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The Beard Family Genealogy

A research archive of the descendants of Thomas Beard and Jean McNutt

Biography of

William Beard

Born 1728, Staunton, VA
Died  
Married Mary Steele
 
Children Born
Robert Beard 1763
Thomas Beard Abt. 1760
John C. Beard 1760-1770, Augusta, VA
William Beard, Jr. Augusta, VA
Hugh Beard Augusta, VA
Ann Beard  
Samuel Beard  
James Beard  
Joseph Beard  
Esther Beard  
 

References

Page 140 (original in Volume 2) 3- Samuel Craig; 219 ac; September 26th, 1823 on the top of Bucks Elbow; by Peter McGee; joining Sam’l Jamerson, Sam’l McCord, Wm Beard, new lines.

Page 153 3- John Rodes; 66.5 ac; May 23, 1828; lying on the north side of Buck’s Elbow a mountain of the Blue ridge, …….joining new lines, Wm Beard, David Cass, his own lines, Wm Shelton’s now Jno Rodes.

"Albemarle County, Virginia Surveyor's Plat Books 1744-1853"

"A history of Rockbridge County, VA" by Oren F. Morton, 1920 - Staunton, VA

Beard-Thomas - 605 39-80 -- 33p, 5s-1753-Moffet Cr. near John Roseman -- sold to William Beard, 1760 for 100p.