James BECKWITH

James married Sarah MARVIN on 18 Feb 1693/4. Sarah (daughter of Lieut. Reinold MARVIN and Sarah CLARK) was born in 1673 in Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Reinold BECKWITH was born on 15 Feb 1706/7 in Lyme, Connecticut; died on 27 Dec 1796 in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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Matthew, born about 1637; died at Lyme, June 4, 127, aged 90; (will dated march 19, 1714/5). He went fro Guilford to New London in 1671, and to Lyme in 1676. Marries 1st Elizabeth, perhaps at Guilford, where two sons were born; 2d, at Lyme in 1691, Elizabeth Griswold, divorced wife of John Rogers ands widow of Peter Pratt; 3d Sarah, (named in his will, - dated March 19, 1714/5). As to his first and third wives will as copied runs: "To Sarah, my dearly beloved wife &c... To my seven children which I had by my first wife (naming them and omitting John)." In town record of New London, vol. i, p. 7, are three entries of birth-date; namely, for James, Jonah, and Prudence, - each one written son or daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth. In an entry at Saybrook, vol. iv. p. 162, deed dated Jn. 30, 1728/9, Mrs. Sarah Beckwith mentions son Thomas Starkey; whence it is here inferred the Widow Sarah Starkey was third wife of Matthew Beckwith.

Matthew married Elizabeth ?. Elizabeth died before 1691. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]