Truman Beers (1756 - 1828)

Born 1756 in Connecticut,

Ancestors

Husband of Amarillis Tousey — married about 1784 in Newtown, Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 22 Feb 1828 at about age 72 in Stamford, Delaware County, New York, USA

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Biography

Truman Beers was born in 1756, son of Abraham Beers and Sarah Glover. died 22 Feb 1828 at Stamford, Delaware County, New York, USA;^[1] married Amarillis Tousey, born 26 April 1759 at Newtown, Fairfield County Connecticut, died 1844, daughter of John Tousey (1732-1776) and Rebecca (Booth) Tousey (abt. 1735-1803); burial place unproven.

Probably born at Newtown, where his parents resided, moved to Hobart (then part of Stamford) New York, after 1790.^[2]

Children of Truman Beers and Amarillis (Tousey) Beers:

• James, probably the son in the 1890 Census, married Susan Benizette,
• Elizabeth, b. 1780-90, died 5 Feb 1838 in Delhi, New York, married there Marcus Noble, b. abt 1885 in New Milford, Connecticut,
• Anna, b abt 1789, died 28 May 1853, married Thomas Montgomery, b. 1783, died 15 February 1870.
• David Tousey, b. 13 July 1795 at Hobart, Delaware County, New York.
• Harriet , b. 1 Jan 1801, died at Durham, NY 17 Dec 1877, married Jonathan Cowles, b. 29 May 1899.

Research Note:

From: "A History of Stamford" by Charles D. Griffin:

TRUMAN BEERS was residing in the town in 1792 on the east side of the highway opposite "the old schoolhouse on the green" and his neighbors on the north were the Lambs and Daniel Clark, the sites of whose residences are now in the village of Stamford. He was a man much esteemed, and in after years he moved to Stamford village and built a two-story house with a square roof, which has since been changed, and is now (1880s) the residence of S.B. Champion, the proprietor of the Stamford Mirror. He died on the twenty-second of February, 1828, at the age of 72 years, and was buried at Hobart.

Named in papers in his Father's 1781 Will ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115437113/truman-beers: accessed 10 March 2023), memorial page for Truman Beers (1756–22 Feb 1828), Find a Grave Memorial ID 115437113, citing Saint Peters Episcopal Church Cemetery, Hobart, Delaware County, New York, USA; Maintained by Mookie (contributor 47515129).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1790", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:XHKV-XV2 : Mon Mar 13 12:40:01 UTC 2023), Entry for Truman Beers, 1790.
3. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9049/007626327_01188/2550177?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/21748946/person/400146095657/facts/citation/1100360363350/edit/record#?imageId=007626327_01188

• 1890: Living in Newtown, prior to removal to Delaware, per United Stated Census.^[4]
• Regan, Mary Louise, compiler, The Beers Genealogy, Volume Two, The descendants of Anthony Beers of Fairfield, Connecticut through his son, John, (Palatine, Illinois: Francis. A. Regan, 1974) pp 46-7. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/228216/?offset=3#page=52&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
• Find a Grave
• Newtown's History and Historian, Ezra Levan Johnson by Johnson, Ezra Levan, 1832-1917; Johnson, Jane Eliza (Camp), 1837 Genealogy of the Beers Family - Abraham descendants on page 11