Family:William Beardsley and Mary Harvey (1)

William Beardsley b. Est 1605 England d. Bet 28 Sep 1660 and 6 Jul 1661 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States	Parents: Richard Harvey and Ellen Elliot Mary Harvey chr. 5 Jun 1605 Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England d. Aft 28 Mar 1674

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Facts and Events

Marriage^[1]

26 Jan 1631/32

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Mary Beardsley	Abt 1632 Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England (probably)	20 Sep 1691 Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
2.	John Beardsley	Abt 1633 Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England (probably)	19 Nov 1718 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
3.	Joseph Beardsley	16 Nov 1634 Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England	Bef 29 May 1712 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
4.	Ruth Beardsley	Est 1636 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)
5.	Samuel Beardsley	Est 1638 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)	24 Dec 1706 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
6.	Hannah Beardsley	1642 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States	23 Feb 1679 Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
7.	Daniel Beardsley	Cal 1644 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States	7 Oct 1730 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
8.	Rebecca Beardsley	Est 1646 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (probably)	17 Feb 1738/39 Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
9.	Sarah Beardsley	Est 1648 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (probably)	Aft 20 Feb 1680 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (probably)

References

↑ William Beardsley, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
1:224.

(William Beardsley married) Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 26 January 1631/2 Mary Harvey
Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
1:149.

William (Beardsley, Stratford, a mason, came 1635, in the Planter from London, aged 30, with w. Mary, 26, and ch. Mary 4; John, 2; and Joseph, 6 mos. He was freem. in Mass. 7 Dec. 1636, but dwell, in wh. town is unkn. was one of the orig. proprs. of S. 1640, and there had Daniel, b. 1644; beside Samuel wh. d. 1706; prob. Sarah, wh. m. 1668, Obadiah Dickinson of Hatfield, and one or more other ds. was rep. 1645, and often after, and d. 1661. His will of 28 Sept. 1660, names w. and four s., Daniel, John, Joseph, and Samuel; gives to ds. m. £10 ea. and a large sum to be distrib. by the w. to other ch. prob. younger, and unm. of wh. were certain. William, and Thomas. Of the grs. at Yale, in 1828, were seven Beardsleys.
Holt, Nellie Judson Beardsley, and Charles Eleazer Holt. Beardsley genealogy: the family of William Beardsley, one of the first settlers of Stratford, Connecticut. (Ellsworth, Maine: Downeast Graphics, 1989).