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For an explanation for Joshua's parents being Abraham and Deborah (Shaw) Beal see Doug Sinclair, "Expanding the Family of Joshua Beal Sr. of Abington and Cummington, Massachusetts,"      

Children of Abraham Beal and Deborah Shaw:

i. Deborah, b. 9 April 1715, Weymouth
ii. Ruth, b. 15 January 1717/18, Weymouth
iii. Abraham, b. 28 February 1720/21, Weymouth
vi. Joshua, b. 1722-1723, Weymouth
v. Benjamin, b. 1 April 1724; d. 20 April 1724, Weymouth
vi. Hannah, b. 31 May 1725; bap. 31 July 1725, South Church, Weymouth
vii. Job, b. 18 April 1727; d. 5 May 1727, Weymouth
viii. Stephen. b. 10 November 1728; d. 6 December 1728, Weymouth
ix. Benjamin, b. 8 November 1729; bap. 9 November 1729, South Church, Weymouth; d. 2 December 1729
x. Ebenezer, b. 13 March 1730/31; bap. March 1730/31, South Church, Weymouth
xi. Seth, bap. 25 March 1733, Abington
xii. Luke, bap. 21 April 1734, Abington
> xiii. Sarah, b. 23 December 1735; bap. 7 March 1735/36, Abington, d 5 September 1805

vital records sources: His birth is in "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," Ancestry.com database online (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Hingham>Hubbard's Journal, with Births, Marriages, and Deaths, image 130. Bertha Aldridge, in John Beal the Centenarian, mistakes this as a birth date. His marriage intentions are in Vital records of Abington, vol. 2 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1912), 25; "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," Weymouth, image 460, "both of Weymouth."His death date span is taken from Plymouth Co., MA, probate 12:138.

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