Daniel Erastus Beardsley (1779 - 1871)

Born 15 Jul 1779 in Fairfield, Connecticut

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Descendants

Died 28 Apr 1871 at age 91 in Gilbertsville, New York

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

Biography

Daniel was born in 1779. He was the son of Josiah Beardsley and Abigail Bulkeley. He passed away after 1871. ^[1]

He was born at Mill River, now Fairfield. Soon after he married, they moved to Butternuts, New York (Gilbertsville). He bought 50 acres of land, partly cleared, and built a log house. James Wallace Beardsley writes, “I can remember grandfather as a very old man, sitting in his favorite armchair, in the old house, then occupied by Uncle Chauncey.” [Holt]

Daniel, son of Josiah, was born at Stratford, July 15, 1779. He was a farmer all his active life. In politics he was a Whig. He lived at Butternuts, New York, but with his wife made frequent visits to his old home in Stratford, and upon his return, used to take a load of clams, then a great luxury at places distant from the shore. Their last visit was in 1843. He was a thrifty farmer and used to buy pork of all the farmers in the section where he lived, packed the pork, smoking the hams and shoulders. He found a good market for this meat among the men then building the Delaware & Hudson canal. He became well to do. "I have heard speak of it as a remarkable fact", says a descendant, "that one year he made clear a thousand dollars, which was a large when in those days, when the best dairy butter sold for from three to ten cents a pound, and brown sugar at over twenty cents a pound. He married, November 11, 1804, Hannah Achsah Hurd. Children: Elvira born June 6, 1806, died in 1850; Erastus, August 12, 1812; Chauncey, 1816, died 1879; William Hurd, November 30, 1818, died in 1886. [New England Families]

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 #303, Pg. 142.
• New England Families - Genealogical and Memorial by William Richard Cutter, A.M., Vol. IV, Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1913
• with family and 6 sources: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/KCBK-Q25
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC14-SWC : 23 December 2020), Daniel Bardsley, Butternuts, Otsego, New York, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: Nat...
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC43-M8G : 18 February 2021), Erastus Beardsley, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8VP-YQJ : 29 May 2021), Daniel Beardsly, 1870.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15712016/daniel-beardsley

Footnotes

1. ↑ Information from Beardsley family researcher Nick Dann, Tuesday, January 6, 2015.