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Hi, Jane. I've got Thomas Beall in my Beall database plus your email and if I get any clues I'll let you know. As for Thomas being the son of Alexander, here's my take:
1. Alexander's wife had her first child about 1773. If she was 20 then, she would have been 41 when Thomas was born in 1794. That's certainly not impossible.
2. I'm basing my family size on the Census of 1790. However Thomas was born after the Census of 1790, so he wouldn't have been counted. So again, it's not impossible.
3. What makes me doubt the connection is that Thomas was associated with Evitts Creek in Allegany County, unlike Alexander who was associated with Bennetts Creek in Montgomery County. People stayed fairly close to home until there was a big move -- and then my theory on Jefferson is that they stayed together.
4. Do you know how your Thomas, and his descendants, pronounced their name? Alexander and descendants pretty much pronounced it "beel". The down-county Bealls, including Alexander the Immigrant and Col. Ninian, etc, all pronounced it "bell." DNA testing seems to show that my Alexander group is not related to the rest.
5. There was a branch of the "down-county" Bealls that moved out to Allegany County. Unfortunately, I can't link your Thomas to them. There was another Thomas -- J. Thomas Beall, born the following year in Allegany County, who's tied to the down-county group -- but he has a different wife and kids than your Thomas!
6. To complete things further, there seem to have been several familes of Bealls, unrealted, who all moved to Jefferson County, Ohio!
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