Elizabeth (Brown) Beardsley (1679 - abt. 1763)

Born 13 May 1679 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of William Beardsley Sr. — married 5 Jul 1699 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

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Elizabeth (Brown) Beardsley was married to a descendant of the immigrants William Beardsley and Mary Harvie.

Biography

Birth

Birth Date: 13 MAY 1679

Place: New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

Source: #S72 - Page: Vol 1, page 265

Marriage

Date: 28 MAR 1667

Place: New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

Source: #S77 - Page: page 136

Source: #S72 - Page: Vol 1, page 265

Source: #S78 - Page: Vol 1, page 347

Around 1750, she made her mark on a document to the probate court approving her son Samuel's conduct as administrator of her husband, William Beardslee's estate.^[1]

Sources

• History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Jacobus, Donald L., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Genealogical History of the Beardsley-lee Family in America by I. H. Beardsley (Isaac Haight Beardsley), John Dove, Printer and Publisher, Denver, Colorado 1902
• Families of Ancient New Haven by Jacobus, Donald L., Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD 1974
• Beardsley Genealogy: The Family of William Beardsley, One of the First Settlers of Stratford, Connecticut by Nellie Beardsley Holt, J. Harness Beardsley, Blue Hill, Maine 1951
• New Haven Vitals, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
• Savage, James A. A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register, by James Savage, Volumes I - IV. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1977.
• Source S78
  • Abbreviation: Families of Ancient New Haven
    
  • Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, Volumes 1-9, printed by Clarence D. Smith, Rome, New York, 1923; originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine - reprinted by Genealogical Printing Company, Inc. Baltimore in 1974, 1981, 1997.
    
• Source S77
  • Abbreviation: Tolles in America
    
  • Title: William Marshall Tolles and Alyce Jane (Tolles) Morow, Tolles in America (Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1997)
    
• Source S72
  • Abbreviation: Genalogical Dict
    
  • Title: James Savage, Geneaological Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Originally published Boston 1860-62, reprinted April 1873 and 1884. Reproduced by Genealogical Publishing Company, Balitmore 1981.)
    

Footnotes

1. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1744-1782”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-TF17 : 17 February 2023), FHL microfilm 007627321, image 213, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 2, 1745-1775, Pages 22.

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of family.ged on 21 September 2010.