Margaret Montgomery1
d. before 27 September 1831
| Marriage | | Margaret Montgomery married John Beaty.1 |
| Devisee | 1803 | Margaret's father wrote his will in 1803 in Washington County, Virginia. He left his daughters Abigail Preston and Margaret Beaty a large tract of Washington County land abutting the south side of the Middle Fork of the Holston River. The land was divided such that Abigail took the northern part of the tract adjacent to the river. Margaret's share sat south of that. Thomas noted that John Beaty [and presumably Margaret and their family] already lived on the land. On Abigail and Margaret's deaths the land was to be divided between their children. Abigail and Margaret's sister Ann was to receive her support from Abigail's share of the land. |
| Cens-1820 | 1820 | John Beatie's 1820 census included: 1 male 16-26, 1 male 26-45, 1 male 45+, 1 female 26-45 and one female 45+. This suggests one of John's sons was no longer living at home.2 |
| Death | before 27 Sep 1831 | Margaret's date of death is unknown. She was deceased by Sept. 27, 1831 when a court ordered the land she had inherited from her father be divided among her children.3,4 |
| Court Record | 27 Sep 1831 | Margaret's sister Abigail was also deceased by this time. The court designated how the women's land should be divided but deeds were never executed. In the early 1840s Margaret's grandson Nelson Beaty [son of Margaret's daughter Jane Land who by then was also deceased] brought suit against Margaret's other heirs to divide the land.3 |
Citations
- [S616] Thomas Montgomery will (recorded 1803), Washington Co., Virginia Will Bk 2: 370.
- [S621] John Beatie household, 1820 U.S. cens., Washington Co., Virginia, p. 196 (stamped), line 6, viewed online at Ancestry.com, Oct. 2012. Household includes: 1 male 16-26, 1 male 26-45, 1 male 45+, 1 female 26-45 and one female 45+. This suggests one of John's sons was not living at home.
- [S2527] Nelson Beaty by his guardian and best friend vs James Beaty, C. Jones, etc., Washington Co., Virginia Ended Chancery Causes 1850-05, reel 90, Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. The case references a previous case filed in Washington Co. Chancery Ct [records no longer exist] brought by James, John, Alexander and Jane Beaty against Thomas M. Preston, F.W. Irby and Nancy Preston. An exhibit from that case references a decree dated 27 Sept. 1831 whereby commissioners were appointed by the court on 27 Sept. 1831 to divide the land among the various parties.
- [S2527] "Bill of Complaint", Nelson Beaty by his guardian and best friend vs James Beaty, C. Jones, etc., Washington Co., Virginia Ended Chancery Causes 1850-05, reel 90, Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. The bill of complaint stated that Abigail Preston died on the ___ day of ____ 183_ and that Margaret Beaty died on the ___ day of ___ 18__.
- [S2527] "James Beaty Answer dated 6 May 1844", Nelson Beaty by his guardian and best friend vs James Beaty, C. Jones, etc., Washington Co., Virginia Ended Chancery Causes 1850-05, reel 90, Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. James stated that "his mother Margaret Beaty, daughter of Thomas Montgomery, had 6 children, to wit: John Beaty, Alexander Beaty, Jane Beaty (later Jane Land), Robert Beaty, and ___ Beaty (the last 2 died before their mother)." [James was implied as an additional child]
- [S2210] Jack Hockett, Washington Co., Virginia Deed Book 9, 1825-1829, deed as abstracted from WCV DB 9: 591 states that on 21 Aug. 1823 Alexander M. Beatie sold his future interest in a tract of land in Washington Co. to John Beaty Jr. and James Beaty for $600. The land had been left to Margaret wife of John Beaty in the will of Margaret's father, Thomas Montgomery, and was to pass to her children on her death. Alexander, James and John Beaty Jr. were stated to be part of those children.
