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James Beck

Male 1779 - 1855  (75 years)

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  • Name James Beck 
    Born 26 May 1779  Loughbrickland, Aghaderg, County Down, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 

    • LOUGHBRICKLAND, a post-town, in the parish of AGHADERG, barony of UPPER IVEAGH, county of DOWN, and province of ULSTER, 8 miles (N. E.) from Newry, and 58 1/2 (N.) from Dublin, on the road from Newry to Belfast
    Gender Male 
    Emigration 1 May 1804  Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    to America on the ship Commerce 
    Immigration 10 Jul 1804  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    with one chest and bedding 
    Tax Record 1809  Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Tax Record 1826  Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Tax Record 1827  Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Tax Record 1828  Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Naturalization 22 Jul 1828  Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    James Beck, born in the Kingdom of Ireland, took the oath of allegance 

    • James Beck, born in the Kingdom of Ireland; this day came personally into Court and made application to be Naturalized and to become a Citizen of the United States. He being sworn declared on Oath that he will support the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Ohio and that he does absolutely and bonafidely denounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, State or Sovereignty whatsoever and particularly to George the Fourth King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
    Tax Record 1829  Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Census 1830  Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Tax Record 1830  Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Tax Record 1831  Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Tax Record 1832  Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Land Patent 20 Mar 1837  Shelby County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [15, 16] 
    received Land Patent OH1660_167 for 80 acres 
    Address:
    (1st PM, East 1/2 of the North West 1/4, Section 14, Township 7  

    • Land Patent: James Beck
      80 acres, Cash Entry
      Certificate: #7236
      Location: Shelby County (East half of the South East quarter, Section 33, Township 6 South, Range 6 East)
      Date: 20 March 1837
    Correspondence 24 Sep 1845  [17] 
    wrote a letter to family in Ireland 

    • Dinsmore Ohio
      Sept 24
      Mr James A Beck
      Gilford
      Down
      Ireland
      Dinsmore, Shelby Co Sept 24th AD 1845
      Dear friend & Nephew
      —With great pleasure I received your letter dated the 14th of June, I received it the 10th of July, & was really extreamly glad to hear that you & your Mother, Brothers & sisters were all well, & doing well, it is a great satisfaction to me to hear of my friends being well & doing well I am verry glad that you took such pains to give the particulars respecting all my friends & near relatives in Ireland, I was verry sorry to hear that temporal difficulties had come across my aged & loving brother who was when young highly esteemed by all that knew him I yesterday wrote a letter to brother John in which I requested him to let me know what the difficulties were that you could not rightly explain, it is a great pleasure to me to hear of my friends being well & doing well & sorry when I hear of any difficulties attend any of them; but I still wish to hear the truth let it be good or bad dear James I have the pleasure of letting you know that I enjoy good health, but find that age is pulling me fast down, my head almost white & somewhat balded though my face is still full & rudy coloured, my children & their families are also, I believe at present well I have seen none of James Pattys family nor my son Francis Hugh since spring a year ago, but William Beck my son was down there a few weeks ago, they were then all well & doing well, James Noland & Martha Burns my daughter were well a few days ago & their two children also, my son William & his family are also well Joseph Elliot & Susannah & their 3 children are well & doing well, I now have my home with them, he is now seeding my farm & some of the wheat he has sown is now up green there are only about 26 acres of my place yet cleared & fit for cultivation Joseph will seed about twelve or thirteen of it this fall, there are about 6 or seven acres of it in meadow, the rest for oats next spring.
      —To give you particular & full statement of the Agricultural, manufactural commercial & Political state of the country is more than I can do properly at this time. Agriculture is rapidly improving & the Agriculturist are the most happy & indipendent people & a number of them can ride to their meetings or places of worship in their silver mounted chaise or sedans. Cotton & woolen Manufacturies are getting to be established in every good town & Manufacturies of every kind are geting to be established in many parts of the union, so that it appears to me that the United States will like England become a great Manufacturing Country and as for commerce we have commerce with all parts of the civilised world & peace with all- Mexico I believe feels dissatisfied that Texas is anexed to the United States but suppose she will not declare war against us, as she is weak its not in her power to do us any injury, without some stronger power assist them, & none will, without Great Britain does, & I think as they have tried the United States twice, they know better than to try them again as we are four times as strong as we were the time of the last war, you stated in your letter that if an eruption should take place, that our Navey be sent to the bottom of the deep & our Maritime Cities left in ashes, but the time of the last war we had four victories on the deep for one that Britain had, & our Maritime strength 4 times what it was then, & the British settlements anxious to become now apart of the union, these considerations & knowing that was would be to both countries I think we will continue at peace. As to the political state of the country, Politics runs high at present we are three political parties, Whigs Democrats & Abolitionists or liberty party, I shall send you now some whig Journals, & probable will again send you some loco journals so you can see how both views Politics, the Locos assumes the name of Democrats but I think they do not advocate democratic principals, they advocate a one man power & if their plan be carried out we will become a Monarchy but I hope they will soon see that the Whig policy is the most Democratic. Our State election is the 14th of next month after that I will send you some more Journals.
      —I shall now quit politics & give you a brief sketch of the country this country is a flat country & rich soil & when well cultivated produces great crops, corn or maize will turn out from 20 to 60 Bushels per acre and one of our neighbours thinks he will this season have 75 bushels to the acre of wheat will yield from 15 to 40 bushels per acre & other crops in proportion as the crops has been abundant this season, grain is fell in price verry low before harvest wheat sold at 75 & 80 cents per bushel of [?]lles & is now down to 50 cents, but the journals I send you will show you the price of all kinds grain and every thing else in Cincinnati it had not 2000 inhabitants & but last spring above 80,000.
      —Dear James it astonishes me to hear of the rapit improvement of Ireland, in my day there there was no such factories as that you are concerned in ... And it seems also strange that Common work hands in that country get but 15 or 20 per annum & that Archibald & you get so large salaries Time wont admit of me to write any more as I must to the post office before the mail closes please give my loving respects to your Mother & to your brothers & Sisters & to your Mothers brothers & sisters that I was acquaint when young, & to Mr David McConnell that was my near neighbour & when you write to me again let me know they all are & where they reside I add no more but my children desires their loving respects to be sent to you & to their aunt Eliza & all their cousins
      And believe me dear James Alexander to be your
      Affectionate
      Uncle
      James Beck
    Buried Feb 1855  Shelby County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 
    Address:
    Long Cemetery 
    Died 19 Feb 1855  Dinsmore Township, Shelby County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [19] 
    Person ID I2020  TangledRoots
    Last Modified 12 Jan 2022 

    Father William Beck,   b. CA 1740, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Sep 1827, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years) 
    Mother Margaret Hanna,   b. 1740,   d. 18 May 1810  (Age 70 years) 
    Married Abt 1760 
    Family ID F1057  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret Burns,   b. Nov 1783, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Nov 1837, Dinsmore Township, Shelby County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years) 
    Married 15 Nov 1803  Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [20] 
    Children 
     1. George Beck,   b. 15 Oct 1804, Fayette Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Mar 1837  (Age 32 years)
     2. William Beck,   b. 19 May 1806, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Mar 1855, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years)
     3. John Beck,   b. 20 Mar 1808, Columbia Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Nov 1838, Shelby County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years)
     4. Alice Beck,   b. 28 Jul 1809, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jun 1810  (Age 0 years)
     5. Margaret Hanna Beck,   b. 29 May 1811, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Nov 1903, Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years)
     6. Mary Eleanor Beck,   b. 10 Mar 1813, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Sep 1835  (Age 22 years)
     7. James Baxter Beck,   b. 20 Mar 1815, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Nov 1838  (Age 23 years)
     8. Nancy Beck,   b. 19 Oct 1816, Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Aug 1834  (Age 17 years)
     9. Robert Beck,   b. 29 Aug 1818, Bethel Township, Miami County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Aug 1840  (Age 21 years)
     10. Martha Burns Beck,   b. 21 Jul 1820, Bethel Township, Miami County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Apr 1893, Miami County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
     11. Susannah Beck,   b. 31 May 1822, Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jul 1885  (Age 63 years)
     12. Joseph Alexander Beck,   b. 2 Jul 1824, Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Nov 1833  (Age 9 years)
     13. Rev. Francis Hugh Beck,   b. 21 Apr 1827, Butler Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Mar 1904, Kessler, Union Township, Miami County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2022 
    Family ID F1055  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart


  

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