Phineas Wolcott Cook Family Tree

BIRTH Mercy Blatchley, daughter of David and Temperance Blatchley was born 26 November 1736 at Guilford, CT. (Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) about Mercy Blatchley. (Source Information: Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA

Mercy Blackley, female, born 26 Nov. 1736 at Guilford, New Haven, CT. Father David Blackley; Mother Temperance. (Indexing Project (Batch) Number: 7450308 , System Origin: Connecticut-ODM , ("Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," index, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F77X-SZZ.

Benjamin Beach born 15 April 1737 at New Haven m. Mercy Blatchley, who d 1812. (Families of Ancient New Haven, Connecticut,  comp. by Donald Lines Jacobus, Family History Library book 974.68 D2j Vol. 1, p. 151-158)

DEATH Mercy Beach, born about 1737 died 21 November 1812, age 75. Buried at Milton Cemetery, Litchfield, Connecticut. (Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 about Marcy Beach. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: The Charles R. Hale Collection. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library.) Charles Thomas Payne, Litchfield and Morris Inscriptions, Litchfield, Conn. : D. C. Kilbourn, 1905, p. 175, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400, 974.61 V22p . Rev. Benjamin Beach departed this life July 12, 1816 in 79y. Mercy Beach, wife, departed this life Nov. 21, 1812, being 75 years old. (That fits with the 1810 Census in which his wife was still alive.)

Benjamin Beach married Mercy Blatchly at Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut 3 June 1762, citing Killingworth Vital Records 2:65. (Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 about Benjamin Beach. No information given about residence or parents. (Source Information: Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2013. Original data: Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Volume 056 Killingworth.) Benjamin Beach married Mercy Blatchly 3 June 1762 at Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut. (Early Connecticut Marriages about Benjamin Beach. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Early Connecticut Marriages [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Bailey, Frederic W. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997.) Benjamin Beach born 15 April 1737 at New Haven m. Mercy Blatchley, who d 1812. (Families of Ancient New Haven, Connecticut,  comp. by Donald Lines Jacobus, Family History Library book 974.68 D2j Vol. 1, p. 151-158)

"Mercy Blatchley, b. Nov. 30, 1736; m. Benjamin Beach of New Haven." (The New England historical and genealogical register (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society), Vol. 58; 1904, p. 359, Family History Library book 974 B2ne)

Further proof: Charles Thomas Payne, Litchfield and Morris Inscriptions, Litchfield, Conn. : D. C. Kilbourn, 1905, p. 175, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400, 974.61 V22p . Rev. Benjamin Beach departed this life July 12, 1816 in 79y. Mercy Beach, wife, departed this life Nov. 21, 1812, being 75 years old. (That fits with the 1810 Census in which his wife was still alive.)

RESEARCH: Benjamin Beach married Abiah Loomis 31 August 1763 at Torrington, Connecticut. Torrington is the residence of Abiah. (Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) about Benjamin Beach. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.) (This couple had several children there. Clearly his wife lived long enough that she was not a first wife and Mercy a second wife.) A Benjamin Beach from Litchfield married Mercy Blatchley. It should be researched in case there were two men named Benjamin Beach and both marriages are correct. Since the Benjamin Beach we know about lived and died in Cornwall, they could be different men.