Nathaniel Brown Beckwith
- Born: Abt 1730, Lyme, New London, Connecticut
- Died: Abt 1775 about age 45
 Noted events in his life were:
• Education: Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University 1701 - 1898, 1766. Page 45
Bachelors of Arts - 1766
Nathaniel Brown Beckwith, M.A. * 177_
Note: The * 177_ indicates he died sometime in the 1770s.
• Occupation: From Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1903) Vol. 3, by Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Page 173, 1773, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut. Nathaniel Brown Beckwith was an elder brother of the foregoing (George b. 1733), and was named for his maternal grandfather.
From 1771 to at least 1773 he was engaged in teaching a grammar school in Litchfield, Connecticut, and the autobiography of Governor Oliver Wolcott, Junior (Yale 1778) preserves a pleasant reminiscence of the Master's joining with his pupils in their sports of fishing and hunting.
His name is first marked as deceased in the Triennial Catalogue of Graduates issued in 1778; and the tradition is that he was killed in battle in the Revolutionary War.
Sources: P. Beckwiths, The Beckwiths, p. 81.
Wolcott Memorial, 223 - 24.
• Occupation: From The history of the town of Litchfield, Connecticut, 1720-1920, by Alan C. White, Page 144, Abt 1773, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut. Personal account of Oliver Wolcott Jr stating he attended the Grammer School which was kept by Nathaniel Brown Beckwith, a graduate of Yale College. He continues to say that in 1773 Master Beckwith pronounced him fit to enter college.
Pages 143 - 144
• Family History: From The Beckwiths by Paul Beckwith, Page 81. 590. Nathaniel Brown was killed in the Revolutionary War
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