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Elihu Beach was born in 1734.

Elihu Beach had person sources.¹

Eunice Beach was born in 1737.

Eunice Beach had person sources.¹

Frederick F. Newton and Virginia Olivia Leonard were married on 17 February 1889.

Timothy Beach was born in 1689.

Moses Beach was born in 1695.

Gershom Beach was born in 1697.

Caleb Beach was born in 1699.

Thankful Beach was born in 1702.

Joanna Beach was born in 1705.

Phebe Beach was born in 1710.

Elizabeth Beach was born in 1652.

John Beach, Jr., was born in 1654.

Mary Beach was born in 1656.

Nathaniel Beach was born in 1662.

Hannah Beach was born in 1665.

Sarah Beach was born in 1667.

Isaac Beach was born in 1669.

J. Beach was born in 1671.

Zenas Leonard was born on 19 March 1809 in Pennsylvania. He died on 14 July 1857 at age 48 in Sibley, Jackson County, Missouri.

Abraham Leonard was born on 11 July 1777 in Sundbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. He and Elizabeth Armstrong were married in 1799. He died on 30 June 1846 at age 68 in Bradford Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Armstrong was born on 7 November 1782. Abraham Leonard and she were married in 1799. She died on 7 October 1851 at age 68 in Bradford Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.

Re: Beulah Hendee, I know very sketchy details about her. I have a note, typed by my Aunt May (Mary Irene Leonard Beagle) from a handwritten note to Beulah Hendee from her "Aunt" Candace Bushnell. I will redact it below. A note about relationships during and after the Oneida Community should be made here: any elder person was called Aunt soandso or Uncle soandso, and this tradition continued into the late 20th century. When I was a kid, we kids in Kenwood used to talk about "Uncle Pierre" (Pierrepont B. Noyes, a son of John Humphrey Noyes and Harriet Worden, and CEO of Oneida Ltd. Silversmiths in the early 1900's), "Aunt Corinna" (Uncle Pierre's wife). Everyone in Kenwood called my paternal grandparents "Uncle Steve" and "Aunt Dorothy". "Uncle Steve" (SR Leonard, sr. 1872-1964) was a vice-president of Oneida Ltd. Silversmiths in the early to mid 1900's, and "Aunt Dorothy" was well known locally as a poet.
Here's the letter from Candace Bushnell to Beulah Hendee: [ ] will be mine.


Bath [NY], May 14, 1865
My dear child
Your long expected letter has at last arrived...
You ask for further particulars concerning your parentage. The most poisitive evidence I can give you is yourself, but I will tell you all I know. James Williams and our family had always called each other cousins, still we were not related. His mother was sister to Uncle E. Moore, who married my father's sister. Aunt Abbi Ticknor learned the tailoress trade of Mrs. Williams when she was young. Mrs. W. died when James was a child, but there was an intimacy between the families, and James was adopted by Uncle T.. Beulah you mother learned the trade of Aunt Abbi T. so that James and B. were like Bro and Sister. Three years before you were born, Foster moved and lived opposite J. Williams.
Foster was roving, important, lazy, neglectful, mean, animal. He see to it that his wife had as many children as she possibly could, and then left them for her to support with her needle. There was much of the time your mother would have suffered had it not been for the kindnessand care of Williams. He had no children. our Mother was much like your aunt Mary, cheerful, happy, prone to finding a bridght side in everything. Shewas respected and there was a general feeling of sympathy for her in the neighborhood. I went to Lexington [NY, in the Catskill Mts.] when you were three months old. met your mother first at Uncle Ticknor's. I never had seen her look better. She was ? [illegible in the original handwritten note] and fleshy and you were a plump, handsome babe. During the day I remarked that I wished that babe was mine. A look of distress came over sister, and she said she would most gladly give it to me and would wean you then if I would only take you home.
I was surprised, and thought she felt as though she could not support so many, but Aunt said that was not the difficulty. A seamstress who had been living with your mother told her [i.e. Aunt Abbi Ticknor] that Williams had been unlawfully intimate with her [i.e. with Beulah's mother] and that child was his. She [Aunt Abbi Ticknor] said she was unwilling to believe it until she saw you and you looked just as he [James Williams] did when a child. My first impulsive expression was that I was glad of it, for she would have been obliged to have had a child anyway, and Williams was a likely man. She knew he had always been called so, but she could not understand how either could so fall. But after all, I was about as much ? [ illegible in the original handwritten note] as Aunt was, fearing that it would get out and the shame and disgrace would be almost unbearable for her and all the rest of us. After that I spent several days with your mother and saw Williams and her together, and was satisfied there was a strong affection between them.
There seemed to be no suspicion of anything wrong with Foster or William's wife. When D. Foster brought you to me he said, your mother thought more of you than all the rest of her children, and had made no request about the rest, and he said you were the best child they ever had, so I saw that he claimed you, but there is no Foster sign about you, and you look and act as much like Williams as a child could. When we lived on the farm Foster came there and wanted to know here you were, said he wanted to see you. But I would not tell him where you were. I told him I was resonsible for you, and he must not go near you. I did not feel that he had any claim upon you. I am perfectly satisfied to leave the wrong of this matter to God and with those who understand His truth.
In the fall after my visit Foster left the Catskill mountains and lived at the head of ? [Mary Leonard Beagle wrote "?Venice Lake"] Lake where your mother died.
... Yr aff. Aunt C. B. Bushnell


From research I have done online, I found a Buler Foster living with the Stephen Hendee family in West Bloomfield, NY in the 1850 census, when she would have been 3 years old. In the 1860 census she is listed as Beulah Hendee. So, Hendee was not her real last name. She was placed in the Hendee household to be a helper and a companion to a Hendee daughter, who later died in childhood. Apparently Stephen Hendee treated Beulah well, but his wife did not treat her well. Eventually Beulah was sent to school in Bath, NY. Beulah and three other schoolgirls from the school in Bath were encouraged to join the Oneida Community, with the encouragement of Candace Bushnell, who had already joined the OC. Curiously, one of the four "Bath girls" was Frances Hillerman, who later married John Leonard.