Bethiah (Brewster) Parish (1702 - 1742)

Born 5 Apr 1702 in Preston, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of William Parish — married 23 May 1738 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut Colony, New England

Descendants

Died Feb 1742 at age 39 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut

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Biography

Bethiah Brewster⁵ (Daniel⁴, Benjamin³, Jonathan², William¹) was born April 5, 1702, in Preston, Connecticut, the daughter of Daniel Brewster and Hannah (Gager) Brewster.^[1][2] She was baptized in a few months on June 7, 1702, at the First Preston Congregational Church.^[3]

Bethia Brewster 1737 Signature

Bethiah married William Parrish on May 23, 1738 in Windham, Connecticut.^[1][2][4] She was his second wife, and he married a third time after her death.^[1] She would have spent the short term of their marriage, raising his children and their daughter Bethiah, who was born Sep. 26, 1739.

Two different death dates for Bethiah have been found. The Barbour Collection of Town Vital Records lists the death of Bethiah Parish as Feb. 26, 1741/2, in Windham, Connecticut.^[5] "The Brewster Book," a family record, kept by successive generations of contemporary Brewsters, states her death as Feb. 8, 1741.^[2] A legible gravestone for Bethiah has not been found to confirm either date. Her daughter, Jerusha, was born Feb. 1, and died on the 14th, so Bethiah probably died from the complications of childbirth.

Children:^[1]

1. Bethia b 26 Sep 1739 , Wednesday
2. Jerusha b 1 Feb 1740/1 Sunday; d 14 Feb 1741

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Merrick, Barbara Lambert (compiler). Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and the Fifth Generation Descendants of his son Jonathan. Plymouth, Mass: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} The Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- .p. 169; Vol 1 p 195
3. ↑ Connecticut Chrurch Records: Index Preston First Congregational Church 1698-1883. Connecticut State Library, 1943.
4. ↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) (From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.) p. 39 Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
5. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. Perhaps the original record should be checked to see if there was a transcription error.

• Greenlaw, Lucy Hall. "Early Generations of the Brewster Family." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 53 (Jan, Jul, Oct 1899), p. 288. Online Archives. NEHGS. www.newenglandancestors.org
• Parish, Roswell. John Parish of Groton, Mass., and Some of His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1909) Vol. 63, Page 366.
• The Bi-Centennial Celebration, First Congregational Church of Preston, Connecticut, 1698-1898 (The Society, Preston, 1900) Page 137. Baptism record.