Person:Samuel Beach (14)

Samuel's biography states that he died 11 May 1793. His memorial page at Find-a-Grave gives a date of death as 14 May 1793. A photo posted on the memorial page of his monument is available but the date could be read as either 11 or 14.

Tombstone inscription as read by Denise Drake Horton:
In Memory of Samuel Beach, A.M.
Who died May 14th 1793. In the 32d year of his life. He was a native of New Jersey. Educated at Nassau Hall. Of temper amiable of manners pleasing. In ---ence eminent in piety sincere. With patrience ---ly exemplary. He endured much affliction. The fruit of studious diligence, And supported by the hope of gospel, Welcomed the King of terrors as a friend. In Him, his country has lost an excellent citizen, The Church an ornamental member, His Relatives a son, a brother, a husband, a father, and a friend.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Princetonians, 1776-1783: A Biographical Dictionary
   pp 399. 400.

   http://books.google.com/books?id=P9j_AwAAQBAJ&dq=Samuel+Beach+Nassau+Hall&source=gbs_navlinks_s

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Find A Grave
   Memorial# 37565673.
3.   SAR Application.

   Text from SAR Application # 4067 of Theodore F. Jackson dated 1891:
   "My great grandfather (father of my mother's mother) Enoch Beach of Morris is recorded by Adj. Gen. Stryker as a private in Morris Militia. But it is certain that at the battle of Springfield he served as Captain. In his Company were his son Samuel Beach, (afterwards graduate of Nassau Hall) and his friend Ashbel Green (afterwards president of Nassau Hall)."