George and Nancy (Sparks) Beal
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Re: Beals in Ohio / PA and Nancy Sparks
| barbaraRanshaw (View posts) | Posted: 1 May 2009 12:34PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Does anyone know when Nancy Sparks, wife of George Beal, was born?
John Sparks Jr.
Service record.
John Sparks was from the state of New Jersey, county of Salem held the rank of Ensign of the 2nd. New Jersey November 11, 1775; became a 2nd., Lieutenant May 10, 1776, then a 1st., Lieutenant on February 5, 1777; Captain January 1, 1778. Resigned August 31, 1778.
Pension roll.
John Sparks was from the state of New Jersey, county of Salem held the rank of Captain of the New Jersey Line, was placed on the roll July 28, 1818, with an allowance of $240., dollars per year, and had received $1945.80., dollars. Commencement of his pension was April 23, 1818, at the time this was recorded he was 69. In the remarks it states that he died on April 30, 1826.
[Editor's note: In the following documents, which were copied by the Editor from a microfilm copy of the originals, capitalization and punctuation have been modernized for the sake of clarity, but no changes have been made in spelling or content. The file number given to the application papers of John Sparks in The National Archives is 1910. He was granted a pension on 28 July 1818 under an act of Congress dated 18 March 1818. Under this act pensions were granted only to the most needy veterans of the Revolution. John Sparks received $20.00 per month from 23 March 1818 until his death 30 April 1826. Little has been learned regarding John Sparks besides the data in his application. In 1927 Mrs. Sam Bretch of 1005 West 18th St., Oklahoma City, Okla., wrote to the Bureau of Pensions regarding this John Sparks and stated that from other information which she had it appeared that John Sparks had married twice and that he had a daughter named Nancy who married George Beal. Minnie Beal Miller of 611 No. Drake Ave., Fullerton, Calif., gave similar information in 1939. According to data compiled by Mrs. Leonard T. Harris, 72 West 14th Place, Chicago Heights, Ill., Nancy Sparks, daughter of John, was born about 1764 and died in Jan. 1854 in Guernsey County, Ohio, at the home of her son, Isaac Seal. Anyone having additional information on the family of John Sparks is requested to write to the Editor.]
District of New-Jersey, SS.
Salem Inferior Court of Common Pleas, June Term, 1820.
On this 14th day of June 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem in the state of New Jerseyy, being a Court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping records of its proceedings, and possessing the power of ---?--- and ---?---, John Sparks, aged 63 years, resident in Upper Acreek [?] in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: in Captain Faulkner's company to Canada in 1776 and in the Revolutionary Army under Captain John B. Cummins as first lieutenant, 2d Regiment, commanded by Colonel Israel Shreeve, Jersey line; after the Battle of Germantown promoted to a captain in the same regiment and line; that he has received a pension certificate No. 1910.