Dinah (Curtiss) Beardsley (abt. 1690 - abt. 1750)

Born about 1690 in Stratford, Connecticut

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Descendants

Died about 1750 at about age 60 in Connecticut

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Biography

Dinah Curtiss was born about 1690. She was the daughter of Benjamin Curtis (1652-1733) and Esther Judson (1660-1713)^[1]

Dinah Curtis married Nathan Beardsley 26 June 1718, in Stratford, Connecticut^[2] Nathan was the son of Daniel & Ruth (Goodwin) Beardsley.^[3]

She died after the will of her husband 6 Aug 1750.^[3]

Children'^[4]

1. Nehemiah Beardsley b. 31 Jan 1719/20, son of Nathan & Phebe*
2. Hester Beardsley b. 23 Apr 1723, son of Nathan & Dinah
3. Nathan Beardsley b. 8 Apr 1726, son of Nathan & Dinah
4. John Beardsley+ b. 23 Aug 1732, son of Nathan & Dinah

* The Curtiss Family Society website, makes note of the fact that she is sometimes called Phebe. Was this a clerical error or was she actually referred to as Phebe?

Sources

1. ↑ The Curtiss Family Society website cites this as from Jacobus: Families of Old Fairfield, but the reference is not where they say it is.
2. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Jacobus, Donald Lines, MA (compiler, editor.) History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. Fairfield, Conn.: The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930.
4. ↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1870: Stratford (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.

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