Benjamin Beach

Benjamin Beach

• birth: OCT 1644 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut[1]
• christening: 21 MAY 1648 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
• death: 9 APR 1713 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
• Son of Richard Beach and Catherine

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beach-1857

Benjamin Beach was born in October 1644, a son of Richard (one of the signers of the original New Haven compact in 1639) who married in 1640 to Mary, widow of Andrew Hull.[1]

Marriages

Benjamin married three times.[2]

• He married as his 1st, to Mary Peacock, daughter of John Peacock.[2]
• He married on 1 Feb 1678, as his 2nd, to Sarah (Wells) (b 28 Sep 1659), daughter of John and Sarah (Curtis) Wells.[2]
• He married on 5 Dec 1705, as his 3rd, to Mary (Wheeler) Fairchild, widow of Samuel Fairchild.[2]

Children of Benjamin and Mary (Peacock) Beach:[1]

1. Benjamin Beach, born 28 OCT 1672 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, d young
2. Bethiah Beach, born 23 APR 1674 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut; m 1) William Bulkeley, 2) 14 Jul 1707 to John Glover
3. Mary Beach, born 19 JAN 1676 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut; m Josiah Curtis

Children of Benjamin and Sarah (Wells):[1]

1. Sarah Beach, b 24 May 1679, d young
2. Hannah Beach, b Sep 1681; m 21 May 1702 to Edmund Lewis
3. Benjamin Beach, b 1 Oct 1683; m 1) Martha Curtis, 2) 11 Feb 1686 to Jemima (Alsop) Talmadege

Research Notes

But his first wife had brought him Benjamin, born 1672 [Deed Book 1 (1652-1684) Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, page 44, Benjamin ye son of Benjamin Beach born Octr 28 1672];

[Benjamin Beach Senior had a son Benjamin Beach by his second wife Sarah born 1st of October 1683 seen in Deed Book 5 (1710-1753) Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, page 57, "Beniiamin ye son of Beniiamin Beach was Borne Octr 1st 1683"] ;

Bethia, 1674 [Deed Book 1 (1652-1684) Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, page 59, Bethiah ye daughter of Benjamin and Mary born April 23rd 1674];

[Benjamin Beach senior had another child by his first wife Mary as seen in Deed Book 1 (1652-1684) Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, page 58, Mary ye daughter of Benjamin Beach born January 19th 1676].

Goodwin's Genealogical Notes, 254[3], led me into the error of making Sarah, widow of Beach to married another time whereas Benjamin Beach long survived her, and the recorded of Stratford shows his third wife "December 1705, Benjamin Beach senior married widow Mary Fairchild" [Deed Book 2 (1683-1724) Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, page 479a, Benjamin Beach Senior married Mrs Mary ffairchild Decr 5th 1705].

Notes in [ ] added by Historian John Joseph Curtiss Slayton.[4][5]

Sources

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beach-1857 cites
   1. Savage: Vol 1, Page 144.
   2. Jacobus: Vol 1, Page 148 and Vol 2, Page 137.
   3. Goodwin
   4. Oxford Past
   5. McClaughry
   6. Orcutt, Samuel, Rev. (1886) A History of the
   7. Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Part II Genealogies. Published by the Fairfield County Historical Society. Vol. 2, page 1197
   8. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862) Vol 1, Page 144.
   9. Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930) Vol. 1, pages 148, 660 and Vol 2, Page 137.
   10. Oxford Past Genealogy Project
   11. McClaughry, Charles. Genealogy of the Beach Family of Connecticut (n.p., 1900) Page 36: < Archive.Org > Caution: does not agree with other sources.
2. Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts (F.A. Brown, Hartford, Conn., 1856) Page 254 < GoogleBooks > with errors