Elisha Beckwith

Loyalist

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Biography

Elisha Beckwith served with Loyalists during the American Revolution.

Children include: Samuel (married Amy Slater), Anne (married John Murock Lee), and Lydia (married Josiah Manwaring), Elisha (married Elisabeth Scranton), Abigail Olmstead (married Jacob Cowdery) and Capt. Ezra Beckwith (married Elizabeth Haynes, and then Clarissa Mack)

From the notes of Hubert Beckwith: "Elisha and his wife were active Loyalists. In May 1781 Elisha was employed to gather intelligence of the French fleet then in Newport, RI, was apprehended, but fled to the British lines in New York. He then went off with the British troops in their invasion of New London September 1781. In November he returned to retrieve his family and was captured, being secured in the Norwich jail, and then kept at the Simsbury mines where he remained for 6 months under great torture. A petition to the General Assembly for exchange, 10 January 1782, was denied. Upon release he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia without family and died there (his memorial is in Edinburgh, Nova Scotia). 29 December 1785 he laid claim for his shop goods: silks, beaver hats, etc. but was denied. (Records of General Assembly of Connecticut & American Loyalist Claims, Coldham, 1980, NGS)"

Alternate birthdate: 12 Oct 1738, per Paul Beckwith in The Beckwiths

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beckwith-1613

Elisha Beckwith (1735 - abt. 1796)

Elisha Beckwith

Born 26 Jan 1735 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Colony of Connecticut

Son of Hezekiah Beckwith and Lydia (Gilbert) Beckwith

Brother of Sylvanus Beckwith, Ann Gilbert (Beckwith) Brown and Nathan Gilbert Beckwith

Husband of Abigail (Willey) Beckwith — married 16 Aug 1759 in East Haddam, New London, Connecticut

Father of Elisha Beckwith, Abigail Olmstead (Beckwith) Cowdery, Ezra Beckwith and Mary (Beckwith) Calkins

Died about 1796 at about age 60 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Profile last modified 19 Dec 2022 | Created 24 Jun 2018

Sources

Family papers from

Beaumont/Jacobs' Beckwith files
Hubert S. Beckwith (included in a letter dated March 17, 1992)
Ken Beckwith, including Elisha Beckwith (Tory) House (1760)
Ancestry.com, including

Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
East Lyme: Our Town and How It Grew, by Olive Tubbs Chendeli, Mystic Publications, 1989 - A chapter entitled The Tory House. -- Posted on Ancestry.com by Jim Latimer on 29 Aug 2012.
Ancestry.com Historical Search

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