Benjamin Beach (1673 - abt. 1720)

Born 3 Mar 1673 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Husband of Mary (Hitchcock) Beach — married 1695 in CT

Descendants

Died about 1720 at about age 46 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey

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Biography

Benjamin Beach was born March 3, 1673 in Stratford, Fairfield, Conn. He was orphaned at age four and was probably brought up by his married sister Elizabeth in Wallingford Conn.

He married Mary Hitchcock in 1695. In 1714 he moved his family to New Jersey, first to Newark, later to Hanover, but returning to Newark. Benjamin and Mary had eight children (four girls and four boys).

Died after 1717 in Newark, New Jersey.

Sources

• Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 151.

• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:9MG6-QGD : accessed 6 January 2019), entry for Benjamin Beach; file (2:2:2:MM9R-SKR), submitted 21 March 2000 by dkfrost2718300

• Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, Connecticut, Down to 1721 (n.p., ?) Page 17: see father's will
• Doherty, Frank J. The Settlers of the Beekman Patent (1990) Vol. 2 [Dutchess Co., NY], Page 423.
• Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (New Haven, Conn. : Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1886) Part 2, Page 1123
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven (Clarence D. Smith, Rome, New York, 1922-1932) Volumes 1-9. vol 1, p 151.
• http://www.teglis.com/ft/b/blg.html
• McClaughry, Charles. Genealogy of the Beach Family of Connecticut (n.p., 1900) Page 36