Elizabeth Ufford (Uffort) Beers 7g 1698–1783

Elizabeth Ufford Beers 7g

1698–1783

Birth 3 APR 1698 • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Death 19 SEP 1783 • Stratford, Fairfield, Conn

Her daughter Elizabeth, married Zachariah Booth.

As long as we're looking at those Stratford CT families, let's ignore her birthday in April, and keep exploring the lives of this family.  I find grouping people/ancestors by families or locations makes more sense than my attempt to celebrate their lives by their birthdates.  After all, about half of them don't have actual dates recorded!

As of this morning it looks on Ancestry like she had 11 children.  Some days Ancestry gives wives of sons status as children, confusing them as sisters rather than wives.  Did that make sense? Well, their married names will be listed so they look as if they are sisters.  Anyway, enough confusion...what was Elizabeth Ufford Beers' life like?

   She was the second oldest in the household of her parents and the 12 other siblings, though 3 were born after she had married.  I would imagine she and her older sister, and the 3 next girls (5 in a row) were great at helping her mother with all those children that came along.

Eliazabeth's husband was a juror in 1730, and confirmed Ensign of the north company or trainband in the town of Stratford CT in October of 1737. When he died at 2 months shy of age 70 he was buried in the Old Congregational Burying Ground of Stratford.

Living to 85 means Elizabeth outlived all but 4 of her children, then she was also buried in the same Stratford Cemetery as her husband.

As a mother of 6 sons born from 1718-1736, I expect to see some of them fighting in the American Revolution.

Her son Nathan Beers (1718-1779) living in New Haven, was shot by British in his own home (apparently).  His tombstone reads:

Here lies the body of Nathan Beers who was born at Stratford & for the last 25 Years of his life was a respectable Inhabitant of this Town. He received a mortal wound in his own house from a party of the British Troops in an Incursion they made to this place July 5th 1779 with which he languished till the 10th when departed this Life in the 61st Year of his age.

Her daughter, Tabitha Beers (1732-1753) married another revolutionary soldier, Nathan Peck, though she didn't live until the Revolution herself.

Nathan Peck, the son of SAMUEL & MARTHA (CLARK) PECK, he married TABATHA BEERS on September 12, 1750 in Stratford, Conn

He served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Capt. James Booth's Co. of "Alarm List" when they assisted in repelling the British under General Tryon in the New Haven Alarm.

Nathan Peck owned Lot 44 in the Union Cemetery, Stratford, CT.   Nathan Peck appears as the head of a family in the 1790 Fairfield Co. Census with a male over 16 yrs. and two females over 16 yrs.

Her youngest son Abner Beers (1736-1816) died and is buried in Danby Rural Cemetery Danby, Tompkins County, New York, another patriot:

Sgt. Abner Beers, the son of Ensign Josiah & Elizabeth (Ufford) Beers, served in the Revolutionary War. He married Hannah Beardslee on October 6, 1761 in Stratford, Conn.Their children:1. Jabez b. May 10, 17632. Abner b. April 17, 1771, d. Oct. 1, 17613. Abner (second) b. Dec. 7, 17774. Eli b. June 19, 1787, d. Aug. 16, 17875. Elizabeth b. July 12, 17656. Hannah b. July 7, 17747. Jabez b. Oct. 24, 1786, married Betsey HawleyRef: "History of Stratford, CT" and "Barbour Collection, Stratford Records"

Steven Beers (1734-1815) is also buried in Danby Rural Cemetery Danby, Tompkins County, New York. He lived in Stratford CT still in the census of 1790. There's no notation about his being a soldier.

Samuel Beers 1728-1798, left 11 pages of probate records, but his grave location is unknown.  He is referred to as Captain Samuel Beers in this record, so it is likely he was either in the military, or a captain of a sailing vessel.

William Beers 1726-1776 died in June of 1776, so probably didn't do any fighting. 


Ruth Beers 1730-1804, and Sarah Beers 1724-1751 didn't marry, and Ruth may have continued living with her mother after she was widowed in 1763.

Tomorrow we'll look at my ancestress, Elizabeth Beers Booth.