Person:Matthew Beckwith (1)

     
Matthew Beckwith
b.Cal 1645
m. Bef 1643
  1. Mary BeckwithEst 1643 -
  2. Matthew BeckwithCal 1645 - 1727
  3. Elizabeth BeckwithEst 1647 -
  4. Sarah BeckwithEst 1650 -
  5. Joseph BeckwithEst 1653 -
  6. Nathaniel BeckwithEst 1656 -
  7. John BeckwithCal 1665 - 1757
m. Bef 1667
  1. Matthew Beckwith1667 -
  2. John Beckwith1668/69 - Bef 1714/15
  3. James Beckwith1671 - Est 1756
  4. Jonah Beckwith1673 -
  5. Prudence Beckwith1676 -
  6. Elizabeth Beckwith1678/79 - 1767
  7. Ruth Beckwith1680/81 - 1747/48
  8. Sarah Beckwith1684 - 1773
m. Aft 24 Mar 1688
  1. Griswold BeckwithCal 1690 - 1754
  • HMatthew BeckwithCal 1645 - 1727
  • WSarah UnknownBet 1645 & 1650 - 1729
m. Bef 19 Mar 1714/15
Facts and Events
Name Matthew Beckwith
Gender Male
Birth[1] Cal 1645 Probably somewhere between Saybrook and New London.
Marriage Bef 1667 to Elizabeth Unknown
Residence[1] 1667 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
Residence[1] 1669 Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Residence[1] 1671 New London, Connecticut, United States
Residence[1] 1679 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Aft 24 Mar 1688 After death of her second husband.
to Elizabeth Griswold
Marriage Bef 19 Mar 1714/15 Before the date of his will.
to Sarah Unknown
Divorce Bef 19 Mar 1714/15 Husband had remarried
from Elizabeth Griswold
Will[1][7] 19 Mar 1714/15
Death[1][2][3][4] 14 Jun 1727 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
Burial[3] Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States

The court records of New London, 1664-1666 show that Uncas, Chief of the Mohicans, sued Matthew Beckwith, Jr. for burning one of his wigwams.[6]

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Beckwith, in Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992)
    228.

    "Matthew (Beckwith), born circa 1645 (age 12 on 15 February 1657[/8] [Winthrop Medical Journal 1:379] and age 19 years 22 May 1665 when he deposes that he heard Sam Smith say he got Mrs. Tinker with child, [Crimes and Misdemeanors, III:200); died Lyme, CT 4 June 1727 in his 84th year [LVR p. 220); …"

  2. Beckwith, Paul. The Beckwiths. (Albany, Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, 1891)
    74-76.

    "Mathew Beckwith, born possibly at Saybrook Point, in 1637; was recorded at Waterford, where he was made a freeman in 1658 [unlikely; he would have been 13 at the time]; he resided first at Guildford, and was one of the founders of the church there [the church at Guilford was founded in 1639, rendering this statement absurd], and died at New London [Lyme], Conn., June 4th, 1727; he married twice [thrice] …"

  3. 3.0 3.1 Matthew Beckwith, in 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)
    1:152.

    "Matthew (Beckwith), Lyme, s. of the preced. by w. Eliz. had Matthew, John, and James, the last b. 1 June 1671, and all were bapt. 10 Sept. foll. Jonah, b. 27 Dec. 1673; Prudence, 22 Aug. 1676; Eliz. 4 Feb. 1679; Ruth, 14 Mar. 1681; and Sarah 15 Dec. 1684. A sec. w. Eliz. wid. of Peter Pratt, wh. she m. after divorce from John Rogers, was d. of Matthew Griswold. Her he m. 1691, had a d. Griswold; and he d. 4 June 1727, in his will nam. all the ch. exc. Sarah, perhaps dec. and his wid. d. next mo."

  4. Lyme Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    13.

    "Beckwith, … Mat[t]hew, Sr., d. June 14, 1727 [L-2:47]"

  5.   Matthew Beckwith, Jr, in Find A Grave.
  6. Volpe, Carolyn Crosser. The ancestors and descendants of Minnie Hale Gorton. (San Diego, California: C. Volpe, c1994)
    ?.
  7. Connecticut. Probate Court (New London District). Probate records, 1675-1916. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1982)
    Vol. C, p. 221.

    Will of "Mathew Beckwith of Lyme ... being very sick and weak", dated 19 Mar 1714/15, codicil 25 Mar 1716, proved 21 Jun 1727, names
    wife Sarah
    Exor: son James
    7 children by my first wife: Mathew, James, Jonah, Prudence, Elizabeth, Ruth and Sarah
    Daughter Grisell by my second wife and her husband Eliakam Cooley
    ...I have erected on the Land or Messuage which I now possess, the said Land being willed to her my sd Daughter by her grandfather Mr Mathew Griswold deceased ...