Henry Beeson was an important early Ohio Friend, though he was not always in membership. He was a grandson of Richard and Charity (Grubb) Beeson, and his grandmother Charity was a minister at Providence Meeting in West Virginia. In 1776, Henry laid out the first lots at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, around his grist mill. He did not join Friends even though a meeting was located near his house. He later moved to Middleton and joined there. When the village of Mount Pleasant was laid out, Henry purchased some contiguous lots there, and Ohio YM purchased some from him for the construction of the Mount Pleasant Yearly Meeting House.
Sources: EAQG 4:175, 610; Arline Beason-Peckham and Charles W. Peckham Sr., The Beason Family, pp. 60-61. |
