Anthony Beers

(~ 1620 - ~ 1676)

 

From:  New England Historical and Genealogical Register (N.E.H.G.R), v.14, p. 355

Anthony Beers may have been born in Gravesend, Co. Kent, England in the 1620's, and he was quite probably brother to James Beers, also a settler of Fairfield, CT.  It is entirely possible that they were sons of James and Hester Beers of Gravesend and nephews of Richard Beers, an early settler of Watertown, MA.  A Richard Beers left Gravesend on the ship "William and John" on September 2, 1635, then aged 28 years.

 

From:  The Beers Genealogy, Volume Three by Mary Louise Regan

Anthony Beers was born in England in the early part of the 17th century and had arrived in this country as early as the third of December 1644, the earliest date at which his name has been found recorded here.  The birth records of his children establish that he lived in Watertown, Mass. from May of 1647 to May of 1657 and that he moved within the following year to Roxbury, Mass., where he stayed for a brief period before proceeding to Fairfield, Ct. where he was to remain … The bible record of Josiah Beers, son of Anthony's son Barnabas, noted that his grandfather came to Fairfield with several children and soon drowned about the year 1676.

 

More on the latter source:

The full title of this resource is: The Beers Genealogy, Volume Three, The Descendants of Anthony Beers of Fairfield, Connecticut, through his son, Ephraim by Mary Louise Regan, Regan Genealogical Publishing Co., Palatine, Ill, 1978.

 

The bulk of my data on the Beers family is a direct result of Ms. Regan's research as presented in this third volume of her work.  This is acknowledged in the 'Notes' section on individual entries as "From:  Regan Vol. 3".  For more information on her work, see the message below;

 

From:  genforum.genealogy.com/beers/messages/444

Posted by: Jo Ann Kaufman

Jan 26, 2001

 

Thank you, Mrs. Regan!

After more than thirty years of Beers research and six published volumes of The Beers Genealogy, Mrs. Mary Louise Regan has officially retired from all things Beers. The Chautauqua County Genealogical Society at Fredonia, NY has purchased the remaining stock (volumes one and three are currently out-of-print) and Mrs. Regan has transferred her records and correspondence to CCGS. We all appreciate Mrs. Regan’s hard work on our behalf and wish her well.

 

Contact person for Beers Central is [email protected].

 

 

My descent:

 

I am 8^th great-grandson of Anthony Beers.  As of Feb., 2001; I show 4,477 descendants of Anthony [this number may include duplicate individuals, the result of dual relationships].

 

 

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