Eliasaph Preston

  General Notes:

In this regard it is frequently claimed that John Beach1 "... had civilian service at the 'Lower Garrison' in King Phillip's War [1675-1676] and it is recorded of him that he 'was of Stratford and returned thither,'" Beach Family Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, p. 9, quoting the New Haven Genealogical Magazine, Vol. I, p. 242. Two entries in the Wallingford records, as abstracted in the notes of Joseph P. Beach, appear to form the basis for this claim. The first, dated October 15, 1675, states:

"It was granted that those persons that live at the end of the town where Mr. Moss liveth, viz, Mr. Moss, Mr. Brockett, Sergeant Doolittle, John Beach, Senr., Eliasaph Preston and Wm. Elnathan, If they see cause to fortify any of their houses which they can agree upon for their safety in these times of danger, that their first charges shall be defrayed out of ye town treasury."

Notes of Joseph P. Beach as quoted in Beach Family Magazine, Vol. III, No. 4, p. 320.

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2. ELIASAPH2 (William1) PRESTON was baptized in New Haven , Connecticut 9 April 1643, and died in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1705. He was a twin with his brother Hakaliah. He married in Wallingford (1) MARY WILCOXEN and had a child, Mary; and (2) about 1675 ELIZABETH BEACH. who was born 20 March 1652 and died in Wallingford after 1688, daughter of John and Mary Beach; and (3) MARTHA (BRADLEY) MUNSON,widow of Samuel Munson.

Elizabeth Beach had a brother John who married Hannah Staples, the daughter of the famous "witch" Mary Staples who was accused by the deputy governor, Roger Ludlow. She had made the mistake of standing up for a friend whom Ludlow had accused, even to the extent of examining her body after she had been hanged to prove she did not have "witches teats." Then she gave Ludlow further ammunition by telling a "friend" she did not think there were such things as witches; this was almost heresy. The accusation made her husband Thomas Staples so angry that he sued Ludlow for defamation of character, and won! Eliasaph was one of two Deacons in Wallingford.

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At the outset the planters of Wallingford entered into the following interesting "Covenant.

"We whose names are underwritten being accepted by the committee of New Haven for ye intended village as planters and desiring that the worship and ordinances of God, may in due time, be set up and encouraged among us, as the main concernment of a Christian people, promise and engage ourselves that we shall not neither directly nor indirectly do any thing to hinder or obstruct any good means that shall be used by the said Committee or others instructed by them to promote the premises by securing a godly and able ministry among us to dispense the word of God; and when such ministry or a church of Christ shall be settled among us, we engage by no means to disturb the same in their choice of minister or ministers or other church officers or other of their ch'h rights, liberties or administrations, nor shall refuse or withdraw due maintenance from such minister or ministry, and further we do engage ourselves peaceably to submit to such settlement and Civil order as the said Committee shall direct among us either by themselves or some others as a committee but them appointed, upon the place, until the said village came to be an orderly establishment within itself; and lastly we doe engage personally to settle upon the place May next come twelve months, if God's providence inevitably hinder not, and observe and perform all and every the other articles agreed upon. "Samuel Street, John Mosse, John Brockett, Nathaniel Merriman, Jero How, Zac'h How, Abraham Dowlittell, Daniel Hogge, John Miles, William Johnson, Thomas Hall, Nath'l How, Benjamin Lewis, Thomas Curtis, Thomas Yale, Sam'l Whitehead, John Beech, John Ives, Eliasaph Preston, Jehiel Preston, John Hall, Eliazar Holt, Samuel Hall, Joseph Ives, Samuel Andrews, Eleazar Peck, Joseph Benham, Daniel Sherman, Samuel Potter, Simon Tuttell, John Peck, Samuel Munson, Samuel Browne, John Harriman, Francis Heaton, Sam'l Cook, Samuel Milles, Nathan Andrews. 31st 11th, month 1669."

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Eliasaph married Elizabeth Beech. (Elizabeth Beech was born on 20 Mar 1652 and died in 1692.)

Eliasaph next married Mary Wilcoxen.

Eliasaph next married Martha Bradley. (Martha Bradley was born in Oct 1648 in New Haven, Connecticut and died on 7 Jan 1706.)