Elijah Beckwith

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: From Family Search org, 15 Dec 1715, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. Name: Elijah Beckwith
Sex: Male
Birth Date: 15 Dec 1715
Birthplace: Lyme, New London, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Birthplace (Original): Lyme Twp, New London, Conneticut
Father's Name: Joseph Beckwith
Mother's Name: Marah

Microfilm Number: 1058255
Originating System: ODM
Indexing Batch: 7450305

Citing this Record
"Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F741-WHX : 7 January 2020), Elijah Beckwith, 1715.

• Family History: From Beckwith Note 6, by Albert C. & Edward S. Beckwith, 1907, Page 11. ELIJAH. (Joseph, Joseph), born at Lyme, Dec. 15, 1713; married LYDIA SMITH, (Samuel, Nehemiah), of New London. LYDIA was married 2d, to Elisha Miller, and had five children ; 3d, to Noah Lester.
194, ELIJAH.
195. Perry, married ___ Chapman.
[LYDIA'S children of her marriage to Elisha Miller were: Amasa, Ezra, Jeremiah, Elisha, and Joseph.]

• Family: Potential problem based on Lydia Lester's gravestone. If the grave of Lydia Lester is correct for Lydia Smith, then Elijah's son Elijah is probably who married her as his birthdate would be closer to Lydia's.

• Probate: From Ancestry/Connecticut State Library No. 330, 1768, New London, Connecticut. Elijah Beckwith of Lyme.

Inventory by Hezekiah Beckwith and David Latham, 2 November 1768.

Lydia Beckwith and Daniel Smith appointed administrators 8 November 1768.

The probate records do not include a will or mention children. Hezekiah Beckwith is assumed to be Elijah's brother and Daniel Smith is assumed to be Lydia Smith Beckwith's brother.

Elijah married Lydia Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith and Unknown. (Lydia Smith was born in 1749 and died on 21 Dec 1816 in East Lyme, New London, Connecticuit.)