Elizabeth (Barnes) Beecher (1695 - 1765)

Born 10 Nov 1695 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Beecher — married about 1715 in New Haven County, Connecticut [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 1765 at about age 69 in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Elizabeth Barnes was born 10 Nov 1695 in New Haven, Connecticut to Thomas & Abigail (Frost) Barnes, ^{[1][2] [3]}

She was baptized 6 Dec 1696 (age 1), at the First New Haven Congr. Church, New Haven, Connecticut. ^[1]

Elizabeth married John Beecher. ^[1] John was baptized Oct 6 1689 in New Haven, CT, d Apr 15 1756 in Cheshire, CT^[2]

She died 1765. ^{[1] [2]} An inventory of her estate was taken and distribution made to only son and four daughters (unnamed).^[4]

Children born in New Haven.^[5]

1. Jemima Beecher (1717-1727)
2. Experience (b. as Obedience) Beecher (1719-1789), ^[6]
3. Isaac Beecher (1721-1722)
4. Isaac Beecher (1723-1791)
5. Abigail Beecher (1726- )
6. Abel Beecher (1728-1728)
7. Elizabeth Beecher (1729- )
8. Solitary Beecher (1732-1751)
9. Jemima Beecher (1734-1813)
10. John Beecher (1739-1740)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Families of New Haven Vol. I, pg 115-116, Barnes - Fam. 1 # 5-vii
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Families of New Haven Vol. I, pg 163, Beecher - Fam. 1 # 2-v
3. ↑ Vital Records of New Haven 1649-1850 Part I. (Hartford: The Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917), p. 108.
4. ↑ Barnes, Trescott. The Barnes Family Yearbook (Grafton Press, New York, 1907) Vol. 1, Page 17
5. ↑ Families of New Haven Vol. I, pg 170-71, Barnes - Fam. 6
6. ↑ Experience Families of New Haven Vol. I, pg 154, Beach - Fam. 10 #1

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven (New Haven Genealogical Magazine)