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Descendants of William Hugh Beardsley

Generation No. 2

2. THOMAS³ BEARDSLEY (WILLIAM HUGH², THOMAS JOHN¹)^8,⁹ was born 09 Mar 1603 in England ¹⁰, and died 1656 in Fairfield, Connecticut¹⁰. He married JOHANNAH ??? WFT Est. 1621-1652 ¹¹. She was born WFT Est. 1601-1630¹¹, and died WFT Est. 1653-1716¹¹.

Notes for THOMAS BEARDSLEY:
[thomas.FTW]

Thomas Beardsley was a planter in Milford, CT, in 1647. Evidently he came to America shortly after his brother, William Beardsley.

Ref: DESCENDANTS OF ANDREW PATTERSON 1659-1746, by Ruth Anna Hicks.

Children of THOMAS BEARDSLEY and JOHANNAH ??? are:

	i.	THOMAS⁴ BEARDSLEY^12,¹³, b. WFT Est. 1619-1637¹³; d. 13 Feb 1668, Stratford, CT¹³; m. ELIZABETH HARVEY^14,¹⁵, 20 Mar 1649¹⁵; b. WFT Est. 1605-1632¹⁵; d. WFT Est. 1654-1722¹⁵.
5.	ii.	WILLIAM BEARDSLEY, b. WFT Est. 1624-1651, of Fairfield, CT; d. WFT Est. 1649-1730, Fairfield, CT.
	iii.	JOSEPH BEARDSLEY¹⁵, b. WFT Est. 1624-1651¹⁵; d. Dec 1684, Brookhaven, Long Island, NY¹⁵.

Notes for JOSEPH BEARDSLEY:
[thomas.FTW]

Joseph Beardsley left his estate to Mary and Abraham Dayton, and Hannah and Richard Luke. Mary and Hannah were probably his sisters.

Ref: DESCENDANTS OF ANDREW PATTERSON 1659-1746, by Ruth Anna Hicks.

	iv.		MARY BEARDSLEY¹⁵, b. WFT Est. 1624-1651¹⁵; d. WFT Est. 1629-1733¹⁵.
	v.		HANNAH BEARDSLEY¹⁵, b. WFT Est. 1624-1651¹⁵; d. WFT Est. 1629-1733¹⁵.
	vi.		JOHN BEARDSLEY, CAPTAIN¹⁵, b. 1650¹⁵; d. 07 Nov 1702, Stratford, CT¹⁵.

Notes for JOHN BEARDSLEY, CAPTAIN:
[thomas.FTW]

Captain John Beardsley raised his niece, Deborah (daughter of William), and left her very wealthy.

3. WILLIAM³ BEARDSLEY (WILLIAM HUGH², THOMAS JOHN¹)^16,^17,^18,¹⁹ was born 1605 in ST. Albans, Hertfordshire, England ²⁰, and died 06 Jul 1661 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut ²¹. He married MARY HARVEY^22,^23,^24,^25,²⁶ 26 Jun 1630 in St. Mary's in Ilkeston, Derbyshire,, England ²⁷. She was born 1609 in Hertfordshire, England ²⁸, and died 20 Sep 1691 in Hampshire County, Massachusetts ²⁹.

Notes for WILLIAM BEARDSLEY:
(The Beardsley Line).
Anciently written Bardsey, Bardesy, Bardesley, Berdsley, etc., this family name is of frequent occurrence in early times in England. There have been some plausible speculations as to its origin, but the most interesting traces it to the Isle of Bardsey, in Cardigan Bay, off the coast of Wales, and in that connection assumes as the ancestor one Robert de Bardesolo, or Robert of Bard's Isle, said to have been a descendant of Ive de Tailbor, a chieftain in the army of William the Conqueror. This, however, is conjecture pure and simple, and the whole matter of the Beardsley family origin in the old country remains to be established by more definite research which thus far has been unavailing. In America the founder of the family was William Beardsley (the name being so written on the passenger list of the ship in which he came), and who arrived in Massachusetts in 1635, and soon afterwards removed to Connecticut, where he was one of the very first permanent settlers. From him many families of the name Beardsley, and some who prefer the form Beardslee, have sprung. These families have spread throughout the country, and have produced numerous men of attainments and distinction in professional and public life, and of noteworthy enterprise and achievement in the varied pursuits of commerce and industry. The line here traced has been of uninterrupted Connecticut residence since the year 1637, and from the founder to the youngest descendant comprehends eleven generations.

(I) William Beardsley, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1605. He came to this country in 1635 in the ship "Planter" with his wife Mary, aged twenty-six, and children: Mary, aged four; John, aged two; and Joseph, six months old. According to the family tradition he was a native of Stratford-on-Avon, the home of Shakespeare, and it is believed that he gave the name of Stratford to the settlement in which he made his home, now Stratford, Connecticut. One of his descendants who settled in Western New York named the town in which he lived, Avon, in honor of the Beardsley who came with Rev. Adam Blakeman from St. Albans, England, and settled first in Hadley, Massachusetts. In 1638 he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, and in the following spring to Stratford, of which he was one of the first settlers. He was a mason by trade. He was a deputy to the general court seven years. His will was dated September 26, 1660, and proved July 6, 1661; the inventory, dated February 13, 1660-61, amounted to �333 15s. 8d. He died at the age of fifty-six years, leaving several small children. Children: Mary, born 1631, married Thomas Wells; John, 1632, captain of militia, died November 19, 1718; Joseph; Samuel, 1638, had land in what is now Bridgeport; Sarah, 1640, married Obadiah Dickinson; Hannah, 1642, married Nathaniel Dickinson; Daniel, of whom further; Thomas, mentioned by Savage. Source: Genealogy.com library; New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV , pages, 1726, 2075\\

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Ilkeston
(homepage for Ilkeston can found at http://www.ilkeston-community-homepage.co.uk)
Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England is a city of about 30,000 inhabitants at the present time. The main street slopes to the public square located on top of a high hill, overlooking the counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
      The parish church, St. Mary's (Church of England) faces the square. For how many centuries men have worshipped in this hallowed spot, no one can tell. Ilkeston was a well established village, long before the Conquest, and it is very probable that there was an Anglo-Saxon Church on the hilltop before the present Norman foundation.
      St. Mary's church was started in the 12th century, and was not completed until the 20th. Its stones tell the story of eight hundred years of service.
      The marriage, baptism and burial registers go back to 1588. The first parish register consists of 38 leaves, and contains entries from 1588 to 1634. The entries are written in Latin, the ink is very faded, and the Old English script is difficult to read. In this register are the following entries:
      Marriage.
William Beardsley and Marie Harvie, Jan. 26, 1631.
      Baptism.
John, son of William Beardsley, November 2, 1633.

      A recent 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, were 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.
      This applied practically until 1750 or so when machine age started.
      In this parish, and indeed most others, there was little or no property belonging to the inhabitants, they were simply small hard working tenants. This explains why, until about the end f the 18th Century, there are very few deeds and documents
relating to property. However, in Ilkeston, there was a small portion which was freehold and could be disposed of by the owner.
      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.
      I have identified this place which is probably the birthplace of the Beardsley Family some two or three hundred years previously. Unfortunately the site of the farmhouse is almost covered by very old cottages and the Corporation's Water Reservoir. The before mentioned people, would no doubt be relatives of the William Beardsley who went to America in 1635.
      I also have in my possession an old gargoyle which came from the parish church built in Norman times and which has apparently been used as a font for baptism or holy water: also a few pieces of silver and chairs which your William Beardsley may have seen.
      I am not aware of any Ilkeston Beardsley having a coat of arms. Most of them would have a ring or brass seal, with a device or initials engraved on it, for use when required.
      That Stratford was originally named "Cupheay" is extremely interesting because of a hamlet known as "Cotmanhay" which in the old days was about a half mile from Ilkeston, but is now incorporated in the town of Ilkeston, was in the old Derbyshire dialect, to my persona knowledge, "pronounced" as "Cupheay" This leads me to the thought that perhaps William Beardsley named Stratford after the birthplace or residence of his wife, as Harvey is a very old Ilkeston name.
One of his descendants writes:
      William Beardsley, the progenitor of all our family here in America, was a mason, by trade. I think of him as an artisan whose strength and skill contributed to the comfort and protection of his fellow-settlers, and also as a builder. Yes, and a builder in the larger sense, builder in the ideals and principles which enter into the construction of the State and nation. He brought his family to America, on the ship "Planter", a vessel which carried one hundred and twenty-one passengers. these emigrants landed at Massachusetts. In Hotness "List of Person's who went from Great Britain to the American Plantation," we find the followings:
      2 degree April in 1635.
"These under written names are to be transported to New England imbarqued in the Planter Nic Trarice bound thither the pties have brought Certificate. from Minister St St (Sic)) Albons in Hertfordshire c Attestacon from Justice of Peace according to the Lords order."
Among the thirty-eight passengers listed from St. Albans, were the following:
                  A Mason      Wm. Beardsley      30
                              Marie Beadsley      26
                              Marie Beadslie      4
                              John Beadslie      2
                              Joseph Beadslie      6 mo.

      It was not until December 7, 1636, that William Beardsley too the oath of office in Massachusetts and was made a freeman. As yet, we have been unable to definitely determine where he and his family lived from 1636 till 1639, during which time traveled over the route from Massachusetts to Hartford, and Wethersfield, Connecticut, with other colonists.
      The first we hear of him, after he was made a freeman, was in the Pequonnock Plantation (now known as Stratford, Connecticut), where he was one of the first settlers in the year, 1639.
      The General Court of Connecticut, in 1638, enacted that each town in the Colony should appoint a recorder and keep an accurate record of land transactions and other affairs and keep an accurate record of prior to 1650, have been found about this plantation.
It has been thought that they were destroyed by fire. The earliest definite record containing the names of those who were owners of land is the list of the owners of fence about the first "Common Field," which was as early as 1650. William Beardsley was the second largest owner, his length of fence measured 24 rods, 6 feet.
      That the plantation was settled in 1639 is evident from records kept by the General Court, dated, October 10, 1639, at which time the plantation was called Pequonnock, by the court. In June 1640, it was called Cupheay, and in April 1643 it was first called Stratford.
      There is no definite record as to the number of persons in the first group of settlers.
      A small creek setting back from the river, since known as Mac's Harbor , is where this band of pioneers are suppsed to have landed, in the location known as "Sandy Hollow."
      Their "home lots" were of one or two acres in extent, grouped closely together as a means of protection.
      William Beardsley's home lot was but a short distance from the harbor. His next door neighbor was William Wilcockson who had also been a passenger on the ship Planter. Next to him was John Peake, who had also come from Derbyshire. Among the other first settlers was Richard Harvie and family, who had come on the same ship, and probably were relatives of William's wife Mary; then there was Rev. Adam Blakeman, Joseph Hawley, Robert Lane, Henry Tomlinson, early settlers, and natives of Derbyshire; appartlently many of these early settlers were relatives and former friends.
      William Beardsley took an active part in the affairs of the settlement. Judging from the Colonial records he was considered a man of worth, influence, and substance. He was Deputy to the General Court at Hartford for eight sessions between 1645 and 1659. In the colonial records of Connecticut, 1649, we find where a "committee was chosen by the Court for the ordering of setting forth of these souldgers and Mr. Ludlow was desired to take care for preparing the souldgers with provisions and all other necessaryes for the designe in two (sea Side) Towns; and Mr. Hull and William Beardsley are chosen to assist therein," the towns were Fairfield and Stratford.
      In 1651, "Andrew Ward, George Hull, and William Beardsley were propounded for Assistants to join with the magistrates for the execution of justice in the Towns by the sea side."
      In October 1659, "Mr, Blackman, Goodman Beardsley and Joseph Judson were chosen as a committee to help in the settlement of a dispute over property."
      He was one of the founders of the First Congregational Church of Stratford.
      The first meting-house in Stratford was located at Sandy-Hollow
on the bank of Mac's creek, and around this place of worship was the first graveyard. In 1677-78, a new burial place was laid out. No record of interments in the first graveyard, have been found, but the date of William Beardsley's death would lead of to think that he was buried there; also his wife Mary, although we have no date of her death. The latest record found of her is in the list of inhabitants of Stratford, in the year 1668.
      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.

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 visualise 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.
      They were the parents of nine children whose descendants have honourably played their part in building up this nation. William died in Stratford, 1661, and in studying the inventory of his estate, one realises more, the frugality of these ancestors. they could have had very few wordily possessions when they arrived at Stratford, and twenty years later, when he died, his estate inventoried over "e"327 a tidy sum in those early days.
Copied from Fairfield Probate Records in the Connecticut State Library at Hartford, Connecticut,
      "I William Beardsley of Stratford, being sic and weak in body, but not in mind, do leave this as my last will and testament.
      All my daughters that are now married I give ten pounds a peace. my son Samuel I give that red cow which I have now lent him.
      I also reserve four acres of best land at Piquanock for my wife to improve of Joseph fall in to help her if she please. The rest is Samuel's. I also give him one of ye new white blankets.
      If Joseph, my sone, please to be an assistant to my wife for the carrying on of her byanes whilst she lives; or marryes and leaves the sea, I give him ye half of my accommodations in Stratford; if not I give him twenty pounds of my share of ye barke to be his part. I desire my loving wife, that if she should pleases to add to the shares of my daughters, that she would add to them all alike.
      The rest of my estate is however, to be disposed of unto my wife and children at the discretion of Mr. Blackeman, Philip Groves, John Brinsmoyd, John Burdsey, and Joseph Hawley and also the oare, government an disposal of my children. It is my will that Daniel, after the decease of my wife, that he have the other halfe of ye lots. I give to my son JOhn, tenn Shillings.

Sept. 28, 1660.                        William Beardsley
Presence of                               This is a true copy of ye
Caleb Nichols                        will of William Beardsley.
John Wells.                              "Per me Joseph Hawley."

      Inventory of William Beardsley's estate, July 6, 1661, by Samuel Sherman, John Hard, Henry Waklin, E 327-15a-8d.
      (portions of it were as follows:)

Indian corn, 6 bushels                  E      00-15-00
Cloth, 17 yards                        02-10-00
1 bed and covering                        03-00-00
Flax and yarn                              03-00-00
Barrels, baskets, bags, broom                  01-06-00
Bed and bedstand                        07-00-00
Cloth, 30 yards                        02-10-00
Woolen blankets                              07-10-00
3 bed ticks                              02-00-00
1 bed and covering                              05-00-00
Brass kettle                              12-00-00
Powder                                    01-10-00
2 guns, 4 pistols                              03-00-00
1 sword and belt                              00-08-03
His apparel                              06-10-00
Trading cloth                              27-00-00
Carpeting                                    01-00-00
1 firkin of butter                              01-06-00
Sheets, pillows, and napkins                        09-00-00
39 bushels of wheat                        07-16-00
29 " "                              03-15-00
Hay                                    10-00-00
Salt with barrel                              00-12-00
Oxen with yoke                              02-00-00
1 pair of boots                              00-05-00
6 horses and mares                        50-00-00
house, barn and rest of accommodations            71-00-00
Meadows and uplands, ect.
(the above record is hard to read as the ink is faded.

      I have found no other records pertaining to the settlement of his estate.

The children of William and Mary Beardsley,

2.            i.      Mary, b.       1631
3.            ii.       John, bapt.      2 Nov. 1633
4.            iii.       Joseph, b.       abt. 1634
5.            iv.      Samuel, b.       abt. 1636/7
6.            v.       Sarah, b.       abt. 1640
7.            vi.      Hannah b.      abt. 1642
8.            vii.      Daniel, b.       1644
9.            viii.       Ruth
10.            ix.       Rebecca

Source: Nellie Beardsley Holt's BEARDSLEY GENEALOGY, pages, preface-5
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[28380 Dickinson.FTW]

Source includes, but is not limited to:
"Ancestral File" and the "IGI", "International Genealogical Index", both
resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints.
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Came to America in 1635 on the ship "Planter" from England according to Hatton's "List of Emigrants to America" which left London on April 2, 1635. There were five Beardsleys: a mason, William Beardsley, age 30, born in England in 1605, his wife, Mary, age 26, Marie, age 4, John age 2 and Joseph , age 6 months. The last residence of William or ancestors, before setting sail for America, was probably St. Albans or Herfordshire, England. They landed in Massachusetts about the 1st of June or in the summer of 1635. William probably settled in Watertown, eight miles west of Boston. Gerald Somerville\
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William's fifth child, Sarah, married Obadiah Dickenson, Sept. 9,1677, their house was burned by the Indians. She was badly injured and he and one child were taken captive. She probably died as a result of her injuries. When he returned, he married again. No record was given of the child, that I know of.
Gerald Somerville\
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Source: CNIDRIsearch-cgi 1.20.06 (file:planter. txt) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/ul/data/ma+index+531399524+F\\
Passenger List: PLANTER 1635
Planter of London, Nicholas Trerice, Master.
She sailed from London about April 10,1635 and arrived at Boston on Sunday, June 7,1635
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The following passengers certified from St. Alban, Herts
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William Beardsley 30
Mrs. Mary Beardsley 26                        Concord and Stratford, Ct.
Mary Beardsley 04
John Beardsley 02
Joseph Beardsley 1/2

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Source Fairfield Historical Society
from HISTORY AND GENEOLOGY OF THE FAMILIES OF OLD FAIRFIELD VOL 1. Compiled and edited by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A. 1930
Under Beardsley, William
"Children:
      Mary b. abt 1631; m (rec. Wethersfield) May 1651, Thomas Welles(s. of Hugh): settled in Hadley.
      John b. abt 1633
      Joseph b. abt. 1634
      Ruth, married Joseph Smith of Jamaica, L.I.
      Rebecca, married_____ Beebe
      Samuel
      Hannah, m. Nathaniel Dickinson of Wethersfield: rem. to Hadley
      Sarah, m (rec. Wethersfield) 8 Jan. 1668/9, Obadiah Dickinson, of Wethersfield and Hadley"

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From THE OLD TOWN OF STRATFORD AND THE CITY OF BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT, by Rev. Samuel Orcutt...PartII 1886
Under Beardsley, William
      "He died aged only 56 years, and had several young children besides the following, mentioned in his will:John, Joseph, Samuel and Daniel. Only three daughters' names have been ascertained: two were married after his decease, and yet he says in his will: "All my daughters that are now married, I give Ten pounds a peece" Therefore ther must have been more than one then married, but of these only Mary's name is known. Judge Savage says amoung the children not named were William and Thomas, but of this William no evidence is found.
      Mary, b. 1631:m.Thomas Wells
      John, b. 1632 +
      Joseph, b. 1634+
      Samuel, b. 1638 +
      Sarah, b. in 1640prob.:m. Obadiah Dickinson, June 8,1668
      Hannah, b. in 1642prob.: m. Nathaniel Dickinson in 1662
      Daniel, b. in 1644
      Thomas

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from GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE BEARDSLEY-LEE FAMILY IN AMERICA by Issac Haight Beardsley 1902
      This book list the same children as the prvious one, with the exception of Thomas. Isaac Beardsley also mentions that "from reading of the will it seems that he must have had other daughters,

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William BEARDSLELY (1602-1661)
He came to Massachusetts in 1635, in the ship "Planter" with his wife and eldest three children. He was a mason by trade. By 1638, he was living in Harford, Connecticut. Shortly thereafter, he removed to Stratford where he lived out his life. He served as a deputy to the General Court for seven years. According to family tradition, he gave the name of his birthplace ( and that of William Shakespeare), to the settlement which became his home in America.

Sources: "New England Families", Vol. IV, p. 2075, William Richard Cutter, Woburn, Ma., 1913.
World Family Tree, Vol. I, chart 5404
://www.greenheart.com/rdietz/beards.htm\

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                  List of Officials 1636-1665
Beardsley, William (d. 1661). Deputy (Stratford) to Conn. Leg., Sept., 1645, Sept. 1649, May, 1650, Sept. 1651, May, 1652,Oct.,1653, Feb., 1657, May, 1658
Conn. Col. I. 130,195, 207, 224, 231, 248, 288, 315
Source: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. IV, List of Officials in Connecticut and New Haven Colonies 1635-1665, Page 968\\
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Wm. B. was a man of worth, substance, and influence in Connecticut. He was a deputy to the General Court of Conn. at Hartford in 1645 and again in 1649-56. His name was spelled Will� Berdsly, and he was also called Goodman Beardsley as a title of respectability. He was a large landowner. At one time, he was on a committee to provision �souldgers� and at another time was assistant magistrate or the execution of justice �in the Townes by the sea side�. In 1659 he was on a committee to recommend the proper disposal of someone�s estate. In Stratford, he was a member of the Rev. Adam Blackman�s Episcopal church, and was of a very decided and amiable religious character. He had probably been a Puritan in England, glad to escape the coming civil war there.
This is his will, somewhat condensed, court-dated July 6, 1661: �I, William Beardsley, of Stratford, being sick and weak, but well in mind, do leave this as my last Will and Testyment:
To my married daughters, ten pounds each.
To Samuel: the one red cow he has borrowed, and that new white blankett.
To Joseph: if he marries ad leaves the sea, or helps his mother carry on the busynes, half of my estate at Stratford; otherwise, twenty pounds of my share of the bark;
To Daniell, after my wife�s decease, that he have ye other halfe of ye lots.
To John, tenn shilling.
William Beardsley, Sept. 28, 1660.

Trustees included Rev. Blackman, and four others. Note that his oldest son John had already received a house and home lot plus seven pieces of land, by gift of his father. Wm. B. probably died in 1661, in Stratford. His estate totalled 333 # 15s. 8d. (one record says 327 instead of 333). One record says his wife lived a long life, and had Daniell and his family residing with her.
The name Beardsley may be from Buwardsley, ches...shire, England, or Bardsey or Bardsley, a location in northern Lancashire. Anciently, there was a de Berdesey name. There is a Beardsley Family Association: Mrs. Nellie Beardsley Molt, 10 Sunset Terrace, West Hartford, Conn.
Richard and Anne Harvie came from St. Albans. The ship Planter had made one recorded previous trip across in March 1634. Its Master in 1633 had to post a 100 pound bond to:
1. Severely punish all on board for New England who should blaspheme the Holy name of God.
2. Make all passengers be present and say prayers from the Church of England Book of Common prayers, morning and evening.
3. Insure that all passengers have taken the Oathes of Allegeance and Suprmacy.
4. Report to the Board the names of all passengers.

On Sept. 18, 1649, the Hartford Court appointed Wllm. Beardsley to assist Ludlow in outfitting 13 souldgers for the Stratford area to enforce no sale of �schott� to the Indians. On July 8, 1669, among the Freemen of Stratord were Samuel Beardsley, Joseph Beardsley, and Richard Harvey. The latter, spelled Mr.Harvy, was presented to be a Freeman May 13, 1669.
There is a record of John Beardsley being in jail; claimed unjust detention; the Court nominated his freedom. He had an estate of 87# 12s. 6d. at the time, and was detained with several others who had lesser estates. He was propounded for Freeman from Stratford, May 11, 1671. Dan�l. Beardsley was propounded for Freeman from Stratford and confirmed May 13, 1675. Court at Hartford.
Due to danger from Indians, each county by Hartford Court order of Oct. 14, 1675 was to raise 60 souldgers and prepare for defense. The Court �desires Major Gold to send up Mr. Josiah Harvy or John Hall to be ?- chirurgions to the army, whichever one of them he judgeth most suitable�. Would Josiah be a son of Richard and Anne?
One record says Wm. B. was a native of Stratford-on-Avon and came over with Rev. Blakeman, settling first in Hadley, Mass., then to Hartford 1638. But this record includes a number of mistakes.
One record says the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were signed on the 14th of January, 1638, not 1639. It was certainly one of the first written constitutions in the world. In it, men held office because fellowmen elected them--- not because God, Pope, or King appointed them.

Source:Ancestry.com post, Kevin Wilson <kevindwx@hotmail.com>\\

More About WILLIAM BEARDSLEY:
Appointed: Bet. 1645 - 1659, Deputy to the General Court at Hartford, Connecitcut ³⁰
Burial: Abt. 06 Jul 1661 ³¹
Comment: See Notes for William's wife for more info about him, since notes would not fit in William's Notes.³²
Emigration: 10 Apr 1635, From London, England on the ship, Planter, Nicholas Trerice, Master and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts on Sunday, June 7, 1635 ³³
Fact: 07 Dec 1636, took oath of office in Massachusetts and was made a freeman.³⁴
Occupation: Mason³⁴

Notes for MARY HARVEY:
[28380 Dickinson.FTW]

Also; "HARVIE".
Source includes, but is not limited to:
"Ancestral File" and the "IGI", "International Genealogical Index", both
resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints.
Came to America in 1635 on the ship "Planter" from England according to Hatton's "List of Emigrants to America" which left London on April 2, 1635. There were five Beardsleys: a mason, William Beardsley, age 30, born in England in 1605, his wife, Mary, age 26, Marie, age 4, John age 2 and Joseph , age 6 months. The last residence of William or ancestors, before setting sail for America, was probably St. Albans or Herfordshire, England. They landed in Massachusetts about the 1st of June or in the summer of 1635. William probably settled in Watertown, eight miles west of Boston.

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Passenger List: PLANTER 1635
Planter of London, Nicholas Trerice, Master.
She sailed from London about April 10,1635 and arrived at Boston on Sunday, June 7,1635
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The following passengers certified from St. Alban, Herts
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William Beardsley 30
Mrs. Mary Beardsley 26                        Concord and Stratford, Ct.
Mary Beardsley 04
John Beardsley 02
Joseph Beardsley 1/2

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In the HISTORY OF STRATFORD, 1639-1969 by W.M. Wilcoxson, published 1939, Second edition Nov 1969, Inhabitants of Stratford, 1668, page 316, the following variants of the Beardsley name can be found:
John Birdseye, Sr.
John Birdseye, Jr.
Joseph Bearslye
Samuel Bearslye
John Bearslye
Widow Bearsleye, ye wife of Thomas
Widow Bearslye, ye wife of Wm. Bearslye halfe proprietor to a house Lott and Accomodations
Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/stratford/stratford_residents1668.htm\\

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Subj: [BEARDSLEY] William Beardsley (c1605-c1661)
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Dear group -
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extract from Robert Charles Anderson, "The Great Migration" volume 1; NEHGS,
Boston 1999.

WILLIAM BEARDSLEY

ORIGIN: Ilkeston, Derbyshire
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Planter
FIRST RESIDENCE: Concord
REMOVES: Stratford by 1645
OCCUPATION: Mason.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Concord church prior to 7 December 1636
implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 December 1636 (as "Will[iam] Beadseley," third in a sequence of
five Concord men) [MBCR 1:372].
EDUCATION: Signed his will. His inventory included "books" valued at �2.
OFFICES: Deputy for Stratford to Connecticut Court, 11 September 1645, 13
September 1649 (absent), 16 May 1650, 11 September 1651, 6 October 1651, 20
May 1652, 29 October 1653, 26 February 1656/7, 20 May 1658 [CCCR 1:130, 195,
207, 224, 225, 231, 248, 288, 3151. On 6 October 1651, William Beardsley was
one of three men "propounded for Assistants to join with the magistrates for
the execution of justice in the towns by the seaside" [CCCR 1:226]. Committee
to provision soldiers, 18 September 1649 [CCCR 1:198]. Committee to answer
petition of Arthur Bostick (as "Goodman Beardsley"), 6 October 1659 [CCCR
1:340].
ESTATE: In his deed dated 29 July 1648, Robert Blott of Boston recorded the
fact that the property he sold in Concord to Samuel Stratton of Concord was
bounded on the south by "Goodman Bearsley" [SLR 1:94].
In 1659 the town of Stratford recorded "certain lands given, bought & granted
to Wil[lia]m Beardsly by the town": "one acre & half granted by the town &
three acres & a half bought that was Goodman Knowls lying all in one parcel";
"one acre in the Old Field"; "four acres upon the neck"; "six acres and a
half ... lying on the neck"; "eleven acres & three quarters of upland &
meadow lying together u1 the New Field"; "twenty & one acres of meadow &
upland lying together in the field called Mr. Waklin's s Neck"; and "four
acres & a half of meadow" [StrLR 1:64].
This inventory is supplemented with records of other landholding by William
Beardsley and his immediate family: "three quarters of an acre of upland ...
in Old Field ... purchased of Mr. Graves and Mr. Stanlye[?]"; "by purchase
nine acres of meadow ... lying in the Great Meadow"; "also four acres of
meadow ... lying at the ditch"; "Joseph Bearslye by gift from his father
William Bearsly as appears in his will in proportion to the equal half of the
accommodations"; "Joseph Bearsly by way of division hath two acres and a half
of upland in the new pasture ... 15 March 1666.67; "widow Marie Bearslye hath
by way of division two acres and a half of upland in the new pasture ... 27
August 1667; "widow Mary Beardslee hath four acres and half of meadow lying
in the Great Meadow at the wood end ... 18 1-month [March] [16]74"; "widow
Mary Beardslye hath three acres of upland ... lying in the New Field ...
March 28: [16]74"; "widow Mary Beardsly by way of division hath one acre of
land & eight rod ... Number 29th lying at the northwest end of the town ...
March first 1680/81"; "widow Mary Beardslee by way of division in the woods
hath eleven acres & half of land ... 18 1-month [16]74"; "widow Mary Beardsly
by way of division in the swamp being in the field hath two acres & 16 rod of
land ... 18 1-month [16]74"; "widow Mary Beardslye by way of division in the
woods hath forty acres of land ... lying in a place commonly called the trap
falls ... 24 1-month 1673 & 74"; "widow Mary & Daniell Beardsly by way of
exchange with Isaac Nickalls junior hath purchased seven acres & half &
thirty-two rod of land ... it being swamp division"; "Daniell Beardsley by
way of division at the north end of the town hath three-quarters of an acre
of land & eight rod ... March first 1680/81"; and "Daniell Beardsley by way
of exchange with Mr. Samuell Sherman Senior hath purchased six acres of land
lying on both sides of Paquanock River ... this 5th day of January 1681"
[StrLR 1:63-64].
On 7 July 1668, Daniel Beardsley acknowledged that for "several years before
"Timothy Willcockson [had] by purchase from William Bearsly deceased ...
twenty-one acres of upland and meadow be it more or less two acres meadow
lying together lying in the New Field on a neck called commonly Wakelyn's"
[StrLR 1:158].
In his will, dated 28 September 1660 and proved 6 July 1661, "William
Beardsly of Stratford" bequeathed to "all my daughters that are now married I
give ten pounds apiece"; to "my son Samuel that red cow which I have now lent
him, I only reserve four acres of that land at Pequanocke for my wife to
improve if Joseph fall in to help her if she please, the rest is Samuel's, I
also give him one of the new white blankets"; to "Joseph my son;" should he
choose to be "an assistant to my wife" while she lives or until she
remarries, "& leaves the sea," half "my accommodations in Stratford" and if
not, "I give twenty pounds of my share of the bark to, add to his part"; if
"my loving wife" pleases to add to the portions of "my daughters" she to add
to them equally; residue to wife and children "at the discretion of Mr.
Blackman, Philip Groves, John Brimsmayd, John Burdsie and Joseph Hawly,"
overseers; "Daniell after the decease of my wife that he have her half of the
lots"; to "my son John" 10s. [StrLR 1:39; Fairfield PR 1:67-68 (partially
burned)].
On 6 July 1661, the widow presented the inventory of William Beardsley,
totalling �327 15s. 6d., with real estate valued at �71: "house, barn, and
all the rest of the accommodations, meadows & upland" [StrLR 1:37-38;
Fairfield PR 1:68-69].
On 23 March 1718/9, distribution was made of "the estate of Captain John
Beardslee, late of Stratfield deceased," to the following persons: "Henry
Lacy"; "Alexander Fairchild"; "John Beardsle junior son of Mr. Daniell
Beardsle of Stratford"; "John Fairchild son to Alexander Fairchild"; "the
representatives of Mary Wells of Hatfield [written over Deerfield] deceased
sister to said Captain Beardsle"; "the representatives of Hannah Dickerson
deceased sister as abovesaid"; "the representatives of Sarah Dickerson
deceased sister as abovesaid"; "Ruth Smith of Long Island"; "the
representatives of Joseph Beardsle deceased"; "the representatives of
Sam[ue]ll Beardsle deceased"; "Mrs. Rebekah Beebee of Danbury"; "Mr. Daniel
Beardsle Senior of Stratford"; "the distribution in particular to the
children of Joseph Beardslee deceased ... to Joseph Beardsle ... to John
Beardsle ... to Ephraim Beardsle ... to Jonathan Beardsle ... to Thomas
Beardle [sic] ... to Josiah Beardsle ... to Elisabeth Pulford" [Fairfield PR
Case #481]

BIRTH: About 1605 (aged 30 in 1635 [Hotten 45]).
DEATH: After 28 September 1660 (date of will) and before 6 July 1661 (probate
of will).
MARRIAGE: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 26 January 1631/2 Mary Harvey. She was
baptized at Ilkeston on 5 June 1605, daughter of Richard and Ellen (Elliot)
Harvey [TAG 37:77-79]. (This baptismal date makes Mary four years older than
her stated age at immigration. Daughter Mary's age may also be misstated, as
she would have been born before the above marriage date if the entry in the
passenger list is correct.) She was living on 28 March 1674 [StrLR 1:64].
CHILDREN:
MARY,b. about 1631 (aged four on 2 April 1635 [Hotten 45]); said to have m.
by 1651 Thomas Welles (eldest child of Thomas and Mary Welles b. Wethersfield
10 January 1652 [WetVr Barbour 285, citing LR 1:18]). (Secondary sources
state this marriage, and claim a Wethersfield marriage record of "[blank] May
1651" [FOOF 1:46], but this record has not been found, and no other evidence
supporting this marriage date has been found.)
JOHN, b. about 1633 (aged two on 2 April 1635 [Rotten 45]); m. about 1656
Hannah --_ (on 25 November 1667, John Winthrop Jr. treated "Beardsly Hanna
(29 years old)the wife of John of Stratford nupta pro 11 annos et nunquam
concepit" ("... married for 11 years and unable to conceive") [WMJ 884]; he
treated her again on 24 June 1668 [WMJ 8201).
JOSEPH, b. about 1634 (aged six months on 2 April 1635 [Hotten 45]); m. by
1666 r- __-_ (eldest child b. Stratford 10 June 1666 [StrVR Barbour 9, citing
LR 1:51]). (Jacobus claimed that she was "Phebe Dayton of Brookhaven, L.I."
[FOOF 1:47], but this marriage must be for a later Joseph. Stratford vital
records do have such a marriage, undated, but nestled in among a group of
marriages from the first three decades of the eighteenth century [StrVR
Barbour 52, citing StrLR 2:479]; "Phebe, d. Joseph Jr. & Phebe, [was] b. 23
Jan. 1729/30" [StrVR Barbour 52, citing StrLR 5:20].)
RUTH, b. say 1636; m. by 1668 Joseph Smith of Jamaica, Long Island (on 23
March 1668/9, John Winthrop Jr. treated "Smith Ruth wife of Joseph of
Jamaica" for hysterical fits [WMJ 883]) [TAG 2.5:72-74 and evidence discussed
there].
SAMUEL, b. say 1638; m. by 1664 Abigail Clark, daughter of John Clark of New
Haven (on 8 March 1663/4, John Winthrop Jr. treated "Beasly Sam: his wife
about 22 y: she was Abigail Clerk daughter of John Clerk of Newhaven" [WMJ
535]).
HANNAH, b. say 1642; m. by about 1662 Nathaniel Dickinson [NEHGR 152:170-711.
DANIEL, b. about 1645 (d. Stratford 7 October 1730 in 86th year [FOOF 1:48,
citing gravestone inscription]); m. by 1681 Ruth Goodwin, daughter of Thomas
Goodwin (eldest child b. Stratford 18 August 1681 [StrVr Barbour 9, citing
StrLR 2:482]; "a conveyance given by Daniel and Ruth Beardsley mentions that
Ephraim Stiles married their mother Ruth Wheeler" [FOOF 1:48;
McCormickHamilton 122-23, 507]).
REBECCA, b. say 1646; m. (1) by 1666 Israel Curtis (eldest known child b.
Stratford 18 March 1666/7 [FOOF 1:171]); m. (2) after 1704 James Beebe ("On
31 Mar[ch] 1719, Israel Curtis of Danbury conveyed to William, Daniel and
John Beardsley, Jonathan Wakelee, John Parruck, and Nathan Beardsley (later
referred to as children of Samuel Beardsley decd), land al Stratfield set out
to my mother Rebecca Beebe from the estate of Capt. John Beardsley" [FOOF
1:704-5, citing an unknown source]).
SARAH, b. say 1648; m. Hadley 8 January 1668/9 Obadiah Dickinson [HamVR 70;
Pynchon VR 223; NEHGR 152:172].
ASSOCIATIONS: Mary Harvey's siblings included RICHARD HARVEY and ANN HARVEY,
both passengers on the Planter [TAG 37:77-79].

COMMENTS: "W[illia]m Beardsley," mason, aged 30, "Marie Beadsley [sic]," aged
26, "Marie Beadslie," aged 4, "John Beadslie," aged 2, and "Joseph Beadslie,"
aged six months, were enrolled at London on 2 April 1635 as passengers for
New England on the Planter [Hotten 45].

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1961 Donald Lines Jacobus detected the connection
between the Harveys and the Beardsleys and published his results [TAG
37:77-79].

SOURCES:
CCCR - Connecticut Colonial Records
Fairfield PR - Fairfield county probate records
FOOF - Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield"
HamVR - Vital records at Hadley Town Hall
Hotten - "The Original Lists of Persons of Quality," John C. Hotten
MBCR - Mass' Bay Court Records
NEHGR - New England Hist. & Gen. Register (quarterly)
Pynchon VR - John Pynchon manuscript, CT Valley Hist. Museum
SLR - Suffolk county (MA) deeds
StrLR - Stratford vital records
TAG - The American Genealogist (periodical since 1932)
WetVR - Wethersfield vital records, Barbour collection
WMJ - John Winthrop, Jr.'s medical journal

Also note, �1 in those days had the purchasing power of about the modern
$1000.
- JB in CA
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More About MARY HARVEY:
AKA (Facts Pg): Marie Harvie ³⁵
Burial: Aft. 20 Sep 1691 ³⁶
Comment: "Widow Bearslye, ye wife of Wm. Bearslye halfe proprietor to a house Lott and Accomodations" found in Inhabitants Of Straftford, 1668. Is this, this Mary?³⁷

Children of WILLIAM BEARDSLEY and MARY HARVEY are:

6.	i.		MARY⁴ BEARDSLEY, b. 1631, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England; d. 20 Sep 1691, Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
	ii.		CAPTAIN JOHN BEARDSLEY^38,³⁹, b. 1633, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England ⁴⁰; d. 19 Nov 1718, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut ⁴¹; m. HANNAH JOSEPH, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut ⁴²; b. 1637; d. 03 Dec 1718, Fairfield County, Connecticut ⁴³.

Notes for CAPTAIN JOHN BEARDSLEY:
CNIDRIsearch-cgi 1.20.06 (file:planter. txt) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/ul/data/ma+index+531399524+F
Passenger List: PLANTER 1635
Planter of London, Nicholas Trerice, Master.
She sailed from London about April 10,1635 and arrived at Boston on Sunday, June 7,1635
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William Beardsley 30
Mrs. Mary Beardsley 26 Concord and Stratford, Ct.
Mary Beardsley 04
John Beardsley 02
Joseph Beardsley 1/2
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Apparently John had no children. In will left 1/3 to wife; 1/3 to John, son of his brother Daniel; and 1/3 to John Faichild, son of Alexander. Mentions kinswoman Deborah, wife of Alexander, may be daughter of Thomas. William Beardsley of Stratford Connecticut & his Descendants edited by H.F. Johnson\
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The will was contested and the following distribution was made;- Henry Lacy; Alexander Fairchild; John Beardsle, Jr. son of Dan'll Bearsle; John Fairchild, son of Alexander Fairchild; heirs of Mary Wells of Hatfield,, dec'd, sister; heirs of Hannah Dickinson, dec'd sister; heirs of Sarah Dickinson dec'd sister; Ruth Smith of Long Island; Rebecca Beebe of Danbury; Daniel Bearsle.
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They had no children.
He came to Stratford with his parents, 1635. Little is known about his early liege. He was appointed, May 1685, Lieutenant of Lieutenant of the Stratfield Society Train Band; also, was Lieutenant of the Stratfield Society Train Band, when it was formed, 1703, and was made Captain in 1704.
He took the oath of freeman, 1712. He was a farmer, owning over eighty acres of land in Stratford and Stratfield, and his house was at the latter place.
Probate records of his estate are in the State Library at Hartford, Connecticut. His estate inventoried, L 517-02-00.
His will, dated, January 21,1714/5, mentioned the following beneficiaries: kinswoman, Deborah Fairchild, wife of Alexander Fairchild; loving wife Hannah; John Beardsle, son my brother Daniel; and John Fairchild, son of Alexander Fairchild,
The will was contested, and distribution, made 3 Feb. 1720/1, mentions the following recipients: Henry Lacy; Alexander Fairchild; John Beardsle, Jr. son of Dan'l Beardsle; John Fairchild son of Alexander Fairchild; heirs of Mary Wells of Hatfield, dec'd sister; heirs of Hannah Dickinson, dec'd sister; heirs of Sarah Dickinson dec'd sister; Ruth Smith of Long Island; heirs of Joseph Beardsle heirs of Samuel Beardsle; Rebecca Beebe of Danbury; Daniel; Beardsle.
Source: Nellie Beardsley Holt's BEARDSLEY GENEALOGY, page 7\

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Capt. John, son of William and Mary Beardsley, born in England in 1633, came to Stratford with his father in 1639. He m. Hannah -, and had his residence for several years at the south end of Stratford village, but in 1668 he had a house at Pequonnock,(Now on Park Avenue, a little way north of Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport, CT) where he was among the earliest settlers. He was confirmed lieutenant of the train band in 1685, and captain of the first company in Stratfield, where he was a prominent member of the ecclesiastical society about 20 years. He died Nov. 19, 1718, aged 85 years. His will was dated Jan. 21, 1714-15, and proved NOV. 25, 1718, and the inventory of his estate was dated Dec. 3, 1718. His estate west of Pequontiock river he gave one-third to his wife Hannah, one-third to John, son "of my brother Daniel," and one-third to John Fairchild, son of Alexander Fairchild. Of his other property he gave a considerable portion to, as he says, " My kinswoman, Deborah Fairchild, wife of Alexander Fairchild ;" and he had given her in 1704, five acres of land,.south of Golden Hill. The word kinswoman and kinsman was used in those days in several instances of persons known to be nephews and nieces, and therefore it is concluded that Deborah, who m. Alexander Fairchild, was the daughter of his brother, Thomas Beardsley, of Stratford. who died in 1676, leaving several children, and that she was brought up by Capt. John Beardsley, and hence the reason for giving her and her son so much of his estate.
He liberated his slave by the following instrument: " He it known unto all men by these presents that I, John Beardsley, in the county of Fairfield, farmer, have remised, released, acquitted and by these presents do for me, my heirs or assigns have freely and fully given my Negro man his time and freedom at my decease and have given him a dowry of my'estate if he doth stand in need hereof, and have given him my horse that was called my wife's horse, as witness my hand this 25th, day of December, 1717.
" John Beardsley, his mark." He left a widow, Hannah, who died after him in the same year, but he
left no children. Source: The History of Stratford, pages 1130-1131\\

More About CAPTAIN JOHN BEARDSLEY:
Appointed: May 1685, Lietenant of the First or South Company of Stratford's Train Band, made Captain in 1704 ⁴⁴
Christening: 02 Nov 1633, St. Mary's Church (Church of England) Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England⁴⁴
Emigration: Abt. 10 Apr 1635, At the age of two, from London, England on the ship, Planter, Nicholas Trerice, Master and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts on Sunday, June 7, 1635 ⁴⁵
Fact: 1712, took oath of freeman ⁴⁶
Military service: 1685, Lieut. of Train Band and Capt. of 1st. Co. of Startford ⁴⁷
Occupation: farmer of 80 acres in Stratford and Stratfield ⁴⁸
Probate: 03 Feb 1720, or 1721 will was contested and distribution was made of 517-02-00 L see notes⁴⁸
Residence: South end of Strarford villiage ⁴⁹
Will: 21 Jan 1714, or 1715, Mentioned the following beneficiaries;-kinswoman, deborah Fairchild, wife of Alexander Fairchild; loving wife Hannah; John Beardsle, son of my brother Daniel; and John Fairchild, son of Alexander Fairchild.

Notes for HANNAH JOSEPH:
found In Yates Publishing source #6020 DB BFO

7.	iii.	JOSEPH BEARDSLEY, b. 16 Nov 1634, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England; d. 29 May 1712, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
8.	iv.	RUTH BEARDSLEY, b. Abt. 1636, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; d. Aft. 1668, Long Island, New York.
9.	v.	SAMUEL BEARDSLEY, b. Abt. 1638, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; d. 24 Dec 1706, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
10.	vi.	SARAH BEARDSLEY, b. 1640, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; d. Sep 1677, Indian attack on Hatfield, Massachusetts, during which thier home was entered and burned. Sarah was severely burned and left dead..
11.	vii.	HANNAH BEARDSLEY, b. 1642, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; d. 23 Feb 1679, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts.
12.	viii.	DANIEL BEARDSLEY, b. 1644, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; d. 07 Oct 1730, Stratford, Fairfield county, Connecticut.
13.	ix.	THOMAS? BEARDSLEY, b. 1646, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; d. 29 Mar 1667, Inv..
14.	x.	REBECCA BEARDSLEY, b. Abt. 1647, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut /1649; d. 17 Feb 1739, Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
	xi.	DAVID? BEARDSLEY⁵⁰, b. Aft. 1647 ⁵¹.

Notes for DAVID? BEARDSLEY:
Nellie Beardsley Holt, author of Beardsley Genealogy does not assign David as a child of William & Mary Beardsley

More About DAVID? BEARDSLEY:
Fact: Nellie Beardsley Holt does not assign David as a child of Willliam & Mary (Harvey) Beardsley ⁵²

xii.

WILLIAM? BEARDSLEY⁵³, b. Aft. 1648 ⁵⁴.

More About WILLIAM? BEARDSLEY:
Fact: Nellie Beardsley Holt (Along with many others) does not list William as a child of William b.1605 and Mary (Harvey ) Beardsley.⁵⁵

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