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(17?? - 1787)

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(1701 - 1773)

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Thomas Beatty   Born: 17?? Died:  1787, Tryon/Lincoln/Catawba County, NC     Thomas Beatty was the son of John and Elizabeth Beatty.  His other siblings were Able, Mary, Charles and John Jr.      Thomas married Margaret (Unknown).  The only child that I have currently found for Thomas and Margaret was William Able Beatty.   Name Birth Date Death Date Spouse William Able Beatty 10 Jun 1761 25 Aug 1818 Isabella McCorkle John Beatty       Thomas Beatty       Margaret Beatty         Thomas and his family lived in Tryon County, North Carolina.     On 5 October 1774, John Bradley bought 280 acres of land 'in the forks of Potts Creek' from Thomas Beatty and Hugh Beaty of Rowan County, North Carolina and Robert Armstrong of Tryon County, North Carolina, executors of Estate of Francis Beaty, late of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, for 50 Pounds Proclamation money. This land joined the lands of Daniel Warleigh and (Unknown) Sherrill.     Many present day counties in both North and South Carolina were completely or partially included within the borders of Tryon County from 1768 to 1772. These counties were Burke, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford, Cleveland, Lincoln, and Gaston Counties from North Carolina.  Tryon County was abolished in 1779, and Lincoln County and Rutherford County were created from older Tryon County. Catawba County was formed from the northern portion of Lincoln County in 1842 and Gaston County was formed from the southern portion of Lincoln County in 1846.   A person blessed with longevity could have been born in Rowan County in 1753, married in Burke County in 1778, fathered children in the counties of Burke and Lincoln in the 1780s and died in 1842 during Catawba County's formation year while living on the same land all the while. His land simply became part of the new counties as they were formed.       There were many loyal subjects of the king of England who were living in Tryon County, but there was likewise a gallant band of patriots who were looking for independence from England.  Thomas Beatty was one of these.   Thomas Beatty and a group of other patriots from Tryon County were responsible for composing the Tryon Resolves.  The Tryon Resolves were known as a "Minor Declaration of Independence" and was signed by these patriots a year before the official Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.   The Tryon Resolves were a revolutionary list of grievances with the British Government.  They were drafted in response to the Battle of Lexington.  As the North American colonies grew agitated with the British government, residents began forming Committees of Safety to prepare militia companies for the coming war. The Tryon Resolves were drafted and signed on August 14, 1775 by the residents of old Tryon County, North Carolina.  On September 14, 1775 many of the signers formed the Tryon County militia in preparation for British retaliation against the American colonists.   The text of the Tryon Resolves is as follows:     The unprecedented, barbarous and bloody actions committed by British troops on our American brethren near Boston, on 19th April and 20th of May last, together with the hostile operations and treacherous designs now carrying on, by the tools of ministerial vengeance, for the subjugation of all British America, suggest to us the painful necessity of having recourse to arms in defense of our National freedom and constitutional rights, against all invasions; and at the same time do solemnly engage to take up arms and risk our lives and our fortunes in maintaining the freedom of our country whenever the wisdom and counsel of the Continental Congress or our Provincial Convention shall declare it necessary; and this engagement we will continue in for the preservation of those rights and liberties which the principals of our Constitution and the laws of God, nature and nations have made it our duty to defend. We therefore, the subscribers, freeholders and inhabitants of Tryon County, do here by faithfully unite ourselves under the most solemn ties of religion, honor and love to our county, firmly to resist force by force, and hold sacred till a reconciliation shall take place between Great Britain and America on Constitutional principals, which we most ardently desire, and do firmly agree to hold all such persons as inimical to the liberties of America who shall refuse to sign this association.     Fifty men signed the Tryon Resolves including #4 Thomas Beatty, #30 Able Beatty and #50 Samuel Loftin.     Thomas died in 1787.  The inventory of his estate exhibits in minute detail the entire possessions of a well-to-do man of the pioneer period.  A few items ranging between his broad acres and a fine-toothed comb will indicate the extent and variety of his possessions:       944 acres of land 10 negroes 17 horses 4 pair half worn horse      shoes 66 cattle 18 hogs 13 sheep 24 geese 5 ducks Lot poultry 1 fine-toothed comb 3 coats 1 great coat 2 jackets 1 pair buckskin breeches 1 pair trousers 3 hats 2 linen shirts   1 chest 5 pewter dishes 16 pewter plates 24 pewter spoons 1 pewter basin 1 pewter tankard 1 crook & 2 pot hooks 1 dutch oven 1 griddle 1 frying pan 13 bushels flax seed 6 bushels buckwheat 1 slide tow bells and collars 750 clapboard nails 1 reeding comb 2 riddles 3 gimlets 1 hair sifter   1 dough trough 2 spinning wheels 1 big-wheel 3 pair cards Cotton Wool Tow 1 check reel 1 weaving loom 23 spools for spooling        cotton 5 reeds for weaving 9 sickles 1 foot adze 1 thorn hack 1 hackel 2 iron wedges 2 bleeding lances       This constitutes only about 1/4 of the items listed.                                             If you have additional photos or information on Thomas Beatty, please contact me.