Notes for Ninian Beall

Notes for Ninian Beall

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Chancery Records of 1712-1724, Annapolis he states his age as 83.
Named for Saint Ninian, who lived A.D. 350-432 in Scotland.
Ninian Bell arrived in Maryland 1658.

!Sources for the following data; "Register of Maryland's Heraldic Famlies Vol. 1"; "The Georgia Bealls and Their Kinfolk" by Burtie Beall Cummins; "Colonial Families of the U.S. Descended From the Immigrants" by M.M. Beall; and "Ancestral Records & Portraits, Vol. 2":
He was a member Assembly sent to treat with Indians 1697-1699. Was subject of an act of gratitude passed by the General Assembly for distinguished service. A chief Military Officer of Calvert Co. High Sheriff of Calvert Co., MD 1692. Deputy Surveyor of Charles Co., MD 1 Dec 1684. Burgess of Prince George's Co., MD 1700. He was in the Scottish Army and fought against Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar in 1650, when he was taken prisoner and soon after transported to MD. In 1703 he received the following grant from Lord Baltimore which included much of the ground on which Georgetown now stands. In 1910 the Society of the Colonial Wars dedicated a mammoth rock and tablet to his memory. The memorial boulder occupies a place on the lawn of St. John's Church, 33rd and O St., Georgetown. He was the patentee of the Rock of Dumberton in 1703, which became a part sight of Georgetown when the survey and plat were completed in 1752.
Will probated 28 Feb., 1717.
The name Beall is based on the name of the ancient Celtic god Bel, Who was in nature and function to the Greek god Apollo.This may be why it has been said that for a time, the word "Beall" was almost synonymous with the word "Druid". Ninian Beall's surname was originally spelled "Bell" but he changed it to Beall when he came here.