Elizabeth Beavers was a resident of Barbados in 1716 when she married Dr. Thomas Hall. The couple then moved their family to Bladen County, North Carolina in 1732 to take advantage of the cheap land and growing rice cultivation industry in the area. When Thomas Hall died in about 1740, Elizabeth remarried, this time to Hugh Blaning. In 1769 Will, an enslaved man Elizabeth Blaning owned, attempted to poison Blaning's daughter-in-law, but was unsuccessful. She died in Bladen County sometime after 1769.