Marie Secord [38295]

   Other names for Marie were Beebe, Chedayne, Crookston and Pearson.

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Baptism, 3 Mar 1735/36, French Church, New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. ¹⁰⁹²⁸ witnesses: Jaques Secord and Jeanne Sicard

• Death of husband, 25 Oct 1779, Niagara, , New York, USA. ¹⁰⁶⁷⁶ Marie Secord was widowed by the death of Joshua Beebe Jr. 25
Oct 1779 Niagara, New York


In 1779 whene Joshua Bddbd Died there was no town or county of Niagara, he would have been in Tryon County. Niagara and Niagara County were made from it later

• Anecdote, 1800. ⁴⁹⁹ She settled in Gaspe

Marie married Joshua Beebe Jr. [37852] [MRIN: 551604692] in 1763 in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut. (Joshua Beebe Jr. [37852] was born on 10 Oct 1738 in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, American Colonies and died on 25 Oct 1779 in Niagara, , New York, USA ¹⁰⁶⁷⁶.)

Marie next married Daniel Chedayne [38291] [MRIN: 551604693].

Marie next married John Crookston [37842] [MRIN: 551604694] in 1756.

Marie next married Christopher Pearson [37841] [MRIN: 551604695] in 1781 in Trois Rivers.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Anecdote. After Joshua died Mary and her six children moved to the
Yamachiche refugee camp near Trois Rivers, Quebec for the
balance of the war. While in camp, she met Christopher
Pearson, the rations officer, a widower with two girls, and she
married for the third time. With the signing of the peace
treaty in Paris, provision was made for reparations,
Christopher Pearson and his wife and new family were among the
five hundred settlers who sailed from St. Lawrence around the
Gaspe Peninsula, Paspebiac Beach, on the Bay of Chaleur in June
of 1783. Lots were drawn and land distributed to these
transplanted Americans. Mary or Grandma Pearson as she was
later know, lived to the age of 103.