Richard Beach

Richard Beach

• Born: Abt 1611
• Married: Abt 1640 at New Haven, New Haven County, CT (name appears on the 1641 planters plot plan in lower left "Rich. Beach"; see image in <MEDIA>)
• Died: Abt 1691
• Father: Thomas Beach
• Mother: Joan Hill

WIFE

• Name: Catherine Hull Cook
• Born: 1616 at Stratford,

CHILDREN

• 1. Name: Mary Beach
  • Born: Jun 1642 at New Haven, New Haven County, CT
• 2. Name: Benjamine Beach
  • Born: Oct 1644 at New Haven, New Haven Colony, CT
  • Died: Apr 1713 at New Haven, New Haven Colony, CT
  • Wife: Mary Peacock
• 3. Name: Azariah Beach
  • Born: 6 Jul 1646 at Wallingford, New Haven, Countynnecticut
  • Died: 1696 at New Haven, New Haven County, CT
  • Wife: Martha Ives
• 4. Name: Mercy Beach
  • Born: 21 May 1648

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+ 2 i. Richard Beach was born 1611.

One of the signers of "The Constitution for Church and State" adopted 4 Jun 1639 at Newman's Barn. In the New Haven Colony.

He first appears in the records of New Haven Colony on 3-Apr-1639. He moved to Stratford, Connecticut, c.1660 where he kept an "ordinary" or tavern as of 1662. He purchased land in Wallingford, Connecticut, c.1670, but apparently never lived there. He finally moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey, c.1673 and is on record there as late as 1699/1700. The problem of his ancestry has NOT yet been solved, despite the wide credence given to various claims as to the English origins of the New Haven Beach family.

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Gen. Dict. says, Richard, New haven 1639, one of the signers of the original compact, m. 1640 the widow of Andrew Hull and had, in her right, there baptised, in 1642 Mary b. in June of that year, Benjamin b. Oct 1644, Azariah July 1646, and Mercy 1648; all three bapt 21 May 1648. Removed to New London 1667.

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Born in Jun 1642 in New Haven, CT.51 Mary was baptized in First Congregational Society, New Haven, in 1642.51 Mary died bet 1685 and 1690.51

Links

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Biography
Why Richard was not the son of John Beach and Mary Eliot
Richard Beach, who married Katherine Hull (widow), was having children c 1642, so would have been born 1620 ish. He therefore could not possibly be the son of John Beach (b c 1623) and Mary Elliot (b 1633).

Why Richard was not the son of Thomas Bech/Beech and Joan Hill"[1]
Richard Beech bpt. 25 Feb 1624/5, s/o Thomas and Joan.[2] with three younger siblings, born since the 1618 marriage of his parents, would have been born 1622 - 1625. The immigrant Richard Beach was admitted in 1639 in New Haven as freeman and planter. If he were Richard, son of Thomas, he would have been but 14-17 in 1639, and as such much too young to be admitted as a free planter. Furthermore, a Richard Beech married Mary Jewell 27 Dec 1647, at St. Albans.[3]

Richard was an adult in 1639 so born by 1618, but perhaps not too much before. He had a brother Thomas who also resided in New Haven. [4] John Beach, although there are indications of a relationship, was probably not his brother.

New Haven Colony

This profile is part of the New Haven Colony One Place Study.
Richard was among the original settlers of New Haven Colony, and perhaps came with Eaton and Davenport aboard the Hector and it's sister ship.

Records show that when the day, 4 June 1639, came to agree to the civil government eight persons had not agreed to the first point during earlier discussions. “allsoe Richard Beach, ..., these persons being nott [ad]mitted planters when the couent was made doth now express their consent to itt.” Then at the end of the day he signed the “fundamental agreement” along with the other free members of the Plantation.[5]

New Haven Colony has a rich and interesting record of it's early days, a lot of which is intact and in print. Richard Beech / Beach is frequently found within these records, for minor infractions, concerning real estate transactions and in regard to the estates of his wife's ex-husband and his cousin Wm Iles.

3 April 1640. John Mosse, Tymothy Forde and Richard Beach fined 1 s each “for trees wch they did fall disorderly.[6]
5th 6m 1642. "Richard Beach for nott perforing covenant in the worke wch he undertooke to doe att the mill, wch he was to doe strongly and substantially, butt did itt weakely and sleightly as was was proved by the testimony of John Wakefield the miller, himselfe allso nott denying itt; Itt was ordered that he should make good the damage, butt because the damage is not justly known what itt is, Mr. Goodyeare and Mr. Gregson are to [ve]iw the worke, and consider off and sett downe the damage by his [defec]tive workmanship."[7]
Early tax list. c 1641. 1 head, £20 estate, 3 ½ acres 1st division, ½ & 32 acres In the neck, 1 1/2 acres Meadow, 6 acres 2nd division, Rates paid for land 00-02-10 [8]
4 jan 1643. Ricd Beach and others were fined 1s for late coming to trayne. John Beach was fine 2s for coming late twice.[9]
8 Feb 1643. Richard Beach hath ingaged his house and lott to secure a former agreemt in reference to the children of Andrew Hull, late deceased.[10] Note: his wife was widow of Hull
1 July 1644. Oath of Fidelity Richard Beach[11]
6 Oct 1645. Michaell Palmer complained that Richard Beach owed him 35s in beaver. Richard acknowledge the debt and his promise to pay in beaver, but said he couldn’t get beaver. The court ordered that he pay the debt in some other pay to satisfy Palmer with “damages for forbearance,” before the next court “elce an execution shall goe forth agaynst him.”[12]
3 dec 1645. Richard was a witness in the case of the defective gun that caused Stephen Medcalfe to lose an eye.[13]
Jan 1645/6. Richard Beech sold his house, that was security for the portions of the children of “Andrew Hull, (whose widdow he marryed,)” to bother Wm Peck. He engaged with the court, his new house, barn, cellar & well, valued at £40 with the 7 acres it stands on. The house, barn and cellar were completely finished being built with brick & stone, and kept in repair .[14]
2 feb 1646/7 Richard informed the court that Mr. Mullyner owed Richard’s cousin William [We]Iles money. Mr Mullyner tried to get out of it. But after further testimony the court ordered Mr. Mullyner pay 55s to John England and Richard Beech.[15]
2nd Mar 1646. Wm [We]Iles Inventory presented. Rich Beech was required to give security for the value.[16]
10 MAR 1646. Seats in the meeting house. 2nd row on the other side of the door.[17]
4 May 1647. A parcel of land alienated from Richard Beech to Anthony Thompson.[18]
4 may 1647. Anthony Thompson & John Clarke viewed the land Richard Beech gave as security (wm Iles estate) and found it insufficient. Richard was given until the next court to provide sufficient security.[19]
7 Dec 1647. “Richard Beech dissiered of the courte that he might, till further order, retaine in his hands the estate of William Iles, deceased; but he being not fitted to give in sufficient securetie, it was respited till anouther courte.”[20]
4 Jan 1647. Richard was warned to court, with others, but didn’t appear. They were warned to the next court to answer for their neglect.[21]
1 Feb 1647. Richard was still trying to keep Wm [We]Iles estate in his hands. Inventoried at 13l:17s:00d. He had 9L (22 acr upland 2nd division, 5 acr meddow in the west meddow, 2 acr upland in the qtr of his house.) John Beech would be security for the other £5. The court agreed, with the proviso that if John died or left town Richard would secure the rest.[22]
6 June 1648. John Moss passed over to Richard Beech 1 acr 1 qtr 14 rod of meddow by the West River.[23]
31 Jan 1648 [/9]. Richard Beech asked for a small piece of meddow in a cove on the west side next his own. Unfortunately, the Court said it was already alloted.[24]
6 Feb 1648. Luke Atkinson to Richard Beech all his meadow in the west meddow beyond ye river etc. and Richard pased to Mathew Moulthrop 1 ½ acres .[25]
1 April 1651 Richard Hull is to be warned to the next Court aboute his fence and to give in security for Richard Beech for so much as his house and land is worth wch was ingaged for the portions of ye chilldren of Andrew Hull.[26]
7 June 1652. John Thomas and Richard Beech were chosen fence viewers for the quarters from Milford highway to the sea side.[27]
6 June 1654, "The Court being informed that Richard Beech is to goe away from this Towne called him to show how he intended the two chilldren his wife had before hee married her wch was Andrew Hulls should haue their portions paid wch is fifteene pounds ten shillings a peece as appears by Ingagment vnder his & his wiues hand before marriage." This causes some difficulty and several meetings. Richard asks that Andrews assets be reappraised. House and land that were at the time of Andrew's death worth £30 are now only worth 14 or 15. The court allows some abatement and Hannah Hull, who is of age, and Sarah Hull, are to receive £13 each. Some of this is to be made up by monies due to Beech. In the following two months Richard sold his various parcels of land.[28]
Richard made one more appearance in the New Haven Town Records. 3 9th m 1657, Richard Beech stood as attorney for Mr Stendham in regards to the damage his hogs did to Edward Perkins' peas because of a defect in Stendham's fence. Stendham was ordered to pay for the peas and court costs.[29]
Stratford, Connecticut
6 Feb 1660, Richard bought land (a house lot and the buildings) in Stratford from Thomas Wheeler, and in 1662, he purchased other pieces of land. One was "on west point of the Neck, butted sourth upon the meadow called Mills' Lordship."[30] Richard Beach sold this land to Mr. Fenn who sold it in 1667 to Rev. Israel Chauncey.[31]
12 Feb 1663. "At a lawfull meeting Richard Beach demanded inconsideration of keeping the ordinary, six acars of swamp at the wood end, and when his urgent ocasions in that imployment will not permitt, to be freed from trayning himselfe, to which proposition the towne by vote granted, provided he would keepe the sayd ordinary and provide for strangers entertaynment; they also granted he should have payd him backe 2 fines which were taken of him before this tyme."[32]
In Between ?
There is considerable speculation over where Richard was over the next 25 years.

Stamford 1667. Richard Beach witnessed an agreement 7 Jan 1667 between the inhabitants of Stamford and Taphance and Powahay (Indians) concerning the rights to some land. He and the other two witnesses do not seem to have had any ties to Stamford.[33]
1669 "BEACH, RICHARD, was sued for debt May 4, 1669, in the court of sessions by John Rateo, as per Gd [i.e., Gravesend] rec." and "RATEO, JOHN. A suit was brought against him Apl. 4, 1669, in the court of sessions in Gd by Richard Beach for debt, as per Gd rec."[34] This is perhaps the same suit, with an error in one of the entries. The debt might have been incurred before Richard left Connecticut.
Savage's Gen Dict.: "rem. to New London 1667; but had kept an inn at Stratford 1666; and perhaps was of Elizabethtown, N. J. 1685."[35]
Rockaway Records: "Richard removed to Elizabeth, N.J., 1665, and from thence to Morris county 1688.[36]

History of Goshen: New Haven 1639; m. 1640/1 Catherine Cook; Stratford, Connecticut 1660; Wallingford 1672; Elizabeth, New Jersey 1673/4, sold his farm there 1684, and his home lot in 1688; removed to Morris Co. New Jersey (Please note there is no source for Catherine Cook)[37]
Elizabethtown, New Jersey
"His house-lot contained 13 acres, 13 by 14 chains, bounded , E., and W., by highways; N., by Crane's brook; and S., by Evan Salisbury. He had, also, 30 acres of upland, on Crane's brook, adjoining Barnabas Wines, and William Cramer; also, 50 acres of upland, on "Beaches brook," adjoining John Little, William Pardon, Nathaniel Tuthill, and Stephen Crane; also, 10 acres of meadow on the S. side of Thompson's Creek; in all, 102 acres. His house-lot he sold, Mar. 31, 1684, to Mary, the widow of James Mitchell; and Mar. 31, 1688, he sold all his lands in E. Town, to the widow Agatha White, who, 16 days later, resold them to William Darbie of E. Town. He removed, it is thought, to Morris Co., where many families, supposed to be his descendants, are now to be found."[38]

1691 and Beyond
It has been believed that Richard died in 1691 near Morristown, New Jersey, but apparently he died somewhat later. The "Clinker Lots" were laid out by John Harriman in 1699-1700 to accommodate the growing population of Elizabethtown, with many of the resulting 174 parcels now forming part of modern Westfield, New Jersey. Lots 91-92 were laid out to Richard and lots 90 and 93 mention him as abutter. "Number 91:92 for Richard Beech Begining at a Small walnut Tre markt on foure Sides thence Sou:East fifty two Chane to a white oake tre markt on foure sides thence Nor:East forty Chane thence Nor:West fifty two Chane and from thence forty Chane to the first mentioned place Lying for two hundred acres be it more or Less Bounded on the Nor:West by the Land of Nathaniel Bounel Nor:East and Sou:west by Land Leaft for highwayes and on the Sou: East by ye Land of Thomas Young Laid out by me John Harriman and Company Chosen for that Service January the 25-1699-700"[39] There is no indication that they were laid out posthumously as was the case for other some other lots. [40]
Marriage
The New Haven records clearly show that he married the widow of Andrew Hull. Andrew Hull, 29, traveled to New England with Katherin (_____) Hull, 23, whom it is assumed was his wife. The New Haven records never mention even her given name. And although there are some sources like the History of Goshen that call her Catherine Cook, there is no evidence for this. Robert Charles Anderon in his Great Migration article on Andrew Hull calls her Katherine ____.[41]

CHILDREN of Richard & Katharine, born in New Haven
Mary b June 1642[42]
Benjamin b 3 Oct 1644, bp. 21 May 1648.[42]
Azariah b 6 July 1646.[43][4][42] He was baptized 21 May 1648 with Benjamin and Mercy. Their mother brought them for baptism.[42]
Mercy bp. 21 May 1648[42]
Sources
↑ Beach Eugene H, Jr "Beach of New Haven" Beach Family Journal Vol I noc 3 and 4 (1993)
↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NR4K-72R : 11 February 2018, Richard Bech, 25 Feb 1624); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 991,390.
↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2RL-MYS : 10 February 2018), Richard Beech and Mary Jewell, 27 Dec 1647; citing Abbey,Saint Albans,Hertford,England, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 0973125 IT 3.
↑ 4.0 4.1 Jacobus, Donald Lines (compiler). Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol I-VIII. and Index Vol IX New Haven: 1931. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 1981, 1997. Originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, Volumes I-VIII. Rome, NY and New Haven, CT 1922-1932.
↑ Hoadly, Charles J, MA. (editor) Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, From 1638 to 1649. (Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1857.) at Archive pp 13, 17
↑ Hoadly[p. 23]
↑ Hoadly p. 75
↑ Hoadley p. 92
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↑ Hoadly p.138
↑ Hoadly p.170
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↑ Hoadly p. 427
↑ Hoadly p. 430
↑ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (editor) Ancient Town Records Vol 1. New Haven Town Records 1649-1662. (New Haven: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1917.) pp. 69
↑ Dexter pp 132, 156
↑ Dexter pp 214, 220, 228, 230, 231
↑ Dexter p. 328
↑ Orcutt, Rev. Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport Connecticut. Part I. (Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886.) p. 245
↑ Davis, Charles Henry Stanley. History of Wallingford, Conn., from its Settlement in 1670 to the Present Time. (Meriden, Conn.: 1870)p. 636
↑ Wilcoxson, William Howard. History of Stratford, Connecticut, 1639-1939. Stratford, Conn.: Stratford Tercentenary Commission, 1939. Quoting Stfd. T Rec. Vol 1 p 145. p. 217
↑ Huntington, E.B. History of Stamford, Connecticut : from its settlement in 1641, to the present time, including Darien, which was one of its parishes until 1820. (Stamford : The author, 1868) pp 97-99
↑ Bergen, Teunis G. Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., (New York, 1881) pp. 24 and 235,
↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. Vol. I-IV. (Boston, MA, USA: 1860-1862).
↑ Crayon, J. Percy. Rockaway records of Morris county, N.J., families. ( Rockaway, N.J., Rockaway publishing co., 1902) p. 160
↑ Hibbard, A. G. History of the town of Goshen, Connecticut, with genealogies and biographies based upon the records of Deacon (Hartford, Conn. : Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1897) p 418
↑ Hatfield, Edwin F. History of Elizabeth, New Jersey : including the early history of Union County. New York : Carlton & Lanahan, 1868. p. 169
↑ The Clinker Lots of Elizabethtown
↑ Beach Eugene H. Jr. "The "Clinker Lots" of Elizabethtown and Westfield, New Jersey: New Information Which Suggests RICHARD BEACH1 Died Much Later Than Previously Believed" Beach Family Journal Vol. VIII no. 4 pp 1241-1243 (winter 2000) The Clinker Lots of Elizabethtown
↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. "Andrew Hull"https://www.americanancestors.org/DB116/i/7118/452/22096583
↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 42.4 Connecticut Church Records Index: New Haven First Congregational Church 1639-1937. Vol. A-I. Hartford: Connecticut State Library, 1947.
↑ Jacobus' cites the Cong. Church records but the CSL index states he was b [ ] july 1747
Beach, Elmer T., Beach in America; Richard Beach, John Beach, and Thomas Beach, Planters in the Original Settlements of New Haven Colony, Wallingford Colony and Milford Colony, Conn., 1638 to 1641, . . . Descendants of Richard Beach . . . Index of all Known Male Descendants of Planter Richard Beach, Signer of the Fundamental Compact of New Haven Colony (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Ihling Bros. Everard, 1923) p. 53 Accessed at Ancestry ($)
Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985.) "BEACH, Richard & [Catharine] (?COOK) [HULL], w Andrew; 1640, by 1642, ?1641; New Haven/New London {Hall-Baldwin 103; Reg. 122:22; Beach (1898) 53; Sv. 1:144; Fulton Anc. 507; Porter 28; Beach Anc. (1905) 34; New Haven Gen. Mag. 147; Tuttle 660; Beach Fam. Mag 6; Knapp Anc. 109}"
Hall-Baldwin 103: Sumner, Edith Blake Bartlett, Ancestors and Descendants of Amaziah Hall and Betsey Baldwin (Los Angeles: American Offset Printers, 1954)




p. 103 About Andrew Hull and family. Katherin no maiden name.Reg. 122:22 - Has nothing to do with Richard. Must be another article Instead 112:227 is the memoirs of Harold Beach. St. Albans england to New Haven 1639; rem. to Elizbethtown NJ; m. New Haven Catherine Cook widow of Andrew HillBeach (1898): Beach, Rebecca Donaldson, et al., The Reverend John Beach and His Descendants: Together with Historical and Biographical Sketches and the Ancestry and Descendants of John Sanford, of Redding, Connecticut (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1898) p. 53 not about Richard.Fulton Anc.: Leonard, Clarence Ettienne, The Fulton-Hayden-Warner Ancestry in America (New York: T. A. Wright, 1923) p. 507 b. England d. New Haven m. Catherine _____ widow of Andrew Hull (b. 1612 Eng. d. New Haven. New Haven in 1639.Porter: Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn., 1635–39, 2 vols. (Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, 1893) p. 28 :wife Catherine ____ Hull who came on the Hopewell.Beach Anc. (1905): McClaughry, Charles C., Genealogy of the Beach Family of Connecticut, with Portions of the Genealogies of the Allied Families of Demmond, Walker, Gooding and Carpenter (1905) Page 34. Wrong Family.
Tuttle: Tuttle, George Frederick, The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, Who Came from Old to New England in 1635, and Settled in New Haven in 1639, with Numerous Biographical Notes and Sketches . . . (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1883) p. 660 Andrew Hull wife Catherine _____
Beach Fam. Mag.: Beach Family Magazine (Casper, Wyo., 1926–32) 6?
GENI--Richard Beach Richard at Geni has inaccurate information
Ancestral File Number: 48T0-08

For more complete information about Richard Beach and the Beach family, see:
"Genealogy of the Beach family of Connecticut, with portions of the genealogies of the allied families of Demmond, Walker, Gooding and Carpenter"
By Charles C. McClaughry, pub 1905
https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbeach00mccl