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             Husband: Isaac BEECHER (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: 1748 in New Haven, CT (7)
          Christened: 22 JAN 1749 in Woodbridge, New Haven, CT (8)
             Married:
                Died: 23 SEP 1789 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (9)
              Buried: 24 SEP 1789 in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (10 11 12 13)
              Father: Isaac BEECHER
              Mother: Mabel HOTCHKISS
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Hannah BALL (14 15 16)
                Born: 13 DEC 1753 in New Haven, CT (17 18)
                Died: 28 NOV 1826 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (19 20 21 22 23)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (24 25)
              Father: Timothy BALL
              Mother: Mary HINE
             Spouses: Abijah CHATFIELD
Children
01               (M): Philo BEECHER (26 27 28 29 30 31 32)
                Born: 01 MAY 1773 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died: 07 DEC 1815 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (33 34 35)
             Spouses: Mary RIGGS
02               (F): Mary BEECHER (36 37 38 39 40 41 42)
                Born: 20 NOV 1775 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (43)
                Died: 16 DEC 1827 (44 45 46)
             Spouses: John RIGGS
03               (M): David BEECHER (47 48 49 50 51)
                Born: 11 JUL 1778 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: Mary TOMLINSON
04               (F): Eunice BEECHER
                Born: DEC 1781 (52)
                Died: 14 FEB 1782 (53)
             Spouses: 
05               (F): Polly BEECHER (54 55 56 57)
                Born: l 1782 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: William DAVIS; David BEACH
06               (F): Thirza BEECHER (58)
                Born: l 1783 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (59)
                Died: OCT 1811 (60)
             Spouses: Curtiss LINDLEY

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ...
    1770 ... Abraham Beecher, ___2. ...
    Isaac Beecher, Apr. 9, 1774.
    Desire, wife of Abraham Beecher, July 24, 1774.
    Hannah, wife of Isaac Beccher, Feb. 5, 1775 ...
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  2. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #140.
    [Built the Beecher-Chatfield house on Chestnut Tree Hill Road Extension in 1769.
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  3. Ibid., #115.
    In 1782 Isaac and Abraham Beecher bought land..
    [Hawley Road, Oxford, CT
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  4. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 1, p 316.
  5. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 109.
  6. Ibid., vol 1, p 159.
  7. Ibid., vol 1, p 170.
  8. Ibid., vol 1, p 170.
  9. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  10. Ibid., 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  11. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 49.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/049.html.]
  12. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 170.
  13. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem1593.html.]
  14. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ...
    Isaac Beecher, Apr. 9, 1774 ...
    Hannah, wife of Isaac Beccher, Feb. 5, 1775 ...
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  15. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 170.
  16. Ibid., vol 1, p 159.
  17. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 1, p 316.
  18. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 109.
  19. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  20. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 74.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/074.html.]
  21. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 1, p 316.
  22. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 109.
  23. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 37.
  24. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  25. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem1594.html.]
  26. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 128.
    [discharge from military duty - 1810
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/128.html.]
  27. Ibid., 70.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/070.html.]
  28. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 27.
    Capt. of 1st Co. in Oxford.
  29. 1800 Oxford Census.
  30. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  31. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  32. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 14.
    ... 1794.
    Aug. 24th, Samuel Riggs and Charry his wife renewed their Covenant.
    Aug. 24, Philo Beecher & Mary his Wife renewed their Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/014.html.]
  33. Ibid., 77.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/077.html.]
  34. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 179.
    .. 7 Nov 1815 ae. 42 Oxf; Capt. ...
    [From the photograph it would appear that December is correct rather than November.]
  35. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    Chatfield, Abijah, died Nov. 19, 1835, age 68
    Chatfield, Hannah Ball, wife of Abijah, died Sept. 25, 1826, age 73
    Beecher, Capt. Philo, died Dec 7, 1815. age 42
    Beecher, Isaac, died Sept. 23, 1789, age 41.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  36. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 25.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/025.html.]
  37. Ibid., 41.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/041.html.]
  38. Ibid., 43.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/043.html.]
  39. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 33-4.
  40. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 432.
  41. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 19.
  42. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 14.
    ... 1794 ...
    Septr 21st, John Riggs 3d & Mary his Wife Renewed their Covenant.
    Sept. 21, Wm Morriss & Elizabeth his wife Renewed thedir Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/014.html.]
  43. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 179.
  44. Ibid., vol 1, p 179.
  45. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 33-4.
  46. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 40.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/trcemscan40.html.]
  47. J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 534.
    The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...
  48. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 27.
    ... s. of David & Polly ...
  49. 1800 Oxford Census.
  50. Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (The Hawkins Association, 1939), 248.
  51. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 14.
    ... 1800.
    Septm 21, Joseph Riggs & Lyddia his wife renewed their Covenant.
    Septmr 21, John Fairchild & Mary his wife renewed their Covenant.
    Septmr 21, David Beecher & Polly his wife renewd their Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/014.html.]
  52. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 170.
  53. Ibid., vol 1, p 170.
  54. 1820 Oxford Census.
  55. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 39.
  56. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 179.
  57. Ibid., vol 1, p 159.
  58. Ibid., vol 1, p 179.
  59. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 28.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/uncemscan28.html.]
  60. Ibid., 28.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/uncemscan28.html.]

Revised: 24-Mar-10
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