The Newtown bee., 1897-03-26
Fairfield County Chat.
HUNTINGTON.
THE BEARDsLEY GENEALoGY.

as far back as 1890, was au work gath l ering statistics for a genealogical record | of the descendants of William Boards l ley, one of the first settlers of the town l of Stratford, Cdied in 1860, aged 56). He l was, or had been located at Denver, Col. | This family of BeaIdsIeys n4s been nu- merous within the limits uf the old town l of Stratford, and many of the descend | ants are elsewhere scattered throughout the state and country. Those of Samuel, son of William in Trumbull; those of Joseph, another sOn,in Monroe; 8 few of those of Daniel, another son, in Hunting
 ton in the years gone by, Lemuel Boards
 ley, son of Lemuel, son of Obadiah, son
 of Daniel, son of William, whose mother
 borie of Ripton, (son of Dr James and grandson of Rev Dr James) tor many years town clerk of Huntington, was
 we'll known. Representative from said
 town in 1923 and 1885. No known de-
 scendant (of DanieD son of the first Will
 liam, bearing the name of Beardsley, is
 known to the writer as now living in
 town. ZeChariah Beardsley, son of Dan
 iel and grandson of William lived at or
 near where Richard A. Mcdonald now lives. Abraham (son of John, son of
 Joseph, son of William, and many of his descendants lived near the present
 Booths Hill school house, buried in
 Huntington Center. Caleb, brother of
 Abraham, and some of his descendants, probably lived at Upper White Hills. Thomas BeardsleY, Revolutionary sol
 dier, lived at the old red house on Isin-
 glass, afterwards occupied by Samuel
 Buckingham. Did he remove to Rox-
 bury? Ira Beardsley of Trapfall came
 to R0xbury, to Huntington. Who was
 his father? Benjamin Beardsley son of Daniel, son of Samuel, son of William,
 settled at Chestnut Hill, Trumbull. Sta tistics are desired by the writer of Ben
 jamin's son, David's descendants; time = of birth, marriage, death and residence
 of it's individual members. David died
 May II, 1902, in his. .94th year, Mary bis
 wife, February 20, 1922 in her 97Ch year. Had sons, Thaddeus, Lemuel, James, David and Stephen. Thaddeus lived in Walnut Tree Hill and afterwards Isin- glass, Huntington; David at Chestnut
 Hill, Trumbull; Stephen at Long Hill,
 Frumbull; James at Chestnut Hill, af- terwards White Plain, Trumbull; Lem- , uel, (where did he live and who was his ] wifeD Who was David's the son of = BeDjamin's wife? Many of the Monroe = Beardsleys have been men of snote: Rev E. E. Beardsley, of New Haven; Dr . Ambrose Beardsley, of Birmingham, Dr Gideon Beardsley, of New Haven; Sam
 uel B. Beardsley of the same place, Dr
 Lucius N. Beardsley, of Milford. Sam uel Beardsley, his son Samuel G. Boards l. ley, Trumbulrs town clerk and grand son, Morris B., judge of probate for , Bridgeport district. Dr Sheldon Boards Z ley, of North Branford Miles, merchant and postmaster at Long Hill, Mai James Beardsley, were we'll known names. | Levi Beardsley and Samuel Beardsley,
 sons of Obadiah, 2d son of Obadiah, son
 of John 2d, son of John, son of Joseph,
 son of William, were well know The former was member and president of
 the New York State Senate, the latter q
 member of Congress and judge of New
 York Supreme Court, Capt Eli D
 Beardsley, as selectman eff Monroe, was
 prominent in the time of the war. Maj !, James and his brother, Thaddeus, were
 Revolutionary soldiers, James Walker . Beardsley, formerly of Monroe, lately , of Bridgeport, was the donator of
 Beardslev Park in that town. The
 writer's mother, Hepsibah, twas daugh. ter of Maj James Beardsley. Yours,
 CJames Beardsley Wheeler, Huntington.
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