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THE BECKWITHS."

PAUL BECKWITH.

There are but two biographers who can tell the story of a man's life. One, the person
himself, the other, the Recordmg Angel. The autobiographer cannot be trusted to tell all
the truth, though he may tell nothing but the truth, and the Recording Angel never allows
his book to leave his own hands.

ALBANY, N. Y,:
JOEL MUNSELL'S SONS, PUBLISHERS.
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In thanking those who have so kindly responded to my
letters of inquiry, I would say that I shall continue the
" History of the American Beckwiths," and to that end request
that I may be informed of all genealogical events that may
take place in your families. Also I request biographical
sketches of yourselves, your parents, grandparents, etc.
PAUL BECKWITH.
1003 Twenty-fourth street, N, W.,
Washington, D. C.

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The Beokwith Talisman.
Obverse, the area filled with planetary characters
with this inscription, "In Deo confideo revertentnr
inimici meo retrosum." Reverse, these symbols U and
$ in conjunction in g; with the inscription " A pavis
inimici custodi vitam meam oh tu Jehova." (Ducatus
Leodensis, Thursby). Arms.
Yorkshire.
Ar. a chevron gu. fretty or., between 3 hinds' heads
erased, of the second. On a chief engrailled gu. a
saltier engrailled between 2 roses or, in pale, and on
a chief joined to the dexter and sinister sides a demy
fleur-de-lis paleways or. Yorkshire.
Sa. on a chevron az. between 3 griffens' heads erased
or, a boar's head couped, between 2 pheons gu.
Aldiorough in Yorkshire.
As. a chevron, between 3 hinds' heads erased gu.
Trimden in Durham.
Ar. a chevron between 3 hinds' heads couped gu.

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OVyntonin Yorkshire.
Or. on a fess az, 3 fleur-des-lis of the field,
Ceests,
Beckwith or Bickwith, A stag's head erased,
Beckwith, An antelope ppr,
Beckwith. William of Thurcroft in York, and
Trimden in Durham, An antelope ppr. in mouth a
branch vert. Motto " Jouir en bien."
Beckwith. A dove az, in mouth 3 ears of wheat
vert, all ppr,
Beckwith of Durham, A roebuck's head couped sa.
Beckwith of Aldborough, York and Durham. A
stag's head couped sa,
Beckwith of York, A stag's head quarterly per
fess, indented or, and gu,
Beckwith of York, A stag's head quarterly per
fess, indented or. and az,
Beckwith or Beckworth of York, An eagle's head
or. depressed with two bends vert, wings one arg., the
other gu.

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sm HUGH DE MALEBISSE,

" Sir Hugh de Malebisse, held lands, time of Wil
liam the Conqueror," is all that Domesday Book tells
us of this valiant old Norman knight, for valiant he
must have been, or few broad acres would he have
possessed in those days, when men encased themselves
in iron shells, and struck hard with sword, lance and
club. When arms and armor hung conveniently near,
for outside one's own castle gate there generally was a
chance for blows ; and if we would know the men of
those days we must look for them under helmet and
shield, founders of a feudalism felt even unto our day.
Their lands, acquired at the sword's point, were held
only as a price of valor in the service of their sovereign.
At the time of the invasion of England, the Nor
mans had lost all traces in language and manners of
their northern or Danish origin, and though but little
love existed between them and their French neighbors,
still it was in Normandy that the French language had
acquired its greatest polish and elegance. As the more
essential attributes of body and mind are not so easily
shaken off as language and conventional manners, the
Normans were distinguished from the other natives of
France by their stature, fair complexion, abstemiousness
and moral qualities ; we can, therefore, well imagine
Sir Hugh, tall of stature and fair of complexion, a type

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that distinguishes so many of his descendants, even
unto our day, as he stood in 1066 upon the shores of
England, eight hundred and twenty-four years ago,
and with his warrior companions, vowed by the aid of
Madame St, Mary (the patroness of Norman chivalry)
to carve with his good sword an Earldom or a narrow
resting place, which even England could not refuse
her valiant invaders.
Toward the end of the eleventh century, wild times
as they were, a glimpse of an approaching civilization
was seen in the erection by the nobles of frowning
castles and costly abbeys, William the Conqueror,
who with a single frown made England tremble, re
built at his own expense, the superb Abbey of Jumieges,
where the Cleric found learning and the poor man
bread, on condition that the church should be under
the invocation of the Mother of Grod. He assisted in
person, with the Duchess Matilda, all his great Nor
man Barons and their retinues, at the dedication July
1st, 1068, and who knows but that Sir Hugh may have
been a spectator, and may have accompanied the Con
queror some years later when he crossed the sea to
Normandy, in order to be present at the dedication of
the Church of " Our Lady of Bayeau," It was at this
time, probably, that the Duchess Matilda paid hom
age to Saint Mary of Bayeau, by presenting that cele
brated tapestry in which her patient needle had in
voked the great epoch of the conquest of England.
This drapery, " embroidered with figures and inscrip
tion," was hung the whole length " of the nave of the

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church," says an inventory of the treasures of our Lady
of Bayeau, drawn up in 1476, The tapestry of Bayeau
enables us to see in battle and in camp these rough and
rugged warriors, pioneers of a dawning civilization.
The work, even of the needle, was rude in those
days, still we can see there the men who fought at
Hastings, and here we find Sir Hugh, in a "leather
coat of tough Bull hide," covered with metal rings,
sewn upon it, touching at their circumference, not in
terlaced, as in chain mail, for chain mail was as yet
unknown. The coat and breeches one piece with a
flap at the breast to admit the wearer, a casque of steel,
gilded and painted, shoes and gloves of leather, legs
protected by sheepskins fastened with leather straps,
armed with an embossed shield bound with iron and
covered with leather, upon which the arms were
painted, a long spear and broad-bladed sword, and so
appeared Sir Hugh, and his warrior companions.
Sir Hugh de Malebisse had three sons. Richard, the
eldest, was witness to the charter of Albert de Raiu-
ville. Galfred, the youngest, willed all his lands to God,
Madame St. Mary and the Monastery of Newbo, in
1142, and became the first Prior, Sir Hugh, the second
son, married twice ; through his second marriage he
became Lord of Knyveton ; his first wife, Emma, daugh
ter of William de Percy, one of the great and powerful
Norman barons (ancestor of Harry Hotspur). Sir
Hugh lived in the reign of King Stephen, 1138, and
had issue, four sons and one daughter, as follows :
Hugo, Richard, Sir William, Sir Simon and Matilda,
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Hugo, the eldest, was Chief Justice of County York,
and married twice ; his second wife was Lady Bea
trice, Lady of the Manor of Wykes, County Cam
bridge ; she founded the Priory of Spinney, during the
reign of Henry the Third, and died without issue, his
lands passing to his brother, Richard de Malebisse,
Lord of Ancaster, Knyveton and other estates. He
lived during the time of Richard, the Lion Hearted,
and possibly accompanied him to the Holy Land, He
was Chief Forester of Galles, Derwent and Wonerdale;
Chief Justice of County York during the fourth year
of the reign of King John, In the second year of the
reign of Richard the First, he paid 20 pounds to be
Forester, as he had been in the time of King Henry.
He paid, first year of King John, 5 pounds for the
farm of Gueltres, and founded in 1198 the Monastery
of Newbo, in Lincolnshire, of the Order of Praemon-
statensis, and "gave to God, Madame St, Mary and
the Abbey of Newbo," of Avhich his uncle Galfred was
Prior, all his lands in the village of Newbo, with the
Churches of Ancaster and Knyveton, and, also, other
lands. He had three sons, Robertus, the eldest,
whose line became extinct in the second generation ;
Richard, Lord of Beningworth, the youngest, died
without issue; John, the second son, confirmed the
grants his father, Richard, had received from Morton
Grange to the Abbey of Newbo in the fourteenth year
of the reign of King John.
John de Malebisse founded the de Malebisse branch
of our family, which became extinct in the eleventh

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generation, on the marriage of Elizabeth de Malebisse
to Adam Beckwith, Lord of Clint, in 1379.
The de Malebisse family, if we are to judge from
munificent gifts to abbeys and monasteries, were
wealthy and prominent, connected by marriage with
many of the noble families of England. Many were
High Sheriffs and Chief Justices, in those days offices
of high importance, filled only by the more prominent
nobles of the county. They were Lords of several
manors or estates.
Sir Walter de Malebisse mortgaged his Manor of
Scalton Castle to William Fairfax, on going to the
Holy Land, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, as
was the habit of the nobles of those days, in fulfill
ment of certain vows ; he made Richard Fairfax, son
of William, his heir in case he did not return ; this
Richard Fairfax, son of William, married the daughter
of Sir Thomas de Malebisse, brother of Sir Walter,
and, as Richard Fairfax afterward appeared on the
records of Yorkshire as seized of the lands and Castle
of Scalton, it is to be presumed that Sir Walter never
returned from his pious pilgrimage.
Sir Simon de Malebisse, Lord of Cowton in Craven,
fourth son of Sir Hugo de Malebisse, married the
daughter of John Lord de Methly. It was his son. Sir
Hercules de Malebisse, who, in 1226, married Lady
Dame Beckwith Bruce, daughter of Sir William Bruce,
Lord of Uglebarby, which lordship and other lands he
had inherited from his ancestor. Sir Robert Bruce, of
Skelton Castle, the progenitor of the Royal Bruces of

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Scotland. It is from this marriage that we derive our
name. Lady Beckwith Bruce possessed, by inheritance,
an estate or manor of land, called " Beckwith," in the
old Anglo-Saxon "Beckworth," from "Beck" a brook
and " Worth " an estate. With a view, evidently, to the
perpetuation of the name, required her husband, by a
marriage contract dated 1226, to assume the name of
Beckwith. Sir Hercules de Malebisse was Lord of Cowton in
Craven, inherited from his great-grandfather. Sir Hugh
the Norman, Lord of Clint, and by his marriage with
Lady Beckwith Bruce, Lord of Uglebarby, and of the
Manors of Beckwith and Beckwith shaw. He was suc
ceeded by his son. Sir Hercules de Beckvdth de Clint,
who married the daughter of Sir John Ferrars, of
Tamworth Castle, who by marriage into the House of
Marmion inherited by tenure of the Castle of Tam
worth the high office of Champion of England.
Hamon Beckwith, grandson of Sir Hercules, was
seized of the Lordships of Clint and Uglebarby, and
the Manors of Beckwith and Beckwithshaw, took upon
himself the coat of arms of John Lord de Malebisse, in
1339, in proof of descent, presented to the Earl Mar
shall of England the marriage contract of his great
grandfather, Sir Hercules de Malebisse to the Lady
Beckwith Bruce. The decision of the Earl Marshall,
dated 1339, is still to be seen (1868) in the Herald's
Office. The marriage contract reads as follows :
" Be it known to all Nobles, where this present writ
ing shall come, be seen, or heard ; whereas Hamon

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Beckwith, son and heir of Nicholas Beckwith, was
named by the Earl Marshall of England, by a process
that was datied from the aforesaid Marshals Manor of
Reayssing Castle, in the County of Norfolk, Jan. 18th,
in the tenth year of our Sovereign Lord^ the King, in
the year of our Lord, 1339. That the said Hamon
Beckwith, should usurp and take unto him a coat of
arms, which was appertaining unto John Lord de
Malebisse, for which better use by. virtue of this pro
cess, we charge you, that you will appear at the new
Mansion House of Saymore, before us and bring with you
all such evidence and records of arms, that we may al
low, grant, and set our hands to your teste and posterity
forever, and also that your appearence will be the 14th
day of October, next coming, in the aforesaid year
above written. And the said Orator did appear at
the said day appointed, and did bring with him such
evidence, whereof one piece dated from the 10th year
of Henry the 3rd., which was in the year of our Lord
1226, from one Hercules de Malbie, the son of Simon
de Malbie, Knight, who married the Lady Dame Beck
with Bruce, one of the daughters of Sir William Bruce,
Lord of Uglebarby, and certain other lands in Picker
ing, that the said Hercules de Malbie, should change
his name, or else his coat, and his posterity forever ;
and so it was what the said Hercules de Malbie changed
his name from de Malbie to Beckwith, and did hold
his coat, whereof I the said Earl Marshall Peter Maw-
lam, Lord od de Luke, Lord Chamberlain to our Sover-
eing Lord, King Edward 3rd, and Henry Lord Percy,

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Sir Robert Boynton, Knt., and Sir William Acton, did
see and allow it in proof, and the said coat to be his
own lineally descended, whereof we have our hands
and seals, to the aforesaid teste, the day and year
above written, in the presence of many."
Sir Hamon Beckwith had numerous issue, three sons
and four daughters. William, his heir, was seized of
the Manors of Beckwith and Beckwithshaw, in the
38th year of the reign of King Edward the 3d, and
married the daughter of Sir Girard Urfleet, Knight of
Wighill, in Co. York, who commanded a Knight's reti
nue at the battle of Agincourt in France. Of Thomas,
the second son, nothing is now known ; probably he
died young, John, the fourth son of Hamon, pur
chased lands in Scough ; his line became extinct in the
next generation, on the marriage of his daughter Ann
to George Rowdon, Esq,, of Rowdon and other fair
possessions, John Beckwith was a stout man-at-arms,
and was with King Henry in his French wars ; he was
at the siege of Harfleur and at the battle of Agincourt,
his name with those of other gentlemen, in the list of
men-at-arms under Sir Girard Urfleet, at the battle of
Agincourt, From the following document, this worthy
scion of our family received 24 cents a day for his
military services : " The awards to be made by King
Henry, to those who are to accompany him into France
to serve one year, and that they should receive, every
Duke 13sh, 4d,, every Earl 6sh,, 8d,; every Baron 4sh,-
every Knight 3sh, a day if the voyage extended into
France, every Esquire and man-at-arms (gentlemen

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who served under the orders of a Knight), was to re
ceive for his wages, 12 pence (24 cents), and every
archer 6 pence a day, and for every thirty men-at-arms,
a reward of one hundred marks a quarter, and if the
voyage extended to Guienne, each Duke, Earl and
Baron, and Knight, was to receive as above, every
man-at-arms forty marks, every archer twenty marks,"
Doubtless this doughty warrior fought noble, and with
the rest of the English army, before the battle of
Agincourt, kneeling, asked the blessing of the Almighty
on their arms, and stooping placed in their mouths a
morsel of earth, in remembrance, it is conjectured, of
their mortality, as a contemporary has it,
William Beckwith was succeeded by his son Thomas
of Clint, in the fourth year of the reign of Richard the
Second ; he held the Manors of Magna Otringer and
Huxley near Thursk, and married the daughter of
John Sawley of Saxton, Thomas Beckwith was suc
ceeded by his son Adam Beckwith of Clint, who mar
ried Elizabeth de Malebisse, and thus reunited the two
branches of the Malebisse family, after a separation of
over three hundred years. Sir William, the eldest son
of Adam Beckwith, married a daughter of Sir John
Baskerville, and was succeeded by his son Thomas
Beckwith of Clint, who by marriage with the daughter
and co-heiress of Wm, Haslerton, became Lord of the
Manors of Filey, Muston and Thorp, which his wife
had inherited from Havisia, the daughter and co-heir
ess of Ralph de Neville, Thomas Beckwith of Clint
had five sons ; Thomas, the eldest, and Adam, the fourth,

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died without issue. Sir WiUiam, Knight, of Clint, the
second son, married twice ; by his first wife, daughter
of Sir William Plumpton of Plumpton, had issue, but
his line became extinct in the next generation. Rob
ert Beckwith, the fifth son, married the daughter of
Lowenthorp of Lowenthorp, and was the founder of
the greater portion of the Beckwith family in Eng
land. Many of his descendants have filled important
public offices, and whose names figure prominently in
the military, judicial and civil history of England ;
space will not allow a more extended reference to
these branches of our family, other than to refer to
the body of this work,
.lohn Beckwith, third son of Thomas of Clint, mar
ried the daughter of Thomas Radcliff of Mulgrave, and
was succeeded by his only son, Robert Beckwith of
Broxholme, in the 8th year of the reign of Edward
4th. He, in his turn, was succeeded by an only son,
John, who inherited the Manors of Clint and Thorp,
and lived in the 8th year of the reign of King Edward
the 4th ; he left an only son, Robert Beckwith of Clint
and Thorp, whose will was dated Oct. 16th, 1536,
and proved Mch, 24th, 1537 ; he married Jennet and
had issue, Robert, the eldest son, died young ; Marma-
duke of Dacre and Clint, the second son, sold the
Manor of Clint that had been in the family since 1226,
and bought the Manors of Featherstone and Acton,
Yorkshire ; he married twice ; by his first wife, Ann,
daughter of Dynley of Bramhope, had eleven children ;
Thomas, the eldest, inherited Acton and married Fran-

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ces, daughter and heiress of William Frost of Acton ;
he had three sons, Thomas, the eldest, of Acton, to
whom we will presently return ; William, the second
son, was baptized at Featherstone Castle in 1571, emi
grated to America in 1607, landing at Jamestown, Va,,
with Captain John Smith from the ship " Phoenix ; "
he married in 1616, and had but the one son (and a
daughter), Henry who was born about 1619, and who
settled in Dorchester Co,, Maryland, there founded a
famUy, many of whose members have been prominent
in the political, civil and military history of that county,
and whose descendants are still living on the old
homestead. To return to Thomas Beckwith of Acton (son of
Thomas), he married Barbara, daughter of John Mill-
burn of Hinderskelf, Co, York ; he had numerous
issue ; of Thomas his eldest son, his line became ex
tinct in the second generation ; of the next five chil
dren nothing is now known ; his seventh son, George
Beckwith, was baptized at Featherstone Mch, 29th,
1610, and emigrated to Maryland in the year 1648, in
company with Secretary John Hatton and others. He
landed at St. Marys. George Beckwith represented
in the line of primogeniture the Befckwith family, as
far as known, and the author of this work, in the line
of primogeniture, is his last male descendent.
We must now return to Marmaduke Beckwith of
Clint and Dacre, and find mention of Mathew Beck
with, who is possibly the Mathew Beckwith who is
first recorded at Saybrook Point, Conn., in 1635, and
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the ancestor of by far the largest, numerically, of the
American Beck.vvdths and whose descendants are to be
found in every State of the Union, Canada and the
Sandwich Islands.
We will return once more to Marmaduke Beckwith
of Clint and Dacre, whose third son, Roger Beckwith
of North cot and Aldborough, married twice ; by his
second wife, Susannah, daughter of Brackenbury of
Tellahay, he was succeeded by his son. Author Beck
with of Aldborough, a captain in the Parliamentary
Army, killed 1642 in battle ; his eldest son, Roger
Beckwith, was knighted and created a Baronet of Eng
land by Charles the 2d in 1681, He married twice,
and died in 1700 ; by his second wife Elizabeth, the
daughter of Edward Jennings, he had two sons ; the
second son, Marmaduke, emigrated to Virginia about
the time of his father's death, and eventually succeeded
to the title ; he was then living in Virginia,

GENEALOGY.

"Sir Hugh De Malebisse, 1, held lands time with
William the Conqueror," is all that is now known of
this valiant old knight. Born in Normandy as were
all the followers of the Conqueror.
2. Richard de Malebisse was a witness to the
charter of Albert de Rainville.
3. Hugo de Malebisse.
4, Galfred de Malebisse, who, in 1142, gave all
his lands to the Monastery of Newbo and
became the first Prior,
Hugo de Malebisse, 3, living in 1138 ; his will was
proven in the third year of King Stephen ; he married
twice ; his second wife was Maude, daughter of
Knyveton of Knyveton, By his first wife Emma,
daughter of William de Percy and Adalaid de Ton-
bridge, he had the following children :
5, Hugo de Malebisse, chief justice assizi
County York; married twice ; his first wife
was Constancia ; his second, Beatrice, Lady
of the Manor of Wykes, Co, Cambridge ;
he founded the Priory of Spinney, during
the reign of Henry the 3d, and died with
out issue.

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6. Richard de Malebisse,
7. Sir William de Malebisse, built the chapel of
Newbo 1215, was Lord of the Manor in 1 206.
8. Sir Simon de Malebisse, Lord of Covd;on in
Craven,
9, Matilda de Malebisse; married Richard de
Berri, Lord of ToUiston; they conferred
grants to the Priory there, time of Henry
2d.
Richard de Malebisse, 6, lived time of Richard the
1st, was chief forester of Galles and Derwent and
Wonerdale, chief justice assizi time of John the 4th ;
he founded the Monastery of Newbo, Lincoln Co,, in
1198. ^'
10, Robertus de Malebisse of Benningworth,
had a son Ricardus, 13, who married Alicia,
daughter of Sir Skipwith, knight, and died
without issue,
11, John de Malebisse,
12, Richard de Malebisse de Beningworth.
John de Malebisse, 11, confirmed the grants his
father Richard had from Morton Grange, to the Abbey
of Newbo, in the year of the reign of King John the 4th.
14, William de Malebisse,
William de Malebisse, 14, gave lands to the Priory
of Bridlington, 51st year of Henry 3d, He married
Matilda, daughter and heiress of Ralph de Neville.
15. Richard de Malebisse,
Richard de Malebisse, 15, of Miles, 15th year of Ed
ward 2d,

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16, John de Malebisse.
John, Lord de Malebisse, 16, de Miles, Vice-comes,
Co, York, High Sheriff 1314, 8th year Edward 2d.
17. William de Malebisse, de Miles, living time
Edward 3d, married daughter of John
Lampson of Miles.
18. Margarette de Malebisse married Thomas
Viscount Fairfax,
19, Walter de Malebisse, on going to the Holy
Land, mortgaged Scalton Castle to William
Fairfax, making Richard, his son, his heir,
if he did not return. He probably died in
Palestine.
20. Thomas de Malebisse.
Thomas de Malebisse de Miles, 20, de Ancaster-
Malebisse, 38th year of Edward the 3d, married Mary,
daughter of Francis Palmer, Esq, of Naburn.
21. Margaret de Malebisse, co-heiress, married
Richard Fairfax.
22. Elizabeth de Malebisse, co-heiress ; married,
first, John Herringe, 38th year Edward 2d ;
for her second husband she married Adam
Beckwith of Clint, in the 4th year of Rich
ard 2d.
Sir Simon de Malebisse, 8, Lord of Covrton in Cra
ven, married the daughter of John, Lord of Methley.
23. Sir Hercules de Malebisse.
Sir Hercules de Malebisse, 23, who changed his name
to Beckwith, on his marriage in 1226, Lord of Ugle
barby, by deed shown the Lord Marshall in 1339; he
married Lady Dame Beckwith Bruce, daughter of Sir

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William Bruce, Lord of Uglebarby, derived from Sir
Robert Bruce, of Skelton in Cleveland, progenitor of
the Royal Bi'uces of Scotland.
24. Sir Hercules Beckwith.
Sir Hercules Beckwith, 24, married daughter of Sir
John Ferrers of Tamworth Castle.
25. Nicholas.
Nicholas Beckwith de Clint, 25, married the daugh
ter of Sir John Chaworth,
26, Hamon,
Hamon Beckvpith, 26, "who took upon him in 1339,
coat of arms of John, Lord de Malebisse," was seized
of the Lordship of Clint, bounding on the north side
of Niddjuxta, Hampswaite and of Uglebarby in
Whitby Strand, Pickering and Roxby Manor of Beck
with and Beckwithshaw, 12th year of Edward 3d,
1339 ; he married the daughter of Sir Philip Tynley,
Kt, 27, William,
28. Thomas.
29, John Beckwith of Scough ; his line became
extinct in the next generation,
30.  ; married Sir John Filliert, Knt.
31.  ; married Sir William Calthorp, Knt.
32. Anne ; married William Treville,
33,  ; married William Constable,
William Beckwith, 27, seized of the Manor of Beck
withshaw, 38th year of Edward 3d, 1364, married a
daughter of Sir Girard Urfleet.
34, Thomas, ,
35, Hercules; married daughter of William
Walgrave.

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36. John ; married daughter of Sir John Rat-
cliff, Knt. of Cressell,
Thomas Beckwith, 34, of Clint and Manors of Magna
Otrigen and Housley, near Thursby, 4, Richard 2d,
which lands were holden of John Lord Mowbray, as
his Manor of Thursk. He married the daughter of John
Sawly of Saxton.
37. Adam.
Adam Beckwith de Clint, 37, married Elizabeth de
Malebisse, 4, Richard 2d.
38. Sir William.
39. John.
40. Margaret; married Richard Hulse, Esq.
41. Anne ; married John Chesney, Esq,
42, Amye ; married John Lawton, Esq,
Sir William Beckwith, 38, de Clint, Knight, married
the daughter of Sir John Baskerville,
43. Thomas.
Thomas Beckwith of Clint, 43, Lord of a one-third
part of Fily, Muston and Thorp; he died 10th year of
Henry 7th; he married the daughter and heiress
of William Heslerton, heiress of a one-third part of the
manors of Filey, Muston and Thorp, inherited from
Havisia, daughter and heiress of Ralph Neville, above
mentioned. 44. Thomas of Clint ; married Elizabeth, daugh
ter of Thomas Ingleby, of Ripley; died
without issue.
45. Sir WilHam.
46. John.

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47, Adam; married Amye, daughter of Wil
liam Redman of Harewood Castle,
48, Robert,
49, Ellen; married J, Vavasour of Weston,
Co, York.
50, Joan ; married Falkner, Esq.
Sir William Beckwith, 45, of Clint; Knight in
1481 ; married twice ; his second wife was the daugh
ter of Sir John Rattcliff, K, G,; by his first wife, Eliz
abeth, daughter of Sir William Plumpton, he had the
follovnng children :
51, Thomas ; died unmarried.
52. Jennet ; married William Gascoigne of
Laringcroft.
John Beckwith, 46, married the daughter of Thomas
Radcliff of Mulgrave.
53. Thomas of Clint.
54, Robert of Broxholme,
Thomas Beckwith of Clint, 53, heir to his uncle,
Sir William Beckwith of Clint, married Mary, daugh
ter of Sir Henry Pudsey of Bassford and Bolton, Rich-
mondshire. 55, William of Clint,
56. Thomas of Clint ; died before his nephew,
Thomas; he married Elizabeth, daughter
of W. Tyrell of South Ockinden, Co.
Essex, and died without issue.
57. Henry.
58. Lambert.
59. Agabus.
60. Ambrose,
61. John,

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62.63.

William Beckwith of Clint, 55, married twice; his
second wife was the daughter of Sir John Mallony of
Studley ; by his first wife, Anne, daughter of Sir John
Lancaster of Co. Westmoreland, Knt., he had the
following children :
64. Thomas of Clint.
65. William of Rawcliff,
66, Francis.
67.  ,
68.  :

Thomas Beckwith of Clint, 64, was buried at
Ripley, November 29th, 1575; he married twice; his
second wife was Catherine, daughter of William Tan-
cred of Borobridge ; she was buried at Ripley, April
25th, 1598 ; will dated April 7th, 1598, His first
wife was Maud, daughter of Brian Palmer of Lindsey,
by whom he had the following children :
69. William of Clint:
70, Roger,
71. Francis ; married Chas, Clapham of Beam-
ley.
72. Elizabeth; married Hercules Clapham of
Beamley.
William Beckwith of Clint, 69, commonly called
" Captain," was buried at Ripley, March 6th, 1607 ; he
married twice; by his first wife, Anne, daughter of
William Tancred (sister of his father's second wife),
he had the following children, who all died young :
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26 The Beckwiths.
73, William,
74, Elizabeth,
75. Anne.
William Beckwith of Clint, 69; his second wife
was Mary, daughter of Anthony Soloman, of Anners-
ley Woodhouse, Notts Co., York; buried at Ripley,
January 6th, 1601, by whom he had the following
children :
76. Huntington of Clint ; married daughter of
Thomas Mesing of Mesing, Notts Co.,
York ; he was buried at Ripley, August,
1655.
77. WiUiam; baptized at Ripley, March, 1583.
78. Henry; baptized at Ripley, May, 1583.
79. Catherine.
80, Isabell; baptized at Ripley, January, 1582.
William Beckwith of Rawcliff, 65 ; married Anne,
daughter of Hugh Currer of HarightwaitwiU ; she
died September 18th, 1611.
81. Francis.
82. Parmeno.
83. Catherine.
84. EHzabeth.
85. Ellen; living 1611.
86. Prudence.
87. PrisciUa; living 1611.
88. Paulina; living 1611.
Francis Beckwith, 81; aged 20 in 1585; married
Margarette. 89. William ; living 1 641 ; married daughter
of Thomas Winchester.

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90. Joseph of Rawcliff; married Mercy; his
will was dated March 15th, 1641.
Robert Beckwith of Broxholme, 54 ; living in the
eighth year of King Edward the Fourth.
91. John.
John Beckwith, 91, of Clint and Thorp ; eighth year
of Edward 4th.
92. Robert.
Robert Beckwith, 92, of Clint and Thorp ; will
dated October 6th, and proved March 24th, 1536 ;
married Jennet.
93. Robert ; died young.
94. Marmaduke.
Marmaduke Beckwith, 94, of Dacre and Clint ; he
sold his lands in Clint 1597, and bought Featherstone
and Acton ; his second wife was Ellen, widow of WU
Ham Style of Haddockon, Co. York ; by his first wife,
Anne, daughter of Dynly of Bramhope, Co. York,
he had the foUowing children :
95. Thomas.
96. William.
97. Roger.
98. Symon of Pontefract ; married at Feather
stone, in .1585, to Catharine Austwicke of
Pontefract ; no children.
99. Jane; married John Thorp, 1635.
100. Alice ; married Robert Bannister.
101. Grace ; married John Norield.
102. Anne.
103. Mathew.

28 The Beckwiths.
104. Catherine ; married Pudsey of Barford.
Thomas Beckwith, 95, of Acton, married Frances,
daughter and heiress of William Frost of Acton ; he
was buried at Acton.
105. Thomas of Acton.
106, William; baptized at Featherstone.
107. Marmaduke; baptized in 1573.
108. Alice; married Richard Nelson of Altoftes.
Thomas Beckwith, 105, of Acton, age 43 in 1612,
buried at Featherstone, Jan. 12th, 1615; married Bar-
barra, daughter of John Milburn of Hinderskelf, buried
at Featherstone in 1644.
109. Thomas of Acton.
110. John.
111. Henry; baptized 1606. ^
112. WiUiam; baptized at Featherstone in 1604.
113. Samuel; baptized 1605.
114. Richard; baptized 1609.
115. George.
116. Robert; baptized 1611'; buried 1615.
117. Edward; baptized Feb. 6th, 1613.
118. Prances; married Ralph Rascine.
119. Mary; baptized 1596; married Ed. Ashton
of Methley.
120. Jane; married J. Thorp.
121. Frances; baptized 1602; married Richard
Foster.
122. Ellen; baptized 1607; died unmarried.
Thomas Beckwith, 109, of Acton, which he sold,
was buried at Featherstone, in 1652. He married

The Beckwiths. 29
twice ; by his first wife, PriscUla, who was buried at
Featherstone, September 30th, 1638, he had the fol
lowing child :
123. PriscUla; buried at Featherstone, March
8th, 1638.
Thomas Beckwith, 109, of Acton ; his second marriage
was with Muriele, daughter of William Wandersford
of PickhiU. 124. Thomas; buried at Featherstone, July 30th,
1636 ; as he died unmarried, the elder line
of the Beckwith family became extinct, and
the line of primogeniture became invested
in the next oldest branch, represented by
his uncle, George Beckwith, No. 115.
125. IsabeUe; married N. Fairfax, brother to
Thomas Viscount Fairfax.
126. Barbara; married J. Lockwood of County
York.
George Beckwith, 115, bom at Featherstone Castle,
Yorkshire; baptized there March 29th, 1606; he emi
grated to Maryland in 1648 ; and was a merchant and
planter at his manor of land called " St. Joseph," situ
ated at Point Patience on the Patuxent river, Calvert
County, Maryland, inherited by his wife from her
father. He, with other Protestant gentlemen of Mary
land, was a signer of a declaration commending the
liberal administration of Lord Baltimore, in allowing
the Protestants undisturbed worship of their religion.
x\s a follower of Lord Baltimore's party he participated
in the battle of Ann Arundell; after their defeat, with

30 The Beckwiths.
the Catholic party took refuge in Virginia, where he
remained two years, returning to Maryland in 1657.
In 1676 he went to England on business, and falling
ill, died in the city of London, November, 1676. Mar
ried Frances, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Hervy,
Lord of the Manor of " St. Joseph " and member of
the House of Burgesses, who emigrated to Maryland,
from London, in 1641. She died, about the time of
her husband's death, at the manor home in Maryland,
leaving their children all minors.
127. Mary; married John Miles of Calvert Co.
previous to 1676.
128. EHzabeth; married EHas NuttaU of Cal
vert Co., previous to 1676.
129. Charles.
130. Barbara; a minor in 1676.
131. Margarette ; a minor in 1676.
Charles Beckwith, 129, born in Calvert Co., Md.,
about 1669. Sold his Manor of St. Joseph's in that
county and bought a part of Hawley's Manor, called
" St. Jerome's Manor " in St. Mary's County. He finally
settled in Prince George County, where he died Sep
tember 1 8th, 1712. Married Anne, October 9th, 1702,
who, after her husband's death, married John Miller, a
planter of that county, and died October 17th, 1746.
On November 8th, 1746, John MiUer renoun-ed his
right to administer on his wife's estate, when, on the
20th of that month, letters of administration on her
estate were granted to Basil and George Beckwith,
with John and Gabriel Claggett, planters, as their
sureties, in the sum of 500 pounds sterling.

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132. BasU.
133. William.
134. George.
Basil Beckvrith, 132, bom in Prince George Co.,
April 9th, 1703; planter; married Volinda Claggett,
October 7th, 1741 ; she died April 17th, 1798 ; she
was the daughter of Jonathan Claggett, planter, son of
Thomas Claggett of St. Leonard's Creek, Md., who
emigrated to Maryland in 1671 ; on his mother's side
he was descended from Sir Thomas Adams, Lord
Mayor of London and a CavaHer of Charles the 2nd ;
on his father's side he was descended from a Mayor of
Canterbury. 135. John.
136. Anne; born in Montgomery Co., June
10th, 1748 ; married Charles Williams, and
moved to Bullitt Co., Ky.
137. George; born in Prince George Co., Sep
tember 26th, 1745 ; he was a captain in the
Continental Army in 1776 in Col. Bailey's
Regiment ; and was kUled in battle.
138. Basil; born in Montgomery Co., April
4th, 1743; died in Frederick Co., Md.,
November, 1767 ; unmarried.
John Beckwith, 135 ; born in Prince George Co., Md.,
October 7th, 1752; planter; he enlisted in the Conti
nental Army in 1776, serving until 1778 ; was sergeant
in Post's Company, Hazen's Regiment; in 1800 he
moved to Bullitt Co., Ky., where he purchased lands
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32 The Beckwiths.
he married Martha Williams of Prince George Co., Md.,
August 18th, 1773 ; she was a daughter of Joseph
and Prudence WiUiams, who were bom and married
in Wales; emigrated to Maryland in 1740; she was
sister to General Otho and Colonel Eliu Williams of
the Continental Army.
139. Volinda; bom in Prince George Co., Md.,
July 4th, ir74, and died in Bullitt Co.,
Ky. ; she married the Hon. Ben. Summers,
born in Montgomery Co., Md. ; and moved
to Bullitt Co., Ky., about 1800, was county
clerk for many years. Children : George
W., married Mariah Hill; Rufus K.,
married E. Carpenter ; Martha S., married
Mathew Wilson; Sarah E., married S.
Bealmear ; Frank, married L. C. Moremer ;
Mary, married Sam WiUiams; Patsy,
married Abram Fry; Basil B., married
Bettie Bealmear ; Susan, married J. San
ders ; John B., married A. Meerfield and
J. Kirkpatrick.
140. Elian or ; born in Prince George Co., Md.,
May 31st, 1776; she died of apoplexy at
Nashville, Tenn., in 1826 ; she married
Richard Winn of Nashville, son of Gen.
Winn of the Continental Army; Richard
Winn was elected to the National Con
gress, but died en-route to Washington
City ; her second husband was Anthony
Foster, uncle of Ephraim Foster, Governor
of Tennessee.

The Beckwiths. 38
141. BasU Beckvnth ; born in Montgomery Co.,
Md., May, 1778 ; returning home to Ken
tucky, on horseback, with gold and silver
money in his saddle-bags, proceeds of the
sale of a plantation in Maryland, was
struck by lightning and killed.
142. Sarah; born in 1780; died unmarried in
1834.
143. John WUHams.
144. Upton ; born in Prince George, Md., June
8th, 1750; died at Louisville, Ky., Decem
ber 5.th, 1818; married Betsey, daughter
of Judge L. Laws; they had one child,
Anne Uptonia, who married Mr. Reaugh
of LouisviUe ; her son, Upton B. Reaugh,
was a colonel in the U. S. Volunteer Ser
vice, 1861 to 1865, and a prominent civil
engineer; was living in Louisville in 1886.
145. Marthew; bom in Montgomery Co.,
Md., August 27th, 1795 ; married Thomas
Yeatman of Nashville, Tenn. ; after her
death he married a sister of Henry Irwin,
son-in-law of Henry Clay, who married,
after Yeatman's death, John Bell, candi
date to the Presidency of the United
States.
146. Anne; bom August 8th, 1788; died un
married.
John WiUiams Beckwith, 143, born in Montgomery
Co., Md., July 18th, 1781; planter; died at Shepards-
5

34 The Beckwiths.
ville, Bullitt Co., Ky., October 23d, 1828 ; he married
"PoUy" Floyd Smith, October 12th, 1808; she was
born on Bears' Grass Creek, near LouisvUle, in 1 785, and
died in Illinois in 1872 ; her father, Thomas Smith, was
born in Virginia, of the line of Revolutionary Smiths
of that State ; his brother WUHam was United States
Senator from Alabama in 1816 ; her mother, Abigail
Floyd, born in Virginia, was sister of Col. John Floyd,
pioneer of Kentucky, whose son and, also, his grand
sons, John and John B., were Governors of Virginia ;
the latter was Secretary of War in 1861, and afterward
a Major-General in the Confederate Army; her grand
mother, Abigail Davis, wife of William Floyd of Ac-
comac Co., Va,, was a descendant of Pocahontas; her
brother, Samuel Davis, was grandfather of Jefferson
Davis, President of the Southern States during the
Rebellion, 147. Mary ; married James Bucklin, a civil en
gineer, son of Simion Bucklin, the first
mayor of LouisvUle ; their children were
James, a raUroad official Hving in Bristol,
Ind. ; Mary, who married George Keating,
now a widow, living in Greencastle, Ind.,
with her daughter, Georgia,
148. Minerva, noted for her beauty; married
Alfred BuUitt of BuUitt Co., Ky., son of
William and nephew of Alexander Bullitt,
who had several daughters; one married
General Atkinson, U, S, Army, and after
the General's death, married Major Stew-

The Beckwiths. 35
ard, U. S, Army ; the second daughter,
Diana, married General Phil Kearney, U, S,
Army ; and another daughter married the
Count de Kanza, a Swedish nobleman,
and is now living in Sweden, The chil
dren of Minerva and Alfred Bullitt
were Mary, who married her cousin,
Lewis Chouteau Smith of St, Louis, Mo, ;
William, who married Belle Luckett of
St. Charles Co., Mo,; Ada, who married
Dexter Crosby of St, Louis, Mo.
149. Frederick WilHam.
150. Basil; born in Bullitt Co., Ky. ; studied
for the law ; at the completion of his
studies he went west, and was never heard
from.
Frederick William Beckwith, 149, born in Shep-
ardsville, Bullitt Co., Ky., October the 8th, 1813;
studied for the Methodist ministry ; owing to throat
troubles he relinquished his studies and, in 1840,
moved to St. Louis, Mo , where he engaged in business ;
he died there December 30th, 1854; he married Tullia
dementia Paul, May 5th, 1842 ; she was born in St.
Louis, Mo., December 11th, 1821, and is now Hving in
Washington, D. C, ; daughter of Col. R6n6 Paul, son
of Etifenne Paul, Admiral in the French Navy and
AmeHe, daughter of Sieur Massee, French Governor of
the Island of St. Domingo ; Col, R6n6 Paul was born
on the Island of St Domingo, in 1783; during the
negro insurrection his father and brother were mas-

36 The Beckwiths.
sacred by the negroes ; he escaped to France, where he
was placed in the ^ficole Politechuique, at Paris ; the
year before graduation the students were removed, by
order of the Emperor Napoleon, and given rank in the
army ; Col, Paul received the rank of captain of en
gineers, and rose to the rank of colonel of engineers ;
participated in the campaigns of Italy and Spain,
though an engineer officer; was on board the Admiral's
vessel at the naval battle of Trafalgar, where he was
severely wounded ; upon recovering from his wounds
he came to America, and was commissioned by Presi
dent Monroe to examine the frontier posts ; he visited
St, Louis, Mo,, where he mamed Eulalie, daughter of
Col. August Chouteau, the founder of that city; he
died May 5th, 1851 ; Col. Paul was the first city sur
veyor of St. Louis ; and established the grades of the
first paved streets of that city.
151, Frederick William, Jr, ; born St. Louis,
March 22d, 1842 ; died at Alton, IU., June
10th, 1863 ; married Alice, daughter of
Dr, Samuels of St, Louis ; they had one
child, Frederika, who died young ; his
widow married again and died in Texas,
152, Minerva Eulalie ; born in St. Louis, De
cember 29th, 1845 ; died in 1872 ; married
W. L. HuU, June 20th, 1871, a merchant
of that city,
153, Mary Amelia ; born St, Louis, Sept. 21st,
1846 ; died 1852,
154, Paul Edmond Smith ; bom St. Louis, Sep-

The Beckwiths. 37
tember 22d, 1848 ; student atthe St. Louis
University; in August, 1861, he ran away
from home and joined General Fremont's
command, after serving one month he was
sent back to St. Louis, and shortly after
ward was taken to Europe, to be kept out
of the army ; he was placed at the Jesuit
college at Feldkirch in the Austrian Voral-
berg, near Lac Constance ; after mastering
the German language, he went to Bonn
Am Rhine, Prussia, where he matriculated
at the university of that city, in civU and
mining engineering. In 1867, at the break
ing out of hostilities between Pope Pius
IX and Victor Emanuel, he went to Rome
and enlisted in the Papal army, serving in
that world-known corps, the " Pontifical
Zouaves," participating in the battles of
Monte Rotondo and.Mentana where the
Zouaves so signaUy defeated the Italians
under General Garibaldi. He returned
to America in 1869 ; was U. S. Indian
agent 1875, living among the Sioux for
one year, when he resigned, and going
to Colorado, followed his profession of
civil and mining engineering, until, in
1886, his health failing he came to Wash
ington, D, C, where he entered the Gov
ernment service ; married Martha B.,
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38 The Beekwiths.
1872 ; she died in 1879 ; their children
were Paul, died in infancy; Chord, died
in infancy ; Hattie Eulalie, bom Oct. 15th,
1874 ; Aim^e, born November 5th, 1876.
William Beckwith, 133, born in Prince George Co.,
Md., about 1706 ; moved to Stafford Co., Va. ; retumed
to Md. and settled in Montgomery Co. in 1728 ; died
prior to 1738 ; wiU proved March 26th, 1742 ; he
married Elizabeth, who was living in Montgomery Co,
in 1742, 155, Lucy,
156. Ann.
157. Mary.
158. WiUiam,
William Beckwith, 158, bom in Prince George Co,,
Md,, in that portion from which was erected Frederick
county ; he enHsted in the Continental Army in 1776,
was appointed head captain of the 16th Reg,, Mary
land State troops, June 18th, 1794, and was promoted
to rank of major of the same regiment, October 13th,
1794; he married Lucy Watson of Montgomery Co,,
Maryland. 159. Watson; born in Montgomery Co. ; died
there in 1794, unmarried.
160. Altha; born 1770; died 1862.
161. Benedict,
162. Sykes,
Benedict Beckwith, 161, born Frederick Co., Md.,
in 1776 ; enlisted in the Revolutionary Army, moved
to Ky, about 1816 ; there married his second wife, a

The Beckwiths. 39
Miss H, Pumphreys ; by his first vdfe, EHzabeth White
of Montgomery Co , Md,, license to marry dated Rock-
viUe, Md,, August 8th, 1800, he had the following
children :
163. John Greenbury ; moved to Lexington, Ky , ,
about 1816, and there married the sister
of his father's second wife.
164, Samuel.
165, Elbert.
166. Sirena.
Samuel Beckwith, 164, born Montgomery Co., Md.,
about 1798; died at Taylorsville, Md„ in 1890; li
cense to marry Sarah Samones dated Rockville, Md,,
March 22d, 1826.
167. Stanley, of Fairland, Montgomery Co.,
Md., in 1888.
Elbert Beckwith, 165, born Montgomery Co,, Md,,
married Susan Burgess,
168, EHzabeth ; married B, Bassett ; children,
Elbert, Susie married W. Roby, Isabella.
169. EmUy; living D. C. in 1888.
170. Sue,
171. Jane; married McCloud of the D. C, in
1888 ; chUdren, John, WUHam, Frank,
172. Martha.
173. Helen ; married G. Ryan of Olney, Md,
174, Zachariah.
175. Benedict.
176. Thomas; born Montgomery Co., Md,;
farmer; married M, Ryan, living Fairland,
Md., in 1888.

40 The Beckwiths.
Benedict Beckwith, 175, born Montgomery Co., Md.,
1836; farmer, living in Bethesda, Md., in 1888; mar
ried Mary Williams in 1868 ; she was bom in 1841,
and died in 1885.
177. Charles W. ; bom 1868,
178, Eugene; born 1871,
179, Mary; born 1873,
180, Birdie ; bom 1881,
181. Eliza; born 1876,
182. Benjamin; born 1878.
183. Sarah; born 1878.
Sykes Beckwith, 162, bom Frederick Co., Md. ; en
listed in the Revolutionary Army in 1776; was wounded
at the battle of Cowpens ; died in Montgomery Co.,
Md., 1822 ; license to marry second wife dated Rock
ville, Md., January 26th, 1820; by his first wife, Kis-
siah Adamson, whom he married January 26th, 1801 ;
died 1816 ; he had the following children :
184. William W. ; died unmarried.
185. Lucy; married and moved to Tenn.
186. Nancy ; married J. B. Belt of Montgomery
Co., Md., ; chUdren, H. L, J. B., Rufus,
Walt., Lizzie.
187. Parmelia ; married in lUinois.
188. John A.
189. Henry Sykes; born 1812; living near
Rockville, Md., in 1889.
190. Rupert O.
John A. Beckwith, 188, married E. Ricketts of
Montgomery Co., Md., March 10th, 1834.

The Beckwiths. 41
191. Greenbury C.
192, Columbus,
193. Waters.
194. John W. ; living in Montgomery Co., Md.,
in 1888.
Rubert O. Beckwith, 190, of Montgomery Co., Md, ;
married Dia,nnp, Belt of that county.
195. Joseph.
1 96, Fannie ; living in Mcmtgomery Co,, Md,,
in 1888.
George Beckwith, 134, born in Prince George Co.,
Md., about 1710 ; settled in Frederick Co., Md,, and
died there in 1760.
197, Charles.
198. BasU.
199. Nicholas.
200. Benjamin.
201. WUHam,
202. Lorena.
203. Nancy.
204. Eleanor,
Charles Beckwith, 197, born in Frederick Co,, Md.,
AprU, 1799, married Casandra, who was living in
1813. 205. George.
206. Rescine ; born Montgomery Co., Md. ;
married Mary Hopkins, March 31st, 1798,
Rockville, Md., Records.
207.  .
208.  .
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42 The Beckwiths.
209. Nicholas ; license to marry Mary Butt,
August 10th, 1799, Rockville Records.
George Beckwith, 205, born Montgomery Co., Md.,
May 16th, 1760; enHsted in the Revolutionary Army
December 1 3th, 1776, for two years ; was a sergeant in
Captain George Beckwith's company, Col. Bailey's
regiment, Maryland line ; he died in 1849 ; married
Ann Clarkson in 1792 ; she died in 1855.
210. Martha.
211, Ann; married  Rifle.
212. Mary ; married  Cronin.
213. Charles.
214, Vincent ; born Montgomery Co,, Md,
215, WUHam.
216, Singleton,
Charles Beckwith, 213, born in Montgomery Co.,
Md, ; farmer ; died May 7th, 1816 ; married Mary Rab-
bitt of RockviUe, Md,, July 21st, 1819 ; she died there
December 24th, 1877.
217. Mary E. ; bom May 1st, 1823; married
A, F, Boswell of Rockville, Md,, October
30th, 1845; their children are: John C,
born November 18th, 1846 ; Mary E., born
October 6th, 1848 ; Franklin M,, born March
15th, 1850 ; Charles E,, born January 1 5th,
1852 ; James W,, born December 25th,
1853.
218. Martha A. ; born AprU 3d, 1825 ; married
Hoskinson of Rockville, Md., November
2d, 1847 ; their chUdren are : Charles H.,

The Beckwiths. 43
born July 6th, 1848 ; John T., born Septem
ber 26th, 1849 ; Mary E., born Febmary
9th, 1851 ; WUHam G., born September
29th, 1852 ; Andrew C, bom July 2d, 1854 ;
James A, born July 15th, 1857 ; Ann R.,
born AprU 15th, 1859 ; Martha E., bom
March 14th, 1860 ; Henry A. J., born Sep
tember 16th, 1862 ; R. E. L., born March
29th, 1866.
219. Ann M. ; married J. W. Campbell of Rock-
vUle, Md., June 10th, 1845; their children
are : Charles W., born April 14th, 1846 ;
Susan M., bom August 8th, 1847 ; WU
Ham B., bom October 20th, 1849 ; Mary
E., born December 6th, 1850 ; Charles A.,
born July 18th, 1852; Ann R„ born
March 29th, 1855 ; Libby E,, born Febm
ary 28th, 1858 ; Harriet A, born October
16th, 1860 ; James F., born January 21st,
1865.
220. Elizabeth E. ; born December 22d, 1821 ;
married W, F. Fisher of RockviUe, Md.,
January 10th, 1843; their children are:
Thomas P., born August 24th, 1844;
Celestia V., born February 28th, 1846 ;
William A., bom January 18th, 1847.
221. Rebecca G. ; born February 2d, 1830; mar
ried Mathew Field of Rockville, December
30th, 1850; he was editor of the Mont
gomery Co. Sentinel ; their children are :

44 The Bechwiths.
Mary M,, bom November 13th, 1851 ;
Charies W., born November 27th, 1853 ;
Henry C, born AprU 12th, 1856 ; John
W. A., born December 19th, 1859 ; Albert
S, J,, born September 27th, 1863 ; Kate R,,
bom March 16th, 1868,
222, John A, ; born Montgomery Co,, Md., July
23d, 1833 ; died in Maryland.
223. WUHam G. ; bom RockvUle, Md., AprU
19th, 1827.
224. Celest.
Vincent Beckwith, 214, born Montgomery Co., Md. ;
married Martha ; she was born in the District of Col
umbia, and died in Montgomery Co., Md.
225. Lizzie ; bom in Montgomery Co., Md. ; mar
ried WilHam Shufforth of Albany, N. Y.
226. Burgess ; living in 1889; unmarried.
227. Joseph ; living in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1889 ;
unmarried.
Benjamin Beckwith, 200, bom Frederick Co., Md.,
about 1760 ; enlisted in the Revolutionary Army, 1776 ;
moved to Morgan Co., Ohio, about 1819; school
teacher and surveyor ; died and was buried with
military honors near Malta, Ohio; he married twice ;
by his first wife, Livonia Crum, he had the following
children :
228. WilHam.
229. Benjamin ; born Frederick Co., Md. ; settled
in Richland Co., Ohio, and died there ; he
married Dorcas Turner.

The Beckwiths. 45
230. Elizabeth; born Frederick Co., Md.; married
J. W. Johnson of Morgan Co., Ohio ; died
September 29th, 1844 ; children : Livonia,
married John McCann ; Stephen; Martha
married Loyd McBee ; living Malta, Ohio,
1889; PhUamon, died; William; Martha;
John W., of PhUad elphia.
231. Mary; married  Tice of Frederick
Co., Md. ; died there.
232. Lenox ; born Frederick Co., Md. ; married
Rebecca Turner, and remained in Maryland.
WUHam Beckwith, 228, born in Frederick Co., Md.,
1799; married  Ogden of West Virginia ; re
moved to Indiana; he died November 5th, 1877; she
was born in October 25th, 1806, and died in 1855.
233. Dr. I. O., bom in WardensviUe, W. Va.,
July 13th, 1826 ; physician and M. D. ;
settled at Lewis, Vigo Co., Ind. ; his first
vsdf e was Martha Rogers, died in Hampshire
Co., W. Va., 1865 ; his second vnfe was
Kate Drysart of Richland Co., Ohio ; no
children.
234. Benjamin F.
235. Catherine; born November 5th, 1834 ; mar
ried A. Vignessy, born France ; living Kan
sas City, Mo., in 1889.
236. Adaline; bom March 10th, 1830; married
J. M. Johnson ; living at Danville, Ind,, in
1888.
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46 The Bechwiths.
Va., March 5th, 1828 ; settled at Greencastle, Tnd. ; Hv.
ing there 1888 ; contractor and buUder; enlisted in the
U. S. Vol, Service, 1861-5 ; serving in the 99th Ind.
Reg. 1 5th Army Corps, throughout the war, and marched
to the sea with General Sherman, and was mustered
out of service with his regiment, in Washington city,
in 1 865 ; he married Susan Hopwood, who was bom
in Ky., July 4th, 1835.
237. Addie; bom 1854; died in 1884.
238. Lillie; born 1860; died 1861.
239. Laura; born 1856; married A.B.Phillips;
living Clearwater, Kansas, in 1888; one
son, Orion; born June 18th, 1886.
240. Orion; born March 19th, 1858; train dis
patcher with Indianapolis and St. Louis
Ry. Co. ; living in St. Louis, Mo., in 1889 ;
unmarried.
241. Luella ; living Greencastle, Ind., in 1888,
242. Emma; living Greencastle, Ind,, in 1888,
243, AUie; living Greencastle, Ind., in 1888.
Benjamin Beckwith, 200, his second vdfe was Martha,
widow of John Rogers of Hampshire Co,, Va,, she died
at Malta, Ohio, October 7th, 1841 ; they had the fol
lowing children :
244. Lorena ; born Alleghany Co., Md., Septem
ber 1st, 1800 ; married Thomas Osborn of
Morgan Co., Ohio ; left chUdren as follows :
Eliza Wiseman, Rebecca Patterson, living
McConnelsville, Ohio, Mary Scott, Martha
Arnold, living York, Neb., William, living

The Beckwiths. 47
Hawleysville, Iowa, Wesley, living Haw-
leysville, Iowa, George, at Malta, Ohio.
245. Livonia ; bom August, 1802, in Alleghany
Co., Md. ; married Charles Kinsel of Mor
gan Co., Ohio ; left children : Matilda Gei
ger at Eaglesport, Ohio, Elizabeth, at
Eaglesport, Mary Deaver, at Eaglesport,
246. MatUda ; born Muskingum Co., Ohio, Jan
uary 25th, 1805 ; died 1865 ; unmarried.
247. George; born Muskingum Co., Ohio, 1808
died 1828.
248. Solomon.
249. David J.
250. Rosanna ; bom Muskingum Co., Ohio, De
cember 2nd, 1815 ; mamed Samuel Bone of
Morgan Co., Ohio, March 25th, 1847 ; he
died September 16th, 1873; she was living
in McConnelsvUle, Ohio, in 1889 ; their chU
dren are : Mary, born April 7th, 1848 ; mar
ried F. M. Christy ; living Muskingum Co.
in 1889 ; Martha, born June 24th, 1850 ;
died young ; Lorena, born July 6th, 1851 ;
died young ; Cynthia, born April 3d, 1853 ;
married L. B. Porter 1878 ; Henry J., born
September 29th, 1864; married S, Eva
Gregg 1877; Emma, bom March 29th,
1859 ; married Ed, Trimble 1887.
Solomon C. Beckwith, 248, born Newton township,
Muskingum, Ohio, April 22d, 1812 ; farmer; died at
Malta, Ohio, August 12th, 1887, of cancer; when he

48 The Bechwiths.
was 8 years old his parents moved to Malta ; he was
noted for his remarkable memory ; was a member of
the M. E, church and a prominent abolitionist and
whig, assisting annually 15 slaves to escape north and
to freedom ; in all he personally assisted 300 slaves to
their freedom, and was one of the founders of the un
derground railway. He filled many places of trust
and prominence, and was for 20 years collector of tolls
on the river, a State appointment, Ulustrating his ster
ling worth ; before his death he left to each of his chil
dren a card inscribed "Honor thy father and thy
mother, that thy days may be long in the land which
the Lord thy God hath given thee." He married Ann
McBee of Harper's Ferry, Va., July 2d, 1834.
251. Rosanna Deborah ; born Morgan Co., Ohio,
January 13th, 1836; married Dr, E. G,
Tracy of Malta, Ohio, March 30th, 1858 ;
their children are : Charles A, born Novem
ber I7th, 1859; Rosie, born May 18th,
1867,
252, James Hinin ; born June 8th, 1833; died
August 26th, 1839,
253. George Alvah.
254. Martha A. ; born May 6th, 1843 ; died
January 2d, 1868 ; married W. J. Byers,
March 5th, 1865 ; left one daughter, who
married W. A, Hutchins ; Hving at Mc
Connelsville, Ohio.
255. " Massa Jane ; " born 1845 ; died 1846.
256. Emma M, ; living Malta, Ohio, in 1888 ;
unmarried.

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257, Mary E, ; bom 1847 ; died 1848.
258. Matilda E. ; born February 9th, 1849.
259. SareftaE. ; bom March 12th, 1851 ; married
W. A. Bask ; living Malta, Ohio, in 1889
260. Lorena Charlotte; bom 1854; died 1879.
261. Charles Sumner ; born Malta, Ohio, Octo
ber 22d, 1856 ; living there in 1889 ; un
married ; clerk Malta National Bank.
George Alvah Beckwith, 253, bom Malta, Ohio, Oc
tober 10th, 1841 ; married Sarah L. Naylor, June 17th
1863 ; she was born in Pennsville, Ohio, Nov. 17th
1834 ; Hving Malta, Ohio, in 1889.
263. Grosvenor R, ; born Pennsville, Ohio, Au
gust 20th, 1864 ; living at Wolton, Kansas
in 1888,
264, Fannie S. ; bom McConnelsvUle, Ohio, May
12th, 1866 ; living at Wolton, Kansas, in
1889.
265. Jennie M. C. ; bom Malta, Ohio, Septem
ber 19th, 1868 ; Hving at Wolton, Kansas,
in 1889.
266. Charles Franklin ; bom McConnelsville,
Ohio, July 22d, 1870 ; living at Malta,
Ohio, in 1889.
267. Mary EvaHne ; born Pennsville, Ohio, Au
gust 13th, 1872; Hving at Malta in 1889.
268. Leonard ; born Malta, Ohio, September
14th, 1876 ; living at Malta, Ohio, in 1889.
David T. Beckwith, 249, born Muskingum Co,, Ohio,
March 14th, 1810; farmer; he died at Malta, Ohio,
7

50 The Beekwiths.
September 20th, 1860; married twice; his first wife
Mary A, daughter of Martin and Mary Saun
ders, May 8th, 1834, was born February 14th, 1816
and died October 15th, 1847.
269. George Wm, ; born August 29th, 1835
died November 2d, 1835,
270. WiUiam Martin; bom March 2d, 1847
died December 2d, 1847.
271. Loyd; born September 12th, 1839; died
March 7th, 1853.
272, .Solomon,
273, Martha Rachel ; born August 31st, 1841 ;
died December 28th, 1878 ; married Homer
A. Alderman ; he was living in Washing
ton, D. C, 1889; their children are as fol
lows : Zenas, married and living in Wash
ington; Jennie, married and Hving in
Washington ; Josie, living in Malta ; AUita,
living in Washington, D. C, 1889.
274. Laban.
Solomon Beckwith, 272, born January 30th, 1837 ;
enlisted in the U, S. Vol, Service, serving in Co, B,
161st Reg,, Ohio, 1861-65 ; died at Malta, Ohio, De
cember 8th, 1867; he married Mary E. Parsons of
Malta, December 8th, 1859; she was Hving there in
1889, 275. James Z. ; born Malta, Ohio, May 30th,
1861 ; living there in 1889.
Laban Beckwith, 274, born Morgan Co., Ohio, July
12th, 1844; enlisted in the U. S. Vol. Service, in

The Beckwiths. 51
1861; was sunstruck during the war and, in consequence
of this disability, was honorably discharged ; farmer ;
living at Rokeby, Morgan Co., Ohio, in 1889; he mar
ried Armeda McClintick, December 11th, 1871 ; she
was born, Morgan Co., Ohio, August 7th, 1846.
276. Clara; born September 16th, 1873.
277. Clarence; born July 19th, 1876; living
Rokeby, Morgan Co., Ohio, in 1889.
278. Joe E.; born August 30th, 1880.
David T. Beckwith, 249 ; his second wife was Ame
lia Saunders, sister of his first wife ; born September
8th, 1823 ; died March 10th, 1882.
279. Charies O.; born Malta, May 30th, 1850;
Hving there 1889.
280. Lucy M. ; born February 6th, 1856 ; mar
ried George Black ; he died, and she was
Hving in Malta in 1889.
281. Albert; born September 20th, 1860; died
November 21st, 1878.
WUHam Beckwith, 201, born in Frederick Co.,
Md., 1758 ; enlisted in the Continental Army, in 1776,
and served two years ; moved to Morgan Co., Ohio,
about 1819; farmer; married twice; he married his
second vrif e, Priscella Jenkins, September 23d, 1778;
no children ; he married his first wife, Martha Elder ;
who died in Maryland ; and by her had the following
children :
282. Tobias.
283. Richard.
284. Rebecca.

52 The Beckwiths.
Tobias Beckwith, 282, born Frederick Co,, Md., and
settled in Morgan Co., Ohio ; died there January, 1823 ;
he married Bridget Walpole, in 1818; she was born
in Ireland. 284a, John; lived and died in Somerset, Perry
Co., Ohio.
285. Katie.
286. Mary Ann ; married Framer, and was liv
ing in Artesian City, Dak., in 1889,
287. Rebecca; born Morgan Co., Ohio, March
1st, 1823 ; living in New Lexington, Ohio,
in 1889 ; married Michael Forquer, May
18th, 1841; he was bom in PhUadelphia,
Penn., June 3, 1813; their chUdren are:
May A,, born April 27th, 1842; Jane,
born October 27th, 1843 ; Charles, born
March 9th, 1849 ; Raymond, born Decem
ber 26th, 1851 ; WUHam, born January
5th, 1855 ; Kate, born September 8th,
1858 ; Dugan, born May 23d, 1861 ; Laura,
born July 23d, 1863 ; John, born October
23d, 1867,
William Beckwith, 96, of Dacre, Yorkshire, Eng.
288. Thomas of Aldborough was buried in
1683.
Thomas Beckwith, 288, of Aldborough, York, was
buried in 1683; he married Sarah, daughter of Simon
Beckwith of Pontferact, York; she died in 1673.
289. Samuel.
Samuel Beckwith, 289, of Aldborough, and after-

The Bechwiths. 58
ward of High Barton, died in 1694; he married Mar
garette, daughter and heiress of Rev. George Walker,
who was afterward Bishop of Derry, which town he
defended against King James 2d.
290. Samuel, of Burton, Secretary to the Duke
of Ormond and Philip, Duke of Wharton ;
he married in 1699, and died in 1725.
291. Thomas.
Thomas Beckwith, 291, of High Barton and Clifton,
married, in 1702, Phyllis, daughter of Pickingill of El-
lerton; she died in 1710.
292. Thomas.
293. Samuel, of Raikes ; married Anne, daughter
and heiress of John Dent of Clifton Lodge ;
he died in 1773.
294. John; sold the Manor of Beckwithshaw,
in 1753, that had been in the family since
1226, being a part of the estate of Lady
Beckwith Bruce.
Thomas Beckwith, 292, of Clifton, married Mary,
daughter of J. Winn.
295. Thomas, of Liverpool, ancestor of the Liver
pool Beckwiths, many of whom were liv
ing there in 1888 ; he sold Clifton.
Samuel Beckwith, 293, of Raikes, married Anne,
daughter and heiress of John Dent of Clifton Lodge ;
she died in 1773.
296. Samuel.
297. Thomas, of Liverpool.
298. Margarette; first husband, Christopher

54 The Beckwiths.
Jaques ; second husband, Timon Wrather ;
buried in 1771.
Samuel Beckvrith, 296, of London, married Jane,
daughter of John Roydell of London; left several
chUdren. 299. Samuel.
Samuel Beckwith, 299, of London, married Jane,
daughter of John DoneweU of London.
300. Rev. Samuel; died 1846.
301. Jane Emily ; died unmarried in 1866.
Roger Beckwith, 97, of Northcot and Aldborough,
York, which he purchased from Sir Wm. Gee in 1597;
buried at Pontferact in 1634; he married twice;
his first wife was Dorothy, daughter of Currer of
Leeds. 302. Thomas of Beverly ; line extinct.
303. Catherine; married Thomas Norton of Ever
ton.
304. Margarette; baptized 1607.
305, Anne ; married J. Robinson of Bolton-upon-
Swales.
306. Barbara ; married Mathew Lockwood of
Sowerby Thursk.
Roger Beckwith, 97, of Northcot and Aldborough;
his second wife was Susannah, daughter of Brakenbury
of Sellahy, Co. Durham ; she died October, 1670, and
was buried at Skellborough.
307. Arthur.
308, William of Thurcroft in Laughton; died
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at Laughton in 1678 ; devised Thurcroft
to his nephew William ; he married Mar
garette, daughter of Bernard Ellis; she
was buried at Laughton, October 5th,
1676.
309. Mathew.
310. Susannah; married John Aulaby of Aulaby,
311. Judith; married Wm, Parker, M, D., of
London.
312. Hester; married John Odinsell of Odinsell.
Arthur Beckwith, 307, of Aldborough, baptized
1^15; captain in the Parliamentary Army; killed in
battle 1642 ; he married Mary, daughter of Marma
duke WyviUe of Constable Barton, knight and baronet.
313. Sir Roger.
314, Marmaduke; baptized at Tanfield, and
died unmarried.
315. Mary; died unmarried.
316. Isabell; died unmarried,
317. Susan; died unmarried.
Sir Roger Beckwith, 313, of Aldborough ; created
a baronet by Charles the 2nd; patent dated April
15th, 1681; died December 5th, 1700; he married
twice ; his first wdfe was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir
Christopher Clapham.
318. Arthur; died beyond seas ; possibly the an
cestor of the Beckwiths of the Island of
Barbadoes.
Sir Roger Beckwith, 313 ; his second wife was Eliz
abeth, daughter of Edmond Jennings of Ripon, Knight.

66 The Bechwiths.
319. Sir Roger.
320. Sir Marmaduke of Virginia.
Sir Roger Beckwith, 319, of Aldborough; Baronet
and High Sheriff of Co. York, 1706 ; Mayor of Leeds
in 1705 ; died May, 1743 ; he married in October 10th,
1705, Jane, daughter and heiress of Bej. Waddington
of AUerton Gladhow; she died in 1713.
321. Roger; died unmarried,
322, Edward ; died unmarried.
323. Jane ; sole heiress ; married Bielby Thomp
son of Micklethwaite Grange, Co. York;
she died at Bambirg in 1756.
Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, 320, born at Aldborough,
Yorkshire, Eng., in 1687 ; emigrated to Virginia in
1700; he was County Clerk of Richmond Co. from
1708 to 1748; it is probable that he died at the latter
date. 324. Sir Jonathan of Virginia.
325. Mary; married Lavprence Butler, born in
England and was a major in the Revolu
tionary Army, and who died in 1811, leav
ing one son, Beckwith Butler.
326, Rebecca; married Major John Belfield.
327. Marmaduke,
328, Elizabeth; married Joseph Morton, an
Englishman, and had one son, WilHam
Jordon, who married Martha Pryor and
had twelve children.
329, Tarpley ; born in Virginia ; and died in Eng
land, November 7th, 1748.

The Beckwiths. 57
Sir Jonathan Beckwith, 324, born in Richmond
Co., Va, ; signer Northern Neck Declaration, protest
ing against the Stamp Act, in 1765; he was living in
Westmoreland Co,, Va., in 1835 ; he was a patriot and,
in consequence, the title of " Sir," which he had inher
ited from his father, ceased to exist upon the declara
tion of his patriotic sentiments ; he married Rebecca
Barns of Virginia.
330. Jennings.
331. Jonathan; died unmarried.
332. Penelope.
333. EHzabeth.
334. Richard Marmaduke,
335. Barnes.
336, Rebecca; bom in Richmond Co,, Va, ; mar
ried her cousin, Marmaduke Brockin-
borough Beckwith, and died in Jefferson
Co,, Va,
Jennings Beckwith, 230, born in Richmond Co.,
Va., 1764 ; he was a great sportsman, and passed many
years among the Indians of the far west, hunting ; died
near Bleak HaU, the country-seat of Marmaduke
Beckwith, in Westmoreland Co., Va,, in 1835; he
married a Miss Kill,
337. Richard M. B.
338. Edwin; super-cargo of a merchant vessel
that was lost at sea, supposed to have been
captured by pirates, who murdered those
on board.
339. Malbis ; died in Frederick Co., W. Va,, at
the " Retreat," his father's country-seat.
8

58 The Beckwiths.
, 340. T. W.
341.  .
342.  .

Richard Marmaduke Barnes Beckwith, 337, born
in Jefferson Co., W. Va. ; enlisted in the U. S. Army
in 1813, and served until 1816, in Wells Co.; he died
at St. Louis, Mo,, in 1818, when on his way to visit
his father, who was then among the Indians of the far
west ; he married Sarah Hite, who was born in 1796,
married September 13th, 1813, and died in 1884; she
was daughter of Captain George Hite, who served in
the war of 1776, was wounded and pensioned; he was
grand-nephew of James Madison, President of the
United States.
343. Lawrence Butler,
344. George H. J. , "
Lawrence Butler Beckwith, 343, bom Frederick
Co., W. Va., 1814; died Orangeburg, Columbia Co.,
S. C, 1868; mari'ied Harriet Hunt, 1840; born Co
lumbia Co., S. C.
345. Lawrence R.
346. "Bettie."
347. SaUie F.
348. Mary H.
349. Annie L.
350. Hattie.
Lawrence Ransom Beckwith, 345, born in Orange
burg, Columbia Co., S. C, 1842 ; he was in the Con
federate Army, serving in the "Hampton Legion,"
with rank of captain ; was severely wounded during

The Beckwiths. 59
the war, and married Ann Moorer in 1866 ; died in
1884. 351. Lawrence Henry; born in 1867.
352. JohnG.
George Hite J. Beckwith, 344, of Charlestown, Jef
ferson Co., W. Va., born in 1816; living in 1889 at
his country-seat, near Charlestown, caUed "Shady
Side ; " he married Anne, daughter of Dr. S. ScoUey,
in 1843, of Middling Co., Va. ; she died at "Shady
Side" in 1868.
353. S. S.; died 1848.
354. Harriet ; died 1848.
355. Eloise; died 1878.
356. Frank,
357. Lawrence Sutler; surveyor; Hving in Ar
kansas 1888.
358. Mary Elizabeth,
359. SalHe M. ; married T. G, Barlow, civil en
gineer ; living Wood End, W. Va., in 1889 ;
have two children, Anna L. and Robt.
Matson.
Frank Beckwith, 354, of Charlestown, W. Va, ; law
yer; in State Legislature 1881-2; officer on Gov.
Jackson's Staff, 1861-5 ; living in Charlestown, 1891 ;
married Lucy, daughter of Angus McDonald, 1887.
360, Angus McDonald,
Richard Marmaduke Beckwith, 334; lawyer; bom
in Richmond Co,, Va,, in 1774; moved to Falmouth,
Stafford Co., Va., where he practiced his profession;

60 The Bechwiths.
he died there in 1820; he married Elizabeth Scott
Buchanan February 13th, 1798; she was of Stafford Co,
361. Jonathan,
362. Richard M.
363. Lawrence Butler; bom at Falmouth, in
Stafford Co., Va,, in 1804; he served in
the Capt. Hunter's Company, 1st Reg.,
Ark. Vol., during the Mexican War, and
died at Brown stone. Ark. in 1885 ; mar
ried Jennette Hill in February, 1857;
she was bom in 1829, and died in 1887;
no children.
364. Andrew B.
365. James H.
366. Robert.
367. Hugh M.
368. Laura B. ; born at Falmouth, Stafford Co.,
Va,, March 30th, 1818; married S. P.
Graves, a lavvyer, June 2d, 1849 ; he died
in 1886; she was living at Baton Rouge, La,,
in 1889; their chUdren are: Mary, born
September 13th, 1850, married T, B, Du-
pree, and died August l7th, 1883 ; Laura
M, ; Lucy E, ; Samuel P. ; Elizabeth B.
369. EHzabeth.
370. Mary H; married Smith; one daughter,
Mary, married L. B. deMorse, merchant at
Texarkana, Tex,, in 1889,
371. Rebecca; married Harrison of Texarkana;
one son, Richard, a merchant at Texarkana
in 1889.

The Beckwiths. 61
372. Martha.
Jonathan Beckwith, 361, born in Stafford Co., Va.,
1799; M. D.; moved to Lauderdale Co., Alabama,
and died there in 1856 ; he married Dolly, daughter
of Isaac Winston of Va.
373. Alexander.
374. Isaac.
375, WilHam.
376. Elizabeth ; bom in Va,, and living in Flor
ence, Ala, 1889.
Alexander Beckwith, 373, living in Athens, Tennes
see ; married Mary Mason.
377.  .
378.  .
Richard Marmaduke Beckwith, 362, born in Stafford
Co,, Va., 1804 ; died in Lauderdale Co., Ala. ; married
PrisciUa, daughter of Jas. Turner of Caroline, Va.
379. WUHam J.
WiUiam J. Beckwith, 379, living Gravelly Springs,
Ala,, in 1888 ; married his first cousin, Virginia, daugh
ter of Robert Beckwith, No. 366,
380, Robert R, ; born in 1866,
381. Florence.
Andrew Buchanan Beckwith, 364, born Stafford Co.,
Va,, in 1805 ; M. D. ; married Adelaide B. Carter in
1830 ; she was born in Fauquier Co., Va., in 1806, and
died in 1836.
382. Henry C.
383. Virginia ; married Hutchinson.
384. Marmaduke C. ; living in Lynchburg, Va.,
in 1891.

62 The Beckwiths.
385, Minnie; living in Mobile, Ala., in 1889.
Henry C. Beckwith, 382, living in Lynchburg, Va.,
in 1889 ; he married Ada Le Baron of Pensacola, Fla.
386. 
James H. Beckwith, 365, born in Stafford Co., Va. ;
moved to Sevier, Arkansas, in 1883 ; was a tanner,
and after the quick process of tanning was discovered
he became a farmer, and died there ; he married 
Simons of Virginia,
387, Amanda; born in 1844; married Smeadly
of Ark. in 1883.
388. Rebecca; born in 1852; married three
times in Ark.
389. Laura; born in 1862 ; married Thomas Bell
of Ark.
390. James; born in 1858; Hving at Brown-
stone, Ark, in 1889.
391. Virginia; born in 1865; living at Brown-
stone, Ark, in 1889,
Robert Beckwith, 366, born in Stafford Co,, Va,,
1813 ; died in Alabama in 1873 ; he married Sarah B.
Curtiss, 392. Virginia, who married her cousin William
J, Beckwith of Gravelly Springs, Ala,, No
379.
Hugh Mercer Beckwith, 367, born in Stafford Co.,
Va,, in 1817 ; ranchman on the Rio Grande river at
Presidio, Presidio Co,, Texas, in 1889 ; he married
Refugia Rascon,a Spanish lady, December 22d, 1849;
she was born in Santa Fe, N, M,, August 29th, 1833.

The Beckwiths. 63
393. Robert W. ; born October 16th, 1850.
393a. John M. ; born January 14th, 1853.
394, Cornelia ; bom March 31st, 1857.
395, Josephine ; bom November 24th, 1858.
396. EUen ; born May 10th, 1861.
397. Elizabeth ; born December 24th, 1867.
398. Nicolas Pino ; born May l7th, 1869.
399. Laura ; born September 24th, 1872.
Barnes Beckwith, 335, born in Richmond Co., Va.,
in 1783 ; was a captain in the quartermaster's depart
ment of the U. S. Army in 1812 ; was sheriff, justice
of the peace, U. S. marshal, and member of the State
Legislature of W. Va,; died in Jefferson Co,, W. Va,,
in 1855 ; he married Betsy Peyton Martin of Virginia,
400, Lawrence A.
401. Barnes,
402, Mary Peyton ; widow of D. Huff of W,
Va, ; has three children, aU married,
403, Penelope S, ; married B, R, Pennybacker of
BeUeville, W Va, ; four chUdren, all mar
ried,
404, Jane ; born in 1806 ; living in Parkersburg ;
unmarried in 1886.
Lawrence Albert Beckwith, 400, born in Jefferson
Co., W. Va., in 1816 ; living at Ravenswood, W, Va,,
in 1889 ; he married his cousin Mary E,, daughter of
Tapley Beckwith.
405. Lewis A; born June 13th, 1841; was a
lieutenant in Co. D, of the 14th Reg. W.
Va„ in the U. S. Vol. Service, 1861-65 ;
farmer, Wood Co., W. Va„ in 1889.

64 The Beckwiths.
406, Richard A. ; born in 1842 ; county clerk of
Wood Co. ; farmer. Wood Co., W. Va., in
1889.
407. Tapley ; born in 1847 ; farmer, Wood Co,,
W. Va„ in 1889.
Barnes Beckwith, 401, bom in Jefferson Co,, W,
Va., 1818 ; married Virginia, daughter of Abraham
Samuels and Hannah Neal daughter of John Neal of
" Border Warfare " fame.
408, Author B.
409. Rebecca ; born in 1844 ; married R, P,
Haywood ; living in Dover, Mo,, in 1889.
410, Elizabeth ; born in 1847 ; married G, A.
Pennybaker of W. Va.
411, Virginia; born in 1856; married C. C.
Evans ; living Bartlet, Ohio, in 1889.
412. John Neal; born in 1849; constable of
Wood Co., W. Va,, in 1889.
413. Abram S. ; born in 1853 ; agent Adams
Express Co., at Parkersburg, W, Va,, in
1889.
414. George C.
414a. Lawrence A, Jr, ; born in 1860,
415. William S, ; born in 1860; clerk in Adams
Ex, Co,, at Parkersburg, in 1889.
Author B. Beckwith, 408, born in Jefferson Co., W.
Va,, in 1842 ; was county clerk, U, S. marshal of
that county and chief of police of Parkersburg, W,
Va,, in 1869 he married Emma A, Sleoght, who was
bom in Germany, January 7th, 1851.

The Bechwiths. 65
416. Helen R. ; died young.
417. Walter S. ; died young.
418. Charlotte V.; "Kate;" born August 1st,
1874.
419. Nellie; "Buster;" born AprU 14th, 1881.
420. Amly A. ; " Blackbird; " born October 19th,
1852.
Marmaduke Beckwith, 327, married Sybel, daughter
of Major Elsie of the Revolutionary Army.
421. Marmaduke B.
422. Tapley.
423. Newman.
424. Lucy; married Harrington.
425, Elizabeth ; married Brough,
426. MaryE.
427. WilHam ; died in Prince William Co., Va.,
unmarried.
428. Jennings.
429. Levds.
Marmaduke Brockinborough Beckwith, 421, married
his cousin Rebecca, daughter of Sir Jonathan Beckwith.
430. Jonathan B.
431. Frank.
Jonathan Brockinborough Beckwith, 430, born
1800, in W. Va. ; married Margarette, who was born
in 1800, and died in 1884.
432. John ; born in Wood Co., W. Va., and died
there ; he was a soldier in the Confederate
Army, 1861-65,
Tapley Beckwith, 422, bom in Richmond Co,, Va,,
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66 The Beckwiths.
1798 ; died at Ravenswood, Wood Co,, W. Va. ; he
married Nancy Bailey, who was born in Richmond Co.,
Va., and died in Wood Co., W. Va.
433. Author.
434. Alfred,
435. Elizabeth.
436. Adaline.
437. Martha.
438. Tapley ; living at Ravenswood, W, Va,, in
1889.
439. Lewis ; Hving at CottageviUe, W. Va., in
1889.
440. Jennings ; living at Ravenswood in 1889.
441. Barnes.
Barnes Beckwith, 441, bom at Ravenswood, W. Va.,
in 1825; died there; he married EHzabeth Lord in
1849 ; she was born and died at Ravenswood.
442, WUHam ; living at Ravenswood, W. Va.,
in 1889.
443. Ered.
444. Charies B,
445. Tapley,
446, Nancy G,
448, Leroy A.
Leroy A, Beckwith, 448, born at Ravenswood, W.
Va,, in 1850; merchant and lumber dealer at Ravens
wood in 1889 ; he married Nannie F. Jarrett in 1877;
she was born at Charlestown, W. Va., in 1853.
449, Evalina ; born November 18th, 1878.
450, Nora ; bom May 5th, 1880,

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451, Martha ; born October 24th, 1882,
452. Roy Bames ; born November 24th, 1885.
Newman Beckwith, 423, born in Richmond Co., Va.;
moved to Mississippi Co., Mo,, in 1812, and died there ;
he married Judith A, Neal ; she was born in Va, and
died in Mo, in 1836 ; she was an aunt of the mother
of General Stonewall Jackson, C, S, A,
453. Underwood; died in 1855 unmarried,
454, Richard ; died unmarried,
455, Francis; died in 1857 unmarried,
456, Sabina ; died unmarried,
457, Lucy ; married J, Hunter and left two
children ; Joseph married Miss Harell
and was living at Jackson, Mo., in 1889 ;
Catherine married John Cams,
458, Quiros,
459, Marmaduke,
460, Mountain ; born in Va, before 1840 ; mar
ried Mrs, Faulkner ; no children,
461. Barnes ; born in Va. ; married Miss Faulk
ner ; no children.
Quiros Beckwith, 458, born in Fairfax C. H,, Va,,
September 25th, 1801 ; settled in Mississippi Co,, Mo,,
and died September 3d, 1862 ; he married Susan John
son, AprU 2d, 1839 ; she was born in Nashville, Tenn,,
October 31st, 1813.
462. EUen ; born October 15th, 1842 ; died at
ShelbyvUle, Ky., June 2d, 1858,
463, Margarette ; bom Cinthiana, Ky., October
8th, 1844 ; died September 9th, 1851.

68 The Beckwiths.
464. Mathew; bom October 3d, 1846; died
January '27th, 1847.
465. Quiros.
466. Thomas,
Quiros Beckwith, 465, born in Mississippi Co., Mo,,
November 22d, 1847; died there February 8th, 1878;
he married Susan James, August 7th, 1866; she died
July 4th, 1879,
467. Quiros; bom in Charlestown, Mo., April
14th, 1869 ; living there in 1889.
468. John Harding; bom August 23d, 1867;
living Charlestown, Mo , in 1889 ; he mar
ried JuHa Winbush, December 28th, 1887.
Thomas Beckwith, 466, bom in Mississippi Co., Mo.,
January 24th, 1840; farmer; living in Charlestown,
Mo,, in 1889 ; he married Laura Swank, March 11th,
1863 ; she was born in Hardin Co,, Ky., December
4th, 1844, 469, LUlie May; bom November 26th, 1864;
Hving Charlestown, Mo,, in 1889.
470. Minnie Lee; born December 19th, 1866;
living Charlestown, Mo., in 1889,
471, AUie; born October 10th, 1868; living
CharlestovTO, Mo,, in 1889,
472, WiUiam; born 1870; died November 28th,
1882,
Marmaduke Beckwith, 459, born in Virginia, in
1805 ; married twice ; his first wife was  Grif
fith ; the children by this marriage all died young ; by

The Beckwiths. 69
his second marriage, with the daughter of Col. Hunter
of Mississippi Co., Mo., he had the following children:
473. Amanda; married L, T, Medley; living
Arcadia, Mo,, in 1889,
474. Judith Ann ; married Peas of Farmington,
Mo,
475. Underwood ; born va. Mississippi Co., Mo. ;
Hving at Bird's Point, Mo., in 1889.
476. Lucy B. ; born in 1842 ; married Dr. Travis,
and was living, in 1889, at Wolf Island,
Mo.
Lewis Beckwith, 429, born in Prince William Co.,
Va., in 1789; died in Wood Co., W. Va. ; he married
Matilda Carter of Prince WUHam Co., W. Va. ; she
moved to Grayson Co., Ky., in 1854, and died there;
by marriage she was related to George Washington's
mother, Mary Ball, who married Augustine Washing
ton ; also, to Gen. Wm. H. Harrison, President of the
United States, grandfather of the present President
(1889) ; also, [to Gen. Robert E. Lee, major-general
in the Confederate Army during the War of the Rebel
lion, through his wife, who was a Fitzhugh of Virginia.
477. Jane ; died young.
478. Ann; bom in Grayson Co., Ky, ; married
John A, Hord of Grayson Co,, Ky., and
died in 1851; children: Lewis B, ; Mary
W, ; Bainton M. ; Arthur A, ; John W, ;
WUHam T, ; Frank J,
479. Arthur.
Arthur Beckwith, 479, born in Wood Co., W. Va,,

70 The Beckwiths.
September 22d, 1815 ; living in Grayson Co,, Ky,, in
1889 ; farmer ; he moved to Grayson Co,, Ky,, in
1828; married Louisa Duncan, May 26th, 1842; she
was born in Greenup Co., Ky,, August 16th, 1818,
480, William L, ; born March 5th, 1843 ; farmer;
living in Grayson, Carter Co,, Ky,, in
1889,
481. Jane,
482, Mary L,
483. Sophia M. ; born January 15th, 1849,
484, Lucy H. ; born June 12th, 1851.
485, A. Laura; born September 1st, 1855,
486, Allen C, ; born May 23d, 1858 ; farmer ;
living Grayson, Carter Co,, Ky., in 1889,
Mathew Beckwith, 309, of Tanfield and Slenington;
captain in the Parliamentary Army ; was born in 1628 ;
married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Buck of Filey,
knight ; buried at Tanfield in 1679.
487, John,
488. WiUiam,
489, Susana,
490. Mary; baptized at Tanfield in 1652.
491. Elizabeth; baptized in 1658.
492. Martha ; died young.
John Beckwith of Sleningford, 487, age 14 in 1666 ;
died in 1688 ; he married Castliana, daughter of Lionel
Copley of Wadsworth; she died May 13th, 1700.
493. Roger ; died young.
494. Castliana ; died young.
495. Elizabeth ; died young.

Tlie Beckwiths. 71
WiUiam Beckwith, 488, of Thurcroft, born Novem
ber 22d, 1664; inherited Thurcroft from his uncle
WUHam Beckwith ; he was buried at Laughton Co.,
York, October 3d, 1713 ; married Mary, daughter of
Sir Edward Chalmer of Guisburg; she died in 1702,
and was buried at Laughton.
496. WUHam.
497. John of Dalton Hall ; merchant ; mayor of
Beaumont ; he married Miss Wyke.
498. Edward ; com. of customs of Tewsham Co.,
Kent.
499. Mathew; merchant Marine service; died
unmarried ; buried at St. Paul's, Covent
Garden, London, in 1728.
500. Mary; married June 1714 to John Murray
of Slade Horton.
501. Elizabeth ; married twice in Lincoln Co.
502. Susana; married 1722 to Thomas Harrison
of DUlern Co., Stafford.
503. Margarette ; married Jno. Powers of Utto-
exeter Co., Stafford.
504. Dorothy ; married George Saunders, Gent.
of Howden, and died October 24th, 1734.
505, Mary.
506. i^lizabeth ; died young.
WUHam Beckwith, 496, of Thurcroft and Slening
ton ; married April 28th, 1715 ; died at Thurcroft,
AprU 10th, 1760, aged 74 ; he married EHzabeth,
daughter and heiress of John Wood field of Fishbum
and Trimden Co., Durham; she died in 1767, aged 70.

72 ' The Beckwiths.
507. Woodfield.
508. Malby; ensign in the 3d Reg. of foot
(Buffs) 1775.
509. John; Lieut.-Col. in Abercrombie's Regi
ment; died and buried at Bishop Middle-
ham in 1705, aged 65.
510. WilHam.
511. John.
512. WilHam.
513. Author.
514. Mary.
515. Jane ; married J. Welty.
516. Elizabeth; married WUHam Horsfall, and
died aged 72 in 1798.
Woodfield Beckwith, 507, of Thurcroft and Trimden,
baptized at Laughton in 1719 ; married Maud Dorothy,
daughter of C. Robinson of Eastington Co., Durham,
in 1771 ; died 1779.
517. WiUiam. •
618. Richard ; died young.
William Beckwith, 517, of Thurcroft, in Yorkshire
and Trimden, in Durham; died in 1847. Manied
CaroHne, daughter of John Nesham, of Houghton-le-
Spring, she died in St. Omer, Prance, in 1832.
519. WiUiam of Thurcroft and Trimden, K. H.,
General in the Army, and Colonel of the
14th Hussars in 1846, born in 1795, died
in 1871. He married Priscella, daughter
and heiress of Thomas Hopper of Silks-
worth House.

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520. John; born in September 1803.
521. Henry.
522. Carolina; married Samuel Kentish, and died
in 1867.
523. Mary; died unmarried in 1865.
Henry Beckwith, 521. In Holy Orders, Rector of
Eaton, Conatantine Co., Salop, he was bom in 1806;
married Anne Rose, daughter of Rev. John Eaton.
524. Henry John ; captain in the 23d Reg., bom
in 1840.
525. WUHam Edmund ; bom in 1844.
526. Rose Caroline.
WilHam Beckwith, 510, of Cary street, London,
Barrister at Law.
527. WiUiam ; ensign 27th Reg., died unmarried
in 1776.
528. Maria.
529. Elizabeth.
Edward Beckwith, 498, commissioner of Customs,
of Tewsham Co., Kent, he married twice.
530. Onslow; lieut. Royal Welsh Fusileers,
23d Foot 1771, captain in the 45th, 1776,
left a daughter who died young.
Mathew Beckwith, 103, born in Ponteferact, York
shire Eng,, about 1610, Emigrated to New England
in 1635, residing for a short time at Saybrook Point
1635, Bramford 1638, Hartford among the first settlers
in 1642, Lyme in 1651 he purchased large tracts of
land on the Niantic river, and was left a legacy by
Capt. , Lyrado, his land laid practically in Lyme and
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74 The Beckwiths.
New London. Mould &, Art ship builders construc
ted especially for him the barque Endeavor, which
was the first vessel launched from New London, and
traded with the Barbadoes, she was sold at Barbadoes
in 1666, for a cargo of sugar, Mathew was of that class
known as planters, many of whom were men of means,
who placed their vessels in the charge of competent
mariners, who also attended to the mercantile trans
actions and interests of the owners, Mathew was born
September 2 2d, 16*10, a,nd died December the 13th,
1681. " His death being sudden, and being the residt
of an accident, a jury was summoned, who gave their
verdict, that he came to his death by mistaking his
way of a dark night and falling from a cliff of rocks.''
He left an estate valued at 393 pounds ($1,975) "at
his death he left a wife Elizabeth."
531. Mathew.
532. John.
533. Joseph.
534. Nathaniel.
- 536. Benjamin.
536. A daughter, who married Benjamin Grant.
537. A daughter, who married Robert Girard.
Mathew Beckwith, 531, born possibly at Saybrook
Point, in 1637 ; was recorded at Waterford, where he
was made a freeman in 1658; he resided first at
Guildford, and was one of the founders of the church
there, and died at New London, Conn., June 4th, 1727 ;
he married twice ; by his first vnfe, EHzabeth, he had
the following children :

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538. Mathew.
539. John.
540. James.
641. Jonah. .
542. Prudence ; born in New London, August
22d; 1676 ; married Roger Bart of Lyme,
July 24th, 1717 ; children, Solomon, bom
April 10th, 1739 ; Margarette, born May
1st, 1737 ; Lucy, born May 10th, 1722 ;
Ann, born May 31st, 1724 ; Roger, born
July 14th, 1726; Richard, born December
20th, 1728 ; WilHam, born December 21st,
1730 ; Prudence, born December 5th, 1732 ;
Hannah, born July 25th, 1735,
543, Elizabeth ; born Febmary 4th, 1678 ; mar
ried James Burchard, March 17th, 1696,
544, Ruth; born March 14th, 1680.
545. Sarah ; bom Lyme, Ct., December 16th,
1684; died February 28th, 1773; married
Joseph Leonard in 1704.
Mathew Beckwith, 531, his second wife Eliza
beth, daughter of Mathew Griswold of Lyme;
she married three times ; her first husband was
John Rogers, the founder of the sect known as
" Friends, or Quakers," and sometimes called " Roger-
ine Quakers," whom she married October l7th, 1670 ;
from him she was divorced October 18th, 1676 ; her
second husband was Peter Pratt, whom she married
August 6th, 1679 ; he died March 24th, 1685 ; in 1689

76 The Beckwiths.
she married Mathew Beckwith, and had by him a
daughter, and died at Lyme in 1737.
546. Griswold ; born in 1691 at Lyme and mar
ried Eliakem Cooly at Lyme, Conn,, Sep
tember 14, 1706 ; children EHakim, bom
1707; Griswold, bom 1709, died 1764
Mathew, bom 1712 ; Jonah, born 1716
died 1778 ; Josiah, born 1714 ; died, 1715
Luke, bom 1718; died 1777; Hezekiah,
born 1720; died 1796; Elizabeth, born
1727 ; Esther, born 1729.
Mathew Beckwith, 538, born at Guilford, Ct,, April
13th, 1667, and died there June 4th, 1740; married
Elizabeth, February 17th, 1721 ; she was born at New
London and died at Lyme in 1746,
547, Abiyah ; born July 11th, 1722,
548, Elizabeth ; bom Febmary 14th, 1723 ;
married twice ; 1st, married Joshua Cham
pion, Oct, 14th, 1742 ; children, Lydia,
born August 3d, 1745 ; Joshua, bom Feb
ruary 3d, 1747. 2d, married to D.Peck, April
19th, 1757; children, Martin, b. 1759
Elizabeth, bom 1761 ; Darious, born 1770
Huldah, born 1772 ; Simion, born 1766
Andrew, born 1768; John, b. 1770 ; Urn,
born 1774; Elisha, born 1777; Timothy,
born 1779.
549. Lois; born July 11th, 1726,
550, Diadiama; born November 18th, 1728,
561, Eunice ; born May 4th, 1733,

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552. Sarah; born AprU 22d, 1737.
John Beckvdth, 539, born Bramford, February 4th,
1669 ; he moved to New London, and there married
Naomi de Wolf August 12th, 1700; she was born at
Waterford 1676, and died at Lyme 1736.
553. John.
554. Elisha; born at New London 1712; died
at Waterford, Ct. ; married Amy Durand,
October 10th, 1759 ; she was born at
Waterford, and died there.
James Beckvnth, 540, born New London, June Ist,
1671 ; removed to Lyme inl692j and died there in
1719; he married Saa'ah ^^^!f^e{r, September 22d,
1693 ; she was born at Lyme in 1673, and died there
October 10th, 1714.
555. James.
556. Martha ; born August 16th, 1697 ; married
Joseph Wait in 1715.
557. Sarah; born July 1st, 1701.
658. EHzabeth ; bom May 30th, 1702.
559. Mary; born June 1st, 1716; 1st husband
Durant Tinker ; 2d husband, married 1745
to Capt. Starling of Lyme.
560. Daniel.
561. Samuel. '¦^. ] id.-^--^ ji^o-v.-
562. Renald. y^. ylim-MCf^ ry-n-'ti-"- ¦¦¦
563. John; bom October 10th, 1714.
James Beckwith, 555, born Lyme, Ct., May 11th,
1695; died there July, 1730; married Mary Lamb,

78 The Beckwiths.
July 3d, 1721 ; she was bom at New London, 1697,
and died there.
564. Sarah ; born Lyme, Ct., March 20th, 1722.
565. Rebecca ; born Lyme, Ct., January 20th,
1729.
666. James.
James Beckwith, 566, born at Lyme, April 1st, 1725;
died at Bristol, Ct, October 12th, 1764; he married
Lucy Griswold, April 10th, 1756; she was bom at
Lyme, Ct., September 28th, 1729.
567. Thomas; born at Lyme, Ct., 1765; re
moved to Rhode Island ; removed to Exe
ter, Otsego Co., N. Y. ; he married Azubah
Pinkney in 1786.
568. James.
569. Zacariah ; born at Bristol, Ct., February
14th, 1761; died there May 21st, 1811;
married Eunice Gaylord; she was born
October 18th, 1764, and died at Bristol in
1846.
Daniel Beckwith, 560, born at Lyme, Ct., October
26th, 1704 ; farmer and Baptist minister; died Novem
ber 10th, 1763; married Miriam Smith, November
13th, 1740; she ^moved to Marlow, N. H, in 1765,
and died there March 7th, 1809 ; she was born in 1721.
670. Eleazor; born at Lyme, Ct., in 1741; he
was a Baptist minister in good standing
and, also, a farmer; he died April 16th,
1808 ; married Hannah Lewis, who was
bom in l743, and died August 16th, 1823.

The Beckwiths. 79
571. Mary; born October 9th, 1743, and died
June 23d, 1823 ; married Samuel MiUer of
Lyme.
572. Elizabeth; married Richard Lampshire of
Lyme, and died in 1814.
573. Titus; born Lyme, Ct, December 30th,
1736; farmer; died at Chelsea, N. Y., in
1802.
674. Ruel ; born Lyme, Ct, August 18th, 1742 ;
died December 11th, 1790; married Sarah
Wood, December 9th, 1773.
675. Amos ; born at Lyme, Ct., April l7th, 1730;
removed to Marlow, N. H., in 1787; to
Sutton, Vt; Baptist minister; died at
Sutton, Vt., December 6th, 1822 ; he mar
ried Susannah Trueman, who was bom at
New London, Ct, August 4th, 1760, and
died at Sutton, Vt., September 21st, 1839.
676. Ira; bom 1733; died January 7th, 1829;
he was a farmer ; married Hannah Wheel-
ock, in 1750; she died May 22d, 1780.
577. Amon; born Lyme, Ct, 1752, and died
July 28th, 1805; farmer; he removed to
Marlow, N. H., and married Sarah Brown;
she was born in 1763, and died June 28th,
1837.
Samuel Beckwith, 661, born at Lyme, Ct, May 14th,
1709 ; removed to Norwich, Ct. ; had grant of land in
Cornwallis, N. S., from the British Government; he
died there ; married Miriam Marvin, in 1740, daughter
of Captain Renald Marvin, of Lyme, Ct.

80 The Beckwiths.
678. Samuel; born Norwich, Ct ; removed to
Cornwallis, N. S., and settled at Halifax,
N. S. ; he married Rebecca Chapman, of
Lyme, Ct.
579. Marvin.
580, Handley.
Renald Beckwith, 562, born at Lyme, Ct,, February
6th, 1706, to Fredericton N, B,, where he married Mary
Handley, April 12th, 1796 ; she was bom at Frederic-
ton, N, B,
581, EHzabeth,
582. Mary Ann.
683. Nehemiah ; born in Conn. ; was drowned at
Frederickton, N. B,, he married JuHa Le
Brun, who was born in Canada, in 1790,
684. Samuel; born in New Brunswick, died at
Buffalo, N. Y. ; married Adelaide Le Brun,
born in Canada and died at Albion, N. Y.
Jonah Beckwith, 541, born at New London, Conn.,
December 27th, 1673 ; to Lyme, Conn., Deacon of the
Congregational Church of Lyme ; died there in 1744 ;
married Rebecca, July 12th, 1701 ; she was bom at
Lyme, inJ.71A,
585. George.
586. Benjamin.
687. Jonah.
George Beckwith, 585, born at Lyme, Conn., Sep
tember l7th, 1702 ; graduate of Yale, ordained first
pastor of the Congregational Church of Lyme, in Jan
uary, 1730 ; died therein 1794. In 1761 was Chaplain

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of the 1st Regiment Conn, Volunteers ; participating
in the French and Indian wars, and was at Lake
George, N, Y, ; he was moderator of the general associa.
tion of Conn., in 1762, at Marsfield, Conn,, and in 1773,
at Bristol, Conn. ; married Sarah, December, 1744; she
was born in 1705, and died in 1797.
688, George; born at Lyme, Conn,, in 1733;
graduate Yale College and entered the
ministry, but afterward became a practic
ing physician at Lyme ; he removed to
Great Barrlngton, married and had children,
all daughters,
589, Barzillai ; born Lyme Conn,, in 1736 ; Dea
con of the Congregational Church, to East
Haddam in 1765, farmer; he married Mary
Butler of East Haddam, she died there.
590. Nathaniel Brown was killed in the Revolu
tionary War.
Benjamin Beckwith, 686, born at Lyme, Conn,, Oc
tober 18th, 1706,
591. Benjamin.
591a Josiah ; born at Lyme, Conn., in 1742 ;
married Mehitable Parsons (or Piersons).
592. SUas.
592a. David. , ^
John Beckwith, 532^, born at Lyme, Conn,, in 1669,
one of the original Patentees of New London, to
Waterford Conn. In a deposition before the county
court he says that he " had lived at Niantic Ferry for
the last seventy years," as the deposition was dated in
11

82 The Bechwiths.
1740, he must have been at that time one hundred and
two years old.
593. John.
594, EHsha.
John Beckwith, 593, he was bom at Waterford,
Conn., August 12th, 1718; married Elizabeth May-
hew, October 12th, 1742.
595. Elizabeth ; born May 25th, 1743.
596. Amy; born in 1745.
597. Sabra; born in 1750.
698. Noah; born 1752 ; married July 8th, 1773.
599. John; born 1753; enlisted in the Revolu
tionary Army, 1775; one year quarter
master's assistant ; quarter-master ;' third
lieutenant recruiting service; was taken
prisoner battle Flatbush; resigned 1778.
600. Seth; born 1755 ; married November 14th,
1781.
601. Frederick; born 1758; married April 3d,
1783.
602. Lydia.
603. Esther; bom 1762.
604. Caleb; born 1763; married in 1788.
Elisha Beckwith, 594, born and died at Waterford,
Ct. ; buried on the west bank of the Niantic river ; his
grave is unmarked.
605, EHsha ; born at Waterford, Ct,, in 1761 ;
he had ten children, who all settled in the
Western and Southern States,
606, Jason,

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607. David ; born Waterford, Ct, ; removed to
New York,
Jason Beckwith, 606, born Waterford, Ct, 1764;
removed to New London, Ct, ; ship-builder;
married 1785 ; died New London, Ct,
608. David.
609. Ezra.
610. Amy; married Anson Smith; living Chi
cago, m,, in 1886,
611. Sabra.
612. Betsy.
613, Elisha.
614, Jason ; married Naomi Caulkins.
616. Gurdon ; bom New London, Ct. ; enlisted
in the U. S, Army, 1807-8 ; served under
Gens, Harrison and Hull; taken prisoner
Detroit ; served in the 37th Conn, Reg. ;
married Wealthy  ; she was living
in 1887 ; a son, Gurdon, living at New
London, Ct, in 1889.
616. Daniel.
617. James.
James Beckwith, 617, born September 12th, 1803 ;
died Febmary 24th, 1875 ; he married  Caul-
kins, sister of his brother's wife.
618. Cordelia.
619, James E, ; married and had two daughters :
Julia A,, married Hon, R, W, Chapman,
living Waterford, Ct, 1889; Agnes D,,
married Rev. F. P. Braman; she died No
vember 30th, 1886.

84 The Beckwiths.
620. Elisha P.; born August 17th, 1832; mar
ried; no children; living New London,
Ct ; U. S. Ship Inspector in 1889.
621, Cyrus G,
Cyrus G, Beckwith, 621, born at New London, Ct ;
merchant there in 1888 ; State Senator, Connecticut
Legislature, several times ; married Augusta Dart,
who was born at Saybrook, Ct, October 23d, 1841,
622. James AUen ; bom at New London, Ct,
September 26th, 1868,
Joseph Beckwith, 633, born .Lyme, Ct, in 1640;
served in the military expedition to Wood Creek,
1708, in the old French War, where he lost his Hfe;
he married Susanna, daughter of Capt Way of Lyme ;
she was bom in Lyme, July 9th, 1682,
623. Sarah ; born April 14th, 1677.
624, Joseph,
Joseph Beckwith, 624, born at Lyme, Ct, April
15th, 1679, was living in 1727, but died prior to 1730;
he married Mary  .
625, Joseph ; born at Lyme, Conn., in 1700 ;
died August 9th, 1764.
626, Thomas; born at Lyme, Conn., December
11th, 1711 ; living Bristol, Conn., in 1789.
627. Hezekiah.
628. Susanna.
629. Mary; born in 1709; married Mathew
Marvin, 1732.
630. Lydia ; born 1711 ; married Benjamin
Huntley, April 27th, 1732 ; one son Cur
tice B., b. 1725.

The Beckwiths. 85
631. Dorothea ; born 1715.
632. Elijah.
633. Nathan.
634. Stephan ; born Lyme, Conn,, 1721.
635. Elizabeth; married Darius Peck, April
19, 1767.
636. Hannah ; married John Griswold.
Nathaniel Beckwith, 534, born at New London,
Conn., in June 1642.
637. Nathaniel.
Nathaniel Beckwith, 637, born at Lyme, Conn,, May
28th, 1671 ; married Sarah, who was born at East
Haddam, Conn, ^ c^U^ 2/.o-^^cl.^±^^
638. Job ; born at Lylsje, Oonn,, May 22d, 1705 ;
married Elizabeth Harvey, who was bom
in Mass.
639, Nathaniel ; born at Lyme, Conn,, January
6th, 1707,
640, Stephan.
641. Jerusha ; born August 10th, 1709.
642. Sarah ; bom August 13th, 1712.
643, Patience.
644. Joseph ; born December 10th, 1715.
Benjamin Beckwith, 535, bom at New London,
Conn,, March 8th, 1643 ; he was a mariner and was
lost at sea ; married Azubah Brewster of Hartford,
Conn. 645. Benjamin ; bom at New London, January
13th, 1679.
646. EHsha.

86 The Beckwiths.
647, Samuel; drowned at Lyme about 1800;
enHsted in the Revolutionary Army in
1775, Sells Co,, Parsons' Reg., Conn. Hne
for seven months ; re-enlisted 1776 for one
year; re-enlisted 1777 in the sea service;
was taken prisoner during the war and
exchanged ; married twice ; first, Polly
Greenfield in 1781; born 1760; second,
Mary Tinker, who died in 1836.
648, Sarah ; married Ebenezer Perkins of Lyme,
Conn.
Elisha Beckvnth, 646, born at New London, Conn,,
January 13th, 1682 ; married Nancy Perkins of Lyme,
Conn, ; moved to Lyme, Conn,, where they both died,
649, James ; born Lyme, Conn,, in 1711,
650, EHsha,
651, Prudence.
662. Huldah.
Elisha Beckwith, 660, born Lyme, Conn., 1718; he
married Adelaide Carpenter, who was born at Lyme
n 1724, and died there.
663, Rev. Roswell.
664. Samuel, born at Lyme, Conn., in 1755 ; set
tled at Hartford, Conn,, he enlisted in the
Revolutionary Army in 1776, and served
in Sells' Company, Parsons' Regiment,
655, Nathan ; born at Lyme, Conn,, in 1747 ;
settled at Waterford, Conn. ; sailor. En
listed in the Revolutionary Army in 1776 ;
served in Sells' company, Parsons' regiment ;

The Beckwiths. 87
he married Patience in 1774 ; he had a
grandson Samuel, age 9 in 1847.
666. Abner; born Lyme, Conn., in 1857. En
Hsted in the Revolutionary Army in 1776,
Ely's company. Conn. Line. Re-enlisted
in 1777, on the Spy Boat, and served
twenty-two months.
Rev. RosweU Beckwith, 653, born at Lyme, Conn.,
October 21st, 1753, was a Presbyterian minister; later
joined the Baptist Church and became a preacher of
that denomination ; removed to Coeymans, N. Y., in
1795, Cazenovia, N. Y., in 1807; died February 2d,
1836 ; enlisted in the Continental Army, Sells' Com
pany, Parsons' regiment, in 1775; he was taken pris
oner at Fort Washington and placed in the prison
ship in New York harbor ; he married Lydia, daugh
ter of George Dorr of Lyme ; they were married Janu
ary 13th, 1780; she died April 16th, 1834.
657. Deacon Barak.
658. RosweU ; bom at Lyme, Conn., October 8th,
1789 ; died August 8th, 1870 ; married
Nancy Hudson, February 29th, 1820 ; she
died July, 1832 ; his second wife was Olive
King of Pompey, N. Y. ; they were married
September 3d, 1833; she died in 1865.
669, George ; born at Lyme, Conn,, February
20th, 1792 ; died 1814.
660, Elizabeth; bom December 6th, 1782;
married Chancy Jones of Coeymans, N, Y,,
Febmary 3d, 180^ ; chUdren : Allen; Hving
RocheUe, 111,; Hiram; Hving Penn Yan

88 The Beckwiths.
Pa, ; Amos ; his widow living Waukegan,
111. ; Ransom ; died unmarried ; Sally ; died
in Albany, leaving children.
661, Huldah; born at Lyme, Conn,, November
14th, 1785; married Alva Hotchkifs of
Cazenovia, June 5th, 1809; children: Maria;
married James Kent ; living Palmyra, N,
Y, ; Susan ; married Allen ScoviUe; living
Sullivan, N, Y, ; Lydia ; married Charles
Barnes ; living Walworth, N, Y,
662, Eunice ; born December 4th, 1787 ; married
Peter Peck, January 6th, 1814; children:
Lydia A, ; married Joel Foster ; Harriet ;
married William Davis; Daniel; married
Betsy Foster; Betsy ; married A, N. Clarke ;
William ; married and left children,
663, James ; born at Coeymans, N, Y., June 1st,
1796 ; married his cousin Mary A. Hyde
of Lisle, N. Y., August 28th, 1826 ; she
was born January 22d, 1739 ; and was Hv
ing at Cazenovia in 1868. He served in
the U. S. Army in the war of 1812. En
listed in 1814, and served in Captain Un
derwood's company.
Robert Beckwith, 48, born at Clint, Yorkshire, Eng
land; married Barbarra, daughter of James Lowen
thorp of Lowenthorp.
664. John.
665. Mary.
John Beckwith, 664.
666. Sir Leonard.

The Beckwiths. 89
«
667. Ambrose.
668. Jane ; married William Allen.
669. WUHam.
Sir Leonard Beckwith, 666, of Selby, High Sheriff
County York, 4th year of Edward 6th, 1651 ; he served
King Henry in his French wars, and served Edward
6th ; from him received the Abbey of Selby, 1560; he
was Seneschal of the Abbies of St. Marys, Ancaster
and Stillingfleet, and Selby Abbey, County York,
1536. Lord of the Manor of Catfoss by purchase
from Sir R. Gressham, in 1539 ; was knighted, admit
ted one of the council of the North. Admitted Cor
pus Christie, York 1529. Died May 7th, 1566, and was
buried in York Minster ; will dated April 15th, 1566;
proven in 1558. He married Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir Rogers Cholmley, lord chief justice ; she died No
vember, 1683, aged sixty ; buried at York Minster
November 28th.
670. Roger, of Hardwicke Hall, sold his lands
and Selby to Henry, Earl of Derby, and
died in 1587 ; he married Elizabeth, daugh
ter of Sir Roger Cholmley of Roxby.
671. Francis ; died young.
672. Elizabeth ; married Wm. Vavasour of Wes
ton, Co. York
673. Frances ; daughter and co-heiress ; married
Sir George Harvey of Markes Tey, County
Essex ; lieutenant of London Tower.
Ambrose Beckvnth, 667, of Stillingfleet, etc., by de
vise from his brother, Sir Leonard, was admitted
12

90 The Bechwiths.
Corpus Christie, York, 1531 ; in 1540 was granted site
of Handale Abbey, and died March 10th, 1574 ; buried
in church of StUlingfleet ; he married daughter of Sir
R. Metham of Luckton ; living 1657 ; buried in church
at StilHngfleet. 674. Leonard.
675. Roger.
676. Ann.
677. Elizabeth.
678. Isabel ; married John Saltmarsh of Whitby.
679. Jane ; married Miles Newton of Whixley,
and died in 1604.
680. Grace; married Fairfax, and died in 1601.
681. Thomas.
Leonard Beckwith, 674, of Stillingfleet and Handale,
in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1584; wUl dated
July 24th, 1596.
682. Jane ; daughter and heiress.
Roger Beckvnth, 675, of Handale Abbey ; married
Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Newark of Accomb, Co.
York ; formerly esquire of the body of Queen Mary ;
she died in July 29th, 1696.
683. Newark.
684. Philip.
685. Mary Ann.
Newark Beckwith, 683, of Handale Abbey, died
1656 ; married Mary, daughter of John Fisk of Lax-
field, County Suffolk.
686. Leonard.
687. Mary.

The Beckwiths. 91
688. Elizabeth ; married Robert Lascelles of
Eighshine, County York.
Leonard Beckwith, 686, of Handale Abbey ; he was
bom in 1619, and married twice ; his first wife was
Theaphinia, daughter of Marmaduke Grimstone of
Grimstone Garth ; by this first marriage he had the
foUowing children :
689. Roger; age 18 in 1666.
690. WUHam ; died young,
691, Newark,
692. Leonard ; age 14 in 1666,
693. Marmaduke; age 9 in 1666.
694. Ann; baptized in 1643.
695. Mary ; married PhiHp Gemet of Dahsmill,
Co. York.
Newark Beckwith, 691, age 16 in 1666.
696, John.
697, Roger,
John Beckwith, 696, lieutenant-colonel in the
army ; married Sarah Crook; she died in 1741,
698. John.
John Beckwith, 698, major-general, commanded the
20th Regiment at the battle of Minden, and the Brig
ade of Grenadiers and Highlanders during the Seven
Years' War, with very distinguished reputation; he
married Janet, daughter of Dr, G, Wishart, Deacon of
Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, and Anne, daughter of Sir
James CampbeU, of Orchard Argyleshire ; she died in
1827, aged 97.
699. John.

92 The Bechwiths.
700. Sir George, G. C. B. ; adjutant, 1776 ; gen
eral and commander-in-chief of the Island
of Barbadoes in 1798; lieutenant-general
in 1805 ; governor of the Windward Isl
ands in 1815 ; quartermaster-general to
the forces in North America in 1814;
colonel 89th Foot, 1818; commander of
the forces in Ireland in 1819 ; born in
1753, and died in 1824; unmarried,
701, Ferdinand AmeHa; ensign 33d Foot, 1779;
lieutenant, 1780; colonel, 1802; brigadier-
general on His Majesty's, and major of the
37th Foot ; died in 1805, and was born in
1764.
702, WiUiam,
703, Sir Thomas,
704. Jessie; bom in 1773, and died in 1776,
John Beckwith, 699, of Somerby Park, Co. York,
born in 1751 ; lieutenant 16th Light Dragoons, 1776;
lieutenant 79th Liverpool Vol., 1780; captain 23d
Light Dragoons ; married Mary Halliburton, sister of
the supreme judge of Halifax, N. S., in 1818.
705. George; was in the navy, and died unmarried.
706. Charles ; Major-General in the army,
707, Sydney ; lieutenant-colonel of Rifle Brigade
in 1848; captain in 1839; major in 1847;
was killed in the Crimean War.
708, Henry Ferdinand ; lieutenant-colonel in the
Rifle Brigade ; captain, 1830 ; major, 1840;
died at Kingston, Canada.

The Bechwiths. 93
709. Susan ; married Lieut.-Col. Evart of Bath,
in 1874.
710, Anne.
711. Mary,
712, Jessie,
713. IsabeU.
714. Catherine.
715, Clementina.
Major-General Charles Beckwith, 706, bom at Hali
fax, N, S., in 1789, and died at La Tour, France, in
1862 ; in 1807 was in the expedition against Denmark;
in 1808 against Sweden; in 1809 in the War of the
Spanish Peninsula ; was present at Corunna ; and in
every action of importance until 1814, when he re
ceived the gold medal and rank of major, 3d March ;
Commander of the Bath in 1815 ; 95th Foot, acting-
quartermaster; lieutenant-colonel, 1815; lost a leg at
the battle of Waterloo ; captain on half pay, 1820 ;
Knight of St, Maurice and Lazarus; (see work, " Gen
eral Beckwith, his life and labors among the Walden's
of Piedmont," by J, P, Meille) ; he married a peasant
girl of Piedmont, Italy.
716, Charlotte; posthumous and only child,
WUHam George Henry Beckwith, 702, born in 1765,
and died 1844; ensign 20th, and captain 62d Regi.
ments ; married Sophia Maria Johanna, daughter of
Lieut -Col, Robt, Ewing, son of Ewing of Borsham
Towers, Dumphries; married in 1806, and died 1867.
717. John Ferdinand ; born in 1824; lieut of
the Rifle Brigade in 1844,

94 The Beckwiths.
718, Charlotte; married Rev, James Maringay,
719. Elizabeth ; died unmarried.
720, Georgiana ; died unmarried.
,721, Jessie Henrietta,
722, Sophia.
Sir Thomas Sydney Beckvnth, 703, K. C, B, ; major-
general in 1814; born in 1770; died in 1831 whUein
the command of the Bombay Army ; acting governor
of Bombay ; he married twice ; his second vnfe was
Mary, eldest daughter of Sir William Douglas, Bart,
and was sister of the second and third Marquis of
Queensbury ; she was married in 1817, and died in
1841 ; by his first wife, Clementina, daughter of Laugh-
man, she died in Canada in 1815, he had the foUovring
children :
723, Ferdinand ; died young.
724. Thomas Sydney ; in the Rifle Brigade ;
died 1827.
725, Jessie Philadelphia ; died in 1822,
726, Ann Clementina; married in 1830 to E,
Wilson of Rigmaden Hall, Westmoreland,
Leonard Beckwith, 686, of Handale Abbey ; married
his second wife, who was Anne, daughter of John
Theiry of Heward, Co. York, by whom he had the
following children :
727. Albert; age 1 in 1666.
728, Helen ; age 3 years in 1666,
Thomas Beckwith, 681, of Poppleton ; married Isa
bel, daughter and heiress of Guy Franklin of Nether
Poppleton ; she was buried at Poppleton, May, 1613.

The Beckwiths. 95
729. Ambrose ; buried at Poppleton in 1665.
730. Leonard; buried at Poppleton in 1663.
731. Roger.
732. Henry of Nether Poppleton ; buried there
in 1663; unmarried.
733. Susannah ; born at Poppleton in 1569.
734, EHzabeth ; married John Routh of Ricall,
Co. York.
735. Mary.
736. Margarette; buried at Poppleton in 1640.
737. Mary; buried at Poppleton in 1640.
Roger Beckwith, 731, buried at Poppleton in 1677 ;
married Elizabeth, daughter of William Stiles.
738. John of Poppleton ; buried therein 1689;
married Mary, daughter of Henry Smithson
of Brompton, Co. York ; buried there.
739. Ambrose.
740. Elizabeth; born in 1644; married in 1669
to Robert Horsefield, and died soon after.
Ambrose Beckvnth, 739, of Poppleton ; married
Anne, daughter of W. Nelson ; buried at Poppleton
in 1728. 741, Roger.
742. Ambrose of Poppleton.
743. John; baptized at Poppleton in 1716, and
buried there in 1717.
744. WiUiam.
Roger Beckwith, 74 1 , of Poppleton, untU about 1746
when he sold his property there ; died at Heningbor-
ough; buried there in September, 1787; he married

96 The Bechwiths.
Catherine, daughter of Ralph Bray of Woodhall near
Herningborough. 745. Roger.
746. Ambrose.
747. WUHam of Poppleton in 1738 ; buried
there in 1740.
748. Thomas; baptized in 1745.
749. John; dead in 1758.
760. Elizabeth.
751. Dorothy.
762. Catherine.
763. Amabilla ; died unmarried.
Rev. Roger Beckwith, 745, of Nun Monkton, Co.
York; by his second wife, Dorothy, daughter of
James Short of Martin's Hall, Hasworth, Co. Notts ;
she died in 1789 ; he had the follovnng children:
764. Rev. Thomas; bom November, 1768, at
Nun Monkton; in 1836 was living, unmar
ried.
Rev. Roger Beckwith, 745 ; by first wife Mary,
daughter of John Comfort of Newton-on-Ouse, he had
755. Ambrose; baptized at Nun Monkton in
1758 ; drowned in the North Sea in 1778.
766. Hannah; buried at Nun Monkton in 1778.
757. Catherine ; buried at Nun Monkton in 1768.
758. Elizabeth ; buried at Newton-upon-Ouse in
1788.
759. Mary; baptized at Nun Monkton in 1760;
married Thomas Wright of Richmond, in
June, 1785, and was buried in Richmond,
Co. York, in 1800.

The Beckwiths. 97
Ambrose Beckwith, 746, baptized August 17th,
1713, at Poppleton ; married Hannah Rhodes of Brad
ford. 760. Ann, or Nancy; baptized at Bradford in
1755 ; buried at St Olives, Co. York ; age
93.
William Beckwith, 744, lieutenant, 2d Dragoon
Guards; baptized at Poppleton in I7l7, and buried
there iu 1769; married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Hunt of Lyme Regis, Co. Norfolk.
761. WUHam.
762, Ambrosia.
763. Elizabeth.
WUHam Beckwith, 669.
764. WiUiam.
765. James.
WilHam Beckwith, 764, merchant of York; free in
1630; chamberlain in 1540; sheriff in 1543; lord
mayor in 1555 ; governor of the Merchants' Company
in 1556 ; seized at his death of the site of the Priory
of the Carmelites or White Friars, York ; died July
31st, 1586 ; buried at the Church of St. Croix ; mar
ried Alicia Rose, December 7th, 1548 ; she died Au
gust 16th, 1598 ; buried in the Church of St. Croix.
766. Leonard; sheriff, Co. York, 1587; died
1615.
767. Robert
768. Christopher of St. John's; alderman of
York.
769. Mary ; second wife of Alderman Hall ; sur-
13

98 The Beckwiths.
vived him and was buried in St, Croix,
December 14th, 1622.
Robert Beckwith, 767, of York, buried April 5th,
1586. 770. John ; buried August, 1566,
771, Michael; buried 1568,
772, Edith; bom 1567,
James Beckwith, 766.
773, Alice ; married Wm. WyviUe.
William Beckwith, 106, baptized at Featherstone,
Yorkshire, England, in 1571; removed to London;
merchant tailor. Emigrated to Virginia in 1607, vrith
Captain John Smith, in the ship " Phoenix," landing
at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony in 1607.
774. Henry.
776. A daughter,
Henry Beckwith, 774, born possibly in Virginia;
received a land grant in Maryland, dated Oct 5th,
1669, from Lord Baltimore, for "transporting himself
from Virginia," He settled in Dorchester Co,, Mary
land; will made 1717; proven Oct 27th, 1717.
776, Henry,
777, Nehemiah.
Henry Beckwith, 776, born in Dorchester Co., Md. ;
appeared in a suit against his brother in 1719 ; mar
ried Mary, who was born in Dorchester Co., Md, ; her
will was proven July 8th, 1758,
778, Nehemiah.
779. Charles.
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The Beckwiths. 99
herited Refuse Neck from his father ; was
living in 1770.
781. Mary; married Vickers, mentioned in will.
782. Elizabeth; married Taylor, mentioned in
will.
783. Margarette; married Thomas Corp, men
tioned in will.
Nehemiah Beckwith, 778, born in Dorchester Co.,
Md., about 1721 ; Hving 1768 ; mentioned in will of
Mary Beckwith.
784. Jeremiah.
785. Henry.
786. Nehemiah.
Jeremiah Beckwith, 784, born Neck district in Dor
chester Co., Md., about 1755; died there; married
Catherine Wheatly, who was born and died near
Cambridge, in Dorchester Co., Md.
787. Jeremiah.
788. Mary.
789. Hennie.
790. Wheatly.
Jeremiah Beckwith, 787, born Neck district in Dor
chester Co., Md., and died there ; married Charlotte
ChUderson, December 28th, 1819 ; born and died in
Dorchester Co., Md.
791. Aurania ; married J. E. Davis.
792. WiUiam B.
793. Henry White ; unmarried in 1889.
William B. Beckwith, 798, bom in Dorchester Co.,
Md., January 11th, 1831 ; farmer ; living there in 1889 ;

100 The Beckwiths.
married Annie E. Williams, April 9th, 1863 ; she was
born February 22d, 1841.
794. Oscar C. ; born February 2d, 1864.
795. Katie ; born December 27th, 1865.
796. WUHam F. ; born October 7th, 1868.
797. Edward B.; born December 25th, 1870.
798. Lottie C. ; born May 1st, 1873.
799. Maggie M. ; born January 11th, 1876.
800. Roma ; born October 16th, 1878.
Wheatly Beckwith, 790, bom Vienna district, Md. ;
died Neck district, Dorchester Co., Md., in 1856.
801. Rev. Jeremiah H. ; died unmarried, age 28 ;
802. Catherine ; married Joe Simmons ; he died ;
she was living in Cambridge, Md., in 1889,
having several children.
803. Job W.
Job W. Beckwith, 803, born Cambridge district
Md., November 19th, 1829 ; he resided at Airys, Md. ;
married Mary A. Wheeler, December 6th, 1850; she
was bom December 27th, 1830; he married a second
time to Miss Mawbray ; the foUowing chUdren were
by his first wife :
804. ¦ Walter H. ; living at Airys, Md., in 1889.
804a. Charies W.
805. Sadie W. ; living at Airys, Md., in 1889.
806. William P. ; born at Cambridge, Md., No
vember 12th, 1856 ; in 1890 was principal
of East New Market, Md., Academy;
married SaUie W. Spedden, December

The Beckwiths. 101
27th, 1882 ; she was born Dorchester Co.,
Md., August 31st 1859 ; no children.
Nehemiah Beckwith, 777, died in Dorchester Co.,
Md., prior to 1770; married Frances; her will was
made June 18th, 1734, and proved August 15th,
1734. 807. Dorothy.
808. Elizabeth ; married Ennals ; mentioned in
her mother's will.
Henry Beckwith, 785, born in Dorchester Co., Md.,
about 1758; died there in 1842 ; married Miss Mitch
eU; had several chUdren, but all died young; his
second marriage was to Miss Taylor, by whom he had
the foUowing chUdren :
809. Catherine ; born in 1796 ; married 
Travers ; she died October 26th, 1887 ;
her daughter Catherine married her cousin,
WiUiam W. Beckvnth.
810. Nehemiah ; born in Md., and moved to
Georgia.
Nehemiah Beckwith, 786, born in Dorchester Co.,
Md., in 1761 ; enlisted in the Revolutionary Army
1781 ; in the Maryland militia for four months' ser
vice, in Captain Stapleford's Co. ; he again enlisted in
1782 for one year ; married three times, and died in
1844 ; his third wife was Cornelia Mitchell, sister of
his brother's wife.
811. Nehemiah.
812. John M.
813. — ¦  ; married Mr. Thompson.

102 The Beckwiths.
Nehemiah Beckwith, 811, born in Dorchester Co.,
Md., 1791 ; died there in 1 878 ; married Mary Wheeler
in 1820 ; she died in 1867.
814. John M.
815. Rebecca; born in 1820; died in 1870;
married J. L. Radcliff of Dorchester Co.
John M. Beckwith, 814, born in Dorchester Co.,
October 10th, 1821 ; county treasurer, member State
Legislature, merchant ; and was postmaster of Corners-
ville in 1889 ; married Henrietta Ennals Corners in
1851, of Dorchester Co,
816, MoUie; born 1852; married Rev, Wm. E.
Evans of Richmond, Va,, December 29th,
1873 ; was pastor of a church at Richmond,
Va,, in 1889 ; they had three daughters
and one son,
817, Nettie; married Dr. C,F. NewbiU, in 1878,
who was practicing medicine at Millenback
Va., in 1889 ; they have two children,
daughters,
818, Samuel C, ; born September 24th, 1854;
married C. M. Corey, January 26th, 1882 ;
living in New York city in 1889.
819, Robert; born in 1854,
820. J, Tripp ; living in New York city, 1889,
821, Bunnie,
822, J, Ennals.
John M, Beckwith, 812, bom in Dorchester Co.,
Md., 1801 ; died there in 1885 ; married Miss Kirby.
823. Thomas.

The Beckwiths. 103
824. Sarah ; died unmarried.
825. Nehemiah ; born Dorchester Co., Md., mar
ried and had several children,
Thomas Beckwith, 823, born in Dorchester Co,, Md, ;
married Miss Wheeler.
826. Jennie ; married G, Slocum ; Hving Dor
chester Co,, Md., in 1889.
Charles Beckwith, 779, mentioned in will of Mary
Beckwith ; he was living in 1756.
827. Lemuel.
Lemuel Beckwith, 827, born at CornersviUe, Md.,
about 1745 ; died there.
828. WilHam.
WiUiam Beckwith, 828, born at CornersviUe Md,,
about 1767, and died there ; married Jane ChUderson,
in 1808. 829, Mary E. ; born in 1808,
830. Sarah Jane.
831. Susan.
832. WilHam W.
833. George W.
834. James.
835. Margarette ; born at CornersviUe, Md., Jan
uary 28th, 1813 ; married John Hubbard,
December 4th, 1834 ; living in Dorchester
Co., Md., in 1889; they had children:
Susan; William; Mary, born September
2 2d, 1840 ; married Wherette, December
18th, 1859; living Dorchester Co., Md,,
1889; Francis, and Margarette.

104 The Beckwiths.
William W. Beckwith, 832, born in Dorchester Co.,
Md,, April 22d, 1820 ; married his cousin Miss Tra
vers, in June, 1846, and moved to Hannibal, Mo.; was
Hving at Pony, Montana Territory, in 1889.
836, Thomas James; bom Februaiy 2d, 1853;
living in 1889, at Pony, M, T.
837, Arthur John; bom October 26th, 1861;
living in 1889, at St Louis, Mo.
838, William H. ; born in Dorchester Co,, Md,,
March 4th, 1857 ; ranchman ; Pony, M. T,,
in 1889.
839, Kate ; born September 10th, 1855 ; married
October 4th, 1882, W. C. McGastle of
Pony, M. T. ; living there in 1889.
840. Mary M, ; born Dorchester Co,, Md,, May
30th, 1850; married M, W. Medor, De
cember 16th, 1877 ; and in 1889 was living
at Pony.
Titus Beckwith, 573, farmer of Lyme, Conn, ; mar
ried Lizzie Howard of Lyme ; he died at Chelsea, N,
Y., in 1802,
841. Wheeler.
842. Daniel,
843, Rufus,
Rufus Beckwith, 843, born at Chelsea, N, H,, in
1764 ; soldier in the Continental Army in 1786, for nine
months' service ; he was living in 1861 ; married Thank
ful Sadie; she was born May 12th, 1765,
844, Martha; born January 12th, 1790 ; married
Saulsbury; she was Hving in 1886; children:

The Beckwiths. 105
Reuben, Alex., Henry, Roderick, Charles,
Eliz., Russel, John, Hannah, Miriame.
845, Sammie; born 1791.
846. Josiah; born 1796; enlisted in the Revolu
tionary Army in 1814 ; participated in the
battles of Plattsburg and Burlington, and
was wounded at Plattsburg ; married Mar
tha Plaistiel in 1817.
847. Edward W. ; born 1798,
848. Rufus, Jr. ; born 1800.
Ruel Beckwith, 574, born Lyme, Conn,, August 8th,
1742 ; by trade a mason ; died December 11th, 1790 ;
married Sarah Wood, December 9th, 1773,
849. Francis.
849a. Titus.
850, Ruel; born September 12th, 1778,
851, Nathan; born January 30th, 1781,
852, Betsy; bom AprU 9th, 1790; died De
cember 3d, 1790,
853. Sarah ; born at Lyme, Conn., August 8th,
1787.
853a, Richard ; born AprU 15th, 1780.
Titus Beckwith, g49a, born at Lyme, Conn,, Novem
ber 2d, 1776; farmer; died July 21st, 1854; married
Lucy Chappel of MontvUle, February 11th, 1798;
died March 13th, 1870,
854. Ruel.
865. WUHam.
856. Betsy ; born Marcli 12th, 1802 ; died Oc
tober 25th, 1848.
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106 The Beckwiths.
867, Daniel; bom March 31st, 1805; died De
cember 31st 1885,
858. Rebecca G. ; born Lyme, June Ist, 1811 ;
married J. M. Smith of East Lyme, No
vember 26th, 1844; one chUd Louisa;
they were living at East Lyme in 1889.
858a, Titus; born December 11th, 1806; died
January 18th, 1864,
869, Sarah A,; born June 10th, 1813; died
March 4th, 1886 ; manied R, L, Chadwick
of South Lyme, November 3d, 1840 ; one
child, Sarah Ann.
859a, Lucy; bom August 26th, 1808; died
February 16th, 1817,
859b, Mercy; bom November 5th, 1816; died
September 13th, 1825.
Ruel Beckwith, 854, born Lyme, December 13th,
1800; farmer; died March 10th, 1870; married Julia
A. Chappel, daughter of WiUiam Chappel of East
Lyme, October 15th, 1822 ; died February 22d, 1883.
860, Lucy ; born Febmary 8th, 1827 ; married
J. R. Spencer, October 16th, 1827, of
East Lyme ; children : Jennie, Emma and
May Ella ; they were all Hving at Nor
wich, Conn., in 1889,
861. Francis F. ; born June 4th, 1829.
862. Marcus N. ; born 1836 ; died 1881.
863. William C. ; bom May 21st, 1840; died
July 28th, 1876 ; married Sophia HoUen-
beck, at Athens, N. Y. ; left no children.

The Bechwiths. 107
WUliam Beckwith, 855, born Lyme, November 26th,
1803; married Carolina Champion, 1831.
864. WUliam W.; born 1832; died 1872.
865. Hiram ; born July 29th, 1834.
866. NUes C. ; born April 27th, 1838.
867. Esther A; born May 11th, 1840; married
J. Lamont, October 23d, 1872.
868. Rev. Osborn Thaddeus ; born Lyme, Oc
tober 18th, 1843 ; prof. Trinity CoUege,
Hartford, 1886.
Nathan Beckwith, 851, born Lyme, September 12th,
1778 ; removed to Oswego, N. Y., and died there ;
married DaHnda Appleton ; she died at Oswego, N. Y.
869. Edgar.
869a. Appleton.
870. Betsy.
871. DaHnda.
872. Emily.
873. Thirsa.
874. Nathan R.
Nathan R. Beckwith, 874, born in the State of N.
Y., 1800 ; married twice; his first wife was Phebey,
who was born at Ontario, N. Y., 1806.
875. Appleton.
876. Augustus.
877. Addison.
878. Carolina.
879. Francis Jefferson.
Francis J. Beckwith, 879, born at Ontario, N. Y., in
1834; farmer; married Sarah Greenmeyer, at Steuben,

108 The Beckwiths.
Ind, ; born Ohio, 1841 ; he was living, in 1889, at Sat-
icoy, Cal, 880. Caroline M, ; born September 20th, 1861.
881. Charles F, ; born January 12th, 1863.
882. Delbert F. ; born January 21st, 1869.
883. Emma G. ; bom October 22d, 1876.
Amos Beckwith, 57^ born April 17th, 1730 ; died
December 6th, 1822 ; removed to Marlow, N. H, 1787,
and afterward to Sutton, Vt, ; Baptist minister ; soldier
Continental Army, Parsons Reg. Conn, Line; married
Susan Truman ; born New London, August 4th, 1760;
died at Sutton, Vt, September 18th, 1839,
884, Abigail; born June 8th, 1781; died Au
gust 22d, 1796,
885, Daniel ; born October 15th, 1783 ; married
1809, Sylvia Newall of Burke, Vt, ; she was
born January 27th, 1790 ; died November
11th, 1867.
886. Truman.
887. Rebecca; born March l7th, 1786; married
Rufus NewaU, in 1805 ; died March 18th,
1812 ; they lived at Jay, Essex Co., N. Y. ;
he married secondly, Betsy, daughter of
Ira Beckwith, and died February, 1859.
888. John,
889, Elizabeth; born March 21st, 1789; married
Truman Newall, of Sutton, May 24th,
1824; died January 24th, 1843,
890. Sylvania; born December 26th, 1795;
married 1825, Arad Ball of Newark, Vt.

The Beckwiths. 109
Truman Beckwith, 886, born October 15th, 1783 ;
married 1st, August 5th, 1814; Alice, daughter of Isaac
Brown, born January 2d, 1790; died August 19th,
1837 ; married 2d, November 6th, 1838, Mrs, Abbey
M, Cooke, daughter of George HaU, of Newport, born
October 14th, 1808 ; died May 2d, 1873 ; merchant of
Providence, R, I. ; by last marriage no issue,
891. Susan; born June 13th, 1815; married
January 9th, 1838 ; died February 5th,
1851 ; married Arthur S. Train of Fram
ingham, Mass, ; Baptist minister,
892. Amey Brown ; born April, 1817 ; died June
23d, 1826.
893. Henry Truman; born December 22d, 1818;
living Providence, R, I., in 1889,
894. Abbey Green ; born October 4th, 1820 ;
living in Providence, R. I., in 1889.
895. Amos Newall.
896. Isaac Brown; bom 1825; died 1825.
Amos Newall Beckvnth, 895, born December 4th,
1822; cotton manufacturer; married November 15th,
1848, Clara C. Lippitt, daughter of Warren Lippitt,
of Providence, born May 5th, 1828 ; died June 15th,
1879. 897. Daniel; born September 13th, 1849; Brown
Uni, 1870; librarian of Prov. Atheneum
since 1879 ; living Prov, in 1889,
898, Alice D, ; born June 13th, 1852 ; died Sep
tember 18th, 1884 ; married Earnest L, Op-
penheim of New York, late U. S. consul.

110 The Beckwiths.
899, Robert Lippitt
900, Truman,
901, Helen Stuart; born June 8th, died Sep
tember 14th, 1861,
902, Warren Lippitt ; born September 12th,
1867 ; Hving in Chicago in 1889,
Robert Lippitt Beckwith, 899, born October 14th,
1855 ; manufacturer of laces and yams, at Scituate, R,
I., in 1889 ; married Carrie, February 2d, 1887, daugh
ter of Henry L. Joslin of Prov., R, I,
903, Amos ; born August 22d, 1880,
904. Henry Truman ; born March 26th, 1882.
905. William; born June 6th, 1884.
906. Alice Brown; born November 6th, 1885.
907. Daniel; born December 25th, 1888.
Truman Beckwith, 900, born August 24th, 1869 ;
cotton manufacturer at Prov., 1889; married Harriet
C, daughter of Henry L. Parsons of Prov., February
2d, 1887 ; born September 18th, 1860.
908. Truman; born October 10th, 1887.
John Beckwith, 888, born October 12th, 1789 ; died
May 10th, 1874 ; lawyer at Sutton, Vt. ; married Ma
tUda Shaw, daughter of Jacob Shaw of Sutton ; born
AprU 12th, 1797 ; died March 7th, 1882.
909. Ladeska ; born August 7th, 1821 ; Hving
at Sutton, Vt. ; married Rufus D. Wilson
of Sutton ; he died 1884.
910. Corydon.
9 1 1. Amos Beckwith ; born at Sutton, Vt., Oc
tober 4th, 1825 ; graduate West Point

The Beckwiths. Ill
Military Academy, in 1850 ; served in the
Seminole war; during the Civil war as
chief commissary at Washington; chief
commissariat of the military division of
the Mississippi ; (m staff of General Sher
man in Atlanta campaign ; after the war
was chief Com. Department of the Gulf ;
brev. brig.-genl., U, S, A,, March 13th,
1863; It-col. on general's staff, June 23d,
1874 ; commissary-general, and stationed
in St. Louis, Mo,, in 1889 (see RoU of
Honor),
912. Laura Enos; bom October 10th, 1827;
married David Joy of Cambridge, Mass,,
July 5th, 1843 ; living there in 1889,
913, Daniel NewaU,
914. Truman.
916. John; born June 15th, 1835; unmarried
and living in St, Louis, Mo,, in 1889 ; in
the government service,
916. Henry Nehemiah; born 1838; died 1863.
917. Kate Susan; born October 10th, 1843.
918. Sarah EHzabeth; born AprU 20, 1840;
living in Sutton, Vt,, in 1889.
Hon. Corydon Beckvnth, 910, born Caledonia Co.,
Vt, July 24, 1823; removed to Chicago, 1853; judge
Illinois State Supreme Court 1863; general solicitor
C, A. & S. L. R. Co., in 1864 ; lawyer, Chicago, 111.,
in 1889; past superior judge of Illinois (Court); mar
ried Mary Ann Smith of St, Albans, Vt,, in 1849;

112 The Beckwiths.
he died at Highlands, 111,, his country seat, August
18th, 1890.
919, Mary Ann; married Cutter; Hving in Cin-
cinati, Ohio, in 1889.
920. Henry W. ; U, S. consul at Bermuda in 1889,
921. John William ; Yale University in 1889,
Daniel NewaU Beckwith, 913, born June 10th, 1830 ;
merchant and postmaster at Ludlow, Mass., in 1889;
married Mand ville Colby of Burks, Vt.
922. Mary EUen; bom October 17th, 1861,
923. Henry.
924. AHce.
Truman Beckvnth, 914, born December 22d, 1832;
formerly surveyor-general of Iowa; living at Co-
mancha, Iowa, in 1889 ; married 1st, Salinda C. Angier ;
died July 2d, 1868; married 2d, VioUa A. Finney of
Comancha, Iowa.
925. Laura May; born December 29th, 1861;
married John Tong ; living at Pleasant
Home, Neb., in 1889.
926. Henry Truman; born January 4th, 1864;
living at Vail, Iowa, unmarried.
927. Fannie Augusta; born May 24th, 1872.
928. Charles Finney; born August 25th, 1876.
Ira Beckwith, 576, born 1760; settled in Ackworth
in 1801; died January 7th, 1829; farmer; married
Hannah Whelock, 1789, of Marlow; born 1761; died
May 22d, 1850.
929. Jared.
930. Rebecca.

The Beckwiths. 113
931. Stephen.
932. PhUinda.
934. Betsy.
935. Polly; born June 19th, 1795 ; diedatlona,
Mich,, in 1885; married and had foUow
ing children: Chloe, Mary, Lucy, Betsy,
Elone, Royal, Henry.
936. Annie.
937. Daniel.
938. Eunice.
939. AbigaU.
Amon Beckwith, 577, born 1762 ; removed to Mar
low, N. H, ; married Sarah Brown of Alstead, N. H,,
bom 1763 ; died June 28th, 1837,
940. Amos.
941. Willard.
942. Rhoda.
943. Charles.
Charles Beckwith, 943, born Marlow, N. H.; re
moved to Fitchburg, N. H. ; married Mindwell Alex
ander. 944. Alvah A.
945. Sarah L.
946. Charles L.
Alvah A. Beckwith, 944, born Fitchburg, N. H,
July 4th, 1815; died November l7th, 1868; married
1st, Lucy Fairbanks, May 15th, 1841 ; married 2d,
Sarah Goodrich, May 29th, 1855,
947. Francis A. ; born Fitchburg, January 4th,
1868 ; living there in 1889.
15

114 The Beckwiths.
947a. Charles; born November 30th, 1860; died
January 25th, 1854, unmarried.
947b. Ellen; bom September 27th, 1841; died
July, 1851, unmarried.
947c. Maria; bom January 25th, 1843; died
November 5th, 1858, unmamed.
947d, Sarah; born April 16th, 1857; died Sep
tember 22d, 1857, unmarried,
James Beckwith, 666, born Lyme, Ct, April 1st,
1725; died at Bristol, Conn,, October 12th, 1764;
married Lucy Griswold, April 10th, 1755, bom Lyme,
September 28th, 1729,
948, Thomas; bornLyme, Conn,, 1755 ; removed
to R, I, ; to Exeter, Otsego Co,, N, Y, ;
married Azubah Pinckney in 1786,
949, James,
950. Zachariah.
Zachariah Beckvnth, 950, born at Bristol, Conn.,
February 14th, 1761; died there May 21st, 1811;
married Eunice Gaylord, born October 18th, 1764;
died at Bristol, 1846.
951. Anna,
952, Lucy ; married James McKinney; children,
Alice, married Ira Fish, Perry, Frank,
Fred, Eva, Earnest.
953, Philander,
954. Eunice; married Rev. E, A, Atkins of
Bristol.
955, Samuel G,; moved to Girard, Ala,
956, Sidney,

The Beckwiths. 115
957. Dana.
958, Zachariah,
959. James.
960. Anson.
Dana Beckwith, 957, bom Bristol, Conn,, April 18th,
1793; died there July 31st, 1889; married Esther
Ritchie, October 3d, 1817, bom at Bristol, February
13th, 179S ; died July 4th, 1888.
961. Mary C. ; born 1820 ; died 1845.
962. George; born 1826; died 1826.
963. Lucy; born June 23d, 1827; living at
Bristol in 1889.
964. Henry.
Henry Beckwith, 964, born July 28th, 1821 ; died
November 28th, 1887; married Charlotte M. Skinner,
July 14th, 1861.
966. Julia E.; born July 28th, 1872.
966. Mary C; born June '27th, 1866; married
Louis B. Brewster, October 9th, 1878; liv
ing at Bristol in 1889.
Zachariah Beckwith, 958, bom Bristol, Conn., Oc
tober 22d, 1796, resided in Monckton, Vt, until August,
1822, when he moved to Middlebury, Vt, and died
there March 15th, 1862 ; married Julia Smith, Novem
ber 26th, 1818, bom Monckton, Vt, November 25th,
1799 ; died September 22d, 1886.
967. Julius A. ; born Febmary 10th, 1821 ;
lawyer; died December 3d, 1857; married
Abbey Wainvnight, June 26th, 1847, born

116 The Beckwiths.
1824; she was living in Middlebury, Vt,
in 1889.
968. Julia A.; born February 9th, 1826; mar
ried W. S. Goodrich, November 18th, 1874;
Hving at Middlebury, Vt., in 1889.
969. Buel Smith.
Buel Smith Beckwith, 969, born Middlebury, Vt.,
September 24th, 1834 ; merchant there in 1889 ; mar
ried Emma Wainwright, January 16th, 1867; born
Boston, March 24th, 1843.
970. Robert; born Middlebury, 1879; died 1879.
971. WiUiam ; born April 28th, 1881.
James Beckwith, 959, born November 9th, 1797 ; re
moved to Smith ville, Tenn., in 1820; farmer; died
1859; married Rachel B, Roulston, March 3d, 1822;
born Knoxville, Tenn,, October 15th, 1804,
972, Zachariah; born Smithsville; died unmarried,
973, Dana; born 1832.
974. Sidney; born 1830.
975. OH via; born 1838 ; died 1860; unmarried.
976. Harriette; born Carthage, Tenn,; married
G, H. KiU,
977, George.
978. James. -
979. Samuel Grant; born 1834; served in the
War of the Rebellion in the 54th Reg.
Tenn. Inf. C. S. A., 1861-4.
980. Anson Gaylord ; born 1836; sergeant 23d
Reg. Tenn. Inf., C. S. A,, 1861 ; kUled
at battle of Chattanooga,

The .Beckwiths. 117
981, William Devereaux,
982. Irenus.
George Beckwith, 977, born Carthage, Tenn., Feb
ruary 11th, 1824 ; farmer ; at Lebanon, Tenn,, in 1H89 ;
married Fannie M, Winson, May 18th, 1835 ; born
Vicksburg, Miss.
983. Carrie ; died young.
984. James ; died young.
985. Harriet ; died young,
986. Andrew ; died young.
987. Hugh ; died young.
988. Rachel; born July 29th, 1874.
James Beckwith, 978, born December 6th, 1825 ;
farmer; SmithviUe, Tenn,, in 1889; married Matilda
Whaley, March 25th, 1849 ; bom Liberty, Tenn,, Oc
tober 18th, 1832.
989. James E, ; born March 16th, 1851 ; married
Cornelia Martin, December 23d, 1886;
living at SmithviUe in 1889,
990, Lemuel M, ; born February 10th, 1868;
farmer; SmithviUe, Tenn,, in 1889; mar
ried Sarah H, Keith, October 10th, 1888,
991, William G. ; born December 8th, 1854,
992, Sidney H, ; born May 21st, 1864.
993, Thomas D. ; born May 18th, 1866.
994, Charies E, ; born June 26th, 1878.
WUliam Devereaux Beckwith, 981, born White Co,,
Tenn., May 30th, 1840; farmer; at SmithviUe, Tenn,,
in 1889; married twice; his first wife, Ellen B,

118 The Beckwiths.
Rogers, September 6th, 1879, born Mt, Pleasant,
Tenn,, September 18th, 1855,
995, Jonathan R, ; died young,
996, Mary I, ; died young.
WiUiam Devereaux Beckwith, 981, his second wife,
Laura Williams, married November 23d, 1884, born
February 28th, 1864.
997. Berta; born August 21st, 1885.
998. Mary R, ; born June 29th, 1886.
999. Thomas Fite-; born December 16th, 1889.
Irenus Beckwith, 982, born February 19th, 1843;
in 1889, living in Alexandria, Tenn, ; farmer; his first
wife, Bettie Brandon, married June 12th, 1871, born
October 25th, 1 843.
1000, James W,; born October 20th, 1871 ; clerk
bank, of Alexandria, Tenn,, in 1889.
Irenus Beckwith, 982, second wife, Sarah A, Barry,
married April 15th, 1879, born WUson Co,, Tenn,,
October 27th, 1859,
1001, Henry W, ; born AprU 17th, 1881.
1002. MattieB.; born March 1st, 1885.
1003. Frank B.; born September 20th, 1882.
1004, EUen; born July 19th, 1889.
1006. Benjamin McM.; born November 15th, 1886.
Samuel Beckwith, 578, born Norwich, Conn. ; re
moved to Cornwallis, N. S., and settled at Halifax, N.
S. ; married Rebecca Chapman of Lyme, Conn.
1006. Marvin H.
Marvin H. Beckwith, 1006, born at HaHfax, N. S.,
and died there ; married Eunice Pinneo.

The Bechwiths. 119
1007. George C.
1008. Rev. WilHam ; living in N. S. in 1889.
George C. Beckwith, 1007, bom Halifax, N. S. ;
ranchman in Colorado in 1889 ; married Tamison
Heath, born Boston, Mass. ; grand-daughter of Richard
Heath, general in the Revolutionary Army.
1009. Rev. Loring E.
1010. Elton F. ; ranchman Ula, Colo,, in 1889;
married Elsie, and had daughter Vellma,
1011, Edwin F, ; living at Ula, Colo,, in 1889,
1012. Vellma ; married S, A, Ford,
1013. EdeUa; married S. F. Edgar; living at
Woodbridge, N. J., in 1889,
Rev, Loring E, Beckwith, 1009, born Maine, Febru
ary 12th, 1845 ; living at Cambridge, Mass., in 1889 ;
married Alice Houghton, April 28th, 1871, bom Bos
ton, Mass. ; he graduated at Harvard College in 1864 ;
Harvard Divinity School in 1870 ; settled as a Unita
rian minister, at Denver, Colo., Augusta, Me., Milford,
N, H. ; for several years has devoted himself to lectur
ing on English literature,
1014, Theodora M, ; born Cambridge, April 13th,
1880.
Marvin Beckwith, 679, born Conn,, resided at South-
ington; moved to Cairo, Green Co,, N, Y, ; died at
Southington, ~N, Yr
1016, Alva,
1016. Clark
1017. James.
1018. Ira.

120 The Beckwiths.
1019. Lorin.
1020. Dianna.
1021, Sarah,
1022. Sophia,
1023. Harriet.
1024. Andre ; born 1803 ; living at Chester, Ohio,
in 1889.
Alva Beckwith, 1015, born Cairo, N. Y„ May 29th,
1787; died October 21st, 1835 ; married Maud Brush,
October 21st, 1819, born N. Y, July 10th, 1800; he
settled at Clarence Co., N, Y., and then moved to Mon
roe, Mich., where he bought out a tavern or stage house,
which he carried on to his death, in 1835 ; his widow
and children removed to Willoughby, Ohio, where she
was still residing in 1889.
1025. Dianna; born Clarence, Mich., 1820; mar
ried and residing in Willoughby, 1889; her
children: Alva C. Nutter; born 1844;
Libbie ; born 1840 ; married Astog; Ernest
L. ; bom 1853 ; living in Willoughby,
1889.
1026. Anna; born Monroe, Mich,, 1834; married
 James,
1027, Elvina; born 1827; married; died 1857;
left one child, Mrs, Orville Dean, living
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1889.
1028. James.
1029. Marvin E.
Marvin E, Beckwith, 1029, born Clarence, N. Y,,
November 4th, 1823; photographer at Cleveland,

The Beckwiths. 121
Ohio; died there December 13th, 1887 ; married M,
McLeod ; born Prescott, Canada, January 6th, 1819;
daughter of General McLeod, the Canadian patriot,
1030. Hattie; born Ohio in 1847; married H,
Roosa of Cleveland; Hving there in 1889;
children : Frank E, ; bom 1875 ; died
1875 ; Effie B. ; born 1877 ; Bessie M, ;
born 1880 ; died 1882,
1031, Alvira; married Ardville,
1032. Alva Donald
Alva Donald Beckwith, 1032, born Willoughby, Ohio,
September 26th, 1849 ; photographer at Cleveland,
Ohio, in 1889; married Jennie A, Mark, in March,
1875; born Cleveland, November 5th, 1853.
1033, Mark E. ; born Cleveland, June 4th, 1877,
1034, Henry H, ; born April 5th, 1884,
Handly Beckwith, 580, born in Conn, ; died at
Cornwallis, N, S, ; married Catherine Newcomb, in
1782, bom and died in Cornwallis.
1035. John,
1036, Joseph.
1037. James E.
1038. Lavinia,
1039, Mary.
1040. Handly.
1041. Daniel.
1042, Holmes.
1043. Mayhew.
Mayhew Beckwith, 1043, born CornwaUis, N, S„ in
1798; died 1871 ; married Eunice Rand, March 21st
16

122 The Beckwiths.
1829, bom N. S. 1808 ; he was a member of the Pro
vincial ParHament for twenty years, from Hicks Co,
1044. Ellen; married J, E, Masters, St, Johns,
N. B.
1045, Crassie; married H, Randle; living Law-
renceton, N. S,, in 1889.
1046. Mary; married V. Landy ; living Digby,
N, S., 1889,
104 r, Adelia; married Dr, Sheffield; living St,
Johns, N, B,, 1889,
1048, Leliah ; married Wentworth of Sheffield,
N. S,
1049, Edward M,
1050, Burpee, M, D. Imperial Staff of the Court
at Jamaica, W. I., in 1889 ; married and
has children.
1051. Robert Nelson.
1052. John Albert
Robert N, Beckwith, 1051, born CornwalHs, N, S.,
April 2d, 1834 ; married Annie Graves, September
23d, 1856; born Windsor, N. S., March 1st, 1832.
1053. Horace L. ; born Halifax, September 22d,
1857; lawyer therein 1889.
1054. Mayhew; born January 3d, 1860; living
North West Territory in 1890.
1056. Charles E.
1056. Robert B. ; born November 6th, 1862 ; Hv
ing at Boston, Mass., in 1889.
1057. Laura E. ; bom October 18th, 1875.

The Beckwiths. 123
1058. Ernest S. ; born July 4th, 1867 ; living at
Halifax, N. S., 1890.
John A. Beckwith, 1052, born at Cornwallis, N. S.,
in 1830 ; farmer ; living at Middleton, N. S., in 1889 ;
married Rebecca Barnaby, June 10th, 1852, born
AprU 12th, 1823.
1059. WilHam S.; born March 30th, 1853; liv
ing Victoria, B. C, in 1890.
1060. Author; born October 25th, 1854; living
Missoula Co., Montana, in 1890.
1061. John L.; born March 5th, 1856; living
Victoria, B. C, 1890.
1062. Herbert ; born November 27th, 1861 ; liv
ing Portland, Oregon, 1888.
1062i. Alfred; born August 7th, 1861 ; living at
Portland, Oregon, 1888.
1063. Henry ; born April 7th, 1864, at Portland,
Oregon, 1888.
1064. Norman ; born June 7th, 1860.
Nehemiah Beckwith, 682, born in Conn., drowned
at Frederickston, N, S. ; married JuHa Le Brun, born
Canada in 1790.
1665, Francis M,; married Greensward.
1066. Julie ; married Hart.
1067. Sophie; married J. S, Marsh,
1068, Charles,
1069, Amelia.
1070. Hon. John A.
Hon. John A. Beckwith, 1070, born Frederickston,

124 The Beckwiths.
N, S,, December 18th ; lawyer and member of Provin
cial Parliament ; manied A. C. Jonette.
1071. Julia A.; married J, K, Hazen,
1072. Amelia C. ; Hving at St Johns, N, B,, in
1889,
1073, Thomas A.
Thomas A, Beckwith, 1073, born N. B., October
10th, 1829 ; merchant ; manied Charlotte Whitesides,
September 21st, 1865 ; living at Oronocto, N. B,, in
1889, 1074, Adolphus J, ; born August 5th, 1860,
1075, Eliza ; born September 26th, 1868,
1076, Gertrude M, ; born April 4th, 1872.
1077. George Frederick; born February 11th,
1877.
1078. Robert; born June 6th, 1877.
1079. Fannie ; born September 25th, 1880.
Samuel Beckwith, 584, born N. B. ; died Buffalo,
N. Y. ; manied Adalaide Le Brun, she was born in
Canada in 1798 ; died at Albion, N. Y., December 1st,
1873. 1080. Elizabeth.
1080a. Francis X.
1081. Mary Ann.
1081a, George L,
1082, James F,
Francis X, Beckwith, 1080, born in Maine, March
29th, 1808; removed to ScottsvUle, Canada; died Gates,
N, Y,, in 1886 ; married Hannah Goodhue, born at
Wheatland, N, Y, ; when quite young he moved to Hen-

The Beckwiths. 125
rietta, attended the academy, removed to ScottsvUle and
entered the furniture business, was active in the " Patriot
War of 1837," commanding an artillery company from
Wheatland, which went to the front. He was ap
pointed sheriff, and was jaUer for many years. He
was buried at Oatka cemetery, near Gate, N, Y,
1083, Adelaide.
1083a. Francis M.
1084. Mary E. ; married H. H. MUler of Scotts
vUle, N. Y. ; Hving there in 1889.
1085. Florence ; living at Rochester, N. Y., in
1889.
1086. WilHam L.
WUliam L, Beckwith, 1086, born ScottsviUe, N, Y,
AprU 23d, 1835 ; farmer ; U, S, Vol, Service 134th and
140th N. Y. Inf, 1861-5 ; was wounded and taken
prisoner at the battle of the Wilderness, May 5th,
1864, was five months in rebel hospitals and prisons,
returned to his regiment, and was present at the last
campaign from Petersburg to Appomattox ; living at
Prescot, Iowa, in 1889 ; married Mary Kazebeer, Oc
tober 8th, 1868, born Wapello Co,, Iowa, March 29th,
1845, 1087. Anna H. ; bom Lucas Co., Ohio, March
10th, 1876,
George L, Beckwith, 1081a, born N. B., May 23d,
1800; removed to Vermont with his parents when
nine years old ; living in Henrietta, Monroe Co., N. Y.,
in 1889 ; married Sarah Winslow, August 9th, 1829,
born at Dartmouth, Mass., July 7th, 1805. He was at

126 The Beckwiths.
Buffalo and witnessed the entiy of Com, Perry's fleet
into that port after the battle of Lake Erie, and he pi
loted a boat-load of officers into the harbor. In 1815
he removed to Henrietta, then a part of Pittsford,
teaching school in winter and working at farming in
summer ; before the opening of the Erie canal the far
mers would send him to Montreal to sell their produce,
returning on foot through an almost unbroken wilder
ness to his home in Henrietta, In 1826 he purchased
flfty acres of land, the nucleus of his farm, where he
died, 1088, Warren,
1089, Samuel; living at Mt, Pleasant, Iowa, in
1889,
1090, Adolphus ; U, S, Vol, Service, 8th N, Y,
Cav,, 1861-65,
1091, Everett; U. S, Vol, Service, 8th N, Y.
Cav„ 1861-66,
Warren Beckwith, 1088, born in W. Henrietta, N. Y,
Januaiy 21, 1833 ; farmer at Mt, Pleasant, Iowa, in
1889 ; captain 4th Iowa Cavalry, U, S, Vol, Service,
1861-65; married Lou Porter, April, 1863, born Tren
ton, Iowa, November 1st, 1841,
1092, Everett ; born at Mt, Pleasant, Iowa, Feb
ruary 1st, 1864.
1093, Orville ; born February 17th, 1867.
1094. Emily ; born August 8th, 1869,
1095, Florence ; born AprU 16th, 1872,
1096, Warren W, ; born August 10th, 1874,
1097. Geoi-ge L, ; bom Preston, Iowa, in 1888,

The Beckwiths. 127
James F. Beckwith, 1082, born Vermont, July 22d,
1813 ; died at Albert, N, Y, May 31st, 1879 ; married
Sarah Lawson, December 5th, 1836, born Poultney,
Vt, October 13th, 1816,
1098, Charies ; born Rush, N. Y,, September 20th,
1839 ; died at Albans, N. Y., in 1888 ; U,
S. Vol. Service, 1861-66 ; 4th N, Y. Heavy
Artillery.
1099. James,
James Beckwith, 1099, born ScottsvUle, N, Y,,
March 2d, 1841 ; U, S, Vol., 1861-4, 4th N, Y, Heavy
Artillery; was chief of the colored bureau war depart
ment for several years after the war ; married Emily
Martin, August 2d, 1866, born Pembroke, N. Y., No
vember 18th, 1844 ; Hving Quincy, 111., in 1889.
1100. Frank; born Quincy, IU., November 8th,
1869.
1101. Emma ; born May 19th, 1868.
Silas Beckwith, 592, born Lyme, Ct., 1746; moved
to Watertown ; to Elmira ; to Albany, N. Y., where
he kept a public house, but was driven off by the
Tories for befriending Gov. Yates ; he was an officer
in the Revolutionary Army, enHsted 1776, three years
service, was appointed captain by Gen. Yates in 1777 ;
died at Vincennes, Indiana, October 13th, 1835, mar
ried three times, his first wife, Anna Reeves, born
Conn., died Coventry, N. Y.
1102. Richard.
1103. Daniel.
1104. Henry.

128 The Beckwiths.
Richard Beckwith, 1102, born Watertown, Conn.,
in 1776 ; when a young man moved to Newtown, now
Elmira, Chemung Co., N. Y. ; farmer and sheriff of
Chenango Co., N. Y. ; died at Elmira, N. Y, May 8th,
1836 ; manied Sarah Holbert died July 11, 1836.
1105. Albert Alonzo.
1106. Richard R.
1107. George.
1108. Sarah A. ; born June, 1802 ; manied David
Griswold ; she died January 22d, 1868.
1109. Dellia ; married Gilbert Dean, and their
only child Dellia married Dr. John Balls ;
living in 1889 at Breesport, Chemung Co.,
N. Y,
1110, May; died 1826,
1111. Clarissa; married E, Mather ; one child May,
1112, Nancy ; born March 30th, 1809 ; died Sep
tember 19th, 1841 ; married John Carpen
ter in 1830; children: EHza, born June
16th, 1832 ; married Alfred Strader in
I860; living Elmira, N, Y, in 1889;
Mary, born December 9th, 1833 ; married
A. Ostrander in 1855 ; Thomas, born May
16th, 1836; married La V. Whitcomb;
Nancy, born May 28th, 1841 ; married
Alonzo Whitcomb,
1113, Shelden,
1114. Elizabeth ; bom at Elmira.
1116, Julia A,
1116, Peter C,

The Bechwiths. 129
1117. Timothy.
1117a, Zina Amanda ; died unmarried,
1117b, David ; born June 17th, 1846 ; died un
married.
1117c. Mary ; died unmarried.
Albert Alonzo Beckwith, 1105, born 1800; drug
gist, N. Y. city; removed to Ridgebury, N. Y.; to
Horseheads, N. Y. ; died at Elmira, N. Y,, November
1st, 1843 ; married Hannah Griswold ; she died at
Horseheads, now North Elmira, N. Y., about 1843.
1118. George.
1119. Edvrin Ruthvin.
1120. Townsend,
1121. Harriet; married WiUiam S, Carpenter of
Big Flatts, N. Y. ; their children : Jefferson
B., Charles E., Clara E,, married Samuel
Minner ; Susan L., married Willis Leonard ;
Harriet M.
1122. Minerva ; married Louis Fitch, living Horse
heads, N. Y. ; their children : Albert B,,
married Linnie Rockwell ; Townsend, Julia,
EUia C, married Henry Foy ; Roa C,
Anna M,
1123. Caroline; married Louis Fitch; child:
Bertha C.
1124. Julia.
1125. Jefferson.
George Beckvnth, 1118, living at Elmira, N. Y.,
in 1889 ; married Charlotte Palmer.
1126. FrankUn P.
17

130 The Beckwiths.
1127. Harriet L.
1128. SteUa L
Edwin Ruthvin Beckwith, 1119, bom Southport,
Chemung Co., N. Y., September 15th, 1822 ; removed
to Ridgebury, Pa., 1847; died August 20th, 1877; mar
ried Julia P. Burt, February 5th, 1868; born Ridgebury,
Pa., January 9th, 1832 ; she was living at Elmira, N.
Y., in 1889 ; when he was eleven years old his father
took him to dine with the postmaster of Ridgebury,
Pa., Mr. John Burt, as the two elders were busy talk
ing, young Edwin amused himself playing with a two-
year-old baby girl ; he declared he had lost his heart ;
at the death of his parents he was only twenty-one ;
educated his brothers and sisters to fill responsible
positions in life ; he engaged in the lumbering busi
ness ; and moved to N. Y, engaging in the wholesale
drug business, and married the little girl to whom he
had lost his heart when a boy ; sold out, and buying
a farm at Ridgebury, entered into fruit growing ; was
J. P. several years, and held other offices of public
trust. 1129. Hannah E, ; bom Ridgebury, December
21st, 1860; Hving at Wheatly HiU in
1889.
1130. Julia G. ; born Ridgebury, 1863 ; died 1863.
1131. Edwin B. ; bom Ridgebury, June 8th, 1870;
druggist; living at Syracuse, N. Y., in
1889,
1132. James Webb; born Ridgebury, Pa., De
cember 1st, 1866 ; graduate Philadelphia

The Beckwiths. 131
College of Pharmacy, March, 1888 ; phar
macist, Syracuse, N. Y, in 1889.
Townsend A. Beckwith, 1120, living in Cuthbertson,
Nebraska, in 1889 ; married Sarah Pratt.
1133. Albert A.
1134. Townsend C.
Jefferson T. Beckwith, 1125, married Helen Ruther
ford ; he died and his widow was living in Rutherford,
N, J,, in 1889,
1135. Leroy W,
1136. Helen W.
1137. Clara A.
Richard Ransom Beckwith, 1106, born 1800; died
December 2d, 1862; married; she was living at
Smeethsport, McKena Co,, Penn., in 1888.
1138. WUliam.
1139. Amanda.
1140. Amanda.
1141. Abbey ; married J. C. Huston ; living El
mira, N. Y,, in 1889,
1142. David ; living at Mozierville, Penn,, in
1889.
George Beckwith, 1107, born 1807 ; died May 3d,
1868 ; married Polly Brown.
1143. Albert Alonzo, born August 20th, 1842 ;
living at Bradford, Penn,, in 1889,
Shelden Beckwith, 1113, born February 28th, 1804 ;
died December 29th, 1851 ; married Betsy McHenry,
December 20th, 1821 ; bom May 12th, 1801,
1144. Ruhamah; born September 15th, 1829;

132 The Bechwiths.
died December 21st, 1885 ; married Wm.
Green ; he was living Redford, Wayne Co.,
Mich., in 1889 ; their children were: Au
thor, born October 22d, 1860 ; Ida, bom
September 30th, 1862; married Elenor
Lyons; Dexter, born January 7th, 1865;
Clarence, born November 10th, 1866 ;
Mattie, born AprU 27th, 1869.
1145. Martha; born July 29th, 1836; married
G. Roberts, August 28th, 1865.
1146. Clarissa; born September 7th, 1841; married
Edwin Sacket, December 28th, 1862; living
in Redford, Mich,, in 1888 ; their children
were : WUbur, born November 18th, 1863;
Custer, born December 4th, 1864; Fred,
born January 10th, 1867; Lina, born
March 21st, 1869; John, born July 2d,
1870 ; Bertie, born May 30th, 1872 ;
Josie, born November 10th, 1873; Milton,
born May l7th, 1875; Ansel, born October
8th, 1876; Etta, born January 15th, 1880 ;
Archie, born October 28th, 1882,
1147, James ; born July 24th, 1831 ; died AprU
4th, 1847,
1148, Henry,
1149, Richard; born August 3d, 1834,
Henry Beckwith, 1148, born July 8th, 1881 ; mar
ried Josie, 1867 ; she died July 12th, 1872 ; manied
second wife, October 1st, 1884 ; he moved to Redford,
Wayne Co., Mich.

The Beckwiths. 138
1150. Minnie; born September 10th, 1868.
1151, Frederick; born November 29th, 1869,
1152. Lottie L, ; born July 26th, 1884,
Peter C. Beckwith, 1116, born Elmira, N. Y, in
1824 ; died August 11th, 1877 ; manied Betsy Powers.
1153. Charles A, ; living at Ravenna, Cal,, in
1889.
1164. EHza.
1166, EUa.
Timothy Beckwith, 1117, born EHnira, February
27th, 1826; living at Bradford, Pa, in 1886; U. S,
Vol. Service, 1861-64; owner of several oil wells and
an extensive owner of oil shares ; married Mary Rum-
sey, January 20th, 1867, born August 8th, 1840.
1156. Eugenia; born North Chemung, N. Y., Oc
tober 6th, 1870,
1167, Clara; born Bradford, Pa,, June 30th, 1880,
1158. Jessie; born Bradford, Pa., March 11th,
1872.
1169. Frederick; born March 14th, 1874.
Daniel Beckwith, 1103, born Watertown, Conn.,
1770 ; moved, when a young man, to Newtown, now
Elmira, N, Y,, and settled on the south side of the
Chemung river, now called Southport ; was a farmer
and died at Southport ; married Ann Sly, born Pa, ;
they had three sons and six daughters,
1160, Henry Sly,
1162. Robert; married,
1163, John,
1163a. Abuna,

134 Ihe Beckwiths
1163b, Louisa,
1163c, Elizabeth.
1163d. Sarah,
1163e. Mary Ann.
1163f, Lucy,
Henry Sly Beckwith, 1160, born Elmira, N, Y
June l7th, 1805 ; farmer ; removed to Oregon, IU, ; liv
ing there 1889 ; married Patiance Deans, August 28th
1828 ; born Westchester Co,, N. Y, AprU 1st, 1810,
1164. Elizabeth Ann; born May 2d, 1829; mar
ried Geo. H. Beers, and was living in El
mira 1889.
1165. Francis B. ; born August, 1832; married
Baker.
1166. Emma G. ; born April, 1848; married
Gambol.
Robert Beckwith, 1162, born Elmira, N. Y; died
at Southport, N. Y. ; his widow was living there in
1889; on the farm owned by her father-in-law, -Sifes
Beckwith. Do-m;©^
1167. Dan.; living at Southport in 1889.
1168. Seth; enlisted in U. S. Army during War of
1812, from Martinsburg, N. Y. ; died 1851 ;
married Elizabeth Battles, born 1787 at
Martinsburg ; she moved to Easton, Mich.
1169. Marion.
John Beckwith, 1162, born Southport ; farmer ; died
there ; his widow was living there in 1889.
1170. Guy.
1172. Ida,

The Beckwiths. 135
1173. Judd.
Henry Beckwith, 1104, born Watertown, N. Y. ;
farmer ; died at Elmira, N. Y., March 10th, 1850.
1174. Henry; living near Elmira in 1889.
1175. Elizabeth ; married Buckbee of Elmira.
Silas Beckwith, 592, his second wife, Anna Smith,
born Merford Co., N, Y. ; died Chemung, N. Y, May
17th, 1857 ; aged ninety years,
1176, Samuel,
1177, Silas.
1178. Seth Smith.
1179. AnnaY.; bom December 29th, 1783 ; died
March 24th, 1883; married D. Hungerford,
October 21st, 1802; born Watertown,
Conn., 1780; moved to Coventry, N. Y.,
1812; died there in 1860; their children
were : Rachell, born 1806 ; married J. P.
Goble ; living Fulton city, IU,, 1889 ; La
vinia, married Joseph E, SneU, March
9th, 1835 ; died March 6th, 1849 ; SaUy,
bom 1816 ; Annie, born 1826 ; married
J, T. Barnum ; living Minneapolis in 1889 ;
Laura, born 1822; married R, P. Baird;
living Butternuts, N, Y, in 1889; David,
bom 1824 ; married M. A. Castle ; Chauncy
H,, married E, Shoals ; Susan, married
H, P. Judd; Maria, bom 1803; living
Coventry, N. Y., 1886 ; manied M, Hatch
1840,
1180. Isaac.

136 The Beckwiths.
Samuel Beckwith, 1176, born Watertown, N. Y., in
1800 ; removed to Painted Post, N. Y. ; died at New
Milford, in 1865 ; married in Elmira, N. Y.
1181. Seth S. ; living in 1889.
Seth Smith Beckwith, 1181, was living at Canisteo,
N. Y,, in 1889,
1182, Anso M. HaU; living at New MUford,
Pa., in 1889.
1183. Ann; married David Brown of Elmira;
living there in 1889.
Silas Beckwith, 1177, born at Watertown, N. Y,
in 17Q9; removed to Painted Post ; died at Big Flats,
N, Y,, in 1867 ; he was married in Elmii'a,
1184, Richard H.
1185, Silas.
1186. Seth.
1187. Susannah; died young.
1188, Elizabeth; died young,
1189. Ann; married David Brown; living El
mira, N. Y,, in 1889,
1190, Olive.
1191. Olinda.
1192. Mathias W.
Richard H, Beckwith, 1184, born Big Flats, N.
Y, in 1820; died there in 1852; married Cornelia
Judson; born Elmira; died 1884.
1193. Milton H,
Milton H. Beckwith, 1193, born Big Flats, Oc
tober 27th, 1857; removed to Newark, Delaware;

The Beckwiths. 137
prof, of Entomology and Pomology in Del. State Coll.
at Newark, in 1889; married Eugenia Lossie; bom
Elmira ; he is the author of numerous scientific works
on Entomology and Pomology.
1194. Gertrude; born 1877.
1196, Winnifred ; born 1884.
1196. Clara J,; born 1886.
Mathias W. Beckwith, 1192, born Chemung, Che
mung Co., N. Y. ; died there March 16th, 1888 ; married
Esther P, HenseU,
1197. Charles H.
Charles H. Beckwith, 1197, born Chemung, N. Y,,
November 20th, 1844; married Mary Donahue, Oc
tober 8th, 1865; born at Phila,, Pa,, January 17th,
1845, 1198, Charles F. ; bom Elmira, October 29th,
1866; living at New Brighton, Penn,, in
1889 ; glass cutter and finisher.
1198a. MUton ; living Elmira, N. Y., in 1888.
1198b. Dan; living Elmira, N. Y„ 1889.
Seth Smith Beckwith, 1178, born Watertown, N, Y,
1786 ; removed to Chenango Co., N, Y. ; died Bing-
hamton, N. Y., May 12th, 1865 ; married Hannah
Yale, born 1738, at Chicago, 111., September 18th,
1871. 1199. Charles H.
1200, Elizabeth.
1201. Sarah Evalina; bom 1834; died Septem
ber 12th, 1851.
1202. Augustus.
18

138 The Bechwiths.
1203. Augusta.
1203a. JaneH.; born 1837; died November 30th,
1867.
1204. Hannah F.
1205. Seth S. ; died young.
Charles H. Beckwith, 1199, born Chenango Co., N,
Y, 1819; formerly merchant, dealer in real estate at
Chicago, IU,, in 1889; manied Mallissa M,, daughter
of Solomon W. Owen, a pensioner of the War of
1812, and SaUie Sherwood, of Greene, Chenango Co.,
N. Y., May 20th, 1841 ; born GuUford, N. Y., May
9th, 1821 ; died at Chicago, December 5th, 1886.
1206. Franklin Henry; born Albany, N. Y,
AprU 8th, 1846; living Chicago, 1889;
manied N. L, Kerfoot, October 16th, 1872.
1207. Charles Le Roy ; bom Greene, N. Y., March
7th, 1848 ; farmer in 111,, in 1889 ; married
AHce W. Denke, July 20th, 1875.
1208. J, Carrol ; born Hannibal, Mo,, September
23d, 1852 ; artist ; living in N. Y, city in
1889 ; married Bertha HaU of N. Y. city,
June 1, 1887 ; from 1873 to 1878 was a
student under Carolus Duran, in Paris,
France; also studied at the Government
Art School there ; exhibited in the Salon
of '77 ; also in the Universal Exposition in

'78 ; received honorable mention at the
Salon, and was recipient of the medal at the
Universal Exposition of 1889 ; returned to
America in 1878, and took studio in New

The Beckwiths. 139
York city ; director. Society of American
Artists; president. National Free Art
League; professor. Art Schools, Cooper
Institute, Metropolitan Museum, and Art
Students League.
Isaac Beckwith, 1180, born Watertown, N. Y., in
1785 ; died Wake Co., N. C, May 20th, 1866.
1209. Green.
1210, Sion.
1211. Silas.
1212. Ira.
Silas Beckwith, 592, his third wife  Benja-
men, who died at Vincennes, Indiana.
1213, Benjamin,
Benjamin Beckwith, 1213, born 1791; participated
in the War of 1812 in Boatman's Co,, was at battle of
Lundy's Lane ; removed to Cincinnati, Ohio ; married
SaUy Gresham in 1815 ; died Elmira, N. Y.
1214, Dr, Beckwith; dentist at Sterling, IU,, in
1889.
Isaac Beckwith, 1180, by his second marriage,
1215. Needham,
Needham Beckwith, 1215, Wake Co., N. C, in
1822 ; Hving at Elm Grove, N. C, in 1889 ; manied
A, E, Atkins, in 1848; born Orange Co,, N, C, in
1822. 1216. Eugenia.
1217. Council.
1218. Josiah.
1219. W. H. B.

140 The Beckwiths.
1220. Wesley.
1221. John.
1222. J. Fabius, M. D. ; born Chatham Co., N.
C, in 1852 ; living at Plymouth, Pa., in
1889; manied Bessie W. Payne, Novem
ber 11th, 1887; bom N. C, 1863.
Barzillai Beckwith, 589, born Lyme, Conn,, 1736 ;
farmer at Ellington, Conn,; deacon Congregational Ch,;
removed to East Haddam, Conn., 1736; died there
February, 1818 ; married Mary Butler; she died there.
1223. George.
1224. Rebecca; born East Haddam, December
22d, 1767; married E. P. Cone,
1225, Mary; born December 16th, 1769; died
November, 1814.
1226. Sarah; born June 3d, 1774; married L,
Griffen; children: Lillia, Emily and Mary.
1227, Elizabeth; bom February 23d, 1777; mar
ried AUen Griffen; daughter Betsy mar
ried John Brockway, M, D,, of N, Lyme, Ct,
1228, Barzillai,
1229. Rhoda ; born February 4th, 1786 ; married
AUen Griffen,
1230. Butler.
1231. Dr. Baruch.
1232. Nathaniel Brown.
1233. Jonathan.
George Beckwith, 1223, born East Haddam, Febru
ary 6th, 1764; removed to Great Barrlngton in 1807.
1234. Penelope; married Sandford.

The Bechwiths. 141
1235. Patience ; married Ely.
1236. Maria; married Davis.
1237. Sarah.
1238. EmUy.
1239. Eliza.
1240. Erastus.
1241. AUan.
1242. Julius.
1243. George; farmer at Gt. Barrlngton.
1244. Bamch.
Erastus" Beckwith, 1240, born Wellington, Mass.;
removed to Gt. Barrlngton ; farmer.
1245. Daniel W.
1246. Maurice.
1247. Rev. Edward.
1248. George E.
1249. Martha M. ; married E. Humphreys.
Daniel W. Beckwith, 1245, born Great Barrlngton ;
farmer ; married twice ; 1st, to W. H. Martin ; 2d, to
Annice Peck; living Great Barrlngton, Mass., in 1889.
1250. AHce.
1251. Noble.
1252. WUHam.
1253. Edward.
Maurice Beckwith, 1246, born Gt Barrington ; died
Sandwich Islands ; planter ; married Sarah Mosely in
1868. 1254. Nellie ; naarried Damon.
1256. Julia ; manied Walsh.
1256. Maurice ; bom in Sandwich Islands.

142 The Beckwiths.
Rev. Edward G. Beckwith, 1247, born Gt, Barring-
ton ; removed to Sandwich Islands ; pastor Cong, Ch,,
San Francisco, 1887 ; married Caroline P. Armstrong,
born Sandwich Islands; living there in 1889.
1257. Rev. Frank A, ; died December 13th, 1885,
1258. Carrie A. ; born Sandwich Islands in 1865 ;
Hving in San Francisco, Cal,, in 1887,
George E, Beckwith, 1248, born Gt, Barrington; re
moved to the Sandwich Islands ; planter ; married H,
Goodale of Marlboro, Mass,
1259, Mary E.
1260. Martie.
Baruch Beckwith, 1244, born Gt. Barrington; Bap
tist minister; removed to Gouverneur, N. Y.
3 261. Julius.
1262, Henry B.; born Gouverneur, N. Y; re
moved to Chateaugay, N, Y, ; living there
in 1880,
Barzillai Beckwith, 1228, bora East Haddam, Conn,,
November 19th, 1765 ; farmer ; died there March 10th,
1812 ; married Silvia Griffen, bom E, Haddam, Oc
tober 12th, 1764; died June 14th, 1840.
1263. Norman,
1264, Frederick,
1265, Elizabeth ; married M. S. SiU of Windsor.
1266, Emeline; living at E, Haddam in 1889;
blind and unmarried,
1267, Edmund G. ; born E, Haddam, 1796; re
moved to Sommers, Conn, ; died there
1841.

The Beckwiths. 143
1268. George Beckwith ; born E. Haddam, 1799 ;
died Molina, N. Y., in 1850.
1269. BarziUai.
Norman Beckvnth, 1263, born E. Haddam, April
8th, 1793; carpenter; removed to Hartford, Conn,;
manied Francis Clark, November 3d, 1817 ; died No
vember 16th, 1867.
1270. Julia E.; born September 2d, 1818; mar
ried E. G. Strand.
1271. Haniet S. ; born April 3d, 1820; married
C. Lee.
1272. Franklin R. ; born August 21st, 1822 ; mar
ried M. A. Munsell, November, 1842.
1273, Henry J, ; born August 24th, 1824,
1274. Norman C, ; born January 20th, 1834; liv
ing at Hartford, Conn,, 1868,
Frederick Beckwith, 1264, born E, Haddam, 1794;
cloth dresser; married his 4th cousin, Jerusha Sill,
October, 1817; born June 18th, 1794; he died 1826;
she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, 1858.
1275. WUHam E.
1276. Thomas S.
1277, Cornelia; bom Lyme, 1822; married E,
Sacket.
1278. George G. ; bom Glens Falls, N. Y, 1824;
died 1826.
1279. Marie S. ; born 1826 ; manied.
WiUiam E. Beckwith, 1276, born Lyme, Conn., Jan-

144 The Beckwiths.
uary 9th, 1819 ; married Sarah Doe in 1849 ; removed
to Cleveland, Ohio.
1280. Frederick A. ; bom Cleveland, December,
1850; living there in 1889.
Thomas S, Beckwith, 1276, bom Lyme, January
11th, 1821 ; merchant, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1889; mar
ried Sarah Oliphant.
1281, Mary C, ; born Cleveland, 1849 ; died 1849,
BarziUai Beckwith, 1269, M. D., bom East Haddam,
1797; settled in Monmouth, IU,, in 1846, where he
resided untU 1879, when he died of heart disease;
married C. M. Amsden in 1831, at Saybrook, Ashta
bula Co., Ohio, about 1821 ; she was living in Chicago,
IU,, in 1889.
1282, Livia A,; married A. B, Scenter, in 1867.
1283, Mary E, ; living at Chicago, EL, in 1889.
1284. Emma; married S. M, Muck; one chUd,
EUa,
1285, Henry C.
Henry C. Beckwith, 1285, born Saybrook, Ohio,
graduate Monmouth College in 1844; U. S. Vol. Ser
vice in 1861-66; removed to Clarinda, Iowa; living
there 1889; married Alice P. Bowers in 1869; bom
Monmouth, 1286, Jennie A.
1287. Jessie ; born 1872.
1288, Alice A, ; born 1878,
1289. Barzillai ; born 1881.

The Beckwiths. 145
Butler Beckwith, 1230, born E, Haddam, February,
1772 ; married Hannah Cone of E. Haddam.
1290, Rev, George Cone, D, D,, graduated at Mid
dlebury College, Vt, and at Andover Theo
logical Seminary, was pastor several years
of Congregational Church at LoweU, Mass,,
but was most of his public life Secretary
of the Am, Peace Society of Boston, Mass.
Dr. Baruch Beckwith, 1231 ; M. D. ; born E. Had
dam, September 6th, 1779; removed to Beekmantovm,
N. Y. ; died there ; married Lucy Mather, niece of
Cotton Mather, born Lyme, Conn,, November 11th,
1777; died Beekmantown, February 28th, 1833.
1291. George M.
1292. Bamch.
1293. Samuel B. M.
1293a. Lucy M, ; born November 23d, 1811 ;
married Rev, Justin Taylor, October 10th,
1827 ; he died in 1887 ; she was living at
Forest, Wis,, 1889 ; chUdren : Mary, Lucy,
Hattie, Nellie, Martha.
1293b. Mary A. ; married Aug. Smith of Lyme,
Conn. ; she died in 111.
1293c. Louisa W. ; bom June 14th, 1819; died
November 6th, 1835.
1293d. Betsy; born July 13th, 1817; living at
Whitehall, N. Y., in 1889; married Na
than J, Judson, January 10th, 1839; he
died November 14th, 1887 ; chUdren : Har
riet L,, born November 20th, 1843; mar-
19

146 The Bechwiths.
ried Hon. D. F. Dobie; Henry C, bom
October 4th, 1 848 ; living WhitehaU, 1889 ;
Frederick B., born July 21st, 1854; liv
ing Whitehall, 1889.
George Mather Beckwith, 1291, bom Lyme, Ct, Jan
uary 27th, 1805 ; lavrjrer, county judge of Clinton Co.,
N. Y. ; died Plattsburg, N. Y., June 24th, 1883 ; mar
ried Hannah EHza Moores, Febmary 28th, 1833,
daughter of General Moores of Plattsburg.
1294. George H.
1295. Benjaman.
1296. Maggie L. ; married J. Hubel, September
16th, 1856 ; living at Chazy, N. Y., in 1889;
children: Amos M., bom December 5th,
1857; married Cl. Jones; EHzabeth, born
August 31st, 1859; Nelson W.Fiske; Mary
C, born May 28th, 1861 ; married J. W.
North; Julius C, born June 5th, 1863;
George L., born October 18th, 1866; Mar
garette S., born July 18th, 1868 ; Mattie F,,
born March 11th, 1871; LUHe S,, bom Sep
tember 17th, 1873 ; John S,. bom Febru
ary 1st, 1875 ; Jennie C, born December
25th, 1877 ; Richard W., born May 30th,
1880 ; all the above were living in Chazy,
N. Y„ in 1889.
1297. LucyM.; married M, Sowles of St Albans,
N, Y; living Plattsburg in 1889;' children:
Margarette B,, born AprU 29th, 1869; died
October 23d, 1872 ; Mary G,, bom April

The Beckwiths. 147
5th, 1873; died March 16th, 1876; Eliza
beth B., born October 27th, 1887.
George H. Beckwith, 1294, born Plattsburg, N, Y. ;
lawyer ; manied E. Villas of Plattsburg ; living there
in 1889. 1298, Harriet V.
1299. Grace.
1300, Mary.
1301. Vilas.
Benjamin M, Beckwith, 1296, born Plattsburg, Au
gust 24th, 1836; lawyer; enlisted in the U. S. Vol.
Service 1861-64; died at Plattsburg, January 27th,
1887 ; married Lodie Mitchell, December 21st, 1858 ;
she moved to Milwaukee, Wis,, where she was Hving
in 1889, 1302, Sophia C, ; bom Greenbay, Wis,, December
7th, 1859; married H. Newton in 1887;
living Plattsburg, N, Y,, in 1889,
1303, Elizabeth; born August 22d, 1862; died
March 19th, 1879,
1304, Harriette; born January 17th, 1869.
1305. Maria L.; bom September 26th, 1874; liv
ing Milwaukee in 1889.
1306. George M.; bom 1861 ; died 1865.
1307. William M. ; born January 16th, 1867;
living at Milwaukee in 1889.
1308. Henry M,; born June 16th, 1867; living at
Milwaukee in 1889.
Bamch Beckwith, 1292, bom at Hartford, Conn.,

148 The Bechwiths.
April, 1809 ; farmer ; married Clarissa, widow of Enos
P. Beckwith, at Plattsburg, N. Y., August 4, 1836,
1309, Allen G,
1310, WilHam H,
1311, Helen; born June 21st, 1845; married J,
Higgins, October 22d, 1872 ; living EUen-
burgh, N, Y,, 1886 ; children: George B,,
born EUenburgh, December l^th, 1874 ;
died July 30th, 1878; Chas, L„ bom
EUenburgh, September 12th, 1877; Lottie
L„ born June 22d, 1880.
Allan G. Beckwith, 1309, born Beekmantown, Vt,
June 1st, 1837 ; book-keeper at Burlington, Vt, in
1889 ; married Mary Hoffnagel, December 2d, 1868, of
Essex, N. Y.
1312, Frederick A; bom March 2d, 1865 ; living
at Buriington, Vt, in 1889,
1313. Bertie C, ; born January 16th, 1876.
WUliam H. Beckwith, 1310, born September l7th,
1842; manied Julia E, Whitney, November 15th,
1866, born WhitehaU, N, Y, ; Hving KeeseviUe, N,
Y,, 1889. 1314. Milton E. ; born July 1st 1870; living
KeeseviUe, N. Y, in 1889.
1315. Minnie E. ; born November 4th, 1874; Hv
ing KeeseviUe, N. Y., in 1889.
1316. Charles S. ; born May 4th, 1882 ; living
KeeseviUe, N. Y., in 1889.
1317. Maud S. ; born August 17th, 1884 ; living
KeeseviUe, N. Y, in 1889.

The Bechwiths. 149
1318. WilHam H, ; born March 21st, 1886 ; Hv
ing KeeseviUe, N, Y, in 1889.
Samuel B, M, Beckwith, 1293, born Beekmantown,
April 16th, 1814; lawyer; removed to Chateaugay,
N, Y, ; married Mary, daughter of Daniel Beckwith of
MorrisonviUe, N. Y,, May 26th, 1842 ; she died July
19th, 1872 ; he married 2d wife, Helen ; living at
Chateaugay, N, Y., February 14th, 1874 ; by the
second marriage he had no children.
1319. Mary H, ; born January 24th, 1843 ; living
at Lisle, N, Y„ 1889.
1320, EmmaE, ; born January 13th, 1846; mar
ried H. Upson ; living Winslow, Arizona,
in 1889 ; one child : Mary B, ; married
Chas, Daly,
1321, Walter S, ; bom December 17th, 1860;
married Josie Dixon ; living Lowell, Mass.,
in 1888,
1322, Rev, Edgar C. ; bom August 16th, 1856 ;
¦ living N, Y. city 1889,
1323, Charles S,; born January 26th, 1862 ; mar
ried Eliza L, Leach of Wilksbarre, March
4th, 1888; living AUentown, Pa., in 1888.
1324. Dr. George M.
Dr. George M. Beckwith, 1324, M. D., born Platts
burg, N. Y., September 10th, 1863 ; living at Lisle,
N. Y, 1889 ; married Carrie KitcheU, October 1st,
1877 ; died December 21st 1887.
1326. Mary Winnifred; born Ithaca, May 2d,
1879; living Lisle, N. Y., 1889.

150 The Beckwiths.
1326. Bessie E. ; born January 18th, 1881 ; Hving
Lisle, N. Y, 1889.
1327. Harriette G.; born December 14th, 1882;
living Lisle, N. Y, 1889.
Nathaniel Brown Beckwith, 1232, born E. Haddam,
September. 26th, 1781; manied Betsy Lord, born E.
Haddam, Conn.
1328. Nathaniel L.
1329. Barzillai
1330. Rhoda; married W. E. Cone of E. Had
dam.
1331. Gilbert.
Gilbert Beckwith, 1331, living at Libertyville, Lake
Co., IU., in 1889,
1332, Charles F, ; Hving at LibertyviUe in 1889.
Jonathan Beckwith, 1233, bom E, Haddam, Sep
tember 21st, 1783 ; died January 22d, 1857 ; married
Nancy Lord,
1333, Nancy D, ; born August 14th, 1814,
1334, Mary H, ; born AprU 29th, 1818 ; living at
Ledyard, Conn., 1889,
1336, Jonathan.
1336. Rev, George A; born July 6th, 1829;
graduated at Amherst College in 1857;
at Andover Theological Seminary in 1860 ;
married Eliza C, daughter of Rev. Levi
Bingham, of Langus, Mass., October 11th,
1861 ; was ordained pastor of 1st Congre
gational church of Manhattan, Kan., in

The Bechwiths. 151
1862; dismissed 1867; acting pastor of
Congregational church at Olathe, Kan.,
three years; at Neodester and Altoona
three years; health failing he returned
east in 1874; was pastor at Franconea,
Warner, Hawsville, Alstead and Aldear
Center, all in N. H., and at present is acting
pastor of Congregational church of Wind
ham, Vt. ; no children.
1337. Henry E. ; born July 6th, 1831 ; married
Sarah Norcross of Monmouth, 111.; she
died in 1864 ; he then married Louisa
Markle, at Manhattan, July 4th, 1866;
living there in 1889.
Deacon Barak Beckwith, 657, born Lyme, Conn.,
November 3d, 1780; removed to Cazenovia, N. Y. ;
lawyer; judge county court ; died April 12th, 1844;
married Mary Kennedy, January 12th, 1804; born
1784; died October 13th, 1854.
1338. Dr. Addison K.
1339. Nelson M.
1340. George D. ; born March 29th, 1809 ; died
Macon, Ga.
1341. RosweU R. ; born 1816; died 1861, at
N. Y.
1342. Mary Jane; born Febmary 24th, 1820.
1343. Catherine E. ; born 1822; died 1840.
1344. WUliam ; bora 1827 ; died 1870, at Frank
lin, Pa.
1345. Edward Griffen.

152 The Beckwiths.
Addison K. Beckvnth, 1338, born March 22d, 1805 ;
M. D. ; died at Palermo, N. Y., January 28th, 1856;
married Amelia Kiss of Winans, 1831 ; she died Feb
ruary 10th, 1885.
1346. Thelestres A.
1347. James A.
1348. Alcestes M.
1349. Barak D.
1350. Catherine E.
1351. George.
1352. Adelaide.
Nelson M. Beckwith, 1339, born May 2d, 1807;
died N. Y. city 1888 ; manied M Forbes, in 1842 ;
she died May 7th, 1885.
1353. Leonard P.; living at Garrisons, N. Y, 1889,
1354, Adelaide; died N, Y,. 1871.
1356. Arthur ; living N. Y. city 1889.
1366. Helene; born 1847; living N. Y. city;
married November 3d, 1890, at London,
England, to Frank Dudley Leigh, eldest
son of Lord Leigh, of Leighstone Abbey,
England,
General Edward Griffen Beckwith, 1346, born Caz
enovia, N, Y,, June 25th, 1818 ; died Clifton, N, Y.,
June 22d, 1881 ; graduated at West Point Military
Academy in 1842 ; participating in the Mexican War;
at the battles of Tampico and Vera Cruz ; was detailed
on the Pacific R, R, Reconnoissance in 1853-4; his
scientific reports of that expedition were published by
the government ; during the War of the Rebellion he

The Beckwiths. 153
served as chief commissary in the 6th army corps ;
commanded the defenses of New Orleans 1868-4 ; major
U. S. A. Eebruary 8th, 1864 ; brvt. brig,-genl, U, S,
A,, March 16th, 1865 ; after the war was employed in
the Bureau of Subsistence ; (see Roll of Honor) ; mar
ried Cornelia WiUiamson of Savannah, Ga, ; she was
living in Washington, D, C, in 1889,
1357. Madeline ; graduate Washington College
of Elocution 1888; living at Washington,
D. C, 1889.
1368. Nelly ; married C. E, Fox, U. S. N.
Hezekiah Beckwith, 627, born Lyme, Conn,, 1704 ;
died March 12th, 1791 ; married Lydia Gilbert, born
1707, Lyme, Conn, ; died March 13th, 1794,
1369, EHsha; born Lyme, October 12th, 1738;
removed to New London, Conn,
1360. Sylvanus.
1361. Nathan ; born Lyme, Conn., in 1747.
1362. Ann ; manied F. Brown, a soldier in the
Continental Army.
Sylvanus Beckwith, 1360, bom Lyme, May 22d,
1742; carpenter; removed to Standford; died May
30th, 1839 ; he, as well as his wife's famUy, were firm
supporters of the cause of the colonies, and bore their
parts in the straggle, not only by giving their services
in the field, but also by the ready offering of their
means; married Amy Sutherland; born 1742; died
October 21st, 1817 ; her famUy were originally from
Scotland, and were aUied to the Douglass family of
20

154 The Beckwiths.
that ilk, and the Sutherlands still bear for their coat of
arms the " wild cat."
1363. Nathan.
1364. Israel ; born 1796 ; died May 4th, 1823.
Nathan Beckwith, 1363, born Standford, September
13th, 1778 ; placed at the famous Kinderhook Acad
emy, was a school-mate of Martin Van Buren, and
graduated as a civil engineer, and with Prof, Joseph
Henry, selected and surveyed the route of Erie R, R.,
and no contemporaneous engineer of the state enjoyed
a higher reputation; in the War of 1812 he commanded
a battalion of cavalry; in 1824 upon the visit of Gen
eral Lafayette to N, Y,, was marshal of the day at Cler
mont ; he was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian school ;
the family record states he was a lieutenant in the War
of 1812, and was afterward commissioned as colonel of
cavalry by Gov. Tompkins ; married twice ; died at Red
Hook, N. Y, March 4th, 1865; married 1st Betsy
Gale, December 22d, 1802; born AprU 14th, 1781;
died March 22d, 1838.
1365, Dr, Josiah Gale.
1366. Amy; born June 7th, 1809 ; died January
1st, 1824.
1367. Edward; born February 19th, 1812; died
June 11th, 1821,
1368, Lewis C,
1369, Eliza A. ; born at Red Hook, October 3d,
1809 ; died August 6th, 1843 ; manied
1st, Edwin Knickerbocker, February 26th,
1835 ; her children by the first marriage

The Beckwiths. 155
were: Edwin, born 1808; died 1875;
Edward B,, born December 13th, 1836;
died March, 1864; Mary E,, born Febra-
ary 7th, 1837; married 2d, Dr. T. E. Lossee
of Upper Red Hook, N. Y. ; by her second
marriage they had : Dr, John E. of Upper
Red Hook, in 1889 ; Edward, Harvey.
1370, Clarinda L, ; born Red Hook, June 7th,
1816; died August 2d, 1864; manied W.
Capron, November 18th, 1849 ; he moved
to Pontiac, Mich. ; U. S. Vol. Service
1861-65 ; he died in 1881, from the effects
of a buUet wound received at the battle of
Fair Oaks ; their children were : Nathan,
born September 29th, 1841; Ellen, bora
September 2d, 1843 ; Mary, born Sep
tember 3d, 1845 ; Amy, born April 26th,
1848 ; Lucy, born March 23d, 1850 ; Ed
ward, bom June, 1852 ; Carrie, born
September 5th, 1857.
1371. Annie S.; born October 22d, 1824; mar
ried G. H. Clapp, September 9th, 1845 ; re
moved to Phila,, Pa,; he died October 11th,
1877; their chUdren were: Emma, born
April 20th, 1849; Edward B,, born June
16th, 1854; living Phila,, Pa,, 1889,
1372. George W.
1373. William S.
Dr. Josiah Gale Beckwith, 1365, M. D., bom Sep.

156 The Bechwiths.
tember 4th, 1803, at Standford, N. Y, ; graduated at
Union College ; studied medicine in Solsbury, Conn.,
and settled in Litchfield, Conn., in 1829 ; died there
March 21st, 1871; he was a successful practitioner;
officer of the State Medical Society ; nominated for
governor; and was elected to the State Legislature
several times ; married Jane M, Seymore, February
1st, 1831; she was daughter of Moses Seymore of
Litchfield ; and a niece of Governor Horatio Seymore
of N, Y.
1374. Jona S. ; bom June 16th, 1833 ; died Janu
ary 28th, 1837.
1374a. EHzabeth G. ; born January 19th, 1835;
living Litchfield, Conn,, in 1889.
1375, ^Sarah H, ; born AprU 20th, 1840 ; Hving at
Litchfield, Conn,, in 1889; unmarried,
1376, Dr, Josiah G.
1377. Dr. Georges,
Dr, Josiah Gale Beckwith, 1376, M, D,, born at
Litchfield, Conn,, January 14th, 1838; living therein
1889 ; married Anne Alsop, January 16th, 1873, of
Quebec, Canada,
1378, Josiah Gale; born August 13th, 1874.
1379, Bonney.
1380, Baby,
Dr. George S, Beckwith, 1377, M, D,, born Litch
field, May 27th, 1842; resided at Pine Plains, N. Y;
died there December 20th, 1890; married Isabel
Cohen, October 7th, 1873. of Charleston, S. C.

The Bechwiths. 157
1381. Jane Seymour.
1382. George S.
1383. Sarah S.
1384. BeUe S.
1385. Catherine S.
Lewis Curtis Beckwith, 1368, born Red Hook, N.
Y, June 23d, 1807; died at Matteawan, N. Y, AprU
10th, 1871 ; married Ameline Capron, January 6th,
1830 ; daughter of Judge Giles Capron of Upper Red
Hook, N. Y.
1386. Giles E. C.
1387. Ellen Elizabeth; born Troy, N. Y., August
26th, 1833 ; married J. Bently, November
7th, 1872, of Newark, N. J. ; living there
in 1889 ; one chUd, Ellen Capron.
1388. Sarah Kinney; born July 24th, 1835 ; liv
ing at Matteawan, N. Y., in 1 889; unmarried.
1389. Emily Savage; born March 6th, 1836;
died 1881, unmamed.
1390. John C. ; born March 4th, 1842 ; died 1888,
unmarried.
1391. Isaac Bevan.
Giles Edward Capron Beckwith, 1386, born Troy,
N. Y, May 23d, 1781 ; married Helen van Steenburg;
removed to CatskUl, N. Y. ; living there in 1889.
1392. Frocene; married D. Bralley; living at
Sing Sing, N. Y, in 1889.
1393. Josephine; born CatskUl; living there in
1889.
Isaac Bevan Beckwith, 1391, born December 22d,

158 The Beckwiths.
1844; married twice; his first wife was Frances A.
Welch, who died March 20th, 1882 ; his second wU'e
was Sara E. Hooper; liviug at Syracuse, N. Y, 1889.
1394. WaUace W. ; born at Frankfort, N. Y,
February 14th, 1887.
1396. Warren Bevan; born at Frankfort, N. Y.,
January 27th, 1889.
George W. Beckwith, 1372, born Red Hook, N. Y,
June 8th, 1814; died Standford, AprU 9th, 1881 ; mar
ried Abbey E. Thompson, January 17th, 1843 ; she
was living at Stissing, N. Y., 1889.
1396. Elizabeth R. ; bom December 19th, 1844;
graduate of Vassar College ; prof, of Greek
at Normal CoUege, N. Y. city, in 1889.
1397. Emma; born March 16th, 1847.
1398. Mary G.; born Standford, N. Y., July 25th,
1849 ; Hving N. Y. city in 1889.
1399. Clarinda L.; born at Standford; married H.
Austin ; living at Hiawatha, Kans., 1889.
1400. Sarah C. ; born July 3d, 1851 ; died 1862,
1401. Clara; born June 11th, 1863; manied
Homer E. Austin, February 22d, 1883;
they had Grace B,, born July 24th, 1884;
WiUie B., born August 19th, 1887.
1402. Asa; bom March 24th, 1864; living Stand
ford, N. Y., 1889 ; unmarried,
1403, Edward.
1404, Nathan E, ; born March 7th, 1870 ; living
at Standford, N, Y, 1889 ; unmarried,
Edward Beckwith, 1403, bom Standford, N, Y, Jan-

The Beckwiths. 159
uary 14th, 1859 ; living Hiawatha, Kans,, 1889 ; mar
ried Noamie E, McGuUkin, January 21st, 1882.
1406. Abbie E, ; born March 26th, 1883.
1406. Annie C, ; bora March, 1886,
1407, George G, ; bom March 24th, 1889,
WilHam S. Beckwith, 1373, born Red Hook, Janu
ary 14th, 1820; farmer; married Ann M. Colly er,
March 29th, 1848 ; born February 8th, 1826 ; living
Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N, Y., 1889.
1408. AHce M, ; born August 10th, 1862.
1409. Thomas C. ; bom November 1st, 1863.
1410. George; born 1856; died 1875, at PeUa,
Iowa.
1411. Annie G. ; bora March 14th, 1857 ; manied
Armond DePotter, October, 1878 ; Hving
in France 1889; he was a colonel in the
French Army, now a tourist manager to
parties traveling in Europe.
1412, Leilla H, ; born January 17, 1860 ; married
A, Bretton Havens; lavpyer, January 27th,
1887 ; living N. Y city 1889,
1413, WUlie S, ; born October 11th, 1861 ; re
moved to Denver, Colo, ; living Salt Lake
City 1889; manied Belle Colon of Michi
gan, September 9th,
1414, Charles G, ; born January 6th, 1864 ; died
1865,
Nathan Beckwith, 1363, by his second wife, Mar
garette Pratt Pelton ; born Dalton, Mass.,

160 The Beckwiths.
January 15th, 1807 ; died January 14th,
1867. ,
1416. Nathan E.
1416. EHza Ann,; born September 8th, 1845;
manied George Ogden, Sr,, of PhUa,, Pa.,
June 30th, 1880; living at Bridgeton, N,
J,, 1889.
Nathan E. Beckwith, 1415, born Red Hook, N, Y,,
April 4th, 1848 ; living at Los Gates, Cal,, 1889 ; civil
engineer ; married Alice Black, September 19th, 1878 ;
bora July 26th, 1854.
1417. Theodore K. ; born July 6th, 1879.
1417a. Ralph Ed. ; born September 30th, 1880.
1418, Adelaide ; born AprU 26th, 1882,
1419, Ruth L, ; born December 15th, 1883.
1420. Charles Z. ; born December 19th, 1886.
John Beckwith, 553, born Waterford, Conn., 1703 ;
died at Lyme, Conn., 1768 ; manied Elizabeth Dart,
November 8th, 1744, born East Haddam, August
30th, 1716, and died at Lyme.
1421. John.
1422, Watrus,
John Beckwith, 1421, bora at Lyme, Conn,, October
19th, 1754 ; died Poughkeepsie, N. Y,, September 12th,
1834 ; served in the Continental Army ; married Chloe
Bosworth, January 27th, 1730; born Washington,
Conn,, November oth, 1759 ; died Poughkeepsie, Oc
tober 9th, 1834,
1423. John.
1424. Watrus.

The Beckwiths. 161
1425. Nathanial Beckwith; bom at Pough
keepsie, N. Y, December 13th, 1781 ; re
moved to N. C, in 1884, and died at Ply
mouth, November, 1840 ; unmarried.
John Beckvnth, 1423, born Poughkeepsie, July 31st,
1785; M.D. ; servedin War of 1812 ; removed to New
Berne in 1808, and Raleigh, and thence to Newton,
N. C; to Petersburgh, Va. ; died N. Y., 1870; mar
ried Margarette Stanley.
1426. T. Stanley.
1427. John Watrus.
1428. Catherine; married H. F. -Spaulding ; liv
ing at Riverdale, N. Y., 1889.
1429. Nancy E. ; living at Riverdale, 1889.
1430. CordeHa; Hving at Riverdale, 1889.
T. Stanley Beckwith, 1426, born Raleigh, N. C,
1814 ; M. D. ; died at Petersburg, Va., in 1884 ; mar
ried Agnus ; daughter of Edmund Ruffin, Sr., of Vir
ginia. 1431. JuHan R, ; C. S. Army ; killed at battle of
Seven Pines, June 1st, 1862.
1432. Margarette.
1433. Kate D.
1434. MatUda E.
1435. Thomas S.
1436. Edmund R.
1437. John.
1438. Susan ; married R. GiUam of Petersburgh,
Va.
1439. Agnus ; married J. R. Cary of Gloucester,
21

162 The Beckwiths.
Va, ; their chUdren are : Bettie, WUlis,
Stanley B,, Sue B,, Agnus R., John R
1440, Charles M.
Thomas S. Beckwith, 1435, married Eunice ; daugh
ter of S. B. Cary of Gloucester, Va.
1441. Samuel C.
1442. AnnaF.
1443. JuHan R.
1444. Thomas S.
1445. Eunice C.
Edmund R. Beckwith, 1436, of Petersburgh, Va.,
1889 ; druggist ; married Mary, daughter of J. White
of Warrenton, N. C.
1446. John W. •
1447. Edmund R.
1448. DeUa S.
1449. Agnus R.
1450. Hugh W.
1451. Mary W.
John Beckwith, 1437, married Katie Lee, daughter
of J. E. Edwards of Charleston, S. C.
1452. Agnus R.
1463. Thomas N.
1464. William E.
1455. John Q.
1456. Katie L.
1457. MaryE.
Charles M, Beckwith, 1440, married S, B., daughter
of J, R, Fairbanks, of Ferdinando, Florida,
1458, George R, F.

The Beckwiths. 163
John Watras Beckwith, 1427, bora Raleigh, N, C,
February, 1831 ; Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Ga. ;
died at Atlanta, Ga,, November 23d, 1890; married
EUa Brockinborough of Va, ; died 1886 ; he graduated
at Trinity College, Hartford, in 1852 ; ordained deacon
May 24th, 1854; priest May, 1865 ; pastor in Wades-
boro, N. C, and Anne Arundel, Md, ; at breaking out
of the RebeUion moved to Mississippi, and thence to
Alabama; was rector of Trinity Church, N, O,, and
was elected from there Bishop of Ga, ; received degree
of S, T, D., from Trinity in 1867 ; consecrated bishop
in St John's Church, Savannah, Ga., April 2d, 1868,
1459, John F. B.
1460. EUa.
1461, Bessie.
Wattrus Beckwith, 1424, born Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
February 8th, 1791 ; removed to Newberne, N, C,
1810 ; practiced law at EHzabeth City, N, C, 1814-15 ;
died Plymouth, N. C, March 10th, 1850; lawyer;
married Susan Bailey, January 8th, 1816 ; born Feb
ruary 6th, 1797; at Pasquaton Co., N, C,
1462, John Bailey; born November 21st, 1816;
M, D, ; graduated in medicine at Univer
sity of Md,, in 1837 ; removed to Smith-
field, N, C, 1841 ; living there 1889; no
children; married twice; his first wife,
Anna G, Thomson, married February 2 2d,
1849 ; died July 7th, 1850; 2d wife, Julia
M, Saunders, married May 20th, 1866 ; died
March 21st 1869,

164 The Bechwiths
1463, Nathaniel,
1464. James L. S.
1464a, Chloe Ann ; bora April 17th, 1828 ; died
in 1848 ; unmarried,
1466. Thomas.
1466a, Georgette D, ; died in 1834,
Nathaniel Beckvnth, 1463, born Pasquaton Co,, N,
C, February 19th, 1819 ; lawyer; removed to Hyde Co,,
N,C,, in 1843; died there October 30th, 1886; married
Mary E, Wynne, Septenqber 13th, 1849,
1466, Noma; bora December 14th, 1850; mar
ried J. W. Willborn, November 28th,
1878,
1467, Robt Watrus; born June 27th, 1852 ; mar
ried Mattie Hammond, Januaiy 30th,
1884,
1468, Steward J, ; born January 23d, 1861,
1469, Norbonne; born 1864; died 1865, from a
gunshot wound accidentally inflicted by
himself,
1470, Sidney Thomas ; born February 6th, 1864 ;
lavpyer, practicing at Monroe, N, C, 1889.
James L. S, Beckwith, 1464, born Pasquaton Co,,
N, C, September 19th, 1824 ; M, D, ; died at Cremer,
N, C, March, 1866; graduated in medicine at Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, in 1854; practiced at ScottshiU,
N, C, and after at Swifts Creek, where he died ; mar
ried EvaHne CHfton of Raleigh, N, C, in 1866.
1471. Robertson; born 1856; M, D, ; graduated

The Beckwiths. 165
at Vanderbilt University ; living Charlotte,
N, C, in 1889,
1472, Bosworth C, ; born 1858 ; lawyer ; living
at Raleigh, N. C, in 1889.
1473. Ann Julia; married Mr. Thackston, and
was living at Raleigh, N. C, in 1889,
1474. Susan ; living with her mother at Raleigh,
N. C, in 1889.
Thomas Beckvnth, 1465, born Pasquaton Co., N, C,
June 9th, 1825 ; lawyer ; practiced law in Plymouth,
N, C. ; at the breaking out of the war he entered the
C. S, Army, serving in the 24th Reg, N, C, Inf., from
1861-63; died January 5th, 1863, from disease con
tracted during the campaigns in North-west Virginia ;
manied Henrietta T. Phelps, in 1857, at Plymouth, N.
C. ; she was bora in Washington Co., N. C, 1838,
1475. John Percy.
1476, Thomas Lynden ; born January 14th, 1858 ;
M, D. ; graduated in medicine at College
of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore,
1882 ; died February 22d, 1883,
John Percy Beckwith, 1475, born June 24th, 1858 ;
living at JacksonvUle, Fla., in 1889 ; married Sadie
W, Boyer, of Anniston, Ala,
1477, Thomas Lyndon ; born June, 1885; living
at Jacksonville, Fla,, 1889.
Watrus Beckwith, 1422, born Lyme, Conn,, Sep
tember 18th, 1754 ; served in Continental Army, 1776.
1478, John; bora 1788, at Lyme, Conn, ; moved
west.

166 The Bechwiths.
1479. Stephen.
Stephen Beckwith, 1479, resided at Pike, Wyoming
Co., N. Y., in 1835; died there; married Narcissa
Black 1480. Philo D.
1481, Mrs. Thompson; living at Dawagiac, Mich,,
1889,
PhUo D, Beckwith, 1480, born Pike, N, Y, 1824 ;
removed to Dawagiac, Mich,, 1844, where he engaged
in the manufacture of stoves, amassing a very large
fortune entirely through his own exertions ; died there
January 12th, 1889; manied C. M, Scott, in 1844;
living at Dawagiac 1889,
1482, Delia; married Ch, Gardner; living at Da
wagiac, 1889,
Job Beckwith, 638, born Lyme, May 22d, 1705 ;
married Elizabeth Harvey ; born Mass,
1483, Harvey.
1484. Ezekiel.
1486, Job Beckwith; born New London, 1759;
soldier Revolutionary war, 1776 to 1778;
died Chemung Co., N, Y,, in 1853 ; un
married,
Harvey Beckwith, 1483, born Lyme, Conn,, 1755;
removed to Northampton, Mass, ; farmer ; married
Josie Marion, January 17th, 1780; born Mass,, Oc
tober 23d, 1758,
1486, Harris William,

The Beckwiths. 167
1487. WilHam.
Harris William Beckwith, 1486, born Northampton,
Mass., January 18th, 1781 ; died November 15th,
1818 ; married Pearly Briggs, January 2d, 1809 ; born
Northampton. 1488. WUHam . Harvey ; born January 18th,
1810 ; died March 9th, 1825.
1489. Francis E.
1490. Henrietta; bom Northampton, January
6th, 1818; died Dorchester, March 9th,
1819. '^
Francis E. Beckwith, 1489, bom Northampton,
September 6th, 1817 ; settled at Litchfield, Mass. ;
married Mary Turner, AprU 16th, 1845 ; born Pitts-
field, Mass. J-f^-^^
1491. Francis E.
1492. Theodocia; born WhitinsviUe, April 9th,
1848; married ,L. Randall, at Springfield,
January 10th, 1873 ; Hving at Springfield
in 1889; chUdren: Henry W., born April
24th, 1877 ; Emma A., bora November
2d, 1881 ; Lora P., born January 18th,
1883. )7
1493. Henrietta L. ; born June 16th, 1852 ; mar
ried J. Pinches, May 14th, 1874 ; children :
John, bom April 29th, 1875; Frank W.,
bom September 2l8t 1876; Charles W.,
born June 27th, 1882. X
1494. Jennie; born^Holyoke, August 29th, 1861 ;
married C. F. Moore, January 4th, 1882 ;

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168 The Bechwiths.
chUdren : George T., born July 7th, 1883 ;
Francis E,, born October 9th, 1886,
Francis E. Beckwith, 1491, born WhitinsviUe, Feb
ruary 10th, 1846 ; manied Henrietta S. Miller, May
11th, 1869; bora Springfield. itvuiiL '^u^A
1495. Charles Harris; bom August 21st, 1870.
1496. Henry W. ; born 1877. V 14ua*^ *^
1497, LoraR; bora Hartford, 1875.1 dXu^
\^^ 1498. EiJima A; ; bom 1881. ; V ? ^
WiUiam Beckwith, 1487, born February 18th, 1786 ;
died at Dorchester, November 19th, 1823; married
Betsy Northy, April 26th, 1808; died Dorchester,
June 12th, 1836.
1499. James Harvey ; born Scituate, Mass., May
16th, 1809; died at Dorchester, Mass., De
cember 19th, 1831.
1500. Ira Lewis.
1501. David Barnes.
1602, WilHam Henry,
1503. JuHa Ann ; born at Dorchester, June 7th,
1818; married Sloan; living at Milton,
Mass., in 1888.
1604. ClarinaWade; born Dorchester, December
25th, 1820; died August 5th, 1857, m
Boston,
1605. Laura A. ; born Dorchester, December 26th,
1824; married Sam. Somes; living at N.
Attleboro, Mass., in 1889.
Ira Lewis Beckwith, 1600, born Weymouth, Mass.,

The Bechwiths. 169
June 2^h, 1810 ; at Providence, R. I,, January 9th,
1865, 1516, Henry L, ; merchant, Providence, R, I,, in
1889,
David Barnes Beckwith, 1601, born Scituate, Mass,,
January 2d, 1813; died at Dorchester, November 1st,
1 837 ; married Caroline E, FuUer ; bom Maine ; died
January 12th, 1876.
1517. David Harvey.
David Harvey Beckwith, 1517, bom Dorchester,
February 24th, 1836 ; carpenter and machinist ; U. S.
Vol. Service 1863-65, 2d R. I. Reg,, wounded at the
Battle of the Wilderness, May 4th, 1864; and was
taken prisoner July, 1864 ; and made his escape April
5th, 1865; married Susan A, Stone, June 29th, 1862;
died May 29th, 1867 ; married 2d, A, E. Wood, March
¦27th, 1872.
1518. Minattie C; born September 18th, 1866;
graduated from Providence High School,
June 29th, 1887 ; living Providence, R, I,,
1889,
William Henry Beckwith, 1502, bora Scituate, Feb-
raai-y 29th, 1816 ; died Jamaica Plains, in 1860,
1519. Henry; Hving at Jamaica Plains, in 1889.
Ezekiel Beckwith, 1485, born at New London, in
1757 ; moved to Colchester, Conn. ; died there ; mar
ried EHzabeth Fosdick ; died New London.
1520. Nathan.
1621, Betsy; married D. Phelps; and died at
Salem, Conn.
22

170 The Beckwiths.
1622, SaUie; married Fuller ; and died at Salem,
Conn,
1623, Mercy.
1524, Charity,
1526, Grace,
1626. Fosdick.
1627. Moses.
1528. Ezekiel.
Nathan Beckwith, 1520, born New London, 1765 ;
died at Old Lyme, Conn,, January 18th, 1859 ; manied
Betsy Spencer ; bora E, Haddam ; died Lyme, Decem
ber 28th, 1864,
1629, George,
1530, Haniet; bora June 2d, 1801; married
Seaver ; and died at Salem, Conn,, in 187- ;
they had two chUdren : Henry, living at
Deep River, Conn,, in 1889; and Mary
Ann, born Febmary 1st, 1803 ; manied
Justin Jewett of New York,
1531. Mary Ann; bornFebraary, 1803; married
J. Jewett. '
1532, William T,
1533. Elizabeth; born September 21st, 1817;
married John Kirtland ; Hving at Say
brook, Conn., in 1889.
George Beckwith, 1529, born Lyme, Conn,, Septem
ber 3d, 1799; died at Horseheads, N, Y„ in 1862;
married Mary Treadway ; born Salem,
1534, Henry ; married and living at Park Station,
N.;^Y., 1889.

The Beckwiths. 171
1535. Mary; married J. Hammond, and was liv
ing at Park Station in 1889.
William T, Beckwith, 1632, born at Lebanon, Conn.,
April 3d, 1813 ; died at Old Lyme, Conn., June 28th,
1885 ; married Mary Havens, October 28th, 1848 ;
bom Sag Harbor, January 20th, 1819. •
1636. Jennie M. ; born Old Lyme, Conn., Sep
tember 15th, 1853 ; living there in 1886.
1537. William E. ; born Lyme, Conn,, November
17th, 1863; living in Erie, Penn., 1889;
unmanied,
1638. George C, ; born Lyme, Conn,, Februaiy
3d, 1865 ; living there 1889 ; unmarried.
Ezekiel Beckwith, 1528, bom New London; removed
to LouisvUle, Ky, ; died there; married Jane McDonald,
in 1821 ; born New Jersey, 1801 ; daughter of Rev.
Mr. McDonald, an Episcopal clergyman of New Jersey.
1539. John.
1640. WilHam,
1641, Caroline ; married H, McClernan ; she was
living in St, Louis, in 1889 ; children :
Hannah, married Tom Wyatt; Laura,
married G, Curry; Hving St. Louis, Mo,,
1889; Emma, married Sam Fenn; living
Hunters Bottom, Ky,, in 1889 ; Anna,
married  Smith of Louisville, Ky, ;
George, living Louisville, 1889.
1642. Lod W.
Lod W. Beckwith, 1542; M. D, ; bom CampbeU
Co,, Ky,, October 26th, 1827 ; graduated March, 1856,

172 The Beckwiths.
from medical department of the University of Louis
ville, entered the U. S. Army, in 1861, as surgeon of
the 38th Reg. Indiana Volunteers, and served in vari
ous capacities until he was mustered out in 1865, was
physician to Indiana State Prison South for six years,
has been in civil practice at Jeffersonville, Ind,, where
he was living in 1889 ; married Emma Jones, October
29th, 1858 ; born Corydon, Ind,, 1839.
1543, WUliam Jones; bora October 29th, 1869,
1644, Mitchel Jones ; bom NashviUe, August 4th,
1854,
1646. Jennie; born NashviUe, August 4th, 1854,
1646, Emma Jones ; bora December 4th, 1872,
Thomas Beckwith, 626, bora at Lyme, Conn., De
cember 11th, 1711 ; removed to Bristol, Conn., in 1789;
and had six children.
1647. Thomas.
Thomas Beckwith, 1647, born at Lyme, Conn., 1746 ;
farmer ; deacon Presbyterian Church ; died at Burling
ton, Conn., 1830 ; living at Batavia in 1807; at Bris
tol in 1789 ; enlisted 1776, in Revolutionary Army,
Lay's Co., Parsons' Reg., 3d Conn. Line, was at battle
of Bunker Hill, re-enHsted, 1777, for two months, re-en- ,
listed, 1778, for four months, drafted, 1778, on the brig
Deficmce for three months, and served in the privateer
service six years.
1548. Flavel.
1549. Parnell; married Dibbell of Hartford.
1650. Ursula; married J. Hart.
1661. Annie; married Crowell of Hartford.

The Beckwiths. 173
1552. Thomas.
1553. Harvey.
Harvey Beckwith, 1563, born at Burlington, Conn
1664. Harvey.
1655. Job.
Plavel Beckwith, 1548, born Burlington, June 17th,
1782 ; died in Nelson Co., Ohio, 1874.
1556. Ralzaman.
1557. CaroHne; bornSeptember 14th, 1803; mar
ried Dr. Foote of Nelson Co., Ohio.
1657a. Edmund ; born 1809.
1558. PoUy; born March 7th, 1812; married
Addie of Burlington, Conn.
1569. Gay R.; born April 6th, 1823; living at
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1888.
1560. Thomas.
1561. Wolston.
1662. John; bom June 16th, 1816; removed to
Windham, Ohio.
1563. Seth; bom September 3d, 1818; removed
to Nelson Co., Ohio.
1563a. Ann; born December 6th, 1820.
1664. Wells E. ; born December 26th, 1826 ; Hv
ing at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1889; married
AureHa.
1565, Flavel.
Ralzaman Beckwith, 1556, born Burlington, Novem
ber 17th, 1801 ; farmer ; removed to Genesee, N. Y, ;
married Eliza Jos tin, March 11th, 1834; born March
4th, 1813, at Clifford, Penn,

174 The Beckwiths.
1566, Flavel.
1567, Diamond; married Dr. Moores of Iowa,
1568. Thomas D.
1569. John.
Thomas D. Beckwith, 1568, born Lakeville, N, Y,,
February 14th, 1836 ; to Rochester, N. Y, ; married
A, D. Rhodes, December 4th, 1866 ; born June 14th,
1845. 1570. Carrie M, ; born January 9th, 1870,
1571, Anson J,; born Febmary 26th, 1872, at
Rochester, N, Y,
John Beckwith, 1569, born in Nelson Co,, Ohio, Au
gust 11th, 1842 ; married Amanda C. Nelson, Novem
ber 14th, 1867 ; living at DesMoines, Iowa, in 1889.
1572, WUliam M, ; born September 28th, 1868.
1573. Jessie M. ; born September 15th, 1871,
1573a. Andrew N. ; born 1877; died 1878.
1674. Royden and Roy, twins ; born August 21st,
1881,
Thomas Beckwith, 1660, born BurHngton, Conn,,
December 5th, 1807; removed to Cleveland, Ohio; his
first wife was H, Beardsley; bom May 1st, 1816; died
June 3d, 1843 ; he was living at Cleveland in 1889,
1576, Hanna A. ; bom May 1st, 1835.
1576, Dr, Edmund M.
1677. Shelden.
1578, Columbus C.
Dr. Edmund M, Beckwith, 1576, born October 14th,
1836; married Ann Dickerman in 1860 ; born Febru-

The Beckwiths. 175
aiy 22d, 1838 ; he moved to Colorado in 1886 ; to
Santa Rosa, Cal., in 1888.
1579. NeUie M. ; born KjioxviUe, Tenn., May
24th, 1860,
1580. Mary ; born AprU 24th, 1861.
Shelden Beckwith, 1577, born December 27th,
1838 ; removed to Cleveland, Ohio ; living there in
1889; manufacturer; married Ann Page, November
14th, 1864.
1581. George S. ; living at Cleveland, Ohio, in
1889.
1582. Fannie ; living at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1889.
Columbus C. Beckwith, 1678, born June 29th,
1842 ; Hving at St Paul, Minn,, in 1888 ; Fargo, N.
D., in 1891; married J. A. Sherwin, December 28th,
1865 ; born June 8th, 1846.
1683. Sherwin C. ; bora at St. Paul, June 29th,
1868.
Thomas Beckwith, 1560, his second wife was H. L,
Panic ; born April 16th, 1819,
1584, Harriet ; bom Febmary 2d, 1819.
1585. Albro M.; bora September 10th, 1861.
1586, Alice M, ; born September 20th, 1861,
1587. Flavel.
1588. Thomas R,
Flavel Beckwith, 1687, born September 7th, 1850 ;
banker at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1889 ; married A.
Haight ; born January 29th, 1853,
1689. Grace L, ; born November 20th, 1883,
1590, Ada M, ; bora February 27th, 1886.

176 The Bechwiths.
Thomas R. (Beckwith, 1588, born Deoembea- 14iih,
1857 ; book-keeper at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1888 ; mar
ried F. D. Komp, May 2ftth, 1881,
1591. Florence; bora June 29th, 1885.
Wolston Beckwith, 1561, born at New Hartford,
Conn., February 10th, 1810; removed to Oberlin,
Ohio ; died there July 19th, 1874; manied Maria Tay
lor, October 21st, 1835 ; born TaUmadge, Summit Co.,
Ohio, March 28th, 1817;
1592, Charles F.
Charles F, Beckvnth, 1592, born Nelson, Portage
Co,, Ohio, (September 19th, 1839 ; brought up in the
hardware business, afterward a banker at Oberlin,
Ohio, in 1889 ; married EUen C. Fletcher, August
12th, 1861 ; bora Eden, N, Y, July 23d, 1840,
1593. Louie Maria ; bora July 20th, 1864.
¦ 1694, Charles CHfton; born September 12th, 1868.
1595. Frank Fletcher; born May 27th, 1871.
1596. John Wolston ; born June 31st 1875,
Flavel Beckwith, 1566, bora June 16th, 1816; re
moved to MassUlon, Ohio; married Emma KUl of
MassUlon, Ohio.
1597. Sophia; married J. Roberts of Mansfield,
Ohio ; children: Thomas, Flora, William.
1597a, Sarah; married A, Hoff in 1863,
1598, William F, ; U. S. V. S., 1861-65; kUled
at battle of Rocky Face Ridge, served in
Col, Mcllvane's Reg.
1599, Thomas; living at Mansfield, Ohio, in 1888;

The Beckwiths. 177
married Sarah A. Hoff; born March 3d,
1863.
1600. John,
1601, Hiram,
John Beckwith, 1600, U, S, V, S., 1861-5, 102d
Ohio, Col. McGlocklen ; was living at Mansfield, Ohio,
in 1881; married M, E, Massie,
1602, Emma A,
1603, Harva,
1604. Sadie.
1606, Clara,
1606, Olive,
1607, Charlie.
1608. NelHe.
Hiram Beckwith, 1601, married Agnes Stump,
1609. Addie.
1610, Ethel,
Thomas Beckwith, 1652, born at Exeter, N, Y, No
vember 6th, 1789 ; to McDonough, N, Y, ; removed to
Ciacinnatus, N, Y., 1850 ; died there, September 21st,
1860; manied DUlamy Comstock; born November
21st, 1787 ; died at McDonough, November 27th, 1850.
1611. Azubah; born August 9th, 1811; died
March 27th, 1853 ; married Joshua Perkins.
1612. Sephrona; bora July 15th, 1816; married
Oliver Hutchinson ; had four children,
1613, CordeHa; born December 7th, 1820; died
August 8th, 1878; married Albert Skill-
man,
23

178 The Bechwiths.
1614. Dellamy; born January 22d, 1825; mar
ried David Ellsworth ; living in 1889.
1615. Samuel.
1615a. Albert
1616, Harmonious.
Samuel Beckwith, 1615, born at McDonough, Janu
ary 20th, 1818 ; died July 22d, 1887 ; manied Sarah
SkiUman. 1617. Seward; Hving at Cincinnatus, N. Y, in
1888.
Harmonious Beckvnth, 1616, born McDonough, N.
Y., February 14th, 18l!3; died at Cincinnatus, N. Y,
February 12th, 1873 ; married Mary SkiUman, Janu
ary 1st, 1849 ; born McDonough, N, Y, August 8th,
1833. 1618. Sarah A, ; born November 9th, 1850; mar
ried Yokia Wood ; living at Cincinnatus,
N, Y,, in 1889; one child, Estella, born
December 27th, 1882,
1618a. Thomas S, ; bom July 9th, 1854; died
1857.
1618b. Harris B, ; born AprU 13th, 1856; died
1861.
1619. Fidelia; born November 26th, 1853; died
1853.
1620, EUaD.; born March 26th, 1860; married
Ralph Harvey, December 24th, 1884; liv
ing at Cincinnatus, in 1889 ; one child
Blanche, born June 18th, 1886.

The Beckwiths. 179
1620a, Benjaman; born March 31st 1867; liv
ing at Cincinnatus, 1888,
1620b, Lyman G, ; born AprU 23d, 1869 ; living
at Cincinnatus, 1889,
1621, Devillo J, ; born March 15th, 1862 ; me
chanic ; married Blanch Brooks, June 10th,
1885 ; born Cortland Co,, N, Y., August
20th, 1868; living Binghamton, N, Y., in
1889,
1622. Harmonious V.
1622a. NelHe J. ; born April 8th, 1866 ; married
WiU Smith, January 1st 1889.
Harmonious V. Beckwith, 1622, bora March 27th,
1858 ; living at Cincinnatus in 1889 ; manied Alice
CouncU, February 26th, 1885.
1623. Baby; born July 5th, 1889.
Harmonious Beckwith, 1616.
1624. Kittle; born AprU 8th, 1866; married
Win Smith, Jan 1st, 1889.
1625. Benjaman L.; bom March 31st, 1867; liv
ing at Cincinnatus, 1889.
1626. Luman G.; born AprU 28th, 1869; Hving
at Cincinnatus, 1889.
Joseph Beckwith, 625, born Lyme, Conn., 1700;
died August 9th, 1764.
1627. Asa.
Asa Beckwith, 1627, born Lyme, Conn., about 1734.
1628. Chauncey.
1629. Wolcot ; settled in N. Y.
1630. Reuben.

180 The Beckwiths.
1630a. Lois; bora 1765.
1631. AbigaU; born 1759; married De Wolf.
1632. Asa.
1633. Joseph,
Chauncey Beckwith, 1628, born Lyme, Conn.; re
moved to Bristol, Conn , and died there ; married Jan
uary 27th, 1780.
1634. Chauncey; born Bristol; removed to Ak
ron, Ohio, in 1888,
1635, John; bom Bristol; removed to Licking
Co,, Ohio, 1824,
1636, Enos,
1637, Asa,
1 638, Emaline ; married Ives; her daughter Ophe
lia was Hving at Bristol in 1889,
1639, Amy; married; her daughter Amanda Car.
ter, living at So, Euclid, Ohio, in 1889,
Enos Beckwith, 1636, born Bristol, Conn, ; removed
to Licking Co,, Ohio, in 1824; died at Martinsburg,
Ohio ; married Clarissa Hart, June, 1822 ; died at
Sycamore, 111,
1640. Chauncey B,
Chauncey B, Beckwith, 1640, born Martinsburg,
Ohio; died at Sycamore, 111,, August 30th, 1869;
married Mary A, Woolsey, March 21, 1855, born
Austinsburg, Ohio, May 13th, 1836,
1641, Clara; married Flanneiy ; living at Engle-
wood, IU,, in 1889,
1642, Anna; born 1868; died 1869.
1643. Thomas Welsy,

The Beckwiths. 181
Thomas Welsy Beckwith, 1643, born November
18th, 1857 ; dentist, at Sterling, 111,, in 1889 ; married
Hattie K, Tracy, November 5th, 1884, born Spring
field, Mass,, August 2d, 1859,
1644. Clara Tracy; born August 30th, 1885.
1645. Mary L, ; born November 22d, 1886,
1646, John T. ; born September 5th, 1888.
Asa Beckwith, 1637, born Bristol, Conn., 1789; re
moved to Ohio in 1826 ; married Sarah Barnes of
Bristol. 1647. EHB.
1648. Hiram.
1649. Dewitt.
1650. Orlando; bom Ohio; died 1864, of disease
contracted in the U. S. Vol. Service ; mar
ried Harriet Wilson, in 1854, of ZanesviUe.
1651. Charles B. ; born in Ohio ; died in 1856.
1652. Sarah; married George Moore; living at
Newark, Ohio, in 1859.
Eli Bartholomew Beckwith, 1647, born Bristol, Feb
ruary 21st 1823; died Westminister, Md., June 22d,
1881 ; manied Sarah A. Howard, at ZanesviUe ; living
at Baltimore, Md., 1889.
1663. Ariana ; born Newark, Ohio, in 1853 ; mar
ried Febraary, 1888, and moved to Flag-
staf, Arizona, in 1889.
1664. Frederick M.; born Baltimore, Md., in
1855; died ZanesviUe, Ohio, in 1877.
1655. WilHam R. ; bora Baltimore, Md., in 1856 ;

182 The Beckwiths.
manied Marie McCarthy of Chicago, IU. ;
living at New York city in 1889.
1656. Charles Barnes; bom 1864; died 1865.
1657. Ella Cole ; bom ZanesviUe in 1863 ; died
1864.
1658. Alice; bom 1866; died 1875.
Reuben Beckwith, 1630, born Cloverache on the
Hudson, November 10th, 1762; died near Cleveland,
Ohio; married Elizabeth Utley, born Cloverache on the
Hudson, October 13th, 1768 ; died Cleveland, Ohio.
1659. David.
1660. Wolcot; born December 31st, 1789; died
Oneida Co., N. Y.
1661. Charlotte; bornFebraary 15th, 1791; mar
ried TaUmadge of Blissfield, Ohio.
1662. PoUy; born June 19th, 1795; married;
and died in Mich .
1663. Martha; born July 21st, 1797; married
Saulsbury.
1664. Lemuel.
1666. Henry; bom August 11th, 1799; died un
married.
1666. Betsy; born February 24th, 1804.
1667. Lucy; born May 11th, 1811.
1668. Nelson; bom July 3d, 1806 ; died in Mich.
1669. Saxton.
David Beckwith, 1659, born at Lyme, Conn., Feb
ruary 15th, 1787; died at Warrensville, Ohio.
1670. David.
1671. Letta.

The Beckwiths. 183
Lemuel Beckwith, 1664, born Westonville, Oneida
Co., N. Y., AprU 18th, 1793 ; removed to Tyantig,
Ontario, in 1832 ; married Betsy Hicks, in 1861, born
at Rutland, Vt., November 8th, 1793 ; died at Cobden,
IU. 1672. Martha A. ; born February 17th, 1817 ;
died August 17th, 1828.
1673. Mary; born May 14th, 1821; married H.
B. Barton, September 19th, 1839; living
at Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1889.
1674. George.
1675. Sandford W.; born at EUisburgh, Jefferson
Co., N. Y., March 17th 1830 ; pomologist;
living at Cobden, IU., in 1889; married
Mary Swan, February 14th, 1854, bom
Westonville, N. Y., November 30th, 1830;
no children.
1676. Joseph.
1677. Hemy N.
1678. Maremus.
George Beckwith, 1674, bom N. Y, State, May 18th,
1818; resided at Tweed, Ontario; married J, A. Pro-
vort in 1840, born Canada, November 30th, 1816;
living at Shannonsville, Ont, in 1889,
1679, Marshall ; living at Cobden, IU„ 1889,
1680, Mallissa A,
1681, Elizabeth J,
1682, Uriah Eldridge,
1683, John P,
John Percival Beckvnth, 1683, born November 15th,

184 The Beckwiths.
1849; carriage wood- worker ; Hving at Chicago, 111,,
in 1889 ; married Kate E, Eberhart, October 1 8th,
1876, born at Chicago, 111,, October 11th, 1857.
1684, Anna F. ; bom June 29th, 1877.
1686. George ; bora August 16th, 1878.
1686, Henry A, ; born November 13th, 1879,
1687, Edward J. ; born October 21st, 1821.
1688. Charies E, ; born January 13th, 1883.
1689. Mary E, ; born May 25th, 1886,
Joseph Beckwith, 1676, bom Sidney, Ont,, June
30th, 1832; living at London, Ont, in 1889; mamed Ori-
ana Bushnell, 1 858, born in England, March 4th, 1841,
1690, Jenette M, ; born 1860; manied and Hving
in London, Ont, 1889,
1691, Frank; born 1862; married,
1692. Luella; born 1867,
1693, Amelia ; born 1869.
1694. Laura; born 1872,
1695. Florence; born 1874.
1696. Dudley ; born 1877.
Henry Nels9n Beckwith, 1677, born Canada, June
20th, 1835; carpenter and house joiner; living at
Selby, Ont., in 1 889 ; married Flora Fraser, January
nth, 1864, bom Lansdale, Ont., March 4th, 1841.
1697. Lewis; bom October 19th, 1864.
1698. Lemuel Nelson ; bom February 22d, 1866.
1699. Ellen ; born October 23d, 1867,
1700, Franklin ; born November 4th, 1868.
1701, Christian; born October 7th, 1871.
1702. Norman A. ; born October 29th, 1873.

The Beckwiths. 185
1702. Malcolm F, ; born June 20th, 1877.
1703. Sabra; born June 15th, 1879.
Maremus Beckwith, 1678, born at Rome, Oneida
Co., N. Y, December 25th, 1822 ; gardener; married
Aluria Wyman, March 10th, 1849, born Ontario,
Prince Edward Co., Canada, November 25th, 1822 ;
Hving Sharon ville, Ont., in 1889.
1704. Louisa; born August 10th, 1848.
1705. Betsy J. ; born June 14th, 1850.
1706. Maremus B.; born March 11th, 1852 ; liv
ing Central City, Dakota, in 1889.
1707. MiUburn; died October 2d, 1867.
1708. Martha A. ; born AprU 14th, 1856.
1709. Walter S. ; born September 15th, 1853;
living Central City, Dakota, in 1889.
1710. Aluria M. ; born May 12th, 1858.
1711. Chauncey W. ; born January 12th, 1862;
living Central City, Dakota, in 1889.
1712, Laura J,; bora June 15th, 1864,
Saxton Beckvnth, 1669, born August 12th, 1801, in
Oneida Co,, N. Y, ; manied Sally Burgess,
1713, Susan; married Main.
1714. Martha; married Dakin,
1716, Warden ; married Sarah Peck,
1716, Millisa; married ElHs,
1717. Lucy; married J, McKinney.
1718. Harriette ; married Linderman.
1719. Henry.
1720. Daniel.
1721. Esquire.
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186 The Beckwiths.
Henry Beckwith, 1719, born in 1840; removed to
Mansfield, Ohio; U, S, V. S,, 1861-66 ; married J, C,
Guest, September 15th, 1865.
1722. Bertram H, ; born September, 1866,
1723, Chariie E, ; born September 18th, 1875,
1724, Freddy C, ; born January 26th, 1880.
Daniel Beckwith, 1720, born Monroe, Ohio; U. S.
V. S,, 1861-65; married H, Peck in 1867.
1726, Inez.
Esquire Beckwith, 1721 ; U. S. V. S., 1861-64,
1726. Levi
1727. Eddie.
1728, Ernest,
1729, Florence.
1730. Eva.
1731. Jane.
1732. Chauncey.
Asa Beckwith, 1632, born in N, Y, State; settled
in N, Y,
1733, Joseph,
1734. Ira.
1736, Polly.
1736, David,
1737, Patience.
1738. Eleanor.
Joseph Beckwith, 1633, born at Lyme, Conn,, in
1749; died 1834; married Mrs, Esther W. Wait
nee Daniels, bom in 1765,
1739. Hepsibah; born 1799; married F. Cham
pion.

The Beckwiths. 187
1740, Haniet; born 1807; married J. Haynes,
1741. Richard Beckwith.
Richard Beckwith, 1741, born Lyme, Conn., in
1786; soldier of the War of 1812-14; married Free
love Smith ; died at New London, Conn,
1742. Leonard.
1743. Amanda; married Crocker.
1744, Lucrissia; married Demison of New Lon
don,
1745, Francis D.
Francis D. Beckwith, 1745, bom Waterford, Conn.,
April 28th, 1810 ; manied Nancy A. Howe, Novem
ber 4th, 1832, born Delhi, N. Y, September 14th,
1813. 1746, George T,
1747, Thomas A,
1748. Jeannette C.
1749, Horace,
1750, Anson J.
1761, Nathan,
1752. Orrin Wolcott.
Orrin Wolcott Beckwith, 1752, born Waterford,
Conn., February 14th, 1838; steamboat pilot ; manied
twice ; first wife was Ellen M. Sistaire, whom he mar
ried October 30th, 1860, born Groton, Conn,, March
Ist, 1838 ; married 2d, Aluira S. Burrows, born March
7th, 1835,1753, Tressa S, ; married Frank Edgecomb, Sep
tember 30th, 1883,
1754, Onin P.

188 The Beckwiths.
1755, Lottie H; married Wm, H. Trail, March
14th, 1889.
EHjah Beckwith, 632, born at New London, 1716;
married Joanna Watrous.
1756. Elijah,
1757. Lydia; born October 23d, 1752,
1758, Joanna ; born October 23d, 1752,
1769. Hezekiah ; born September 12th, 1754,
1760, Stephen,
1761, George,
1762, Samuel,
Elijah Beckwith, 1756, born New London, 1750;
died 1780 ; married Sally Miller of Lyme, Conn.
1763. Joanna; died 1828; married Sabin K.
Smith.
1764. A daughter; adopted by a family in Ver
mont.
1765. Joseph M,
Joseph M, Beckwith, 1765, born Vermont, 1773 ;
carpenter; died Watertown, N, Y,, 1878.; married
Sally in 1766, his cousin, daughter of Ezra Beckwith
of Lyme, Conn,; she died at St Lawrence Co,, N, Y,,
in 1846, 1766. Lydia J,; born Lyme, Conn,, February 4th,
1807; married D. Lessee, February 10th,
1828 ; he died; married 2d, Nathan Noyes,
September 10th, 1849; she was Hving at
Marble Rock, Iowa, in 1889; children:
Daniel Lessee, born March 24th, 1831;
married Laura Cooper of Watertown, N,

The Beckwiths. 189
Y.; living there in 1889; Hiram, born
March 3d, 1834.
1767. Hiram; born Lyme, February 28th, 1809;
a sailor; died at New London, August
29th, 1829. ..—- — -
1768. Alfred.
1769. Jeremiah.
1770. EHjah.
Alfred Beckwith, 1768, born Lyme, Conn., Septem
ber 25th, 1811 ; farmer; died at Orleans, Jefferson
Co., N. Y., January, 1877; married Armenia Wood in
1833, bom St. Lawrence Co., N. Y, Februaiy 11th,
1815. 1771. Annie ; manied Hiram Ellis; living Clay
ton, N. Y., in 1889.
1772. Hamette; married Peck; living at Plessis,
N. Y., in 1889.
1773. Orion; bora Lyme, Conn., March 20th,
1851; living at Otto Lake, Mich., in 1889;
married Sylvia Turner.
1774. Hiram.
Hiram Beckwith, 1774, born St. Lawrence Co., N.
Y., January 13th, 1850; farmer at LaFargeviUe, N.
Y, in 1889; married Dora S,Buskirk, November 15th,
1871; born at Clayton, N, Y, December, 1849.
1775. Earl N.; bom March 4th, 1875.
1776, Edith M,; born September 10th, 1877,
1777, Grace J, ; born May 31st, 1888,
Jeremiah Beckwith, 1769, born Lyme, Conn,, No
vember 23d, 1814; distiUer at Cleveland, Ohio, in

190 The Beckwiths.
1889 ; 1st wife, Charlotte Jones; married 2d wife,
August 14th, 1851; born February 16th, 1838; died
Cleveland, Ohio, June 27th, 1872,
1778, Charles G,; born Clayton, N, Y,, 1851;
died at Fort Missoula, Montana, in 1883;
unmarried,
1779, Lonon; born Canada West, February 29th,
1855 ; manied John A, Riggs, March 12th,
1886; he died November 2d, 1887; she
was living at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1889; one
child : Charles Howard, bom Cleveland,
Ohio, September 17th, 1883,
1780. William M. ; carriage painter; Hving at
Denver, Colo., in 1889 ; married Edith
Cramer, September 16th, 1886.
1781. Edgar J. ; machinist at Montreal, Canada,
in 1889 ; unmarried.
Jeremiah Beckwith, 1769, married Harriette Shel
den, 2d wife.
1782, Shelden; U. S, V. S.; kiUed in battle.
1783. Jenks; farmer in Kansas.
1784. Augusta; married William Kelly of Rod
man, N. Y.
Elijah Beckwith, 1770, born March 20th, 1817; liv
ing at La Fargeville, N. Y. ; married tAvice ; 1st wife,
Betsy liinds; by his 2d wife, Pheodore E. Shelden,
bom October 7th, 1826, he had the following
children :
1785. Mary L. ; born April 20th, 1840; married

The Beckwiths. 191
Layfelt; living at Marble Rock, Iowa, in
1889.
1786. Ellen E,; born July 5th, 1855; married
Lew Leach ; living at Perch River, N, Y,,
in 1889.
1787. Mai-tha L.; born September 6th, 1843.
1788. Charles R. ; born September -13th, 1842.
1789. Gilbert; bom July 22d, 1846,
1790, Norman E. ; born AprU 11th, 1852,
1791. WUlard C. ; born September 27th, 1848;
farmer at La Fargeville, 1889.
1792. Alvin W,; born AprU 11th, 1852; married
Georgiana Drury,
Stephen Beckvnth, 640, born Lyme, Conn,, August
10th, 1709; died at Hartford, 1788; ensign of Train
Band of Hartford ; he married Hannah Newton, May
17th, 1742; died at Lyme, Conn,, May 16th, 1746.
1793, Cyrus G, ; born October 18th, 1743 ; cap
tain 2d Reg, N, Y, Line in the Continen
tal Army.
1794, Jerusha; bom May 16th, 1746,
Stephen Beckwith, 640, married Jerusha Watrous,
December 16th, 1747; born 1730; died 1796,
1795. Jeysie.
1796. Jerusha,
1797. Azubah ; married Jessie Peck,
Jeysie Beckwith, 1795, born Lyme, Conn,, 1753,
then " Chesterfield Society;" served in the Continental
Army; died 1840; married Esther Smith of MontvUle;
died 1838 at Lyme, Conn.

192 The Beckwiths.
1798. Betsy; died unmarried.
1799. Elijah.
1800. Nathan.
1801. Ezra; born Lyme; removed to Bloomfield;
died in Wis.; married Parnol Crane of
Rochester, N. Y
1802. Sylvanus.
1803. Nathaniel.
1804. Jeysie.
1805. Israel.
Sylvanus Beckwith, 1802, born Lyme, Conn., Feb
ruary 14th, 1787; removed to Bloomfield, N. Y; died
Cassopolis, Mich., February 24th, 1829; married Lydia
H Goold, February 12th, 1809; born Lyme, Conn,,
November 23d, 1792; died at Dawagiac, Mich,, Sep
tember 15th, 1875,
1806, Hattie; living at Dawagiac, Mich,, in 1889.
1806a,  ; married James SuUivan; living
Dawagiac, Mich., in 1889,
1807, Walter.
Walter G. Beckwith, 1807, born at West Bloomfield,
N, Y, January 8th, 1810; died at Cassopolis, Mich,;
married Eliza A, Lee, May 2 2d, 1838 ; born at Bloom
field, December 2d, 1811,
1808. Frank L. "
1809. Edwin N,
Frank L, Beckwith, 1808, born at Cassopolis, Mich,,
March 10th, 1844; died September 30th, 1876, at
Dawagiac, Mich.

The Bechwiths. 193
1810. Fred L. ; living at Dawagiac, Mich., in
1889.
1811. E. Blanch ; living at Dawagiac in 1889.
Edwin N, Beckwith, 1809, born at Cassopolis, Oc
tober 21st, 1847; farmer; manied C. L, Sullivan,
August 6th, 1869 ; bom Horicon, Wis., February 1st,
1850. 1812. Charles G. ; born at Dawagiac, April 19th,
1870.
1813. Walter G. ; bom at Dawagiac, November
29th, 1871.
Nathaniel Beckwith, 1803, born Lyme, Conn.; died
at Bloomfield ; manied Clarissa Guthrie, in 1816 ;
bom Mass.
1814. Watts.
Watts Beckwith, 1814, born at Bloomfield, June
8th, 1825 ; living at Daytonia, Fla., in 1889 ; married
A. Gilkey, November, 1869; born N. H., in 1832.
1816. Charles Gilkey ; died young.
Jeysie Beckwith, 1804, born at Lyme, Conn,, 1790;
died 1829; married Obiah Rogers; died aged 90,
March 3d, 1822,
1816. Laura; married Seth Crocker,
1817, Azubah; manied E, Atwood, and moved
to Cal.; she died August 7th, 1881.
1818. Henry F. ; living at Providence, R. I., in
1889.
Israel Beckwith, 1805, born Lyme, Conn., May 2d,
ir94; died September 21st, 1859; manied Eunice
HiUiard in 1819 ; died May 28th, 1884.
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194 The Beckwiths.
1819. EHphalet
1820, Elias H,
EHphalet Beckwith, 1819, born May 13th, 1821 ;
died January 30th, 1886; married Sarah A, Rathburn,
1821. Albert; bom AprU 8th, 1851; Hving at
Norwich, Conn., in 1889; not married.
Elias H, Beckwith, 1820, born at Norwich, Conn.,
June 23d, 1823; merchant; married M. J. Davis, Jan
uary 4th, 1862; living Norwich, Conn., in 1889.
1822, WUHam W,; born at Norvrich, June 23d,
1863; manied Lillian W, Sears, November
7th, 1866.
Nathaniel Beckwith, 639, bora Lyme, Conn,, Janu
ary 6th, 1707,
1823, NUes,
1824, Jabez,
NUes Beckwith, 1823, bora Lyme, Conn., in 1753;
removed to Lempster, N, H. (Sullivan County); soldier
in the Continental Army ; during one of the battles he
had a narrow escape — "a ball cut the knot of his
cravat;" died at Unity, N. H, in 1821,
1825. Warren.
1826, Byron,
1827, Bethuel.
1828, Lauren,
1829, Lucinda.
1830, Clarissa; married Caleb Sales; 2dly, married
Holt; their children were : Louisa, Rox-
anna, Oscar,

The Beckwiths. 195
1831. Polly; married Hodge of Lempster; chil
dren: Chester, RouUe,
1832, Betsy; married Moses Cooper of Greenfield,
1833, Esther ; married Fuller of Sutton,
1834, Nelson ; died young.
Warren Beckwith, 1825, born Lempster, N. H, Au
gust 20th, 1779; farmer; died in 1830; married Sta-
tira Redding, February 16th, 1805 ; born July 12th,
1780; died Lempster, August 11th, 1839.
1835. Charles G,
1836, Joseph W,
1837, Lucinda; born at Lempster, October 10th,
1809; died October 17th, 1850; married
Charles Bignall of Ackworth ; children ;
Mary, Henry, Helen, Mary, Hattie P.
1838. Harriett C. ; born August 26th, 1819 ; died
November 16th, 1880; married 1st, J. P.
BignaU, August 11th, 1839; their chil
dren : Thomas W,, born August 3d, 1840;
U, S, Vol, Service, 1861-4 ; kiUed battle
of Gettysburg ; Parmelia S,, bom Novem
ber 16th, 1843; manied George B, Alex
ander ; living GUsum, N, H, 1889; Lu-
sylva A, born June 1st, 1846 ; married
Henry Temple ; Charles P,, born Novem
ber 6th, 1851; living West Swansey, N
H,, 1889; manied Lucy T, Brown ; after
Bign all's death she manied Asa E. Howe,
August 20th, 1839 ; the children by this
2d marriage were: Austin L,, born July

196 The Beckwiths.
23d, 1868 ; George C, born May 3d, 1860;
Johnny A, D., born July 23d, 1862,
1839, Esther P.; born February 14th, 1825; died
April 4th, 1873 ; married James P. Reed;
children : Albert H,, Darwin H., Edwin
W., Abbie A,, Edah C,
1840. Sarah A. ; born March 7th, 1813 ; died
AprU 4th, 1874; manied Chapin Burt of
HUlsboro, N. H. ; children : Sarah Ann,
Alwidda, Milan, Hattie.
1840a. Huldah; born August 15th, 1817; died
August 18th, 1817.
1840b, Statira; bom August 3d, 1818; died
young.
1841. Thomas A.
1842. Silas S.
1842a. Lucy S. ; born AprU 19th, 1821; died
young,
Charles G, Beckwith, 1835, born July 16th, 1805 ;
married Fanny Badger ; born at Peterboro, N, H,
1843. John W.
1844. Nancy.
1845. Stephen H.
Joseph W. Beckwith, 1836, born at Lempster, N.
H, October 11th, 1807; died June 13th, 1872; mar
ried five times ; 2d, married to Pauline Cummins of
Unity ; 5th, married to Rebecca Pierce, November
5th, 1859 ; born at Hancock in 1809 ; removed to Gil-
sum, N. H., where she died ; 1st, married Erminia J.
Bus well.

The Bechwiths. 197
1846. Edward S.
1847. Emma S.
Joseph W. Beckwith, 1836, 3d wife, Sarah L. Pal
mer of Bradford, N. H.
1848. Ku-k.
1849. Francis A. ; born at Welton, October 26th,
1844.
Joseph W. Beckwith, 1836, 4th wife, Belinda Brown
of Mt. Vernon, Mass.
1850. Henry S.
Henry S. Beckwith, 1850, born at Bennington, De
cember 26th, 1846 ; married Jennie Welch, January
20th, 1875.
1851. Lena; born August 12th, 1876.
Thomas A. Beckwith, 1841, born at Lempster, De
cember 29th, 1811 ; married Ellen Patterson.
1852. Martin W.
1853. Thomas A.
1864. Silas S.
1855. Ellen M.
1856. Emma J.
1867. WiUiam H.
1858. Charies F.
1859. Edwin W.
1860. George O.
1861. Freddy C.
Silas S. Beckwith, 1842, born at Lempster, N. H.,
April nth, 1816 ; removed to Claremont, Dodge Co.,
Minn., in 1856 ; farmer; living there in 1889 ; married

198 The Beckwiths.
Electa Reed, April 14th, 1840; born Langdon, N. H.,
July 8th, 1816.
1862. Darwin O. ; born Lempster, N. H, July
16th, 1841 ; died December 19th, 1847.
1862a, Amelia Z.; born Lempster, N, H., May
4th, 1844 ; died May 6th, 1844,
1862b, RuthL.; born Lempster, N, H,, December
23d, 1845 ; died Januaiy 22d, 1847,
1862c, RuthN, ; born Lempster, N, H, October
7th, 1847 ; married J, L, Clark, November
18th, 1845; living Herrick, Knox Co,,
Neb,, in 1889; he was a ranchman; their
children : Iness C, born December 17th,
1869; Edwin M, born November 10th,
1871 ; Orrin L. and Warren, twins, born
October 9th, 1 874 ; Elmer A., born Sep
tember 4th, 1877 ; El wood L., born AprU
21st 1879; Jennie P., born AprU 9th,
1881.
1863. Edith E.; bin-n at Ackworth, December
8th, 1851 ; married E. A. Chapman, Sep
tember 8th, 1872; living at Philomath,
Oregon, in 1889; their children are : Welma
E., born August 11th, 1873; Athol 0.,
born July 13th, 1875 ; Leo E., born July
9th, 1879 ; Winnie E., born July 13th, 1884.
1864. Cornelia E. ; born at Charlestown, N. H.,
September 11th, 1856; married F. G.
Clark, March 29th, 1874 ; living at Cor-
vallis, Oregon, in 1889 ; their children are:

The Beckwiths. 199
Merton F., born May 26th, 1876 ; Guy A.,
born August l7th, 1880.
1865. Jennie P.; born at Claremont, Minn., July
5th, 1860; was cashier of the W. U. T.
Co., at St Paul, Minn., in 1889.
1866. Albro E.
1866a. Pamelia; married Byron Alexander ; chil
dren : Frank E., Hattie.
1866b. Abbie A. ; married EHner E. Dodge ; one
chUd : Bertha.
1867. Ormond W.
Albro E. Beckwith, 1866, born at Lempster, Janu
ary 6th, 1 850 ; married Clara Pierce, November 28th,
1872; born July 26th, 1853; farmer; living at Cheney,
Dodge Co., Minn., in 1889.
1868. Florence E. ; born January 13th, 1874.
1869. MyraE. ; bora January 22d, 1876.
1870. Lauraette B. ; born September 26th, 1881.
1871. LesHe May; born May 3d, 1884.
Ormond W. Beckwith, 1867, born Lempster, May
1st, 1854; married Nellie G. Ryder, October 28th,
1883; born March 16th, 1846; ranchman; they were
Hving at CornwalHs, Oregon, in 1889.
1872. Frederick A. ; born February 14th, 1886;
died August 8th, 1885.
1872a. Charles A; born July 16th, 1887,
Byron Beckwith, 1826, born Lempster, N, H. ; mar
ried Candace Hurd, daughter of Justin Hurd of East
Haddam, June 4th, 1806 ; born June 7th, 1781 ; died
January, 1859,

200 The Beckwiths.
1873. Elvira ; born in 1811 ; died in 1839 ; mar
ried J. Buckminister of Methuem, Mass.
1874, Diana; bora 1813; died 1826,
1875, Haniette S. ; bora Lempster, 1815; died
1829,
1876, Emeline; born Unity, 1818; married
Spencer.
1877. Polly E.
1878. John Bethuel ; born at Lempster,
Bethuel Beckwith, 1827, bora October 10th, 1783;
died at Alstead, January 17th, 1808 ; manied twice;
ist wife, Betsy Davis ; died Lempster in 1809 ; 2d
wife, a sister of his first wife.
1879, Linus NUes,
1880, Betsy D, ; born August 12th, 1812 ; mar
ried B. Davis,
1881, Lucy A,; born 1814; died 1872; married
D, Tifft,
1882, Esther M,; born 1826; died 1846,
1883. Margarette; born Alstead in 1826; mar
ried O. Inman of R. I,
1884. Amanda; born 1828 ; married J. Spaulding
of WUson Co., Wis,
1885, Salmon C; born at Marlow, July 1st, 1816.
1886, John.
1887. Ezra N,
Linus- NUes Beckwith, 1879, born at Alstead, N, H,,
August 19th, 1811 ; died at Alstead, February 19th,
1880; married 1st wife, Eliza A, Davis, October 16th,
1835; born Barry, Mass,, February 16th, 1816,

The Beckwiths. 201
1888. Albert D.
1889. Ransom E,
1889a. Addison ; Hving Boston, Mass., in 1889.
1889b. Addie.
1889c. Hattie.
1890. Henry H.
1891. George A. ; born Weston, Vt., January
22d, 1843; U. S. V. S., 1861-5; wounded
at battle of Fredericksburg ; died in hos
pital, May 12th, 1864.
1892. Eliza A. ; born at Weston, Vt, 1845 ; died
at Alstead, 1865.
1893. Milan N. ; born August, 1848 ; U. S. V. S,,
2d Reg, Vt, Vol, ; living in 1889, at Nashua,
N, H, ; married Ruth E. Dodge, July 9th,
1870,
1894, Nelson B, ; born at Weston ; living in 1889,
at Chester, Penn, ; married C, Beebee,
1850 ; died 1875.
Albert D. Beckwith, 1888, bora Lempster, February
22d, 1837; U. S. V, S„ 2d Reg, Vt Vol,, 1861-5;
wounded at battle of Fredericksburg ; married Amelia
lincoln, October 15th, 1870; Hving Bellows FaUs,
Vt, in 1889,
1896, Emest C, ; born at Alstead in 1872,
1896, Edna; born at Alstead, September 29th,
1878,
Ransom E, Beckwith, born at Lempster in 1838;
died at Nashua in 1878 ; married Lizzie White.
1897. Lucania ; born Florida in 1876.
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202 The Beckwiths.
Henry H, Beckwith, 1890, born at Marlow, June
20th, 1841 ; contractor and builder; married Eliza A,
Townsend, June 15th, 1874; bora at Alstead, May
29th, 1850 ; living at Keene, N, H, in 1889,
1898. Willard H; born October 14th, 1876,
1899, Ella M,; born July 27th, 1880,
Lauren Beckwith, 1828, bora at Lempster, January
13th, 1787; farmer; married Sally Dutton of Lemp
ster, 1900, Thomas.
1901, GiUman.
1902, Byron,
Jabez Beckwith, 1824, born in East Haddam, Conn,,
1768 ; died November 10th, 1871 ; removed to Jilsum,
N, H,, and then to Lempster ; they came on horseback
through a wilderness by a pathway of blazed trees
with the bed and bedding and other things for their
log cabin, and with them their two-year-old daughter
Sally ; they drove a cow along, " which was their liv
ing ; " until he could raise his own corn he had to go
to Charlestown for his grain ; surveyor, county clerk,
State representative of SulHvan Co, 12 years, and
was appointed colonel of mUitia ; married Elizabeth
Hurd ; born East Haddam, Conn,, in 1772 ; died Octo
ber 6th, 1849,
1903, Sally; bom Jilsum, October 8th, 1799;
married Eli Hull, and lived at Keene ; she
died age 79,
1904, Diadiama ; married Asa Way, and had four
sons and six daughters.

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1905, Betsy; married Erastus Newton of New
port, N, H, ; a farmer ; had three sons, all
graduates of college, and were lawyers
practicing at Hanover, N, H,, and Burling
ton, Vt, ; one daughter who lives at the
old homestead at Newport, N, H,
1906, Nathaniel.
1907. Jabez.
1908. Martin.
Jabez Beckwith, 1907, manied Catherine Putnam
of Charlestown, N. H.
1909.  ,

1910, Emeline ; married at Lowell, Mass,
1911, Angeline; manied Newton of Lowell,
Mass,
1912. Mary C, ; married Putnam of Lempster,
Martin Beckwith, 1908, born at Lempster, N. H,
April 28th, 1780 ; died May 27th, 1881 ; State repre
sentative five years, a democrat, captain of militia; mar
ried Tirzah Judd, February 26th, 1808 ; born South
Hadley, Mass., February 26th, 1782 ; died September
6th, 1858 ; he was a very large man, and "on muster
day in full uniform and riding a fine horse always cre
ated a sensation; " he commanded the escort when Gov.
Hill was inaugurated and went to Concord ; several
years before his death he became blind, and walked
the streets of Lempster alone with aid of his cane, and
lived to be one hundred and one years of age.
1913, Rev. Hiram.
1914, Homer.

204 The Beckwiths.
1915, Tirzah M,; born January 22d, 1819; died
September 13th, 1858 ; married D, J. Bum-
ham of Farmington, Mass.
1916, Elizabeth; born Febraary 7th, 1817; died
1881 ; married John Piatt of Manchester,
Me,
1917. Caroline; bom July 12th, 1811; Hving at
Lempster in 1889 ; unmanied,
1918, Edson Leroy; born August 22d, 1813; died
August 22d, 1818,
Rev, Hiram Beckwith, 1913, bora May 21st, 1809;
minister ; married Hannah R, Moore of Shelby, N, Y,
September 8th, 1836 ; living at Spring Lake, Mich,, in
1888. 1919, Andrew,
1920, Libby; manied Rev, Mr, Cross; Hving at
Springfield, IU,, in 1889,
1921. Ruth; married J. B. Hancock, October
20th, 1881, of Grand Haven, Mich.
1922. Luez ; married Morrison ; living at Chicago,
111., in 1889.
Andrew Beckwith, 1919, living at Spring Lake,
Mich., in 1889 ; lumber merchant.
1923, Hiram,
Homer Beckwith, 1914, born Januaiy 1st, 1813;
married Mary Ann Sutton, November 1st, 1842; born
Februaiy 15th, 1824,
1924. Edson L.
1925. Martin; born June 24th, 1849; removed
to Lempster ; married M, Blake of Derby,

The Beckwiths. 205
Vt, November 15th, 1877; born Septem
ber 8th, 1850; Hving in 1888, on the old
homestead.
Edson Leroy Beckwith, 1924, bora March 27th,
1848; removed to Manchester ; died July 4th, 1886;
manied Betsy CahiU, at Boston, September 6th, 1874 ;
died July 29th, 1879.
1926.  ; born at Boston, April 17th, 1875;
living in 1889, on the old homestead,
Benjamin Beckwith, 645, born at New London,
Conn,, January 13th, 1679,
1927. Phineas,
Phineas Beckwith, 1927, born at Lyme, Conn,, in
1701 ; married Phoebe Wait, September 21st, 1734 ;
died October 28th, 1791.
1928. Phineas.
1929. Lois; bom December 13th, 1735; married
M. Parsons in 1764.
1930. Sarah; born August Oth, 1738; died un
married in 1841,
1931, Elizabeth; bom August 12th, 1742; died
May 8th, 1768 ; married Sylvanus Smith,
1932, Richard; born November 28th, 1739 ; died
June 16th, 1810 ; married Lucy Griswold,
1st wife ; 2d, married Mary Wood,
1933, Sarah; born July 28th, 1745; died 1780;
unmarried,
1934, Marvin; bora Lyme, Conn,, December 16th,
1746; died June 21st 1815; removed to
New London; lawyer; manied 1st, Patty

206 The Beckwiths.
Jones ; died March 6th, 1 804 ; manied 2d,
H, Saltonstal; died July 10th, 1808;
married 3d, Nancy Farmer; died April
nth, 1857,
Phineas Beckwith, 1928, born at Lyme, Conn,, in
1736 ; sailor ; enlisted in Revolutionery Armyin 1777 ;
sergeant 1777 ; ensign in 1781; manied Huldah; born
1739, 1936, Lois; born 1759,
1936. Stephen.
1937,  .
1938,  .
1939,  .
David Beckwith, 607, born at New London, Conn, ;
settled in New York city, N, Y, ; enlisted in Conti
nental Army in 1776.
1940. Fannie; married Morgan of Westfield,
Mass.
1941. Livonia; married Garretson,
1942, Eliza; married Carpenter,
1943, Sally.
1944, Richard Bebee,
Richard Bebee Beckwith, 1944, born New York city;
removed to Baltimore, Md,, in 1832; ship builder;
married Elizabeth Coumer ; born in Wales,
1945, Henry C,
1946, John; U. S. V, S,, 2d Md. Reg., participated
in twenty-two engagements ; was living at
National Soldiers' Home, Virginia, in 1889.

The Beckwiths. 207
1947. David G.
1948. Horace.
1949. Mary; married Todd of Phila.
Henry C. Beckwith, 1945.
1950. James; living at Baltimore in 1889.
David G, Beckwith, 1947, bora New York city; re
moved to Baltimore, Md,, in 1836; married Mary Ed
gerton of Baltimore,
1961. Ida; married R. Bradley.
1952, Molly ; married L, Benjamin of Md.
1953, Emma S, ; school teacher; living at Balti
more, Md,, in 1889,
1964, Ella V.
1965. Fannie.
1956. Thomas R,
Horace Beckwith, 1948, born New York city, Janu
ary 5th, 1828 ; removed to Baltimore, Md,; married
Margarette Hayes, October 6th, 1861 ; born at Ann
Arundell Co,, Md., April 27th, 1840,
1967, Wm, Franklin ; living Baltimore, Md,,
1889; unmarried,
1958. Mary F. ; unmarried.
1958a. Ida E. ; unmarried.
1959. Margarette E. ; unmarried.
1960. RoselleE. ; unmarried.
1961. Sarah L.; unmarried,
1962. Horace J. ; died August 26th, 1882.
1963, George W, ; living Baltimore, Md„ 1889;
unmanied.

208 The Beckwiths.
1964. Charles E. ; living Baltimore, Md., 1889;
unmarried.
1966, Samuel P.; living Baltimore, Md., 1889;
unmarried.
1966. Annie V.; Hving Baltimore, Md., 1889;
unmarried.
1967. Richard Burnside; born at Baltimore, Md.,
March 18th, 1862 ; canmaker; living there
in 1889; unmarried,
Richard Bebee Beckwith, 1944, by his 2d maniage,
1968. Franklin; living in Md., in 1889,
1969. Eliza; married Hubbard of Md.
Jonah Beckwith, 587, born Conn., in 1716 ; returned
to England and settled in London and died there,
1970, Jonah,
Jonah Beckwith, 1970, born at London 1746 ; died
there; buried in Old St, Luke's Church, London,
1971, Joseph,
Joseph Beckwith, 1971, born November 11th, 1776,
at St, Mary's Stairway, London; married Jane Pittard,
June 20th, 1800; married and born at St Mary's, Is
lington, London,
1972, Joseph; died unmarried,
1973, Mary A, ; died unmarried,
1974. Jane; married Mr. MoUett, and is now liv
ing in London.
1975, Henry; living at Bedford ave,, Brooklyn,
N, Y,
1976. George,
George Beckwith, 1976, born September 6th, 1816,

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at Wilderness Row, London ; by occupation a clerk ;
removed to Erie, Penn. ; married Marianne Wigaman,
February 4th, 1846 ; born London, England,
1977. Thomas D. ; born at Erie, Penn., November
15th, 1846.
1978. J, Henry ; born at Brooklyn, N. Y,, March
24th, 1849,
1979, Jane; born at Brooklyn, November 29th,
1851 ; manied Cuzner,
1979a, Minnie; born January 26th, 1862; married
Smith,
1980, PoUy; bornSeptember 26th, 1864; married
Slater,
1981, Minnie; born January 26th, 1852; married
Smith.
1982. George ; born Brooklyn, February 14th,
1859.
1983. James P. ; born December 31st, 1865,
David Beckwith, 692a, born Lyme, Conn,, in 1742;
removed to Geneseo, Cayuga Co,, N, Y,, in 1829 ; far
mer; enlisted in Continental Army 1776-9, Miller's
Co,, De Voos' Reg., Mass, Line; wounded during the
war; died at Attica, N, Y, in 1834; married Abigail,
daughter of Capt, Whiting; born Lyme, Conn,, in
1757. 1984. Jonathan ; removed to Cayuga Co., N. Y,
and died*there,
1985. WilHam,
1986, David.
1987, Perry Green,
27

210 The Beckwiths.
1988. Warren.
1989, Richard; died unmanied.
1990, Polly; born 1795; died at Barry Co,, N,
, Y,, March, 1887 ; married Noah Bowker,
1991. Huldah; born 1802; married Brown of
Ohio.
William Beckwith, 1985, born at Nor walk. Conn.,
in 1796; enlisted War of 1812, in Gale's Co,; died at
Merfork, Branson Co., Ohio, in 1861 ; married Anne
Herrick in 1819 ; born 1798; died 1883,
1992, Alonzo; died unmarried.
1993, Marian ; manied Dr, Nelson of Ann Arbor,
Mich,
1994, William; inventor,
1995, Dr. David H, ; M. D.; born 1826, in Ohio;
living at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1889.
1996. Dr. Ephraim.
1997. Dr. Seth R.
Dr. Ephraim Beckwith, 1996; M. D. ; born 1830;
settled at Columbus, Ohio ; married Fannie Forest.
1998. Dr. Edwin F.
1999. Whitney C; living at Detroit, Mich., in
1889 ; lawyer; married M. A. Gaylord.
2000. Charies P. ; student at Ann Arbor in 1889.
Dr. Edwin F. Beckwith, 1998, living at Munn,
Mich., in 1889 ; married Kate Burr.
2001. Alice.
2002. Baby
Dr. Seth R. Beckwith, 1997; M. D. ; mining expert

The Beckwiths. 211
and speculator, in Ohio and Colo. ; living at EHzabeth,
N. J., in 1889.
2003. L. C. ; Hving at Maiden Lane, N. Y., in
1889.
2004. Dr. Tifft; living at Elizabeth, N. J., in
1889.
David Beckwith, 1986, from Attica, N. Y., removed
to Alexander, N. Y. ; manied Sybell Hodges.
2006. Susan ; married Smith ; living at Kalama
zoo, Mich., in 1888.
2006. Chaucey.
2007. Fanny.
2008. Lenassa.
2009. WUliam,
2010, EHphalet
2011. Elmira.
2012. John.
2013, David.
2014. Mary Ann.
2015. Dexter T.
Dexter Tiffany Beckwith, 2015, born at Attica,
Wyoming Co., N. Y., in 1823; farmer; living Wyom
ing Co., in 1888 ; manied Sarah A. Wood, March 9th,
1848 ; born Attica, N. Y,, September 18th, 1825,
2016. Clara Louda; born August 2d, 1855,
Perry Beckwith, 1987, born at Hartford, Conn,, in
1796 ; enlisted in Revolutionary Army 1814, served in
Grierson's Co., Porter's Reg., New York Line ; died at
New Lyme, Ohio ; married 1st wife, Delia Springster,
in 1824 ; born Lyme, Conn ; died New Lyme, Ohio.

212 The Beckwiths.
2017, Perry G,
Perry Green Beckwith, 2017.
2018. Dr. Nelson; dentist at New York city in
1888.
2019, Halsey P,; living in Jefferson Co., in 1888.
Perry Green Beckwith, 1987, married 2d wife, Rock
well; born Lyme, Conn,; died New Lyme, Ohio,
2020. Alvin.
2021. Edward C.
2022. Ezra M.
2023. Samuel R.
2023a. Esther.
2024. Elijah,
EHjah Beckwith, 2024, born Lyme, Conn, ; removed
to New Lyme, Ohio ; married Sarah Partridge ; born
Gustavus, Ohio, March, 1800,
2025. Fanny P.
2026, Joana.
2027, Sarah V.
2028. William ; living at Colebrook, Ohio, in
1888.
2029, George W. ; Hving West Williamsfield,
Ohio, in 1888.
2030. Elijah P,
2031. Alva R,
Alva R. Beckwith, 2031, born at New Lyme, Ashta
bula Co., Ohio, July 14th, 1838 ; merchant there in
1889; married Joanna Dodge, December 18th, 1849;
born New Lyme, January 7th, 1879.

The Beckwiths. 213
2032. Altha A. ; born December 20th, 1852.
2033. Flora A. ; born September 6th, 1858.
2034. Alva A., Jr. ; born February 28th, 1870.
Warren Beckwith, 1988, born Geneva, Cayuga Co.,
N. Y, September Oth, 1799 ; farmer ; removed to Kala
mazoo, Mich., in 1806 ; died thei'e April, 1863 ; married
in Attica, N. Y, to Mary Tyrell in 1824 ; she was living
at Kalmazoo, Mich., in 1889.
2035. Charles.
2036. Henry.
2037. Phoebe J. ; married M. J. McPoor ; living
at Detroit, Mich., in 1889 ; had one son,
Arthur, who died young.
2038. Helen ; married Harry Wells of Kalamazoo.
Hon. Charles Beckwith, 2035, born at Alexander,
N. Y, July 9th, 1825; removed to Kalamazoo with his
parents in 1836 ; entered Michigan University 1845 ;
graduated 1849 ; studied law at Holly Springs, Miss. ;
and practiced his profession in Buffalo from 1854 until
1877 ; was then made judge of the Superior Court of
Buffalo, and finally made chief judge, was living in
Buffalo, N. Y., in 1889; married Harriet Dodge, May
12th, 1849.
2039. Mary R.
2040. Jessie Lee.
2041. Fanny L.
Henry Beckwith, 2036, removed to Kalamazoo, Mich. ;
farmer. 2042. Ray, an artist ; living at Kalamazoo, Mich.,
in 1889.

214 The Beckwiths.
Benjamin Beckwith, 691.
2043. Alonzo S.
Alonzo S. Beckwith, 2043, born at Hartford, Conn,;
moved to Providence, R, I,, in early married life, and
returning to Hartford, there engaged in financial oper
ations, and was a prominent business man of that
place ; married Laura Moseley Clark of Hartford.
2044. WiUiam C.
2045. Laura C.
2046, Charles,
2047. Henry Clark; died August, 1883 ; married
Clara BrowneU, niece of Bishop Brownell
of Hartford, Conn.
2048. Charlotte G. ; married Daniel R. Crouse of
Utica, N. Y.
William Clark Beckwith, 2044, M. D. ; died October
7th, 1868 ; married Jane, daughter of Dr. Leprelette
S. Miller. Dr. Beckwith practiced medicine in Roch
ester, N. Y., from 1851-55 ; then removed to Provi
dence, R. I. ; entered into partnership with his father-
in-law, Dr. Miller, and was living there in 1889.
2049. William L.
2050. Walter ; died young.
WUliam L. Beckwith, 2049 ; living at Providence,
R. I., in 1889 ; married Emily Jones ; died July 1st,
1887. 2051, Lorania C. ; born AprU 5th, 1887,
Charies Beckwith, 2046; died October, 1884; 1st
wife married, Kate Seymour,

The Beckwiths. 215
2052. Kate ; married Strickland ; living at St.
Paul, Minn., in 1889.
Charles Beckwith, 2046 ; married 2d, Hannah Boyd
MUler, granddaughter of Dr. Nathaniel Miller of
Franklin, Mass.
2063. Charles.
2054. Chariotte.
2055. Richard.
Josiah Beckwith, 591, born Lyme, Conn., in 1742;
married Mehetible Parsons,
2056. Andrew.
2056a. Joel.
2056b. Joshua.
2057, Richard P,
2057a, Mehitable ; b, Lyme ; m. Nathan Tinker,
February l7th, 1780 ; he died AprU, 1792 ;
children : Laurana, born August 24th,
1780; Allen, born December 30th, 1781 ;
Elizabeth, born July 18th, 1783 ; Jonathan,
born June 14th, 1785; Anna, born June
31st, 1788 ; Mary, born December 3d, 1790 ;
Nathan, born September 80th, 1792 ; mar
ried Eunice Wade,
Andrew Beckwith, 2056, born Lyme, Conn,, in 1767 ;
removed to Alstead, and had nine children ; married
Catherine Shouler.
2058. Benjamin B.
2059. Simon Brooks ; born at Alstead ; removed
to Ticonderoga ; married Livonia Dart ;
bora January 26th, 1780,

216 The Beckwiths.
Benjamin Brooks Beckwith, 2058, bom at Alstead,
June 10th, 1786 ; died July 10th, 1831 ; manied Jo
anna Chapin ; died at Alstead, February 19th, 1856.
2060, Alfred,
2061. Olinda ; born May 8th, 1810 ; married B,
M, Metcalf, June 9th, 1835,
2062. Oliver ; born at Walpole, April 11th, 1816.
2063. Rizpah; born at HUlboro, AprU 25th, 1821.
2064. Silas; born November 1st, 1818; married
and removed to California in 1888.
2065. Edna; born May 6th, 1820; removed to
Salt Lake City ; married J. H. A. Young ;
and became a Mormon,
Richard P. Beckwith, 2057, born at New London,
Conn., 1776 ; died at Lyme, Conn. ; married Mary
Phillips in 1796 ; born and died in Lyme,
2066, Abel ; settled at Hamburg, Conn.
2067, Joel ; his descendants were living at Lyme,
Conn, ; died Chatham, N, Y., in 1886.
2068. Richard ; died at Sag Harbor.
2069. Josiah,
2070, John S. ; Hving at Lyme, Conn,, in 1889,
2071, Andrew,
Andrew Beckwith, 2071, bora Lyme, Conn,, 1797;
died Aledo, IU,, August 31st 1872; married Nancy
J, Hudson, March 29th, 1820 ; bora Lyme, 1799; died
1871, 2072. Seth Lee.
2073. John B.

The Beckwiths. 217
2074. Richard E.
2076. William H.
2076. Alfred P. ; Hving at Lyme in 1889.
2077. Louisa ; married Daniels of Harlem, N. Y.
2078. Mary L. ; married Lord of Hamburg, Conn,
2079, Sarah E, ; married Robbins,
2080, Haniette C. ; married S. C. Amberson ; Hv
ing at MinneapoHs, Minn., in 1889,
2081. Angelina ; living at Hamburg, Conn,, in
1889.
2082. Ann Maria.
Seth Lee Beckwith, 2072, born at Lyme, Conn,, in
1820 ; sea captain ; retired from sea life and entered
into the boat-building business, and was living at San
Francisco in 1889 ; manied Abbey Jane Le Pard, May
24th, 1846 ; born at New London, Conn,, November
9th, 1820, 2083. Ida Jane ; bora February 2d, 1857 ; mar
ried J. McFariand ; living at . San Fran
cisco, Cal.
2084, George Lee ; born January 14th, 1856.
2085. Frederick A. ; born November 1st, 1859 ;
died young,
John B, Beckwith, 2073, born Lyme, Conn,, Decem
ber 18th, 1824; was in the grocery business at Tulare,
Cal,, in 1889 ; married Jennette E, Brown, August
5th, 1855 ; born Lyme, Conn,, October 6th, 1832,
2086, NelHe ; bora at Tulare, Cal., March 28th,
1867.
28

218 The Beckwiths.
2087, Kate ; born 1860 ; Hving at Tulare in 1889,
Richard E, Beckwith, 2074, born at Lyme, Conn.,
December 13th, 1831; merchant; living at Fresno,
Cal,, in 1889 ; married Ellen L, Brown, November 8th,
1856 ; bora at Lyme, Conn., April 8th, 1836.
2088. Alice Rose ; born June 14th, 1863,
2089, Grace ; born March 5th, 1865.
2090. Eva D. ; born June 25th, 1867.
2091. Frank ; bom January 15th, 1869.
2092. Edna S. ; born September 3d, 1875.
WilHam H. Beckwith, 2075, born at Lyme, Conn,,
AprU 27th, 1838; living in Saybrook, 111., in 1888 ;
married Lavinia Cheney, June 11th, 1863, daughter
of Hon. W, H, Cheney ; born Cheney's Grove, IU,,
May 19th, 1844,
2093, W. Cheney; born at Saybrook, IU,, March
2d, 1867 ; merchant at Chicago, IU,, in
1889 ; unmarried.
Stephen Beckwith, 1760, born New London, Conn,,
September 22d, 1760; died in New York; married
 York ; born Stonlngton, Conn, ; died March,
1863, age 97 ; daughter of  York, who was in
the Revolutionary Army and at the Indian Massacre
of Wyoming Valley,
2094, George,
2095, Dan,
2096, Hiram Jefferson,
2097. Sebaken,
2098, Hadley.
2099, Minor York,

The Beckwiths. 219
Dan Beckwith, 2095, born Flushing, Penn, ; died
Danville, 111, ; deputy U. S. surveyor; founder of Dan
ville ; was colonel of the Illinois Mounted Rangers in
Blackhawk War; married May J. Williams; born
FrankUn Co., Penn, ; died Danville,
2100. Laura; married Mott ; living Chicago, 111,,
in 1889.
2100a. Malissa; married Lamon; a daughter May
living in Danville, 111., in 1886.
2101. Hiram W.
Hiram Williams Beckwith, '2101, born at Danville,
111.; author of "Historic Notes of the North-west Ter
ritory," and other local historical and aboriginal works;
practicing law at Danville in 1889 ; married EmUy
Reeder, March 24th, 1857 ; born Oneida Co., N. Y,
September 19th, 1832.
2102. Clarence H; born at Danville, June 30th,
1869.
2103. WUl.
Will H. Beckwith, 2103, lawyer; born at Danville,
March 1st, 1858 ; married Lynne Williams, December
3d, 1884; born April 22d, 1862 ; living at DanvUle in
1889. 2104. SeUa G.; born September 6th, 1885.
2106. Dan Williams; born December 25th, 1886.
Minor York Beckwith, 2099, born New York, 1798;
moved to Michigan in 1836, where he died in 1854;
married  Edwards in 1824; born about 1800
in Massachusetts ; her father was in the Revolutionary
Army, participating in the battle of Bunker Hill,

220 The Beckwiths.
2106, Mary Eugene.
2107, Mortimore Edwards,
Mortimore Edwards Beckwith, 2107, born Wayne
Co,, N, Y, 1826; learned the ship-carpenter's trade in
Milwaukie, Wis, ; worked at that business until 1873;
was in business for himself in Racine from 1850 to
1860; in Grand Haven, Mich,, from 1860 to 1873; in
1873 he was in Duluth, building dredges for the N, P,
R, R, Co.; in 1881 he entered business in La Crone,
Wis., as a commission agent and dealer in second-hand
goods ; he manied twice ; his first wife was Helen
Bonman of Racine, Wis. ; she died in 1872, leaving
eight children ; his second wife was Julia E. Selby,
who was bora at Blue Earth, Wis.
2108. Haniet
2109. Eugenia.
2110. Evangeline.
2111. Ella.
2112. Clarebell.
2113. Frank; Hving Winona, Minn., in 1889.
2114. Fred W. ; merchant at Sioux FaUs, Iowa, in
1889.
Nathaniel Beckwith, 1906, born Lempster, N. H, ;
married Eunice Parkhurst ; they died within one week
of each other at Unity, N, H., in 1830.
2115, Lawson; his children were Hving at or
near Longraont, Colo., in 1886,
2116, George,
2117, Oscar,
2118, Aira; married C. A, Moore, Rutland, Vt ;

The Beckwiths. 221
children : C. A, Moore, Rutland, Vt, ; Geo,
C. Moore, Weathersfield Bow, Vt, ; Mrs,
J. H. Butler and Mrs, Hiram Parker, Lemp
ster, N. H.
2119. Lucy.
2120. Eunice.
2121. 
2122,  .
2123. Ransom P.
Oscar Beckwith, 2117.
2124, Helen; married Kent; living at Eldora,
Iowa, in 1889.
Ransom Parkhurst Beckwith, 2123, born Unity, N.
H., about 1817 ; resided at Lempster, N. H. ; married
Emily L. Parker, May 13th, 1849 ; born Goshen, N. H.,
July 2d, 1827.
2125. Hira Ransom ; living at Claremont, N. H.,
in 1889.
2126. Walter P.
Walter Packer Beckwith, 2126, bora Lempster, N.
H., August 27th, 1850 ; superintendent of schools at
Adams, Mass., in 1889 ; married Mary L. Say les, Decem
ber 23d, 1879; born Adams, Mass., AprU 26th, 1856.
2127. Francis Sayles; born August 11th, 1881.
Clark Beckwith, 1016, born Conn., August Oth, 1810;
moved to Cairo, N. Y. ; married EHza Curtis, April 20th,
1833 ; born February 25th, 1813.
2128. Celestia; maiTied Hyde; living N. Y. city
in 1889.

222 The Beckwiths.
2129. Eugenia ; manied H. Bogardus ; living Cox-
sackie, N. Y., in 1889.
2180. Janet.
2131. DeviUo.
2132. Calvin.
2133. Zanoni.
Zanoni Beckwith, 2133, born Cairo, N. Y., Novem
ber 10th, 1842; hotel proprietor and insurance broker
at Cairo in 1889 ; married Adel Stewart, November
Oth, 1868 ; born Cairo, February 28th, 1844,
2134, Maude; bom AprU 18th, 1871,
Nathan Beckwith, 633, born Lyme, Conn,, in 1718 ;
moved to New York,
2135, Ransom.
2136. Joseph.
2137. Elijah.
Ransom Beckwith, 2135, born Herkimer Co., N. Y,
August 12th, 1747; married Abadiah Putnam ; bom
in Mass. 2138. Ransom.
2139. Ethan; born in Herkimer Co., N. Y, 1793;
died there, AprU 25th, 1856.
2140. Son ; whose descendants were living in
Plerkimer Co. in 1889.
2141. Volney.
Ransom Beckwith, 21:58, born Herkimer Co., N, Y,
October 25th, 1791 ; died in Nebraska ; married Anna
Perkins, AprU 25th, 1812; born Lake George, N, Y,
July nth, 1798 ; Hving in 1887,

The Beckwiths. 228
2142. Delight; bom July 12th, 1813; married
Israel Burts, January 19th, 1842, of Sart-
well Creek, Potter Co., Penn,
2143. Jabez C, ; born July 31st, 1816 ; married
Anna M. Landinburge, November 18th,
1833,
2144. Ransom; born December 7th, 1817; living
at Smeethsport, McKeens Co., Penn,, in
1888 ; manied Elizabeth Landinburge,
2145. Samuel P,
2146, Simion; born May 6th, 1822; i^arried
Elizabeth PaHner, May 6th, 1844.
2147. John L, ; born June 20th, 1824; married
Lucinda Harwood, June 1st, 1844,
2148. Asher M. ; born September 17th, 1829 ; U.
S. V. S„ 1861-5 ; wounded at battle of
Gettysburg ; died in hospital.
2149. Mary C; born February 18th, 1827,
2150, Thankful; born December 15th, 1828,
2151. Olive L. ; born AprU 12th, 1834.
2152. Joel B, ; born November 27th, 1831.
2153. Nathaniel; born August 12th, 1836,
2154. Daniel C. ; bora May 1st, 1841.
Samuel P. Beckwith, 2146, born January 27th,
1820 ; farmer. Farmers Valley, Penn., in 1888 ; manied
Rebecca Robbins, December 4th, 1841,
2155, Mary Ann; born September 20th, 1845;
manied R, Ellis, February 2ad, 1867,
2166, Charles H, ; bom February 22d, 1852;
married Ella Day, November 22d, 1872.

224 The Beckwiths.
2157. Fannie; bornFebraary 5th, 1853 ; married
L. Steinbauer, February 23d, 1876.
2158. Henrietta; born February 6th, 1863; mar
ried J, StuU, February 23d, 1876,
2169, Juliette; born December 11th, 1855; mar
ried H, Resler, February 23d, 1876,
2160, Westley; born November 23d, 1857; mar
ried Martha Coraghan, May 1st, 1883.
2161. Rebecca J. ; born May 12th, 1860 ; married
B. StuU, October 27th, 1882.
2162. Elmer E. ; born May 8th, 1862; married
Minnie Thomas, October 22d, 1886.
2163. Mystie A, ; born October 22d, 1867 ; mar
ried M, F. Wright, October 20th, 1886,
Volney Beckwith, 2141, born Herkimer Co,, N, Y,,
February 1st, 1814; removed to Ottawa, IU. ; carpen
ter and builder; living at Harding, IU., and died at
Ottawa, 111., April 23d, 1861 ; married Mary A. Piper,
January 23d, 1833 ; born Herkimer Co., November
6th, 1816; died Ottawa, IU., November 22d, 1865,
2164. Edwin Buckingham; born Herkimer Co.,
N. Y, December 23d, 1834; removed to
Harding, IU.; married E. Kauffelt, Febru
ary 25th, 1855 ; living MarseUles, 111,, in
1889,
2165, Daniel,
2166, Manly V, ; born October 24th, 1843; died
at Ottawa, IU,, September 29th, 1858.
2166a, Morgan A. ; born AprU 17th, 1845; died
August 14th, 1846,

The Beckwiths. 225
2166b, Mary P. ; born April 30th, 1847,
2167, Andrew D,; born July 11th, 1848; died
August 23d, 1848,
2168, Morgana; died August 14th, 1846,
2169, Mary P, ; born AprU 30th, 1847 ; married
J. M, Kagy of Ottawa, IU,, September
19th, 1865 ; he died; she was living Boze-
raan, Montana, in 1889.
Dan Beckwith, 2165, born Herkimer Co., N, Y,, Oc
tober 27th, 1836, on the ground of the great Indian
massacre; U, S, Vol, Service 1861-4; carpenter and
builder ; married Rachel Josephine Ford, July 5th,
1854; born LoweU, Mass,, October 5th, 1838.
2170. Jessie Fremont; born October 9th, 1856;
married Thomas F. Robinson, at Ottawa,
111., May 20th, 1879; he died at Ottawa, IU.,
May 31st, 1884 ; their chUdren are : Jessie
L,, born at Springfield, IU,, October 12th,
1880; Volney A, born Springfield, 111,,
March 14th, 1882; Thomas P., born at
Denver, Colo., Februaiy 4th, 1883 ; Charles
W., born Denver, Colo., February 4th,
1883 ; Albert Roy, born Ottawa, IU,, Au
gust 22d, 1884.
2171. Charles Sumner; born Ottawa, December
31st, 1868 ; manied at Ottawa to Jessie
Rowe, October l7th, 1882.
2172. Clara BeU; bora Ottawa, May 11th, 1862 ;
died September 30th, 1862.
2173, Mabel AdeHa; born Ottawa, IU., May
29

226 ^i^. Beckwiths.
nth, 1862; living at Chicago, III, in
1889,
Elisha Beckwith, 1359, born Lyme, Conn,, October
12th, 1738 ; removed to New London, Conn,
2174, Ezra,
2175. Samuel.
Ezra Beckwith, 2174, born Lyme, Conn. ; sea cap
tain ; was drowned at sea in 1820 ; manied twice ; 1st
wife, Naomi Haynes.
2176. Sally ; born Lyme, Conn,, July 16th, 1786 ;
died Lawrence Co., N. Y, January 5th,
1849 ; married Joseph M. Beckwith, No.
176.5.
2177. Jeremiah.
Jeremiah Beckwith, 2177, bora Lyme, Conn., 1790;
died Rome, Ashtabula Co., Ohio ; married Esther ;
born Lyme, Conn., December 9th, 1810; died Rome,
Ohio. 2178. Mary Kim.
2179. PrisciUa F.
2180. Polly M.
2181. Josiah M.
2182. Ezra G.
Josiah M. Beckwith, 2181, bora New Lyme, Ohio,
July 20th, 1814; married  Harrington, October
10th, 1843; born Girard, Penn., May 7th, 1825.
2183. Franklin G.
2184. Elisha J.
Elisha J. Beckwith, 2184, born Rome, Ohio, August
4th, 1849; carriage-maker. South Lyme, Ohio, in 1889;

The Bechwiths. 227
manied Smith, May 12th, 1871 ; born Colebrook, Octo
ber 30th, 1852.
2185. Jeny M. ; bora July 4th, 1886.
Ezra G. Beckwith, 2182, born New Lyme, Ohio ; re
moved to Plattsville, Wis. ; married Gertrude Brock-
away, December 23d, 1855; born OrangeviUe, Ohio,
March 4th, 1846.
2186. Harry G. ; bom PlattsviUe, November 4th,
1867 ; living there in 1889.
2187. Clara; born Plattsville, November 4th,
1867 ; living there in 1889.
2188. PrisciUa.
2189. Mariah.
2190. Mary.
2191. Kate.
Ezra Beckwith, 2174, by his second wife, Clarissa
Mack; they moved to Niantic, Conn. ; he had the fol
lowing chUdren :
2192. EHsha.
2193. Ezra.
2194. Anson.
2196. Albert.
2196. Noma.
2197. Clarissa.
2198. Austin.
2199, Phoebe.
2200. Freelove.
2201. Nancy ; born 1816 ; living at Niantic, Conn.,
in 1889 ; married Jeremiah Rush.

228 The Beckwiths.
2202, Charles.
2203, Samuel.
Charles Beckwith, 2202, born New London, Conn,,
1783 ; died Windsor, Broome Co., N, Y, ; married
Betsy Nichols, October 20th, 1822 ; died Chenango
Bridge, N, Y,
2204. EH,
2205. George W.
2206. Benjamin,
2207, Charles D, ; was living at Frenchtown,
Missoula Co,, Montana, 1885.
2208. Elias W.
2209. Delia D.
2210, Ruth A, ; married Wilmot ; was living
at Chenango Bridge, N, Y,, 1885.
2211, Nathan B.
Nathan B. Beckwith, 2211, born Windsor, N, Y,
January 19th, 1827 ; married Mary C, Dibble, October
20th, 1847 ; born Fulton, N. Y., August 12th, 1828.
2212. Kate M.
2213. Jennie A.
2214. Charles Nathan; born Windsor, N, Y,
June 27th, 1863; hotel clerk. New York
city, in 1889.
Samuel Beckwith, 2203, bom Marlow, N. H, 1797 ;
when four years old his father moved to Niantic, Conn,,
in 1801 ; married Jennie Church; born Lyme, 1799,
2215, Samuel; living Niantic, Conn,, in 1889,
2216. Lorenzo; Hving Niantic, Conn., in 1889,
2217, William; living Niantic, Conn., in 1889.

The Beckwiths. 229
2218. Ezra; living Niantic, Conn., in 1889,
2219, Louisa ; living Niantic, Conn,, in 1889.
2220. Belinda ; Hving Niantic, Conn,, in 1889.
2221. Fannie; living Niantic, Conn,, in 1889.
2222. Theresa M, ; born Niantic, June 9th, 1831 ;
married Benjamin I. Beebee, January 9th,
1850 ; he died ; she was living at Niantic
in 1889; their children: James P., born
December l7th, 1852 ; WiUiam C, born
March 26th, 1864; Bertie L., bora Oc
tober 17th, 1869; Mary F,, born Decem
ber 26th, 1872 ; John E,, born December
15th, 1878,
Anson Beckwith, 960, born Bristol, Conn,, Septem
ber 7th, 1803; caniage manufacturer ; died February
27th, 1866; manied twice; his first wife was Emily
Peck; married July 20th, 1825; born Bristol, Conn,,
March 9th, 1805; died July 16th, 1861; married 2d,
Amelia F. Schubert; born Germany, July 13th, 1831.
2223, Eleanor Eunice ; born Bristol, June 8th,
1828; married July 10th, 1849 to H. K,
Hotchkiss ; living Ansonia, Conn,, in 1889;
chUdren: William H„ born April 17th,
1851 ; manied Mary F, Benehor, July lOth^
1876; EmUy Bell, born November 2d
1857; married October 20th, 1881, to
William A, Fellows,
2224, Robert Anson ; born Bristol,
2226, Sidney Schubert ; born Bristol.
2226, James Gaylord; born Bristol,

280 The Beckuntlm.
Robert Anson Beckwith, 2224, born September 8th,
1834; photographer; resided in Norwalk, Conn,, died
there in June, 1871 ; married Helen J, Hayes, January
29th, 1862,
2227. Helen C. ; born Norwalk, December, 1862;
living Meriden, Conn., in 1889.
2228. Sarah E. ; bora Norwalk ; died in infancy,
Sidney Schubert Beckwith, 2226, born August 18th,
1853; book-keeper; died December 5th, 1883; mar
ried Lizzie Atkins of Norfolk, Conn,, in 1873.
2229. Elenor E. ; bora September 18th, 1874,
2230. Florence A. ; bora October 1st 1877.
2231, Sidney A; born February 21st, 1880 ; died
December 3d, 1883,
2232, Jessie ; born May 29th, 1883 ; died Decem
ber 10th, 1883,
James G. Beckwith, 2226, born May 6th, 1855 ; an
engineer by profession; married Carrie Teny of Bristol
in 1873. 2233, Inez M. ; born June 28th, 1874.
2234, Harry R, ; born July 25th, 1877.
Nathan Richard Beckwith, 874 ; his second wife,
Caroline Davenport, was living in 1889 ; they had the
following children :
2235. Appleton.
2236. Frank.
2237. Nathan.
2238. Francis P.
Francis P. Beckwith, 2238, born Dubuque, Iowa,

The Beckwiths. 281
April 3d, 1847 ; married Augusta Waldeck, June 14th,
1847, 2239. Georgia Augusta ; born Toledo, Ohio, May
4th, 1877 ; living at Findlay, Ohio, in 1889.
2240. Carl WUHam; born Toledo, March 1st,
1871 ; Hving at Findlay, Ohio, in 1889.
2241. Nathan R. ; bom Toledo, June 1st, 1871 ;
Hving at Findlay, Ohio, in 1889.
2242. Jessie Hartha ; born Sylvania, Ohio, Janu
ary 9th, 1868 ; clerk ; living at Toledo,
Ohio ; unmarried in 1889.
Francis Beckwith, 849, born Lyme, Conn,, 1774;
settled in Utica, N, Y. ; married Sarah Ried, August
10th, 1796 ; born 1774,
2243, Ried,
2244. John.
2245. Charles.
2246. Lyman.
Ried Beckwith, 2243, born Lyme, Conn,, October
9th, 1796; died Utica, N. Y ; married Sarah Welch;
born and died in Conn.
2247. Samuel.
2248, WilHam.
2249. Wesley.
2260. Francis.
2251. Sarah.
2252. James L,
James Lafayette Beckwith, 2252, born Utica, N, Y„
May 18th, 1824 ; removed to Chicago, where he was

232 The Beckwiths.
living in 1889; married CindereUa Noyes in 1845;
born Danville, Vt, AprU 7th, 1825.
2263, Francis W. ; born May 14th, 1847; died
September 16th, 1875.
2264, James A.
James A. Beckwith, 2254, born June 19th, 1849;
was in the insurance business in Chicago, IU,, 1889 ;
manied Mary Glover, May 28th, 1880; born Scotland,
Canada, October 11th, 1859.
2255. Beatrice; born April 19th, 1882.
2256, Francis L. ; born November 20th, 1883,
2257. James L. ; born January 15th, 1886,
Lyman Beckwith, 2246, born Utica, N, Y, 1798 ;
farmer, Otisco, Onondaga Co,, N. Y, ; died 1832; mar
ried Martha Watson.
2258. Betsy Ann.
2259, Marcus D, L,
Marcus D, Lafayette Beckwith, 2259, bom January
27th, 1832, at Ludlowville, N, Y, ; married Sarah J,
Brady, born Scotland, Canada, June 29th, 1834,
2260, MaryE,
2261. Sarah J.
2262. Emma; married Edward Lyons; living
Five Corners, N, Y, in 1889.
2263. Lafayette.
2264. Jay; living Forest Home, Tompkins Co.,
N, Y
2265, Frank.
2266, Lafayette,
2267, Leroy L,

The Beckwiths. 233
Leroy L. Beckwith, 2267, born Freeville, N, Y,,
March 25th, 1853 ; conductor on Northern Central
Ry. ; living Elmira, N. Y., in 1889 ; married Eva A.
Sperry; living N. Y., 1875; born Tompkins Co., N.
Y, August 15th, 1854.
2268, Frederick Clark ; born January 30th, 1879,
2269, Lena Speny; born August 29th, 1881,
Nathan Beckvnth, 633, possibly the Nathan who
was born in Lyme, Conn,, in 1718, and moved to
Waterford, where he died ; married Naomi Winchell ;
born Waterford 1720 ; daughter of Isaac and Naomi
Winchell ; and had one son.
2270, Isaac.
Isaac Beckwith, 2270, possibly the Isaac who was
born at Waterford, Conn. ; enlisted in 1777 in the Con
tinental Army for three years in Capt. Danon's Co.,
1st Reg,, Conn, Line, and was at the battle of Bunker
HiU; died in 1798 ; married Grace Edgecomb.
2271. Lydia; married Joshua Woodburn; left
five chUdren ; son Charles was a Presby
terian minister and settled at Auburn,
N. Y.
2272. Jesse.
2273. Naomi ; manied John Mitchell ; left sev
eral children living in Bozosah ; daughter
Louisa married Weldon.
2274. Joshua.
2275. Grace; died unmarried.
2276. Charies.
30

234 The Beckwiths.
Jesse Beckwith, 2272,
2277. Edgecome; has descendants living at New
London and vicinity.
2278. Caroline; married.
2279, SaUie; married Abner Reed of Windham;
children : Thomas, living Willimantic,
1889 ; Chester, Hving at Windham, 1889 ;
Robert, who enlisted in the U, S, V, S,, and
was killed in battle.
Joshua Beckwith, 2274, born Waterford, Conn.,
March 14th, 1760; settled in Greene Co., N. Y ; died
at Calais, Vermont, March 7th, 1813; manied Bethia
Parkhurst, born March 19th, 1767, at WUIiston, Vt;
died there.
2280. Matilda; born April 17th, 1787.
2281, Martin.
2282, Betsy ; born January 10th, 1796.
2283. Joseph ; born AprU 10th, 1798,
2284, John P, ; bom January 26th, 1800.
2285. Nathan ; born February 8th, 1803.
2286. Perrin ; born June 24th, 1805.
2287. Enos P,
2288, Josephus ; born February 27th, 1812 ; died
January 3d, 1813,
Martin Beckwith, 2281, born Calais, Vt, July 4th,
1792; married Hannah Latham in 1815 ; born Pelham,
Mass,, May 18th, 1790,
2289, Susan.
2290, Laura.
2291. David L.; settled at BurHngton, Vt

The Beckwiths. 235
2292. Almira M. ; settied at BurHngton, Vt,
2293. George W.; born Chazy, N. Y„ May 18th,
1829; postmaster at Burlington, Vt,, in
1889 ; married Julia Hyde, February 13th,
1860 ; born Grand Isle, Vt,) July 7th, 1836 ;
no children,
Enos P, Beckwith, 2287, bora July 7th, 1807 ; died
July 21st, 1833 ; married Clarissa Lewis at Plattsburg,
N, Y,, September 7th, 1828 ; she afterward married
Baruch Beckwith of Beekmantown,
2294. Sarah Maria; born at WiUiston, N. Y,,
March 10th, 1832; married S, H, Downing
of Beekmantown, December 31st, 1855 ;
children: Carrie I,, born April Oth, 1857;
Henry S,, died 1861 ; Frank, died 1862 ;
Frank, born August 2d, 1864 ; Charles A,,
born January 22d, 1869 ; Robert C, born
July nth, 1870,
Charles Beckwith, 2276, bom Waterford, Conn,, in
1781 ; he worked week days at his trade of a carpen
ter, and, as he was a regularly constituted Methodist
preacher, "preached on Sundays from town to town;"
died at Windham ; married Sally Palmer, August 28th,
1808 ; bom Windham, 1781 ; daughter of Enos Palmer
and Jemsha Webb, his wife, who was a descendant of
Stephen Webb of Boston,
2295. Mary ; born July 14th, 1811 ; married Alex.
CrandaU, AprU 14th, 1836; children:
Charles B., enlisted in U. S. Vol. Service,
1862, and was killed at the battle of Port

236 The Beckwiths.
Hudson ; Amos G., living at South Wind
ham in 1889,
2296, WUHam Erl.
2297. Nancy; bora October 18th, 1815; died
1874; married J. L. Weaver, August,
1836; daughter Emily; bom July 9th,
1857; died 1864.
2298. Susan; born May 16th, 1818; married
Lyman Jordan, August, 1844; children:
Rev. D. A., presiding elder M. E. Church,
Providence, R. I., in 1889 ; Charles B.,
music teacher. Providence, R. I., in 1889 ;
Julius, Annette, Lottie, Lyman, Flora,
Jennie.
2299. Sophia; bora May 16th, 1820; married
Norman Melony, September 10th, 1848 ;
born March 27th, 1817 ; children : George
W., born February, 1850; lawyer at Willi
mantic, Conn., in 1889 ; Flora, born Octo
ber 21st, 1859.
2300. Charles Wesley.
2301. Enos Palmer; born September 8th, 1828 ;
died 1862 ; married in 1854 to Marita
Smith.
2302. Sarah; bom November 26th, 1827; mar
ried G. F, Braman ; living at Willimantic
in 1889,
WilHam Erl Beckwith, 2296, born Windham, Septem
ber 15th, 1813; removed to Groton, Conn, ; married

The Beckwiths. 237
twice ; his first wife, Sophia Hewit, he manied Novem
ber, 1865. 2303, William H, ; born July, 1837; living at
' Groton, Conn,, ia 1886.
WiUiam Erl Beckwith, 'J 296, married 2d wife, Re
becca Halloway, in 1840; she was bom in Rhode Island.
2304. Charles W.
Charles Wesley Beckwith, 2303, born Groton, July
12th, 1847; U, S, V, S, 1861-65; officer Engineer
Corps U. S. Reserves Marine ; died December 19th,
1889, at Newport, R, I, ; manied Ellen Bailey of New
London, Conn,, in 1846,
2305, WUliam G. ; born AprU 8th, 1876.
2306. McAuther ; died young.
Charles Wesley Beckwith, 2300, born July 4th, 1822 ;
married in 1851 to Charlotte Bass ; they had four chil
dren. 2307. Fred. ; civil engineer Lehigh Valley R.
R. Co. ; living at Plainfield, N. Y., in
1889.
James Beckwith, 663, born at Coeymans, N. Y.,
June 1st 1796 ; died January, 1885 ; married his
cousin, Maiy A. Hyde of Lisle, N. Y., August 28th,
1825 ; bora January 22d, 1799 ; living at Cazenovia
in 1858; enlisted in the U. S. Army, War of 1812, and
served in Capt, Underwood's Co, until 1814,
2307, Lydia Ann; born September 18th, 1826;
married Henry Tuttle, December 25th,
1844 ; died September 22d, 1884 ; left one
daughter, Florence E,, born May 18th,

The Bechwiths.
1850; married Frank Evans in 1872; re
siding in Shawano, Wis., in 1889.
2308. Elizabeth Dudley; born December 22d,
1827.
2309. Julia Maria; bora July 19th, 1829; mar
ried Paul Saleteski, March 30th, 1851;
died February 12th, 1875 ; living Peoria,
IU., 1889 ; children : Ada B,, born March,
1864; married Daniel Shane, December,
1871 ; living Pontiac, 111,, 1889; Elizabeth
H,, bora Januaiy, 1855 ; manied George
Carrol, October, 1882; James B,, born
February 26th, 1860; married in St,
Charles, Minn,, Januaiy, 1884.
2310, Sarah Emeline ; born December 30th, 1850;
married John Snow, November 9th, 1873 ;
2d husband, Hiram Ward, March 19th,
1872 ; living in Cazenovia, a widow, in 1889.
2311, James RosweU ; born December 23d, 1832;
married Catherine Watrous, December 23d,
1861 ; lawyer, judge of circuit court ; liv
ing New Orleans, La,, in 1889,
2312. Calvin Hyde,
2313, Mary Anna; born September 25th, 1836;
married James Woodfin, of Virginia, June
7th, 1867; children: Madora, born July
3d, 1860; married Fred Powers, in 1878;
Edmund P,, born October, 1863 ; married
1886; Elizabeth H, born 1866; married
Robert Putney, in April, 1886 ; James,

The Beckwiths. 239
born 1868; Minnie, born October 26th,
1878,
Calvin Hyde Beckwith, 2306, born November 29th,
1824 ; married Mary Louise Newland, October 31st,
1867, 2314. Francis A. ; born July 27th, 1868.
2315. Emma L. ; bom September 22d, 1872.
Joshua Beckwith, 2050, born New London, Conn.,
October 9th, 1778 ; vpas drafted into the Revolutionary
Army ; settled and died in N. Y. State.
2316. Oscar; born in New York about 1806;
died March 3d, 1888, leaving several chil
dren who were living in Mass. and N. Y.
Jason Beckwith, 614, born New London, Conn. ;
married Naomi Caulkins.
2317. Benjamin F.
2318. Jason T.
2319. Regus.
2320. Betsy; married D. J. Kearney; children:
Jason, Gilbert, Wanen, Abbie, manied
W. E. Boster of Hartford, Conn.
Benjamin F. Beckwith, 2317, married Eunice Edgar.
2321. Annie E.
2322, Minnie ; died young,
Jason Beckwith, Jr., 2318, bom 1823; manied H.
F. Sisson. 2323. Alice; bom 1850; married W. Learned;
living New London, 1889.
2324. Hattie.
. 2325. Dr. Fred. J. ; bora X858 ; practicing phy-

240 The Bechwiths.
sician; died New London, Conn., in 1889;
manied E. H. Blodgett in 1885; born
Pawtucket, R. I.
Seth Beckwith, 600, born New London, Conn,,
1756 ; died MontvUle, Conn., in 1839 ; enlisted in the
Revolutionary Army in 1778, Captain Ropes' Co. for
one year; re-enlisted in 1779, for four months ; married
Esther Lead iu 1781; bom 1762.
2326. Esther; born 1782.
2327. Joseph ; born 1785.
2328. Rupel; bom 1788.

ROLL OF HONOR.

AMERICAN WARS, 1656 to 1865.

Battle of Aitn Aeundel, 1656.
George Beckwith; with Lord Baltimore's party against
the Virginians. Cape Beeton ExpEDmoN, 1745.
Captain Beckwith; commander of a six-gun sloop.
Battle of Monongahela, 1755.
Captain Beckwith; captain 44th Reg., Royal Foot;
wounded in the foot.
Old Feekoh Wab, 1758.
Major Beckwith; field officer Rogers Rangers; Camp
Lake George, August 27th, 1758.
Colonel Nathan Beckwith; officer of day Rogers
Rangers; Camp Lake George, August 27th, 1758.
Joseph Beckwith; killed during the expedition.
War of Iisdependenoe, 1775, and War of 1812.
Abner Beckwith, 1776; for the war. Bacon's Co.,
Peters' Reg. 31

242 The Beckwiths.
Abner Beckwith, 1776; for two years, Connecticut
Line.
Amos Beckwith, 1776; for eight months, Sells' Co.,
and one year in Waters' Co., Parsons' Reg.
Amos Beckwith, 1775; for one year, 7th Co., 2d Md.
Reg., Col. Price.
Ansel Beckwith, 1809; Conn. State Troops.
Benedict Beckwith, 1776; wounded at battle of Cow-
pens, Md. Line.
Benjamin Beckwith, 1812; battle of Lundy's Lane,
Md. Line.
Barens Beckwith, 1812; captain Q. M., Va. Line.
Cyrus Beckvnth, 1775; captain, 2d Reg., N. Y Line.
Clement Beckwith, 1812; Maple's Co., Conn. Line.
Clement Beckwith, 1813, Adams' Co., Del. Line.
Daniel Beckwith, 1812; Baker's Co., Vt. Line.
David Beckwith, 1775; "hospital returns," age nine
teen; Chapman's Co., Parsons' Reg., Conn. Line.
David Beckwith, 1775; "hospital returns," dismissed
cured.
David Beckwith, 1776; for three years. Miller's Co.,
Davis' Reg., Mass. Line,
David Beckwith, 1777; April 10th, MiUer's Co,, Vere's
Reg., Mass. Line,
Edward G, Beckwith, 1814; ensign, 1814, 3d lieut,
1814, 2d lieut, 1814, dis,, 1815, rein,, 1815, re
signed, 1816,
Edward J, Beckwith, 1812; midshipman.
Eno Beckwith, 1775; "ordnance returns," 1st Reg,,
Conn, Line,

The Beckwiths. 243
Everton Beckwith, 1775; ensign. Fellows' Reg,, Mass,
Line,
Ezra Beckwith, 1 777 ; for one year, Allen's Co,,
Webb's Reg,, Conn, Line.
Ezra Beckwith, 1778 ; for two years, Allen's Co., Wy-
las' Reg,, Conn, Line,
George Beckwith, 1776; captain in Col, Bailey's Reg.,
Md. State Troops ; killed in battle.
George Beckwith, 1776; sergeant, Beckwith's Co.,
BaUey's Reg., Md. State Troops.
George R. Beckwith, 1812; Army.
Guy Beckwith, 1780; for five months (paid J635 2s.),
4th Reg., Conn. Line.
Hanis Beckwith, 1777, September 1st; for the war,
Stodard's Co., Chandler's Reg.; killed February
19th, 1778.
Harris Beckwith, 1814 ; for six weeks, Warren's Co.,
N. H. MUitia.
Humphreys Beckwith, 1778 ; for three years, Co. 7,
Quinby's Reg., Md. Line.
Ichabod Beckwith, 1778 ; Canada Expedition, Mass-
State Troops.
Ichabod Beckwith, 1777 ; for three years, July 5th,
Ely's Co., Battle's Reg,, Conn, Line,
Ichabod Beckwith, 1780; corporal, sergeant August
1st, 1780, Battle's Reg,, Conn, Line,
Isaac Beckwith, 1777 ; for three years, Harrow's Co,,
1st Reg,, Conn, Line,
Isaac Beckwith ; Continental Army,
James Beckwith, 1814; Underwood's Co,, N, Y, Line.

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James R, Beckwith, 1813 ; ensign, 1814, 3d Heut,
1815, 2d lieut, 1818, 1st lieut, 1821 ; disbanded,
Jere Beckwith, 1780, July 1st; for one year, Cheney's
Co,, 2d N, H, Reg,, N, H, Line.
Jeysie Beckwith, 1775; for one year, Bushnell's Co.,
Conn, Line,
Jeysie Beckwith, 1776 ; for three years, Conn, line.
Job Beckwith, 1776 ; for one year. Conn, Line,
Job Beckwith, 1778 ; for three months. Conn, Line,
John Beckwith, 1776; for one year, artician in Q, M.
• Dept,, 1776 ; Lieut, Q, M, Dept,, Conn, Line,
John Beckwith, 1776 ; Lyme, Conn., Militia,
John Beckwith, 1778, May 6th; for two years, ser
geant in Post's Co,, Hazen's Regulars.
John Beckwith, 1812 ; surgeon. Conn. Militia.
John Beckwith, 1812 ; Ohio Volunteers.
John Beckwith, 1813; Adams' Co., N. Y. State Line.
John Beckwith, 1777 ; Shuway's Co., 1st Reg,, Conn,
Line.
Jonathan Beckwith, 1775; "hospital returns," age
eighteen, fever. Parsons' Co., Parsons' Reg,, Conn,
Line,
Joseph Beckwith, 1775-6; 4th Batt, Lewis' Reg,, N,
H, Line,
Joseph Beckwith, 1777; for three years, Lee's Co,,
Conn, Line,
Joseph Beckwith, 1780; for two years, teamster,
Conn, Line,
Joseph F, Beckwith, 1814; for thirty days, N, Y.
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Joshua Beckwith, 1 780 ; for two years, teamster, Conn.
Line.
Josiah Beckwith, 1814: for sixty days; wounded at
battle of Plattsburg, Vt Line.
Lemuel Beckwith, 1872 ; for two years. Conn. Line.
Marmaduke Beckwith, 1777, January 9th ; Craig's
Regt, 3d Penn. Regt,, Penn. Line.
Nathan Beckwith, 1775 ; for one year ; Sells' Co.,. Par
sons' Reg., Conn, Line,
Nehemiah Beckwith, 1781; for four months, Stafford's
Co,, Md. State Troops,
Nehemiah Beckwith, 1782 ; for one year, Stafford's
Co,, Md. State Troops,
Oberson Beckwith, 1775, November 26th; "hospital
returns," age thirty-five, pleurisy. Chapman's Co.
Phineas Beckwith, 1777 ; for the War, sergeant in
Lee's Co., 4th Batt, Lewis' Reg., Conn, Line,
Phineas Beckwith, 1778 ; ensign, Sherman's Reg,,
Oonn, Line.
Phineas Beckwith, 1781 ; ensign, 1st Reg., Conn. Line.
Perry Beckwith, 1814 ; Greeson's Co., N, Y. Militia.
Richard Beckwith, 1812 ; Godfrey's Co., Conn. Line.
Richard Marmaduke Beckwith, 1812 ; Weel's Co.,
Virginia Line.
Richard P. Beckwith, 1781 ; for six months, Spauld-
ing's Co., Durkee's Reg., Conn. Line,
RiswaU Beckvnth, 1775 ; for one year, SeUs' Co,, Par
sons' Reg,, Conn, Line,
Rufus Beckwith, 1776 ; for six months, N. H. MUitia.

246 The Beckwiths.
Rice Beckwith, 1778; for three years, Ode's Co,,
Allen's Reg,, Conn, Line,
Robert Beckwith, 1812; prisoner of war.
Seth Beckwith, 1778 ; Rhees' Co,, Conn. Line.
Seth Beckwith, 1779 ; for four months, Rhees' Co.,
Conn. Line.
Seth Beckwith, 1812 ; N. Y, Line,
Samuel Beckwith, 1775 ; for one year, SeUs' Co,, Par
sons' Reg,, Conn, Line.
Samuel Beckwith, 1776; for one year, Sells' Co., Par
sons' Reg,, Conn. Line,
Samuel Beckwith, 1777 ; sea service,
Samuel Beckwith, 1776 ; Maryland MUitia,
Samuel Beckwith, 1776 ; 7th Co., Manderlon's Reg.,
5th Md. State Troops.
Silas Beckwith, 1773 ; for nine months. Strong's Co.,
5th N. Y. State Troops.
Silas Beckwith ; for three years. Conn. Line.
7 Silas Beckwith, 1775 ; captain, N. Y State Troops,
Sykes Beckwith, 1775 ; Md, State Troops,
Thomas Beckwith, 1776 ; for two years. Lay's Co,,
Parsons' Reg,, Conn, Line.
Thomas Beckwith, 1778, June 16th; privateer service,
Timothy Beckwith, 1776 ; for one year, Richards' Co,,
Maydrake's Reg,, Conn, Line.
Timothy Beckwith, 1779, June 16th; for the war,
Richards' Co., Maydrake's Reg, Conn. Line,
Watrus Beckwith, 1776 ; Conn, Line.
WiUiam Beckwith; lieutenant, Grayson's Reg,, Md,
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WUliam Beckwith, 1776; "hospital returns," age six
teen; fever cured, WUls' Co., WUlis' Reg.
WiUiam Beckwith, 1794; captain, 16th Reg., Md.
State Troops,
WiUiam Beckwith, 1794; major, 16th Reg,, Md, State
Troops,
WUliam Beckwith, 1776; Slay's Co,, Bailey's Reg,,
Md, MUitia,
William Beckwith, 1779 ; bounty $150 ; 5th Va, Reg,
of Infantry, 5th Brigade,
WiUiam Beckwith, 1812 ; 3d Reg,, Mass, Line.
WUliam Beckwith, 1812 ; Gale's Co., Conn. Line.
WUHam Beckwith, 1814 ; for thirty days, N. Y. State
Troops,
William Beckwith, 1792; midshipman, ship ^'¦Qonfed-
eracy^
WUHam Beckwith, 1778 ; 2d lieut, ; promoted June
1st, in place of Thomas Washington, now 1st lieut,,
from return of officers in Col, W, Grayson's Regiment
of the Line and appointment.
Zachariah Beckwith, 1778 ; for eight months, Judd's
Co., Webb's Reg,, Conn, Line.
U. S. Pension Office Records.
Abner Beckvnth, born at Lyme, Conn., in 1767; en
listed in 1776, for two years, in the Conn. State Line,
and was sta'tioned at Fort Trumbull, New London
Co., Conn,; served in Capt Ely's Co,, Everton's
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248 The Bechwiths.
entered the Continental Army, He served nine
months with his company, until falling sick with
camp fever was sent to the hospital, where he re
mained until the expiration of his enlistment He
re-enlisted in 1777 in Capt. Hall's Co., Latimer's Reg.,
and was stationed at Fort Gooston for one month,
and was discharged; he afterward served seven
months on the spy boat, and was stUl living in 1832,
then aged seventy-five years.
Amos Beckwith, bom Lyme, Conn,, in 1755, In 1820
was a resident of Sutton, Caledonia Co,, Vt, ; en
listed in 1 775 for eight months in SeUs' Co,, Parsons'
Reg., Conn. Line ; served at Roxbury until dis
charged; re-enlisted in Parsons' Reg,, Waters' Co,,
in 1776, for one year, and was stationed at Boston
until the British left that vicinity ; marched with his
company to Kingsbridge, then to White Plains and
the Jerseys, and was there discharged. He was a
laborer, and the schedule of his property amounted
to $526,98, and says his indebtedness is $315, He
died December 6th, 1823, leaving a family consist
ing of wife Susannah, and daughter Sylvania, aged
24 years. He was manied at Lyme, Conn,, April
7th, 1780, to Susannah Truman; she died at Sutton,
Vt, September 21st, 1839,
Ansel Beckwith enlisted in the Continental Army
when under twenty-one years of age. When dis
charged, August 14th, 1814, was in the 23d Reg, of
Inf, on duty in Upper Canada, In 1818 he re-en
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of disability, before the expiration of his term of
enlistment,
Benjamin Beckvnth, born in Frederick Co,, Md,, in
1756 ; enlisted in Capt. Young's Co., Col, Johnson's
Reg,, in 1776, Continental Army, and continued in
active service until 1778 ; participated in the battle
of Brunswick Plains, March 1st, 1777, and had his
horse shot from under him ; was at the skirmish of
Quibbleton, and altogether served eighteen months.
In 1800 he moved to Morgan Co,, Ohio, where he
was living in 1832. At that time his family con
sisted of David, the eldest of five sons, Joseph, a
cripple, and two daughters — Livonia, aged twenty-
two, Matilda, aged fourteen. He also says that his
brother WiUiam served in the Continental Army.
Benjamin Beckwith, born in 1791 ; enlisted in 1814 in
Stone's Co., Boatman's Reg., and was discharged at
Canandalgua, N. Y, November 1st, 1814; partici
pated in the battles of Chippewa, Lundy's Lane and
Bridgewater, and was at Fort Erie, where they cut
their way out after being besieged forty days. He
married Sally Gresham (now dead) at Elmira, N. Y,
February, 1815. In 1871 he was a resident of
Claremont, Richland Co., 111.
Clement Beckwith ; at Point Matilda, Penn., July 12th,
1879, appeared Mrs. Mary Beckwith, who says she
was born in 1816 ; that her maiden name was Mary
Coogan ; that she is the widow of Clement Beck
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listed from Milford, Del,, in 1813, then aged nineteen;
serving in Adams' Co., Delaware MUitia; that he
was by occupation a painter, five feet seven inches
tall, light eyes and hair, and that they were married
in MiUersburg, Febraary 20th, 1857, by the Rev.
Mr. Spottswood, a Methodist minister ; that Clement
was married three times ; 1st wife. Miss Wehly of
Easton, Md., who died in Baltimore ; 2d wife. Miss
S, M, Barry, who died at Point Matilda about twenty
years ago, Clement died December 26th, 1868,
He resided at Milford, Del., and moved to Belter
Point in 1823; lived there twenty years; and then
removed to Point Matilda in 1843, where he died,
Clement S, Beckwith; at New London, Conn,, May 13th,
1878, appeared Hannah Beckwith, who says she was
born in 1796; that her maiden name was Hannah
Chappell, and that she is the widow of Clement S,
Beckwith, who served in the Revolutionary Army ;
enlisted from Norwich, Conn,, August 9th, 1814, in
1st Reg, Conn. Militia, in Capt. Maple's Co., Col,
Tracey's Reg. ; that at the time Clement was of slim
figure, five feet ten inches tall, and that he died at
New London, Conn., March 30th, 1863 ; a farmer by
occupation; they were married at MontvUle, Conn.,
February 23d, 1817, by Rev. Robert Fargo, a min
ister of the gospel.
At New London, Conn., 1 878, appeared Minnock
Beckwith, aged forty-five years, and John Beckwith,
aged thirty-nine years, sons of Clement and Hannah
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brothers and two sisters, and that their mother,
Hannah, died December 4th, 1881,
(This application was signed before Enoch Beck
with, probate judge,)
Daniel Beckwith, train conductor of teams in the Con
tinental Army from October 26th, 1778, to Februaiy
25th, 1779,
Daniel Beckvnth ; at Clinton Co,, N, Y, May 10th,
1878, appeared Sylvia Beckwith, who says she was
bom in 1809, and is the widow of Daniel Beckwith,
who served in the Revolutionary Army ; who was
bom at Manchester, N. H. (or Vermont) ; enlisted at
Plattsburg, N. Y,, in 1813, and was discharged
there in 1814; in Baker's Co,; was active in tearing
up a bridge across the Saranac river, to prevent the
British from crossing ; that he was at the battle of
Plattsburg, September 11th, 1814, That they were
manied at Schuyler Falls, N, Y,, December 9th,
1838, by Rev, Cloak, a Presbyterian minister. At
the time he was twenty-two years old his descrip
tion was as follows : Black hair, blue eyes, and light
complexion, a farmer by occupation, and that he
died September 7th, 1851, of heart disease, at Al-
baugh, Vt,
At Schuyler FaUs, N, Y, May 11th, 1878, ap
peared Henry S, Beckwith, who says he is thirty-
eight years old and is the son of Daniel,
David Beckwith ; at Genoa, Cayuga Co,, N, Y, 1820,
appeared David Beckwith, aged sixty- eight years, a
' resident of Cayuga Co,, by occupation a farmer, and

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The. Beckwiths.

says he enlisted in the year 1776, for three years'
service in Col, Baron de Voos' Reg,, Capt, MUler's
Co., Mass, Line, and that he served his entire time
in active service ; was mustered out at Fort Plains
on the Mohawk river, in 1779, He was wounded
in the arm and thigh. His family, in 1820, consisted
of his wife, aged sixty-three, a daughter Huldah, a
consumptive, aged eighteen, a son Richard, aged
seventeen, and a grandson Phibbs, aged eight years.
The schedule of his property is as follows :
1 cow, valued at $10 00

1 sow and six piggs

8 00

1 plow

1 00
1 ox chain
1 00
1 axe
50
1 chest
50
5 chairs
2 60
1 kettie
1 25
1 tea kettle
1 00 ,
1 spade
62
1 pail
50
1 churn
25
2 pork barrels
1 00
5 knives and forks
1 00
1 fire shovel
1 00
6 tea cups and saucers.
25
George R. Beckwith, of Patriot,
Switzerland Co,, Ind,,
April nth, 1878, appeared Jane Beckwith, eighty-
one years of age, widow of
George R,
Beckwith,
who served in the War of 1815
},
They were manied
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January 11th, 1819, at Patriot, Ind,, by one Thomp
son, a preacher of the gospel. She further says her
maiden name was Wade, and that George died at
Patriot, Ind., August 24th, 1850,
George Beckwith ; at Frederick Co,, Md., March 25th,
1833, appeared George Beckwith, born May 16th,
1760, and who says he resided a short time in Prince
George Co,, Md, ; with that exception always lived
in Frederick Co,; enlisted in the Revolutionary
Army, July, 1776, as a volunteer in Captain George
Beckwith's Co,, and marched to Georgetown to guard
that place against Governor Dunsmore ; remaining
two weeks, returned, with his company, to Frederick,
and with the consent of Captain George Beckwith,
was taken home by his father, as he had enlisted
contrary to his father's wishes, and was under eigh
teen years of age. In July, 1778, he again volun
teered for six months, in the same company, which
was stationed at Frederick, and. received a discharge
from Captain Beckwith, and was appointed a ser
geant in the same company, in Col, Bailey's Reg,
He married Annie Clarkson, who was bom in 1792,
At RockvUle, Montgomery Co,, Md,, 1850, ap
peared Martha Beckwith, daughter of George Beck
with, and says he died December 13th, 1849.
Gordon Beckwith ; at New London, Conn,, April 2d,
1826, appeared Wealthy Beckwith, and says she is
the widow of the late Gurdon Beckwith, who en
listed into the Army in 1807-8, for three years,
and served out his full time ; that he was with Gen,

254 The Beckwiths.
Harrison in his Indian war, and afterward with
Gen Hull, and was taken prisoner on the surrender
of Detroit ; that he was taken to Quebec by the
British, and was exchanged. On his way home he re-
enlisted for one year, and before that term of en
listment had expired, he re-enlisted for the war in
Captain Sweet's Co,; taken sick in 1814; obtained a
furlough ; at the expiration of his furlough he was
too sick to report, and was reported as a deserter.
In the fall of 1814, he rejoined his company, and
reported to Lieut, Brown, and was with him at the
battle of Sackett's Harbor, where he remained until
the declaration of peace. He was ordered to New
London to be mustered out ; on his way there he
died. He served in the 37th Conn, Reg,, and at his
death there was due him $39.73, being his pay from
the 21st of November to the 26th of AprU, 1815.
(The above application was not allowed by the
pension office, and was then brought before the 24th
Congress, who, upon investigation, ordered the
amount paid to his widow, and removed the assertion
that Gurdon Beckwith was a deserter.)
Harris Beckwith ; at Rochester, Windom Co., Vt,
February 26th, 1873, appeared Harris Beckwith,
aged seventy-five, who says that he is not married,
and that he was enrolled in the New Hampshire
Militia, in Captain Warren's Co,, at Portsmouth,
N, H, September 1st, 1814, and was discharged De
cember 1st, 1814.
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25th, 1871, who married Mary A. Hyde at Pompey,
N, Y, August 25th, 1826, by the Rev Truman Bald
win, a Presbyterian minister. He was enrolled De
cember 8th, 1814, in Underwood's Co,, Farmhouse's
Reg,, Gen, Herd's Biigade, and served until Novem
ber, 1814, when he was discharged. He re-enlisted
at Sackett's Harbor for two months and four days,
and was discharged November, 1814,
At Madison Co., N, Y,, January 31st, 1885, ap
peared Mary A. Beckwith, widow of James Beck
with, and says her husband died January 12th, 1885,
John Beckwith ; at WiUet, Cortiand Co,, N, Y,, May
29th, 1 871, appeared John Beckwith, seventy-seven
years of age, and says he married Anna Perkins July
30th, 1859, at Smithfield, and was drafted into the
army at Butternuts, N. Y., September 13th, 1813,
into Ezra Adams' Co., Col, Stonehouse's Reg,, and
was discharged at BrovmsvUle, December 1st, 1813;
was in no battles during his entire term of service ;
he was stationed at Brownsville.
At WiUet, Cortland Co., N. Y,, May 28th, 1878,_
appeared Armenia Perkins, widow of the late John
Beckwith, and says that they were married at Smith-
field, N, Y,, by the Rev. Cyrus Stone, and that her
late husband, John Beckwith, died December 1 9th,
1876,
John Beckwith ; at Poughkeepsie, N, Y,, appeared John
Beckwith, who says he was born at Lyme, Conn,, in
1763, and is now a resident of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
and that he enlisted December, 1775, in Captain

256 The Beckwiths.
Je wet's Co., Col, Huntington's Reg. ; served two
years and one month as a private, nine months in
the laboratory as an artificer, and one } ear as quar
termaster in Col. Lamb's Reg,, and three months as
lieutenant on recruiting service under Captain
Thayer. He says he was at the battle of Flatbush,
in Col. Clark's command, when he was taken pris
oner. The command lost two hundred and twenty-
three officers and men ; they retreated to Mearbanks,
and at night continued their retreat to New York.
He was discharged Januaiy, 1777, after thirteen
months of actual service. He then re-enlisted as an
artificer in the laboratory, and was discharged in 1778,
John Beckwith; at Perry Co., Ohio, 1878, appeared
Isabella Beckwith, aged seventy-six, widow of John
Beckwith, and says that her husband served as a
staff officer in the Ohio Militia, in Col. Storm's Reg,,
in the War of 1812 ; that he volunteered from Fair
field Co,, Ohio, and served for more than fourteen
days, and was discharged. They were n;arried July
8th, 1819, at the city of Lancaster, Fairfield Co.,
Ohio, by Rev, Michael T, Stock, a minister of the
gospel, and that her maiden name was Isabella Castle;
they lived all their lives in Perry Co., Ohio, except
at such times that they visited their married children,
who at that time were living in other parts of the
State. She says that her husband, John Beckwith,
died at Columbus, Ohio, December 3d, 1873, and
was buried at Somerset, Perry Co., Ohio.
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peared Job Beckwith, and says he was bora in 1759,
and entered the Continental Army when a resident
of East Haddam, Conn., June, 1776, for one year, in
Capt, Buckley's Co,, Col. Wolcot's Reg,, and was sta
tioned at New London, and after serving seven
months was discharged; was drafted June, 1778,
into the MiHtia at East Haddam ; we go to Rhode
Island on the expedition under Gen, Sullivan; on
three months' service in Capt, Passfield's Co. The
command was to co-operate with the French fieet ;
to either drive off or capture the British force sta
tioned there ; however, before the force was ready
to march, a heavy storm came up and dispersed both
fleets. General Sullivan retreated and intrenched
his command ; the English assaulted the intrench-
ments, but were repulsed ; after which the Americans
withdrew from the island, and he was soon after dis
charged ; Joshua Gates was an ensign in this com
pany,
Joseph Beckwith, born in 1762, at Butternuts, N, Y,
enHsted from Lyme, Conn., March, 1780, for two
years, as a teamster, in Capt Ransom's Co, After
the expiration of his term of service, he re-enlisted
for two years. His father, Joshua Beckwith, fur
nished a six-ox team, which he (Joseph) drove un
til two died, and the remainder were captured by
the enemy. He saw Gen, Cornwallis surrender, and
the British soldiers march out between two files of
the American Army.
Joseph Beckwith, born at Lyme, Conn., in 1767, en-
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258 The Beckwiths.
listed in the Continenal Army from Lyme, March
1st, 1777, for three years, as a private in Capt. Lee's
Co., Col, Durkee's, Reg,, Conn, Line, and was dis
charged April Ist, 1780, at Springfield, N. J, The
schedule of his property is as follows : 1 small house
and 12 acres of rough, poor land, valued at $116 ;
1 cow, $12; 6 sheep, $4,50; and a few articles of
furniture, $10 ; from his pension he had saved $40;
and that he owes $52 ; by occupation a coasting trade
seaman ; in 1824 his family consisted of his wife
Esther, who was born May 22d, 1765, a daughter of
Jeremiah and Lowen Wait ; they were married No
vember, 1761 ; his daughter Hepsibah, age twenty-
five ; Harriet, age seventeen,
Joseph; died August 26th, 1839; age eighty.
At Lyme, Conn,, May 20th, 1838, appeared Abi
gail DeWolf of Lyme, age seventy-nine years, and
says she is the sister of the late Joseph Beckwith,
and mentions her sister, Lois Beckwith,
At Lyme, Conn,, November 23d, 1842, appeared
Harriet Haynes, wife of James Haynes, daughter
of Joseph Beckwith; her sister, Mahala, married
Frederick Champion,
August Oth, 1838, appeared Esther Beckwith,
now aged sixty-nine years, widow of Joseph,
September 20th, 1838, appeared Mahala Tinker,
age thirty-three years, daughter of Joseph Beckwith,
and says her husband is dead,
Joseph Frederick Beckwith, born in Conn,, in 1795;
now a resident of GUIman, 111, ; was enrolled in the

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N. Y. State MiHtia, October 10th, 1814, in Captain
Comstock's Co., Col. Stoddard's Reg. (68th N. Y.),
enlisting for twenty days' service, was ordered to
Sackett's Harbor; he resided in Williamsburg, Orange
Co., N. Y., until 1868, when he removed to Iroquois
Co., IU. ; and lived in the towns of Arbria and
Douglas ; at the time of his enlistment he was eigh
teen years old; by occupation a farmer; he died
Januaiy 27th, 1884, aged eighty-nine years.
Josiah Beckwith, Orange Co., Vt, April 4th, 1871;
appeared Josiah Beckwith, age seventy-five years, a
resident of Asmuth, Orange Co., Vt. ; enHsted No
vember 1st, 1814, at Wilmington, Vt., in Capt. Rob
inson's Co., Col. Davidson's Reg. ; was at the battles
of Plattsburg and Burlington, Vt. ; thinks he served
sixty days ; was wounded at the battle of Plattsburg,
by being struck by a clubbed musket in the hands
of a British soldier, and received a severe bayonet
thrust in the right side while on a reconnoitering ex-
' pedition; his right shoulder became deformed from
the effects of the blow of the clubbed musket ; he
married Martha Plaisteel at Barnville, Vt., August
9th, 1817.
Jeysee Beckwith, born at Lyme, Conn., in 1753 ; was
drafted into Col. Latimer's Reg., in 1775, for one
month ; was again drafted in the same year for two
weeks; in 1776 was drafted for four months in
Capt Bushnell's Co., which joined the Continental
Army at White Plains ; he was one of one hundred
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260 The Beckwiths.
they retreated to White Plains, and after the
battle retreated to North Castle, and were discharged;
in 1777 was again drafted for three months' service
in Capt. Catlin's Co., and was stationed at New Lon
don ; after two weeks' service, a comrade accidentally
dropped his musket on Jeysee's big toe of the right
foot and crushed it, rendering him incapable for ser
vice, and he was allowed to go home ; as soon as he
recovered the use of his foot he returned and served
out his time.
Lemuel Beckwith, born at Norwich, Conn., October
9th, 1766; enlisted AprU 1st, 1782, under Capt.
Stoddard, at New London, Conn., for two months ;
was discharged at Fort Trumbull, New London ; he
again enlisted June 1st, 1782, for one year's service
in Capt. Charles Miles' Co ; he has resided at Brat-
tleboro, Vt., Enfield, Mass., two years at Une Pas
ture, Dutchess Co., N. Y., twelve years at Rensselaer-
ville, Albany Co., N. Y,, and then moved to Hatton.
Ichabod Beckwith ; he enlisted in the Continental
Army January 26th, 1776, as a private soldier in
Capt. Stevens' Co., Knox's Reg., Mass, Line, and
served throughout the Canada Expedition, and is
now sixty years old ; he was a farmer in Ludlow,
Hampden Co., Mass., where he was born in 1758 ;
he was afterward a laborer without family or means
of support, except by public charity ; has no property
of any kind or description, except his necessary
clothing ; is old and infirm, and by reason of palsy
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tally incapable of taking care of himself ; his pen
sion certificate is now in our possession, and dated
May 30th, 1818, No. 11,149, Timothy Nast,
Abel Burr,
A committee of the poor of the Commonwealth of
Mass.
Nehemiah Beckwith, born in Dorchester Co,, Md,,
1762 ; enlisted in the Continental Army, September
1781, for four months ; served in the select mUitia
under Capt, Staplefoot until 1782 ; re-enlisted 1782
in Capt. Spadden's Co., serving untU 1783, and re
ceived pay for fourteen months' service.
Nathan Beckwith; at Waterford, Conn., 1820, ap
peared Nathan Beckwith, and says he was born in
1747 ; a sailor by profession ; enlisted in the Conti
nental Army, December, 1775, for one year, in Capt.
Sill's Co., Col. Parsons' Reg,, and was discharged at
PeekskUl, N, Y., January 1st, 1777,
His family now consists of his wife. Patience, sixty-
nine years old, and one grandchild, Samuel Beck
with, aged nine. The schedule of his property is as
follows : One cow and calf, pledged to pay his rent,
valued at $30 ; other personal property, $65.31 ; and
he says he owns neither house nor lands.
NUes Beckwith; at Lempster, N. H, 1818, appeared
NUes Beckwith, a farmer, and says he was bom in
1753, and enlisted in the Continental Army, May 1st,
1775, at Mistict, Province of Massachusetts, for three
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Regt,, N, H, Line ; was then drafted into Rigmont's
Reg,, and served eight months, and was discharged;
re-enlisted in Capt, Scott's Co,, Col, Sargeant's Reg,,
and marched to Castle William, below Boston, and
remained there until Independence was declared;
then marched with his regiment to New York, and
was taken in Col, Hatton's Reg, of Rangers, and
remained until taken prisoner by the British at Fort
Washington ; was placed in irons aboard a prison
ship for fifteen weeks ; was then paroled and returned
home. His family, in 1820, consisted of his wife,
aged fifty-eight; his children, Lonine, aged twenty,
and Nelson, aged thirteen, non-compos mentis. In
about 1819 he moved to Unity, Cheshire Co,, N, H, ;
the schedule of his property amounts to $89,37.
At Lempster, N. H., September 19th, 1838, ap
peared Jemima Beckwith, seventy-seven years of age,
widow of NUes Beckwith, who died February 20th,
1821, and says they were married December Oth, 1778.
At Lempster, N. H,, September 28th, 1838, ap
peared Warren Beckwith, who says NUes Beckwith
moved to Unity, Sullivan Co,, N, H., shortly before
he died.
Certificate of marriage was dated Lempster, N, H.,
December 6th, 1778, between NUes Beckwith and
Jemima Wedge.
Perry G, Beckwith; at Bronson, Huron Co,, Ohio, March
2d, 1871, appeared Perry G, Beckwith, and says that
he was born in 1796, and enlisted from Greerson
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Col, Porter's Reg,, and was discharged at Buffalo,
N, Y., November 8th, 1S14, He married Delia
Springster, September 16th, 1824, and died at Olney,
IU,, September 15th, 1824,
Phineas Beckwith, born at Lyme, Conn,, in 1735 ; en
Hsted in the Continental Army January 15th, 1777,
in Capt, Lee's Co,, Col, Durkee's Reg., for the war ;
was promoted to the rank of sergeant. He joined
his regiment April 30th, 1777, and served until Oc
tober 20th, 1780, when he was promoted to ensign ;
his commission (now on file in pension office, 1889)
reads, " to take effect from January 13th, 1781," in
Capt. Spalding's Co., and was discharged November,
1782. By trade he was a saddler. In 1818 he be
came bHnd ; his f amUy at this time consisted of wife,
Huldah, aged sixty-nine years, and one daughter,
Lois, aged fifty-nine, still living with him ; his other
children have long since left him, and gone out into
the world. He was stUl living in 1818, then aged
eighty-three. His commission in the Continental Army reads
as foUows : " Phineas Beckwith commissioned en
sign 1st Connecticut Regiment from the 13th day of
January, 1781, the sixth year of our Independence,
and signed Thos, McLean, President of the Congress
of the U, S, of America,"
Rice Beckwith, born Lyme, Conn,, November 20th,
1757, and served in the Continental Army from 1776
to 1780 in Col, Wynkoop's Regt,, N, Y Line, as fol
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from New Lebanon Springs in Capt. Vishyh's Co.,
and served until 1777 ; was discharged at Kinder-
hook, N. Y. ; he again enlisted and marched from
New Lebanon Springs to Kinderhook, Sunday HUl,
Fort Ann and back to Lebanon, and then to Kinder
hook, and was there discharged in 1778 ; he then
volunteered in Capt. Oder's Co., Col, Allen's Reg,,
and served until December, 1778, and was then
drafted into Capt, Smith's Co,, Col, Allen's Reg,, Vt,
Line, serving six months; re-enlisted March, 1780,
in Capt, Barney's Co, for one month. At the expira
tion of his last term of enlistment he retumed to
Manchester, where he resided until 1800, and then
moved to Plattsburg, He says his brother. Grant
Beckwith, also served throughout the war in the
Continental Army,
The above papers were filed by George M, Beck
vnth, acting chief clerk of Common Pleas of Platts
burg, and Daniel Beckwith appeared as a witness,
Richard Marmaduke Barnes Beckwith ; at Charleston,
Jefferson Co,, W. Va., June 10th, 1871, appeared
Sarah E. Beckwith, and says she was born in 1796,
and that she is the widow of the above, who enlisted
in 1814 in Capt C. Wills' Co,, and served until Au
gust 14th, 1816 ; that her maiden name was Sarah
E. Hite, and that they were married September 1 3th,
1813, by the Rev, T, Mathews, at Charleston, W, Va, ;
her husband died at St Louis, Mo., about 1818, leav
ing a son, George W. H. Beckwith, now living at
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Richard Beckwith ; at Batavia, Genesee Co,, N, Y.,
May 15th, 1878, appeared Jane Beckwith, who says
she was born in 1814, and is the widow of Richard
Beckwith, who volunteered at Batavia, N. Y., Au
gust 31st, 1814, in Capt. Godfrey's Co., Col. Church-
hill's Reg., for three months' service; he was dis
charged at Fort Erie, September 16th, 1814, on
account of sickness. He was, at that time, five feet
six inches tall, light hair and complexion and blue
eyes, and that they were married October 11th,
1841, by Adam Reid ; her maiden name was Jane
Porter, and that Richard died at Batavia, N, Y,,
June 21st, 1866.
Robert Beckwith; at Norwich, Conn,, May 2d, 1871,
appeared Robert Beckwith, who says he was born
in 1794; that he was a seaman in the War of 1812,
on board the schooner " Mars," commanded by Capt,
Noah Buckley, and sailed under letter of marque.
The "Mars "was captured by the British frigate
" Shannon " with all on board, while off Cadiz ; he
was held a prisoner of war for eighteen months, part
of the time at MUlsville Island, and sixty days as a
hostage on board the British ship "Lucaro," and
was paroled at Halifax, N. S.
Roswell Beckvnth; born at Lyme, Conn,, October
21st, 1753, where he resided until forty-one years of
age, then moved to Westerlo, Albany Co., N, Y,, and
again to Cazenovia, N. Y. For many years was a
Baptist minister in good standing. He enlisted
December, 1775, in Capt, SeUs' Co,, Col. Parsons'
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Reg., for one year, entering actual service January
1st, 1776, and was stationed on the heights over
looking Boston, and could see the British sgldiers
parading the decks of their vessels in the harbor as
if preparing to land, then they dropped down the
river evacuating Boston. He assisted in erecting the
fortifications, and marched back to Lyme by way of
Providence, R. I., where the regiment embarked and
sailed for New York, joining the Army under Gen.
Washington ; he retreated with the Army to Long
Island, where he was discharged. He then re-en
listed in a company commanded by Capt, Knowl-
ton to serve " by day and night, by land and by
water, open or secret service," and was captured and
taken prisoner at Fort Washington, by the British
and marched to Harlem, and then with other prisoners
sent to New York, and placed in irons on board the
prison ship, the " Dalton " until February, when the
prisoners agreeing not to bear arms against England
until regularly exchanged, were allowed to go home;
he returned to Lyme on parole until exchanged, in
1780, but owing to feebleness from long confinement
in the prison ship, did not re-enter the service, untU
he was drafted at the burning of New London, In
1832, he was still living, age seventy-eight years.
The application of Roswell Beckwith was sworn
to before Barak Beckvnth, judge of the Common -
Pleas of Madison Co,, Conn,
Rufus Beckwith; at Chelsea, Orange Co,, N, Y,, 1861,
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in 1764 ; and enHsted at Alstead, Cheshire Co,,
N, H, in 1776, in the 1st Reg. of Volunteers, Capt.
Nathan Fay's Co., for nine months' garrison duty, at
Fort Otter Creek, Vt; he marched through the
wilderness to Fort Pittsfield and was mustered
into the Continental Army by Major Tolman ; at the
expiration of ten months was discharged.
Attached to this application was an old faded
leaf of a Bible, upon which was written the follow
ing: Rufus Beckwith; bom May 12th, 1764; Thank
ful Sadie, his wife, January 1st, 1790 (probably
date of marriage) ; Sammie, born December 18th,
1791 ; Josiah, bora May 20th, 1793 ; Edward W.,
bora September 16th, 1798 ; Rufus, Jr,, born De
cember 20th, 1 800.
Samuel Beckwith; at Hartford, Conn., July 18th,
1833, appeared Samuel Beckwith, who says he was
born at Lyme, Conn., in 1755. That he and his
brother, Roswel Beckwith, were both taken prison
ers at Fort Washington by the British, and that he
did not return home until January, 1777.
Samuel Beckwith ; at Lyme, Conn., June 7th, 1843,
appeared John Lay, who says he was born in 1764,
and that he knew personally Samuel Beckwith, who
enlisted May, 1775, for seven months' service in
Capt, SeUs' Co., Col, Parsons' Reg,, and that he
marched to Roxbury and was stationed there until
discharged, about January 1st, 1776; he re-enlisted
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at New York, and was discharged there, January
1st, 1777; he then enlisted in the sea service, and
was at the capture of the East India ship " The
Lovely Lass," and made a heavy purse from his
share of the prize money. He was taken prisoner
several times, once in Rhode Island, and once in
New York where he was placed on board of a prison
ship for a long time. He manied Polly Green
field before he returned home, and that he after
ward joined Capt. Moody in a government ship,
and was drowned at Lyme, May, 1800.
At Lyme, Conn., June 7th, 1844, appeared PoUy Beck
with Tinker, who says she was born in 1760 ; that
her maiden name was Polly Greenfield, and that she
married Samuel Beckwith, June, 1781; that he died at
Lyme, May, 1800, and in December, 1818, she mar
ried Joseph Tinker, who died November 28th, 1836.
Seth Beckvnth, born at Waterford, Conn,, October,
1758; enlisted, 1778, in the'MUitia, Capt Bebee's Co,,
and was drafted into the Continental Army for six
months, in Capt Thompson's Co,, and was stationed
at Fort Trumbull, assisting in the building of
that fort ; was discharged April, 1799. He was again
drafted July, 1779, in Capt Wait's Co,, for four
months ; was stationed at Long Island Sound, east
of Niantic bay, where he was discharged July, 1780 ;
was again drafted to go in pursuit of British soldiers,
who had made their escape from the prison ships,
then lying in New London, and who were secreted
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in recapturing most of them, i-eturning them to
prison ; he was then placed on guard duty at the
prison. He was subsequently drafted several times,
serving short terms of service aggregating ten months.
At Waterford, Conn., September 18th, 1837, ap
peared Esther Beckwith, who says she was born in
1762, and is the widow of Seth Beckwith ; that her
maiden name was Esther Leach, and was married No
vember 14th, 1781; that her husband died at Mont
vUle, Conn., March 15th, 1839.
At Waterford, Conn., September 23d, 1839, ap
peared Grace Beckwith, the widow of Elisha Beck
with, and says she was born in 1 764; that her maiden
name was Grace Leach, and is the sister of Seth
Beckwith's wife ; that Seth's children were : Hester,
born October 16th, 1782 ; Joseph, born January
25th, 1786, and Rupel, born December 27th, 1788,
Seth Beckwith ; at Easton, Ionia Co,, Mich,, December
14th, 1871, appeared Elizabeth Beckwith, who says
she was bora in 1787, and is the widow of Seth
Beckwith, who served sixty days in the War of
1812, in Capt. Tallmadge's Co, ; at that time he re
sided at Martinsburg, Lewis Co,, N, Y,, and was sta
tioned at Sackett's Harbor during the years 1812-
1813, He again enlisted for three months as a sub
stitute for one EHjah Soule, who was drafted. Her
maiden name was Elizabeth Butler, and they were
married November 6th, 1806; he died at Easton,
Mich,, June 6th, 1856,
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in the army with his team to haul provisions from
East Harbor Landing to Boston, and had command
of several other teams ; acting as train-master for
three months. He then, with his family, moved to
near Albany, N. Y,, and was selected by the Com
mittee of Safety of Albany to take charge of thirty-
five men to go north and join Gen, Schuyler's com
mand, then stationed a little below Albany on the
Hudson river. He, with Sergeant Butler and twenty-
five men, went up the river, and were drawn into an
ambush by the Indians ; after a skirmish with them
they retreated to Albany without the loss of a sin
gle man, carrying vrith them the only man wounded.
He was then commissioned by Gen. Gates a captain
in Col. Van Ness' Reg., Conn. Line ; was at the bat
tle of Stillwater, September 19th, 1777, and was dis
charged at the expiration of his nine months' enlist.
ment. In 1778, he was again selected by the Com
mittee of Safety of Nobletown, Albany Co., N. Y,
to take charge of thirty men to join General Wash
ington at Valley Forge ; he reported to General Pier-
son upon his arrival, who advised him to be " nocu-
lated " for the small-pox, then very bad in the army,
after which he lay sick in the hospital for a long
time ; getting better, he was placed in a wagon and
followed the army ; having a relapse, was discharged
as unfit for active service. He knows of no one who
could testify to the above, except his father, Benjamin
Beckwith. After the war he moved to Indiana, and
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At Crawford Co,, IU., December 14th, 1837, ap
peared Benjamin Beckwith, and says that his father,
Silas Beckwith, has lived with him for the last
fifteen years, and is now old and infirm, and that his
mother died in 1834,
Thomas Beckwith, born at Lyme, Conn,, April 3d,
1759 ; enlisted in the Conn, Militia, September 9th,
1776, in Capt Say's Co,, Col. Parsons' Reg., the 3d
Conn. Line, called the "Governor's Guards;" re
mained on duty at Lyme until discharged, January
10th, 1777 ; re-enHsted January 15th, 1777, to go to
New London, in Capt. Lay's Co., Col. Thorp's Reg.,
Conn. Line ; remained there four months, and was
discharged; volunteered, April, 1777, for two months,
State service, in Capt. Bebee's Co., Col. Thorp's
Regt., and was stationed at New London until dis
charged ; re-enlisted, July 1st, 1777, in Capt Palmer's
Co., Col. Ely's Regt., for six months ; marched vrith
his company to Norwalk, and there embarked on
board a schooner for secret service to surprise the
British Fort at Brookhaven, L. I. ; the Americans
were themselves surprised by British vessels of war,
who captured one boat and drove the others to land ;
after a weary march through the wilderness arrived
at New London, and was discharged, January, 1778 ;
was drafted into Capt. Davis' Co., Col. Latimer's
Reg., 3d Conn. Line ; was stationed at Fort Gris
wold for four months, and was discharged. May,
1778 ; again enlisted ; this time on the State brig
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hundred and twenty men ; Seth Harding, captain,
and Nehemiah Whitney, surgeon ; cruised to the Ber
mudas for one month, and in that time captured two
ships, with which the Defiance returned to New
London, and after refitting returned to the same
cruising grounds for three months; were chased home
by a British man-of-war ; was then discharged De
cember, 1778 ; drafted in 1779, and served three
months in Capt. Hempstead's Co., 3d Reg.,. Conn-
State Troops ; he then, at the expiration of his en
listment, entered the naval service on a privateer ves
sel for one year. In 1832 he was still living at
Batavia, N. Y, aged seventy-three years.
Timothy Beckwith; at Waterford, Conn., 1820, ap
peared Timothy Beckwith, who says he was bom at
Waterford, Conn., and enlisted from that place into
the Continental Army, for the war. May, 1777, in
Capt. Richards' Co., and served until the end of the
war, and was discharged at West Point. By occu
pation a laborer ; his wife Lydia is fifty-three years
old ; their children are as follows : Livonia, age four
teen; Timothy, age ten ; Cynthia, age eight, and
says his property amounts to $6.06 in value, and
that he owns neither " house nor lands." He mar
ried Lydia Newberry, late of Waterford, May 19th,
1789, who was born in 1760, and lived to be ninety-
seven years old ; Timothy died May 27th, 1825, and
Lydia, his wife. May 3d, 1857.
At New London, Conn., .Tuly 27th, 1838, ap
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years old, who says she is a sister of Timothy Beck
with. At New London, Conn., July, 1839, appeared
Newberry Beckwith of New London, and Desire
Beebee of Waterford, chUdren of Timothy Beckwith
and Lydia, his wife.
WilHam Beckwith; at Waterford, Conn., June 9th,
1871, appeared WUliam Beckwith, who says he was
born at Waterford, Conn., 1774, and married Amy
at Waterford, in 1793 ; and that he served in the
War of 1812, for thirty days, in Col, More's Reg,,
3d Conn, Line,
WilHam Beckwith ; at Morgan Township, Morgan Co,,
Ohio, 1832, appeared WUHam Beckwith, who says
he was born in Frederick Co,, Md,, in 1758, and
that he enHsted at Frederick, Md,, in the Continen
tal Army, August, 1776, in Capt, Slay's Co,, Col,
Battle's Reg,, for six months ; after serving his term,
he re-enHsted at White Marsh Crossing for one year,
in Capt, Camp's Co,, Col, Green's Reg, ; was at the
battle of White Marsh, where Capt. Bailey and half
of his company ran away, the remainder and Capt.
McLane, contending with an overpowering force of
the enemy, fought their way back to White Marsh,
after leaving half their men dead and wounded.
He was at the battle of Chestnut HiU, under Gen,
Green, which lasted from noon to dark ; was at the
battle of Germantown. After the battle of German-
town, the British lighted their camp fires, and the
Americans then went into camp ; WiUiam had just
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put a cake of dough into the ashes to bake when an
advance was ordered, and he was obliged to eat his
cake raw, only to find upon their anival at the
enemy's lines that they had retreated. His command
arrived too late to participate in the battle of the
Brandywine, All the pay he ever received was one
month's pay, $8 in Continental cunency. His com
pany was ordered to quell the Tories, who gave
much trouble in and around Frederick. He was
born in Frederick Co., Md., on Rock Creek, twelve
miles from Washington, D. C, and lived there until
he moved to Morgan Co., Ohio.
Benjamin Beckwith says he is a brother of Wil
liam Beckwith, late of Morgan Co., Ohio, who died
October 27th, 1836; his wife died a short time be
fore ; they had three children : Richard, Tobias and
Rebecca ; Richard left his father's home years ago
and was supposed to have returned to Md, ; Tobias
died, and Rebecca is the only surviving child, and
is thought to be living in New York,
Solomon Beckwith says he is the son of Benja
min and nephew of William, and that he knows
that William is dead, that Tobias is dead, and be
lieves that Richard is dead, and that Rebecca is the
only surviving child of WUliam ; Richard left home
about 1819, or shortly after they moved to Ohio;
Tobias died in Morgan Co,, and that Rebecca is
living in New York city,
WiUiam W, Beckwith ; at Cleveland, Ohio, May 1st,
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practiced in Huron Co., Ohio, and knew WiUiam W,
Beckvnth and his family, and that WilHam died at
Branson, Huron Co., Ohio, August 19th, 1861, aged
about sixty-five years, leaving a widow, Ann Beck
with, who moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.
At Cleveland, Ohio, April 29th, 1879, appeared
Ann Beckwith, aged 81 years, the widow of WiUiam
W. Beckwith, who was in the War of 1812 ; enHsted
m Capt. Gale's Co., N. Y. Militia, Woodsworth's
Brigade, and that her maiden name was Ann Henick
At Cleveland, Ohio, 1879, appeared Dr. David H.
Beckwith, who says he is fifty-three years old, and
is a son of William W. and Ann Beckwith ; that his
fatherijust before his death, was five feet eleven
inches taU, had Hght blue eyes and light complexion,
with dark hair; that his father died August 19th,
1861. At Cleveland, Ohio, April 19th, 1879, appeared Dr.
Seth R. Beckwith, and says he is forty-nine years
old and is a son of WilHam W, and Ann Beckvnth.
Ann Beckwith died March 25th, 1883. Certifi
cate of marriage is as follows : Norwalk, Huron Co.,
Ohio, I certify that W. W. Beckwith and Ann Her
rick were lawfully joined in marriage by me, this
20th day of October, 1819, Robert S. Southgate,
J. P. 1815.
Jennings Beckwith, 1815 ; ensign, 3d lieut. 14th U, S,
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regimental Q. M., August 24th, 1815 ; resigned,
June 16th, 1816. Blackhawk War, 1830.
Dan Beckwith, 1830, May 14th to June 14th, Heut-
col,, IU, Mounted Volunteers, 1840,
F, L, S, Beckwith, 1840; midshipman, resigned in
1844, 1843,
S. M. Beckwith, 1843 ; gunner, U. S. N.; resigned in
1853. Mexican War, 1847.
Lawrence Butler Beckwith, 1847 ; enHsted in 1st
Ark. Vol,; wounded at battle of Buena Vista; en
listed July 1st, 1846, at Washington, Ark, for
twelve months; served as a private in Hunter's Co,,
1st Reg,, Ark. Vol. ; was shot in the thigh at the
battle of Buena Vista, and was mustered out at
Cavago, Mexico, January 20th, 1847.
Edward G. Beckvnth, 1st Heut, U. S. A. (see 1861-
1865,) War op the Rebellion, 1861-1865.
Adolphus Beckwith, 1861 ; for four years; N. Y. Cav.
Albert O, Beckwith, 1861 ; for three years ; 2d Vt, Inf ;
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Amos Beckwith, 1846 ; cadet U, S, M, A,, 1846 ; brevt,
2d lieut Art, 1861 ; 2d lieut, 1851 ; 1st lieut,
1854; capt com, sub., 1861 ; major com, sub,, 1862 ;
brevt. lieut, 1868; brevt, brig. -gen., 1866; brevt
major-gen., 1865 ; col. add. A. D. C, 1856 ; Heut-
col, asst, gen, of sub., 1874,
Asa Orlando Beckwith, 1861 ; for three years ; Ohio
Vols, ; buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Ohio,
Asher M. Beckwith, 1863 ; for three years ; wounded
at battle of Gettysburg ; died in hospital,
A, W. Beckwith, 1861; captain 20th Mass, Inf,,
March 29th, 1862 ; in sixteen engagements,
Benjamin F, Beckwith, 1861 ; for four years ; 99th
Ind, Inf, ; mustered out in 1865,
Benjamin Beckwith, 1862 ; 1st lieut, and adjutant 32d
Wis. Reg, ; resigned 1864,
Charles Beckwith, September 19 th, 1862 ; for nine
months ; Co, B, 49th Mass,
Charles Beckwith, 1861 ; Conn, Vols, ; killed in battle
in 1862.
Charies Beckwith, 1861 ; Co. E, 18th Conn. ; died
August 6th, 1864 ; buried at Staunton, Va., National
Cemetery, No. 60, section B.
Charles Beckwith, 1863 ; died in Staunton prison, Va,,
July nth, 1864,
C. Beckwith, 1862; 14th N. Y. Art, Co,; died Sep
tember nth, 1864; buried AndersonviUe Prison
Cemetery,
C. C. Beckwith, 1861 ; corporal Co, E, 4th Vt ; died
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tery, grave No, 75, row No, 7, section No. E, block
2 ; body was buried on Dr. Fisher's Plantation, War
renton, Va., and removed to Arlington.
Charles B. Beckwith ; killed at battle of Port Hudson,
Charies H. Beckwith, May 7th, 1861 ; 2d Conn. Inf.;
died December 1st, 1862.
D, L, Beckwith, 1864; captain 22d U, S, Veteran Re
serve Corps; discharged (disability) 1866,
Dan Beckwith, 1862 ; for four years; 111, Vols. ;- mus
tered out in 1865,
Daniel Beckwith, 1861 ; for two years ; mustered out
in 1863,
David H, Beckwith, 1862 ; for three years ; captain
101st N, Y., November 16th, 1862; in twenty-two
engagements,
David L, Beckwith, 1862 ; for two years ; 2d R, I, ;
prisoner at battle of the Wilderness,
David O, Beckwith, 1861 ; 2d lieut 57th N, Y. Inf,,
October 4th, 1861.
E, Beckwith, 1861 ; corporal 6th Mich,, Co, I ; died
May 31st, 1864; buried in AndersonviUe Prison
Cemetery.
Edward Griffen Bsckwith, 1843 ; cadet U. S, M, A, ;
2d lieut 3d Art,, July 1st, 1842; 1st Heut, June
18th, 1846 ; captain. May 12th, 1855 ; col, add, aid-
de-camp July 5th, 1862 ; major 2d Art., February
8th, 1864; brevt lieut -col., brevt col. and brevt brig,-
gen,, March 13th, 1865, for faithful and meritorious
services during the war ; mustered out as colonel
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F, Beckwith, November 8th, 1862 ; 94th N, Y,, Co, H ;
buried at Military Asylum, D, C,
Francis E, Beckwith, Jr., July 13th, 1864 ; for one
hundred days ; Co, A, 8th Mass, Inf, ; aged eighteen,
Francis Beckwith ; Co, F, 13 th Conn, ; died September
5th, 1864 ; buried at St. Louis, Mo. ; section 32, No.
134,
Frank Beckwith, June 16th, 1864 ; Co. D, 13th Conn.
G, Beckwith, 1861 ; 58th Penn. ; died July 31st 1864;
buried at Hampton Cemetery, Va.
George Beckwith, 1861 ; 6th Mich,, Co. C ; died June
23d, 1864 ; buried at Lynchburg, Va,
George C. Beckwith, 1861 ; Vt. Vols. ; wounded at
battle of Fredericksburg ; died in hospital, 1864.
George C. Beckwith, 1861 ; for the war ; 2d Vt. Reg.;
wounded at battle of Fredericksburg ; died in hos
pital, 1864.
George L. Beckwith, 1861 ; for three years ; 2d lieut.,
4th N. Y. Cav.; December 31st, 1862.
George H. Beckwith, 1861 ; for three years ; 1st lieut.
13th Wis.
George W. Beckvnth ; Ind. Volunteers ; mustered out
in 1865.
George W. Beckwith, 1861 ; for the war; 16th N. Y.,
Co. E; died September 1st, 1862; buried at Phila
delphia, Penn.
GUbert Beckwith, 1861 ; for the war; 10th Mich., Co.
C; died May 16th, 1862 ; buried at St Louis, Mo.,
section 52, No. 60.

280 The Beckwiths.
Henry Beckwith, 1861 ; for three years; Ohio Vol.;
mustered out in 1864.
Henry A. Beckwith, 1862 ; 1st Heut 21st Mass. Reg,,
September 6th, 1862; in fourteen engagements;
died of wounds received at battle of ChantiUy, Va.,
September 5th, 1862.
Henry C, Beckwith, 1 862 ; 3d ass't eng, U. S, N, June
27th, 1862 ; 2d ass't eng,, 1863 ; 'ist ass't eng,, 1868 ;
¦retired in 1874,
Henry G, Beckwith, 1861; 29th Ohio Reg.; died
March 28th, 1862 ; buried September 12th, at Win
chester National Cemetery; drowned in Sleepy
Creek, Va.
Henry M. Beckwith, 1862, March 10th ; 1st Conn, Art;
died Oct. 10th, 1863,
Herbert E, Beckwith, 1861; lOth Conn, ; served eigh
teen months ; transferred to 2d Mass, Heavy Art. ;
corporal 2d Mass. Art.; prisoner at Plymouth, N.
C; eight months in prison at AndersonviUe and
Florence, Ala. ; paroled 1 864, and died on his landing
at Annapolis, Md., December 30th, 1864.
Herbert D. Beckwith, 1862; 57th Mass., Co. F; died
Jan, 17th, 1866 ; buried at Poplar Grove National
Cemetery, Petersburgh, Va, ; disinterred from Ruf-
fin's Plantation, Va,
Ira M, Beckwith, 1862 ; Januaiy 22d; discharged Jan
uary 23d, 1863,
James Beckwith, 1861 ; for four years; N, Y, Vol,;
mustered out in 1865.
James Beckwith, 1861 ; for the war ; 105th N. J,, Co,

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C; died October 9th, 1862; buried at Cave HiU
Cemetery, Ky.
J. Beckwith, 1861 ; for the war ; Scott's 900 ; died
June 26th, 1864 ; buried at Military Asylum, D. C.
J. C, Beckwith, 1864 ; for 3 years; captain, 187th N,
Y, Inf,, October 11th, 1864,
J, E, Beckwith, 1862; 31st 111,, Co. I; died July 21st,
1864; buried at Atlanta, Ga., Nat. Cem., No. 681.
J. H. Beckwith, 1861 ; 177th N. Y. Inf,, Co, C; died
August 19th, 1864; buried at Port Hudson Nat.
Gem., La.
J. P. Beckwith, 1861; 52d Mass., Co. F; died Decem
ber 2d, 1862, aged 39; buried in New York; mus
tered out, October 1 1th, 1862.
John Beckwith, 1861; 8th Ind., Co. I; died Hunts-
ville, Ala,, 1862,
John Beckwith, 1861; 179th N. Y, Co, C; died June
26th, 1165; buried Nat, Cem, at Alexandria, Va,
John Beckwith, 1861; for three years; Conn, Vol;
wounded in foot.
John Beckwith, 1863 ; for one year ; 102d Ohio; mus
tered out in 1864.
John Beckvnth, 1861 ; 2d Md. Reg. of Inf., twenty-
two engagements ; mustered out in 1865,
John A, Beckwith, 1861, October 5th; 8th Conn,;
woimded and discharged on account of disability, in
1864,
John H, Beckwith, 1863, December 29th ; for three
years, age 18; Co, K, "New Batt," Mass, Cav,
(received $325 bounty),
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282 The Beckwiths.
John H, Beckwith, 1864 ; captain 2d Reg,, U, S, A.;
organized in Va,, 1864 ; resigned 1864.
John W. Beckvnth, 1863, September 15th; for nine
months; 66th Mass., Co. C, age 30.
John W, Beckvnth, 1863, July 18th; for three years;
2d Art,, Mass. Vol., Co, A ; mustered out, disability.
Joseph Beckwith, 1861 ; 14th Inf,, U, S, A, Co, B;
died January 18th, 1862 ; buried Nat, Cem, at Alex
andria, Va,
L, Beckwith, 1861; 14th IU, Inf,, Co, C; died No
vember 13th, 1863; buried at Camp Grove Cem,,
section B, grave No, 40,
Laban Beckwith, 1861; for three years; Ohio Vol.;
sunstruck and mustered out, disabiUty.
Lafayette Beckwith, 1861; 114th N. Y, Co. B; died
near New Orleans, La., October 5th, 1863 ; buried
in Monument Nat. Cem., Charlemette, La.
Lewis Beckwith, 1862, January 7th ; captain, Co. D,
Veteran Batt.; commissioned May 21st, 1863,
Lewis Beckwith, 1862 ; captain, 13th Conn,, December
nth, 1862.
Lewis A, Beckwith, 1865 ; 2d lieut, 14th W, Va, M
Lewis C, Beckwith, 1861 ; for three years ; 2d lieut
1st Batt. Mountaineers, Cal, ; resigned November
23d, 1864,
Lad W. Beckwith, 1861 ; surgeon 38th Ind. ; resigned
1863,
Lowell A. Beckwith, November 28th, 1864 ; for one
year ; 1st Batt, Heavy Art Mass., Co. C ; aged 19 ;
bounty $218.

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Martin Beckwith, 1861 ; 8th Ind. Cav., Co. I ; buried
at NashviUe, Tenn,, Nat, Cem,, section 36, No, 803,
Martin Beckwith, 1861 ; 125th Ohio, Co, I ; died May
1st, 1864 ; buried at Winchester, Va,, Nat, Cem,
MUan H. Beckwith, 1861; for three years; 2d Vt
Inf, ; mustered out in 1864,
Nicholas Beckwith, 1861 ; 11th IU,, Co, A; died Janu
ary 13th, 1862; buried at St, Louis Nat, Cem,, sec
tion 28, No, 115,
Paul Beckwith, 1861 ; served one month in General
Fremont's Command, as a volunteer, during the
Missouri campaign, age 14,
Robert Beckwith ; Conn, Vols, ; killed in battle.
Robert S. Beckwith, May 1st, 1861 ; for three months;
aged 21 ; 5th Mass. Inf., Co. B.
R. S. Beckwith, 1861 ; 2d lieut, 20th Mass,, December
31st, 1862 ; in thirty-one engagements ; died from
wounds received at battle of Fredericksburg, Va,
Reuben R. Beckwith, 1864; captain 38th Wis,, Sep
tember 26th, 1864,
Rufus H, Beckwith, July 20th, 1864; for one hundred
days; aged 34; 42d Mass, Inf,, Co, D,
Rufus Beckwith, Jr,, 1862 ; 12th N, Y, Cav,, Co. B;
kiUed May 13th, 1865 ; buried at Cypress HiU Nat,
Cem,, L, I,
S Beckwith, 1861 ; 9th N. Y., Co, A; died June 21st,
1863 ; buried at Military Asylum, D, C,
Samuel R, Beckvnth, 1862 ; for three years ; captain,
I50th Penn,, June 26th, 1864; in twelve engage
ments; mustered out in 1865,

284 The Bechwiths.
Solomon Beckwith, 1861; for four years ; 161st Ohio;
mustered out in 1866,
Stephen Beckwith, 1862 ; captain 101st Ohio Inf, ; re
signed in 1864,
Stewart W, Beckwith, 1861 ; 14th U. S Inf., Co, B;
died January 6th, 1862 ; buried Nat. Cem,, Alexan
dria, Va.
Sylvester G, Beckvnth, 1862; for three years;. Ist
lieut, 23d Iowa Inf, ; died of wounds received at
battie of Big Black River, Miss., July, 1863.
Theodore L, Beckwith, 1862 ; for nine months; captain
28th Mass, ; in eleven engagements,
Timothy Beckwith, 1864 ; for one year ; 76th Penn, ;
mustered out at Raleigh, N, C, in 1865.
W. Beckwith ; buried at City Point Nat. Cem., Va.
W, Beckwith, 1861 ; 189th N, Y, Co, D ; buried at
Camp Point Nat, Cem,, Va,, section D, division 1,
grave No. 119.
Warren Beckwith, 1862; for three years; captain 4th
Iowa Cav., May 20th, 1863 ; was in fourteen engage
ments.
William Beckwith, May 7th, 1864 ; aged twenty-five ;
transferred to U, S, Navy, AprU 23d, 1864,
WiUiam Beckwith, December 22d, 1863 ; 22d Conn,
Cav, ; mustered out July 15th, 1866,
WiUiam F, Beckwith, 1861 ; 64th Ohio Inf, ; kiUed at
battle of Rocky Face Ridge,
WilHam G, Beckwith, August 21st, 1862 ; enHsted at
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William H, Beckwith, 1861 ; captain 80th N, Y, June
10th, 1862 ; in fourteen engagements,
WiUiam L, Beckwith, 1861 ; for four years; 140th N.
Y, Inf. ; mustered out in 1865,
WiUiam W, Beckwith, 1861 ; for three years ; captain
35th N, Y, Inf,, October 8th, 1862,
Wright Beckwith, 1862 ; 2d Heut, 7th Mo, Cav, ; mus
tered out in 1865,
William Beckwith, 1861 ; U. S, ship Scotia / quarter
master on gunboat Hendrich Hudson; discharged
for disabUity in 1865.
Herbert E. Beckwith, clerk ; eighteen years of age ;
son of Elisha Beckwith of Norwich, Conn. ; served
eighteen months in the 10th Conn. Reg. of Inf, and
subsequently as corporal in the 2d Mass. Heavy Ar
tillery. He was taken prisoner at Plymouth, N. C,
and confined for eight months at AndersonviUe and
Florence, Ala., prisons, where he suffered severely
for food and clothing. He was paroled, landing at
Annapolis, Md,, where he ralHed, but died six days
afterward, December 30th, 1864, aged twenty-one
years. At AndersonviUe he wrote in his journal :
I fancy at times I hear the bells of Norwich, [Nor
wich, Conn., in the War.
Lewis Beckvnth ; enlisted from New London, Conn.,
January 7th, 1862; sergeant 1862 ; 2d Heut Co. K,
January*27th, 1863; captain assigned to Co. D, Vet
eran Battalion, May 21st, 1863. Lieut, Beckwith,
whUe trying his skill with the musket, was struck
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286 The Bechwiths.
language on the occasion was slightly profane, [His
tory of the 13th Conn, Reg.
William G. Beckwith ; enlisted from Grand Rapids,
Mich., August 21st 1862 ; sergeant Co. B, 5th Mich.
Cav., 1863; 1st lieut, AprU 14th, 1865. Lieut
Beckwith was not mustered out as an officer, as he
was absent on sick leave when his company was
mustered out. [Conn, in the Rebellion.
On the night of March 3d, 1866, Mr. Lincoln and
several members of his cabinet were in attendance at
the Capitol awaiting final passage of bills by Congress
in order that they might receive the presidential sig
nature. Every one was happy at a prospect of an
early re-establishment of peace. Gen. Grant having
just telegraphed a glowing account of his successes,
and his control of the situation. While felicitating each
other on the approaching cessation of hostilities, a sec
ond dispatch was handed to Mr. Stanton from Gen.
Grant. The telegram advised him of the receipt of a
letter from General Lee, requesting an immediate in
terview, with a view to the re-establishment of peace
between the two sections, in answer to which the Presi
dent wrote the foUowing dispatch, handing it to Mr.
Stanton, who signed, sealed and forwarded it, which
ran as follows : " The President directs me to say to
you that he wishes you to have no conference with
Gen. Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Gen.
Lee's army or on some minor or purely military
matter. He instructs me to say, you are not to
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President holding the decision of these questions in
his own hands, and will submit them to no military
conference or convention, and you are to press to the
utmost of your ability, your military advantage." On
the succeeding day the following dispatch was received
from Gen. Grant, in cipher as follows :
March 4 6.30.
Mr. EcKEET 4 : 30 Washington :
Name to you ditto me most Annie A price ditto
because Senate considered too green pink or blue of
affidavits yellow. My Davenport honoring by struck
oU increase that eat it etta Willie to will can loaf a black
Provost Marshall Hayden sexton Kirkwoods No sing
my eggs chum had subject matter before Mary of Den
mark by that press of circumstances may I gambol the
buff cravat foreign proposed know the solid ability all
act meal copy hampered SaUie Sinclair resembles du
plicate which I justice demolished neither anther platina
Tom him kisses nearest neighbor Ira Denmark was
arrive under thought prevent assure to letter magnify
panic. S. H. Beckwith,
TRANSLATION,
City Point, Man-ch 4, 1865, 4 : 30 p, m,
Hon, E, M, Stanton, Secreta/ry of Wm- :
Your dispatch of the 3d, midnight, received. I have
a letter to Gen, Lee, copy of which will be sent you by
to-mono w's mail, I can assure you that no act of the

288 The Beckwiths.
enemy will prevent me pressing aU advantages gained
to the utmost of my ability. Neither wUl I, under any
circumstances, exceed my authority, or in any way
embarrass the Government, It was because I had no
right to meet Gen, Lee on the subject proposed by
him that I referred the matter for instructions,
U, S, GRANT,
Lieutenant- General.
" The real Lincoln." By Ward E. Lemon.
Upon inquiry at the War Department they could give me no further
information.
Confederate States Army, 1861-1865
Anson G. Beckwith, 1862 ; sergeant 23d Tenn,, killed
at battle of Chickamauga,
Frank Beckwith, 1863 ; 3d Va, Inf,, 1863-6,
Frank Beckwith ; killed in the war.
Hays Beckwith ; colonel 20th Va, Inf,, 1861-1865,
Julian R, Beckwith, 1861; killed at battle of Seven
Pines,
Lawrence Beckwith, 1861; Wade Hampton's Legion.'
Newton Beckwith, 1861 ; 30th Va, Reg, Inf,
John Beckvnth, 1861 ; killed in Virginia.
Samuel G. Beckwith, 1861; for three years; 54th
Tenn. Inf. ; prisoner at Fort Donaldson.
The Percys.
This family derived their name from the viUage of
Percy, near Villedieu in Normandy, They deduced
their pedigree from Geoffrey, son of Manifred, alDan-

The Bechwiths. 289
ish chieftain, who assisted RoUo, in 912 in subjugat
ing that principaHty, and acquired considerable pos
sessions there. William de Percy accompanied the
Conqueror from Normandy and obtained from him a
Barony of thirty Knights fees, and became a feudal
Lord of England. This William de Percy was also
known by the name of " Als Gernon " or William with
the whiskers ; he re-founded the Abbey of St. Hilda in
Yorkshire, of which his brother, Serbo de Percy, was
Prior. Accompanying Duke Robert in his first cru
sade in 1096, he died at Mountjoy, near Jerusalem,
leaving five sons and a daughter, by his wife Emma
de Post, a lady of Saxon descent, whose lands were
amongst those bestowed upon him by the Conqueror,
and according to an ancient writer, " he wedded hyrr
that was very heire to them, in discharging of his con
science." He was succeeded by his son Alan de Percy,
2d Baron, surnamed "The great Allan, he married
Emma, daughter of GUbert de Gaunt (which Gilbert
was son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, and nephew of
Queen Maud, wife of William the Conqueror), and
was succeeded by his eldest son, WilHam de Percy, at
whose decease, the eldest branch of the first race of
Percys from Normandy became extinct in the male
line, and their great inheritance became devolved upon
his Lordship's two daughters. Maude married the
Earl of Warwick, who died in the Holy Land in 118 i,
sans issue; Agnes de Percy married Jocelaine, brother of
Queen Adeliza, second wife of Henry the first, and son
of Geoffrey de Bouillon, Duke of Lower Brabant, and
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290 The Beckwiths.
Count of Brabant who was descended from the Em
peror Charlemagne, Lady Agness who only consent to
this alliance upon condition that Jocelaine should adopt
either the surname or arms of Percy, the former of which,
the old tradition says, he accordingly assumed and re
tained his paternal coat, in order to perpetuate his claim
to the principality of his father, should the elder branch
of the reigning family become extinct. The ancient
arms of Hainault, the Lord retained, and gave his
children the surname of " Perci " he left several chUdren,
Henry the eldest son, who appears to have died be
fore his mother, married Isabel, daughter of Adam
Bruce, Lord of Skelton, by whom he had the Manor
of Levington, for which he and his heirs, were to re
pair to Skelton Castle, every Christmas day, and to
lead the lady of the Castle, from her chamber to the
chapel to Mass, and thence to her chamber again, and
after dining with her depart.
The family merging into the house of the Earls of
Northumberland became one of the most illustrious of
England, It is of this family, we have the Sir Henry
Percy, so well known as "Harry Hotspur" that was
killed at the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403, [Burke's
Peerage of England, TONBRIDGE,
Richard de Tonbiidge called allso Richard de Bene
factor, or Richard filius Giliberti, or Richard de Clare,
eldest son of Gilbert Earl of Brion, in Normandy, was
at the battle of Hastings, and was also a large land-

The Beckwiths. 291
owner or chief tenant of the king's lands, [First Sur
vey of Domesday Book, Bruce,
Sir Robert Brus a Noble Norman Baron, who accom
panied the Conqueror from Normany, and obtained no
less than 9 Lordships in the County of Yorkshire, of
which Skelton Castle and Manor, was one and the
chief, aUso the manors of Hert and Hertness, in the
Bishopric of Durham, He married first Agnes daugh
ter of Falk Pasquall and had Adam who succeeded to
the estates, and whose male line terminated in 1271,
with Peter de Brus whose vaste estates reverted to his
4 sisters as coheiresses, viz, Margarette who marries
Sir L, Peter Brus, Agness who married Walter Fal-
conridge, Lucy who married John Baliol, Sir Robert
Bras manied secondly, Agnes Armand, a great Scot
tish heiress, by whom he acquired the Lordships of
Anandale, which, with Hert and Hertness he bestowed
upon his son Robert de Brus, of whom but little is
known, save benefactions to the church. He was suc
ceeded by his son WilHam de Brus, who is noticed for
his religious grants, he was living at the close of the
12 th century, and was succeeded by his son Robert
Brus, who married Isabella, daughter of David Earl of
Huntington, niece of William of Scotland, and one of
the sisters of John Earl of Huntington and last
Count Palatinate of Durham, [Burke's Peerage of Eng
land.

292 The Beckwiths.
From Blount's " Fragmentatis Antiquitis," London,
p, 432,
Hercules de Maltbiss, married Beckwith daughter
of Sir William Bruce Lord of Uglebarby, descendant
of Sir Robert Bruce - — a noble norman Knight of Skel
ton Castle Cleveland, this Sir William de Bruce appears
to have inherited a considerable portion of the lands
granted by WUliam the Conqueror to his ancestor Sir
Robert de Bruce Lord of Skelton Castle in Cleveland
a noble norman Knight, ancestor of the Braces of Scot
land, for we find that his daughter was heiress of Ugle
barby and Roxby, and manors of Beckwith <fe Beck
with Shaw, which are mentioned among the possessions
originally granted Sir Robert de Bruce, with these pos
sessions are mentioned lands in Lewiston or Levington
which must have formed part of the inheritance of Sir
William de Bruce, which was conveyed by his daugh
ter's marriage to Sir Hercules de Malbisse, and is now
possessed by the lineal descendant of Sir Hercules de
Malbie, the present Col, Beckwith of Tremden, this
estate is held by " Feudal Tenure " viz that the eldest
son of the possessor, should hold the King's stirrups
whenever his majesty may come into the north Riding
of Yorkshire, Levington Co, of York,
Adam de Brus, lord of Skelton gave in marriage
with his daughter Isabel to Henry de Percy, eldest son
and heir of Jocelin de Lorain (ancestor to the present

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Duke of Northumberland), the manor of Levington, for
which he and his heirs were to repair to Skelton Castle
every Christmas Day, and lead the lady of that Castle
from her chamber to the Chapel, to mass, and thence
to her chamber again, and after dining with her to de
part, (Temp Ricardus I, ColHns' peerage, vol, IT, p,
297 ; edit 5, page 505.)
The late Woodifield Beckwith Esq, (who as well as
the Editor were descendants of this portion of the
Bruce family), was seized of an Estate at Knife Lev
ington, alias Castle Levington near Gorm Co, York in
1779. Hartlepool, Co. of Durham,
Robert de Brus hath at Hartlepool, in the County of
Durham, a seaport, and there takes Keelage to wit, of
every ship with a boat arriving there eightpence ; and
of eveiy ship without a boat f ourpence, (Edwardus I.)
Whitby Co of York, p, 557,
In the fifth year of the reign of King Henry II,,
after the conquest of England by William Duke of
Normandy, the Lord of Uglebarby, then called Wil
liam de Bruce (of the family of Bruce or Brus, of Skel
ton Castle) founded a Chantry in the Church of Pick
ering, Co York to pray for his soul, his ancestors souls,
and all christian souls (in which church his monument
yet remains).
The lord of Snaynton, called Ralph de Percy, and a
gentleman freeholder, caUed AUotson, did, on the 16th

294 The Beckwiths.
day of October, meet to hunt the wild boar, in a cer
tain wood or desert called Eskdale Side : the wood or
place did belong to the Abbot of the Monastery of
Whitby, who was then called Sedman, and abbot of
the same place.
Then the aforesaid gentlemen did meet with their
hounds and boai'-staves in the place aforesaid, and
there found a great wild boar, and the hounds did run
him very hard near the chapel and hermitage of Esk
dale Side, where there was a Monk of Whitby, who was
a hermit ; and the boar being so hard pushed took in
at the chapel door, and there laid dovm and died im
mediately, and the hermit shut the hounds out of the
chapel, and kept himself at his meditation and prayers :
the hounds standing at bay without, the gentlemen in
the thick of the wood just behind their game, in fol
lowing the cry of the hounds came to the hermitages
and found the hounds round the chapel; then came
the gentlemen to the door of the chapel, and called on
the hermit, who did open the door, and then they got
forth, and within lay the boar dead, for which the
gentlemen in a fury, because their hounds were put
out of their game, run at the hermit with their boar-
staves, whereof he died ; then the gentlemen knowing,
and perceiving that he was in peril of death, took
sanctuary at Scarborough ; but at that time, the ab
bot, being in great favour with the King, did remove
them out of Sanctuary, whereby they came in danger
of the law, and not privileged, but like to have the
severity of the law, which was death. But the her-

The Beckwiths. 295
mit, being a holy man, and being very sick, and at the
point of death, sent for the abbot, and desired him to
send for the gentlemen, who had wounded him to
death ; so doing the gentlemen came, and the hermit
being sick, said, " I am sure to die of these wounds : "
the abbot answered, "they shall die for it," but the
hermit said, " not so, for I will freely forgive them my
death, if they are content to be enjoined this penalty
(penance) for the safe-guard of their souls : " the gen
tlemen being there present, bid him enjoin what he
would, so he saved their lives; then said the hermit,
" You and yours shall hold land upon (of) the abbot
of Whitby and (his) successors in this manner : that
upon Ascension day even, you, or some of you, shall
come to the wood of Strayheads, which is in Eskdale-
side, and the same day (Ascension-day at sun rising)
and then shall the officer of the Abbot blow his horn,
to the intent that you may know where to find him,
and deliver unto you, William de Bruce, ten stakes
eleven strut-stowers, and eleven yadders, to be cut with
a knife of a penny price ; and you Ralph de Percy
shall take one and twenty of each sort, to be cut in the
same manner; and you, AUotson, shall take nine of
each sort; to be cut as aforesaid, and to be taken on
your backs, and carried to the town of Whitby, and to
be there before nine o'clock of the same day before
mentioned; and at the hour of nine o'clock, if it be full
sea, to cease their service, as long as till it be low
water; and at nine o'clock of the same day, each of
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296 The Beckwiths.
each stake a yard from another, and so yadder them
with your yadders, and to stake them on each side
with strut-stowers, that they stand three tides, without
removing by force of the water ; each of you shall
make at that hour in every year, except it be full sea
at that hour, which when it shall happen to come to
pass the service shall cease : you shall do this to re
member that you did slay me, and that you may the
better call to God for mercy, repent yourselves, and
do good works. The officers of Eskdale shall blow,
" Out on you ! Out on you ! Out on you ! " for this
heinous crime of yours : if you or your successors re
fuse this service, so long as it shall not be a full sea at
the hour aforesaid, you and yours shall forfeit aU your
lands to the abbot or his successor ; this I do intreat,
that you may have yourselves and goods for this ser
vice, and you to promise by your part in heaven, that
it shall be done to you, and your successors as it is
aforesaid ; " and then the abbot said " I grant all that
you have said, and will confirm it by the faith of an
honest man ; " then the hermit said, " My soul longeth
for the Lord, and as I freely forgive these gentlemen
my death, as Christ forgave the thief upon the cross "
and in the presence of the Abbot and the rest, he said
moreover these words " Into thy hands O Lord I com
mend my spirit, for thou hast redeemed me from the
bonds of death, O Lord of truth," And the Abbot
and the rest said, "Amen," And so (the hermit)
yielded up the ghost the eighth day of December upon
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1784 the service was still annually performed, [" His
tory of Ripon." Sa VILLE OF Methley.
The family of Saville of Yorkshire, was one of the
most Ulustrious of that County, and probably had its
rise at SUston in that County, it fiourished there in the
15th century. During the reign of Edward the 3rd,
the family divided into two lines or branches, John of
Tankersley, and Keny of Bradley (brothers). The
senior branch acquired its greatest renown, in the per
son of George, Marquis of Halifax. The junior branch,
now of Copely and Methley is represented by the Earl
of Merborough. [Burke's Commoners of England.
Ferrars of Badesley Clinton.
The sole remains of this most ancient and powerful
family, iUustrious for its antiquity, and the splendor of
its connections, of which the powerful Earls of Derby,
and the Ferrars a Feres, the chiefs. At the time
of the conquest, held 200 and ten Lordships, in 14
counties of England, besides the castle of Flatbury,
the principal seat of the Earldom. After the forfeiture
of the Earldom the castle of Chartloy in Staffordshire,
inherited from Agnes daughter and coheiress of Ra-
nulph Earl of Chester, became the seat of the princi
pal male line, extinct on the death of WilHam Earl of
Ferrars of Chartloy, in the time of Henry the Oth,
The representative of the family then devolved upon
the Ferrers of Tamworth in 1680. The present family
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298 The Beckwiths.
of Baddoes, — Clinton, succeeded as chief of this house.
The Castle of Tamworth came into the famUy as foUows
by marriage into the house of Marmion, In the early
times of Normandy, the family of Marmion, Lords of
Foulemaye, were highly distinguished, Robert de Mar
mion, Lord of Foulemaye, a distinguished follower of
the Conqueror, obtained a grant of Castle and Town
of Tamworth, and allso of the manor of Scrivelhaye
in Lincolnshire, one or both of these noble possessions,
were held by the honorable service of being the royal
champions, as the ancestors of the Marmions had been
in the Dukes of Normandy in France.
After the castle and Lordship had been held by four
successive Barons, from Robert de Marmion, the family
in the male Hne became entirely extinct, upon the death
of Philip de Marmion who lived in the 25th year of
the reign of Edward the 1st. he dying without male
issue, was succeeded in his castle of Tamworth by
Alexander de Treville, his (Alexander's) descendents
in the reign of Richard the 1st. claimed by the tenor
of the castle of Tamworth, the office of royal champion,
and to do service appertaining thereto, but this office
was adjudged to Sir John Dimmock, to whom the Manor
of Scrivelhaye, had descended by marriage with an
other co-heiress of Robert de Marmion, and it remains
in that family, whose representative is hereditary Cham
pion of England to the present day. The family and
possessions of the Treville's, merged into that of the
Earls of Ferrars, This old custom, as it did at one
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possession of the family, maybe of interest, and was
as follows, copied from an old record, in the British
Museum, At the time of the coronation of King Rich
ard the second. Sir Baldwin Treville, Knight, Lord of
Tamworth grandson of Sir Alexander de Treville, ex
hibited his claim to be the Kings Champion on that
day, and to do the same appertaining to that office, by
reason of his tenure of his Castle of Tamworth, viz.
To ride completely armed, and challenge any who
would gainsay the royal and legal right of the King
to be crowned. Which service the Barons de Marmion,
his ancestors. Lords of that castle, had theretofore per
formed, but this service passing into the family of
Scrivelhaye of Lincoln shire, which had descended to
him, by an heir female of Sir Thomas Ludlow, Knight,
husband of Joanne, the youngest daughter of, and co
heiress of Philip de Marmion, the last Lord Marmion
of Tamworth, since when, the Dimmocks had ever re
tained the honor, now for over 400 years. The said
Dimmocks had for his fee, one of the best coursers in
the Kings stable, with the Kings saddle and harness
appertaining to the same horse. He had Hkewise one
of the best armors in the Kings armory, for his own
body, and all that belonged thereto. At the corona
tion of King Charles the second. Sir Edward Dim-
mock, the Kings champion, by right of his Manor of
Scrivelhaye, entered Westminster HaU, a little before
was served, on a goodly steed, armed at all points, in
rich armor, and having a plume of blue feathers in his
helmet, he then made a stand for some time, then way

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being made by the Kings Marshall, he advanced with
his retinue, in the following order.
Two Trumpets.
Sergeant Trumpeter.
Sergeant at Arms.
An Esquire carrying a shield on which is
portrayed the coat of arms of the Knight.
Herald.
The Earl Marshall. The Champion, The Lord High Oonstahle,
on horseback on horseback, on horseback.
The Herald then proclaimed the chaUenge as fol
lows. If any person, of what degree soever, high or
low, shall deny or gainsay, our Sovereign Lord King
Charles the second, King of England, Scotland & Ire-
landj-defender of the faith, son and next heir to our
Sovereign Lord King Charles the first, the last King of
England, deceased, to be the right heir, to the imperial
crown of the realms of England, or that he ought not
to enjoy the same, here is his champion who saith that
he lieth, and is a false trator, being ready in person to
combat with him, and in this quarrell will adventure
his life against him on whatever day soever, he shaU
be appointed. The champion, thereupon threw his
glove upon the ground, which lying some time, and
nobody takeing it up, it was delivered to him by the
Herald. Then all advanced to the middle of the hall,
where the throwing of the gauntlet was repeated, and
proclamation again made, upon the return of the gaunt
let, all advanced to the foot of the throne, where once
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and the Herald for the third time, proclaimed the chal
lenge, this being done, the King drank to the health
of the Champion, by takeing a sip from a gilt cup with
a cover, the cup was then handed to the Champion,
who after three reverances drank the contents, and re
tained the cup, as his fee, then reigning his horse back
wards out of the haU,
The Baskervilles.
Descent of the Baskervilles, compUed by Dr, Percy,
from incontestable proof,
Hugh Capet, 1 ; King of France ; died in 996,
2, Robert, King of France,
Robert, 2 ; King of France ; died 1031 ; married Con
stance, daughter of the Count of Aries,
3, Adelia,
Adelia, 3 ; married Baldwin, the 6th Earl of Flanders ;
from this marriage is descended the Baskervilles,
4, Maud.
Maud, 4 ; married William the Conqueror of England.
6, Henry.
Henry, 6 ; the first of the name, King of England.

Charlemagne ; King of France, 1.
2, Louis le DebonaUe.
Louis le Debonaire, 2.
3, Charles.
Charies the Bold, 3.
4, Judith.

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Judith, 4 ; married Baldwin the 1st, Earl of Flanders.
5, Baldwin.
Baldwin, 5 ; second Earl of Flanders ; married Ethel-
swida, daughter of Alfred the Great, King of Eng
land. 6, Arnulph.
Arnulph, 6 ; Earl of Flanders.
7, Baldwin ; died vita patria.
8, Arnulph.
Arnulph, 8 ; Earl of Flanders.
9, Baldwin.
Baldwin, 9 ; Earl of Flanders.
10, Baldwin.
Baldwin, 10 ; the sixth Earl of Flanders ; married
Adelia, daughter of Robert, King of France. Hence
through the Kings of England, the Prince of Wales,
the Mortimers, the Audleys and Tonchets.
Elizabeth Tonchet ; married Sir John Baskerville ;
living in 1433 ; lineally from Sir Robert BaskervUle,
who married a daughter of Rees ap Tud Rees Ap
Tudor, Prince of Wales. Thus the BaskerviUes de
rived from the Kings of England, France, Scotland
and Ireland ; from the Prince of North and South
Wales ; from the Count of Flanders and Charle
magne, Emperor of the West. [Burke's Commoners
of England.
The family of Baskervilles owe their origin to Sir
John de Baskerville, grantee of a moiety of Old
Wittington, from Robert de Carmoyle in 1266, and
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1758, John Baskerville married the heiress of Clegg
of Gayton, County Cheshire, and changed his name
to Clegg of Gayton.
A daughter of Sir John Baskerville married Sir Wil
liam Beckwith of Clint, Knight. [Burke's Landed
Gentry of England. Bray of Sheee.
Sir Robert Bray lived during the time of Richard
the 1st, and founded the family, whose ancient seat
was at Haslerton, in County Northumberland.
After the battle of Bosworth, Sir Reginald Bray,
the devoted adherent of the King, discovered the
crown in a thorn bush, and in memory he bore for his
badge, a thorn with a crown in the middle thereof.
Shere was granted Sir Reginald for his services.
[Burke's Commoners of England.
Woodifield of Trimden.
The Woodifields, or anciently called Weedifields, of
the parish of Bishop Middleham, where the name was
once exceedingly numerous, many of them died in the
great plague, a visitation in the year 1697, Nicholas
Woodifield, then tenant of a small farm at Mainworth,
is said to have come suddenly rich by the foUowing
strange coincidence. During the hay harvest, having
gone to a neighboring well to procure a draft of water,
he let his rake drop, which striking something at the
bottom of the well, that gave out a metallic sound.
He immediately sent his servant girl home, and taking

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off his brogues, contrived to make two purses of them,
which, having descended into the well, he filled with
broad pieces of gold, with this money, so unexpectedly
acquired, he is said to have purchased the manor of
Trimden. This estate by maternal descent, is the
property of William Beckwith, Esq. [Burke's Landed
Gentry of England. Palms of Naburn.
This ancient family was anciently seated in the
County of Somerset, and as far back as the twelfth cen
tury, it is found in alliance with the great Somerset
House of St. Maur, which had summons to Parliament
in the reign of Edward the third. The estate of Na
burn, in the east riding of Yorkshire, was acquired by
marriage in 1225, has regularly descended from father
to son, since that year.
Manfred Palmes, living about the sixth year of
King Stephen, anno domini, 1140, held lands in Trim-
ten Dean, County Somerset. Sir William Palmes, 9th
Lord of Naburn, living in 1335, married for his sec
ond wife Claricia, daughter of Thomas Fairfax and
Margarette de Malebisse. After the death of Sir Wil
Ham, his widow Claricia married Sir William de Male
bisse. The grandson of Sir William Palmes, Francis
Palmes, Esq., had numerous issue, his fifth child mar
ried Thomas de Malebisse, Esq., of Ancaster- Malebisse,
and his sixth child, Isabella married John de Male
bisse of Ancaster, brother of the preceding. Arms
gu. 3 fleur-de-lis a chief vaire quartering the ensign of

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Charlton of Shropshire and Plumpton of County York.
Crest a hand holding a Palm branch, motto " Ut Palma
Justis." Palms of Lyndsay.
This branch of the Palmes family was seated at
Lyndsay, in the County of York, and at Ashwell in
Rutlandshire, was founded by George Palmes, Sergeant
at Law, time of Henry the 8th, was second son of
WilHam Palmes, Esq., of Naburn. The granddaugh
ter of George Palmes married Thomas Beckwith, Esq.
of Clint, near Ripley and died in 1 575. [Burke's Com
moners of England. Fairfax: of Askam & C.
This ancient family, originally named from the "fair
locks " of its sons, " Feax " meaning hair in Saxon, was
established before the conquest, at Torcestor, County
Northumberland, and removed their seat into York
shire, in the vicinity of York, in the year 1206. Rich
ard Fairfax held the lands of Askam and was succeeded
by his son WUliam Fairfax, Lord of Askam, in the
time of King John and Henry 3d, his grandson Wil
liam Fairfax, Bailiff of Yorkshire, purchased in 1249,
from Peter de Bras, the manor of Walton, in the west
riding of Yorkshire, and made that his residence. This
Fairfax, Oth in descent from William, Hved in the reign
of Edward the 2d and manied Margarette, daughter of
John Lord de Malebisse, and who was eventually
heiress of Sir William de Malebisse, by which lady he
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806 Tlie Beckwiths.
had two daughters, one married Martin, and the other,
Claricia, married William Palmes, Esq., of Naburn. The
family is allied by marriage to the Earls of Buchan
and the Earl of Northumberland. WUliam 9th, Vis
count Fairfax, married Isabel, the eldest daughter and
heiress of Thomas Beckwith, Esq., of Acton (brother of
George Beckwith of Maryland).
The present famUy of Fairfax of Seeton are de- ¦
scended from a younger son of Richard Fairfax, chief
justice during the time of Henry the 6th, as weU as
the Fairfax's of Denton. Baron 'Fairfax of Cameron
in Scotland (1627), represented an elder line, is repre
sented by descendants in Virginia.
Arms arg. 3 bears gemeUes gu. surrounded by a Hon
rampant sa. on a cap of maintenance, a Hon passant re
gardant sa. motto. Je leferay durant ma vie. The
principal seat of this family was at Gilling Castle 18
miles from York. [Burke's Landed Gentry of England.
Polkington of Nether Bradley and Chevet Chase.
An ancient family of repute, before the Conquest.
The estate of Polkington appears to have remained in
the family until the ruin of the elder branch, in con
sequence of Sir Thomas Polkington having taken part
against Henry the 7th and Richard the 3d, at the Bat
tle of Bosworth. The present house is descended
from Sir John Polkington, 2d son of Robert, and
brother of the unfortunate Sir Thomas; his son Robert
is of Bradley, in the County of York, he died in 1447,
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The crest of the family is a mower of parti-color ar
gent and gules, said to have been assumed as a disguise
by Sir Thomas, when escaping from the battlefield of
Bosworth, and adopted as a crest in memory of the
event. Sir Thomas fought against four knights of his
own famUy, who were on the side of Richard the 3d.
[Burke's Commoners of England.
Tancred of Boroughbridge.
At an early date and probably not long after the
Conquest the ancestors of this family were seated at
Boroughbridge, which appears to have been ever since
one of the residences of this famUy of Tancred; the
present representative is Thomas, the 7th Baronet.
[Burke's Commoners of England.
Lumley of Lumley Castle.
This very ancient family is of Anglo-Saxon origin,
seated in the County of Durham, since the Conquest.
LuUpt, the recorded ancestor, lived before the year
1080. The elder line became extinct on the death of
John Lord Lumley in 1609. Upon a visit to Lumley
Castle by James the 1st, in 1606, James Lumley,
Bishop of Durham, regaled the King with a prolix ac
count of the antiquity of the family, until the King be
coming wearied exclaimed " Oh mon gang na father
let me digest the knowledge I ha gained for I did not
ken Adam's name was Lumley." [Burke's Commoners
of England,

308 The Beckwiths.
Neville of Buling,
Of a younger branch of the Nevilles. Sir Edward
Neville obtained the castle and Barony of Aberganny,
and estate of Buling, by marriage with the heiress of
Beauchamp, during the reign of Henry 6th, The
present family are descended from them, having been
Barons previous to the erection of the Earldom. Bul
ing has long been deserted by the famUy, whose prin
cipal seat is at Sheffield. [Burke's Landed Gentry.
Chalmondely,
Descended from the Barons of Malpas, in the reign
of King John, The younger branches are Chalmon
dely of York, extinct in 1641, Chalmondely of
Brandley, since the extinction of the Whitby branch,
is the only representative of the Yorkshire Chalmon-
delys. [Burke's Landed Gentry.
Wyvell of Constable Barton.
This ancient Norman family is said to have descended
from Sir Humphrey de Wyvell, who lived at the time
of the Conquest, and whose descendants are seated at
Slingsby, in County York, The more modern part of
the pedigree begins with Robert Wyvell of Ripon,
whose son was of Little Barton, in the reign of Henry
the 8th; from thence the family emigrated to Constable
Barton, about the end of the reign of James the 1st,
During the civil wars of the 17th century, the Wy veils
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sufferings, in the royal cause. An elder line of the
family, on whom the Baronetcy was created in 1611,
has descendants said to be resident in Maryland, U. S.
Arms gu, 3 chevreuls interlaced vaire and a chief or,
founded on the coat of litz-Hugh, and may be taken
as proof of high antiquity, [Burke's Landed Gentry,
Grimstone of Geimstonegarth,
Sylvester of Grimstone, standard bearer and Cham
berlain of WilHam the 1st, of Grimstone in the parish
of Garten, is claimed as ancestor of this venerable
family, who have, ever since the period of the Conquest,
resided at the place, from whence the name is de
rived. Younger branches of the Grimstone were seated
in Norfolk and Essex, besides the Grimstones Gersham-
berg. Earls of Vellum, all now extinct in the male
line, Arma arg, on a fess sa, 3 mullets of 6 points or.
pierced gu. This coat was borne by Monsieur Girard
de Grimstone, in the reign of Richard the second.
[Burke's Landed Gentry of England,
Redman of Hammerton,
One of the most ancient families in the North of
England, descended from Richard de Hammerton, who
Hved in the 26th year of the reign of Henry the sec
ond, anno 1170, From Hammerton, the original seat
the family removed to Hellefield, acquired by marriage
with an heiress of KnoUes, during the reign of Ed
ward the third. The castle or pell was built in the

310 The Beckwiths.
time of Henry the seventh. The Hammertons were
engaged in the northern rebellion in 1631, and thereby
Sir Stephen Hammerton lost his head, and the family
their estates, which were restored to the male repre
sentative of the family in the third year of the reign
of Elizabeth, by a munificent settlement made by John
Redman, who became possessed of the property by
marriage with the Hammertons. [Burke's Landed
Gentry of England. Boynton of Bareisten.
Bartholomew de Barristen, living at the beginning of
the twelfth century, stands at the head of the pedigree.
Barriston came from Sir Malyn Del Sie, in the fifth
century. During the civil wars, Sir Mathew Boynton,
the head of the family, was one of the gentlemen
chiefly trusted in Yorkshire by parliament, [Burke!s
Landed Gentry of England,
Watteeton of Walton,
Watterton in the County of Lincoln, was the origi
nal seat and from thence was the name derived. Sir
John Watterton was Esquire of the body to Henry
the fourth and comptroller of the household of Henry
the fifth and sixth. He was succeeded by his brother
Sir Robert of Methlre, which he inherited with his
wife, Cicily, the daughter and heiress of Robert Flem
ing of Woodhall, in that parish, and where his house
is still preserved. The present family are descendants
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extinct) who married Catherine Boughe, heiress of
Walton, about the time of Richard the second.
[Burke's Landed Gentry of England.
Gentlemen's Magazine,
(Publislied in London, England.)
1748, August 5th; Lieut, -Col, Beckwith, at the camp
near Colchester, King William gave him a pair
of colors, at the siege of Navarre, where he was
shot through the body. He was at the siege of
Gibraltar and was one of its defenders for seven
months against the united forces of Spain and
France.
1748, Died, Tarpley Beckwith, November 27th, only
son of Sir Marmaduke Beckwith of Virginia.
1758. Major Beckwith, promoted to lieut-col, of the
20th regiment.
1769. Ambrose Beckwith ; bankrupt ; a goldsmith of
York.
1770. Rev. WUliam Beckwith; curate of St Giles,
Norwich.
1770, Lieut, WUliam Beckwith ; Queen's regiment of
dragoons; died,
1771, George Beckwith; ensign; promoted vice J,
Gay,
1781, James Beckwith of Knsefborough ; bankrapt;
a draper,
1781, Lieut, John Beckwith; 15th Dragoons; pro
moted to captain lieutenant.

812 The Beckwiths.
1782, At York, Alexander H, Sunderland; married
to Miss Beckvnth,
1786. August I7th ; died at York, Thomas Beckvnth;
F. A. S. artist, whose paintings were both
numerous and valuable, leaving a son Dr. Ray
Beckwith at Whitby and one daughter, unmar
ried,
1787, At Bishop Middleham, near Durham, died Gen
eral John Beckwith, retired many years from
the army, who distinguished himself greatly in
Germany, under Prince Ferdinand, by whom he
was greatly esteemed,
1788, At Marlborough, near Rotherham, Co. York,
Mrs. Beckwith died ; she was the wife of Jonah
Beckwith, F. A, S, Attorney ; they were married
in 1763, having two sons and two daughters,
1790, Henry Beckwith of Long Oak, married Mrs,
Deaman of Clapham Abbey.
1794. Rev. Edward Beckwith ; M. A., new college of
Oxford; married to Miss Chard of Ryecot.
1794, At Sunderland; WiUiam Beckwith; captain of
Durham Militia; married Miss Caroline Lew-
ham of Houghton le Spring,
1795, James Beckwith, died at York, aged 66.
1796. Rev, Malby Beckwith; vicar; "St Denis with
St, George," " cum nabrum R." in York, vice
Banet, deceased.
1797. George Beckwith ; appointed governor and com
mander-in-chief of the islands called Bermuda,
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of her Majesty's private council, but took the
oath appointed to be taken by the governors of
her Majesty's plantations.
1797, Rev, J, Walker; appointed living, vice Beck
with,
1798. Rev, Edward James Beckwith, M, A; collated
to Nimes Deanery in St, Paul's Cathedral, London,
1799. At his home, Great Smithfield, Westminster;
died suddenly, Edward Beckwith of Ripon, Co,
York ; lineal descendant of Sir Roger Beckwith
of Beckwithshaw, near Knaef borough ; his daugh
ter married Capt, Craik of Abigland Dumphries,
whose son vrill inherit the estates in Yorkshire,
1799, Ray Beckwith, M, D. ; died in his eighty-seventh
year; of York; a gentleman of good medical
ablHty,
1800. James Beckwith, Sr., a member of North Cathed
ral ; died in his seventy-second year,
1800, Ray Beckwith, M. D,; son of Thomas Beck
vnth; F, A, S, portrait painter; nephew of
Jonah Beckwith of Rothersham ; attorney ; died
at York,
1802. Fred A. F. Beckwith ; 37th Foot, lieut.-colonel,
1803, Mr, Beckvnth of St, Martine Lane to Miss
Royal of PaU Mall,
1803, To the wife of Lieut-Col, Sidney Beckwith and
daughter,
1804, Mr. Beckwith; upholsterer; of Martin's Lane,
Charing Cross ; died,
1804, Maj,-General Beckwith ; appointed captain and
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814 The .Beckwiths.
governor-in-chief of the island of St. Vincent
and Grenadine,
1805, Major Sidney Beckwith of the rifle brigade to
Miss Clementina Loughran of London.
1805, December 31st, F. A, Beckwith; brig, -gen. of
his Majesty's forces, died ; brig. -gen,, while act
ing as A, A, G,, southern district, Whitehall,
December 31st, 1804,
1807, August 21st ; died at Colchester, Essex, the wife
of Col. Sidney Beckvnth, of a son born.
1809. Died at Norwich, Dr. Beckwith, in the fiftieth
year of his age ; organist of the Cathedral and
St Peter's Church ; admitted to the degree of B,
and D„ at Oxford, 1803.
1809. At Tombstone Lodge; died. Peregrine Went
worth, eighty-eight years old; married Miss
Thompson, May, 1751, only daughter of Bielby
Thompson, near York, by his first wife, M^ho was
the sole daughter and heiress of Sir Roger Beck
with, Bart,
1811, Wounded, Peninsular War, in the foot, March
4th; Lieut Beckwith, 1st Batt., 95th Foot
1811. Major F. S. Beckwith, 95th Foot, to be lieut-
col. in the army.
1813. Died March 13th, Clementina, wife of Maj.-Gen.
Sir Sidney Beckwith ; quartermaster-general of
her Majesty's force in America.
1813. July 23d, Henry P. Howard Beckwith ; married
Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Macquire of
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1814. January 2d, died in Gloucester Street, Queens
Square, age seventy-six, Mrs. Beckwith, widow
of Ambrose Beckvnth, formerly of York,
1815, Order of the Bath conferred on General Sir
George Beckwith and on Maj.-General Sir Sid
ney Beckwith,
1 815. Sepoy RebeUion ; Major C, Beckwith, 95th Foot.
1816. Emperor of Russia conferred order of St Ann
on Col. C. Beckwith, 95th Foot.
1816, Selby Abbey, Yorkshire, home of Sir Leonard
Beckwith,
1816. Promoted to major-general, Su- S. Beckwith,
K. C. B,
1817. To-day the execution of Cahman, the rioter, took
place opposite Mr, Beckwith's gun store in Skun-
ter Street, London, which was gutted by the
rioters.
1817. At the exposition of the school of St. Paul's Mr.
Beckwith delivered an oration in Greek,
1817. Rev. E. J. Beckwith, ecclesiastical preferment
1817. Lieut W, F, Peter, Royal Navy; married
Mary, eldest daughter of Rev. E. J. Beckwith,
rector of St. Albans, Wood Street.
1817, Major-General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith,
K. C, B. ; manied Mary, eldest daughter of Sir
WiUiam Douglas, Bart, of Kelhead,
1817, "Fragmenta Antiquitatis " or Ancient Tenures
and Customs, reprinted by Jonah Beckvnth,
1784, and reprinted by his son in 1815,
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316 The Beckwiths.
March 1st, 1783 ; in Col, John Gibson's com
mand, westem department, January 1st, 1780,
to 1781,
1812, Died at Rochline Place, John Beckwith in the
eighty-fourth year of his age,
1815, Promoted Col, C, Beckwith to Heut-coL, 95th
Foot.
1818. History of Lincolnshire, Somerby Park, by John
Beckwith, Esq,
1819, April 5th; died, the wife of Mr, Beckwith of
the Royal Mint, Tower HiU.
1819. March 11th, Thomas Beckwith of Bedford Place,
married Sophia, eldest daughter of F, Baldwin
of Vale Place, niece of Sir WUliam Henchel.
1821. Rev G. Beckwith, East Redford; vicar, Not
tinghamshire.
1821. Rev. E. G. Beckwith of TiUingham, Essex;
married Jane Hanbury.
1822. Died, Henry Peregrine Howard Beckwith, age
thirty-six.
1822. Rev. G. F. Beckvrith; vicar of East Tidford;
married daughter of Rev. J. Carter.
1822. Died at Brompton, Jersey, Philadelphia, daugh
ter of Sir T. S. Beckwith, K. C. B., age sixteen.
1823. Rev. Henry Ambrose Beckwith, A. M.; vicar
of St. Michaels le Belf rey ; married Mary Pon-
nall of Haltin Garden.
1823. Died, age seventy-five, the Right Hon. General
Sir George Beckwith, G. C. B. ; colonel of the
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1823, Januaiy 16th, at Hampstead, Thomas Beckwith
of Bedford Place, married Eliz Sophia Spots-
wood.
1823, Order of the Tower and Sword of Portugal
conferred on Sir F, Beckwith,
1825. Rev. E. G, A. Beckwith, canon of Westminster
Abbey,
1825, May 17th, to the wife of E. G. A. Beckwith, a
daughter at the vicarage of TiUingham, Essex.
1825. December 7th, died at York, age sixty-eight,
Captain Beckwith.
1826. Rev. E. G. A. Beckwith, to a minor canonry
in St Paul's Cathedral.
1827, Rev. A. Beckwith, CoUingham R., York.
1827, Essay on theological science by James Beckwith,
1827. Died at Edinburgh, age ninety-six; relic of
Maj.-Gen. John Beckwith, daughter of Rev.
Michael, dean of the Royal Chapel.
1828. March 21st, at Gibraltar, Thomas Sidney Beck
vrith ; captain Rifle Brigade, only son of Maj.-
Gen. Thos. Sidney Beckwith.
1828. At Chester, September 30th ; Rev. James Marngy
of Chester to Charlotte, daughter of Maj.-Gen.
B., and niece of the late General Sir George
Beckwith, K. C. B.
1829. Rev. H. Beckwith, vicar of St. Martin's, York.
1830. At Marylebone, Rev. Wilson married Clemen
tina, only daughter of Lieut -General Sir Thos.
Sidney Beckwith, K. C. B.

318 The Beckwiths.
Gentleman's Magazine, 1812.
1812. June 1st, 1812. The splendid ceremony of in
stalling the twenty-three knights lately added
to the Order of the Bath, took place early in
the morning, the Horse and Foot Guards took
their stations about ten o'clock ; the persons
connected with the ceremony met in the House
of Lords, and at eleven the procession com
menced in the following order, under a tempo
rary boarded covering, matted and bounded on
each side by strong wooden railings ; it extended
from the door of the House of Lords (Princes'
chamber) to the S. E. door of the Abbey (poets'
corner) ; four ushers with wands ornamented
with ribbons, four drummers and fifers, and eight
trumpeters in their full uniforms. Esquires of
the knights elect, and the proxies of those who
did not attend, the latter wore the sack coat
and were girt with the sword of the order.
They carried the mantle on their right arms,
and walked bare headed. Esquires of the knights
who had already received the honor of knight
hood, wore black velvet caps. The knights of
the order, superbly dressed in their proper cos
tume, and all wearing white satin hats, orna
mented vrith white plumes. The Duke of York,
grand master, followed by his aide-de-camps in
full uniform. Then came several heralds and a
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The Beckwiths. 319
was closed. When the procession reached the
chapel, the knights took their seats in their re
spective stalls, and under their banners, the
proxies and the esquires in their proper places,
they made profound obeisance to the throne or
staU set apart for the sovereign and which (the
Prince Regent having declined honoring the cere
monial with his presence) was of course vacant.
Close to it was the stall of the Duke of York,
who, as acting grand master, presided on this
occasion. The ceremony finished, the procession
returned in the same order in which they had ap
proached the abbey. The Princesses Augusta and
Sophia, the Princess Charlotte of Wales and the
Duchess of York after the ceremony dined with
the Prince Regent in company vrith the Duke
of Kent, Cumberland, and of Cambridge. The
Order of the Bath had on this occasion been ex
tended to fifty knights, including the sovereign
and grand master. Among the names of the new
knights is that of Sir George Beckwith.
Gentleman's Magazine.
1812. May 15th, at the trial of John Bellingham for
murder, he confessed to having bought the pis
tol that done the deed at Mr. Beckwith's in
Fleet Street.
1786. February 17th, died at York, Mr. Thomas Beck
with, F. A. S. painter, whose collections for the
city of York and county were both numerous

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and valuable, was descended from a very an
cient family in that county, of every branch of
which he had preserved copious genealogies. As
to his own line, suffice to say, that his father was
a respectable attorney in the West Riding, who
left several children. Two of his sons were led
to his own profession, to one of whom (Jonah
still living) the world is much obliged for an
enlarged edition of Blount's " Fragmenta An
tiquitatis'''' printed at York, in October, 1784.
What other children survived his father is un
known to the writer of this article, except
Thomas, the loss of whom he sincerely regrets,
and to whom the following tribute is due.
Mr. Beckvrith served his time as a house
painter, to a very ingenious man, Mr. George
Fleming of Wakefield, from whom he derived
his skiU in drawing and living, as well as im
bibed a love of antiquity. To these, Mr. B.
added heraldic and genealogical knowledge, to
all which he applied himself in his leisure hours,
with such great and unwearied zeal, that his col
lections, together with the works of his own
hands, became at length very considerable; for
as he was well known to and still more respected
by a numerous provincial acquaintance, he had
frequent opportunities of making additions to
it. With regard to Mr. B.'s merits as a portrait
painter, the writer is not competent to judge;
but if Mr. B. did not use his palette much, yet

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was his pencil in constant employment; for
there was hardly an object that struck him as a
curiosity, particularly if an antique, of which he
did not make a drawing, and scarcely a church
or a min in the vicinity of the place of his abode,
that he did not picture, either in pencil or water
colors. A few years ago, Mr, B, obtained a patent
for the sole making and vending what may be
called hardened crayons, which would bear the
knife, and carry a point like a pencil, but whether
his ingenuity was rewarded with a success the
writer is ignorant. It was about the same time
that he was elected a fellow of the society of
Antiquane, London. But what contributed
most to make Mr. B. known to those who were
unacquainted with him in any other branch, was
his extensive information in the genealogical
line, in so much that he has had the anange-
ment of numberless pedigree for some of the
best famUies in the north of England ; which
he was enabled to do from visitation books, and
other authentic documents, which fell into his
hands ; added to these he possessed much intel
ligence, respecting the antiquity and descents of
the principal families in the inland adjacent
countries, and of various others and more remote
from him. If the world in general was, in a
great measure, a stranger to Mr, B,'s public
merits, it may be partly attributed to his own
modesty and diffidence, to which trath, many
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322 The Beckwiths.
readers of this little account vrill be ready to
enjoin their testimony, and agree, further, that
his indefatigable industry in collecting, was only
exceeded by his obliging willingness to impart
any information which he had received. In the
search after antiquities, Mr, B, seemed to have
made the more obscure and minuter history of
York, and its environs his pecuHar study, in so
much that he had prepared and nearly com
pleted a Httle work which would be very ac
ceptable to many of his friends, viz,: "A walk
in and about the city of York," on the plan
of Mr, Gosling's " Walk in and about the city
of Canterbury."
The whole of his collections, we understand,
is speedUy intended for sale ; but it is much to
be wished, in particular, that the above piece
might be accepted, and placed in proper hands
for publication, and in general, that the rest of his
manuscript may fall among such purchasers, who
will be as liberal in their communications, as was
the late worthy proprietor. Mr. B. died a wid
ower, leaving one son, Dr. Ray Beckwith, a phy
sician at Whitby, and one daughter, unmamed,
1836, September 7th, at Shrewsbury, the Rev, Henry
Beckwith to Ann Rose, second daughter of the
late Rev, John Eyton,
1837, May 16th, Mary, widow of the late Maj,-Gen,
G, Sidney Beckwith, and Christian and Cathe
rine Heron Douglas, spinsters, the only surviv-

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ing younger children of the late Sir William
Douglas of Kelhead, Bart, and younger brother
and sisters of Charles now Marquis 'of Queens-
bury, to enjoy the name, title and precedence as
if their late father had survived the late Duke
of Queensbury,
1838, October 19th, At CoUingham, near Whitby,
Yorkshire, aged forty-one ; died, the Rev, Henry
Arthur Beckwith, vicar of that parish, and of
St. Martins le-grand, York, He was presented
to CoUingham in 1827, by Mrs, Wheeler, and to
his church in York in 1829, by the dean and
chapter,
1839, Lately, Vavasour George, youngest son of the
Rev, T, F, Beckwith, vicar of East Redford,
1832, March 20th, at Eton College, Frances Lorissa,
youngest daughter of the late Dr. Beckwith of
Norwich.
1832. Cheshire, June 1 1th, at Park Gate, aged twenty,
Georgina, frrarth daughter of Maj.-Gen, W, H.
Beckwith.
1812. May 31st, New Branswick, Capt G. Evatt, 55th
Reg,, to Susan, second daughter of J, Beckwith
of the Bower, Halifax.
1833. January 7th, aged sixty-two, the Rev. Edward
James Beckvrith, rector of the united parishes
of St. Albans, Wood Street, and St Olares,
Silver Street, London. Vicar of TiUingham,
Essex, and a minor canon of St. Paul's. He ob
tained the latter preferment in 1797, and was

324 The Beckwiths.
presented by the dean and chapter to his city
living in 1800, and that in Essex, in 1856.
1833. January 1st, at Fay well, Gendhurst, aged fifty-
seven, Samuel Beckwith, Esq. (died.)
1835. Ecclesiastical preferment. Rev. E. J. Beckwith,
St Michael Baneshaw R., London.
1834. Died, Durham, March 20th, aged 29, William
Beckwith, Esq., of Stockton-upon-tees, Timber
merchant. Dr. Gelley's Book, "A visit to the valleys of
Piedmont " fell into the hands of a British re
tired officer. Colonel Beckwith, who had lost a
leg at the battle of Waterloo, which suggested
an object for one who was loth to fall at the
age of twenty-six into enforced idleness. Col.
Beckwith visited the valleys and was painfully
struck by the squallor and ignorance of a people
who had had such a glorious past. He settled
among them, and for thirty-five years devoted
himself to their welfare, he married a Voudois
peasant girl, and lived among the people, and es
tablished no fewer than twelve schools. More
over he brought back the Italian language,
' which had been displaced by the French in the
service of the Voudois church, and in 1849, built
a church for them at Turin. He lived in La
Tour till his death, in 1862, and the name of
their English benefactor is still revered by the
simple folk of the valleys whom he did so much
to civilize. [Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Emigrants.
1607. At Jamestown, Va,, from the ship Phoenix,
landed WUHam Beckwith [Smith's History of
Virginia.
1634, Stephen Beckwith (?) did not take oath, being
under age; shipped at Ipswich, England, for
New England, AprU 31st, 1634, age eleven
years. [PubHc Records of Connecticut,
1635, July 4th, emigrants to be transported to Vir
ginia; embarked on the "Transport" of Lon
don, Edward Walker, master, certificate from
Minister at Gravesend of their conformity to the
orders and discipline of the Church of England,
Robert Beckwith, age twenty-one, and many
others, [Hotten's Emigrants,
1646, The parish of Tuling, County Essex, England,
sent over Thomas Beckwith, a poor boy, in 1645,
[Public Records of Connecticut
1635. AprU 3d, Gravesend, April 3d, 1635, on the
"Peter Buenaventura," Thomas Hartman, mas
ter, bound for Barbadoes, WilHam Beckwith,
age twenty-six, [Hotten's Emigrants,
1648. George Beckwith, landed at St, Marys', Mary
land, in the year 1648, [Maryland Land Rec
ords,
1669, Henry Beckwith, came to Maryland from Vir
ginia, in the year 1669, [Maryland Land Rec
ords.
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326 The Bechwiths
about the year 1700. [County Clerks of Rich
mond Co., Va.
George Beckwith, of Calvert County, Maryland,
Emigrant.
The privy-councillors and lords of manors formed
the class in which we find the germ of a nobility, below
them was a considerable number of planters, who bore
the title of " gentlemen," as large a class, in Maryland,
as in any other Anglo-American colony, and were held
in the very highest esteem. Many who had come un
der an indenture, performed an honorable service, and
then received their discharge, with a comfortable out
fit The principal planters were also the merchants,
who traded with London and the other great ports of
England, Ferries over streams and rivers, were erected
by the government, and kept by the most respectable
colonists, the duties in most instances being performed
by their deputies. Tobacco was the most common
cunency of the province, one pound of it in 1650 was
worth about three pence, in English money. The
most striking features upon the face of society was the
plantations, upon them was held some of the earhest
courts and councils and governors, privy councilors
and county judges, were all of them planters. [Daris'
Day Star of Freedom,
The Protestant Declaration,
The declaration and certificate of William Stone,
Esq,, lieutenant of the province of Maryland, by com-

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827

mission from the Right Honorable, the Lord Balti
more, Lord Proprietary thereof, and of Captain Brice,
Mr. Thomas Hatton and Captain Vaughan of his said
lordship's councU there and of divers of the Burgesses
now met as the assembly there, and other protestant
inhabitants of the said province, made the 17th day of
April, anno domini one thousand six hundred and fifty.
We, the said lieutenant, council, burgesses and other
protestants, inhabitants above mentioned, whose names
are hereunto subscribed, do declare and certify to all
persons whom it may concern, that according to an act
of assembly here, and several other strict injunctions,
and declarations by his said lordship, for that purpose,
made and provided, we do here enjoy all fitting and
convenient freedom and liberty in the exercise of our re
Hgion, under his lordship's government and interest, and
that none of us are anyways troubled or molested, for
or by reason thereof, vrithin his said lordship's province.

James Cox,
Eobert Roberts,
Thomas Steerman,
George Puddington,
Walter Barri,
William Brough,
Francis Posey.

Bur-

William Stone,
Jo Price,
Eobert Vaughan,
Thomas Hatton,

Council.

WiUiam Durand,
Thomas Maydwell,
Wm. Hungerford,
William Stimpson,
Thomas Dinyard,
John Grimesditch,
William Edwin,
Eichard Bunne,
Elias Beach,

Antony Eawlins,
Marke Bloomfield,
William Pell,
William Warren,
Edward Williams,
Ealph Bean,
John Slingsby,
Jos Morphen,
Eichard Smith,

George Beckwith,
Thomas Bushnell,
Francis Martin,
John Walker,
Stanhope Eoberts,
William Brown,
John Halfhead,
William Hardwick,
Hugh Crage,

328 The Beckwiths.
George Sawyer, Author Turner, George Whiteacre,
William Bdes, Wm. Hawley, Daniel Clocker,
John Gage, William Smoot, Patrick Forest,
Eobert Ward, John Sturman, Thomas Warr,
William Marshall, John Mchols, Walter Walterling.
[Maryland Eecords.
1648. Thomas Hatton, Esq., Secretary of Maryland,
obtained a grant of land for transporting him
self and family and two other persons, George
Beckwith and Patrick Forest, into the province
to inhabit in the year 1648. [Maryland Land
Records, liber A, B, and H, folio 123.
1663. George Beckwith demands more land for trans
porting himself from Virginia, into the prorince
in 1657 ; Richard Prigg, in 1661 ; Charles Free
man, in 1661 ; Alice Jones, in 1 660 ; Alice Lind
sey, in 1661. [Maryland Land Records, liber
7, folio 81 and 82.
1641. December 17th, 1641, Nicholas Hervey, prayeth
a grant of land of one thousand acres on the
Patuxent River, by special warrant, from his
lordship for transporting into the province, this
present year, himself, his wife and daughter,
Frances, and four other persons, viz. : Robert
Beard, Harvey Spinke, John Carr and one boy
named Robert Ford, [Maryland Land Records,
liber 1, folio 129.
The above special warrant was dated at Lon
don, England, September 8th, 1641, [Mary
land Land Records, liber A, B, and H, folio 103,
1657. August 20th, 1657. The deposition of Jane

The Beckwiths. 329
Green, vnfe of Thomas Green of Elizabeth River,
in the county of Norfolk, Virginia, planter, and
widow of the late Nicholas Hervey of Patuxent
River, in the province of Maryland ; concerning
a plantation or manor called "St. Joseph's
Manor," of the deceased Hervey's, now held by
George Beckwith of Patuxent River, in the prov
ince of Maryland, in right of himself and
Frances, his now wife, the daughter and heiress
of the said Nicholas Hervey, late of Maryland,
planter. [Maryland Land Records, liber No. 3,
foHo 336.
1675. Came Richard Ladd of Calvert County, Gent'l,
and showeth that George Beckwith, late of Cal
vert Co., Gent'l, the 25th of May last past, made
a wUl in writing, constituting his wife Frances,
his sole executrix, and giving by that will de-
verse legacies to his children, and after made
Christopher Roushy Gent, and him the said
Ladd, overseers of the said will that the said
Beckwith after went for England, and there
converted the said moneys into goods and mer
chandise to return to the said province, and
there falling sick, upon the third day of Novem
ber, last past, declared unto Captain Leonard
Webber, that whereas, he had made a vrill be
fore he came from his home in Maryland, which
he did not see fit or convenient, he did now all
to the disposition of his wife, as by the dispo-
ition of the said Webber, taken the 13th in-
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330 The Beckwiths.
stant, and endorsed upon the said vrill, doth and
may appear, and he further showeth that the
said George Beckwith is since deceased and
buried in England, and that since his death, the
said Frances, his wife, is likewise deceased in
the province, so that now the right of adminis
tration rests in some of the children of the said
George and Frances, being aU infants under age,
and therefore in regard the said Beckvrith's
will in writing, dated 24th May aforesaid, had
made him the said Ladd one of the overseers of
the said will, and out of his affection to the
said infants, offered to take upon himself the
burden of administration, whereupon letters of
administration were granted to the said Richard
Ladd. [Testamentary Proceedings, liber No. 3,
folio 346. ¦
1674. Warrant of re-survey to George Beckwith of St.
Joseph's manor, Patuxent river. [Maryland
Land Records.
1679. April 28th, approved the third and final account
of Thomas Banks of Patuxent river in Calvert
County, Gent'l., administrator of all and singu
lar ye goods and chatels and debts of George
Beckwith Gent., late of Calvert County, deceased
at London in ye kingdom of England, etc., etc.
Signed Philip Calvert Esquire, for the probate
of wills, etc. [Inventories and accounts, liber
6, folios 46 to 59.
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The Beckwiths. 331
formed the judge that he had received informa
tion of diverse goods, late belonging to the es
tate of George Beckwith late of Calvert County,
deceased of whose goods etc., he the said Banks
is administrator, and therefore prayeth that they
might be appraised and to him delivered.
Ordered : That Captain Henry Darnall Gent,
doe appraise the said goods and that they be
delivered to ye said Banks, to be distributed to
ye children of ye said George Beckwith, viz't, td
John Miles, who married Mary the eldest daugh
ter of ye said George, and to EHzabeth who is now
of age, by equal portions, and that he doe im
mediately give bond vrith two sureties to render
unto Charles, Barbarra and Margarett Beckwith,
children of the said George, for the remaining
three-fifths or ye value thereof. [Testamentary
Proceedings, Hber 16, folio 346.
1704. October 5th, was surveyed for Charles Beck
with of St. Mary's County, by virtue dated 30th
August, 1704, a tract called " Beckwith's Lodge"
containing 600 acres etc., to be held of the
manor of " West St. Mary's " patent issued 10th
Oct, 1707. [Land records liber D, D, No. 6,
¦foHo 466.
1706. June 12th, by virtue of a warrant granted out
of his Lordship's Land office unto Charles Beck
vrith of St. Mary's County, to re-survey that
part of a tract of land lying in the said county
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382 The Bechwiths.
his father, and was afterwards in the possession
of Lydiet deceased, bearing date the fourteenth
of April, 1702. [Land records liber I, L, No. B,
folio 182.
1706. June 12th, surveyed for Charles Beckwith, a
manour of land called " St. Joseph's Manour "
comprising 1260 acres, lying in St. Mary's
County. [Land records liber I, L, No. B, folio
i8rA'.
1 732. November 25, suit brought by Thomas Gittings
against William Beckwith in an exchange of
lands in St. Mary's and Prince George Counties
Md., the said William Beckwith proves his right
by inheritance from his father Charles Beckwith,
Ann Beckvrith wife of the said Charles and
mother of the said William, testifies as to the re
linquishment of her dower as the widow of said
Charles Beckvrith, and mother of the said William
Beckvrith ; also testifies his brothers Basil and
George Beckwith; furthermore testifies Ann
Miller, mother of William Beckwith, who says
after her husband's, Charles Beckvrith's death she
manied John Miller of Prince George County,
planter, at which time she relinquished her
dower in the estate of the late Charles Beckwith.
[Maryland Chancery Proceedings, liber I, R, No.
3, foHos 17-33.

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Henry Beckwith, of Dorchester Co., Maryland,
Emigrant.
1669. October 21st, came Henry Beckwith and proved
, right to fifty acres of land for transporting him
self from Virginia. [Maryland Land Records,
liber 12, folio 349.
The will of Henry Beckwith of Dorchester
Co., Md., planter, dated l7th of August, 1717,
and proved 27th of October, 1717. He be
queathed two tracts of land called "Berry's
Chance " and " Willmot's Choyse " to his well
beloved son Nehemiah Beckwith, whom he ap
pointed sole executor of his will. [Testament
ary Records, Hber W, B, No. 6, folio 451.
The will of Nehimiah Beckwith of Dorchester
Co., Md., planter, dated 21st January, 1729,
and proved 10th June, 1730. He bequeathed
his dwelling, plantation and personal property,
to his wife Frances Beckwith, his executrix; after
death or marriage, the former was to revert to
his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Beckvrith, and
the personality to be equally divided between
his daughters EHzabeth and Dorothy. He also
bequeathed a tract of land containing eight hun
dred and sixty acres to his daughter Dorothy
Beckwith. [Testamentary Records, liber C, C,
No. 3, foHos 28 and 29.
The will of Frances Beckwith, of Dorchester
Co., in the province of Maryland, dated June

334 The Beckwiths.
18th, 1734, and proved 15th August, 1734.
She divided her personal estate equally betweeii
her daughters, Elizabeth Ennals and Dorothy
Beckwith, and appointed the latter her execU'
trix. [Testamentary Proceedings, liber I, D,
folio 812.
1730. June 10th, letters testamentary on the estate of
Nehemiah Beckwith, of Dorchester Co., Md.,
deceased, granted to Frances Beckwith, his exec
utrix. Col. Tall Lockerman and John Anderton,
her sureties in the sum of £800 sterlifig. The
inventory of his estate (£328, 2, 2), returned
13th July, 1731. An inventory of the estate of
Frances Beckwith of Dorchester Co., returned
Oth December, 1734, [Testamentary Proceed
ings, liber T, G, 7, folios 3, 106 and 475,
The will of Mary Beckvrith, of Dorchester Co,,
Md,, dated October 21st, 1750, and proved 8th
July, 1768; she appointed her sonin-law,
Thomas Corke, and her grandson, Thomas Tay
lor, executors of her will, and bequeathed her
personal property to the following persons,
John Taylor, her grandson; Elizabeth Taylor,
her granddaughter ; Nehemiah Corke, her grand.
son ; Edward Corke, her grandson ; Amy Corke,
her granddaughter; Charles Beckwith, her son;
Nehemiah Beckwith, her son ; Mary Nickers,
her daughter, [Testamentary Proceedings, liber
B', I, No, 2, folios 611 and 612,

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Dorchester County Debt Books,
Page 29.
1734. Henry Beckwith.
Steward's Place, 300 acres, rent, lbs. 0, 6, 0.
Skinner's Folly, 50
Berry's Chance, 200
Refused Neck, 60
Beckwith's Add'n, 50
Wilmot'sAdvent'e, 60
Page 47.
1734. Henry Beckwith, Sen,
Steward's Place, 300
Page 7,
1756. Refused Neck, 50
Beckwith's Add'n, 50
Page 13.
1758. Nehenuah Beckwith.
Steward's Place, 150
Page 10.
1766, Beckwith's Add'n,
Page 10, ¦
1766, Charies Beckwith,
Refused Neck, 60
Page 10.
1767. Nehemiah Beckwith.
Steward's Place, 150

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1770. Samuel Beckwith,
Refused Neck, 50 " " " 0, 1, 0,
Sir Marmaduke Beckwith of Virginia, Emigrant,
Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, Baronet, born January,
1687 ; was a merchant and clerk of the peace in Vir
ginia ; he married and had issue : Tarpley, who died
in England December 29th, 1748 ; Marmaduke, living
in Virginia in l77l ; a daughter living in 1748 ; Sir
Jonathan Beckwith is the present baronet, [Burke's
Landed Gentry,
Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, county clerk of Richmond
Co., Va,, from 1708 to 1748 ; T, Tarpley was his deputy
and successor, [Virginia County Clerks,
Roused by danger and alarm at attempts, foreign
and domestic, to reduce the people of this country to
an abject and detestable slavery, by destroying their
fair and happy constitution of government, under which
they have hitherto lived, we who subscribe to this
paper, have associated and do bind ourselves to each
other, to God, and to our country, by the firmest ties
that religion and virtue can frame, most sacredly and
punctually to stand by, and with our lives and for
tunes, to support and defend each other, in the durance
of the following articles.

The Beckwiths. 387
First we declare all due allegiance and obedience to
our lawful Sovereign George the third. King of Great
Britain, and we determine to the utmost of our power,
to preserve the laws, the peace and good order of this
colony, as far as is consistent with the preservation
of our constitutional rights and liberties.
Secondly : As we know it to be the rightful birth
right of every British subject (and of the People of
Virginia, as being such), founded in reason, law and
compact, that he cannot be, legally tried, but by his
peers, and that he cannot be taxed, but by the consent
of a Parliament, in which he is represented by persons,
chosen by the people, and who themselves, pay a part
of the tax, they impress on others. If therefore any
person or persons shall attempt, by any action, or pro
ceeding, to deprive the colony of those fundamental
rights, we vrill immediately consider him or them, as
the most dangerous enemy or enemies of the commu
nity, and we will go to any extremity, not only to pre
vent the success of any attempts, but to stigmatize and
punish the offenders.
Thirdly : As the stamp act, does absolutely direct
the property of the people to be taken from them, with
out their consent, expressed by their representatives,
and as in many cases, it deprives the British American
subject of his right of trial by jury, we determine at
every hazard; in regard to danger and death, we will
exact, and exert every faculty to prevent the execution
of the stamp act, in every instance whatsoever within
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338 The Bechwiths.
the colony. And every abandoned wretch who shall
be so lost to virtue and public good, as wickedly to
contribute to the introduction, or fixture of the stamp
act in this colony by using stamp paper, or by any
other means, we will with the utmost expedition, con
vince all such profligates, that immediate danger, and
disgrace shall attend their prostitute purposes.
Fourthly : That the last article may be most surely
and effectually executed, we engage to each other, that
whenever it shall be known, to any of this association,
that any person is so conducting himself, as to favor
the introduction of the stamp act, that immediate no
tice shall be given to as many of the association as
possible and that every individual so informed, shall
with expedition, repair to a place of meeting, to be ap
pointed, as near the scene of action as possible.
Fifthly : Each associate shaU do his true endeavor
to obtain as many signers to this association as he pos
sibly can.
Sixthly : If any attempts shall be made on the
liberty or property of any associater, for any action or
thing, done in consequence of this agreement, we do
most solemnly bind ourselves by the most sacred en
gagement of those who have entered thereunto at the
risk of our lives and fortunes, to restore such associate
to his liberty, and to protect him in the enjoyment of
his property.
In testimony of the good faith with which we re-

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solve to execute the orders of this association, we have
this 27th day of February, 1766, in Virginia, put our
hands and seals hereto.

Eichard Henry Lee,
Thomas Lord Lee,
Samuel Washington,
Charles Washington,
Moore Fauntleroy,
Francis Lightfoot Lee,
Thomas Jones,
Eodham Kenner,
Spencer M. Ball,
Joseph Murdock,
Eichard Parker,
Spence Monroe,
John Watts,
Eobert Lovell,
John Blagge,
Charles Weeks,
Wm. Booth,
Geo. TuberviUe,
Alvin Maxley,
Wm. Flood,
John Ballentine, Jr.
Daniel McCarty,
Townsend Dade,
John Ashton,
W. Brent,
Francis Foushell,
John Smith, Jr.,
Wm. Ball,
Thomas Barnes,
Jas. Blackwell,
Eeubeu Merriwether,
Edward Montjoy,
Wm. T. Montjoy,
Thomas Montjoy,
Jas. Milikan,
John Eichard,
Max Eobinson,

Will Eobinson,
William Lee,
William Sydnor,
John Monroe,
William Cocke,
William Grayson,
W. Brockinborough,
Samuel Selden,
Eichard Mitchell,
Daniel Tibbs,
Francis Thornton, Jr.,
Peter Eust,
John Lee, Jr.,
Francis Warring,
John Upshaw,
Merriwether Smith,
Thos. Eonne,
James Edmondson,
Jas. Webb, Jr.,
John Edmondson,
Edward Sanford,
Jas. Eust,
GiUet Campbell,
Jas. Lane,
A. Montague,
Eichard Jeffries,
John Sugget,
John S. Woodcock,
Robert Wormley Caster,
John Beal, Jr.,
John Newton,
Will Beal, Jr,,
John Edmondson, Jr.,
Charles Beal,
Ebenezer Fisher,
Thomas Jett,
John Orr,

Louis Willis,
Jas, Banks,
Smith Young,
Laur. Washington,
W, Eoane,
Eichard Hodge,
Jas, Upshaw,
Jas, Booker,
Eichard Lee,
Eichard Buckner,
Jas, Pierce,
Will Chilton,
John Williams,
John Blackwell,
Wonder S. Kenner,
Wm, Bronnaugh,
Wm, Pierce,
John Benjamin,
John Dickson,
John Beane,
Thomas Chilton,
Bdw, Eamsdell,
Peter Grant,
Thompson Mason,
Jonathan Beckwith,
Jas. Sanford,
John Belfield,
W. Smith,
John Aug. Washington,
Thomas Bellfield,
Edgcomb Legett,
Henry Franks,
Jas. E. Mason,
Thomas Logan,
Hancock Eustice,
Thomas Douglass.
[Virginia Eecords.

340 The Beckwiths.
Mathew Beckwith, of Connecticut, Emigrant.
Mathew Beckwith came over with Mr. Winthrope,
in 1635, and became temporarily a settler at Saybrook
Point [Connecticut Records.
Mathew Beckwith resided in Hartford in 1645, on
lot number ten on Main Street.
Plaintiff in a case, before the particular court in
1642, also plaintiff in a case in 1644.
Mathew Marvin sued Mathew Beckvrith for slander,
and Beckwith made a public confession of his slander
ing him, and the fine was remitted by the court, and
the plaintiff, Mathew Beckwith made free in 1658.
Stephen Beckwith (?) defendant in a case at Hart
ford, 1649.
Stephen Beckwith (?) was at Hartford in 1649.
Nathaniel Beckwith, of Haddam, died in 1716, and
left Sarah his widow, with an estate worth J6269.
His children were. Job, Nathaniel, Jerusha, Sarah,
Joseph and Patience.
Nathaniel, of Lyme, was appointed by the court
guardian of the children of Nathaniel, of Haddam, de
ceased. It is probable the two Nathaniels, above, were
the sons of Mathew and Stephen Beckwith, brothers,
who were early settlers in Hartford, neither of whom
appear to have died there. Mathew was the owner of
part of a vessel. [Hinman's Connecticut Settlers.
General court of election, Hartford, May 20th, 1658.
Were made free before the court, Matt Becquet and
others. [Connecticut Records.

The Beckwiths. 841
Stephen Becket* did not take oath, being under age,
shipped at Ipsvrich, England, bound for New England,
April 31st, 1634, age eleven years. [Connecticut
Records. Mathew Beckvrith came in 1667, but apparently did
not remain long in the colony. [Smith's History of
Guildford, Conn.
Mathew Beckwith fined ten shillings for unreason
able and immoderate drinking at the Pinnance. [Con
necticut Records.
Mathew Beckwith among the purchasers of Bran-
ford, December, 1638, by the New Haven colonists.
[PubHc Records of Connecticut.
Mention made of the arrival of Mathew Beckwith
at New London, and others, about March, 1661.
On the division of the land on the east side of
Breams Cove, between Mathew Beckwith, Bream and
Blatchford, the three "B's."
The land owned by Mathew Beckwith on the adjust
ment of the boundary line, with Lyme, was found to
be mostly within the boundary of that town, though
his house was on the portion belonging to New Lon
don. [Connecticut Records.
The swamps around New London being infested to
an unusual degree by wolves, the general court ordered
every town to pay a bounty of fifteen shillings for the

* This is the person that has been considered the brother of Mathew
Beckwith, but as I have traced this man back to London, where he came
from, I do not believe his name was Beckwith, though generally so
conceded by Caulkins and others.

342 The Beckwiths.
killing of a wolf within its bounds. In 1673, Mathew
Beckwith claimed bounty for killing two wolves.
[Connecticut Records.
Elizabeth Rodgers, daughter of Mathew Griswold,
was granted a divorce from her husband, John Rogers,
the founder of the Rogerine Quakers, October 12th,
1676; they were married October l7th, 1670. Shortly
afterward she married Mathew Beckvrith (2) she bore
children to each husband.
About this time 1703, Rogers made a rash attempt
to regain his divorced wife, then united to Mathew
Beckwith, a writ was issued against him in January,
1703, on complaint of Beckwith charging him with
laying hands on her, declaring she was his wife, and
threatening Beckwith, that he would have her in spite
of him, all of which Rogers confessed to be true, but
defended on the plea that she was really his wife.
[Connecticut Records.
In county court, June, 1703, Mathew Beckwith, Sr.,
appeared in court and swore his Majesty's peace
against John Rogers for that he was in fear of his life
from him. [Connecticut Records.
Between 1660 and 1664 Mould and Coit constructed
the " Speedwell, Hopewell and Endeavor," which were
called " Barques," ranging from twelve to twenty ton,
and in value from £50 to £82. They were built re
spectively for Thomas Bebee, William Keeney and
Mathew Beckwith, but like other movable property of
that day, often changed owners. "The Endeavor"
made several voyages to the West Indies, Robert

The Beckwiths. 343
Girard and Samuel Chester commanders, and was sold
in Barbadoes (April, 1666) for 2,000 pounds of sugar.
[Connecticut Records.
The master of a vessel was generally part owner of
both cargo and craft, and not unfrequently was his own
factor, agent and tradesman. In the small coasters,
especiaUy, the master or skipper was entirely inde
pendent of orders. He went from place to place,
chaffing and bartering, often changing his course and
prolonging his stay on his own responsibility. New
London, before 1700, was as much noted for her coast
ing vessels and skippers as of late years for her fine
fleet of smacks and smack men. Among the early
planters who were of this class, is mentioned Mathew
Beckwith and others. [Connecticut Records.
Hartford, May 16th, 1649, Richard Fellows, plain
tiff vs. Stephen Beckwith (?) defendant, man action of
debt and damages, 30 shillings. [Connecticut Records.
The parish of Tuling Co., Essex, England, sent over
Thomas Beckwith, a poor child in 1645. [Connecticut
Records. Parish of Tuling sent over to Mr. Weld £5 for
Thomas Beckwith, a poor child sent over, for which
he paid him when his time was out £6, 5, 0, as his ac
quittance shows, dated February 4th, 1645. [Connec
ticut Records.
Mathew Beckwith and others of the name were
often called Becket while in Branford, and were also
called Bicket, and the Stephen Beckwith (?) of Nor
walk, in 1654, removed, but came back again after

344 The Beckwiths.
1671, was the Stephen Becket, age eleven years, that
came over from Ipswich, on board the Francis, in 1634,
in charge of the Rev. Richard Pepper, who after a few
years at Roxbury, returned to Conn., probably for that
colony, was evidence of his apprentice in 1649. [Caul-
kins' History of New London.
Mathew Marvin and Mary Beckwith his wife, of
Loisburg, whom he married April 20th, 1732, both
had the small-pox taken from a transient person, who
came to their house, they were quarantined, and their
house turned into a hospital. [Public Records of Con
necticut.
Tax Lists of Lyme, Conn., under Governor An-
DRUS.
Mathew Beckwith. Joseph Beckwith.
1 person, lbs. 20. Total lbs. 137, 10, 0.
House and lands, " 7.
8 oxen and cows, " 64.
2 yearHngs, " 36.
66 sheep and 2 hogs, " 35.
[Public Records of Connecticut.
Hartford, 17th May, 1656. The court considering
the sad complaint of Goodey Beckwith of Fairfield, in
reference to her husband deserting of her, declare yt
by witt, evedence hath benn presented to them of ye
manner of her husband's departure, and discontinuance,
they judge that if the said Goodey Beckwith, wife of
Thomas, shall upon her oath, testify to the magistrates,
that are shortly to keep court at Strathford, that her

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845

husband's departure was as others have testified it to
be, and yet she hath not heard from him any ways
since he deserted her, the said magistrates, may free
her from her said husband. [Connecticut Records.
Minutes Before Gowrt of Assistants, 1664-1666.
Uncas vs. Mathew Beckwith, Jr., for burning a wig
wam of his. [Caulkins' History of New London,
Patent of New London, sanctioned hy the governor
and company, October 14th, 1704,
To all persons, to whom these presents shall come.
The governor and company of her Majesty's colony in
Connecticut in general court assembled, send greeting
whereas we the said governor and company, by virtue
of letters patent to us, granted by his Royal Majesty
Charles the second of England, etc.. King, bearing date
the 23d day of April, in the fourteenth year of his
reign A. D,, 1663, have formerly by certain acts and
grants passed in general assembly given and granted to
John Winthrope, Esq., Waite Winthrope, Esq., Daniel Weherel,

Richard Christopher,
John AUeyn,
Capt. John Avery,
Lieut. John Hough,
Eobert Douglas,
Thomas Crocker,
John Eogers, 8r.,
Daniel Stubbins,
Benjaman Shapely,
Peter Harris,
Lawrence Ordner,
Peter Strickland,
Samuel Rogers, Sr.,
O. Manwarring,
John Minor,
Thomas Starr, 44

Nehemiah Smith,
William Douglas,
David Caulkins,
John Stubbin,
John Burrows,
Eichard Dart,
James Eogers,
George Geares,
John Edgecomb,
Samuel Avery,
John Tarrell,
Stephen Prentiss,
John Fox,
John Coit,
John Beckwith,
John Davie,

Capt. James Morgan,
Joseph Latham,
Capt. John Prentiss,
John Keeney,
Samuel Fish,
Sam'l Rogers, Sr.,
John Lewis,
Thomas Bolles,
Jonathan Prentiss,
Robt. Lattimer,
John Eichards,
John Plumbe,
Samuel Bebee,
George Chappelle,
'Philip Bill,

346 The Beckwiths.
and many others, and the deed was signed by Robert
Treat, Dep. Gov. [PubHc Records of Connecticut,
Mathew Beckwith, his death being sudden, and the
result of an accident, a jury was summoned, who gave
their verdict, "that he came to his death by mistaking
his way on a dark night and faUing from a cliff of
rocks." His estate was valued at £393. He left wife
Elizabeth, and children, Mathew, John, Joseph, Ben
jamin, and two daughters, widows, the reHcts of
Robert Girard and Benjamin Grant, both of whom
were mariners, and had probably perished at sea. No
other children are mentioned in the brief record of the
settlement of the estate; but Nathaniel Beckwith of
Lyme may upon supposition be included among his
sons. Mathew Junior, like his father, and most of the
family, was a seaman. The births of his two eldest
children, Mathew and John, are registered in GuUd-
ford, where he probably married and resided for a
time. The next three, James, Jonah and Prudence,
are on record at New London, and three more, Eliza
beth, Ruth and Sarah in Lyme, where he fixed his
abode in 1677, These were by his first wife. His
second wife was Elizabeth, relict of Peter Pratt, by
whom he had one daughter, named Griswold, all these
children are named in his will except Sarah, He died
June 4th, 1727.
Joseph and Nathaniel Beckwith, sons of Mathew
Sr,, settled in Lyme ; John iand Benjamin, in New
London. John Beckwith, in a deposition presented in
court in 1740, stated that he had lived at Niantic

The Beckwiths. 347
Ferry for seventy years. He is the ancestor of the
Waterford Beckvriths. [Caulkins' History of New
London, Conn.
Land for the site of a meeting house, and for a
burial place adjoining was given to the Society (Ches
terfield) by Jonathan Lattimer in 1773, at which time,
it is probable that the meeting house was built and
opened for service. Jesse Beckwith was one of the
principal promoters of the undertaking. [Caulkins'
History of New London.
About the year 1748, a Baptist church was organized
at the West Farms, in Niantic District of New Lon
don, now Waterford ; Nathan Howard was ordained
elder and John Beckwith deacon, [Caulkins' History
of New London,
New London County Court, February 3d, 1702, ap
peared Joseph Beckwith and Susannah, his wife,
[Connecticut Records,
Hartford, May 2d, 1702, Ordered that Joseph Shel
den of Lyme have liberty to appeal from judgment of
County Court, whereas himself as plaintiff vs, Joseph
Beckvrith, Susannah, his wife, and Edward De Wolf
as defendants, [Connecticut Records,
Petition to Susannah Way, late wife of Joseph
Beckwith, that she may have the wages of her appren
tice B, Fox, for his services in the expedition to Wood
Creek, May ' 1 5th, 1716, [Connecticut .Records,
Council held at New London, January Uth, 1710.
Ordered that Mrs. Susannah Beckvrith, widow of the
late Joseph Beckwith of Lyme, the sum of ten shil-

348 The Beckwiths.
lings and two pence, for entertainment of soldiers.
[Connecticut Records.
New Haven, Conn., October 12th, 1727, Joseph
Beckwith of Lyme, appointed to sell so much real es
tate of Captain Joseph Way, deceased, to discharge
the sum of 53 lbs, 4 shillings and 2 pence, [Con
necticut Records,
May 13th, 1727, and the 13th year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord George of Great Britain, this as
sembly do establish and confirm Mr, James Beckwith
of Lyme, to be ensign of the 1st Company or Train
band of Lyme, and order that he be commissioned ac
cordingly, [Connecticut Records,
Lyme, July 25th, 1727, This assembly do establish
and confirm Mr, Joseph Beckwith of Lyme, to be
Captain of the 2d Co. of Lyme. [Connecticut
Records. John Beckwith of Lyme, appointed and commissioned
ensign of the 2d Co., or Trainband of Lyme, October
13th, 1737. [Connecticut Records.
New London, October 18th, 1740. Thomas Beck
with appointed and commissioned ensign of 2d Co, of
Lyme, [Connecticut Records.
Lyme, New London Co., Conn., 1744. George and
Benjamin Beckwith appointed administrators of the
estate of their father, Jonah Beckwith of New London
Co., Conn. [Connecticut Records.
Norwalk, Conn., 1667. Stephen Beckwith or some
other man should be hired to fetch the cows out of
the pasture. [Connecticut Records.

The Beckwiths. 349
Stephen Beckwith is in Hall's List of Original Settlers
at Norwalk in 1656 ; he was at Hartford in 1649, and
probably removed to Norwalk before 1655, and is
found there as late as 1687. [Hinman's Connecticut
Settlers. Hartford, June 17th, 1744. Memorial of George and
Benjamin Beckwith of Lyme, administrators of the es
tate of Jonah Beckwith of Lyme, that all the estate is
in lands, and debts due from the estate amounts to lbs.
140, sh. 3, p. 3, and asking to sell same, granted. [Con
necticut Records.
Memorial of Abigail Beckwith of Lyme, administra
tor estate of Philip Beckwith, late of Lyme, showing
that the whole estate amounts to lbs. 52 lawful money,
that the debts paid by her, court fees, allowances to
widows, with debts due the estate amounts to the sum
of lbs. 69, sh. 5, p. 2, and prays for liberty to make
sale of lands of said deceased for the payment of said
debts, and which was granted. [Connecticut Records.
New Haven, October 21st, 1761. Memorial of Abel
Beckwith and Lucy de Wolf, his wife, both of Lyme,
Lucy being administrator of the estate of Simon de
Wolf. [Connecticut Records.
Lyme, 1750. This assembly do appoint Nathaniel
Beckwith, Lieutenant of the 2d Co. of Lyme. [Con
necticut Records.
Lyme, October 10th, 1745. This assembly do ap
point Thomas Beckwith of Lyme, ensign 2d Co. of
Lyme. [Connecticut Records.
Lyme, May 9th, 1757. Nathaniel Beckvrith of

350 The Beckwiths.
Lyme, appointed captain 2d Co. of Lyme. [Connecti
cut Records.
Hartford, June, 1756. This assembly do thank
Rev. George Beckwith for his sermon deHvered at
Hartford, June 13th, 1756. [Connecticut Records.
Hartford, July, 1758. This assembly do appoint
Rev. George Beckwith of Lyme, chaplain 1st Reg., to
be raised in the colony, against the French in Canada.
[Connecticut Records.
Hartford, June 3d, 1765. Jesse Beckwith, appointed
ensign New Co., 3d Reg. of Lyme. [Connecticut Rec
ords. New Haven, Conn., November 3d, 1763. Memorial
of Ezekiel Miner, administrator of the estate of the
late Samuel Beckwith of Lyme, to seU real estate and
show debts due from estate, amount of personal es
tate of said deceased lbs. 73, sh. 19, p. 1. [Connecticut
Records. Hartford, 1770. Vinton Beckwith, appointed en
sign in Trainband of Lyme, [Connecticut Records,
Hartford, June 8th, 1762. John Mack, administra
tor of the estate of Abner Beckwith prays to sell real
estate to pay lbs. 6, sh. 6, p, 1, debts of deceased,
[Connecticut Records,
Lyme, Conn,, December 6th, 1787. Last Friday a
guard under the command of Andrew Griswold, sta
tioned at Lyme, discovered a whale boat, in a fresh
water pond near Black Point, and suspecting it came
from Long Island, they set a guard of five men over
the boat, and the night after, four others of the guard.

The Beckwiths. 351
with Ensign Griswold, went toward the house of the
noted Elisha Beckwith, One of the party named
Noah Lister advanced faster than the rest, and was
challenged by Beckwith's wife, who was near the
house, this alarmed ten men, who were in the house
weU armed, and they immediately surged upon and
made Lester a prisoner, and carried him into the house,
and soon after the other four of the guard, came to the
house (not knowing that Lester was a prisoner) and
went directly in, where they discovered the ten men in
arms, a scuffle ensued between them, and after some
time the guard secured six of them, among whom was
Elisha Beckwith, the other four made their escape
into the woods, but they aU except one were taken next
day. They came in the whale boat from Long Island , and
were in command of Thomas Smith, formerly of Middle-
town, who had a captain's commission under the
British King, Elisha Beckwith went off with the
enemy, the 6th of September last, when they made
their descent on the place. The above culprits are
secure in Norwich Gaol, [Public Records of Connec
ticut, Hartford, May, 1716, Expedition to Cape Britton,
jouraal of Rev. Adajah Bidwell, chaplain of the fleet.
Spoke with Captain Beckwith about 8th, off St, Es
prit, who informed us that Captain Jones and Captain
Dorchaw and he had met with about 1,200 French
and Indians, as they supposed were designed for Lewis-
burg. [Connecticut Records,
Mathew Griswold arrived at Windsor in 1639; re-

352 The Beckwiths.
moved to Saybrook between 1650 and 1660. He was
a descendant of Sir Mathew Griswold of Malvern
Hall, near Lyme Regis, England. Arms, Arg. a fess
sable between 2 greyhounds courant sa. Crest, a
greyhound passant ppr. [Caulkins' History of New
London,

ADDENDA.

Samuel Beckwith, 1796a, born at Palmyra, N. Y.,
in 1750 ; manied Anna, daughter of Stephen Ransom,
June 4th, 1774; she was born at Palmyra in 1756, and
died there July 31st 1846,
2329, Shabael; born October 9th, 1775; died
young,
2330, Stephen; bora April 7th, 1777; died June
29th, 1797,
2331, Stephen; died June 6th, 1800; age 21,
2332. Baruch.
2333. Samuel; born July 30th, 1783; married
Lois Spencer at E. Haddam ; died at Pal
myra in 1859.
2334. Nathaniel Haynes.
2335. George.
2386. Naomi; bora November 22d, 1787; mar
ried John Church and died at Hopewell,
N.Y. ; children: Sophia; Eliza, married E.
BaUey of Toledo; Minerva, and John.
2337. Dorothy; born June 16th, 1792; married
Wells Anderson of Haddam and removed
to Palmyra; they both died in Chicago in
1880 ; children: George, married Catherine
45

354 The Beckwiths.
Lindsey ; Edward McKee, married Gniba
Setus; and Robt. Henry.
2338, Sophie ; born in 1799 ; died at Palmyra
about 1832; she married J, Foster; chU
dren : Louisa and Sophia,
2339, Anne; born in 1797; married D, Alexander
Mclntyre, and died in 1855, leaving two
sons and one daughter,
Baruch Beckvrith, 2332, born August 24th, 1781,
and died at Albion, N. Y,, in 1890.
2340, EmUy Palmer of Albion, N. Y,
2341. WiUiam of Albion, N. Y.
2342. Samuel.
Nathaniel Haynes Beckwith, 2334, born at Pal
myra, October 13th, 1785; died there April 25th,
1834; married twice; his first wife was Minerva Nye
of Pittsford, who died AprU 21st 1821.
2343. Cynthia.
2344, Minerva.
Nathaniel Haynes Beckwith, 2334; his second vnfe
was Sophia Beschard of Lime, N, Y.
2345. James,
George Beckwith, 2335, bora at East Haddam, Oc
tober 16th, 1789 ; removed to Palmyra, where he
died November 29th, 1868 ; he married Ruth Matson,
daughter of Gurdon Clark, August 1st, 1814 ; she was
born February 2d, 1793, and died January 29th, 1882,
2346, Sophie; born June 7, 1818 ; married twice;
her first husband was J, De Lameter, whom
she married January 1st, 1838; children:

The Beckwiths. 355
Anna S., bora May 2d, 1842 ; died AprU
3d, 1849; Georgie, bom AprU 12th, 1848;
manied G. A. Hamlin of Chicago ; George,
born April 25th, 1856; married Ada Gil
bert ; Foster, born at Ravenswood, 111.,
July 9th, 1865 ; her second husband was
ElHs Worthington; he died November 28th,
1891.
2347. Catherine M, ; born June 2d, 1826; died
April 22d, 1886; married Albert WeUs;
chUdren: Catherine A., born September
16th, 1845; married Edward McMurdo;
George B. ; born September 26th, 1848 ;
died May 10th, 1849.
2848. Ruth A.; born October 10th, 1828; mar
ried W. B. Gilbert ; living at Palmyra, N.
Y, in 1891.
2349. George W. ; born October, 1831 ; died in
1832,

INDEX

TO

FAMILY NAMES OF THOSE MARRIED TO
BECKWITHS,

PAGE.
Adams, Sir Thomas  .SI
Adamson, Kisaiah  40
Alderman, Homer A  50
Alexander, Byron  199
Alexander, Mindwell  113
Alsop, Anne  156
Amsden, C. M  144
Appleton, Dalinda  107
Armstrong, Caroline P  142
Atkins, A, E  139
Atkins, Rev, E, A  114
Angier, Salinda C  112
Anlaly, John  55
Austin, H  158
Austin, Homer E  158
Austwicke, Catherine  27
Bailey, Ellen  237
Bailey, Nancy  66
Bailey, Susan  c. . . 163
Ball, Arad  108
Ball, Marv  69
Ball, Dr. John  128
Bannister, Robert  27
Barnes, Sarah  181
Barnes, Rebecca  57
Bart, Roger  75
Barton, H. B  183
" £, W. A  49

PAGE.
Baskerville  301, 302, 303
Bass, Charlotte  237
Bassett, B  39
Bassett, Elbert  39
Battles, Elizabeth  134
Bealmer, Bettie  32
Bealmer, I  32
Beardsley, H  174
Beckerville, Sir John, , 10, 23
Beckworth  12
Beebe, C  201
Beers, G, A  134
Belfield, Major John  56
Bell, John  30
Bell, Thomas  62
Belt, Dianna  41
Belt, J, B  40
Bentley, J  157
Bertram, H  186
Bingham, Eliza C  150
Black, Alice  160
Black, George  51
Black, Narcissa  166
Blake, M  204
Blodgett, G, H  240
Boswell, A, P,..  42
Boswell, Erminia J  196
Bosworth, Chloe  160, 165
Bowers, Alice P  144

358

Index.

PAGE,
Boyer, Sadie W  165
Boynton  ;. 210
Bradley, R  207
Brady, S, J  232
Brakenbury, Susannah. 18, 54
Bralley, D  157
Braman, G, P  230
Braman, Rev. E. P  83
Brandon, Bettie  118
Bray  303
Brewster, Azubah  85
Brewster, L. B  115
Briggs, Pearly  167
Brockinborough, Ella  160
Brooks, Blanche  179
Brown, Alice  109
Brown, Belinda  197
Brown, D  136
Brown, P  153
Brown, Sarah  79, 113
Brown, Polly  131
Brough, Elizabeth  65
Bruce  291, 292, 293, 294
295, 296, 297
Bruce, Lady Dame Beck
with.,, 11, 12, 13, 21, 53
Bruce, Sir William  4, 10
Bruce, Sir Robert  11
Brush, Maude  120
Buck, Elizabeth  70
Buck, Sir John  70
Buchanan, Elizabeth Scott, 60
Bucklin, James  34
Bucklin, Mary  84
Bucklin, Simion  34
Buckminster, J  200
Bullett, Ada  35
Bullett, Alexander  34
Bullett, Alfred  34, 35
Bullett, Diana  35
Bullett, Mary  35
Bullett, Minerva  35
Bullett, William  34, 35

PAGE.
Burchard, James  75
Burgess, Sally  185
Burnham, D, J  204
Burt, Chapin  196
Burt, Julia P  130
Burrows, Alvira S  187
Bushnell, Dianna  184
Buskirk, Dora S  189
Butler, Lawrence  56
Butler, Mary  81, 140
Byers, J. W  48
Cahill,Betsy  205
Calthorp, Sir William  22
Campbell, J. W  43
Campbell, Sir James  91
Capron, Ameline  157
Capron, W  155
Cams, John  67
Carpenter, Adelia  86
Carpenter, E  32
Carpenter, Eliza  206
Carpenter, John  128
Carpenter, W. S  129
Carter, Adelaide  61
Carter, Amanda  180
Carter, Matilda  69
Cary, Eunice  162
Cary, J. R  161
Caulkins, Naomi  83
Chadwick, R. L  106
Chalmer, Mary  71
Chalmer, Sir Edward  71
Chalmondeley  305
Champion, Caroline  107
Champion, P  186
Champion, Joshua  76
Chapman, E. A  198
Chapman, Rebecca  80, 118
Chapman, R, W  83
Chappell, Julia A   106
Chappel, Lucy  108
Chaworth, Sir John ...... 23

Index.

359

PAGE.
Ohilderson, Charlotte  99
Ohilderson, Jane  103
Chord, Lydia  37
Chord, Martha B  37
Chord, Samuel  37
Chouteau, Col. August  36
Chouteau, Eulalie  36
Claggett, Gabriel  30
Claggett, John  30
Claggett, Jonathan  31
Claggett, Thomas  31
Claggett, Volinda  31
Clapham, Elizabeth  55
Clapham, Sir C  55
Clapp, G. H  155
Clark, P, G  198
Clark, Prancis  143
Clark, J, L  198
Clay, Henry   33
Clifton, Evaline  164
Cohen, Isabel  156
OoUyer, AnnM  159
Colon, Belle  159
Comstock, Dillamy  177
Cone, E. P  140
Cone, W, E  150
Constable, William  22
Cook, Abbey M  109
Cooley, Eliakim  76
Cooper, Moses  195
Copley, Costiliana  70
Corey, C, M  102
Comers, H. E  102
Corp, Thomas  99
Coumer, Elizabeth  206
Council, Alice  179
Cramer, Edith  190
Crandall, Alex  235
Crane, Parnoll  192
Crocker, Amanda  187
Crocker, Seth  193
Crosby, Dexter  35
Cross, Rev  304

PAGE.
Crowell, Annie  172
Cram, Livonia  44
Cummins, Pauline  196
Currer, Anne  26
Currer, Hugh  26
Curtiss, Sarah B  62
Dakin, Martha  185
Damon, Nellie  141
Daniels, Esther W  186
Dart, Augusta  84
Dart, Elizabeth  160
Davis, Abigail  34
Davis, B  200
Davis, Betsy  200
Davis, Eliza A  200
Davis, J. E  99
Davis, Jefferson  34
Davis, M. J  194
Davis, Maria  141
Davis, Samuel  34
Dean, Gilbert  128
Dean, Orville  120
Deans, Patience  134
Delbert, P  108
Dennison, Lucresia  187
DeMorse, L.B  60
Denke, Alice W  138
Dent, Anne  55
Dent, John  53
DePotter, Armand  159
DeWolf, Naomi  77
Dibbell, Parnell  172
Dickerman, Ann  174
Dixon, Josie  148
Dodge, Elmer E  199
Dodge, RuthE  201
Donahue, Mary  137
Donewell, Jane  54
Donewell, John  54
Dorr, George  87
Dorr, Lydia  87
Douglass, Sir William  94
Downing, S, H  235

360

Index.

PAGE.
Drury, Georgianna  191
Dudley  184
Duncan, Louisa  70
Dupree, T, B  60
Durand, Amy  77
Dutton, Sally  202
Dynley, Anne  16, 27
Eberhart, Kate  184
Edgar, Eunice  239
Edgar, S, P  119
Edgecomb, Prank  187
Edgecomb, Grace  233
Edgerton, Mary  207
Elder, Martha  51
Ellis, Bernard  55
Ellis, Hiram  189
Ellis, Mallissa  185
Ellis, Margarette  55
Ellsworth, David  178
Elsie, Sybel  65
Ely, Patiance  141
Ennals, Elizabeth.... 101, 334
Evans, C. C  64
Evans, Prank  238
Evans, Rev. W. E ...:... . 102
Pairbanks, J. R  162
Pairbanks, Lucy  113
Pairfax  305, 306
Pairfax, N  29
Pairfax, R  11, 21
Pairfax, Thomas Viscount. 29
Pairfax, William  11
Pairfax, Thomas  21
Perrars  297, 298, 299, 300301
Perrars, Sir John  12
Pield, Mather  43
Pillerit, Sir John  22
Pinney, Viola A  113
Pisher, W. F  43
Fitch, Bertha C  129

PAGE.
Pitch, Lewis  129
Plannery, Clara  180
Fletcher, Ellen C  176
Floyd, Abigail  34
Floyd, John  34
Floyd, John B  34
Floyd, William  34
Foote, Dr  173
Forbes, M  152
Ford, S. A  119
Forquer, Mihael  52
Fosdick, Elizabeth  169
Foster, Anthony  32
Foster, Ephraim  32
Poster, Richard  28
Fox, C. E  153
Pramer  52
Frost, Frances  17, 28
Frost, William  17, 28
Fraser, Flora  184
Pry, Abram  52
Fuller, Caroline E  169
Fuller, Esther  195
Fuller, Sallie  170
Gale, Betsy  154
Gambol, Emma  134
Gardner, Ch  166
Garretson , Livonia  206
Gascoigne, William  24
Gaylord, Eunice  78, 114
Gilbert, Lydia  153
Glover, Mary  232
Goodale H  142
Goodrich, Sarah  113
Goodhue , Hannah  124
Grant, Benjamin  74
Graves, Annie  122
Graves, S. P  60
Greenfield, Polly  86
Greenmeyer, Sarah. ...... 107
Gresham, Sally  139
Griffin, Allen  140

y

Index.

861

PAGE.
Griffen, Silvia  142
Griffin, L  140
Grimstone  309
Grimstone, Theaphinia. .. 91
Griswold, Amy  77
Griswold, David  128
Griswold, Hannah  129
Griswold, John  85
Griswold, Lucy.,. 78,114, 205
Griswold, Mathew .... 75, 342
351, 352
Guest, J, C  -186
Guthrie, Clarissa  193
Haddam, E  145
Haight, A  175
HaU, Anso M  136
Hall, Bertha  138
Hall, George  109
Halliburton, Mary  92
HaUoway, Rebecca  237
Hammond, J  171
Hammond, Mathew  164
Hancock, J. B  204
Handley, Mary  80
Harrington, Lucy  65
Harrison, W, H  69
Hart, Clarissa  180
Hart, J  172
Hart, Julie  123
Harvey, Elizabeth  85, 166
Hatton, John  17
Havens, A, B  159
Havens, Mary  171
Hayes, Margarette  207
Haywood, R, P  64
Hazen, J, K  124
Hazleton, William.,.. 15, 23
Heath, Tamison  119
HenseU, Esther P  137
Herringe, John  21
Hervey, Frances. . 30, 328, 329330
46

PAGE.
Hervey, Nicholas  30, 328329
Hewitt, Sophia  237
Hicks, Betsy  183
Higgins, J  147
Hill, Jennette  60
Hill, G. H  116
HiU, Mariah  32
HiUiard, Eunice  193
Hinds, Betsy  190
Hite, George  58
Hite, Sarah  58
Hodge, Polly  195
Hoff, A  176
Hoff, Sarah A  177
Hoffnagel, Mary  147
Holbert, Sarah  128
HoUenbeck, Sophia  106
Holt, Clarissa  194
Holt, Lizzie  104
Hooper, Sara E  158
Hopper, Thomas  72
Hopwood, Susan  46
Hord, J, A  69
Hotchkiss, Alva  88
¦Houghton, AUce  117
Howard, Sarah A  181
Howe, Asa G  195
Howe, Nancy A  187
Hubbard, John  103
Hubel, J  145
Hudson, Nancy  87
Huff, D  63
Hull, EU  202
Hull, W, L  36
Humphreys, E  141
Hungerford, D  135
Hunt, Harriet  58
Hunter, J  67
Huntley, Benjamin  84
Hurd, Candace  198
Hurd, Elizabeth  202
Huston, H  131

362

Index.

PAGE.
Hutchinson, Oliver  177
Hutchinson, Virginia  61
Hyde, Mary A  88, 237
Ingleby, Elizabeth  23
Ingleby, Thomas  23
Inman, 0  200
Irwin, Henry  33
Ives, Emmaline  180
Ives, Ophelia  180
Jackson, Stonewall  67
James, Anna  120
James, Susan  68
Jaques, C  54
Jarrett, Nannie F  66
Jennings, Sir Edmond . . 55
Jennings, Edward  18
Jenkins, PrisciUa  51
Jennings, Elizabeth ... 18, 55
Jewett, J  190
Johnson, ,J. M  45
Johnson, J. W  45
Johnson, Susan  67
Jones, Chancy  87
Jones, Charlotte  190
-Tones, Patty  206
Jonette, A. C  124
Jordan, Lyman  236
Joslin, Carrie  110
Josten, Eliza  173
Joy, D  Ill
Judd, Tirzah  203
Judson, Nathan J  145
J. Vavasour  24
Kearney, Gen. Phil  35
Kearney, D. J  239
Kating, George  34
Kating, Georgia  34
Keith, Sarah E  117
KeUy, WUHam  190
Kennedy, Mary  151

PAGE.
Kerfoot, N. L  138
KitcheU, Carrie  148
Kazebeer, Mary  125
Kill, Emma  176
King, Olive  -...:.. 87
Kirtland, John  170
Kirkpatrick, J  32
Kiss, Amelia  152
Knickerbocker, Edwin  154
Knyveton, Maude de  19
Knyveton of Knyveton. ... 19
Lamb, Mary  77
Lamont, J  107
Lampshire, Richard  79
Lampson, John  21
Lancaster, Anne  25
Lancaster, Sir John  25
Landy, V  122
Latham, Hannah  234
Laws, Anne Uptonia  33
Laws, Betsy  33
Laws, L  33
Lawson, Sarah  127
Lawton, John  23
Layfelt, Mary L  191
Leach, E. L  148
Leach, Lew  191
Lead, Esther  240
Learned, W  239
Le Baron, Ada  62
Le Brun, AdaUede. ... 80, 124
LeBrun, Julia  80, 123
Lee, C  143
Lee, E, A  192
Lee, R. E  64
Leigh, F, D  152
Leonard, J  75
Lessee, D  188
Lewis, Clarissa  235
Lewis, Hannah  78
Lincoln, Amelia  201
Linderman, Harriette  185

Index.

368

PAGE.
Lippitt, Clara C  109
Lockwood, J  29
Lockwood, Mathew  54
Lord, Betsy  150
Lord, Elizabeth  66
Lord, Nancy  150
Lossee, Dr. T. E  155
Lossie, Eugenia  137
Lowenthorp  16
Luckett, Belle  35
Lumley  307
Lyons, Edward  232
Madison, James  58
Main, Susan  185
Malebisse, Elizabeth de . 11, 15
21, 23
Malebisse, Galfred de. .. 9, 19
Malebisse, Hercules de . 12, 13
21, 27
Malebisse, Hugh de. 7, 8, 9, 12
19, 20
Malebisse, Hugo de. 9, 10, 19
Malebisse, John de. 10, 12, 13
20, 21, 22
Malebisse, Margarette  21
Malebisse, Matilda de. . . 9, 20
Malebisse, Richard de.. 9, 10
19, 20
Malebisse, Robert de . . 10, 20
Malebisse, Walter de.. 11, 21
Malebisse, William de . . 9, 2021
Malebisse, Simeon de. 9, 11, 13
20, 21
Malebisse, Thomas de  21
Malony, Sir John  25
Mark, Jennie A  121
Markle, Louisa  151
Marmion  298, 299
Marsh, J. S  123
Mather, Cotton  145
Mather, E  128

PAGE.
Mather, Lucy  145
Martin, Betsy Peyton  63
Martin, Cornelia  117
Martin, Emily  127
Martin, W. H  141
Marvin, Mathew  84
Marvin, Miriam  79
Marvin, Renald  79
Mason, Mary  61
Massie, Sieur  35
Massie, M. E  177
Masters, J. E  122
Mayhew, EHzabeth  82
McBee, Ann  48
McCarthy, Mary  182
McClernan, H  171
McClintick, Armeda  51
McDonald, Jane  171
McDonald, Lucy  59
Milburn, Barbarra  28
Milburn, John  17, 28
Miles, Mary  331
Miller, Ann  332
Miller, Henrietta  168
MiUer, H. H  125
MiUer, John  30
Miller, SaUy  188
Miller, Samuel  79
MitcheU, John  235
Mitchel, Lodie  146
Moore, 0, F  167
Moore, George  181
Moore, Hannah R  204
Moorer, Anne  59
Moores, Dr  174
McGastle, W, 0  104
McGuUkin, N, E  159
McHenry, Betsy  131
McKinney, J. . -  185
McKinney, James  114
McLeod, M  121
Meerfield  32
Medley, L. T  69

364

Index.

PAGE.
Medor, M. W  104
Melony, Norman  236
Mesing, Thomas  26
Methley, Lord de  11, 21
Mitchell, Cornelia  101
Moores. Hannah E  145
Moremer, L, C  32
Morgan, Fannie  206
Morrison, Luez  204
Morton, Joseph  56
Moseley, Sarah  141
John Lord Mowbray  23
Muck, Ella  144
Muck, S. M  144
Munsell, M, A  143
Neal, Hannah  64
Neal, John  64
Neal, Judith A  67
Nelson, Amanda C  174
Nelson, Robert  28
Nesham, Caroline  72
Neville, Havisia  23
Neville, Matilda de  20
NeviUe, Ralph .... 15, 20, 23
Newall, Sylva  108
Newall, Truman  108
NewbiU, Dr. C. F  102
Newcomb, Catherine  121
Newland, Mary L  239
Newton, Angeline  203
Newton, Erastus  203
Newton, H  146
Newton, Hannah  191
Newton, Miles  90
Norcross, Sarah  151
Norield, John  27
Northy, Betsy  168
Noyes, Cinderella  232
NuttaU, Elias  30
Odinsell, John  55
Ogden, George  160

PAGE.
Oliphant, Sarah  144
Oppenheim, E. L  109
Osborn, Thomas  46
Owen, Malissa W  138
Page, Ann  175
Palmer, Charlotte  129
Palmer, Prancis  31
Palmer, Mary  21
Palmer, Sally  235
Palmer, Sarah L  197
Palms  304, 305
Panil, H. L  175
Parker, Dr. Wm  55
Parkhurst, Bethia  234
Parsons, M  205
Parsons, H. C  110
Parsons, Mary B  50
Parsons, Mehitable  81
Patterson, Ellen  197
Paul, i;tienne  35
Paul, Rene  35
Paul, TuUia Clementia .... 35
Payne, Bessie W  140
Peck, Annice  141
Peck, Darius  85
Peck, H  186
Peck, Harriette  189
Peck, Peter  88
Peck, Sarah  185
Pelton, Margarette P  159
Pennybacker, B, R  63
Pennybacker, G. A  64
Percys,...  288, 289, 290
Percy, Emma de  19
Percy, WilHam de  19
Perkins, E  86
Perkins, Joshua  177
Perkins, Nancy  86
Phelps, D  169
Phelps, Henrietta T  165
Philipps, A. B  46
Pierce, Clara  199

Index.

865

PAGE.
Pierce, Rebecca  196
Pickingill, PhyUis  53
Pinches, J  167
Pinkney, Azubah  78, 114
Pinneo, Eunice  118
Plaisteel, Martha  105
Piatt, John   204
Plumpton, Sir WUliam. 16, 24
Pocahontas  34
Polkington  306, 307
Porter, Lou  126
Powers. Betsy  133
Pratt, Peter  75
Provost, J. A  183
Pryor, Martha  56
Pudsey, Mary  34
Pudsey, Sir Henry.  24
Pumphreys, H  39
Putnam, Catherine  203
RadcUffe, J. L  102
Radclifie, Thomas  16, 24
Rand, Eunice  121
Randall, L  167
Randle, H  122
Rascine, Ralph  28
Rascon, Refugia  62
Ratclifie, Sir John .... 23, 24
Rathburn, Sarah A. . . „ ^. . . 194
Reaugh, ITpton B  33
Redding, Statisa  195
Redman  309, 310
Reed, Abner  234
Reed, Electa  198
Reed, James P  196
Reeves, Anna  127
Reuben, R  283
Rhodes, A. D  174
Ryan, G  39
Ryan, M  39
Ryder, Nellie G  199
Reed, Sarah  231
Riggs, John A  190

PAGE.
Ritchie, Esther  115
Roberts, J  176
Robinson, J  54
Roby, W  39
Rogers, Ellen B  118
Rogers, EHzabeth  342
Rogers, John  75
Rogers, Obiah  , 193
Romp, P, D  176
Roosa, H  121
Roulston, Rachel B  116
Rowdon, George  14
Roydell, Jane  54
Roydell, John  54
Ruffin, Agnus  161
Rumsey, Mary  133
Rutherford, Helen  131
Sacket, E  143
Sacket, Edwin  132
Sadie, Thankful  104
Sales, Caleb  194
Saleteski, Paul  338
Saltmarsh, John  90
Salterstall, H  206
Samones, Sarah  39
Samuels, Alice  36
Samuels, Dr  36
Sanders, J  33
Saulsbury, Martha  183
Saunders, Amelia  51
Saunders, Julia M  163
Saunders, Martin  50
Saunders, Mary A  50
Saville  297
Sawley, John  15, 23
Scenter, A, B  144
ScoUey, Anne  59
ScoUey, Dr. S  59
Scott, CM  166
Sears, Lillian W  194
Seaver, Harriet  170
Seymore, Jane M  156

866

Index.

PAGE.
Shaw, MatUda  110
Sheffield, Dr  122
Shelden, Harriette  190
Shelden, Pheodore G  190
Sherwin, J. A  175
SiU, Jerusha  143
Sill, M. S  142
Simmons, Pre  100
Sisson, H. P  239
Sistaire, EUen M  187
SkiUman, Albert  177
SkiUman, Mary  178
SkiUman, Sarah  178
Skinner, Charlotte M  115
Skiparth, Alicia de  20
Sleoght, Emma A  64
Sloan, Julia A  168
Slocum, G  103
Sly, Ann  133
Smeadley, Amanda  62
Smith, Anna  135
Smith, Anson  83
Smith, Aug  145
Smith, Esther  191
Smith, Freelove  187
Smith, J. M  105
Smith, Captain John  17
Smith, Julia  115
Smith, Lewis Chouteau ... 35
Smith, Marita  236
Smith, Mary Ann  Ill
Smith, Mary Floyd  34
Smith, Miriam  78
Smith, Polly Floyd  34
Smith, Sabin K  188
Smith, Sylvanus  205
Smith, Thomas  34
Smith, WiU  179
Smith, William  34
Smithson, Henry  95
Snow, John  238
Somes, Sam  168
Soloman, Anthony  26

PAGE.
Soloman, Mary  26
Sowles, M  145
Spaulding, H. P  161
Spaulding, J  200
Spedden, SaUie W  100
Spencer, Betsy  170
Spencer, Emeline  200
Spencer, J. R  106
Sperry, Eva A  233
Stanley, Margarette  161
Stone, Susan A  169
Strand, E. G  143
Stump, Agnes  177
Style, EUen  27
Style, WiUiam  27
Sullivan, C. L  193
Summers, Basil B  32
Summers, Ben  32
Summers, Frank  32
Summers, George W  32
Summers, J. B  32
Summers, Martha E  33
Summers, Mary  32
Summers, Patsy  32
Summers, Rufus K  32
Summers, Sarah E  32
Summers, Susan  33
Sutherland, Amy  154
Sutton, Mary A  204
Swan, Mary  183
Swank, Laura  68
Sydney, Sir Thomas  94
Tancred, Anne  25
Tancred, William  25
Taylor, EHzabeth  99
Taylor, Mary  176
Taylor, Rev. Justin  145
Thompson, Abbey E  158
Thompson, Bielly  56
Thomson, Anna G  163
Thorp, J  38
Thorpe, John   37

Index.

367

PAGE.
Tifft, D  200
Tinker, Durant  77
Tinker, Mary  86
Todd, Mary  207
Tonbridge  290, 291
Tonbridge, Adelaid de. , . , 19
Tong, John  113
Townsend, Eliza A  202
Tracy, E. G  48
Tracy, Hattie K  181
Trail, W. H  188
Train, A. S  109
Travis, Dr  69
Treadway, John  170
TreviUe, WUHam  22
Tripp, J  103
Trueman, Susan..  108
Trueman, Susana  79
Turner, Dorcas  44
Turner, Mary  167
Tumer, PrisciUa  61
Tumer, Sylvia  189
Tuttle, Henry  237
Tynley, Sir Philip  22
Tyrell, Elizabeth  24
TyreU, W  24
Urfleet, Sir Girard  14, 22
Utley, EHzabeth  182
Van Steenburg, Helen  157
Vickers, Mary  99
Vignessy, A  45
Villas, E  146
Waddington, Benjamin... 56
Waddington, Jane  56
Wade, Clarissa  168
Wainwright, Abbey  115
Wainwright, Emma  116
Wait, Phoebe  205
Wait, Esther W  186
Walgrave, William  23

PAGE.
Walker, Margarette.  53
Walker, Rev. George  53
Walpole, Bridget  52
Walsh, Julia  141
Walter, S  ,  148
Wandersford, EUen  39
Wandersford, WilHam  29
Washington, George  69
Watrous, Catherine  238
Watrous, Jerusha  191
Watrous, Joanna  188
Watson, Lucy  38
Watson, Martha  232
Watterton  310
Way, Asa  202
Way, Susanna  84
Weaver, J. L  236
Welch, Frances A  158
Welch, Jennie  197
Welch, Sarah  231
Weldon, Louisa  233
Welty, J  ,,  72
Wentworth, Leliah  122
Whaley, MatUda  117
Wheatley, Catherine  99
Wheeler, Mary  102
Wheeler, Mary A  100
Wheelock, Hannah,79, 102, 112
White, EHzabeth  39
White, Lizzie  201
White, Mary  162
Whiteside, Charlotte  124
Whitney, JuHa E  147
Willborn, J. W  164
WiUiams, Anne E  100
Williams, Charles  31
WiUiams, Eliu,  32
Williams, General Otto,
HoUand  33
WiUiams, Joseph  33
Williams, Laura  118
WUHams, Martha  32
WiUiams, Mary  40

368

Index.

PAGE.
Williams, Prudence  32
WiUiams, Sam  33
Williamson, Cornelia  153
Wilson, Harriet  181
Wilson, Mathew  32
WUson, R. D  110
Winn, J  53
Winn, Mary  53
Winn, Richard  32
Winbush, Julia „  68
Winchell, Naomi  233
Winchester, Thomas  26
Winslow, Sarah  125
Winston, Dolly  61
Winston, Isaac  61
Wishart, Janette  91
Wood, Armenia  189
Wood, Mary  205

PAGE.
Wood, Sarah  79, 105
Wood, Yokia  178
Woodborn, Joshua  333
Woodfin, James  238
Woodifield  303
Woodifield, EHzabeth  71
Woodifield, John  71
Woolsey, Mary A  180
Wrather, Timon  54
Wyman, Aluria  185
Wynne, Mary E  164
WyveU  308, 309
WyviUe, Marmaduke  55
WyviUe, Mary  55
Yale, Hannah  137
Yeatman, Thomas  33

INDEX TO BECKWITHS-

PAGE.
A. W  277
Abbey  131
Abbey G  109
Abbie A  199
Abbie E  159
Abel  216, 349
Abigail  108, 113, 180, 349
Abijah  76
Abner.. . 86, 241, 242, 247, 350
Abram S  64
Abuna  133
AdaM  175
AdaHne  ... 45, 66
Adam  11, 15, 31, 23, 24
Addie  46,177, 201
Addie P  173
Addison  107, 201
Addison K  151, 152
Adelia  122
Adeliede  125, 153, 160
Adolphus  136, 376
Adolphus J  124
Agabus  24
Agnus . -.  161
Agnus R  162
Aimee  38
Aira  220
Albert....51, 94, 178, 194, 227
Albert A  138, 129, 131
Albert D  201
Albert 0  276
Albro E  199
Albro M  175
47

PAGE.
Alcestes M  152
Alexander  61
Alfred  66, 189, 216, 233
Alfred P........  317
Alice  27, 28, 98, 113, 141
182, 210, 239
Alice A  144
Alice B   110
AHce D  109
Alice W  159, 175
Alice R  218
Allan  141
Allen C  70
AUen G  147
AUie  46, 68
Alonzo  210
Alonzo S  214
Altha  38
Altha A  213
Aluria M  185, 235
Alva  119, 120
AlvaA., Jr  213
Alva D  121
AlvaR  212
Alvah A  113
Alvin W  191, 212
Alvira  121
Amabilla  96
Amanda. . 62, 69, 131, 187, 300
Ambrose.... 34, 89, 95,96, 97
Ambrosia  97
AmeHa  123, 184
Amelia C  134

370

Index.

PAGE.
Amelia Z  198
Amen B  109
Amley  65
Amon  79, 113
Amos.. 79, 108, 109, 110, 113
242, 348, 277
Amy  82, 83, 154, 180
Andre  120
Andrew.... 204, 215, 216, 325
Andrew B  60, 61
Andrew N  174
Angelina  217
Angeline  203
Agnes McD  59
Ann. ... 14, 28, 42, 69, 90, 91
96, 136, 153, 173, 332
Ann C  , . 94
Ann J  165
Ann M  43, 217
Anna  114, 120, 180
Anna F  162, 184
Anna H  125
Anna Y  135
Anne.... 22, 27, 31, 33, 54, 93
Annie  23, 26, 113, 172, 189
Annie C  159
Annie E  239
Annie G  159
Annie L  58
Annie S  155
Annie V  208
Ansel  242, 248
Anso M  136
Anson  115,227, 229
Anson G  116, 288
Anson J  174, 187
Appleton  107, 230
Ariana  181
Arthur.... 18, 54, 55, 66, 73
123, 152
Arthur B  64
Arthur J  104
Asa.,,, 158,179,180, 181, 186

PAGE.
Asa 0  377
Asher  333
Asher M  377
Ashton Ed  38
Atwood E  193
Augusta  138, 190
Augustus  107, 137
Aurania  99
Austin  , .... 327
Azubah  177, 191, 193
Baby  210
Barak  87, 151, 152
Barbara  29, 30, 54, 331
Barlow, T. G  59
Barnaby, Rebecca  123
Barns. . 57, 63, 64, 66, 67, 242
Baruch.. 140, 141, 142, 145, 146
BasU  .30, 31, 33, 41, 332
BarziUai  81, 140, 142, 143
144, 150
Beatrice  202
Belinda  239
BeUe S  157
Benedict  38, 39, 40, 343
Benjamin.. 40,41,44,46, 74
81, 85, 145, 179,205, 314, 228
243, 244, 248, 277, 346, 349
Benjamin B  215, 216
Benjamin P  4^, 239, 377
Benjamin L  179, 207
Benjamin McM  118
Benjamin M  146
Berta  118
Bertie C  147
Bessie  163
Bessie E  149
Bethuel  194, 200
Bettie  58
Betsy.. 83, 105, 107, 113, 145
169. 182, 192, 195, 203, 232
234, 339
Betsy D  300

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371

PAGE.
Betsy J  185
Birdie  40
Bonney  1,56
Buel Smith  116
Bunnie  102
Burgess  39, 44
Burpee  133
Butler  56, 140, 145
Byron  194, 109, 302
C  277
C, C  277
Caleb  82
Calvin  232
Calvin H  238, 239
Carl W  231
Caroline 73, 107, 108, 129, 171
173, 204, 234
Carrie A  142
Carrie M,  174
CarroU  138
Castliana  70
Catherine,. 26, 27, 45, 54, 93
96, 100, 101, 161
Catherine E  151, 152
Catherine S  157
Celestia  221
Chancey  311
Charles  20,30,41,42, 92
98, 103, 113, 114, 118, 123
127, 213, 214, 215, 223, 225
228, 231, 233, 234, 235, 277
331, 333, 335
Charles A  133, 137, 199
Charles B... 66, 181, 182, 278
Charles 0  176
Charles E. . 117, 132, 184, 308
Charles P. . . .49, 108, 113, 137
150, 176, 197
Charles G.. 159, 190, 19.3, 195 196
Charles H.. 137,138,168, 378
Charles L  113

PAGE.
Charles Le Roy  ] 38
Charles M  162
Charles 0  51
Charles P  210
Charles R  191
Charles, Sir  93
Charles S  49, 147, 148
Charles W. . 40, 100, 236, 237
CharlesZ  160
Charlie  177
Charlie E  186
Charity  170
Charlotte V. ... 65, 93, 94, 182
214 215
Chauncey  179, 180,' 186
Chauncey B  180
Chauncey M  185
Chord  38
Chloe Ann  164
Christian  184
Christopher  97
Clara.. 51, 133, 158, 177, 180
225
Clara A  131
Clara L  211
Clara T  181
Clara Y  137
ClarabeU  220
Clarence  51, 219
ClarinaWade  168
Clarissa. . . . 1^8, 132, 194, 227
OlarindaL  155, 158
Clark  119, 231
Clark H  314
Clement  342, 349, 350
Clementina  93
Columbus  41
Columbus C  174, 175
Constautia  19
CordeHa  83, 161, 177
Cornelia  63, 143
Cornelia E  198
Corydon.  110, 111

372

Index.

PAGE.
Council  139
Crassie. ,  133
Cyrus  343
Cyrus G  , .... 84, 191
D. L  278
Dalinda  107
Dan... 134, 137, 218, 319, 335
276, 278
Dan W  219
Dana  115, 216
Daniel... 77, 78, 83, 104, 106
108, 109, 110, 113, 121, 127
133, 148, 185, 186, 223, 224
242, 251, 278
Daniel N  Ill, 112
Daniel W  141
Darwin 0  198
David.. . . 81, 83, 129, 131, 183
186, 206, 209, 311, 242, 251
David B  168, 169
David G  207
David H  169, 210
David J  47
David L  234, 277
David 0....  278
David T  49, 51
Delia  128, 228
DeHght  333
Delias  163, 166
DeUamy  178
DeviUo  322
DeviUo J  179
Dewitt  187
Dexter T  211
Diadiama  76, 202
Diamond  174
Dianna  120, 200
Dorothea  85
Dorothy  71, 96, 101, 333
E  278
EarlN  189

PAGE.
E. Blanche  193
Eddie  186
Edgar  107
Edgar C  148
Edgar J  190
Edgecomb  234
Edith  97
Edith B  198
Edith M  ,  189
Edmund  173
Edmund A  161
Edmund G  142
Edmund M  174
Edmund R  162
Edella  119
Edna  301, 216
Edna S  218
EdsenL  204, 205
Edward... 28, 56, 71, 75, 141
154, 158
Edward, Rev  141
Edward B  100
Edward C  212
Edward G. . 151, 152, 242, 276278
Edward G., Rev  142
Edward J  184, 243
Edward M  122
Edward S  197
Edward W  105
Edwin  57
Edwin B  130
Edwin F  119, 310
Edwin N  193, 193
Edwin R  130, 139
Edwin W  197
Elbert  \ . . . 39
Eleanor  32, 41, 186
Eleazer  78
Elenor  230
EHanor  32
Elias  228
Elias H  194

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373

PAGE.
EH  228
EHB  181
Elijah . . 85, 188, 189, 190, 193
212, 223
Elijah P  212
EHphalet  194, 211
EHsha.. 77, 82, 83,84,85, 86
153, 226, 227, 251, 285
Eliza.. 40, 124, 133, 141, 206
208
Eliza A  154, 160, 201
EHzabeth. 26, 30, 39, 45, 56, 57
60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 70, 71
72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 82
85, 87. 89, 90, 91, 94, 95, 96
97, 99, 101, 108, 124, 128
134, 135, 137, 140, 143, 146
170, 304, 205, 331, 333
EHzabeth A  134
Elizabeth D  338
EHzabeth E  43
EHzabeth G  156
Elizabeth J  183
Elizabeth R  158
Ella  133, 163, 220
Ella C  182
EUa D  178
EUa M  202
EUa V  207
Ellen. .. 24, 26, 28, 63, 67, 114
118, 122, 184
EUen E  157, 191
EUen M  197
Elmer  224
Elmira  211
Eloise  59
Elton P  119
Elvina  120
Elvira  200
Emeline  142, 180, 200, 203
Emilv  39,107. 126, 141
Emil'y S  '  157
Emma. . 46, 127, 144, 158, 232

PAGE.
Emma A  168, 177
EmmaE  148
Emma G  108, 134
Emma J  172, 197
Emma L  209
Emma M  48
EmmaS  197, 207
Eno  243
Enos  180
Enos P.... 147, 234, 235, 236
Ephraim  210
Erastus  141
Ered  66
Ernest  186
Ernest C  201
Ernest S  133
Esquire  185
Esther  83, 195, 313, 340
Esther A  107
Esther M  300
Esther P  196
Ethan  222
Ethel  177
Eugene  40
Eugenia. . . . 133, 139, 220, 222
Eunice.. 76, 88, 113, 114, 331
Eunice C  163
Eva  186
Eva D  318
Evalina  66
EvangeHne  320
Everton  340
Everett  136
Ezekiel  166, 169, 170, 171
Ezra.... 83,188, 192, 226, 227
229, 243
EzraM  212
EzraN  200
P  279
F. L. S  376
Fannie. . 41, 134, 175, 306, 307
211, 224, 229

374

Index.

PAGE.
Fannie A  112
Fannie L  213
Fannie P  312
Fannie S  49
Ferdinand  94
Ferdinand A  92
Fidelia  178
Plavel. . 172, 173, 174, 175, 176
Flora A  213
Florence.... 61,125, 126, 176
184, 186, 230
Florence E  199
Fosdick  170
Frances  38, 89, 333, 334
Francis. . . 35, 36, 67, 105, 379331
Prancis A  113, 197, 339
Francis B  134
Frank D . .  187
Prancis E  167, 168, 379
Prancis P  106
Francis J  107
Francis L  232
Prancis M  123, 135
Prancis W  231
Prancis P  335
Francis X  124
Prank... 59, 65, 127, 184, 218
220, 230, 233, 279. 288
Prank A  143
Prank B  118
Prank P  176
Prank L  193
FrankHn... 184, 308, 226, 227
Franklin H  138
Franklin P  129
FrankHn R  143
Fred  237
Fred J  239
Fred L  193
Fred W  220
Freddy C  186, 197

PAGE.
Frederick.... 82,133, 142, 143
Frederick A. 144, 147, 199, 217
Frederick C  233
Frederick M  181
Frederick W  35
Frederick W,, Jr  36
Predericka  36
Freelove  237
Frocene  157
G  379
GayR  173
George. . 17, 28, 29, 30, 31, 41
42, 47, 80, 81, 87, 92, 115
116, 117, 128, 129, 140, 141
143, 152, ]59, 170, 183, 184
188, 208, 209, 318, 220, 228
241, 243, 253, 279, 325, 326
327, 338, 339, 330, 331, 333
348, 349, 350
George A  48, 49, 150, 301
George C... 64,119, 145, 171
379
George D  151
George E  141, 143
George P  134
George G  143, 159
George H  145, 146, 279
George H.J  58, 59, 88
George L.. . 124, 125, 126, 317 279
George M  145, 146, 148
George 0  197
George R  233, 352
George S.... 92, 156, 157, 175
George T  187
George W. . . 50, 153, 155, 158
207, 212, 335, 379
Georgie  , 231
Georgiania  94
Georgette D  164
Gertrude  137
Gertrude M  134

Index.

375

PAGE.
Gilbert  150, 191, 279
Giles E.C  157
Gilkey A  193
Gillam, R  161
GUIman  202
Girard Robert  74
Grace. . . . 27, 90, 146, 170, 175
189, 218, 233
Goodey  344
Gordon  253
Green  139
Green P  212
Greenbury C  41
Griswold  76
Grosvenor R  49
Gurdon  82
Guy  134, 243
Hadley  318
Halsey P  212
Hamon  13, 22
Handley  80, 121
Hanna A  174
Hannah  85, 96
Hannah E  130
Hannah P  138
Hanson  12
Harmonious  176, 179
Harmonious V  179
Harriet. 59, 116, 120, 129, 146
170, 175, 185, 187, 189, 200 220
Harriet C  195, 217
Harriette G  149
Harriet L  130
Harriet S  143
Harriet V  146
Harris  243, 354
Harris B  173
Harris W  166, 167
Harry  337
Harry R  330
Harva  177

PAGE.
Harvey  173
Hattie.. 58, 131, 193, 200, 339
Hattie E  38
Hays  388
Helen ... 39, 94, 147, 152, 313
321, 330
Helen R  65
Helen S  110
Helen W  131
Hennie  99
Henrietta  167, 224
Henrietta L  167
Henry.. 17, 34, 36,28,73, 95
98, 99, 101, 113, 115, 133, 137
133, 135, 169, 170, 183, 185
186, 308, 213, 280, 325, 333
335
Henry A.  184, 280
Henry B  142
Henry C  61, 62, 144, 206
207, 214, 280
Henry E  151
Henry P  92, 193
Henry G  280
Henry H  121, 201, 203
Henry J  73, 143
Henry L  169
Henry M  146, 380
Henry N  Ill, 183, 184
HenrvS.... 40, 133, 1.34, 197
Henry T  109, 110, 112
Henry W... 99, 112, 118, 168
Hepsibah  186
Herbert  133
Herbert D  380
Herbert E  380, 285
Hester  55
Hezekiah  84, 153, 188
Hira Ransom  221
Hiram.. 107, 177, 181, 189, 303 304
Hiram J  318
Hiram W  219

376

Index.

PAGE.
Holmes  131
Homes  303, 304
Horace  187, 207
Horace J  207
Horace L  122
Hugh M  16, 62
Hugh W  162
Huldah  86, 88, 196, 310
Humphreys  343
Huntington  36
I. 0  45
Ichabod  261, 243
Ida  134, 207
Ida E  207
Ida Jane  217
Inez  186
Inez M  230
Ira. 79, 108, 112, 119, 139, 186
Ira Lewis  168
IraM  280
Irenus  117, 118
Isaac... 61, 135, 139, 233, 243
Isaac B  109, 157
Isabell  26, 29, 55, 90, 93
Israel  154, 191, 193

J....J. C.
J. E.
J. P.

 281
 381
 281
 140
J. H  209, 281
J. P  281
Jabez  194, 202, 203, 223
James.. 63, 75, 77, 78, 83, 86
88, 97, 98, 103, 114, 115, 116
117, 119, 130, 127, 132, 207
209, 229, 230, 237, 243, 246
248, 280, 284
James Allen  84, 153, 331
James E  85, 117, 121
James P  124, 127
James H  48, 60, 62, 168

PAGE.
James L  231, 232
James L. S  164
James R  238, 244
James W  130
James Z  50
Jane... 27, 38, 39, 54, 63, 56
69, 70, 72, 89, 90, 138, 157
186, 208, 209
Jane H  138
Jared  112
Jason  82, 83, 239
Jason 1  239
Jay  232
J. CarroU  158
Jefferson  129
.JefiersonT  131
Jenks  190
J. Ennals  102
Jennet  34, 333
Jennet C  188
Jenette M  184
Jennie  103, 167, 228
Jennie A  144
Jennie P  199
Jennie M  171
Jennie M. C  49
Jennings .... 57, 65, 66, 275
Jere  244
Jeremiah ... 99, 100, 189, 190
336
Jeremiah H. Rev  100
Jerry  337
Jerusha  85, 191
Jessie. . 191, 192, 193, 244, 359
Jessie .... 92, 93, 133, 144, 230
231, 233, 234, 347, 350
Jessie F  225
Jessie H  94, 231
Jessie L  213
Jessie M  174
Jessie P  94
Jeysee  259
Joan  24

Index.

377

PAGE.
Joanna  188, 212
Job.... 85,166, 173, 256, 364
Job W  100
Joe E  51
Joel  315, 316, 223
J. Henry  209
John . . 14, 16, 22, 23, 24, 37
38, 31, 53, 53, 65, 70, 71, 73
73, 74, 75, 77, 81, 82, 88, 91
92, 95, 98, 108, 110, 111, 121
133, 134, 140, 160, 161, 162
165, 171, 173, 174, 177, 180
200, 211, 231, 244, 255, 256
281, 288, 345, 346, 347, 348
John A  40, 44, 123, 281
John B . . . . 163, 200, 216, 317
John C  157, 206
John F  93
John P. B  163
John G  39, 58
John H  68, 281, 282
John M  63, 101, 103
John P ....... . 165, 183, 234
John Q  162
John S  216
John T  181
John W.. 33,41, 112, 161, 162
163, 176, 196, 282
Jona S  156
Jonah .... 75, 80, 208, 346, 348349
Jonathan. . . 57, 60, 61, 65, 140
150, 209, 244, 336, 339
Jonathan B  65
Jonathan R  118
Jonathan Sir  56, 57, 65
Joseph.... 20, 36, 41, 44, 74
84, 131, 179, 180, 183, 184
186, 308, 332, 334, 340, 241
344, 357, 282, 344, 346, 347348
JosephP  258
Joseph M  188
48

PAGE.
Joseph W  195, 196, 197
Josephine  63, 157
Josephus  234
Joshua . 203, 315, 334, 239, 245
Josiah.. 81, 105, 139, 309, 315
216, 226, 245, 259
Josiah Gale .... 154, 155, 156
Judd  135
Judith  55
Judith Ann  69
Julia  123, 129, 141
Julia A.... 116, 122, 124, 128
168
JuHa E  115, 143
Julia G  130
John L  123
JuHa M  258
Julian R  161, 162, 288
Juliette  224
Julius  141, 142
Julius A  115
Kate. . . 104, 215, 318. 327, 338
Kate D  161
Katie  52, 100
Katie L  163
Kate S  Ill
Kittie  179
Kirk  197
L  282
L. C  211
L. J  223
Laban  50, 51, 282
Ladeska  110
Lafayette  233, 282
Lambert  34
Laura. . 46, 62, 63, 70, 112, 184
193, 319, 334
Laura A  168
Laura B  60
Laura C  314
Laura E  HI, 122

378

Index.

PAGE.
Laura J  185
Laureatte B  199
Lauren  144, 202
Lavinia  121
Lawrence  288
Lawrence A  63, 64
Lawrence B. . . . 58, 59, 60, 276
Lawrence H  59
Lawrence R  58
Lawson  220
Leilla H  159
Leliah  132
Lemuel. 103, 18"^, 183, 245, 260
Lemuel M  117
Lemuel N  184
Lena  127
Lena S  233
Lenassa  211
Lennox  45
Leonard... 49, 90, 91, 94, 95
97, 187
Leonard F  152
Leonard Sir  88, 89
Leroy A  66
Leroy L  232, 233
Leroy W  131
Leslie M  .. . ,  199
Letta  182
Levi  186
Lewis. 65, 66, 69, 184, 282, 285
Lewis A  63, 282
Lewis 0  154, 157, 282
Libby  204
LiUie  46
Lillie May  68
Lirius N  200
Livia A  144
Livonia  47, 206
Lizzie  44
Lod W  171, 282
Lois  76, 180,205, 206
Lonon  190
Lora P  168

PAGE.
Lorania C  214
Lorena  41, 46
Lorenna C  49
Lorenzo  228
Lorin  '  120
Loring, E. Rev  119
Lottie C  100
Lottie H  188
Lottie L  133
Louda C  211
LouceU A  282
Louie M  176
Louisa. ... 134, 185, 217, 229
Louisa W  145
Loyd  50
Lucania  201
Lucinda  194, 195
Lucrissia  187
Lucy.. 38, 40, 65, 67, 106, 115
134, 182, 185, 221
Lucy A  200
LucyB  69
Lucy H  70
LucyM  51, 145
Lucy S  196
Luella  46, 184
Luez  204
Luman G  173
Lydia  82, 84, 188, 233
Lydia A  237
Lydia J  188
Lyman  27, 331, 333
Lyman G  179
Lymon  27
Mabel  225
Madeline  153
Maggie L  145
Maggie M  100
Malbis....  57
Malby  72
Malcolm F  185
MaHssa  219

Index.

379

PAGE.
Mallissa A  183
Manly  234
Marcus D. L  333
Marcus W  106
Maremus  183, 185
Moremus  185
Margarette. . 33, 30, 53, 54, 67
71, 90, 99, 103, 161, 200
207, 331
Mark E  121
Maria  73, 114, 134, 141
Maria L  146
Mariah  , . ,  227
Marian  210
Marie S  143
Marion Joril  166
Marmaduke... 16,17,18, 27
28, 55, 56, 65, 67, 68, 91, 345
335, 336
Marmaduke B  57, 65, 68
Marmaduke C  63
Marmaduke Sir  56
Martha. . 39, 42, 61, 66, 67, 70
77, 104, 132, 182, 185
Martha A  43, 48, 183, 185
Martha L  191
Martha M  141
Martha R  , . 50
Marshall  183
Martie  143
Martin.... 203, 204,234, 253283
Martin W  197
Marvin  80, 119, 205
Marvin C  120
Marvin H  118
Mary .... 38, 30, 34, 38, 40, 43
45, 55, 56, 70, 71, 73, 73, 77
79, 84, 88, 90, 91, 93, 95, 96
97, 99, 103, 131, 133, 138
129, 140, 146, 148, 171, 175
183, 207, 223, 225, 336, 337
335, 331, 334

PAGE.
Mary A  90, 145, 308, 338
Mary Amelia  36
Mary Ann. ... 53, 80, 113, 134
134, 170, 311
Mary C  115, 144, 303
Mary B.... 43, 49, 59, 63, 65
103, 112, 125, 142, 144, 162
184, 202
Mary Eugene  220
Mary Evaline  49
Mary P  207
Mary G  158
Mary H  58, 60, 148, 150
Mary 1  118
Mary Jane  151
Mary L  70, 187, 190, 217
Mary M  104
Mary Peyton  63
Mary R  118, 213
Mary W  148, 162
" Massa Jane"  48
Mathew.. . . 17, 27, 33, 55, 68
70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76. 340, 341
342, 343, 344, 345, 346
Mathias  136, 137
MatUda  47, 204
Matilda E  49, 161
MattieB  118
Maude  332
MaudS  147
Maurice  141
Mayhew  121, 122
McAuther  237
Mehitable  215
Mercy  106, 170
Michael  98
Milan H  383
Milan N  ¦  301
MiUburn  186
Millisa  185
Milton  137
Milton E  147
Milton H  136

380

Index.

PAGE.
Minnie  63, 133, 309, 339
Minnie B  147
Minnie Lee  68
Minattie 0  169
Minerva  ,  34, 139
Minerva Eulalie  36
Miniock  250
Minor York  218
MitcheU J  171
MoUie  133
Molly  307
Morgana  235
Mortimore Edwards  220
Mosses  170
Mountain  67
Myra E  199
Mystic  224
Nancy. . . 40, 41, 138, 196, 327
236
Nancy D  „  150
Nancy E  161
Nancy G  66
Naomi  233
Nathan... 85, 86, 105, 107, 153
154, 159, 169, 170, 187, 193
222, 228, 230, 233, 234, 241
245, 261
Nathan E  158, 160
Nathan R  107, 231
Nathaniel ... 74, 85, 161, 164
192, 193, 194, 203, 330, 223
233, 340, 346, 349
Nathaniel B  81, 140, 150
Nathaniel L  150
Needham  139
Nehemiah. 80, 98, 99, 101, 103
103, 133, 345, 261, 333
NeUie  65, 141, 177, 217
Nellie J  179
Nellie M  175
Nelly  153
Nelson  183, 195, 212

PAGE.
Nelson B  201
Nelson M  151, 152
Nettie  102
Neville  308
Newark  90, 91
Newman  65, 67
Newton  288
Nicholas. . . 13, 22, 41, 43, 63
383
Nicolas Pino  63
NilesC  107, 194, 361
Noah  83
Noble  141
Noma  164, 337
Nora  66
Norbonne J  164
Norman  133, 143, 143
Norman A  184
Norman C  143
Norman E  191
Norton Thomas  54
Oberson  345
Onslow  73
Orlando  187
Olinda  136, 316
Olive  136, 177, 323
OHver  316
Olivia  116
Orion  189
Ormond W  199
Orrin P  187
Orrin W  187
Orion  46
Orville  136
Osborn Thaddeus, Rev. ... 107
Oscar  220,221, 239
Oscar C  100
Pamelia  199
Parkhurst Ransom  221
Parmelia  40
Parmeno  26

Index.

381

PAGE.
Parnell  I70
Patience  85, 141, 186
Paulina  26
Penelope  57, 140
Penelope S  63
Perrin  234
Perry  211, 245
Perry Green  209, 312, 262
Peter C  128, 133
Philander  114
PhUinda  113
Philip  349
Philipp  90
Philo D  166
Phineas  205, 206, 245, 263
Phoebe  227
Phoebe I  213
Polly.. 113, 173, 182, 186, 195
209, 210, 336
Polly E  300
PrisciUa  36, 39, 226, 227
Prudence  26, 75, 86, 346
Quiros  67, 68
R. S  283
Rachel  117
RainviUe, Albert de  19
Ralph Ed  160
Ralzaman  173
Ransom  222, 223
Ransom E  201
Ransom P  221
Ray  213
Rebecca.... 51, 52, 56, 57, 60
62, 64, 65, 78, 102, 105, 108
112, 140, 224
Rebecca G  43, 106
Regus  239
Renald  77, 88
Rescine  41
Reuben  179, 182
Rhoda.^  113, 140, 150

tAGB.
Rice  246, 263
Richard. ... 38, 51, 67, 73, 105
137, 128, 132, 187, 205, 210
315, 345, 365
Richard A  64
Richard B  306, 308
Richard B. B  308
Richard E  317, 318
Richard H  136
Richard M  60, 364
Richard Marmaduke.. . 57, 59 61
Richard Marmaduke Barns 58
Richard P  315, 316
Richard R  128, 131
Ried  231
RiswaU  245
Rizpah  216
Robert. . 16, 24, 27, 38, 60, 61
63, 88, 97, 98, 103, 116, 134
137, 133, 134, 339, 330, 346
265, 283, 325
Robert B  122
Robert G  132
Robert L  110
Robert Nelson  122
Robert R  61
Robert S  383
Robert W  63
Robert Wattrus  164
Robertson  164
Roger.. 18, 27, 54, 56, 70, 89
90, 91, 95, 96
Roger, Rev  96
Roger, Sir  55, 56
Roma  100
Rose Caroline  73
Rosanna  47
Rosanna Deborah  48
RoselleE  207
RosweU  87, 265
RosweU A  151
Roswell, Rev  86, 87

382

Index.

PAGE
Roy  174
Roy Barns  67
Royden  174
Ruel  79, 105, 106
Rufus.. 104, 105, 245, 266, 283
Rufus H  283
Ruhamah  131
Rupel  240
Rupert 0  40, 41
Ruth  75, 204, 228
Ruth L  160, 198
RuthN  198
S  283
S. H  287
S. M  276
Sabina  67
Sabra  82, 83, 185
Sadie  177
Sadie W  100
SaUie  170, 334
Sallie P  58
Sallie M  59
Sally  202, 206, 226
Salmon C  200
Sammie  105
Samuel. 28, 39, 52, 53, 54, 77
79, 80, 86, 98, 102, 118, 124
126, 135, 136, 178, 188, 233
226, 238, 331, 246, 267, 336350
Samuel B. M  145, 148
Samuel C  162
Samuel F  308
Samuel G  114, 116, 288
Samuel R  213, 383
Samuel, Rev  54
Sandford W  183
Sarah. . . 33, 40, 52, 75, 76, 77
78, 84, 85, 86, 103, 105, 114
120, 134, 140, 141, 176, 181
205, 231, 236, 346
Sarah A.... 106, 128,178, 196

PAGE.
Sarah 0  158
Sarah B.... Ill, 137, 217, 330
Sarah EmeHne  238
Sarah H  158
Sarah J  233
Sarah Jane  103
Sarah K  157
Sarah L  113, 307
Sarah Maria  335
Sarah S  157
Sarah V  313
Sarefta E  49
Saxton  185
Sayles Francis  331
Sebaken  218
Sella  219
Sephrona  177
Seth  82, 134, 136, 137, 139
173, 240, 346, 368, 369
Seth Lee  316, 217
SethR  210
SethS  135, 136, 138
Seward  178
Shelden. 128, 131, 174, 175, 190
Sherwin C  175
Sidney  114, 116, 229, 230
Sidney A  230
Sidney H  117
Sidney Thomas  164
Silas  81, 127, 134, 135, 136
316, 246, 269
Silas S  196, 197
Simion  223
Simon  52
Simon Brooks  215
Singleton  42
Sion  139
Sir Hamen  14
Sir Hercules  33
Sirena  39
Solomon  47, 50, 384
Solomon C  47
Sophia  94, 120, 176, 236

Index.

383

PAGE.
Sophia C  146
Sophia M  ..... 70
Sophie  123
Stanley  39
Statira  196
Stella 1  130
Stephen  85, 113, 166, 188
191,206, 218, 284, 325, 340
341, 344, 348, 349
Stephen H  196
Steward J  164
Stewart W  284
Sue  39
SuUivan  192
Susan.... 55, 93, 103, 109, 153
161, 165, 185, 211, 234, 256
Susanna  70, 71, 84
Susannah  55, 95, 136, 347
Sydney  93
Sykes  30, 40, 246
Sylvanus  108, 153, 192
Sylvester G  284
Sylvia  251
Tancred  307
Tapley. . 56, 63, 64, 65, 66, 336
Tarpley. . 56, 63, 64, 65, 66, 336
Thackston  165
Thankful  223
Thelestres A  152
Theodocia  167
Theodora M  119
Theodore K  160
Theodore L  284
Theresa  229
Thirsa  107
Thomas.... 14,15, 16, 17, 22
23, 34, 25, 27, 38, 29, 39, 53
53, 54, 68, 78, 84, 90, 96, 102
114, 133, 164, 165, 172, 173
174, 175, 176, 177, 202, 346
271, 325, 343, 348, 349
Thomas A. 124, 187, 196, 197

PAGE.
Thomas C  159
Thomas D  117, 174, 209
Thomas P  118
Thomas J  104
Thomas Lynden  165
Thomas N  162
Thomas R  175, 176, 207
Thomas, Rev  96
Thomas S  143, 144, 161
162, 178
Thomas, Sir  93
Thomas W  58,180, 181
Tifft  211
Timothy  139, 133, 246
272, 284
Tirzah M  204
Titus  79, 104, 105, 106
Tobias  51, 53
Townsend  139
Townsend A  131
Townsend C  131
Tressa S  187
Trueman  108, 109, 110
111, 113
T. Stanley  161
Underwood  69
Upson H  148
Upton  33
Uriah E  183
Ursula  173
Vellma  119
VUas  146
Vincent  42
Vinton  350
Virginia  61, 62, 64
Volinda  32
Volney  222, 224
W  284
W. H. B  139
Wait Joseph  77

384

Index.

PAGE.
WaUace W  158
Walter  214
Walter G  192, 193
Walter H  100
Walter P  221
Walter S  65, 185
Warden  185
Warren  126, 194, 195, 210
213, 284
Warren B  158
Warren L  110
Warren W  136
Watrus. 41, 160, 163, 165, 246
Watson  38
Watts  193
W. Cheney  218
Wealthy  83
WeUs E  173
Wesley  140, 231
Westley  224
Wheatley  99, 100
Wheeler  104
Whitney C  210
WiU  319
WiUH  319
Willard  113
Willard C  191
WilHam ... 14, 15, 17, 22, 24
25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 38, 41, 42
44, 45, 51, 53, 54, 55, 61, 65
66, 68, 70, 71, 73, 73, 89, 91
93, 95, 96, 98, 103, 105, 107
110, 116, 131, 141, 151, 167
168, 171, 309, 310, 311, 212
228, 231, 246, 347, 273, 284
385, 325, 332

PAGE.
WiUiam A  190
WiUiam B  99
William C  106, 214
WiUiam Clark  214
William D  117, 118
William E. . . 73, 143, 163, 171
236, 237
William P  100, 176, 284
William Franklin  207
William G.... 44,93,117, 237
284, 286
WilHam H.. 147, 148, 154, 167
168, 169, 197, 202, 217, 218
237, 285
WiUiam J  61, 62, 172
WiUiam L. . . 70, 125, 214, 285
WiUiam M  50, 146, 174
William P  100
WUHam R  181
William, Rev  119
WiUiam S. . . 64, 133, 155, 159
William, Sir.... 15, 16, 23, 24
WiUiam T  170, 171
WUliam W.. 40, 101, 103, 104
107, 194, 274, 385
Winnefred  137
Woodfield  73
Wolcott  179, 183
Wolsten  171, 176
Wright  315, 285
Zachariah.... 39, 78, 114, 115
116, 247
Zanoni  222
Zina Amanda  129

ERRATA.
12th line, page 144, between 1831 and at, should read born.
13th line, page 144, instead of 1821, should read 1811.
Henry C. Beckwith, U. S. V, S., 1861-65, should appear in
Roll of Honor.

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