Jane’s husband, William, is reported as born in 1778 and deceased on 3 February 1837. Their family is associated with South Buffalo Township, Armstrong County. Jane’s working death date is 10 October 1854; AGAF gives 9 October. The legacy account attributes her death to dysentery, citing a death-register entry that should be compared directly with the competing dates.

The current family grouping contains nine children: Sarah “Sally” (1810–1882), wife of John Keener; James (1811–1851), husband of Susanna Grinder; William (1813–1888), husband of Elizabeth Painter; Samuel (1815–1875), husband of Nancy Beatty; John G. (1817–1897), husband of Margaret Haslett and later Mary Jane Greer; David (1818–1894), husband of Delilah Shepherd; Jane (1820–1854), wife of James Matthews; Robert (1822–1887), husband of Jane Hazelett / Haslett; and Nancy Agnes (1825–1900), wife of John Bricker.

AGAF adds Eliza Hetselgesser, wife of James Bricker, identifying James as John Bricker’s brother. This additional daughter remains in the research account pending comparison with the household and estate records. AGAF also calls James Hetselgesser’s wife Jane Grinder or Stepp, a difference requiring further work.

Samuel Hesselgesser’s wife Nancy was a daughter of Jane’s brother Samuel Beatty. The two spouses were therefore first cousins in this reconstruction, sharing William Beatty and Sarah Guthrie as grandparents.

Samuel married Elizabeth Kiskaddon, also recorded as Cascadden, whose reported dates are 1 July 1783–4 May 1841. Their family moved from Pennsylvania through Ohio to Indiana. Samuel died at Noblesville, Hamilton County, on 15 February 1841; Elizabeth followed less than three months later. The closeness of their deaths does not establish a common cause.

Eight children appear in the combined accounts: Mary (1812–1871), wife of Jesse Fisher; Sarah Annabelle (1814–1888), wife of John Castor, called Caston in AGAF; James S. (1817–1889), husband of Sarah Alice Devou; Margaret (1821–1865), associated in the working tree with Joseph Henry Erwin, while AGAF gives Mr. Earle; Nancy G. (about 1823–before 1860), wife of Samuel Hesselgesser; John, born within the reported 1826–1831 interval and deceased before 1850; William, born within the reported 1831–1835 interval and deceased before 1850; and Earl / Earle Beatty, described by AGAF as a saddler and assigned 1832–1895 in the supplied family panel.

Earle’s inclusion restores a child omitted from the legacy page. Mary’s reported 1812 birth also makes the approximate 1813 marriage date worth rechecking; it does not justify assigning her a different mother.

Nancy married William Thornburg about 1809. The family account says he died on 30 August 1838 after a tree fell on him. On 4 July 1839, Nancy married Jacob Jackson in Marion County, Ohio. She later appears in the family reconstruction at Tipton Township, Cass County, Indiana, and is reported buried at Deer Creek near Onward.

The nine Thornburg children are Robert (1810–before 1850), husband of Lois Betts; Sarah E. (1812–1869), wife of Michael D. Barr; Joseph (1815–1887), husband of Irene White; Samuel (1816–after 1880), husband of Jane Doty; William Beatty Thornburg (1818–1869), husband of Ursula Ann Hammond and later Harriet Maria Hammond; James (1821–after 1850), husband of Mina, surname unestablished; Anna, born about 1823 and reported drowned in childhood; Eliza Jane (1824–1891), wife of William E. Sergeant; and Martha Wilky (1827–1889), wife of Henry Dewitt Shafer.

AGAF gives Nancy’s birth as 4 May 1788. A 6 May variant and a reported gravestone year of 1793 remain to be reconciled; the working death date is 26 May 1856.

John’s working family identifies his wife as Martha Rankin / Ranklin (1794–1851), with marriage in 1815. AGAF instead names Martha Bole. The supplied profiles attach children’s death-record references to the Rankin identification. Those underlying records should be compared with AGAF before deciding whether its surname is mistaken; the discrepancy alone does not establish two wives.

Their five children are Mary (1822–1911), wife of Samuel Caldwell and later Adam Brown; Sarah Margaret (1824–1914), wife of William Caldwell and later Paul Waugaman; Isabella (1830–after 1852), wife of Peter Duffey; David, reported unmarried; and John, associated with wives Annie Haslett and later Analina / Annalina Johnson.

John died on 9 July 1849, shortly before his mother. Their working reconstruction places them in Pennsylvania; the Ohio movements of other Beatty households should be kept separate.

William Beatty Jr. married Penelope B. Mount in 1816 and died on 4 April 1818. Their daughter Sarah Beatty (1817–25 November 1877) married Jacob Cooper in 1833 and Thomas Titus in 1842. Her later family is associated with Iowa. William must remain distinct from the Irish-born William Beatty associated with Isabella Coldwell.

Penelope, reported 30 June 1798–2 January 1888, later married William’s brother James Beatty, about 1822. Their four children were Jane (1823–1891), wife of Henderson Moore; Nancy Agnes (1825–1911), wife of Samuel Geller / Gheller; William Guthrie Beatty (1827–1912), husband of Miriam Ann Critchfield; and Elijah Mount Beatty (1830–1901), husband of Amanda H. Shipley.

James and Penelope’s family is followed from Cardington and Gilead in Morrow County, Ohio, to Benton County, Iowa. James’s working death date is 6 November 1877 at Blairstown; AGAF prints 5 November 1876. Burial is reported at Montezuma in Poweshiek County.

AGAF identifies Penelope and Sabra Mount, wife of the younger David Beatty, as daughters of Elijah Mount and Elizabeth Young. These marriages created several close connections between the Beatty and Mount households.

Sarah married John Barrickman in 1812. The supplied profiles disagree between 2 and 4 April for the wedding; the year is retained here. John is reported deceased in May 1819.

The working tree follows two Barrickman children: William Harrison (1813–1898), husband of Margaret Reynolds, and Sarah (1814–1896), wife of Roswell Webster. AGAF adds Eleanor, wife of Mr. Bennett, and John, who died young. These two additional names belong in the research account rather than disappearing because they are absent from the current family panel.

Sarah subsequently married William Foreman, about 1826–1827. Their working child list contains Samuel (1828–after 1850), George (1829–after 1850), Margaret (1830–1912), wife of Andrew Rice; James (1832–1914), husband of Elizabeth Lefever and later Jemima Stephens; William H. (1834–1920), husband of Sarah Jane Harrison; and Silas Miller (1837–1917), associated with marriages to Mary Isabella Owen, Maggie (Swogger) Idings, and Loretta (Kiser) Harrington. AGAF lists George, William, James, and Margaret. The surname is Foreman; the legacy Freeman wording is not retained.

The family is followed through Claridon, Marion County, Ohio, in 1850; Canaan, Morrow County, in 1860; and daughter Margaret Rice’s household in Bourbon, Marshall County, Indiana, in 1870. William Foreman’s reported death is 24 October 1872.

Sarah’s profile gives AFTER 1880, but labels the 1880 Pike Township, Perry County, Ohio, entry a possible match. Her death therefore remains unresolved. The 1870 association and proposed 1880 identification must be distinguished; neither supplies an exact death year. She is also distinct from Sarah Alice Devou Beatty, who died in Dayton in 1882.

Robert, born 3 April 1799, and the first David, born in March 1801, are both assigned deaths in 1804 in the working family. They would have been about five and three. AGAF describes their early deaths without supplying those exact death dates. No cause or shared illness has been established.

Margaret Beatty, born 9 June 1803, married Robert Earle according to AGAF, which names their five children: William, Sarah, Mary, James, and Robert Earle Jr. Margaret’s reported death is 6 August 1833. This published family grouping expands the legacy page’s tentative reference to her husband; original marriage, probate, and guardianship records remain the best next sources.

The younger David Beatty, born 20 September 1806, married Sabra Mount. They established their home in Armstrong County, and Sarah lived with them for many years after William died. Their daughter Nancy remembered David’s militia uniform and musket and learned the older Guthrie stories from her grandmother.

The twelve children represented in the supplied family grouping are Louisa Jane (1826–1897), wife of James Duffey Jr.; Sarah (1828–1902), wife of David Chambers Boggs; Elizabeth Young (1830–1885), associated with Joseph Lorenza Reed; Margaret Mary (1832–1908), wife of George Beatty; Nancy (1834–1923), wife of John W. Kiskaddon; Celeste (1836–1838); Rebecca Nelson (1838–1847); Araminta (1841–1842); Mary Ann, wife of William Henry Keener; James Leslie, husband of Cornelia Jane Randolph; Algernon Constantine, born 8 May 1850, husband of Eva Rea; and Roland Mount, born 18 May 1853, husband of Jennie / Jeanette Culbertson McCaslin.

AGAF names fourteen children, adding twins William Patterson Beatty and Elijah Mount Beatty, born 24 April 1843 and both deceased young. Its chronology also differs: Mary Ann is born 3 November 1841 there, versus 1843 in the working record; James Leslie is born 25 April 1850 there, versus 1848 in the working record. The two 1850 births printed only thirteen days apart make the need for original family records especially clear. AGAF calls Elizabeth’s husband James Reed, another identity difference to resolve.

Sabra’s birthday is reported as 27 July, with 1807 in the working tree and 1806 in AGAF; her reported death is 20 September 1891. David’s working death is June 1879. An attached event labeled Probate on 9 August 1878 needs inspection to determine whether it is a will date, a probate date, or a misassigned record. No exact June death day is established here.

26 May 1847: Sarah recalled Elizabeth’s wedding and the Hannastown crisis. Her estimate that she had been about fourteen at the wedding helps frame the chronology but does not fix an exact marriage date.

11 January 1848: she described John Guthrie’s management of Brownlee’s farm and her own shared sleeping arrangements with Elizabeth. The account explicitly distinguishes the Guthries’ occupation during Brownlee’s absence from the couple’s later residence.

These statements belong to Joseph Brownlee’s pension file W3245, widow Elizabeth Guthrie: National Archives, Record Group 15, microfilm publication M804, roll 383. They are also discussed in Anna L. Warren’s A Captive’s Tale. Sarah’s firsthand memories should be kept distinct from later interpretations of the family’s movements and from unnamed people subsequently assigned identities.

AGAF, printed pp. 483–487, supplies the allied-family account. It names William’s parents, records the reported wedding date, recounts the Ireland visit, and lists the eleven Beatty children and several generations of descendants. This is a published compilation with family testimony, not a contemporary register of every event.

Its additional names deserve investigation: Eliza Hetselgesser; Earle Beatty; Eleanor and John Barrickman; Margaret’s five Earle children; and David and Sabra’s twins William Patterson and Elijah Mount Beatty. Their inclusion here identifies the source rather than implying every relationship has received independent primary confirmation.

The appendix, printed p. 716, note 418, calls the Guthrie children’s order a supposed order and says Sarah was reported to be the third child. That qualification belongs with any birth-order claim.

The printed account on p. 483 attributes the visit story to an unnamed granddaughter. It reports a journey by William at Sarah’s request, relatives still living near Londonderry, and names the informant no longer remembered. It does not date the journey or identify the grandparents by name.

The supplied Ancestry index screenshot identifies William Beatty, ship Mary, departure Londonderry, arrival Philadelphia, 19 June 1811, National Archives series 425, microfilm 18, list 115. The corresponding retrieval target is M425, roll 18, list 115. The screenshot shows no age, occupation, residence, or household relationship. If this is Sarah’s husband, he would have been about forty-nine based on his estimated birth year.

The journey must precede his reported death on 17 March 1827; it need not necessarily precede the beginning of that calendar year. The 1811 entry is chronologically compatible, but name, route, and timing alone do not settle identity.

A CoTyroneIreland transcription of the Mary’s passengers gives 17 June 1811 and includes Wm., Jane, and George Beatty. Compare that date with the index’s 19 June against the original document. The alphabetical transcription does not establish relationships among the three Beattys. Original order, baggage groupings, residence or citizenship notes, and any identifying details should be checked before calling them a family group.

The original passenger record has not been inspected for this page. FamilySearch’s inventory places the 1811 volume on FHL film 419592, digital group 4719570, corresponding to M425 roll 18. Inspect list 115 and adjacent pages, including any cover or certification dates.

The granddaughter is not named in this passage. Nancy Beatty Kiskaddon is discussed later in the book, but that alone does not establish that she supplied this particular recollection. A surviving letter or the compiler’s correspondence could resolve both the informant and the intended generation.

The quitclaim was executed 10 April 1797 and recorded 15 April 1811 in Westmoreland County Deed Book 9, p. 262. AGAF reproduces an extract in its appendix, printed p. 716, note 417. William Beatty appears among the parties relinquishing their interests in John Guthrie’s estate to James and William Guthrie.

This is useful evidence of the Beatty connection to the Guthrie estate. The relationship of William as Sarah’s husband comes from correlating the family evidence; the quoted clause does not itself supply a complete set of wives’ names or explicitly label every party’s relationship.

The extract names James Beatty in the body and John Beatty in the signature list. Preserve that discrepancy pending comparison with the original recorded instrument. The later recording date must not be substituted for the execution date or treated as evidence that John Guthrie was alive in 1811.

• Sarah’s death and burial: 11 August 1849 in AGAF and the working tree; a later memorial gives 10 August. The place is reported as Slate Lick, while AGAF prints Salt Lick. An inscription image or contemporary burial record would help resolve the wording and date.
• Jane Hesselgesser: 10 October 1854 in the working profile versus 9 October in AGAF.
• John’s wife: Martha Rankin / Ranklin in the working family versus Martha Bole in AGAF; do not create a second wife merely to accommodate both surnames.
• James Beatty: 6 November 1877 in the working profile versus 5 November 1876 in AGAF.
• Sarah Barrickman Foreman: retain the profile’s AFTER qualifier, but distinguish its possible 1880 household from an established identification.
• David and Sabra’s household: twelve children in the supplied panel versus fourteen in AGAF; conflicting birth years for Sabra, Mary Ann, and James Leslie, and a different given name for Elizabeth’s Reed husband. David’s 1878 event labeled Probate must be checked against the reported June 1879 death.