# Rezin Beall

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[Brigadier General](/source/Brigadier_General) **Rezin Beall** (1723–1809)[3][self-published source?] was appointed commander of [Maryland](/source/Maryland)'s [Flying Camp](/source/Flying_Camp) militia by the [United States Congress](/source/United_States_Congress).[4][5]

## Career

On 17 July 1776, Captain Beall was wounded in action on [St. George Island, Maryland](/source/St._George_Island,_Maryland) in a battle resisting efforts of British forces under the command of [John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore](/source/John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore) to land on the mainland in Maryland.[6]

He is buried at [St. John's Episcopal Church](/source/St._John's_Episcopal_Church,_Zion_Parish) in [Beltsville, Maryland](/source/Beltsville,_Maryland).

## References

1. Bowie, Lucy Leigh (March 1948). ["Maryland Troops in the Battle of Harlem Heights"](http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000169/pdf/msa_sc_5881_1_169.pdf). *Maryland Historical Magazine*. **XLIII** (1): 7. Retrieved 22 July 2016.

1. William Scudder Stryker (1898). [*The Battles of Trenton and Princeton*](https://archive.org/details/BattlesOfTrentonAndPrinceton). Houghton, Mifflin. pp. [309](https://archive.org/details/BattlesOfTrentonAndPrinceton/page/n338)–.

1. Harrison Dwight Cavanagh (2 May 2014). [*Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants*](https://books.google.com/books?id=lzaSAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA115). Xlibris Corporation. pp. 115–116. ISBN 978-1-4931-8807-9.

1. Patrick O'Donnell (1 March 2016). [*Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution*](https://books.google.com/books?id=GwmuCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT68). Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-8021-9071-0.

1. Steuart, Rieman (1969). *A History of the Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War, 1775–1783.* [Society of the Cincinnati](/source/Society_of_the_Cincinnati) of Maryland. p. 54.

1. ["British Landing Prevented"](http://mht.maryland.gov/historicalmarkers/DetailsDirect.aspx?Marker_ID=RM-673). *Maryland Historical Marker*. '***(RM-673). [Maryland Historical Trust](/source/Maryland_Historical_Trust), [Maryland State Highway Administration](/source/Maryland_State_Highway_Administration). Retrieved 3 August 2016.***

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