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Matthew Beckwith
b.Abt 1645
- H. Matthew BeckwithAbt 1645 - 1727
- W. Sarah _____Bet 1645 & 1650 - 1729
m. Bef 19 Mar 1714/15
Facts and Events
| Name |
Matthew Beckwith |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Abt 1645 |
Probably somewhere between Saybrook and New London. |
| Marriage |
Bef 1667 |
to Elizabeth _____ |
| 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 _____ |
| Divorce |
Bef 19 Mar 1714/15 |
Husband had remarried
from Elizabeth Griswold |
| Will[1][7] |
19 Mar 1714/15 |
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| Death[1][2][3][4] |
14 Jun 1727 |
Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States |
| Burial[3] |
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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
- ↑ 1.0 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); …"
- ↑ 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] …"
- ↑ 3.0 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."
- ↑ 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]"
- Matthew Beckwith, Jr, in Find A Grave.
- ↑ Volpe, Carolyn Crosser. The ancestors and descendants of Minnie Hale Gorton. (San Diego, California: C. Volpe, c1994)
?.
- ↑ 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 ...
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