Elizabeth Blount was born in Chowan County, North Carolina in about 1740. The daughter of a wealthy planter, she married John Baptist Beasley in about 1766. By 1769 when she is mentioned in her mother's will, Elizabeth Beasley already had two young daughters. In 1774 she, along with her sister Mary Blount and several other members of her extended family, signed a nonimportation agreement that later became known as the Edenton Tea Party Resolves. The Beasleys continued to reside in Chowan, where they had at least six children together. She died sometime after 1790.