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Thomas Thurston was born on 8 October 1671. He and Mehitable Tripp were married on 23 June 1695. He died on 22 March 1730 at age 58.

Thomas Thurston and Mehitable Tripp were married on 23 June 1695.

Was she the Mehitable Tripp who married Ephraim Sherman? (Ancestral Lines, Third Edition, p. 640) That Mehitable would have been only 12 in 1695.

Benjamin Bragg was born on 22 November 1702 in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Elizabeth Bragg was born on 10 July 1728 in Bristol, Rhode Island. She was buried in Old East Burial Ground, Bristol, Rhode Island.

Sarah Horswell was born in July 1693. She died on 8 December 1719 at age 26.

Elizabeth Taylor was born on 5 January 1717.

Matthew Beckwith, II, was born on 22 September 1637 in Deep River, Middlesex County, Connecticut. He and Sarah Elizabeth Griswold were married in 1666 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. He died on 4 June 1727 at age 89 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut.

MATTHEW BECKWITH was born 1610 in Essex and came to New England, perhaps as early as 1630, as a merchant trader with a group from Essex that first settled in Watertown and later in Windsor, Weathersfield and Hartford, Connecticut. Evidently a man of enterprise, he was responsible for the building of the first vessel launched at New London, the firm of Mould & Coit buildling to his order the bark "Endeavor," which was sailed in the trade with Barbadoes, the vessel passing out of the possession of Matthew Beckwith in 1666, in exchange for a cargo of sugar. In 1641, Matthew married Mary Lynde, who was born in 1625. The couple did not acquire a home lot until four years later. Hartford records show that Mary and their first child, a daughter Mary born in 1643, resided with the household of B. Barnard in Hartford , indicating that Matthew traveled and lived on his vessel. In 1645, Matthew purchased land in Hartford from a proprietor, William Platt. In 1650 he bought more land in Hartford from another proprietor, Thomas Porter. In the spring of 1651, Matthew was given a home lot in that section of New London known today as East Lyme. Matthew traveled from port to port, keeping his homeport in Lyme in a section of waterway that became known as Beckwith Cove. Matthew and Mary had twelve children, and many of them traveled with their father as youngsters. Matthew was not a quiet, obscure man. His name appears several times on the pages of the recorded history of Connecticut. He was fined once for public drunkenness, was a defendant in two separate cases, one for "slaunder" in which he paid a fine and did public penitence. In 1662, at the age of fifty-two, suits were brought against him and three other men for assault. He paid a fine. He in turn brought suit against two other men for debts owned and for killing his "swine." This same Matthew Beckwith is given credit as one of the founders of the church at Bramford. Matthew died on October 21, 1680. Records report that "Matthew Beckwith, age abt. 70, missing his way in the very darknight, fell from a ledge of rocks about 20 or 30 feet high and beat his brains against a stone he fell upon." This gave occasion for a sermon on the providence of God which took away Matthew Beckwith and spared his fellow wayfarer. The inquest showed that he was then seventy years old, and this is the only evidence as to the year of his birth. His widow Mary married Samuel Buckwall (Buckland). Mary died June 30, 1694. The estate of Matthew Beckwith was after his death appraised at 293 pounds, indicating him to have ranked among the "well-circumstanced class of that day." He was able to give land "somewhat liberally to his sons." It was recorded that in 1675 thirty acres more were "laid out" to Matthew Beckwith, all of which he gave to his son Joseph. Matthew Beckwith, II, had person sources.¹

Margaret Estella Wells was born on 24 May 1915 in Providence, Rhode Island. She died on 10 April 2007 at age 91.

Harriet H. Wells was born on 6 January 1918 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island. Elwyn H. Mitchell and she were married after 1939. She died on 18 September 2009 at age 91 in Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island.

She was listed as a saleswoman living with her mother at 16 Hawthorne in Providence in the 1939 City Directory.

Sidney Allen Wells, Jr., was born on 30 December 1923 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island. He and Ina Fay Busik were married on 6 June 1947 in Nansemund, Virginia. He and Madge Jeannette Scott were married on 25 April 1969 in Alexandria, Virginia.

Henry Miner Avery was born on 4 May 1767 in Groton, New London County, Connecticut. He died on 25 March 1853 at age 85 in Taghkanic, Columbia County, New York.

Henry William Sheldon was born on 24 February 1810 in Columbia County, New York. He died on 4 February 1851 at age 40 in Columbia County, New York. He was buried in West Taghkanic Methodist Cemetery, Taghkanic, Columbia County, New York.

He apparently went by the nickname Harry.

Robert Sheldon was born on 19 May 1834 in Columbia County, New York. He died on 8 October 1854 at age 20 in Taghkanic, Columbia County, New York. He was buried in West Taghkanic Methodist Cemetery, Taghkanic, Columbia County, New York.

Mary Fisher was born about 1714 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. John Redchester and she were married on 2 March 1736 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

A Mary Fisher, dau. of Christ Fisher and Katherine, was christened July 12, 1712,in Scruton, Yorkshire. But there were lots of Mary Fishers christened in Yorkshire in that period == need more information.

Mildred R. Darrah was born on 17 April 1902 in Connecticut. Warren Milton ("Chip") Regester and she were married on 29 October 1924 in Providence, Rhode Island.¹

James H. Everett was born on 20 February 1900 at in De. He and Isabelle Allen Regester were married on 14 July 1925 in Providence, Rhode Island.¹ He died in November 1976 at age 76 in Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware.

In the 1930 Census, they were living at 204 Winston Ave., Christiana, Newcastle Co., DE. He was an office clerk.

Hannah Redchester was born before 4 June 1750 at Cathedral Saint Peter in Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.¹

Sarah Redchester was born before 30 September 1747 at Cathedral Saint Peter in Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. William Hill and she were married on 1 November 1766 at Cathedral Saint Peter in Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.¹

The information about Sarah, her husband, her daughter, and her grandchildren is from OneWorldTree and appears to have been supplied by a descendant of the Cams. In it, Sarah is the daughter of John, who in tern is the son of John Ribchester of Lancashire.

Abel Pease and Elizabeth Kells were married in 1809 at Claverack Reformed Church in Claverack, New York.

Anna Brandon was born about 1861 in New York. Walter Kells and she were married in 1884 at Claverack Reformed Church in Claverack, New York.

Jonathan R. Mickle was born in 1863. He died on 3 February 1934 at age ~71 in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.¹