Collection #
SC 2323
CURTIS BEALS
FAMILY PAPERS, 1726–1855 (BULK 1810–1837)
Collection Information
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Cataloging Information
Processed
by
Charles Latham
8
November 1991
Updated 23 November 2004
Manuscript and Visual Collections
Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
www.indianahistory.org
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 11 items
COLLECTION DATES: 1726-1855
PROVENANCE: Mrs. John Miklasch, Terre
Haute IN, 23 October 1991
RESTRICTIONS: None
COPYRIGHT: Held by Indiana
Historical Society
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1992.0002
The Beal family apparently originated in Nottingham
in the County of Chester
in England,
where John Beal wrote his will in 1726. In 1810 Curtis Beal appears in a deed
in Highland County, Ohio;
in 1834 he laid out a village called Springboro in Randolph
County, Indiana (centering on Winchester,
on the east border of the state). With his wife Hannah, Curtis Beals appears on Randolph
County deeds from 1834 to 1837 dealing
with Springboro, and in notes written on a printed 1845 letter from the London
Society of Friends. The only Spring Borough in the Postal History of Indiana
was in White County
in the 1850s.
This collection, including eleven items, consists of a will, several deeds,
and a note. It is arranged chronologically. The earliest item is a Xerox copy
of the 1726 will of John Beal of Nottingham, naming
several of his children. Of the remaining items, most concern Curtis Beals of Randolph
County, and date from 1810 to 1837.
An 1855 deed concerns T. A. Wilkins and D. W. Brown, and a lot in the town of Farmland.
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