Deacon Josiah Beckwith

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: From 1790 Census, 1790, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Event Type: Census
Name: Josiah Beckwith
Event Date: 1790
Event Place: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Males
16+: 4
<16: 0

Females: 2

Other free persons: 1

Line Number: 10007
Page: 395
Affiliate Film Number: 1
Affiliate Publication Number: M637
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Digital Folder Number: 005157133
Microfilm Number: 0568141
Image Number: 00600

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKK-NQ6 : accessed 17 August 2021), Josiah Beckwith, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; citing p. 395, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1; FHL microfilm 568,141.

• Residence: From the Hartford Courant, Monday, Page 2, 19 Jul 1790, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. TO BE SOLD,
A DWELLING-HOUSE, in the city of Hartford, a few rods from the ferrying place; which formerly belonged to Mr. Reuben Judd. Said House is twenty-six feet square, one story gambril roof, with a good Well of water near the door. For further particulars, enquire of the subscriber, living on the prmises.
JOSIAH BECKWITH
Hartford, July 10, 1790

• Occupation: The Hartford Courant, Monday, Page 1, 8 Sep 1794, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. The public are respectfully informed that the subscribers intend carrying on the Butchering and Packing business, at the Slaughter-House lately owned by Messieurs Washburn and Hanmer, east of Messieurs Renssen Smith, and Co. Distillery. Any Gentlemen wishig to favour us with their custom, may depen of having their work done in the best manner, and all favors acknowledged by their humble servants,
BENJAMIN FOWLER, Butcher
JOSIAH BECKWITH, Packer
Hartford, August 30, 1794
N.B. We are enlarging said Slaughter-House, and making bins for Salt. Any gentlemen who wish to lodge Salt for their Beef, may have store room for free.
Salt and Barrels for Sale.

• Occupation: The Hartford Courant, Monday, Page 3, 4 Sep 1797, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. We the subscribers respectfully acquaint our customers and the public, that we shall carry on the packing and slaughtering business this season at the slaughter we have usually improved; also at the convenient slaughter lately occupied by Wm. MOORE, with convenience for trying tallow. Those gentlemen who shall please to favor us with their custom, may depend on their business being attended to with punctuality and dispatch.

Wanted beef on the foot or in quarters, pork in the carcass.

Cash and the highest price given for hides and tallow.

They have for sale on easy terms for the purchaser, a large number of provision barrels, and half barrels, full bound.

SAMEUL BECKWITH
JOSIAH BECKWITH Packers,
BENJ. FOWLER, Butcher.
Hartford, Sept. 4

• Occupation: Hartford Courant, Monday, Page 2, 26 Mar 1798, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Accomodations [sic] for any gentlemen who wish to supply themselves with small quantities of Salmon and Shad from this river, by forwarding directions and money to the subscriber near the ferry by the 15th of April, as he isntends to go down the river about that time, and return by the 15th of May.

JOSIAH BECKWITH
Hartford, March 17

• Occupation: Cooper and part owner of a slaghter-house, 1799, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Cooper, south side Ferry street.

Beckwith Josiah, Beckwith & Fowler, butchers, slaughter-house on the river bank north of city.

Page 6

Fowler Benjamin, [Beckwith & Fowler butchers.] north
of the city

Page 13

From Family Search org
Directory for the city of Hartford for the year 1799, containing the names of the business men and other residents, Frank D Andrews, 1910
Title No 3713488

• Residence: From 1800 Census, 1800, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Event Type: Census
Name: Josiah Beckwith
Event Date: 1800
Event Place: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Males
<10: 0
<16: 0
<26: 2
<45: 1
45+: 0

Females
<10: 0
<16: 1
<26: 0
<45: 1
45+: 0

Note: Lucy Cable is the head of the next family on the page.

Page: 256
Affiliate Film Number: 1
Affiliate Publication Number: M32
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Digital Folder Number: 004956019
Microfilm Number: 205618
Image Number: 00142

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR9-DMM : accessed 17 August 2021), Josiah Beckwith, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; citing p. 256, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1; FHL microfilm 205,618.

• Occupation: Union Company, 1800, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Union Company financial records and correspondence,1801-1862
by Union Company (Conn.).
Language English (English)
SubjectsBeckwith, Josiah,ca. 1766-1827.Colt, Elisha,1758-1827
Call Number
81952
Description
17 items.
System Control Number
(OCoLC)869747840
The Union Company of Hartford, Connecticut, operated from 1800 to 1866. It was the first company which sought to improve navigation of the Connecticut River from Hartford to the Sound by widening and deepening the channel of the river. The tolls it charged for use of the river became politically sensitive and produced law suits and cries of abuse by corporations. The records consist of receipts for shares in the company, Josiah Beckwith's accounts with the company in 1813, a return of vessels that paid a toll for the year 1820, an account of the company with treasurer Elisha Colt, 1826-1827, an account of funds expended to clear the channel of the Connecticut River between 1801 and 1813, a list of the vessels that arrived at the port of Hartford from 1861 to 1862, and two letters.
Preferred CitationUnion Company Financial Records and Correspondence, 1801-1862, Ms 81952. Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut.

• Residence: From 1810 Census, 1810, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Event Type: Census
Name: Josiah Bukwith
Event Date: 1810
Event Place: Hartford City, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Males
<10: 0
<16: 0
<26: 0
<45: 0
45+: 1

Females
<10: 0
<16: 1
<26: 0
<45: 1
45+: 0

Other: 2

Page: 372
Affiliate Film Number: 1
Affiliate Publication Number: M252
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Digital Folder Number: 005157122
Microfilm Number: 0281229
Image Number: 00372

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2H-H65 : accessed 17 August 2021), Josiah Bukwith, Hartford City, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; citing p. 372, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1; FHL microfilm 281,229.

• Church: First Church of Christ in Hartford, Oct 1813, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Page 6

DEACONS

Names Chosen Died Age

Josiah Beckwith Oct., 1813 Jan., 1827 64

From Family Seaarch org
HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN HARTFORD.
1688-1885
PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH.
1885.

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Also on page 6 of:

MANUAL OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN HARTFORD, WITH A CATALOGUE OF SURVIVING MEMBERS.
JANUABY, 1858.
HARTFOKD: PRESS OF CASE, LOCKWOOD AND COMPANY. 1858.

• Occupation: Councilman, 1823, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. From Hartford City Directory, 1884, page 467

History - City Officers 1784 to 1884
Councelmen
Beckwith Alonzo S. 1857
Beckwith, Henry C. 1864
Beckwith Josiah 1822, 1823
Beckwith Samuel 1801, 1802

• Gravestone: From Find a Grave, Jun 1827, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Deacon Josiah Beckwith
Birth: unknown
Death: 1 Jun 1827
Burial: Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Plot: Section E / Lot 234
Memorial #: 146099747
Bio: ______________________________________

Aged 61 years.
______________________________________

Husband of Lucy and Harriet BECKWITH.
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Gravesite Details Info of the Old North Cemetery was compiled by Charles R. Hale, 1932.
Family Members
Spouses
Lucy Beckwith Unknown-1818
Harriet Beckwith Unknown-1823
Children
Harriet Beckwith
Created by: Donna Barnes (47112976)
Added: 5 May 2015
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146099747/josiah-beckwith
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/146099747/josiah-beckwith : accessed 10 June 2021), memorial page for Deacon Josiah Beckwith (unknown–1 Jun 1827), Find a Grave Memorial ID 146099747, citing Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Donna Barnes (contributor 47112976) .

• Church: Christian Secretary, 1847, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Page 258

Deacon Josiah Beckwith, of the Center Congregational Church, united with them, and it was primarily though his influences and liberality that the chapel was erected. He was a devoted man and has long since gone to heaven.

Ancestry.com. Memorials of the introduction of Methodism into the eastern states [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: Stevens, Abel,. Memorials of the introduction of Methodism into the eastern states : comprising biographical notices of its early preachers, sketches of its first churches, and reminiscences of its early struggles and successes. New York: Lane & Scott, 1849.

Josiah married Lucy Cable, daughter of John Cable and Lucy. (Lucy Cable died in Dec 1818 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.)

Josiah next married Harriet S on 14 Dec 1819 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut. (Harriet S was born in 1792 in Hartford, Connecticut and died on 25 Dec 1823 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: From Fmily Search, 14 Dec 1819, Connecticut. Deacon Josiah Beckwith m. Mrs. Harriett S or L Latimer 1819 Middn.

Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut
Lucius Barnes Barbour
Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1977.

Name: Josiah Beckwith
Sex: Male
Spouse's Name: Harriet S. Latimer
Spouse's Sex: Female
Marriage Date: Dec 1819
Marriage Place: Connecticut, United States

Digital Folder Number: 007593349
Microfilm Number: 3297
Image Number: 05316
Originating System: EASY
Indexing Batch: M01580-0

Citing this Record
"Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7PW-XHM : 11 January 2020), Josiah Beckwith, 1819.

Note: Family Search results include multiple entries for their marriage but with different dates and places. One is for New London, which if correct, would make this record for a different Josiah Beckwith.

Name: Josiah Beckwith
Sex: Male
Spouse's Name: Harriet S. Latimer
Spouse's Sex: Female
Marriage Date: 14 Dec 1819
Marriage Place: Connecticut, United States

Digital Folder Number: 007593349
Microfilm Number: 3297
Image Number: 05314
Originating System: EASY
Indexing Batch: M01580-0

Citing this Record
"Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7PW-X4T : 11 January 2020), Josiah Beckwith, 1819.

Josiah next married Elizabeth Sage, daughter of Epaphras Sage and Elizabeth Wells, in 1824 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. (Elizabeth Sage was born on 14 Mar 1785 in Connecticut and died on 14 Apr 1859 in Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: From Memorials of elder John White, 1824, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Page 21

Ancestry.com. Memorials of elder John White, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., and of his descendants [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Original data: Kellogg, Allyn Stanley,. Memorials of elder John White, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., and of his descendants. Hartford: Printed for the family by Case, Lockwood and Co., 1860.