Mary Beach

 

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Mary Beach
  see FAMILY TREE
Born: 19 Jan 1675-76 Stratford, Fairfield, CT

   
Married: Abt. 1697 Stratford, Fairfield, CT

   
Died: Bef. 10 Mar 1759 Stratford, Fairfield, CT    

FATHER

Benjamin Beach

MOTHER

Mary Peacock

HUSBAND

Josiah Curtiss

CHILDREN

1. Eunice Curtiss
    b 01 Aug 1699
    m. 24 Oct 1720 Robert Welles

2. Abraham Curtiss
    b. 10 May 1701
    m. Elizabeth Welles
    d. 7 Sep 1779

3. Josiah Curtiss
    b. 06 Jan 1702-03
    m. 28 Nov 1727 Mary Judson
    d. 26 May 1773

4. Benjamin Curtiss
    b. 25 Dec 1704
    m. Bathsheba Welles
    m. 17 Aug 1727 Elizabeth Birdseye
    d. 28 Jul 1782

5. Peter Curtiss
    b. 01 Apr 1707
    m. 4 Nov 1728 Hester Clark
    m. 20 Jul 1745 Mary Hawley
    d. 30 Mar 1766

6. Matthew Curtiss
    b. 16 Dec 1708
    died young

7. Mary Curtiss
    b. 25 Jul 1711
    m. 4 Jun 1730 John Patterson
    d. 18 Jul 1789

8. Matthew Curtiss
    b. 01 Dec 1712
    m. 2 Jun 1737 Phebe Judson
    m. Abigail Thompson
    d. 29 Nov 1796

9. Mehitable Curtiss b. 01 Jan 1715-16
    named in her father's will of 1745

10. Charles Curtiss b. 01 Jan 1715-16
    m. Desire

Mary Beach
by Susan Brooke
Jun 2023

Mary Beach was born in Stratford, Fairfield, CT on 19 Jan 1676. (1) She married the widower, Josiah Curtiss,  about 1697. (2)  His first wife had just died and he had three children under the age of 4.  Mary raised those children and had ten more children with Josiah Curtis in the course of about 17 years. Her husband died in 1745 at the age of 83.  She lived another fourteen years and died in 1759, also as the age of 83.  She wrote her will on 13 Apr 1757 and it was proved on 10 Mar 1759.  She left 5 shillings to each of her own eight living children.  To her unmarried daughter, Mehitable Curtiss, she left the title to a piece of land. (3)

Sources

(1) Birth Record
Stratford Town records (Barbour Collection)
Beach, Mary daughter of Benjamin born Jan 19, 1676    LR1   pg 58

(2) A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family by Frederick Haines Curtiss, 1903

A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family

(3) Will of Mary Beach Curtiss
FHL film 4275 image 478
Fairfield Probate BK 12 page 325

Will written 13 Apr 1757 and proved 10 Mar 1759
She left 5 shillings to her children: Josiah, Benjamin, Pater, Matthew, Charles, Eunice Wells and Mary Patterson.  She left her daughter Mehitable title to a piece of land.

 

 

 

 

 

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