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  • Name BEACH, John 
    Prefix Deacon 
    Birth 19 Oct 1655  Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening 4 Sep 1664  New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 26 Apr 1709  Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 26 Apr 1709  Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    WAC 2 Nov 1917  SLAKE Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Person ID I30562  Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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    Father BEACH, Thomas ,   b. 15 Dec 1622, St Albans, Hertsfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationSt Albans, Hertsfordshire, Englandd. 31 May 1662, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years) 
    Mother PLATT, Sarah ,   b. 11 Nov 1636, Ware, Hertsfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationWare, Hertsfordshire, Englandd. 15 Mar 1670, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years) 
    Marriage 1652  New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F14682  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family ROYCE, Mary ,   b. 1657, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationStratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Statesd. 27 Nov 1698, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years) 
    Marriage 1 Dec 1678  Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 4 sons and 4 daughters 
    Family ID F17090  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2022 

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    • John BEACH

      John BEACH, born in Milford, Connecticut, 19 October 1655, was left fatherless at the age of seven, and motherless at the age of fifteen. It is believed that he was taken in his childhood or early youth, into the care and home of his great uncle, John Moss, sen., of Wallingford, supposedly the brother of his grandmother Beach. The conveyance of large holdings of land from Mr. Moss "for naturall affection" to his "well beloved cousin," while that gentleman had a good sized family of his own, can hardly be accounted for otherwise than on the grounds of a relationship strengthened by a period of fatherly care. The conveyance of sixty one acres on 8 February 1689 calls the young man "John Beach of Wallingford, Planter."

      Owing to the fact that his Uncle John Beach, of Stratford, had purchased land in Wallingford and perhaps lived there for a time, and that his cousin John Beach also lived in Wallingford, our John has been greatly confused with the others named, as well as with his own son John, who, like himself, was a deacon of the church. The records are not always clear, and thus some writers have attributed children to one of the John Beaches which really belonged in the family of another one. However, due to the indefatigable efforts of some members of the family, we are indebted for a gradual clearing away of some of the errors, and the establishment of facts.

      From the Beach Family Magazine, issue of January 1926, from an article in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for same month and year, by Donald Lines Jacobus, and from a Monograph prepared by the same eminent genealogist on the subject "Mary Beach," we glean the following data:
      John Beach went to Wallingford in 16734, where he was, while still a young man, one of the "Sabbath Day Guards." His name appears on various records of the town, granting land "on ye plain" in 1682/3, more land in 1684, and in 1686 appointed "fence viewer," a position which in those days was of much importance since live stock was fenced away from crops and vice versa. In 1688 and 1704, he is granted more land, and in 1697 appointed "committee on highways." He was one of the original members of the church established at Wallingford in February, 1675, and became one of its deacons.[15] A "first planter" of the colony, he was one of its influential and substantial members.[16]

      He married in December 1678, Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Spinning) ROYCE, whose surname was omitted from the records at Wallingford, but whose identity is abundantly established from records of wills, and settlement of estates, notably that of her father (New London County Court Records, volume for years 1689 1703, 31, 41), and of her brother David (New London Probate Journal 1: 13 1).

      John Beach died in 1709, the inventory of his estate being made on 26 April of that year, his oldest son, Thomas, named as administrator, and his widow Mary as guardian of the two minor children, John and Samuel. The two surviving daughters were already married at the time. His widow Mary married (2) 27 November 1718, John ATWATER, born at New Haven, 1 November 1654, and who died at Wallingford in 174 8. His first wife was Abigail Mansfield. Mary's eldest son, Thomas, married John Atwater's daughter Hannah.

      CHILDREN, born at Wallingford:[17]

      LETTICE, born 24 December 1679; married William WARD.
      Mary, born 11 January 1681/2; died 1 September 1688.
      Hannah, born 17 March 1683/4; died 21 December 1749; married 5 August 1708, Sergeant Eliphalet Parker, who died in 1758 aged 76.
      Thomas, born 14 February 1686/7; died about 1752. He settled in Milford soon after the death of his uncle Samuel Beach in 1728. He married (1) 9 May 1711, Hannah, daughter of John and Abigail (Mansfield) Atwater, born 17 December 1690 at Wallingford. He married (2) Ruth ???? Thomas Beach was the father of a large family.
      John, born 15 October 1690; died at Goshen, Connecticut, 9 May 1773. He married (1) at Wallingford, 18 August 1715, Sarah, daughter of William and Mary (Lathrop) Tyler, born 25 November 1697 at Wallingford; died there 18 July 1716. He married (2) 22 February 1717, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Baldwin) Royce, born 17 February 1695; died in Goshen, 27 October 1767. This John Beach marrying a Mary Royce, as did his father John, added to the confusion about this family. This Mary Royce who married John Beach, jr., was an own cousin of her husband's mother, although more than thirty five years younger. She was the daughter of Samuel Royce by his late marriage, while the elder Mary Royce was a daughter of Jonathan Royce by an early marriage. John Beach was a deacon of the church, a man of personality, influence, and considerable business ability, and was greatly respected in Goshen, where he lived. He was the father of twelve children, and gave each one a farm when he or she married. Numerous descendants are living in Litchfield County, and in Goshen there is a large monument to his memory.
      Samuel, born 29 December 1696; settled in Goshen; married (1) 29 April 1718, Phebe, daughter of William and Mary (Lathrop) Tyler, born 28 October 1700 at Wallingford; died there 19 February 1731. He married (2) 23 March 1732, Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Hope (Cook) Benham, born in December 1708, who survived him, and married, secondly, Noah Wadhams.