Hannah Beach

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.

John married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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