Beecroft/Becraft Ancestors

Dr. Samuel Beecroft and Elizabeth Ann Bowen

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Husband Dr. Samuel Beecroft [8615]

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           Died: Sep 1801 - At Sea 1
         Buried: 
FamilySearch ID: K8WR-G1T

       Marriage: 1779 - Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States 1

Events

• He owned Greenwich in 1797 in Chatham Co, GA. "Greenwich"
Samuel Bowen's Plantation in Chatham County

Samuel Bowen owned the Greenwich Plantation before the Revolutionary War. During that war, it was used as the headquarters of the French officers. Some people believe that Count Casimir Pulaski, a local hero of the battle of October 9th during which 377 men were wounded, including the count who died in Savannah from his wounds, was buried on the grounds of the Greenwich plantation. In 1797, Dr. Samuel Beecroft purchased Greenwich. He had married Elizabeth Ann Bowen, one of Samuel Bowen's daughters.

In 1874 it was a German rifle club (Savannah Schutzen Gesellschaft) purchased the land from Captain F. C. Threadcraft).

In 1897, Spencer P. Shotter, chairman of American Naval Stores, purchased Greenwich and built a brick and marble three-storied home having 40 rooms. The home is so elaborate that it was used in a movie Under Southern Skies.

• Event: 24 Sep 1799. Notices Section...

Those who are indebted to Edmund Dillon, formerly a Practitioner of Physic in this city, are hereby notified, that the said Dillon assigned over to S. Becroft all his book debts, notes, etc.-and that the said S.Becroft has placed the books, notes and papers so assigned, into the hands of the subscriber, who therefore requests all those so indebted to make immediate payment, otherwise he will be compelled to institute suits.

(signed) John I. Bourquin.

• He signed a will on 20 Sep 1800. The will of Samuel Beecroft, surgeon, was written 20 September 1800 and probated 7 October 1801 in Chatham county, GA. In it he named (among others) his wife Elizabeth Ann, "formerly Miss Elizabeth Ann Bowen", adopted daughter Jane Elizabeth ("eldest daughter of James Flint Bowen of Savannah, deceased, and the Niece of my Wife"), and James Flint Bowen Jr. (no relationship stated). One of the executors and guardians was William Henry Spencer, and another guardian was Mary Bowen, "sister of my wife."

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Wife Elizabeth Ann Bowen [8616]

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           Born: 1765 - Chatham Co, GA
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Apr 1816 - Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States
         Buried: 
FamilySearch ID: KCGJ-M45

Events

• She died. Register of Deaths in Savannah, Georgia, vol. 3 (Genealogical Committee of the Georgia Historical Society, 1986), p. 146 (Elizabeth Ann Beecroft; age 50; born Chatham County; planter; relict of the late Dr. Samuel Beecroft).

• Event: http://www.poles.org/p_body.html. ...
Shortly after the cornerstone of the Pulaski Monument was laid, Bowen heard that a 66-year-old Jewish cotton dealer, Jacob Clavius Levy, who had moved from Charleston, South Carolina, to Savannah in 1848, knew a Polish Legionnaire named Boguslawski who had visited the grave in 1803 or 1804. Back then, when Bowen was just a tot, his aunt, Elizabeth Ann Beecroft, an eye-witness to Pulaski's burial, owned Greenwich plantation and always kept flowers on the grave until her death in 1816. The oldest daughter of Samuel and Jane Bowen, she was married to a British army surgeon, Dr. Samuel Beecroft.
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• She signed a will on 26 Apr 1815 in Chatham Co, GA. "I Elisabeth Ann Beecroft of Chatham County, widow and relict of Doctor Samuel Beecroft deceased"; to sister Mary D. Bowen slaves Tom, Bess, Lempster, Nanny, Eve, and Fanny; all plate, household furniture, and other property both real and personal to sister Mary D. Bowen; executrix sister Mary D. Bowen; signed 26 April 1815; witnesses Ann Johnston, Henry Bourquin Jr., and Joseph K. Carr; proved 6 June 1816.

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Children

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Sources

1 LDS.