When Zerah Beach was born on 23 June 1746, in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Barnabas Beach, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Thompson, was 21. He married Lucy Stevens on 27 November 1768. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Amenia, Dutchess, New York, United States in 1790 and Ballston, Saratoga, New York, United States in 1800. He died on 9 June 1836, in Saratoga, New York, United States, at the age of 89.
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English: topographic name from Middle English beche ‘beech-tree’ (Old English bēce) or Middle English beche ‘stream’ (Old English bæce). Middle English beche may be from Old English bēce ‘beech’ or bæce ‘stream’, and without further evidence it is impossible to distinguish these in Middle English.
Americanized form of Alsatian and German Bitsch: habitational name from Bitche (German Bitsch) in Alsace and Lorraine, at the foot of the northern slope of the Vosges.
Americanized form of German (mainly Hesse) Bitsch: unexplained.
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