General Notes

Family Data Collections - Individual Records Record, Ancestry.com
Name: Jeffrey Beck
Spouse: Mary Molly McDaniel
Parents: Jeffrey Beck, Lydia Phillips
Birth Place: Augusta Co, VA
Birth Date: 25 November 1752
Marriage Place: Guilford, NC
Marriage Date: 12 November 1771
Death Place: Pickens Co, SC
Death Date: 12 April 1838

Family Data Collections - Births Record, Ancestry.com
Jeffrey Beck born 25 November 1752 in Augusta, VA to Jeffrey Beck and Lydia Phillips.

COURT ORDER: Note: Randolph Co NC 11 September 1782.  It is ordered that Jeffery Beck have letters of Administration on the Estate of Jeffery Beck, deceased.  John McDaniel and William Aldredy signed as surety.

Samuel McDaniel deeded land to Jeffery Beck out of natural love and affection-Randolph County, NC, on November 10, 1783. Samuel McDaniel deeded land to Jeffrey Beck, 166 acres on Brush Creek for 40 pounds. Signed James McDaniel, Jacob McDaniel, and Samuel McDaniel. John McDaniel-surity for Jeffrey Beck Sr. estate-Jeffery Beck. It was adm (his wife was Mary Ann McDaniel)-Randolph County, NC. 10 Sept 1785, Randolph County, NC, grant from State of North Carolina to Jeffery Beck-400 acres on Brush Creek and Buffalo Draft-bounded by John McDaniel and Thomas Frazer.  (from Ancestry.com/Lloyd Grishow tree)

Fought in the Revolution as a Whig against the British. 

Abstract of Revolutionary War Pension Files
Jeffrey or Jeoffrey, S21067, NC line appl 11 Mar 1833
Pickens City SC aged upwards of 81, soldier was born in
Augusta City, VA no date shown, lived Randolph Cty NC
at enlistment. (from ancestry.com/Henry J. Beck tree)

Family Data Collections - Deaths Record, Ancestry.com
Jeffrey Beck died 12 April 1838 in Pickens County, SC

Buried at Stamp Creek Baptist Church, Walhalla, SC.  Moved after burial due to a dam being built. (from Ancestry.com/Analemma)
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Excepted from Sketches of Rabun County History by Andrew Jackson Ritchie:  (This book belonged to my grandmother, Fannie Irene (Bates) York who attended school at Rabun Gap Nacoochee School and boarded in the home of Andrew Jackson Ritchie and his wife)

     "Back in the stacks of books in the vault of the Clerk's office"..."in 'Book A' I found the earliest date in all the annals of our first settlers.  This is in the year 1818, which was the year before Rabun County was created by the act of the Legislature.  It is recorded in two parts as deeds, but there were three parts of it and it ws intended as a will.  It is done by the oldest of the Beck family of whom we have any record, and goes further back than anything else that we have about them.  Here the old Jeffry Beck on his plantation at the Falls of Little River in the Pickensville district of South Carolina is undertaking to bequeath by will a negro woman and her five children, six slaves in all, to his three daughters.  He gives the mother, Poll, and the youngest child to his daughter Miriam, who is the wife of Seymour York.  This shows that this man who became patriarch of all the Yorks in this county and settled on Scott's Creek west of Clayton, was then living in that part of South Carolina, for at that date Rabun County had not been created.
     The second part of the deed or will was intended to give the next oldest and the youngest negro child to the daughter Ruby Swofford, and the other two to the daughter Arah Wtson, who were married to men of these names.
     The method by which old Jeffry Beck undertook to divide his slaves is unique and interesting.  He says, 'having given all my land to my sons, I put the six negroes into three lots, as equal as I could make them, and had their names written on three tickets and put into a hat.  I then had a person unlearned and unacquainted with my desire or design, draw the tickets from the hat for my three daughters.'  What is still more interesting to us is that, after stipulating that all of the negroes were to remain in possession of his wife during her natural life, he undertook to provide that two of the negroes given to one of the daughters should be held in trust for his son, Samuel Beck, and should eventually go to him."
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