John Baptist Beasley (d. c1790) was a resident of Chowan County. In the fall of 1777 after a vacancy on the bench, he became the judge for the Edenton District Court of Oyer and Terminer, where he oversaw the trials of John Lewellen and other members of the Gourd Patch Conspiracy. Later he served as a Major in the Chowan County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia from 1779 to 1783.