Ruth Beach

Abt 1756 - 1825  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Ruth Beach  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1756	Morristown, Morris Co, New Jersey   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Abt Sep 1825	Congregational Church Cemetery, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont   [3]
  Death	5 Sep 1825	Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont   [2]
  Person ID	I226	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2019

  
  

  Father	Gershom Beach,   b. 24 Sep 1729, Wallingford, New Haven Co, Connecticut d. Abt 1805, Vermont (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Mary Salter,   b. Abt 1733, Cheshire, New Haven Co, Connecticut d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	24 Apr 1751	Wallingford, New Haven Co, Connecticut   [4]
  Family ID	F353	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Benjamin5 Cooley,   b. 30 Apr 1747, Narragansett Township #4, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts d. 27 Feb 1810, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	18 Feb 1773	Pittsford, Charlotte Co, New York   [6]
  	Cooley Genealogy: [Benjamin Cooley] m. Feb. 1773, Ruth Beach, b Jan 11, 1756, Morristown, N.J., d. Sept 1, 1825; when married, she was visiting her brother, Col. Beach, in Rutland Vt. Vermont Vital Records: Place of residence [when married], Rutland [5]
  Children	1. Benjamin Cooley,   b. 9 Jan 1774, Pittsford, Charlotte Co, New York d. 7 Dec 1858, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont (Age 84 years)   2. Samuel Cooley,   b. 14 Nov 1775, Pittsford, Charlotte Co, New York d. Abt 1843-1846, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan (Age 70 years)   3. Ruth Cooley,   b. 31 Dec 1777, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown   4. Azariah Cooley,   b. 7 Apr 1780, Pittsford, Republic of Vermont d. 5 Sep 1852, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont (Age 72 years)   5. Noah Cooley,   b. 2 Jul 1782, Pittsford, Republic of Vermont d. Aft 1850 (Age 68 years)   6. Mary Cooley,   b. 29 Jan 1786, Pittsford, Republic of Vermont d. Yes, date unknown   7. Naomi Cooley,   b. 6 Oct 1788, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Republic of Vermont d. 15 Dec 1870, Romeo, Macomb Co, Michigan (Age 82 years)   8. Eunice Cooley,   b. 16 Apr 1791, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont d. Abt 1879, Bridgeport, Saginaw Co, Michigan (Age 87 years)   9. Susannah Cooley,   b. 2 Apr 1793, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont d. 19 Apr 1793, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont (Age 0 years)   10. Dorothy Cooley,   b. 17 May 1794, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont d. 19 Oct 1866, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F56	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2019

  
  

• Notes

  From the Cooley Genealogy: "[Benjamin Cooley] m. Feb. 1773, Ruth Beach, b Jan 11, 1756, Morristown, N.J., d. Sept 1, 1825; when married, she was visiting her brother, Co. Beach, in Rutland Vt. She probably belonged to the Beach family of Milford and New Haven, Conn. who went with the New Haven Colony to New Jersey in 1666" Vermont Vital Records microfilm verifies: (1) Ruth Beach's birth place as Morristown New Jersey, (2) Ruth's birth year, 1756 and (3) Ruth Beach was a resident of Rutland, Charlotte Co, New York at the time of her marriage. However, the exact date of her birth has not been sourced. Note that her husband Benjamin was town clerk at the time. Morris County was created on March 15, 1739, from portions of Hunterdon County. The county was named for the Governor of the Province of New Jersey, Colonel Lewis Morris. In later years Sussex County (on June 8, 1753) and, after the revolution, Warren County (on November 20, 1824, from portions of Sussex County) were carved out of what had been the original area of Morris County under English rule. The county was the site of the winter camp of the Continental Army after the Battles of Trenton and Princeton during the winter of 1777, as well as another winter camp at Jockey Hollow during an extremely cold winter of 1779-80 which occurred during the Little Ice Age.

  
  

• Sources

  [S597] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vermont Vital Records, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2013.), Family History Library microfilm 27,473 (Reliability: 3). [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), pp491-92 (Reliability: 3). [S477] Old Congregational Pittsford, Ruth, wife of Col Benjamin, d 5 Sep 1825 in her 68th yr (error) (Reliability: 3). The year of her age at death on his gravestone, 68, is wrong. If born 30 Apr 1746, died 5 Sep 1825, then her age at death was 69 years, 7 months, and 23 days Ruth Beach d 5 Sep 1825 [S654] Frederic W Bailey, editor, Conn early marriages, (The Price, Lee, and Adkins Co, New Haven, 1899), Fourth Book, Wallingford-Meriden p107 (Reliability: 3). [S300] Caverly, A.M. (Pittsford Historical Society, 1976), Pittsford Hist, (Tuttle & Co. Printers, Rutland, Vt, 1872). [S597] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vermont Vital Records, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2013.), Family History Library microfilm 27,473 (Reliability: 3). Benjamin5 Cooley and Ruth Beach marriage-referenced endnote.jpg Family History Library microfilm.