10, 1691, probated October 12, 1691
Sent to the Eastern Shore of Maryland by Governor Calvert in 1666.
Received
50 acres of
land from Lord Baltimore.
Served as clerk to the court from June
to August 22, 1666.
Then became clerk and keeper of the records of the proceedings of the
court of Somerset County until his death.
Took part in the expeditioN against the Nanticoke Indians.
Speaks of himself in his will as “weaver, of London”.
In Maryland by 1665.
In 1665 assigns 50 acres to William Smith.
Sarah
Dixon
b. 1655
baptized April 21, 1671, previously Quaker
m.(2) John White
d. 1730
Supposed to have died leaving 5 minor children:
Mary, Sarah, Henry, Rachel, and Martha White.
Father: Ambrose Dixon, d. 1687, a caulker who originally settled in
Virginia, moved to Maryland for religious reasons when pressed to pay religious
dues to the Episcopal Church
.
Mother:
Mary (Peddington?)
Parents were Quakers of Annemessex.
Father buried at “meeting House at Annemessex”.
CHILDREN
OF Edmund Beauchamp and Sarah Dixon:
1.
Thomas Beauchamp
b. December 26, 1670
m. (1) October 8, 1692, to Mary Turpin
m. (2) Sarah ?
d. 1717 Somerset County, Maryland
2.
Alice Beauchamp
b. May 13, 1674
d. after 1691
3.
Edmond Beauchamp
b. June 24, 1676
m. about 1699 to Sarah Traherne
d. abaout 1733
Will executed
January 5, 1716, probated October 29, 1733
4.
William Beauchamp
b. 1687
d. young
5.
John Beauchamp
b. April 1, 1679
m. Mary Curtis
d. 1725
6.
Dogget Beauchamp
b. July 15, 1681
m. Sarah Gray
will executed March 18, 1716
7.
Edward Beauchamp
b. 1683
m. Naomy Fountain
d. will executed August 29, 1750, probated December 7, 1751
8.
Robert Beauchamp
b. 1685
m. after 1710 to Elizabeth Turpin (Tull)
d. 1741, Maryland
9.
Patience Beauchamp
Father’s will bequeaths her 12 pounds sterling.
