Hezekiah Beckwith

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: From Family Search org, 5 Sep 1704, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. Name: Ezekiah Beckwith
Sex: Male
Birth Date: 5 Sep 1704
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-WH2 : 7 January 2020), Ezekiah Beckwith, 1704.


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Connecticut Vital Records, Lyme Births - Marriages- Deaths 1667 - 1852
Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, 1919
[H]ezekiah [s. Joseph & Marah], b. Sept. 5, 1704, Vol L-2, Page 200

• Family History: From Additional Beckwith Notes by Frederick H. Beckwith, 1956. Hezekiah4 Beckwith (4) - Son of Joseph (3) - b. 5 Sept. 1704 Lyme, Conn. d. 13 Mar. 1791 age 87 (g.s.) m. Lydia Gilbert (Capt. Samuel (3), Jonathan (2), Thomas) b. 4 Sept. 1707 d. 14 Mar. 1794 age 87 (g.s.) Both buried in the old Baptist Cemetery Yard at McIntyre, Stanford, Dutchess Co., N. Y.

CHILDREN

1 - Elisha b. 12 Oct. 1738 ”He and his wife were perniciously active loyalists. He went to Halifax 1791 without family and died there.” (A. C. Beckwith Notes)

2 - Sylvanus b. 22 May 1742 m. Amy Southerland (Sutherland)

3 - Ann b . 30 May 1743 m. F. Brown, a R. W. Soldier

4 - Nathan b. abt. 1747 d. 1832 age 85 at Waterford, Conn. He was a R. W. soldier in Col. Thomas Knowlton (Knowlton’s Rangers) Reg. 20 Continentals. Known as Nathan the Reckless, one of Knowlton’s holy terrors to the Tories. (A. C. Beckwith 27 May 1914) Nathan and his son Nathan, jr. both served in the War of 1812.

5 - Matthew b. abt. 1740 possibly a son of Hezekiah and lived in Beekman Precinct, N. Y. when he took the Associator’s Oath in 1775. He m. (2) Abigail Barmore 29 Dec. 1776 at the Bengali Baptist Church, Stanford, N. Y. (c.r.)

Note: In the Census of 1790 he [Hezekiah] was listed in Canaan Town, Colombia Co., N. Y., with one son over 16, two under 16 and one daughter. I believe both he and Sylvanus may have left Lyme, Conn., together but settled some distance from each other. Both were Baptists and when he married the second time it was at the Bengali Baptist Church of which Sylvanus was also a member.

• Family: From Beckwith Note 6, by Albert C. & Edward S. Beckwith, 1907, Page 10. HEZEKIAH, (Joseph), born at Lyme, Feb. 5, 1704; married LYDIA GILBERT; was living in 1785 ; known children:
190. Elisha.
191. Sylvanus.
192. Nathan.
193. Ann.

• Church: From East Lyme Society Records, 22 Sep 1734, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. September 22, 1734, Hezekiah Beckwith owned ye covenant (pg. 13)

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.

Hezekiah married Lydia Gilbert on 5 Dec 1732 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. (Lydia Gilbert was born on 4 Sep 1707 in Connecticut and died on 14 Mar 1794 in Stanford, Dutchess, New York.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: From East Lyme Society Records, 5 Dec 1732, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. December 5, 1732, Hezekiah Beckwith and Lydia Gilbert both of Lyme were joined together in a marriage state (pg. 24)

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.