The Farmers ~ Part One
~Part One~ The Yankee Farmer Moses Yale Beach was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, in January of 1800. He was four generations removed from his ancestor John Beach, who had settled and built his homestead there in 1670, after his arrival from England. Moses was the second child of Moses Sperry Beach, Jr. and Lucretia Yale, who traced her lineage to Thomas Yale, another village founder and the brother of Elihu Yale, from whom the university takes its name. Lucretia Beach died just months after the birth of their son; within that same year, Beach’s father married Lois Ives, from another old farming family in the town. In the early 1850s, another Elihu Yale ~ at the time, the Postmaster of Cheshire, Conn. ~ gave an accounting of early Beach’s life in a Yale family genealogy. In addition to its enjoyably nineteenth century phraseology, this biographical sketch is notable in that it was written during Beach’s lifetime ~ perhaps, with his input ~ just as he was returning to