The genealogical collection of Newtown's Cyrenius H. Booth Library includes Bible records from a number of Newtown/Danbury area families, including: BEARDSLEY, BEERS, BURR, FAIRCHILD, HAWLEY, PECK, OLIVER,TAYLOR, and WINTON.  The family record pages have been removed from these Bibles and are kept in vertical file folders. We are publishing them as a series in Connecticut Ancestry.  Spellings are maintained in these transcriptions,and word arrangement simulates that of the original record.

The records of these related families of Simeon BEERS, David C. PECK, Simeon B.PECK, and Jonathan S. FAIRCHILD are from four separate sources, all apparently donated to the library about 1979 by Mildred Moore Lefler of Westport.

Simeon BEERS Family

This brief record is on a small separate paper and is not a part of a Bible record itself.  It is in one hand, apparently recorded at the same time, perhaps soon after the last date entered (from the style and age of the paper).

            Simeon Beers married Phedime Nichols                  Febuary 7th AD 1776
            Abel Beers was born                                              Sept1st AD 1777
            Samuel Beers was born                                          June 27th AD 1779
            Esther Beers was born                                            October29th AD 1781
            Rebecca Beers was born                                        July 2nd AD 1786
            Abner Beers was born                                            May19th AD 1793 [or 6?]

David C. PECK Family

For this family we have only a photocopy of the original Bible record pages.  The location of the original is unknown, and there is no indication of the publication date of the Bible from which the copies were made.

Marriages
            David C. Peck and Rebecca Beers married                         8 Jany 1809        
            David C. Peck & Harri[e]t Booth married                           April the 10 1842
            Simeon B. Peck and Caroline Curtis marriaed                     March 16th 1831
            Simeon B. Peck and Elizabeth C.Peck were married          Ma[r]ch 2nd 1859
            Births
            Simeon Beers Peck Born                                                   Novem 14th  1810
            Abner Beers Peck born                                                     Feburary the 4th  1832
            Children of Simeon B. Peck
            Abner Beers Peck born                                                     Feb 4st  1832
            Joseph Henry Peck Born                                                   January 21st  1837
            David Curtis Peck Born                                                     August 21st  1841
            David Curtis Peck [2nd] Born                                             January21st 1847
            Charles Gould Peck Born                                                  May 16st  1860
Deaths [first five in one column in a single hand]
          David Curtis Peck died April 17th 1844 aged two years & seven months
          Joseph Henry Peck died in Montgomery,Ala                        June 11th 1860
          Caroline Curtis Peck died                                                    May 27th  1858
          Elizabeth Curtis Peck died                                                   [blank]
          Simeon Beers Peck died                                                      June 7th  1885

          Rebecca Peck Dyed  Dec 30th  ~AD 1829, Ag[e]d 43& 6 months
          Daniel C. Peck Died  April 5th  1862, Aged 79 years
          Samuel Peck Died  may 12th  ~AD 1833, Aged – 87
          Sarah wife of Samuel Peck Died  Sept 18th  1819, Aged 72


Simeon B. PECK Family

These original pages were taken from the family Bible inscribed “Simeon B. Peck”inside the front cover.  The Bible was published by C. Alexander & Co. of Philadelphia in 1834.

Simeon B. Peck and Caroline Curtiss were married on the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.  By the Rev. Mr. Burhans     [Episcopal minister]      March 16th AD 1831

Simeon B. Peck and Elizabeth Peck were married on the second day of March Eighteen Hundrred & Fifty-nine                                           March 2nd 1859
      

Abner R. Peck and Mary Smith were married on the fourth day of March eighteen hundred and fifty eight.  By Rev. R. T. McCardy
      

David C. Peck and Ellen R. Booth were married on 18th of Oct 1871
      

David C. Peck and Agnes Field Booth were married on the 30th  day of October Ninteen Hundred Eighteen (1918)
      

Births
         Abner Beers Peck—Born on the fourth day of Febuary A.D. one thousan eight hundred and thirty two                             Feb 4th A.D. 1832

       Joseph Henry Peck—Born on the twenty first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven
       Jan. 21st A.D. 1837

       David Curtiss Peck  Born on the 28th  day of August eighteen hundred and forty one              Augt 28th  1841

       David Curtis Peck [2nd] Born on the21st day of January in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty seven                                               January 21, 1847

       Charles Gould Peck Born on the 10th [smudged, may be 16th  as in above record]              day of May 1860

       Caroline Rebecca Peck was born on the Ninth Day of January A.D. One                           Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Nine                                                                          Jany 9th  AD 1859

       Children of David C. Peck
       Ada Booth Peck born on the 19th of Sept 1872
       Cora Ellen Peck born on the 18th of July 1875


     
Deaths

       David Curtis Peck died April 17th 1844.  Aged two Years and Seven months.
       Joseph Henry Peck Died in Montgomery Alabama the Eleventh day of June                                   AD 1860
       Abner Beers Peck died on [blank]
       Caroline Curtis Peck died May 27th A.D. Eighteen Hundred and fifty Eight,                                   Wife of Simeon B. Peck
       Mary Peck  Died 18th Feb AD Eighteen Hundred & Sixty, Wife of Abner Beers                           Peck
       Charles Gould Peck son of Simeon B.Peck and Elizabeth Curtis Peck died                                   Sept 18th 1918
       Ellen Booth Peck, wife of David C.Peck, died Sept 25th 1917 aged Seventy                                 years six months and eleven days.
       Ada Booth Peck died Dec 9, 1897
       Cora Ellen Peck died Oct 9, 1891
       David Curtis Peck died Nov 3, 1936


Jonathan S. FAIRCHILD Family

This original record removed from a Bible published by Daniel D. Smith, New York, 1820.

       Births

       Jonathan S. Fairchild          born                                    January 27th 1783
       Lucy Fairchild                      Do                                                January 9th 1789~
       Their children’s births
       Joseph Bennet Fairchild       Do                                      May 7th 1806
       Anna Fairchild                     Do                                                December 24th 1808
       Mary Fairchild                     Do                                                May 13th  1811
       Mary Fairchild [2nd]            Do                                                January 27th 1816
       Henry Fairchild                    Do                                                July 20th  1818
       William Fairchild                  Do                                                October 4th 1821
       Lucy Ann Fairchild              Do                                                July 15th  1823
       Anna Emeline Fairchild        Do                                      April 2d 1826
       ………………………
       Children of Anna Frances Fairchild
       Moore and Andrew C. Moore
       were
       Arthur Hill Moore              Born                                   Dec. 20, 1878
       Henry Fairchild Moore                                                [blank]  1876
       Elsie May Moore                                                         [blank]

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       Josiah Fairchild                  born                                    November 27th 1754
       Betty Fairchild                                                             [blank]
       Joseph B. Wheeler                                                      June 26th  1763~
       Anne Wheeler                                                             January 19th  1765~

     
       Marriages

      Jonathan S. Fairchild & Lucy Wheeler married on the 21st day of November 1803
       Joseph B. Fairchild and Phebe Shepard married on the 25th  of January 1827~
       Charles Skidmore and Mary Fairchild married on the 16th  of October 1833
       Henry Fairchild and Caroline Booth married on the [blank] November 1844
       David H. Beers and Lucy Ann Fairchild married [blank] 1844
       Edwin G. Terrill and Anna Emeline Fairchild married Dec 31st 1845
       William Fairchild and Adeline Johnson married September 17th  1848
       Henry Fairchild’s children were:
       Anna Frances Fairchild married to Andrew C. Moore
       Jennie Elizabeth Fairchild marriedto Col. Julius Knowlton

       Deaths

       Mary Fairchild                    died                        July 3d 1811
       Anna Fairchild                    died                        January 10th 1825
       Jonathan S. Fairchild          died                        November 7th 1826, aged 44
       Lucy W. Fairchild               died                        May 27th 1860, aged 71
       Joseph Bennet Fairchild      died                        Jan 8th 1861, aged 54 – 8 months
       Emmeline Terrill                  died                        Feb. 1st 1888 , aged 51 – 10 months
       Mary Skidmore                  died                        Dec. 28th 1893, aged 78
       Henry Fairchild                   died                        July 26th 1897, aged 79 years
       William Fairchild                 died                        Oct 3d 1903, Aged 83 years
Anna Frances Fairchild Moore   died                 Sept. [blank] 1929, Aged 88[? corrected]
Jennie E. Fairchild Knowlton      died                 [blank] 1931, Aged 85 [corr. from87]
Arthur H. Moore                       died                        July 16, 1936, aged 57    
Elsie May      "                              "                          May 20, 1925, aged 44

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       Joseph B. Wheeler             died                        October 27th 1837, Aged 74
       Anna Wheeler                    died                        December 18th 1842, aged 87
       Josiah Fairchild                   died                        Aug. 27th 1831
       Betty Fairchild                    died                        Dec. 10th 1816