Author: John David Peet

Abraham 5 (Abraham 4 John 3 Joseph 2 William 1) born at Stratford, 28 Sept. 1726; died at Stratford, 13 Feb. 1815; married, first 21 Oct. 1753; Bethia Curtis, born Jan. 1730/1; died 4 Aug. 1801, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Wells) Curtis; married, second, about 1805, Sarah Peck. Abraham and Bethia had nine children. Curtis, Ephriam, Bette, Mary, John, Abijah, Sarah, Abel and Jerusha. Son of Abraham and Esther (Jeanes) Beardsley, married at Stratford, 17 April 1723, born about 1699; died at Huntington, 11 Nov. 1772, daughter of William and Sarah (Clark) Jeanes. Two of his sons served in the Revolutionary War, Abraham and John. Abraham was designated as an inspector of gun powder for seven months October 1776 to June 1777 by appointment from the General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut in New England in America held at New Haven on the second Thursday of October, being the tenth day of said month, and continued by several adjournments to the seventh day of November 1776. He was a skilled blacksmith and armorer by shoeing and branding horses, making bullets, guns and bayonets. He answered the Alarm in defense of sea coast towns New Haven and Fairfield at the time of Tryon’s invasion of Connecticut by joining Captain James Booth company from the fifth to the ninth of July 1779 at the age of 53. He and 45 others responded to the call. His will dated, 3 June 1812, named children and grandchildren; also, Chloe Glover, granddaughter of my resent wife, al linen etc., which had belonged to her grandmother.” He and Sarah Peck made an agreement before they were married, that they should not heir each other’s property, and both signed the agreement, witnessed by Mary Beardslee and Benjamin Judson. He is buried at the Christ Episcopal Church in Stratford, CT. 06615 and has a stone.

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