Family Migrations in America

Generation 1. Aston Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania: a rural farm area; in addition to farming, John Beals, Sr. also served as the constable of the Township.

Generation 2. Calvert, Maryland: Originally named Nottingham Lots as a part of Pennsylvania, most the area became part of Maryland following the establishment of the Mason-Dixon Line in 1767. The Quaker community and the specific property owned by John Beals, Sr. is identifiable to this day. He acquired his lot/land, two parcels of nearly 1000 acres in 1702 and moved there, but he continued to own his land in Aston Township.

Generation 3. Clear Brook, Virginia: John Beals Jr. was born in 1685 in Aston Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and got married and started raising his family in Nottingham Lots where his father had obtained a large farm property. About 1725, John moved his family to a new Quaker community known as Monocacy, located in the Monocacy River valley in what was claimed by Pennsylvania. Later, the Mason-Dixon Line transferred the area to Virginia. John acquired property in 1743 in the Shenandoah Valley just north of Clear Brook, Virginia. (Actually, the rural property is now in West Virginia, near Interstate 81, just north of the state line from Clear Brook, Virginia.)

Generation 4. Greensboro, and Westfield, North Carolina: the Bowater Beals family moved about 1753 along the "Great Wagon Road" to the Quaker area called New Garden, near present day Greensboro, North Carolina. The Samuel Jackson family migrated to North Carolina about 1754 and eventually settled near Tom's Creek, in the vicinity of the Quaker Community in Westfield, North Carolina.

Generation 5. Westfield, NC. to Rheatown, TN. to Martinsville, OH.: Jacob and Ann (Beals) Jackson married and started their family in Westfield, NC. From about 1797 to 1804 they lived in a new Quaker community, New Hope, in Greene County, TN. near present day Rheatown. They relocated to Ohio, eventually settling near present day Martinsville, Clinton County, OH.

Generation 6. Martinsville, Ohio: Jesse and Anne (Hoggatt) Jackson met, were married, raised 10 children, and were buried - all in Clinton County, Ohio, in the vicinity of Martinsville, OH.

Generation 7. Oblong, Crawford County, Illinois: Thomas and Rebecca (Wright) Jackson were married in Ohio and soon relocated to Crawford County where they raised their family.

Generation 8. Robinson, Flat Rock and Olney, Illinois: Jury and Annie (Powell) Jackson were married in Crawford County, Illinois and spent most of their lives in that area, although they lived briefly in Oklahoma and McLean County, Illinois as well.

Historic Locations and Events along the Family Migrations routes