Elizabeth Beacham

Sometime after 1653, Edward JESSUP married second to Elizabeth BRIDGES (probably daughter or sister of Charles BRIDGES who married Sarah, dau. of Thomas CORNELL and widow of Thomas WILLET).

Edward JESSUP had children:

• Elizabeth JESSUP m. Thomas HUNT, Jr.;
• Hannah JESSUP m. Joseph LOCKWOOD, Sr.; and
• Edward JESSUP.

Elizabeth BRIDGES, widow of Edward JESSUP, married second, 4 November 1668, to Robert BEACHAM, widower, of "Bankside" in Fairfield, Conn. (later Green's Farms, in the town of Westport). O'Callaghan's NEW YORK MARRIAGES. Robert BEACHAM came from England to Ipswich in 1651. He removed to Norwalk, Connecticut in 1654, and to Fairfield, Connecticut in 1664.

From: Edward Jessup and His Descendants by Rev. Henry Griswold Jessup

The maiden name of Elizabeth Jessup is as yet a matter of mere conjecture. The reference in Edward's will to his beloved brother-in-law, John Burroughs, suggest that Elizabeth Jessup was Elizabeth Burroughs. But it has also been suggested that Elizabeth was the sister of John Burroughs first wife, Sarah Bridges, which would make her Elizabeth Bridges and thus John Burroughs would still be Edward's brother-in-law.

Links

• The Workman-Sutherland Family

Sources

• Jesup, Henry G. Edward Jessup of West Farms, Westchester Co., New York, and His Descendants: With an Introduction and an Appendix, the Latter Containing Records of Other American Families of the Name with Some Additional Memoranda. Cambridge: Privately printed for the author by John Wilson, 1887.