Nehemiah Beach (abt. 1750 - abt. 1792)

Born about 18 May 1750 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Middlebrook) Beach — married about 17 Jan 1771 in Connecticut

Descendants

Died about 1792 at about age 41 in Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Nehemiah Beach was born to Benjamin and Patience (Burroughs) Beach on the 18th of May 1750 in Stratford Township, Fairfield, Connecticut.^[1][2][3] He was the son of Benjamin Beach and Patience Burroughs. He was baptized in Trumbull, CT, 20 May 1750^[4]

Married

Nehemiah Beach married Sarah Middlebrook, daughter of John and Sarah Wakelee Middlebrook, on 17 January 1771. Widows name given as Sarah in probate records.^[5] There may have been 10 children born to this union.

Children

• 1 Hannah Beach
• 2 John Beach
• 3Mary Beach b. 1775
• 4Hannah (Beach) Beardsley b.1778-08-20
• 5Stephen Beach b. 1779-05-08
• 6Sarah Beach b. 1780-08-00
• 7 Nehemiah Middlebrook Beach
• 8Benjamin Boroughs Beach b. 1785-02-17
• 9Eunice (Beach) Mallett b. 1787-07-01
• 10 Levi Beach

Death

Nehemiah died in 1792 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA^[5]

In 1792, his estate was represented as insolvent.^[6]

His inventory was completed on 31 August 1792 in Stratford.^[7]

The widow's dower was set out to Sarah.^[8]

Notes

There are two different dates for his birthday in the profile with sources one is 20th of May and the other 18th of May these need to be searched and corrected to the right date. 20th may well be christening date.

Sources

1. ↑ Beach, Nehemiah in "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database FamilySearch : 3 December 2014, Nehemiah Beach, 18 May 1750; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
2. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Stratford Vital Records 1639-1840:pg 67 Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
3. ↑ "Connecticut, Church Records, 1660-1955," database, FamilySearch (3 October 2019), Benjamin Beach in entry for Nehemiah Beach, ; citing Birth, Connecticut, United States, Connecticut State Library, Hartford.
4. ↑ Connecticut. Church Records Index.Trumbull Vol. 115, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Probate Files Collection, Early to 1880; Author: Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut); Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut, Case Number:77 item Description: Probate Packets, Bassett-Beardslee, Jared, 1770-1880
6. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-2 1782-1795”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-B3CR  : 17 November 2022), FHL microfilm 007627132, image 399, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 2, 1788-1795, Pages 337-338.
7. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-2 1782-1795”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-B3HX  : 17 November 2022), FHL microfilm 007627132, image 419-420, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 2, 1788-1795, Pages 374-377.
8. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-2 1782-1795”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-B3HY : 17 November 2022), FHL microfilm 007627132, image 421, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 2, 1788-1795, Pages 378-379.

see also

• Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut) vol. 2, page 649
• Middlebrook, Louis F. (1909) Register of the Middlebrook Family descendants of Joseph Middlebrook of Fairfield, Conn. C.L. & B Co., Hartford, Conn. page 43.
• McClaughry, Charles. Genealogy of the Beach Family of Connecticut (1900) Page 242. Gives his mother's name as Patience Hubbell.

From behind the ancestry.com subscription wall:

• Connecticut, Town Birth Records (Barbour Collection), 1750
• Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1750, 1771
• Connecticut, Wills & Probate Records, 1792