Jane Beatty’s individual profile gives 30 April 1793 for her birth. The Beatty Book calls her Jane Ann, but the middle name has not yet been established in a contemporary record. She married William Campbell on 11 April 1811. They made their home in Butler County, with later family associations in Fairview. William died on 30 July 1841; Jane survived until 15 March 1878.

The legacy account records thirteen children:

1. Jane Campbell (1812–1822), died in childhood.
2. John Campbell (1813–1814), died in infancy.
3. Ann Campbell (1815–1882), married Thomas Fletcher.
4. William C. Campbell (23 February 1817 – 2 June 1871), married Elizabeth Goe.
5. John Beatty Campbell (12 December 1818 – 21 March 1889), married first Mary Reed and second Esther Kealer.
6. Juliette Campbell (14 November 1821 – 2 January 1881), married Alexander Baird Storey. The legacy marriage year of 1820 predates her reported birth and is omitted pending correction.
7. Washington Campbell (8 October 1823 – 8 July 1891), married Hannah Jane Gibson; no children reported.
8. Nancy Campbell (5 February 1825 – 25 September 1906), married Thomas Craig.
9. Robert C. Campbell (1829 – 21 August 1866), married Isabella Wick.
10. Joseph Freemont Campbell (28 February 1831 – 29 December 1913), married Elizabeth Shields Porter.
11. Margaret Jane Campbell (February 1833 – 28 October 1912), married James Ray; no children reported.
12. Shepard Reed Campbell (7 May 1835 – 11 September 1911), married Matilda Jane Speer; died in Iowa.
13. James Guthrie Campbell (1838–1863), reported as a sergeant killed during the Civil War.

The Campbell genealogy by Mariah Florence Burns (1923) is an important comparison source for this family. The profile’s exact birth date supplements the legacy page’s ABOUT 1793 estimate.

Agnes Beatty was born on 31 May 1795. Her father’s will calls her Agness Sheppard, while AGAF calls her Nancy. Nancy was a customary historical nickname for Agnes, and the names are retained together here.

The supplied individual profile reports her marriage to James Benjamin Shepard on 11 February 1817 and death on 21 July 1841, with burial at the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Parker. These fuller dates remain attributed to the research profile pending examination of their underlying records.

1. Jane Ann Shepard (27 November 1817 – 1846), married Robert Campbell, a teacher.
2. Zerah Beatty Shepard (April 1820 – 16 February 1892), married Mary Ann Sedgwick.
3. Ira Guthrie Shepard (13 May 1824 – 10 October 1864), married Carolina, surname unidentified; no verified children.
4. Nancy Margaret Shepard (1827–1895), married Washington Hogan.
5. James Benjamin Shepard (1829–1895), married Lydia E. Hurlbut in 1855.
6. Priscilla Erwin Shepard (1832 or 1833 – 11 June 1911), married James McKee Hogan. The legacy gives 6 December 1832; the supplied family panel gives 1833.

Margaret Beatty was born on 3 June 1797. She married William Hall before 1830 and appears as Margaret Hall in her father’s 1838 will. A boy aged ten to fifteen in a proposed 1820 household has not been identified as their son.

After William’s reported death in 1838, Margaret married her widowed brother-in-law, James Guthrie, born in 1806, son of William Guthrie and Agnes “Nancy” Dixon. James had first married Margaret’s younger sister Sarah. No children are reported from Margaret’s marriage to James.

The family biography describes James as a land surveyor, real-estate businessman and later a tanner. He served as a justice of the peace in Apollo and assisted in the land office at Harrisburg in 1872–1873. Margaret died on 30 May 1884 and is reported buried at Riverview Cemetery, Apollo.

James of Apollo is distinct from James Guthrie, husband of Margaret Dixon, and from the James/Salley family under separate review. His reported 1882 and 1883 death years still require reconciliation.

John Guthrie Beatty was born on 22 April 1800 and married Isabella Walker about 1825. A farmer, he lived in Washington and Loyalhanna Townships, Westmoreland County. The legacy account associates the family with Saltsburg Presbyterian Church and reports their burial at Edgewood Cemetery, Saltsburg, Indiana County.

John died on 14 January 1852; Isabella died on 12 February 1881. Their eight reported children were:

1. Jane Beatty (1826–1884), reported unmarried.
2. Sarah Beatty (1826 or 1827 – 1910), reported unmarried; the legacy and supplied family panel differ on her birth year.
3. Nancy S. Beatty (1829–1865), reported unmarried.
4. John R. Beatty (1831–1916), married Laura Elizabeth Mayfield; died in Minnesota.
5. Isabella Beatty (1834–1851), reported to have died aged sixteen.
6. Eliza Beatty (1834–1907), married Johnston Glass.
7. Mary Beatty (1838–1855), died young.
8. Alexander Walker Beatty Sr. (1839–1912), married Martha Jeffrie Wilson.

Repeated birth years alone do not establish twins. John’s 1800 birth also means he cannot be the unnamed boy in the elder John Beatty’s 1790 household.

Samuel’s birth is estimated at ABOUT 1802. AGAF reports that he died unmarried, and no children are known. His father’s will names him simply as Samuel Beatty.

The supplied profile distinguishes a will written 18 February 1839 from its recording on 17 June 1839. Although the first event is labeled “Probate” in the tree, its note says “Will Written.” These are separate events and neither should be substituted automatically for his death date.

According to the profile’s will summary, Samuel appointed his brother William executor and left his siblings the hundred acres on the Allegheny River that he had received through his father’s will. Reading Samuel’s complete recorded will alongside John’s is the next step in tracing the division of the family land. His burial place remains unknown.

William Beatty was born on 9 May 1805 and married Elizabeth Ann Sedwick, also recorded as Sedgwick, on 6 January 1833. He inherited land under his father’s will and was named one of its executors. His brother Samuel’s estate followed in 1839.

The family reconstruction places William, Elizabeth, their children and his widowed mother Jane in Perry Township, Armstrong County, in 1850. Jane was recorded as eighty-three. William died on 1 October 1854 in Washington Township, Butler County, according to his individual profile.

The legacy account says Elizabeth remained on their twenty-five-acre Butler County farm until 1870, lived at North Bloomfield in Trumbull County, Ohio, from 1870 to 1876, and then returned to Butler County. She died on 18 February 1889.

1. John Lemmon Beatty (1833–1896), married Henrietta McCool in 1857.
2. Thomas Sedwick Beatty (1837–1899), married Jemima Sutton in 1860.
3. William G. Beatty (1838–1841 in the supplied panel), reported to have died aged three.
4. Samuel R. Beatty (1839–1866), reported unmarried.
5. Sarah J. Beatty (1841–1845 in the supplied panel), reported to have died aged four.
6. George W. Beatty (1846–1911), married Mary E. Collins; died in Nevada; no children reported.
7. Benjamin Franklin Beatty (1848–1902), married Emma Jane Haine; died in West Virginia.
8. William James Beatty (1850–1923), married Margaret Ann Wheeler; died in California.
9. Joshua Beatty (died 1854): the supplied panel gives 1851–1854, while the legacy calls him Joshua M., born and died in 1854. His birth year and age remain unresolved.

Project kits B144465 and B160182 report descent through Thomas Sedwick Beatty and Jemima Sutton. See the DNA section for the distinction between this autosomal route and Guthrie paternal-line testing.

Elizabeth Beatty was born ABOUT 1808 and married George Carson Fowler on 2 November 1826. They made their home in Butler County. Elizabeth died on 17 December 1847; her burial place has not been established.

1. John Parker Fowler (1828–1877), married Margaret Keppler.
2. Margaret C. Fowler (1829 – BEFORE 1894).
3. Sarah Jane Fowler (1833–1909), married Samuel Lloyd.
4. Frances T. Fowler (1834 – AFTER 1894), married James Forquer.
5. Samuel R. Fowler (1834 – BEFORE 1894 in the legacy narrative).
6. Nancy A. Fowler (1843 – BEFORE 1894).
7. Deborah T. Fowler (1846–1850), died in childhood.

George married Mary “Polly” Magill on 21 August 1849 and had additional children with her. Polly died in 1887; George died on 22 October 1894, reportedly aged ninety-one. The reported Scrubgrass Presbyterian Cemetery burial concerns George and Polly; it does not establish Elizabeth’s burial there.

The family panel displays Samuel’s death as 1894, while the legacy preserves BEFORE 1894. A year-only panel can hide a qualifier; the underlying individual fact should be checked before changing it.

Sarah Beatty, born ABOUT 1813, married James Guthrie, son of William Guthrie and Agnes “Nancy” Dixon. Their son John Beatty Guthrie was born in 1835. Sarah died on 18 December 1835 and is reported buried at Riverview Cemetery, Apollo.

The supplied profile says she died “in the 22nd Year of her Life.” That wording means she had not yet reached her twenty-second birthday; it should not be rewritten as “aged 22.” The approximate birth year remains subject to the underlying inscription or burial record.

John Beatty Guthrie (1835–1875) married Mary Jane Freetly about 1859 and had children. The family biography describes his education, admission to the Armstrong County bar in 1857, and work in the surveyor-general’s office, where his father assisted him. After Sarah’s death, James married her older sister Margaret Beatty Hall.

John Beatty’s will gives fifteen dollars to “John Beatty Guthrie my Daughter Sarah Guthrie son”, linking the grandson explicitly to Sarah. The reported paternal route of project kit 252298 runs through James Guthrie, while its descent from Jane runs through Sarah.

Original manuscript images inspected: Jane Beatty’s three-page statement in the Joseph Brownlee / Elizabeth Guthrie pension file, W3245; National Archives, RG 15, M804, roll 383. Jane identifies Elizabeth as her sister, remembers the Brownlee marriage in her father’s house, describes the family’s work on Brownlee’s farm, and recalls the family losses and captivity.

“the marriage of this deponant to John Beatty having occurred 31st December 1789”

This date comes from Jane’s testimony, not from an identified 1789 county marriage register. Laurence R. Guthrie’s later typed transcription gives 30 September 1789; the supplied manuscript image reads 31 December 1789.

Jane’s statement also distinguishes firm recollection from approximation: she could not give the year of Elizabeth’s Brownlee marriage and estimated the month of her later Guthrie marriage. Those qualifications belong with any quotation or chronology drawn from the affidavit.

Brownlee pension-file access · Subscription may be required. The three supplied images are indexed locally as P039–P041; those are project review identifiers, not archival page numbers.

Images of the recorded will inspected: Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; continuation page numbered 205. The opening crop does not display its page number. John identifies himself as being of Armstrong County, provides for wife Jane, names his children, and appoints William Campbell and William Beatty executors.

• Jane: maintenance for life; half the mansion house, bed and bedding, a share of furnishings, a cow, six sheep and use of a horse.
• Jane Campbell, Margaret Hall and Elizabeth Fowler: twenty-five dollars each.
• Agness Sheppard: five acres and fifteen dollars.
• John G. Beatty: ten dollars.
• Samuel and William: the remaining land and specified personal property.
• John Beatty Guthrie: fifteen dollars, identified as the son of John’s daughter Sarah Guthrie.

The will’s date clause reads 14 November 1838; the witnesses’ sworn proof is dated 1 February 1839. The will does not itself state the reported 24 December 1838 death date. Jane is the beneficiary of the maintenance clause, not one of the named executors. The conditional provision for her is not, by itself, proof that she was alive at probate; her later affidavit and census evidence establish her survival.

Read the opening will image · Read continuation and proof, p. 205 · Ancestry collection image

The copies linked above are hosted with the legacy page. Full volume identification and the estate packet remain useful additions to the citation.

The quitclaim was executed 10 April 1797 and recorded 15 April 1811. It concerns interests in John Guthrie’s estate relinquished to James and William Guthrie. The previously inspected recorded copy supports the Beatty connection to that estate.

Its opening names James Beatty, while the later operative wording, copied signature list and witness proof name John Beatty. John is the better-supported identification for the executing Beatty, with the opening discrepancy preserved.

The instrument does not name Jane as John’s wife or explicitly call him a son-in-law. That relationship rests on correlation with other family evidence. The copied signature list and later proof name four signers; the 1811 recording is not evidence that every party appeared or was still living then.

Recorded deed, DGS 008036030, image 198 of 800 · Compare AGAF, printed p. 716, note 417.

The working census sequence is 1790 Washington, Westmoreland; 1800 Buffalo, Armstrong; 1810 and 1820 Sugarcreek, Armstrong; 1830 Perry, Armstrong. These entries are carried from the supplied profiles and prior research; the original schedules were not re-examined for this page.

The reported 1790 household contains one male sixteen or older, one male under sixteen and one female. The younger male remains unidentified. He cannot be John Guthrie Beatty, whose reported birth was in 1800. The proposed identification of Jane as an older woman in William’s 1840 household also remains an inference.

The reported 1850 entry names Jane, aged eighty-three and born in Ireland, in William’s household. It supports ABOUT 1767 and survival into 1850. A failure to find her in a later census would not establish a death date by itself.

The legacy cites an Albany tract purchase on 15 November 1813, 250 acres for $220, and a January 1814 justice-of-the-peace appointment. Preserve these as retrieval leads until the original instruments and identity are correlated. A purchase date does not establish the family’s first arrival or every child’s birthplace.

Township names also require care. Smith’s 1883 Perry chapter gives an 1845 organization date, whereas the Local Geohistory Project identifies a December 1822 creation and a later division when Clarion County was formed. The historical boundaries and original census headings should govern the interpretation; a pre-1845 Perry reference should not be rejected solely on the later history’s date.

Smith, Perry Township, pp. 571–574 · 1822 township event and cited court proceeding

• Jane Guthrie: ABOUT 1767, AFTER 1850. The legacy heading’s 1853 is not established; Sarah’s 12 August 1763 birth date is not Jane’s.
• Jane Beatty Campbell and Agnes “Nancy” Shepard: the supplied individual profiles add exact dates beyond the earlier narrative. Those dates are reported, pending their underlying documents.
• Samuel R. Beatty: 18 February 1839 is labeled “Will Written” in the event note; 17 June is the reported recording date.
• Sarah Beatty: preserve “in the 22nd Year of her Life”; do not turn it into an attained age of twenty-two.
• Grandchildren: Juliette Campbell’s legacy 1820 marriage year is inconsistent with her 1821 birth. Priscilla Shepard’s 1832/1833, Sarah Beatty’s 1826/1827, and Joshua Beatty’s 1851/1854 birth differences remain visible in their sketches.
• Fowler children: preserve BEFORE and AFTER 1894. A year-only family panel may omit the individual fact’s qualifier.
• James Guthrie of Apollo: the 1882/1883 death-year difference remains open. Keep him distinct from the older James/Margaret Dixon and James/Salley families.

• Jane’s final years: the complete 1850 census citation, later estate or church entries, and a burial record or readable gravestone.
• John and Samuel’s estates: John’s full estate packet supporting the reported 24 December 1838 death, and Samuel’s complete 1839 will and distribution records.
• The family farm: the Albany deed, its grantor chain and the 1814 commission; correlate these with the census neighbors and changing township boundaries.
• Beatty parentage: Samuel Beatty’s estate and the manuscript cited by AGAF for the earlier Samuel, Joseph and John generation.
• Descendant dates: original evidence for Agnes’s marriage and death, Jane Campbell’s birth, the disputed grandchild dates, and Sarah’s age at death.