George Beall, Jr. (February 26, 1729 – October 15, 1807) was a wealthy landowner in
Maryland and
Georgetown in what is now
Washington, D.C., son of George Beall, Sr. (1695-1780) and Elizabeth Brooke (1699-1748); the grandson son of Col. Ninian Beall (1625-1717) and Ruth Moore (1651-1712).
George Beall married Elizabeth Magruder.
George's grandfather, Ninian Beall, among other political and military service, was a member of the Grand Committee of Twenty at the
Protestant Associators' Convention of 1689-1692, the executive council of the colony during the absence of control by the
Calvert Family.
Beall's Levels and Rock of Dumbarton, part of his landholdings, were surveyed in 1752 as a possible site for
George Town (now Georgetown). Maryland offered Beall two lots in the town, along with the "price of condemnation" (remuneration). Beall protested the proceedings, though ended up accepting two lots. Maryland paid a total of 280 pounds to acquire the land from Beall, along with land owned by
George Gordon.
Beall died on October 15, 1807, and was originally buried in a family plot alongside their home on N Street (at 31st Street). Around 1870, he was moved to the
Presbyterian Burying Ground, (now
Volta Park
The Presbyterian Burying Ground, also known as the Old Presbyterian Burying Ground, was a historic cemetery which existed between 1802 and 1909 in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was one of the most prom ...
) in Georgetown. His remains were moved to
Oak Hill Cemetery in July 1871 to an unmarked grave on Reno Hill, Lot 754.
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1729 births
1807 deaths
History of Washington, D.C.
18th-century American landowners
Burials at Presbyterian Burying Ground
Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
People of colonial Maryland
19th-century American landowners
Beall family of Maryland
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