Ruth (Peck) Beach (abt. 1660 - 1686)

Born about 1660 in Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Beach — married 12 May 1680 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 5 Dec 1686 at about age 26 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

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Biography

Ruth Peck, daughter of Paul and Martha (Hale) Peck,^[1] was born about 1660 or 1661.^[2][3]

She died 5 December 1686 in Wallingford, about six weeks after the birth of her fourth child.,^[1][2][3] Of Ruth's four children with Thomas Beach, the only surviving child was Ruth Beach, who married Samuel Fairchild of Stratford.^[1]

Ruth ^[4] married Thomas BEACH, ceremony conducted by Captain Allyn, a Hartford magistrate.^[1]

Research Notes

Savage mentions potential daughters of Paul Peck, one being Ruth.^[5]

The above mentioned work of Savage (published 1860), as regards the family of Paul Peck was corrected by Donald Lines Jacobus in The Family of Paul Peck, of Hartford, Connecticut, published in TAG, Vol 9, pp 82, in 1932. Jacobus uncovers the will of Paul Peck, Sr., written about nine years after the death of Ruth (Peck) Beach. In it, Paul Peck names his granddaughter Ruth Beach.^[1]

".. and thus the wife of Thomas Beach is identified as a daughter of Paul Peck."^[1]

Also look at Torrey's Marriages, page 54. "BEACH, THOMAS (1659-1741) & 1/wf Ruth PECK (-1686) 12 May 1680; Wallingford, CT. Need to see Wallingford sources.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} The Family of Paul Peck, of Hartford, Connecticut, by Donald Lines Jacobus, TAG Vol 9, (1932), pages 82, 83, 87
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Helen D. Love Scranton. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974).Volume I, page 149.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Hartford, Connecticut: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952), 261. Cit. Date: 10 Feb 2018; "Ruth (Peck), b. abt. 1661; d. at Wallingford, 5 Dec. 1686."
4. ↑ Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 76.
5. ↑ James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981), III: 382, 383. "Two more ds. are by some tradit. giv. to this first Paul, one, without a name of bapt. is said to have m. Joseph Benton of Tolland; and the other call. Ruth, wh. is made to m. 12 May 1680, Thomas Beach of Wallingford; but neither is very prob."

• Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Family of Paul Peck, of Hartford, Connecticut, The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) TAG Vol 9 (1932), pages 82, 83, 87

See also:

• Hale, House and Related Families Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978)
• McClaughry, Charles. Genealogy of the Beach Family of Connecticut (n.p., 1900) Page 156