In brief

Born about 1631 in England. 1635 came to America from England aboard the ship Planter with her parents and two brothers. She married May 1651 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. She died September 20, 1691, in Hatfield, Massachusetts.

Family

Spouse
m. 1651
Spouse
Samuel Belding
m. 1678

Children

  • Noah Welles · in this line
    b. July 26, 1666 · New London, Connecticut
    d. 1712 · Colchester, Connecticut

Siblings

  • John Beardsley
    b. Abt. 1633 in England
    m. Hannah ____ around 1656
  • Joseph Beardsley
    b. Abt. 1634 in England
    m. ____
  • Ruth Beardsley
    b. Abt. 1636
    m. Joseph Smith
  • Samuel Beardsley
    b. Abt. 1638
    m. Abigail Clark
  • Hannah Beardsley
    b. Abt. 1642
    m. Nathaniel Dickinson
  • David Beardsley
    b. Abt. 1645
    m. Ruth Goodwin
    d. October 7, 1730, in Stratford, Connecticut
  • Rebecca Beardsley
    b. Abt. 1646
    m. Israel Curtis
    m. James Beebe
  • Sarah Beardsley
    b. Abt. 1648
    m. Obadiah Dickinson, January 8, 1668[1669], in Hadley, Massachusetts
Sources (3)
  1. Nathan Henry Jones, The Ancestors of My Daughters (Poultney, Vermont: Nathan Henry Jones, 1914).
  2. Douglas Richardson, “The Widow Frances (Albright) Wells, Wife of Thomas Coleman of Wethersfield and Hadley,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 146 (January 1992): 28-34; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11691/28/0 : accessed 18 August 2026).
  3. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1635, 6 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999), 1:222-227; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158312-00319 : accessed 18 August 2026).