Jonah Beckwith

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: From Barbour Collection, 11 Feb 1701, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. Connecticut Vital Records, Lyme Births - Marriages- Deaths 1667 - 1852
Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, 1919
Jona [s. Jona & Rebecca] b. Feb. 11, 1701

• Birth: From Vital Records of Lyme, Connecticut to the End of the Year 1850, p. 219, 11 Feb 1701, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. The birth and death of the children of Jona Beckwith and
Rebecca his wife
Jona[h] Beckwith was borne the = 11 = 11 February 1701

• Family History: From Beckwith Note 6, by Albert C. & Edward S. Beckwith, 1907, Page 8. JONAH, (Jonah, Matthew, [Mathew]), born at Lyme, Feb. 11, 1701; a clergyman; lived in 1740 at Saybrook, where a daughter's birth is recorded.

133. Penelope.

• Family History: From Moore and Allied Families, The Ancestry of William Henry Moore, L. E. De Forest and A. L. De Forest, 1938, Page 92. George Beckwith’s brother Jonah died about 1742, apparently in the West Indies. His estate was insolvent and among his creditors were his two brothers, George and
Benjamin. The debt to the clergyman was sixty-seven pounds, twelve shillings, six pence. The two brothers were made administrators and authorized to sell the lands of the deceased brother to pay his debts.

Jonah married.