Beckham
Simon Beckham, Emigrant to Virginia was b. ca 1660, died Sept. 1716 in Essex Co., Virginia. m. Lydia.
He immigrated from England to Virginia in 1701. Essex Co., Virginia Order Book No. 3, 1703-1708, page 89:
10 July 1704. Certificate according to the Act of Assembly, granted to Simon Beckham for 50 acres of land, due by his, the said Beckham's own transportation into this colony, who, in Court assigned the same to Larkin Chew. Larkin Chew is believed to have speculated in land, as he received land patents for 2,700 acres.
The 1704 Quit Rent Rolls of the Colony of Virginia show Simon Beckham of Essex Co. as the owner of 100 acres.
Wills and Deeds, Essex Co., Vol. 11, 1702-1704, page 218. Date: 10 April 1704, an inventory of the Estate of Robert Halsey, decd, taken by Court Order on 10 November 1703, Simon Beckham's name appearing as being obligated for 700 pds of tobacco.
Also, in Wills and Deeds, Vol. 12, 1704-1707, p. 211. date: June 1706. The name of Simon Beckham and wife, Lydia Beckem appear as witnesses to a power of attorney from Daniel and Mary Marbut. Proved: 10 June 1706.
Essex Co. Virginia Deed and Will Book 14, 1711-1716, p. 665 (not dated), probated 19 Sept. 1716, the LWT of Simon Beckham, decd.
Children:
I. William Beckham, b. ca 1680 Essex Co., Virginia, d. same place m. Tabitha. He settled in Orange Co., Virginia, with some of his children settling in nearby counties, while others moved to the Carolinas and Georgia. Children:
A. William Beckham b. 1709 Essex Co., Va. d. Nov. 1777 Granville Co., N. C. m. Phillis Randolph. His LWT dated 4 June 1776 probated Nov 1777, Granville Co., N. C. wherein he namedhis children.
Orange Co., Va Deed Book I, 14 June 1735, Alexander Spotswood to William Beckham for the natural life of his son, Simon Beckham.
Issue: a. Simon Beckham b. ca 1729 Orange Co., Va. d. 29 Dec 1785 m. Susannah McMillican on 2 Jan 1749.
b. William Beckham, Captain, b. 1734 Buckingham Co., Va. d. 9 Sept 1812 Columbia Co., Ga. m. Catherine ca 1759. issue:
1. Elizabeth Beckham b. ca 1761 d. Columbia Co., Ga. m. 1st, John Cobbs ca 1782 and 2nd, Charles Ellis on 7 February 1798, Columbia Co., Ga.
2. Sherwood Beckham b. ca 1762 of Columbia Co. m. Mary Stephens on 9 April 1794 Columbia Co.
3. Solomon Beckham b. ca 1765 Columbia Co. m. Susanna Weathers on 18 Sept 1787 Columbia Co. SOLOMON BECKHAM, son of Simon Beckham and Susannah McMillian, was born 1764 in Granville Co, NC and died 25 Mar 1838 in Pike Co, GA. He was married on 20 Sep 1787 in Richmond Co, GA to Susanah Stacy Weathers. She was born 1770 and died 3 Dec 1845 in Pike Co, GA. Solomon Beckham was a Private during the Revolutionary War for Georgia in Captain Samuel Beckham's Company attached to General Elijah Clark Regiment of Rifleman. He was in the Militia Muster Rolls - 1793.
c. John Beckham b. ca 1736 m. Elizabeth Henderson on 13 Aug 1761.
d. Thomas Beckham b. ca 1726 d. 1796 Edgefield Co., S. C. m. Mary. Edgefield Co., S. C. Deed Book 3, p. 319,315: 9 February 1789 Thomas Beckum, Sr. and Mary, his wife, of 96 District, S. C., Edgefield County, deed to Aquila Miles, Esq. of the same place, for 300 pds., 300 acres on Horns Creek, bounded South by land formerly Thomas, Southeast by Aquila Miles, Northeast by Martin. Said land was granted to Thomas Beckum on 6 February 1786. S/Thomas (T) Beckum, Sr., Mary (x) Beckum. Wit: Hugh Middleton, James Talbert. The LWT of Thomas Beckham was probated the January Term of 1796 in Edgefield C., S. C. and named his wife, Mary and children: Issue:
1. Demsey Beckham.
2. Young Beckham.
3. Thomas Beckham.
4. Russell Beckham.
e. Mary Beckham.
B. Henry Beckham.
C. Thomas Beckham.
D. Simon Beckham.
E. Stephen Beckham.
II. James Beckham d. 1759 Essex Co., Va.
Revolutionary War Pension of Solomon Beckham
Washington D.C.
Mar 22, 1854
Sir;
The application of Solomon Beckham under act June 1832, Georgia suspended file, I wish to be understood, it was suspended for want of proof from Milledgeville, Georgia, I wrote to his son Joseph C Beckham (This is the son of James Beckham and grandson of Solomon Beckham) on the subject. He replies as follows: I have repeatidly sent & written to Milledgeville for further evidence of service of Solomon Beckham and they invariable state that the evidence has been forwarded to Washngton City. The muster rolls, certificates, so I have been unable to prove any further testimony.
Respectfully
John S. Edwards
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Court of Pensions
Declaration of James Beckcom alias Beckham only son and heir at law of Solomon Beckham and Susannah Stacy Beckham, his wife and widow.
State of Georgia
County of Pike
At the Superior Court for said county personally appeared this trial day of May in the year A.D. 1852 James Becksom whose name is sometimes written Beckham a resident of said county aged in his sisty fifth year who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of the 7 Jun 1832 granting pensions to soldiers who served in the war of the Revolution and of the act of the 7 July 1838 extending such pensions to their widows. That he is the only son and heir of the identical Solomon Becham who was as he always understood & verify believed was a soldier in a company commanded by Captain Samuel Beckham attached to Colonel & General Elijah Clark, Regiment of Riflemen in the service of the State of Georgia in the war of the Revolution that his said father as he has understood & believed served in said company as declarant states that he has heard his father say that he enlisted for eighteen months & that he served considerable service after that time but how much service declarant does not know & cannot state the years when such service was rendered but says he thinks it was about the time the British were in proseession of the City of Savannah and was engaged in several skirmishes with the enemy & was at a subsequent time taken prisoner by the Tories. And Declarant further states that his said father was married as he has always understood & believes on the 20th day of September in the year 1787 to his mother Susannah Stacy Weathers & that the said documents of said marriage heretofore transmitted to the pension office & these as he is informed on file was taken from the family Bible and is in his father's own handwriting and is to the best of his knowledge an original & true record thereof and that the last figure of the year of the date of said record was torn off by Declarants wife without any purpose or design what was noting to this his application for a pension and Declarant further says that his said mother Susannah Stacy Beckham's real maiden name before her marriage was Weathers as he has always understood & believes but that his mother soon after the death of her father & whilst she was very young, having intermarried with on Major Spurlock the child was frequently called by his name - and Declarant further says that his said father, Solomon Beckham departed this life in said County of Pike on the 25th day of March 1838 (Note the 8 is hard to make out could be a 2 also) and that his widow & the mother of Declarant also departed this life in said County without having again married on the third day of December 1845 and Declarant further says that he was the only off spring of said marriage having been born of the 8th day of November 1787 & is the only son & heir at law of the said Solomon Beckham & Susannah Stacy Beckham both deceased. Declarant further states that he has heard his father say that he was not old enough to bear arms but was shot at by some Tories at his father's, through emnity to his brother Captain Samuel Beckham & feeling unsafe to remain at home went & joined his brother's company under Colonel or General Elijah Clark & remained in the Company from that time till the close of the war. And that he has often heard his father say that he was the one of the guard who was conducting some Tory prisoneers to Savanah during the session of the Legislature or Assembly as it was perhaps then called when they were met by a Mr Paddy Carr with an order to Captain Samuel Beckham then commanding said guard to deliver up to him (the said Carr) one of the said prisoners whose name he thinks was Josiah Ambrose who had killed a lady (Declarant thinks her name was Mrs. Dooley) while in bed thinking it to be her husband. After knocking off the irons from the prisoner the said Carr hung him up to a tree in presence of the guard.
Sworn to & subscribed this day or year aforesaid, James Becksom
And the said court to hereby certify that the Declarant James Beckcom is one of the most worth citizens of said county being a man of large family & respectibility & unimpeachable truth & verocity - and the said court do hereby further declare their opinion that this said Solomon Beckham was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as above stated - this done & ordered in open court this 3rd day of May 1852.
Jas Springer, Judge Pike Co
Benson Roberts, J.H.
William Anderson, JJC
Wm O. Kircherik, JJC
State of Georgia
Pike County
Wiley E Mangham Clerk of the Superior Court hold in at Zebulon in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that dates factury evidence has been exhibited to said court that Susannah Beckham the widow of Solomon Beckham, deceased, a Revolutionary soldier, whose marriage took place on the 20th, Twentieth of September A.D. (1787) Seventeen hundred & eighty-seven according to records in family bible which is hereunto annexed and who was intitled to half pay and service from the United States according to Acts of Congress of the third of March A.D. (1837) Eighteen Hundred Thirty-seven & the (7) Seventh of July (1838) Eighteen hundred & thirty-eight & subsequent acts of Congress extending said half pay and pensions to the widow of deceased soldiers of the Revolutionary War who had served in manner set forth in the Act of Congress of the Seventh day of June A.D. Eighteen hundred & Thirty-two, at the rate of dollars per month. But never applied for service the same was a resident of the county aforesaid on the third day of December A.D. Eighteen Hundred Forty-five that she left a son (and only legal heir of said deceased widow) whose name is James Beckham and who is now a resident of the county & state aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set by hand & affixed the seal of my office at Zebulon, this the 5th day of January A.D. 1851.
Wiley E Mangham, CIC
Pike Co, GA
Ref: Essex Co., Virginia Order Book No. 3, 1703-1708; Essex County Wills & Deeds; 1704 Virginia Quit Rent rolls; Orange Co., Va. Deeds; Granville Co., N. C. Wills; Columbia Co. Ga Wills & Marriages.
