BEARDSLEY : DAYTON : FRENCH : MALLORY : WETMORE : Genealogy Query


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18-Apr-2008

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BEARDSLEY : DAYTON : FRENCH : MALLORY : WETMORE

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Looking for Verificaton of Data, Update, Correction and just filling in Blanks if possible. Abiah Beardsley was born in 1746 in Stratford, Fairfield County Connecticut. She married Nathaniel Mallory sometime before 1767, exact date and location is not known. She is one of eight children born to Israel Beardslee and Elizabeth French. His siblings were: Catharine, Jerisja, Israel, Samuel, Mary, Hannah, and Price. Abiah's family lived near the Mallory’s in Newtown Ct. Her mother was A French. The French’s and Mallory’s moved from Connecticut to Vermont at the same time and then into Canada. Exact date and location for Abiah Beardsley Death has not yet been found. Israel Beardslee was born the 13th of March 1721 in Stratford, Fairfield County Connecticut. Israel Beardslee married Elizabeth French in Stratford on the 31st of July 1726. Israel is one of two children born to Josiah Beardsley and Mary Wetmore (Whittemore). His sibling was Samuel Beardslee. Israel Beardslee died sometime before 1774 in Manchester, Bennington County Vermont.. Josiah Beardsley was born in 1681 in Stratford, Fairfield County Connecticut. The date and location of his Marriage to Mary Wetmore (Whittmore) is not known at this time. Josiah is the only known child of Joseph Beardsley and Phoebe Dayton. Josiah died in Stratford Fairfield County Connecticut in 1769. Joseph Beardsley was born on the 16th of November of 1634 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire England. He was christened on the 16th of November 1634 in St. Mary’s Church in Ilkeston England. Who Joseph married is questionable, we know that he married in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut in 1665 but whom he married is questionable. Many records indicate an Abigail Dayton, while some list Phoebe Dayton and others list an Elizabeth Dayton. Exactly what her name is has not been determined. Joseph Beardsley is one of ten children born to William Beardsley and Marie Harvey. His siblings were: Mary, John, Rebecca, Samuel, Sarah, Hannah, Daviel, Thomas, and Ruth. It is believe he came to America during the Great Migration of 1660. He inherited half the estate of his Father on condition that he should leave the seafaring life and care for his mother. He took the oat of freeman the 4th of June 1668. He joined the Congregational Church of Stratford in 1693. Joseph died in Stratford, Fairfield County Connecticut on the 29th of May 1712. He is buried at Union Cemetery, Stratford Fairfield County Connecticut. William Beardsley was born the 9th of March 1603 (1602, 1605) in St. Albans, (Stratford-upon-Avon) England. William married twice; first he married Mary (Marie) Harvie (Harvey) January 26 1631 at St. Mary’s in Ilkeston, Derbyshire England (This is per the parish register at St. Mary’s church in Ilkeston, Derbyshire), he then married in 1635 to someone named Hannah, Maiden Name is Not Known. William is one of three known children born to William Beardslee and Margaret Hassall. His siblings were: Thomas and Margaret. William came to America in April of 1635 on the ship "Planter," when he was 30 years old, with him were his wife, Mary and three children Mary, John and Joseph. (His name was listed among the passengers on the "Planter," entered on April 2, 1635 to be transported to New England.) William and his family were members of the church of the reverend Adam Blackman. It was with the congregation of this church that they immigrated to America. The ship sailed from Saint Albans Hertfordshire England and landed in the port of Boston, Massachusetts about June 1, 1635. William remained in Hadley, Mass. until around 1638 before moving to Hartford, Connecticut, according to "The History of Stratford," page 1130. In the spring of 1639, he moved to Stratford as one of the first settlers there. He was a Mason by trade. He was a Deputy from Stratford to the Connecticut Legislature for eight terms: Sept. 1645, Sept. 1649, May 1650, Sept. 1651, May 1652, Oct. 1653, Feb. 1657, and May 1658. William Beardsley took the oath of allegiance in Massachusetts Bay Colony 7 December 1636 and was admitted a freeman in 1637. One of William’s children Sarah who married Obadiah Dickenson was burned by Indians. She was badly injured and he and one child were taken captive but later escaped. William Beardsley died on the 6th of July 1661 in Stratford, Fairfield County Connecticut and was buried in Union Cemetery, Stratford Fairfield County Connecticut. NOTE: Some reports show that he died in St. Albans, Herefordshire England. William Hugh Beardsley was born the 31st of October 1582 (1579) in Ashton, Lancashire England. He married Margaret Hassall on the 28th of May 1598 while living in Stratford On Avon, Warwickshire England. He is the only known child born to John Beardsley and spouse unknown. They had two known children, Thomas and William. William Hugh Beardsley died in Lyme, Grafton New Hampshire. The Beardsley family is listed as one of the early settlers in the book “A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, before 1692. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk1/144-155.htm A letter from Frank Beardsley, Solicitor, Ilkeston, tells of his interest in Beardsley lore, and portions of it reads, as follows "The Beardsley family, by tradition, was in Ilkeston before William the Conqueror's time, 1066. Unfortunately, I do not think there are any written records of those early times, for the simple reason practically everything belonged to the Lord of the Manor, and it was difficult in England to even move to the next parish, because if you did, you had to satisfy the new Parish Authorities that you would not eventually have to be assisted financially out of their parish funds, because in law each parish was responsible for their poor and in the majority of parishes, the people were as a rule, only just able to exist as they were mostly ordinary workers for the Lord of the Manor……. I have a deed in my possession, dated 1690, where John Beardsley sells to William Beardsley half a house for L30 which was apparent part of a farm house at the top of the town and both the Beardsley's farmed the land attached there to as Yeomen Farmers. In the year, 1939, the 300th anniversary of the settlement of Stratford, Connecticut, the descendants of William and Mary Beardsley, place a memorial for these ancestors; a bronze plaque, which reads as follows To honor the memory of William and Mary Beardsley and the other first settlers of Stratford who landed near this spot in the year, 1639. It was erected by the Beardsley Family Association. This plaque is on a boulder, placed in Sandy Hollow, near the spot where the first settlers landed. The boulder came from a Beardsley homestead, located near enough to Sandy-Hollow, to make one visualize that undoubtedly the children of William and Mary Beardsley, played upon this rock. William and Mary Beardsley were undoubtedly, practical, thrifty people, coming to America in search of a new home, in what they hoped would be a land of opportunity.