Hannah Beach (b 1665) is not ours!
Some of us have had in our records that Hannah Beach (b 1665) was married to John Burwell May 5, 1708.The source was a publication which has proven to be incorrect.In 1902, J Percy Crayon, a genealogist/historian published a book titled "Rockaway Records of Morris County NJ Families.In the chapter on the Beach Family he stated "Hannah, born Dec 1665, married (1)Zachariah Fairchild Nov 3, 1681, had nine children.He was born Dec 4, 1651, died June 3, 1703.She married (2) John Burwell May 5, 1708.He died Feb 1, 1727.
Then came another publication a "Pedigree of Samuel Putnam Avery" published by the New York Biographical Society in 1924.It had essentially the same information about Hannah's marriage to Zachariah who was born in Stratford, Connecticut, but said "His widow married, second, May 5, 1708, John son of William and Elizabeth BURRITT of Stratford.John BURRITT died Feb 1, 1726/7.
I don't know what source Crayon had used to come up with the Burwell name or perhaps it was a printing error.In any event, taking the position that BURRITT might be the correct name after all, I began researching the BURRITT line and found it to be true that John BURRITT was the second husband of Hannah Beach, had parents named William and Elizabeth (there were none of those names in the Burwell line at that time) and were from Stratford, Connecticut (Burwells were not).There are many Burritt descendants today.
So based upon the evidence, we need to delete Hannah Beach from our records.
Don Billingsley
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Re: Hannah Beach (b 1665) is not ours!