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(IX) Thomas Beckwith, of Clint and :nors of Magna Otrigen and Housley, near Thuity, 4. Richard II, which lands were holden of John ford Mowbray, as his manor of Thursk, marr the daughter of John Sawly, of Saxon.
(X) Adam Beckwith de Clint married Jiza- beth de Malebisse, 4, Richard II.
(XI) Sir William Beckwith de Clint, ight, married the daughter of Sir John Baskervill
(XII) Thomas Beckwith, of Clint, Lord one- third part of Fily, Muster and Thorp, mari 1 the daughter and heiress of William Heslerton
(XIII) John Beckwith married the daug er of Thomas Radcliff, of Mulgrave.
(XIV) Robert Beckwith, of Broxholn was living in the eighth year of King Edward IV
(XV) John Beckwith, of Clint and TI p, is of record in the eighth year of the reign ( King Edward IV.
(XVI) Robert Beckwith, of Clint and horp, married Jennet.
(XVII) Marmaduke Beckwith, of Da : and Clint, married (second) Anne, daughter of lynly, of Bramhope, County of York.
(XVIII) Matthew Beckwith, born S. .. 22, 1610, in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, en rated in 1635 to New England, residing for a she time that year at Saybrook Point. He is of rerd in Branford in 1638, and was one of the first :ttlers of Hartford in 1642. His name appears amg the list of the first settlers of Lyme in 1651, and : pur- chased large tracts of land on the Nianti river, lying practically in Lyme and New Londo
The barque "Endeavor," the first vessel launch from New London, was constructed and owned him,
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and H used it for trading purposes with the Bar- badoe He died Dec. 13, 1681. His wife's Chris- ian nie was Elizabeth.
([X) John Beckwith, son of Matthew, was born Lyme, Conn., in 1669. He was one of the origir patentees of New London, to Waterford, Conn. According to his deposition, in 1740, he nad li 1 at Niantic Ferry for seventy-five (twenty- ive?) ars.
(2) John Beckwith (2), son of John, was born . g. 12, 1718, in Waterford, Conn. He mar- ried E abeth Mayhew.
(>I) Frederick Beckwith, son of John (2), and guidfather of our subject, was born in 1758. He wa wice married. On April 3, 1783, he wedded Lydia rentice, who became the mother of all his childr eight in number. His second wife was Grace organ.
II) Capt. Robert Beckwith, son of Fred- i father of Ansel Arthur, was born Dec. 15, Waterford, Conn. In early life he became
erick, I794, a sean , and sailed under letters of marque. Dur- the walof 1812 he was a seaman on the schooner "Mars under Capt. Noah Buckley, which was cap- tured liz, ar en m H. M. S. "Shannon," off the coast of Ca- he was held as a prisoner of war for eight- ths, part of this time being detained at Island, and for sixty days on H. M. S.
Iillsv Luca Scotia.
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He was paroled at Halifax, Nova
After the close of the war he resumed rading continuing on the water many years in
omma of a number of merchantmen. Later he
ngage in the woolen business near Ithaca, N. Y.,
but af some years returned to Connecticut, and ved
red at Norwich until his death, which oc- urred ct. 14, 1883, the result of old age, as he was
ever, til his last illness, obliged to spend a day i bed his life. His remains rest in Greeneville
emete He was a Democrat in politics. His 'ife, 5 ah Maria Anderson, daughter of Dr. An- :1 An son, of Lyme, Conn., survived him, and ied a le home of her daughter, Eliza, in New Laven n 1888, aged eighty-seven years. The velve
ildren born of their marriage were as fol- ) Robert was a manufacturer of woolens. le rest
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d for a time in Connecticut, but later re- loved Union City, Mich., where he died. (2)
arah d at the age of four years. (3) Charlotte
first) irried Lewis Osborne and (second) a Mr. rentic who is deceased. She died in November, 004, 1 Union City, Mich. (4) Sarah married urr C Imira orne, and died in Union City, Mich. (5) arried Frederick Roberts, and died at her
me i Deep River, Conn. (6) John engaged in e me ntile business, and died in Ithaca, N. Y. ) H y was a sailor and became captain of a 'ssel, : was lost with his vessel at sea at the early ge of
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venty-eight years. (8) Eliza and (9) lizabe were twins. The former is now Mrs. orpe, of New Haven. The latter married
Horace Rogers of Norwich, and died there. (10) Susan is the widow of Martin V. B. Lamb, of New Haven. (II) Mary married William H. Lindsley, and died in Kalamazoo, Mich. (12) Ansel A. is mentioned below.
Ansel Arthur Beckwith, son of Capt. Robert and a representative in the twenty-third generation from his Norman ancestor, was born in Trumansburg, N. Y., April 24, 1844, and was but a few years old when his parents returned to their old home in Con- necticut. His education was acquired in the public schools of Norwich, which he attended until he was seventeen years old. At that age he was apprenticed to William Tubbs, to learn the carriagemaker's trade, his apprenticeship to cover three years. At the end of his three years with Mr. Tubbs he was employed for a time in New Haven, but returning to Norwich he formed a partnership with Mr. Tubbs under the firm name of Tubbs & Beckwith. At the end of a year and a half this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Beckwith became associated with Charles O. Hilton (now deceased) in the same busi- ness, under the firm name of C. O. Hilton & Co. They met with much success in their undertaking, but after five years Mr. Beckwith determined to enter the mercantile world, and accordingly sold out his interest and engaged in the retail grocery busi- ness in company with his brother-in-law, Martin V. B. Lamb, under the name of Lamb & Beckwith. Five years later Mr. Beckwith became associated in the same business with Welcome A. Smith, under the name of Smith & Beckwith, their store being lo- cated at the same location still occupied by Mr. Smith. They built up an excellent business, and the firm continued unchanged for nine years, when, in December, 1886, Mr. Smith purchased his partner's interest, and Mr. Beckwith bought out the whole- sale and retail grain and flour business of William Avery, which was located on Water street, on the site of the present wholesale fruit establishment of Joseph Worth. He continued at that location until 1892, when the place was destroyed by fire, and Mr. Beckwith then moved to his present place on Water street, where he has made many modern improve- ments, greatly enhancing the value of the property. Among these improvements may be mentioned the grain elevator, which is the largest in eastern Con- necticut. The success that attended his former ef- forts in the business world has not deserted him in this venture, and he has prospered well in his new work. He does an extensive business in the whole- sale and retail grain and flour line, his business-like methods in conducting his affairs winning him a high place in the commercial world. Mr. Beckwith has also dealt to a large extent in real estate, having erected and sold many buildings. He erected, and is the owner of, the Kenyon block on Main street. He also erected his fine residence, replete with all modern comforts, at No. 17 Lincoln avenue.
In his political views Mr. Beckwith is a Repub-
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lican, but his activity in political matters rarely ex- tends beyond the casting of his ballot. He is a di- rector in the Norwich Savings Society, and is con- sidered good authority on questions of finance. Fra- ternally he is a Mason of high degree, being one of the most prominent members of that organization in the city. He was made a Master Mason in Somerset Lodge, but became a charter member of St. James Lodge, No. 23, when it was organized. He has taken the thirty-second degree, and was a member of Pyramid Temple, at Bridgeport, but has since transferred to Sphinx Temple, Mystic Shrine, at Hartford. He was one of the original incorpora- tors of the Masonic Temple Corporation. Socially he belongs to the Arcanum Club and the Norwich Club.
On Jan. 29, 1868, Mr. Beckwith was married, by Rev. Edgar F. Clark, to Celeste L. Kenyon, who was born in Sterling, Conn., daughter of Stutely Westcott and Lydia Wright (Hawkins) Kenyon. One son, Ansel Earle, has been born of this union. Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith are members of the Park Congregational Church, and are liberal supporters of its many good works. Mrs. Beckwith is eligible to the Mayflower Society, and is a charter member of Faith Trumbull Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. She is also eligible to the Colonial Dames through Lieut. Robert Westcott, who was the eldest son of Stukely Westcott and who was killed by the Indians in the war of 1675, he was one of the first settlers of Warwick, Rhode Island.
(XXIV) ANSEL EARLE BECKWITH, son of Ansel A. Beckwith, was born in Norwich, Nov. 17, 1868, and received his education in the Norwich Free Academy, from which he was graduated in 1887. He entered Harvard University the same year. For some time he was engaged in newspaper work, but for a number of years past he has been engaged in the manufacture of art calendars, under the name of the Beckwith Printing Company, and has built up a most thriving business in that line. In February, 1903, he was made a thirty-second degree Mason. He is a member of Sphinx Temple of the Mystic Shrine, at Hartford, Connecticut.
On June 28, 1892, Ansel Earle Beckwith was married to Olive Crawford Morehead, of Syracuse, N. Y., where the ceremony was performed. Three children have blessed this union: Ansel Earle, Jr., born Aug. 4, 1893, died in October, 1894; Henry Kenyon was born May 12, 1898; and Celeste Lydia was born April 26, 1901.
KENYON. The Kenyon family, to which Mrs. Ansel A. Beckwith belongs, is one of the old fam- ilies of Rhode Island. The forerunners of this family were John, James and Roger, whom Austin, in his "Genealogical Dictionary," assumed were brothers, sons of John Kenyon, and who were resi- dents of Kingston, Westerly and Shoreham ( Block Island). The dates of birth and death of John are given as 1657 and 1732, and the names of his
children as John, James, Enoch, Joseph, Da and Jonathan.
James Kenyon, brother of John, marrie Ruth Miller, who died in 1724. She bore hin even children : James, Thomas, Ebenezer, John . eter,
Sarah and Ruth.
The children of Joseph Kenyon were: : frtha, born May 8, 1725; John, Dec. 27, 1727; Paine, April 20, 1733; and Joseph, Feb. :
ary : 736. Fords
The early family appearing in the town of Exeter, formerlly a part of North Kingst was that of John and Freelove (Reynolds) Iniyon, whose children were as follows: Gardner ffolin, Zebulon, Freelove, Freeman, Remington, jewis, Amos, Job, Reynolds, Lydia and Joseph G.
In "American Ancestry," in which is gif the pedigree of Ralph Woods Kenyon, of Bıklyn, whose Rhode Island ancestry is given as fough Paine, Joseph and John, it is stated that oseph Kenyon married Hannah Paine, and that h bas a son of John and Ruth Kenyon, the former Eming over from England about 1695, his brother, fumes, having arrived previously at Portsmouth. Claim is made that the family of Kenyon is de Indled from Jordan de Lanton, Lord Kenyon, of tl reign of Henry VIII.
Peleg Kenyon, great-grandfather of Mr Ansel A. Beckwith, was a native of Kingston, R. I vhere he was the owner of a large tract of land, an where he followed the occupation of farmer. He krried Elizabeth Stanton and died in middle life, Javing a small family of children, three boys.
John Stanton Kenyon, son of Peleg, loded on Sterling Hill, in the town of Sterling, Con He was a man of considerable prominence, and | became quite well-to-do. He lived to an a fanced time age, and died at his home in Sterling, survi lig his wife but six weeks. Their remains lie in a rivate cemetery on the farm in Sterling. In her hiden- hood his wife was Hannah Westcott, a n ve of Kingston, R. I., and a descendant of Stukel fest- cott, who was born in Devonshire, Eng d, in 1592, and was received as an inhabitant a free- man of Salem, Mass., in 1636. Stukely Westcott settled at Providence Plantations in 1638, [d be- came one of the most prominent and trustechen of the colony, and was the intimate friend o Roger Williams, who referred to him in his paers as "my dear friend Stukely as it was originall ( later called Stutely) Westcott." To John S. and annah (Westcott) Kenyon were born the followi - chil- dren: (I) Joseph D., who graduated fro Dart- mouth College, studied medicine in South Kings- ton, R. I., practiced for a few years in th latter town, and subsequently located in Westerlywhere he was a prominent physician for sixty vea. He was twice married, first to Frances W. Nos, and second to Lydia R. Noyes. (2) Peleg was : armer in Westerly. (3) Oliver S. resided on th home- stead in Sterling. (4) John Stanton, Jr was a
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resided in Plainfield, later in Rhode 1. wire he died. (5) Stutely W. is men- (6) Alfred was a farmer on the (7) Sheffield died young. (8) vin sister of Sheffield, died aged three ) Eliza married Oliver Perkins, a mer- , anchesided in Utica, New York. 1 be stead ope, Is.
ute ., in ose ls, th Famous Plainfield Academy, from which
adua He taught school in young manhood is ez / training had all been in the line of and after his marriage he took it up as worl eans livelihood. For four years he engaged minst ear Syracuse, N. Y., and then returned erling own, sper mant: , wh d in t located on a farm in the north part of here the remainder of his active life When he retired he removed to y- where he made his home until his occurred March 24, 1861. He was private cemetery at Sterling. He was n mu, esteemed for his upright life. He and e members of the Plainfield Methodist ch. litically he was a Democrat. n Jaı try I, 1829, Stutely W. Kenyon was led in lainfield, Conn., by Rev. Orin Fowler, dia Hawkins, who was born in Sterling, ter Nathan and Mary (Young) Hawkins. S. W Kenyon was descended from Gregory :r an James Young, being a granddaughter bedee
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oung, of Smithfield, R. I., who enlisted ring the war of the Revolution, serving Mrs. Kenyon survived her husband,
rvice year in 18 To Stutely W. Kenyon and his wife ildren as follows: Hannah Ellen, de- born 1; El L., deceased; Jennie F., deceased ;
wif of Hiram B. Trippe, of Washington, ; Sta on W. deceased; and Celeste L., wife sel A Beckwith, of Norwich.
. JOEN BYRON SWEET, the noted bone and well known citizen of New London escendant of one of the oldest families , is w E. has “, SO entat reat we:
land. For more than 250 years this en gifted with peculiar skill in bone at indeed, that the fame of its present in his own locality equals that of reign specialist attracted to America 1 of its millionaires. His reputation confir I to the New England States, although eater
umber of his difficult operations and ompl work have been done here, he being so in the West.
1own com hensive history of the Sweet family fou elsewhere, our immediate record not us b ‹ farther than Dr. Benoni Sweet, the athen f our subject. He followed bone set- tcces lly for years, and also engaged in ag- ral psuits according to the custom of the
His son, Dr. Stephen Sweet, was born in Leb- anon, but later removed to Franklin, where he be- came a large landowner, a fine farmer, a noted physician, and he was twice elected to serve in the State Legislature, but declined the honor, having no political ambition. He was always interested in educational matters, and served on the school board for a long period, and in every public-spirited way acted unselfishly for the welfare of the community.
Dr. Stephen Sweet was thrice married, his first union being with Annie Champlin, who died Aug. 9, 1824, aged thirty-two years, leaving children as follows : Mary G., born Sept. 21, 1820, died March 4, 1828; Thomas, born Jan. 30, 1822, died in the army in February, 1864, leaving five children, who reside in the State of New York, where they follow bone setting and farming ; and Stephen, born April 28, 1824. Dr. Sweet married (second) Matilda Armstrong, who died Feb. 8, 1849, having been the mother of the following children: John C., born April 20, 1826, died Aug. 19, 1828; Sarah A., born July 13, 1828, died Dec. 6, 1829; Lydia A., born Nov. 22, 1829, married Ashael Armstrong, of Franklin ; Sarah Matilda, born Oct. 10, 1831, mar- ried B. Frank Greenslitt, of Franklin ; Cornelia F., born March 21, 1834, died Dec. 5, 1865; Benoni, born July 11, 1836, died Dec. 9, 1852; Harriet E., born May 23, 1837, married David Hillhouse, of Montville, Conn .; Armida H., born Oct. 2, 1839, married Ransom Sholes, of Preston; and Charles E., born Jan. 23, 1845, died Jan. 26, 1849. The third marriage of Dr. Sweet was to Phebe Heath, born at Groton, Conn., daughter of Ephraim Heath and widow of Thomas Hewling, of New London. She died March 26, 1862, aged thirty-five years. Her children were: James D., born April 29, 1851; Ella L., born Aug. 9, 1852, married Anson May- nard, of Norwich ; John Byron, born May 16, 1854; Hannah E., born Feb. 9, 1856, married Andrew Breed, of Norwich; and Clara P., born Dec. II, 1861, who married Capt. Henry Phillips, of Mont- ville. Dr. Stephen Sweet died March 21, 1874. He was known all over the country, and was a man of noble character and personal power.
Dr. John Byron Sweet was born May 16, 1854, in Franklin, New London Co., Conn. His education was obtained in the local district schools and at a public school at Willimantic. He was reared to the practical work of the farm, and was early taught the principles of bone setting, by his skilled fa- ther, acquiring facility in the same at the age of nine years. Failing strength at length admonished the elder physician to no longer practice his pro- fession and two years before his death, our subject had taken the practice. After leaving the farm he resided at Norwich until 1890, with the exception of one year spent at Central Village, in Windham county. In the above named year he came to South Griswold, and has been interested ever since in large farming operations and the raising of fine cattle, still retaining an office at Norwich and one at Put- nam, being assisted in his professional work by his
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Vestcott Kenyon was born in Sterling, 0, and received a good sound education les, attending in addition to the district
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son, the family gift descending to a younger gen- eration.
Dr. Sweet takes great pleasure in his fine cattle and yearly produces a number of young steers fit for show purposes and for sale. Combining his ag- ricultural with professional work, Dr. Sweet feels that he has found out the secret of happy, con- tented living. He is a man of broad mind, and of genial, affable manner, a combination which has made him popular with his fellow citizens. In poli- tics a Democrat, he thus follows family tradition, and like his father, shows a deep and continued in- terest in educational affairs.
On Aug. 15, 1877, Dr. Sweet was married in Norwich, Conn., to Elizabeth Grace Rogers, of Franklin, daughter of Porter and Elizabeth (Grace) Rogers. She died on Thanksgiving Day, 1889, in Norwich Town, and was buried in Yantic cemetery. She was a most estimable lady, a consistent mem- ber of Trinity Episcopal Church of Norwich. Two children were born to this marriage, namely : Stephen Benoni, born Nov. 1, 1880, and Elizabeth Heath, born July 26, 1883. The former is profes- sionally engaged with his father, and promises to become as eminent. He married Mary E. Whipple, daughter of William F. Whipple of Glasgo, and one little daughter was born to them, Edna May, Feb. 4, 1903. Elizabeth Heath Sweet was educated in the schools of Griswold and later in the Norwich Business College, where she was graduated in July, 1902; she resides at home, a charming and culti- vated young lady. Dr. Sweet was married (sec- ond), March 10, 1890, to Mary Elizabeth Lord, born at Montville, daughter of William and Har- riet (Terry) Rathburne, and widow of Elias Lord. Mrs. Lord had two children, viz .: William E., who is a motorman on the Providence Street Railroad, at Providence, R. I .; and Charles E., who is a con- ductor on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The latter married Anna Jenkins of that city.
WHITON. No record of the early settlements of the New England States would be complete with- out careful and comprehensive mention of the Whiton family, which for years has been a leading one in the development of that section and which is at present represented in New London by Lucius E. Whiton, only son of the late Hon. David E. Whiton.
(I) James Whiton was born in the County of Norfolk, England, and died at Hingham, Mass., April 26, 1710. On Dec. 30, 1647, he married Mary, daughter of John and Nazareth (Hobart) Beale, born in 1622 at Hingham, England, who died Dec. 12, 1696, at Hingham, Mass. The name of James Whiton first appears on Hingham records in 1647, and lands there were granted to him in 1657 and sub- sequently. He was made a freeman in 1660. He is described as a farmer and planter, and his home was at Liberty Plain, South Hingham. At the time
of his decease he possessed much landed prop in Scituate, Abington and Hanover, as well as Ing. ham, and in his will he provided liberally ifthis children and grandchildren. Nine children Pere born to him, of whom but five outlived chilliod.
(II) James Whiton (2), eldest son of Lies, was baptized at Hingham, Mass., July 13, 51. and died Feb. 20, 1724-25. He left a will ted Oct. 15, 1724. His wife Abigail, born in 16-56, died in Hingham, Mass., May 4, 1740. Thehad three daughters and seven sons. James Veton (2) was a farmer, and resided near the pinal homestead at Liberty Plain. He was a solo · in King Philip's war.
(III) Joseph Whiton, sixth child and fif tson of James Whiton (2), was born March 23, 587, at Hingham, Mass., and died at Ashford, Col, in 1777. In his youth he learned the trade of dper, which he combined with farming. He marriefirst at Hingham, Mass., Dec. 10, 1713, Martha, high- ter of Samuel and Silence (Damon) Tower born July 20, 1693, at Hingham, Mass., who ol at Rehoboth, Sept. 19, 1719. He married (sind) in 1720, at Rehoboth; Rebecca Willson, wh died March 17, 1776, at Ashford, Conn. Soon af the birth of his third child, in 1719, he removedfrom Hingham to Rehoboth, and his first wife die fere the same year. Early in 1720 he married his fond wife, and two children were born to them in leho- both. About 1726-27 he settled in Ashford, onn., the church records there showing the admis in to . membership, early in 1727, of "Joseph White and wife." In 1734 he was one of the commiti[ ap- pointed "to lay out a quarter-acre of land or a burying place" (now a part of Westford cen ery) "at ye west end of ye town," and in this pla -ests the body of Joseph Whiton, who died at t ad- vanced age of ninety years. The inscription || his tombstone reads: "They that live longest e at last."
(IV) Elijah Whiton, the eldest of th ten children of Joseph Whiton, was born in Hinnam, Mass., July 7, 1714, and died Aug. 20, 1; }, in Westford, Conn. He married in 1741 Picilla Russ, who died in 1755 .: his second wife was Hinah Crocker. He had eighteen children, nine beach wife. Elijah Whiton came to Ashford w; his parents when a lad, acquired a fair educatic and learned his father's trade of coopering. I: 1739 he was a school master, receiving "thirteen unds for two months' schooling and boarding hi elf." Elijah Whiton seems to have been promin it in Ashford for many years, his name occurring fre- quently in the records of the church and own, and he is often referred to as "Esquire W|:on." For a time he was deacon in the church at A ford, but at the organization of the church in W .ford was dismissed to join that church. In 1764 was voted that he should procure a minister, and
was also made church treasurer. When the new arish of Westford was set off from Ashford lijah
D. E. Whiter
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on, ; brother James and their father, Jo- Whin, were among the first signers of the ch venant, Feb. II, 1768. When the pews e nel church were assigned the first pew was Elijah Whiton and Benjamin Walker."
to Dec. 1769, Ashford held a meeting and ap- ed acommittee, of which one member was h W es ir help on, Esq., "to correspond with other com- he county and elsewhere, to encourage ward manufactures and a spirit of in- y in | is government." In 1777-78-79 Elijah on ard as one of the justices for Windham y byjopointment of the General Assembly.
V) Jeph Whiton, one of the older sons of h WIcon, was born in Ashford, Conn., in 46, l died in the same place June 6, 1817. harrie lker ) II,
Joanna, daughter of David and Martha haffee, who was born in 1748, and died 20. . Joseph Whiton was a farmer, but follow the trade of carpenter. He was one of fers of the Westford Church Covenant, asional town offices. Of his ten chil- renth child and fifth son was Heber
arly held the on, father of David E. Whiton, of New
lon.
VI) Her Whiton, son of Joseph, was born in ord,
n., Feb. II, 1782, and died May II, at Stford, Conn. On May 5, 1808, he mar- Marci jay, born Nov. 15, 1784, at West Staf- Conr. daughter of Col. Ebenezer and Eliza- (Leaw s) Gay. He then settled in Stafford, : he s it the remainder of his life, combining
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