Pane-Joyce Genealogy
2431. Simon Beamon. Born ca 1629 in England. Simon died in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts bef 26 Sep 1676. Buried in Springfield Cemetery. Occupation: Shoemaker.


Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
Plot: Willow Avenue 2-97

Simon Beamon’s estate was probated at Springfield, 26 Sep 1676, and the inventory presented same day, Hampshire Co. Probate 1:182.
15 Oct 1654/5 Simon married Alice Young, daughter of John Young & Alice (-27 May 1647), in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.161 Born ca 1640 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. Alice died in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts on 5 Oct 1708. Buried in Springfield Cemetery.

It’s not clear that Alice Young was the daughter of the Alice (Alis, or Achsah) Young, who was murdered as a witch, or that her father’s name was John.

From Carol F. Karlsen’s book, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, page 19:
    “The first trial and execution for witchcraft was recorded almost simultaneously in two private journals, that of John Winthrop and that of Matthew Grant, the town clerk of Windsor, Connecticut. Both entries were brief. ‘One --- of Windsor arraigned and executed at Hartford for a witch,’ Winthrop noted in late May of 1647. Grant’s entry was both more and less specific: ‘May 26. 47 Alse Young was hanged.’ Little is known about this woman except that she was probably the wife of John Young, who bought a small parcel of land in Windsor in 1641, sole it in 1649, and then disappeared from the town records, and the mother of Alice Young Beamon, who would be accused of witchcraft in nearby Springfield, Massachusetts, some thirty years later. No evidence of the charges against the first Alice Young has survived. As with so many women who would subsequently be convicted of witchcraft in New England, we know of her existence only through her reputation as a witch.”
Their children include:
5960i.
Simon Beamon (ca 1656-aft 16 Feb 1711/2)
5961ii.
John Beamon (12 Apr 1657-)
5962iii.
Daniel Beamon (1 Mar 1658/9-20 Dec 1741)
5963iv.
Thomas Beamon (15 Dec 1660-)
5964v.
Josiah Beamon (4 Feb 1662/3-30 May 1725)
5965vi.
Ruth Beamon (ca 1665-8 May 1704)
5966vii.
Mary Beamon (ca 1669-ca 1735)
5967viii.
Mehitable Beamon (Died soon) (16 Aug 1670-16 Aug 1670)
5968ix.
Benjamin Beamon (Twin) (20 Aug 1671-8 Mar 1732/3)
5969x.
Samuel Beamon (-Sep 1741)
5970xi.
Abigail Beamon (Twin) (11 Jun 1673-Sep 1744)
5971xii.
Alice Beamon (say 1675-)
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