538–539.  John Beach of Stratford, Connecticut was born in St Albans, Devonshire, England, about 1613, and died on June 16, 1677. Mary _____ was born about 1633. They were married in 1650. She took the name Mary Beach. They had ten children:

i. Elizabeth Beach was born on March 20, 1652, and died between 1688 and 1694. She was the second wife of Eliasaph Preston.
ii. John Beach was born in Connecticut in April, 1654, and died in 1711. He married first Hannah Staples in Stratford, and second Phebe Birdseye, widow of John Birdseye.
iii. Mary Beach was born in Connecticut in September, 1656. She married Thomas Yale on July 31, 1716, in Wallingford (although the bride may have been the widow of Benjamin, below).
iv. Thomas Beach [#646]: He was born in Connecticut in May, 1659, and died in Wallingford, Connecticut, on May 13, 1741.
v. Nathaniel Beach was born in Connecticut in March, 1662, and died in Stratford, Connecticut, on July 24, 1747. He married Sarah Porter on April 29, 1686, in Stratford. She died March 25, 1738, at age 70 (therefore born in 1667-8).
vi. Hannah Beach [#269]: She was born in Wallingford on December 12, 1665.
vii. Sarah Beach was born in Connecticut in November, 1667.
viii. Isaac Beach was born in Connecticut on June 27, 1669, and died in Stratford on April 30, 1741. He married Hannah Birdseye on May 3, 1693, in Stratford.
ix. Joseph Beach was born in Connecticut on February 1, 1671, and died in Stratford on December 17, 1737. He married Abiah Booth who died 1735.
x. Benjamin Beach was born on March 3, 1673/4. He married Mary Hitchcock who was born December 10, 1676. in Wallingford.

John came to the New Haven Colony with his brothers Richard and Thomas, perhaps in 1639, but is first mentioned in 1643. He took the oath of fidelity the following years. He moved to Stratford in 1652, and was an original proprietor of Wallingford in 1670, but retained his Stratford residence.

He was called "John Beach Sr. of Stratford" in the probate records. The inventory of his estate included property at Stratford and Wallingford, amounting to about £344. On November 6, 1677, an agreement of his heirs was signed by sons John and Thomas Beach, and daughters Elizabeth Preston and Mary Beach; they appointed Capt. William Curtis, Israel Chauncey, and Jehiel Preston as overseers of the estate and minor children in Stratford, and John Moss and Eliasaph Preston for those in Wallingford. Names and birth dates of the ten children were given in his will. His wife was called Mary at the birth of their last child; nothing else is known about her.

The land grant records for King Philip's War for New Haven, Conn., includes "Beach, John (____–1677), (B); he was from Stratford, and returned thither." This was listed in the Wallingford, Conn., list of those in civilian service. The "(B)" stands for "lower garrison".

Note, however, that Jacobus, later states: "Further study of the Wallingford Rrecords leads to the belief that it was not the elder John Beach (d 1677) who served with the lower garrison, this man having removed to Stratford, but rather his nephew John (s. of Thomas) who was certainly then living in Wallingford." From this we know that John had a brother, Thomas.

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