Gershom
Beach
Born in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Gershom Beach
and Deliverance (Howe) Andrews
Brother of
Ruth (Beach) Bristol, Joanna (Beach) Chatterton, Aaron Beach, Margery (Andrews) Curtis [half], Abigail (Andrews) Claus [half] and Lidea Andrews [half]
Husband of
Elizabeth (Salter) Beach
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Samuel Beach, Gershom Beach, Moses Beach, Judith (Unknown) Beach, Ruth (Beach) Cooley, Mary Beach, Aaron Beach, John P. Beach, Jesse Beach and Philip Beach
Died
at age 75
in Salisbury, Addison, Vermont, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 18 May 2010
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Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed June 13, 2018), "Record of Gershom Beach", Ancestor # A007746.
Contents |
Biography
Gershom Beach served with Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution.
It is sometimes claimed he married second, Jane Keeler of Pittsford, Massachusetts, but others assert she married and is buried beside Gershom Beach(5) Aaron(4) Gershom(3) Thomas(2) John(1), the nephew of this Gershom. Similar confusion surrounds the claim that this Gershom made the famous "hike" in 1775 to rally the Green Mountain Boys for the raid on Fort Ticonderoga, with some claiming it was his son, Samuel(5), while others say it was his nephew, Gershom(5) Aaron(4).
Name
- Gershom Beach
Birth
- 24 SEP 1729 Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut
Baptism
- Nov. 1729
Death
- 1812 Salisbury, Addison, Vermont
Sources
- Beach, Joseph Perkins. History of Cheshire, Connecticut, from 1694-1840 (Lady Fenwick Chapter, D.A.R., Cheshire, Conn., 1912) Page 287
- http://blog.genealogybank.com/gershom-beach-dead-at-77-the-forgotten-paul-revere.html
- Middlebury Mercury (Middlebury, Vermont), 5 February 1806, page 3. obituary
- AGBI: American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA
- http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=agbi&h=474795&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
- Birth: 1729 Connecticut.
- Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004) http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=79892&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
- BASCOM, R., & Holden, J. (1910). THE TICONDEROGA EXPEDITION OF 1775. Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, 9, 303-389. (specifically pages 305 & 306) Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/42889435
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Gershom by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Gershom by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Frank Dawson
:
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup K1a2a, FTDNA kit #655578
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~1.56%
Gerald Holman :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Douglas Anderson :
23andMe, GEDmatch M612162 [compare]
-
~0.78%
J Kerr :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A504493 [compare], Ancestry member JK_by_KellyK415
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~0.78%
Anonymous Brown :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member 818aed29
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, Ancestry member 818aed29, FTDNA kit #63357
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~0.39%
Jonathan Hillman :
23andMe
-
~0.39%
Cheryl Aselin :
23andMe, GEDmatch M582968 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch M582968 [compare], Ancestry member rayandcj
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~0.39%
April (Scaggs) Voit :
23andMe, GEDmatch M897966 [compare]
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Francis (Conn) Whitt :
23andMe
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~0.39%
~0.78%
Kevin Caudell :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A552218 [compare], Ancestry member kevin_caudell
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~0.39%
Gretchen Jordan :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A770233 [compare], Ancestry member gjordan1966
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~0.39%
Tim Schoonover :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A650641 [compare], Ancestry member skoonman
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~0.39%
~1.56%
L. K. Henderson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A294246 [compare]
-
~0.39%
~1.56%
Ronald Miller :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A198610 [compare], Ancestry member brron1
-
~0.39%
Bruce Sulfridge :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member papatnt
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~0.39%
Sidney Curry :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.39%
Darvil Hayes :
Living DNA, GEDmatch ss8490576 [compare]
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Rejected matches › Gershom Beach (abt.1800-)
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Categories: NSDAR Patriot Ancestors | Green Mountain Boys
BASCOM, R., & Holden, J. (1910). THE TICONDEROGA EXPEDITION OF 1775. Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, 9, 303-389. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/42889435; states that present for the Fort Ticonderoga Expedition was Gershom Beach of Salisbury, VT.
I didn't want to change your narrative but I did add this as a source since it narrows things down to a Gershom Beach, as he is specifically named, not Samuel.
thanks!