James (Jeames) Beckwith

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: From Vital Records of Lyme, Connecticut to the End of the Year 1850, p. 219, 1 May 1695, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. The birth and death of the children of Jeames Beckwith and Sarah his wife
Jeames Beckwith was borne the 1 of May 1695

• Family History: From Beckwith Note 6, by Albert C. & Edward S. Beckwith, 1907, Page 5. JAMES, (James, Matthew, [Mathew]), was born at Lyme, May 1, 1695; went to Farmington (Southington) about 1731; to Bristol about 1756; died at Bristol, Oct. 2, 1794, in his 100th year. He married 1st, Mrs.(?) REBECCA LAMB, Oct. 15, 1717: she died, as it is thought, in 1743; 2d, Mrs. Hannah Barnes, Jan'y 19, 1749; she died Aug. 17, 1758; 3d, Mrs. Mary How, Aug. 28, 1760; who died March 16, 1767; 4th, Mrs. Abigail (Clark) Brownson-Roberts-Sperry, Feb. 14, 1769; she died Nov. 2, 1798.

85. Sarah, b. March 20, 1722.
86. JAMES.
87. Rebecca, b. Jan'y 20, 1729; pr'bly m'd to Elisha Cowles, of Kensington, Dec. 29, 1763.
88. Samuel, b. Sept. 10, 1732; d. Nov. 11, 1732.
89. Huldah, b. Dec. 27, 1734.
90. Mary, b. April 18, 1738; m'd to Nathaniel Norvill, June 29, 1761.
91. Silence Lamb, b. July 23, 1743; m'd to Elijah Wilcox, Mar. 6, 1765.

• Family History: From The Beckwiths by Paul Beckwith, Page 77. James Beckwith, 555, born Lyme, Ct., May 1, 1695; died there July 1730; married Mary Lamb, July 3, 1721 [sic]; she was born at New London, 1697, and died there.

Children:
564 Sarah; born Lyme, Ct, March 20, 1722.
565. Rebecca; born Lyme, Ct., January 20, 1729 [sic].
566. James.

James married Rebecca Lamb on 15 Oct 1717 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. (Rebecca Lamb was born in 1697 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died in 1743 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: From Vital Records of Lyme, Connecticut to the End of the Year 1850, p. 219, 15 Oct 1717, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. James Beckwith was married to Rebecca Lamb the fifteenth day
of October 1717