"Samuel (Beardsley) … m. by 1664 Abigail Clark, daughter of John Clark of New Haven (on 8 March 1663/4,John Winthrop Jr. treated 'Beasly Sam: his wife about 22 y: she was Abigail Clerk daughter of John Clerk of Newhaven' [WMJ 535]."
… John was a son of Samuel and Abigail Beardsley. Samuel was a son of William and Mary Beardsley, who came from Stratford, England, in 1635, in the ship Planter, and settled at Stratford, and later in Fairfield county, Conn. …