Jesse Beam
Jesse Beam lived in Fairfield District, in the middle of South Carolina, and owned land there. He was dead by 2 February 1820. On that day the will of his widow, Sarah, was proved, and it calls him "my Late Husband Jesse Beam". A Find a Grave memorial gives him a life of about 1770 to November 1817. It shows no source for either date.
Almost everything known about him comes from that will. It names four of his sons. Solomon was the eldest, and since his father's death he had been running his mother's affairs. William suffered from fits and could not look after himself. Albert and Jesse were the two youngest, still boys. Their mother wrote that the rest of her children were "ery nearly of full age", but she did not name them.
Jesse left real estate. As his widow, Sarah held a right of dower in it. Dower was a widow's lifetime share in her husband's land, usually a third, meant to support her after his death. Sarah's will passed that right to Solomon, "To him & his heirs forever". The will does not say where the land lay or how large it was.
His son Albert, born about 1810, very probably the Albert of the will, later moved to Georgia. There he named his own second son Jesse W. Beam.
Who Jesse's parents were is not known. An older Albert Beam held land on Beaver Dam Creek and Beaver Creek in Craven County, the colonial county that covered this part of the backcountry. His land memorials, the registrations of his title, are dated 8 May 1771 and 1 June 1773. He had Revolutionary accounts audited and petitioned the legislature from Fairfield County in December 1792. Find a Grave memorials make that Albert and a Sarah Halsell Jesse's parents. No record found says so.
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Cite: Heirology, "Jesse Beam (b. 1770)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/jesse-beam-1770-4681b8.