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Thomas Beatty     Born: 1731 Died:  Jul 1787, Tryon/Lincoln County, NC   Thomas Beatty was the son of John Beatty and Elizabeth (Unknown).  His other siblings were Able, Mary, Charles and John Jr.      Thomas married Mary Margaret Abernathy. Mary Margaret was born about 1725 of unknown parentage.   Children of Thomas Beatty and Mary Margaret Abernathy Name Birth Date Death Date Spouse William Able Beatty 10 Jun 1761 Rowan Co, NC 25 Aug 1818 Lincoln Co, NC Isabella McCorkle m. 21 Apr 1791 Margaret Beatty 1773 Tryon Co, NC 1850 Mecklenburg Co, NC James Reed m. 14 Feb 1793 John Beatty Abt. 1774 Tryon Co, NC 07 May 1787 Lincoln Co, NC Elizabeth (Unknown) Thomas Beatty 09 Jul 1780 Lincoln Co, NC 13 May 1831 Lincoln Co, NC Sarah Wheeler m. 18 Jan 1800 Lincoln Co, NC   Thomas and his family lived in Rowan County, North Carolina but part of Rowan County where the Beatty family lived became Tryon County in 1768 - and then Lincoln County in 1779 - and eventually Catawba County in 1842. At one point in his life, he owned 944 acres of land.     Thomas Beatty and a group of other patriots from Tryon County were responsible for composing the Tryon Resolves - a list of grievances with the British Government.    The Annals of Lincoln County Chapter III 1775 - 1779     DATE ACTION     Aug 1775 The Tryon County Committee of Public Safety spoke on August 14, 1775, in plain and patriotic protest against British tyranny and a bronze tablet with the names of the heroic signers should be placed on the wall of the Lincoln County Court room to perpetuate the patriotic stand they took on that historic day.     1775 Aquilla Sherrill, Constable, was in court and released of fine imposed at last court. C.R. 10-3     Sep 1775 September, 1775. William Graham was elected Colonel; Charles McLean, Lt. Colonel; Thomas Beatty, 1st Major and Frederick Hambright, 2nd Major, of Tryon County.     Sep 1775 Captain Andrew Hampton was authorized to apply to the Council of Safety at Charleston, South Carolina, for what gunpowder, lead and flints as can be bought with 8 pounds, 17 shillings and 6 pence proclamation money of North Carolina for the protection of those living on the frontiers of Tryon County, against attacks of savage Indians. C.R. 9-647     1776 Resolved that no person or persons shall bring us Rum from any place into this County and sell it for more than Eight Shillings per Gallon. Such persons as have license to Retail Liquors only excepted. C.R. 10-424     1776 The Tryon County Militia System was reorganized on account of promotion and other causes and Thomas Beatty was elected Colonel; Andrew Hampton, Lt. Colonel; Andrew Long, 1st Major, and Jacob Costner, 2nd Major.     1776 RESOLVED, That no person or persons of the County of Tryon shall sell or dispose of Salt, Iron or Steel to any person within the County for more than Two hundred per cent from the first Cost, purchased in Charles Town (Charleston), Cross Creek, or port where salt is to be got, upon the forfeit of paying Ten Shillings Proc. Money for every Twenty Shillings worth they shall sell or dispose of contrary to this resolve.     1776 Tryon County Militia elected by Halifax Convention William Graham, Colonel; Thomas Beatty, Lt. Colonel; Andrew Hampton, 1st Major; Jacob Costner, 2nd Major. C.R. 10-532     1776 John Sevier, Samuel Sherrill, Adam Sherrill and 150 other petitioners to the Assembly, asked that they be annexed to the Carolina Province.         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 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 Text of the Tryon Resolves * 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. *       NOTES   Fifty men signed the Tryon Resolves including #4 Thomas Beatty, #30 Able Beatty and #50 Samuel Loftin.         Signers of the Tryon Resolves                 Thomas died in Jul 1787.  The inventory of his estate exhibits in minute detail the entire possessions of a well-to-do man of the pioneer period.  The following list only constitutes about 1/4 of the items that were actually listed. A few items ranging between his broad acres and a fine-toothed comb will indicate the extent and variety of his possessions.   Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Beatty               * 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 *             SOURCES             If you have additional photos or information on Thomas Beatty, please contact me.