Daniel Beardsley Sr. (abt. 1645 - 1730)

Born about 1645 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Son of William Beardsley and Mary (Harvey) Beardsley

Husband of Ruth (Goodwin) Beardsley — married 1669 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 7 Oct 1730 at about age 85 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut

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Daniel Beardsley Sr. is a descendant of the immigrant William Beardsley. Testing currently indicates that William's male lineage belongs to Y DNA haplogroup I-L1483, Analysis of a FTDNA Big Y test.

Daniel Beardsley Sr. is a descendant of the immigrants William Beardsley and Mary Harvie.

Biography

Daniel Beardsley was born at Stratford, Connecticut, 1644 Vol. 2, Page 1131; died at Stratford, 7 Oct. 1730 Vol. 2, Page 1131. According to Orcutt, Daniel married Ruth, the daughter of Obadiah Wheeler, Vol. 2, Page 1131 however Richardson says she was the daughter of Thomas Goodwin. Great Migration 1634-1635, A-B. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 1, A-B, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. Pages 226 Holt shows him married to Ruth Goodwin, born, 2 Sept. 1622; died, 4 May 1732, daughter of Thomas Goodwin of Milford, Connecticut.

In the public records of the colony of Connecticut, we find that Daniel Beardsley of Stratford, propounded for freeman at a court of elections held at Hartford, May 13, 1675. In 1724/5 he gave to his son John, a certain piece of land in Fairfield, in Beardsley’s neck’, and also gave to him, dwelling barn, and lot in Stratfield Village. He was one of the overseers chosen at a town meeting, 1693, to consider ways for the destruction of wolves. His name was in the Stratford tax list, for “White Hills Purchase.” Both he and his wife Ruth, were buried in the Congregational Burying-place in Stratford, but the tombstones have disappeared. [Holt]

DNA Confirmation

• Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing on Family Tree DNA. Lloyd Beardsley, FTDNA kit # 372212, and his 9th cousin 1x removed, Harold (Beardsley) Recoy-Beardsley, FTDNA kit # 293556, match at a Genetic Distance of 5 on 67 markers, thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is William Beardsley, the 8x great grandfather of Lloyd Beardsley and 9x great grandfather of Harold (Beardsley) Recoy-Beardsley.
• Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing on Family Tree DNA. Lloyd Beardsley, FTDNA kit # 372212, and his 9th cousin 1x removed, John Beardsley, FTDNA kit # B2385, match at a Genetic Distance of 7 on 67 markers, thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is William Beardsley, the 8x great grandfather of Lloyd Beardsley and 9x great grandfather of John Beardsley. Genetic distance affected by recLOH in kit B2385.
• Y-DNA confirmations can be verified via Beardsley/Beardslee DNA Project at FTDNA

Sources

• Beardsley Genealogy: The Family of William Beardsley, One of the First Settlers of Connecticut.Compiled and edited by Nellie Beardsley Holt and Charles Eleazer Holt. Published at West Hartford, Connecticut, 1951. Daniel Beardsley is Holt Record #8, Pg. 10. [1]
• Source: S291Samuel Orcutt, Fairfield County Historical Society, Bridgeport, Conn. A history of the old town of Stratford and the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut". Vol. 2. Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor] publication-place = [New Haven, Conn], 1886. Google Books
• Source: S334 Title: A Gen. Dict. of the First Settlers of New England Author: James Savage Publication: Name: Genealogical Publ Co, Inc., Baltimore.
• Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 48.
• Boyle, John Neville. Historical Notes and Maps, Newtown, 1708-1758 (Bee Pub. Co., Newtown, Conn., 1945) Page 12: "The Proprietors of 1708"