Daniel Beckwith

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: Based on birth year of his wife. Baptized the same date as his father.

• Baptism: Joshua Hempstead Diary Records, Connecticut Historical Society, 14 Mar 1725, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. March 14, 1724/5, … and Joseph Beckwith Junior and his son Daniel and daughter Elizabeth were baptized (pg. 3)

Source Citation
[East Lyme Society]. Record of baptisms, marriages, and persons who owned the covenant, 1737-1761, MS 83382, Connecticut Historical Society (CHS), Hartford, Connecticut. Transcribed by Julia Morrow, CHS Collections Associate, February 2022.

• Baptism: From East Lyme Society records, 14 Mar 1725, East Lyme, Connecticut. March 14, 1724/5, … and Joseph Beckwith Junior and his son Daniel and daughter Elizabeth were baptized (pg. 3)

Source Citation
[East Lyme Society]. Record of baptisms, marriages, and persons who owned the covenant, 1737-1761, MS 83382, Connecticut Historical Society (CHS), Hartford, Connecticut. Transcribed by Julia Morrow, CHS Collections Associate, February 2022.

• Parents: Conflicting information. Paul Beckwith identified his parents as Daniel Beckwith and Ruth Royce. However, there is no data to support this link.

The East Lyme Society and Joshua Hempstead Diary indicate he was a son of Joseph as shown.

• Family History: From The Beckwiths by Paul Beckwith, Page 78 NEEDS TO BE VERIFIED. Daniel Beckwith, 560, born at Lyme, Ct., October 26, 1704; farmer and Baptist minister; died November 10, 1763; married Miriam Smith, November 13, 1740; she moved to Marlow, N. H., in 1765, and died there March 7, 1809; she was born in 1721.

Children:
570. Eleazor; born at Lyme, Ct., in 1741; he was a Baptist minister in good standing and, also, a farmer; he died April 16, 1808; married Hannah Lewis, who was born in 1743, and died August 16, 1823.
571. Mary; born October 9, 1743 and died June 23, 1823; married Samuel Miller of Lyme.
572. Elizabeth; married Richard Lampshire of Lyme and died in 1814.
573. Titus; born Lyme, Ct., December 30, 1736; farmer; died at Chelsea, N. Y., in 1802.
574. Ruel; born Lyme, Ct, August 18th, 1742; died December 11th, 1790; married Sarah Wood, December 9th, 1773.
575. Amos; born at Lyme, Ct., April l7th, 1730; removed to Marlow, N. IL, in 1787; to Sutton, Vt.; Baptist minister; died at Sutton, Vt., December 6, 1822; he married Susannah Trueman, who was born at New London, Ct., August 4, 1760, and died at Sutton, Vt., September 21, 1839.
576. Ira; born 1733; died January 7, 1829; he was a farmer; married Hannah Wheelock, in 1750; she died May 22, 1780.
577. Amon; born Lyme, Ct., 1752, and died July 28, 1805; farmer; he removed to Marlow, N. H. and married Sarah Brown; she was born in 1763 and died June 28, 1837.

• Family History: From Beckwith Note Number 6, Page 14. 79 DANIEL (Joseph, Nathaniel), born at Lyme , between 1710 and 1720, perhaps; in 1740 married MIRIAM SMITH , (parents yet to find); named in his father's will (1746) as executor; died later than 1762. His widow went about 1781 with her eldest son to Marlow, in lower New Hampshire, where she died March 17, 1809, aged 88 years.

230. ELEAZAR.
231 Ruel, born Dec. 23, 1742.
232. MARY .
233. Elizbeth, wife of Richard Lamohere, believed at Marlow to belong here.
234. AMOS.
233. TITUS.
236. IRA.
237. AMON.

Daniel married Miriam Smith, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 1 May 1740 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. (Miriam Smith was born in 1721 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died on 7 Mar 1809 in Marlow, New Hampshire.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: From East Lyme Society Records, 1 May 1740, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. May 1, 1740, Daniel Beckwith and Miriam Smith both of Lyme were married together (pg. 2)

Source Citation
[East Lyme Society]. Record of baptisms, marriages, and persons who owned the covenant, 1737-1761, MS 83382, Connecticut Historical Society (CHS), Hartford, Connecticut. Transcribed by Julia Morrow, CHS Collections Associate, February 2022.