Alice Beckley - Sources needed for Alice or Frances as the SIster Beckley in the New Haven Church records

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showing baptisms of children born from 1641 to 1656.

The Geni profile for Benjamin Beckley shows ALICE as the mother.

Torrey's New England Marriages shows Richard married 2nd, Frances by 1640/1641 in New Haven, so she is a better choice for the children born in the 1640's-1650's.

http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-a...

http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/torreys-new-england-marr...

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Agree. I found some notes on "Rebecca, Indian wife" (Torrey)

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From http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.beckley/55.69.74.1/mb.ashx

On another site, someone has reported that in a copy of the Beckley genealogy it has been handwritten that Tarramuggus was her father's name. In the World Connection site on this website another has recorded her mother's name as well as her siblings. They do not give their sources. ....

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https://books.google.com/books?id=Jb57pVY3xOsC&pg=PA23&lpg=...

History of Berlin, Connecticut By Catharine Melinda North page 23

In October, 1668, The General Assembly at Hartford granted to Sergeant Richard Beckley "300 acres of land lying by Mattabesett half a mile wide on both sides of the River and to run up from New Haven path so far till it doth contain 300 acres.'"' In 1670, when the town of Wethersfield confirmed the grant, Mr. Beckley had already built a house and barn upon his farm. It is said that he lived here sixteen years before any other white person came.

* This is undoubtedly the same piece of land which he is said to have purchased from the Indian Chief Tarramuggus, and the "grant" from the General Assembly at Hartford was merely an official confirmation of this purchase. Cf. the following: "Of the Indian Chief Tarramuggus he (Sergeant Beckley) purchased 300 acres of land lying on both sides of the Mattabesett river." See Emily S. Brandegee: The Early History of Berlin, Connecticut, an Historical Paper delivered before The Emma Hart Willard Chapter D. A. R., January 17, 1913 (printed privately), p. 1.

Also check here

https://archive.org/stream/historictownsofc00robe/historictownsofc0...

But my feel so far is that it's wishful thinking, that she was the Great Sachem's daughter. Tarramuggus sold a lot of land to a lot of settlers, and there were, no doubt, members of his tribe besides him.

I agree, the Chief Tarramuggus as the father is a reach. I am ok with unknown and Indian Woman as a description.

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