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Laura M., b. Jan. 18, 1798; m. Feb. 11, 1823, Jesse Maltbie; d. April 19, 1824. Child: Lorin.
BARTHOLOMEW.
I. WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW, the ancestor of those bear- ing the name living in New England, was b. in 1602-3. He was well educated, a merchant in England, and a householder in London.
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He m. Anna Lord, sister of Robert Lord, subsequently of Ipswich, Mass. He arrived in Boston Sept. 18, 1634, in ship Griffin. The next March he was made a freeman, which is evidence that he was a member of the church. May 6, 1635, he represented the inhabi- tants of Ipswich in the General Court at Boston. He was a member of that body several times and was honored by holding many offi- ces and positions of trust during the ensuing thirty years. He re- moved to Charlestown, where he d. Jan. 18, 1680. His wife d. Jan. 29, 1682.
Children.
Mary, m. (1) Major Daniel Dennison; (2) Jacob Greene. Children: Matthew Whipple, by first husband; posthumous. By Joseph.
second husband: Elizabeth, Mary, Bartholomew, Dorcas, Joseph.
William, b. in 1640 or 41.
II. WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW (s. William), b. at Ipswich in 1640 or 41; m. Dec. 17, 1663, Mary, dau. of Captain Isaac and Eliza- beth (Porter) Johnson; d. in 1697 at Woodstock, Conn., where he had resided for ten years previous. She was living, in 1705, in Branford, Conn.
Children.
Isaac, h. Nov. 1, 1664.
William, b. Oct. 16, 1666.
Mary, b. Oct. 26, 1668.
Andrew, b. Dec. 11, 1670.
Abigail, b. Dec. 8, 1672; m. (1) Joseph Frizzel; (2) Samuel Paine. She had eight children by first, and two by second, husband. Elizabeth, m. Edmund Chamberlain.
Benjamin.
John.
Joseph.
III. ISAAC BARTHOLOMEW (s. William, William), b. Nov. 1, 1664, in Roxbury, Mass .; m. about 1694, Rebecca, dau. of John and Ruth (Bowers) Frisbie; d. at North Branford, Oct. 25, 1727. She d. May 18, 1738.
Children.
William, b. about 1695.
Mary, b. about 1697; m. Benjamin Barnes. Isaac, b. Nov. 18, 1699.
Rebecca, b. April 18, 1702; m. Abel Collins.
Elizabeth, b. April 12, 1704; m. Nathaniel Barnes, 3d.
Ebenezer, b. June 10, 1706.
Abraham, b. June 28, 1708.
Josiah, b. Jan. 18, 1710.
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IV. JOSIAH BARTHOLOMEW (s. Isaac, William, William), b. in Branford, Jan. 18, 1710; m. (1) June 10, 1740, Lydia Harrington, who d. Oct. 6, 1751; (2) April 9, 1752, widow Phebe Munson; d. Feb. 12, 1777, in Litchfield, Coun. She d. Sept. 25, 1799, in Gosheu. He removed to Goshen iu 1768 in the southwest part of which be owned large tracts of land.
Children.
Sarah, b. April 4, 1742; m. David Tyler. Resided on School Hill, Goshen.
Samuel, b. May 12, 1745.
Lydia. b. Aug. 18, 1748; m. Jonathan Maltby.
Josiah, b. April 7, 1751; m. Feb. 9, 1775, Martha Maltby ; d. in G. Feb.
12, 1777. Child: Josiah, b. Nov. 11, 1775; d. Aug. 26, 1819. Isaac, b. in 1754; m. July 20, 1775, Thankful Maltby; in 1840, at Evans, N. Y. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Chil- dren: Phebe, b. 1778; m. Amos Adams. Jehiel, b. April 8, 1780; m. Sept. 22, 1800, Jerusha Maltby; removed to N. Y., and thence to Mich. Sabra, b. 1784; m. Noah Willis. Isaac, b. April 14, 1794; m. Aug. 18, 1812, Bessie Glassie; resided in E. Evans, N. Y .; had six children.
Moses, b. in Branford Sept. 3, 1751; m. Lydia, dau. Daniel Cook of Goshen: d. Vershire, Vt., where he had removed in 1786. Feb. 11, 1839. She d. Jan. 11, 1829. He was a drummer in the Revolutionary War, and is said to have taken part in the battle of Bunker Hill. Children, three oldest b. G .: Oliver, Erastus, Clarissa, Moses.
Oliver, b. in Branford Oct. 20, 1757; m. in G., July 6, 1780, Anna Lacy: d. in Watertown. N. Y., June 18, 1850; she d. Oct. 30, 1848. He enlisted at G. Jan., 1776, in Col. Charles Webb's Conn. regiment; in 1777, in Col. Enos' regiment, and in March. 1779, serving three years as an artificer in Col. Jeduthan Baldwin's regiment. They had seven children. Jesse, b. Branford, May 16, 1763: m. (1) about 1783, probably in Lee, Mass., Mamra Bradley; (2) Betsy Locke Updike; d. Jan. 24, 1846. He was the father of fifteen children and grandfather of some seventy.
V. SAMUEL BARTHOLOMEW (s. Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. in Branford, May 14, 1745; m. in Goshen Jan. 12, 1766, Mary Lucas; d. Dec. 17, 1827; she d. Feb. 3, 1811. He removed from Branford to Goshen in 1766, where he bought land in Oct. of that year. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and he and his wife were members of the Congregational Church.
Children.
Lydia, b. Dec. 8, 1768; m. Ashbel Norton. Mary, b. Feb. 28, 1771; m. John Webster; d. Dec. 9, 1841. Miles, b. Sept. 27, 1773; d. Aug. 21, 1792. Thomas, b. Sept. 5, 1776; d. Sept. 21, 1858.
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Esther, b. June 13, 1779; m. J. Gleason; d. Sept. 30, 1845.
Anna, b. Oct. 23, 1781; d. unm. June 21, 1806.
Samuel, b. Feb. 12, 1784; d. Sept. 4, 1875.
Lucy, b. April 6, 1786; d. unm. June 14, 1868.
Milo, b. Aug. 28, 1794; d. Feb. 20, 1876.
VI. THOMAS BARTHOLOMEW (s. Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Goshen, Sept. 5, 1776; m. June 1, 1801, Mabel Ives; d. Sept. 20, 1858; she d. Jan. 13, 1859.
Children, born Goshen.
Orlo, b. Oct. 20, 1801.
Myron, b. Jan. 19, 1803.
Emily, b. Oct. 29, 1804.
(See Norton Gen.)
Ann, b. Sept. 23, 1806; m. Lyman Richards.
Cordelia, b. Sept. 1, 1808; m. Stephen B. Smith.
Almira, b. Aug. 18, 1810; d. unm. Oct. 27, 1845.
Sophronia, b. May 23, 1812; d. June 4, 1813.
Esther Velonia, b. April 17, 1818; m. March 27, 1837, William C. John- son. They had five children.
Chloe Ives, b. Jan. 16, 1820; m. Amzi Beach; d. March 27, 1893. A son was killed Jan., 1878.
VI. SAMUEL BARTHOLOMEW (s. Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Goshen Feb. 12, 1784; m. March 3, 1814, Mary Woodruff; d. No. Blandford, Mass., Sept. 4, 1875.
Children.
Infant, d. Nov. 10, 1814, age six days.
Mary Ann, b. March 19, 1816; m. Nov. 16, 1835, Henry Ashley. Has son, Henry W.
Sarah Maria, b. Nov. 27, 1818; d. Aug. 2, 1830.
Samuel Augustus, b. Sept. 19, 1824; m. Nov. 10, 1847.
Helen D., b. Aug. 6, 1831; d. Aug. 15, 1833.
Delphine, b. June 24, 1835; m. Dec. 24, 1857, George T. Bunn. Child: Maurice A.
VI. MILO BARTHOLOMEW (s. Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, Wil- liam, William), b. G. Aug. 28, 1794; m. Nov. 12, 1828, Millia T. Hol- brook; d. Feb. 20, 1876.
Children.
Uri Pericles, b. March 29, 1830; m. (1) Dec. 5, 1855, Lucelia Salome Dudley, who was b. Oct. 26, 1835, and d. July 5, 1859; (2) April 2, 1862, Ann Wadhams; (3) Oct. 3, 1867, Cornelia Eliza- beth Dudley. He has one child, Milo Dudley, b. Jan. 27, 1859.
Samuel Aurelian, b. Oct. 19, 1831.
Milo Achilles, b. Sept. 23, 1833; d. Sept. 16, 1837.
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TIL. ORLO BARTHOLOMEW (s. Thomas, Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Oct. 20, 1801; m. Nov. 14, 1835, Julia A. Peck; d. Augusta, N. Y., May 7, 1864. (See Ministers b. in Goshen.)
Children.
Orlo, b. June 18, 1840; d. June, 1843.
Julia Adell, b. Aug. 22, 1843.
Arthur P., b. June 5, 1845. Myron M., b. Sept. 12, 1846.
Charles M., b. July 10, 1849.
Edirin Jay, b. Aug. 16, 1850.
VII. MYRON BARTHOLOMEW (s. Thomas, Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Jan. 19, 1803; m. Dec. 26, 1830; Jane D. Cheeseborough; d. Oct. 2, 1845.
Children, born Goshen.
Wilbert, b. Sept. 27, 1834.
Phebe Jane, b. June 14, 1837; m. Dec., 1863, Gibbs Lawton.
Cyrus, b. Aug. 21, 1841; d. Oct. 19, 1864.
Orlo T., b. Jan. 11, 1846; d. Oct. 9, 1876.
VII. SAMUEL A. BARTHOLOMEW (s. Milo, Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Oct. 19, 1831; m. (1) Feb. 15, 1871, Ann Langdon; (2) Oct. 30, 1879, Harriet Aurelia Platt, b. Oct. 29, 1856. Child: Samuel William, b. Aug. 15, 1882.
VIII. CHARLES M. BARTHOLOMEW (s. Orlo, Thomas, Sam- uel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. July 10, 1849; m. Feb., 1876, Nellie Manzier of Auburn, Ohio. He was graduated from Hamilton College and Auburn Theological Seminary, and is now, 1896, pastor of the Congregational Church, Owego, N. Y. Child: Orlo Albert, b. Feb. 18, 1878.
VIII. EDWIN JAY BARTHOLOMEW (s. Orlo, Thomas, Sam- uel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Aug. 16, 1850; m. Oct., 1873, Flora A. Spooner. Resides Madison, N. Y.
Children.
Florence, b. Dec. 28, 1875. Clara May, b. July 17, 1877.
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BEACH.
The three Pilgrims of first settlers of the Beach name in Con- necticut were:
Richard, in New Haven, 1639. John, in New Haven, 1643. Thomas, in New Haven, 1647.
It is certain that Richard and Thomas were brothers, and there is a great variety of evidence that John was the brother of the other two.
I. RICHARD BEACH, one of the three pilgrims, or early settlers of the Beach name, was in New Haven in 1639; m. in 1640-1, Catherine Cook; in Stratford, Conn., 1660; in Wallingford; 1672; in Elizabeth, N. J., 1673-4: sells his farm lands in Elizabeth, 1684; his home lot in 1688 and removes to Morris Co., New Jersey.
Children, born in New Haven.
Mercy, b. June, 1642. Benjamin, b. Oct., 1644. Azariah, b. July, 1646. Mercy, bap. May 21, 1648.
II. BENJAMIN BEACH (s. Richard), b. Oct., 1644; lived in Stratford; m. (1) 1670-1, Mary Peacock; (2) Feb. 1, 1677-8, Sarah Welles; (3) Widow Mary Fairchild; d. 1713, leaving property amount- ing to £1,205.
Children, by first wife.
Benjamin, b. Oct. 28, 1672; lived and d. in Strat.
Bethia, b. April 23, 1674; m.
Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1676; m.
By second wife.
Sarah, b. May 24, 1679; m. Hannah, b. Sept. , 1681; m.
II. AZARIAH BEACH (s. Richard), b. July , 1646. Went first to Wallingford, then to Killingworth, and finally settled iu New Haven, where he d. in 1696.
Children.
Maria, b. 1676.
Richard, b. Oct. 19, 1677; one of the grantees of Durham. Thomas, b. Oct. 5, 1679; early settler of Durham.
Benjamin, b. Jan. 14, 1682.
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III. BENJAMIN BEACH (s. Azariah, Richard), b. 1682; m. Dinah Birdsey of Stratford; d. 1712. His widow m. Samuel Nor- ton of Durham, by whom she had six children.
Children.
Joseph, b. Oct. 24, 1710.
Abel, b. Feb. 9, 1712.
IV. JOSEPH BEACH (s. Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. at Durham, Oct. 24, 1710; m. Experience -- of Guilford.
Children.
Miriam, b. Dec. 5, 1734.
Hannah. b. May 17, 1736.
Phebe, b. April 4, 1738. These three children were bap. in Durham.
Benjamin. b. March 25, 1740; m. Aug. 31, 1763, Ahia Loomis of Tor- rington. Children: Levi, b. Oct. 24, 1764; bap. Dec. 23; d. Oct. 19, 1768; Ezra, b. Oct. 26, 1766; bap. Nov. 2; Miriam, b. Sept. 9. 1768; d. Nov. 12, 1768; Miriam, b. Nov. 19, 1769; bap. April 22, 1770; Levi, b. Feb. 6, 1772; Benjamin, bap. April 30, 1775. Experience. b. Sept. 10, 1744: bap. Sept. 18, 1744.
Dinah, b. May 6, 1750; bap. May 29; d. May 31, 1750.
Dinah, b. Nov. 2, 1751; bap. Nov. 10.
Joseph, b. July 26, 1753; m. (1) Jan. 4, 1776, Eda Cook of T .; (2) Aug. 19, 1779. Jerusha Phelps. Children: Elah, b. Oct. 14, 1780; Ahira, b. Oct. 20. 1784; Horace, b. March 3, 1786.
IV. Captain ABEL BEACH (s. Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. at Durham, Feb. 9, 1712; m. April 5, 1738, Margaret Pickett of T., d. Oct. 3, 1796.
Children, born Torrington.
Abel, b. Dec. 18, 1740; m. March 12, 1774, Esther Peck. Children: Sarah, b. July 4, 1776; Esther, b. Aug. 20, 1780; m. Ezra Weeks.
Samuel, b. Dec. 2, 1742; m. Keziah Children: Keziah, b. Oct. 10, 1768; d. Feb. 8, 1776; Mindwell, b. Dec. 16, 1770; m. Oct. 30, 1799, David M. Hall of Wallingford; Rhoda, b. May 8, 1776; Keziah, b. Aug. 16, 1779; Samuel, b. Aug. 21, 1781. Rebecca, b. May 23, 1745; m. Dec. 1. 1768, Samuel Hurlbut. Margaret, b. Sept. 3, 1747: m. Oct. 5, 1767, Abijah Wilson. John, b. May 2, 1750.
James, b. Nov. 24, 1752.
Noah, b. Sept. 13, 1755; m. Feb. 19, 1778, Sarah Bradley of Winchester. Children: Mary, b. July 7, 1779; d. April 4, 1798; Sarah, b. March 7, 1781; Julius, b. Oct. 27, 1783; Susanna, b. Feb. 21, 1786; Anan, b. Jan. 22, 1787.
Martha, b. Jan. 13, 1759.
V. JOHN BEACH (s. Abel, Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. May 2, 1750; m. June 9, 1774, Mercy Bassett; d. at Torrington April 1, 1824; she d. May 22, 1832.
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Children, born Torrington.
Abel, b. Jan. 3, 1775 ;* d. at Wadsworth, O., Nov. 7, 1854.
Mary or Polly, b. Aug. 19, 1778.
James, b. June 10, 1780.
John, b. Feb. 26, 1783; d. May 7, 1817.
Ada, b. March 12, 1787; m. Asahel Loomis.
VI. Rev. JAMES BEACH (s. John, Abel, Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. June 10, 1780; m. Oct. 28, 1806, Hannah Clarissa, dau. of Isaac Baldwin of Goshen; b. March 10, 1784; d. May 7, 1852. He d. June 11, 1850. (See Biographies.)
Children, born Winsted.
Lucy Baldwin, b. Aug. 20, 1807.
Hannah C., b. March 20, 1809; d. Oct. 26, 1815.
Mary, b. Dec. 16, 1814.
VII. LUCY BALDWIN BEACH (dau. Rev. James, Jolin, Abel, Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. Aug. 20, 1807; m. Dec. 16, 1830, Henry Hazen Hyde (s. Wilkes and Sarah Hazen Hyde), b. July 1, 1805; she d. Feb. 7, 1846, at the home of her father, Winsted, Conn. He m. (2) Feb. 14, 1856, Sarah B. Shepard (dan. Preston S. and Han- nah Passmore Shepard of Boston), d. Nov. 28, 1873; she d. April 6, 1896. Both buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Boston.
Children, born at Catskill, N. Y.
James Beach, b. Nov. 13, 1831; d. Jan. 7, 1850; while an undergraduate student at Yale. Buried at Winsted; Conn.
Henry Baldırin, b. Feb. 15, 1834; m. March 29, 1864, Annie Fitch, b. Nov. 5, 1845, at Coxsackie, N. Y. Children: Annie Bald- win, b. Jan. 15, 1865; d. Sept. 2, 1865. Mary Baldwin, b. Nov. 9, 1867; m. Oct. 14, 1885, Sidney Dillon Ripley. Children: Anna Dillon, b. Aug. 7, 1886; Henry Baldwin Hyde, b. Nov. 19, 1889; Sidney Dillon, Jr., b. Dec. 10, 1890; James Hazen, b. June 21, 1892.
Mary, b. Sept. 4, 1839; d. Jan. 1, 1840. Buried at Catskill. Lucy Baldırin Beach, b. Aug. 20, 1841; unm.
VII. MARY BEACH (dau. Rev. James, John, Abel, Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. Dec. 16, 1814; m. May 22, 1839, Caleb Jackson Camp of Winsted, b. June 12, 1815. She d. Dec. 18, 1880.
Children, born Winsted.
Mary M., b. March 4, 1842; m. Oct. 23, 1866, Hermon E. Curtis. He d. March 22, 1878, at Fort Reid, Palatka, Florida. Children: Clinton James, b. Aug. 21, 1870; Mary Beach, b. July 10, 1872: d. Aug. 24, 1872; Helen Camp, b. Nov. 28, 1875; Harry, d. in infancy.
* From Torrington records : Rev. Alex. Gillett m. March 30, 1797, Abel Beach and " Rocksey " Taylor.
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Augusta Beach, b. April 3, 1845; m. Oct. 17, 1871, Franklin A. Rising. Children: Franklin Camp, b. Jan. 18, 1873; Mary Beach, b. Dec. 6, 1875; Kate Bosworth, b. May 6, 1878. James Beach, b. Oct. 15, 1846; d. Nov. 13, 1849.
Anna Beach, b. Aug. 2, 1850; d. March 24, 1852.
Ellen Baldwin, b. Aug. 16, 1855: unm.
I. JOHN BEACH, Pilgrim, was in New Haven, 1643; in Strat- ford, 1660; in Wallingford, 1670-1; d. 1679.
Children.
Elisabeth, b. 1652; m. Eliasaph Preston and had seven children. John, Jr., b. 1654; m. - -.; had one s. and four daus .; lived always
in Stratford.
Mary, b. 1656; m. - -; no children recorded.
Thomas, b. 1659; m .; had thirteen children; four d. young.
Nathaniel, b. 1662: m .; had ten children, Stratford.
Hannah, b. 1665; m. twice; had no children.
Sarah, b. 1667.
Isaac, b. 1669; m. Hannah Birdsey; had six children; removed from Wallingford to Stratford; d. 1741.
Joseph. b. 1671.
Benjamin, b. 1674; m .: had nine children. Was in Wallingford, re- moved to North Haven, Branford, and thereabouts.
Note. - Such discrepancies in different records that his descend- ants cannot be traced further with the means at command.
I. THOMAS BEACH, was in New Haven, 1647; m. Sarah Platt in Milford, 1652; settled in M., 1657-8; d. there in 1677.
Children.
Sarah, b. 1654; m. Lyon; removed to Newark, New Jersey. John, b. 1655.
Mary, b. 1657; m.
Samuel, b. 1660; d. -; no children.
Zophar, b. 1662; m .; removed to New Jersey, and the ancestor of the many by the name in that state.
II. Deacon JOHN BEACH (s. Thomas), b. 1655; went to Wal- lingford in 1673-4; m. there in 1678; d. W., 1709. One of the original members of the church there, Feb., 1675, and at one time deacon.
Children.
Lettice, b. Dec. 24, 1679; m. William Ward.
Mary. b. 1681; d. Sept. 1, 1688.
Hannah, b. March 17, 1684; m. 1708, Eliphalet Parker.
Thomas, b. Feb. 14, 1686; m. Hannah Atwater.
John, b. Oct. 15, 1690.
Naumel, b. Nov. 29, 1696; m. 1718, l'hebe Tyler. The ancestor of the family in Litchifield and, probably, in Hartford.
Caleb, b. 1699; m. (1) Eunice Tyler; (2) Margaret Thompson; (3) Han- nah Resided Winchester, Conn.
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HISTORY OF GOSHEN.
III. Deacon JOHN BEACH (s. John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Oct. 15, 1690; m. (1) Aug. 18, 1715, Sarah Tyler, mother of his oldest child; she d. 1716; (2) Feb. 22, 1717, Mary, dau. of Samuel and Saralı Royce of Wallingford; b. Feb. 17, 1695; d. at G. Oct. 27, 1767; he d. at G. May 9, 1773. Both buried in East Street cemetery.
Children.
Barnabas, b. July 1, 1716; m. Sarah Thompson; d. about 1800, in state of New York. They had eight children: Zerab; Sarah, m. Elisha Blin; Silas, m. Betsey Vaill; Hannab; William; Allen; Eliza; Catherine. His children removed from Goshen and will not be traced further.
Adna, b. Jan. 11, 1718.
Edmund, b. Feb. 18, 1720.
Linus, b. Dec. 5, 1721.
Amos, b. Jan. 28, 1724.
Mary, b. April 28, 1726; d. young.
Jacob, b. Dec. 5, 1728.
Samuel, b. Dec. 22, 1729.
John, b. April 21, 1731.
Royee, b. Oct. 19, 1733.
Baldwin, b. July 26, 1736; d. 1776: unm.
Mary, b. Oct. 27, 1739; d. about 1785; unm.
III. CALEB BEACH (s. Thomas. John), b. at Wallingford, 1699; m. May 26, 1726, Eunice Tyler; (2) Oct. 4, 1733, Margaret Pres- ton. Eunice, his first w., d. Jan. 10, 1733. He d. at Goshen Jan. 13, 1761.
Children.
Sarah, b. Wallingford, Oct. 26, 1728; m. Elon Andross of W.
Caleb, b. W., March 10, 1732; m. Nov. 19, 1756. Lois Preston, in Goshen. Child: Jotham, b. G., Aug. 26, 1757. He removed to New Ashford, Mass.
Hezekiah, b. G., 1760; removed to New Ashford.
Joel, b. Torrington, ; m. Amy Jobnson; resided in Winchester, Conn.
Margaret, b. -; m. Nov. 21, 1765, Jabez Norton.
IV. ADNA BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Jan. 11, 1718; m. June 9, 1741, Hannah Miles; she d. Dec. 6. 1775. He d. 10, 1783. Both buried in East St. cemetery. .
Children, born Goshen.
Fisk, b. May 15, 1742.
Miles, b. Nov. 14, 1743.
Hannah, b. Feb. 28, 1745; m. (1) Oct. 28, 1764, Uri Hill. £ Child: Mary Ann, b. Feb. 4, 1766; (2) Nov. 13, 1769, Ephraim Starr; d. Feb. 26, 1826. Children: Lucretia, Anna, Hannah, Sarah, Abi- gail, Truman, Lucy, Ephraim, William.
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llabel, b. April 22, 1748; m. Jan. 26, 1766, John Carrington. Chil- dren: Harry, Anne, Mabel. Adna and Ebenezer, twins, b. Aug. 4. 1750; d. June 23, 1751. Anne. b. Oct. 2. 1752: d. July 30, 1753.
Adna, b. June 16, 1754: d. Aug. 1, 1754.
Anne. b. Nov. 18, 1755; m. Gideon Hurlbut. Children: Anne, Ezra, Ira, and Sally, Susan. Sybil; the three last named b. March 26, 1788.
Adna, b. Nov. 10, 1757.
Susannah, b. Oct. 31, 1760; m. Jolin Reed, Canaan.
Salome. b. June 14, 1763; m. Job Marslı, New Hartford.
Ebenezer. b. May 30, 1766: m. Lucy Steele. Children: Lucy, Julia. George.
IV. Deacon EDMUND BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Feb. 18, 1720: m. Mary* Deming, dau. Benjamin Dem- ing; d. at Lexington, N. Y., aged 84.
Children.
Luman, b. -; m. Feb. 2. 1764, Anne. dau. Benoni Hills; d. April 19, 1777. She d. at Norfolk, Jan. 26, 1777. Children: Syl- via. m. Jonathan Phelps of Torrington; Anne: Amanda, b. April 7. 1764.
Lucy, b. Jan. 27. 1746; m. Oct. 10, 1764, Ambrose Hill. Children: Reuben, b. Jan. 19, 1765; Lucia, b. Aug. 5, 1767; m. Samuel Baldwin.
Wait. b. Oct. 25, 1747: m. Jan. 9, 1767. Huldah Loomis of Torrington; d. Dec. 28, 1810. Children: Aaron Loomis, Miles, Nancy, Miles, Huldah, Amanda, Wait, Melinda.
Lydia, b. Oct. 28. 1749; m. Jesse Buell; had eight children.
Lois, b. Aug. 4, 1751; m. Seth Lockwood.
Edmund, b. April 27, 1753; d. Sept. 15, 1755.
Abner, b. Jan. 29, 1755: m. Polly. dau. Rev. - Marsh, New Hartford. Mary, b. Aug. 14, 1756. (See Miles Gen.)
Edmund, b. July 24, 1758; m. Luzan, dau. Capt. Timothy Stanley. Jonathan, b. Oct. 2, 1761: m. Lucy, dau. of Samuel Baldwin. Chil-
dren: Erastus, Alvah. Lydia. Ebenezer, Harlow, Elisha. Seth. Luman, Wait. Asahel Hooker, Lucy. (This family re- moved to Lexington, N. Y., about 1800.)
Catherine, b. June 6, 1762; m. (1) Stephen Goodwin. Child: Stephen, b. March 5, 1781; m. (2) July 17, 1783. Seth Hills; d. at Roches- ter, N. Y., 1850.
Amanda, b. April 7, 1764; in. Elisha Stanley.
IV. LINUS BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. at Wallingford. Dec. 5, 1721; m. Dinah, dau. Nathaniel and Phebe Royce.
Children, born Goshen.
Olirer, b. Sept. 13, 1748: m. Abigail, dau. Samuel Oviatt; d. at Mt. Morris, N. Y.
* I find in other records "Mercy " and " Prudence."
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HISTORY OF GOSHEN.
Ruth, b. Dec. 8, 1749; m. Noah Tuttle. Children: Tyrannus, b. July 13, 1774; m. Esther Ives. Roxa, m. Philo Howe; Polly, m. Jeremiah Norton; Edward, m. Lorrain Cox (Royce); Rice, m. Elizabeth Dunson; Hannah, m. Luman Kellogg; Birdsey, m. Laura Black.
Mineas, b. May 17, 1751; m. May 23, 1776, Asenath, dau. Benjamin Ives; d. Nov. 27, 1832.
Linus, b. Nov. 22, 1752; m. June 1, 1775, Elizabeth Abbott of Corn- wall. Child: Seth, b. Feb. 22, 1776. Removed to state of New York.
Dinah, b. April 20, 1754; m. Dec. 24, 1778, Stephen Mix. He was in the Revolutionary army between seven and eight years. Re- moved to state of N. Y.
Michael, b. Feb. 3, 1756; m. Aug. 7, 1773, Eunice Hester, as recorded; Francis Beach says to "Eliza Castle of Roxbury." Re- moved to Genesee. Child: Shelton, b. Oct. 2, 1784.
Martin, b. Feb. 23, 1758; d. Nov. 8, 1776, in New York. (See Rev. Soldiers.)
Medad, b. Sept. 9, 1760; m. -.
Royce, b. June 15, 1762; removed to new country.
Lura, b. Aug. 12, 1764; m. - Walker of Sheffield, Mass.
Mary, b. Aug. 2. 1766; d. Nov. 6, 1771.
Huldah, b. Feb. 10, 1769; m. Daniel Miles Welton. Child: Laura, h.
Aug. 14, 1793; m. Jona. F. Baldwin.
IV. AMOS BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Jan. 28, 1724; m. Dec. 24, 1746, Sarah Royce, who d. about 1820.
Children, born Goshen. :
Chloe, b. Sept. 24, 1747. (See Ives Gen.)
Chauncey, b. Oct. 31, 1748.
Ambrose, b. Jan. 14, 1750; d. July 8, 1776, at Ticonderoga, while in the army.
Amos, b. Aug. 27, 1751; m. Oct., 1780, Olive Carrington of Farmington. Brewen, b. March 21, 1753.
Abraham, b. Jan. 25, 1755; d. June 5, 1777. Was in Rev. army. Esther, b. Jan. 7, 1757.
Obil, b. Dec. 25, 1758; went to Genesee, about 1791.
Sarah, b. Oct. 21, 1760; m. Feb. 1, 1781.
Isaac. b. June 23, 1762; went to Genesee.
Rostrell. b. July 14, 1764.
Seneh (dau.), b. March 3, 1766.
IV. JACOB BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Dec. 5, 1728; m. Sept. 19, 1753, Bethiah, dau. of John Watson of West Hartford.
Children, born Goshen.
Francis, b. Oct. 13, 1755.
John, h. April 28, 1757; m. Sarah Burr of Norfolk. Removed to State of New York.
Israel, b. July 6, 1759; m. Polly Booth of Roxbury; d. in Bloomfield, N. Y., July 10, 1836.
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EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES.
Sabra, b. Aug. 24, 1761; m. (1) Dr. Levi Stocker of Poultney, Vt .; (2) William Beach.
Bethiah. b. Feb. 10, 1763; m. Amos Booth of Roxbury. Children: Watson, Philomela, Helen, Jason, Cyrus, Laura, Joel, Wil- liam B., b. Nov. 14, 1800; Bethiah.
Julius, b. Jan. 19, 1765.
Jacob, b. Oct. 6, 1767; d. about 1810.
Ashbel. b. Oct. 6. 1769; m. Lorana, dau. Ashbel Humphrey. Re- moved to E. Bloomfield, N. Y. Children: Biercy, Laurania, James, Parthena, Nancy, Sabra.
Philomela, b. March 21. 1772; d. 1776.
Jason, b. March 10, 1774; d. 1781.
IV. JOHN BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, April 21, 1731; m. March 12, 1755, Lois Ives of Litchfield; d. about 1760.
Children, born Goshen.
Kesiah, b. Aug. 18, 1755. Abi, b. Jan. 28, 1757. (See Towner Gen.) Lois.
IV. ROYCE BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Oct. 19, 1733; m. June 9, 1756, Phebe Soper of Litchfield; d. Sept. 18, 1766.
Children, born Goshen.
Ira, b. Aug. 18, 1757. Roxa.
V. FISK BEACH (s. Adna, John, John, Thomas), b. May 15, 1742; m. Oct. 26, 1763, Martha Carrington of Wallingford; d. Goshen, March 16, 1801. She d. Sangerfield, N. Y., March 15, 1814.
Children, born Goshen.
Hunn, b. July 7, 1764.
Martha, b. Aug. 5, 1766. (See Norton Gen.)
Lucy, b. Nov. 9, 1768; m. Ebenezer Hale; d. at Clinton, N. Y., Jan. 1851. Children: Pallas, d. Goshen, July 27, 1806; Sybil, m. Bristol of Clinton; John.
Nybil. b. June 14. 1771; m. Sept. 2, 1790, Augustus Cook; d. at Wal- lingford, Sept. 28, 1792.
Jesse, b. Sept. 6, 1773; m. Olive, dau. Ezekiel North; d. G., Dec. 22. 1839. Child: Horatio North, b. June 28, 1803; m. Jan. 28, 1830, Mary, dau. of Allen Lucas; d. G. Oct. 5, 1832. Child: Edward, b. May 19, 1831; m. Feb. 22, 1860, Laura Johnson. Hannah, b. Dec. 14, 1775; m. Dr. Elisha North. Children: Sybil Maria, mn. Elisha Mitchell: Eliza; Erasmus Darwin, b. Sept. 3, 1806; m. 1836, Phebe Swathel; William H., b. Sept. 1, 1808: d. Oct. 6, 1857, unm .: Harvey: m. Athalie Adam; Ellen Phebe. m. Rev. John Coit; d. Oct. 15, 1843, leaving six children; Ann Hinman, b. Dec. 25, 1817; m. Oct. 5, 1841, Dr. Bolton.
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HISTORY OF GOSHEN.
Uri, b. Jan. 31, 1778; m. (1) Jan. 14, 1801, Sally Winchell; (2) Feb. 21, 1834, Anna King. Removed about 1801 to state of N. Y. Children: Eliza, b. Nov. 27, 1801; m. George Rice; Hunn, b. July 31, 1803; m. Ann Welfare; Clarinda, h. Sept. 23, 1811; Ebenezer Hale, b. April 16, 1809; m. Mary Rice; Ransom, b. Feb. 6, 1814: John Carrington, b. March 14, 1816; Harvey Milton, b. May 25, 1818.
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