John Beach

Abt 1622 - 1677  (~ 55 years)

• Name	John Beach  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1622	Probably England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Jun 1677	Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Colony   [3]
  Person ID	I2061	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2019

  
  

  Family	Living
  Children	1. Elizabeth Beach,   b. 20 Mar 1651/52, New Haven Colony d. Abt 1691, New Haven Colony (Age 38 years)   2. John Beach,   b. Abt Apr 1654, New Haven Colony d. Abt 1711 (Age ~ 56 years)   3. Mary Beach,   b. Abt Sep 1656, New Haven Colony d. Yes, date unknown   4. Thomas Beach,   b. Abt May 1659, New Haven Colony d. 13 May 1741, Meriden, New Haven Co, Connecticut (Age ~ 81 years)   5. Nathaniel Beach,   b. Abt Mar 1661/62, Stratford Colony d. 24 Jul 1747, Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Colony (Age ~ 85 years)   6. Hannah Beach,   b. Abt Dec 1665, Stratford Colony d. Yes, date unknown   7. Sarah Beach,   b. Abt Nov 1667, Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Colony d. Yes, date unknown   8. Isaac Beach,   b. 27 Jun 1669, Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Colony d. 30 Apr 1741, Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Colony (Age 71 years)   9. Joseph Beach,   b. 1 Feb 1670/71, Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Colony d. 17 Dec 1737, Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Colony (Age 66 years)   10. Benjamin Beach,   b. 3 Mar 1672/73, Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Colony d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F768	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2019

  
  

• Notes

  There were three Beach brothers from which, currently, 85% of Beaches in America descended. The parents of these brothers have not been found. 1. Richard Beach proprietor of New Haven Plantation/Colony and settler in Elizabeth New Jersey. Richard was married to Katherine, surname unknown, widow of Andrew Hull, . They had four children all born in New Haven: i. Mary b. June 1642; ii. Benjamin b. October 1644; iii. Azariah b. 6 July 1646; and iv. Mercy bap. 21 May 1648. Richard is of interest to this database in that he established the New Jersey connection to the Cooley Family through his great grandniece Ruth Beach b. in Morristown NJ, wife of Benjamin5 Cooley. On 28 Oct 1664 Elizabethtown (present Elizabeth New Jersey) was first founded upon Lenni Lenape Native American land the Dutch called Albania, a sector of New Netherlands. In that year Richard Beach sold out in Stratford and with his entire family except Benjamin, who was already married and settled in Stratford, moved to Elizabethtown where he purchased a home lot of 13 acres in 1665. He also purchased 50 acres of upland on Beaclie's Brook, 30 acres of upland on Crane's Brook, and several other smaller holdings, in all 102 acres. He resided in Elizabethtown until 31 Mar 1688 when he sold all of his land to the Widow Agatha White. Richard is thought to have removed to Morris County, New Jersey, but at this point he is lost sight of. 2. Thomas Beach 1st of New Haven; removed to Milford. He m. Sarah Platt. They had five children, the first child was born in New Haven Colony, the remaining four in Milford: i. Sarah b. 1 Mar 1653/4; ii. John b. 19 Oct 1655; iii. Mary b. 27 Dec 1657; iv. Samuel b. 5 Jun 1660; and v. Zophar b. 27 May 1662. Note: From Beach in America: Zopher Beach married and moved very early into New Jersey where he has many descendants. Zopher left Milford as "a protest against the half-way Covenant of Milford". 3. John Beach was not a proprietor of New Haven Colony but of Wallingford. He came to town about four years after it was established and appears a number of times in the record. He lived in New Haven Colony till 1650, when he married Mary, and settled in Wallingford, about seven miles north of New Haven. John was a proprietor and member of the company that settled Wallingford. He lived in Wallingford ten years, and his four older children were born there. In 1660 he removed to Stratford, some eight miles southwest of New Haven. [4, 5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S651] Donald Lines Jacobus, Jacobus-New Haven, (Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, Baltimore, 1981), Vol I, p 149 (Reliability: 3). [S660] Daniel B Cooley, DBC guess, Circumstantial evidence exists that John's brother Richard Beach emigrated from England (Reliability: 3). [S30] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Jacobus - Fairfield main, (For The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter/Daughters of the American Revolution, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1932 ), pp40-41 (Reliability: 3). [S658] Elmer T. Beach, 634 Trimble Ave., Kalamazoo, Mich., Beach in Am, (Printing and Binding by Ihling Bros. Everard Co., Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 25, 1923 ), Ch V, pp 41-43 (Reliability: 3). [S651] Donald Lines Jacobus, Jacobus-New Haven, (Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, Baltimore, 1981), Vol I, pp 147-150 (Reliability: 3).