Silas Beardsley (1761 - 1820)

Born 7 May 1761 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Catharine (Treadwell) Whitaker — married 14 May 1789 in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Jul 1820 at age 59 in Stevensville, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States

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

Biography

Private Silas Beardsley served with 7th Connecticut Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Silas was born in 1761. He was the son of John Beardsley and Joanna Fairchild. He passed away in 1820. He married Catherine Treadwell 14 May 1789. "Moved to Stevensville, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 1794. His neck was broken in a fall from a load of hay in 1820. Clothier and farmer. His eldest daughter taught the first school ever taught on Apolacon Creek, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, and was the first person married in the town." Silas and Catherine were the parents of eight children: Eunice, William, Mehitabel, Joanna, Sarah, Catherine, Silas and John.^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ 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. Holt Record #147, Pg. 80
2. ↑ Genealogical History of the Beardsley-lee Family in America by Rev. Isaac Haight Beardsley - Published 1902. Pg. 353

Additional Sources

• 1790 United States Federal Census - Census Place: New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut; Series: M637; Roll: 1; Page: 236; Image: 270; Family History Library Film: 0568141
• Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) - Original data: **White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
• Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) - Original data:
  • White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 - Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
• Find A Grave Memorial #32597889: Steadwell Cemetery, Middletown Center, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
• Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War - Original data:
  • Johnston, Henry P., ed.. The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service During the War of the Revolution 1775-1783. Vol. I-III. Hartford, CT, USA: 1889.
• Gilmore, Jean Fairchild. More Fairchilds In America (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 2001) Page 12.

• "Silas kept a diary of the names of the families who came to that area of Pennsylvania from Connecticut..."

• "United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9WB-MXPR?cc=2068326&wc=M61K-F36%3A355079501 : 21 December 2016), 20-Connecticut (jacket 121-124) > image 685 of 892; citing NARA microfilm publication M246 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1980).