Category: A Life of William Beadle
About the Author: James Smart
The ghost of William Beadle has flitted in and out of the consciousness of Wethersfield since he murdered his family on December 11, 1782. To those growing up in Old Wethersfield, the macabre story seemed to be part of the DNA of the town, always lingering at the edge as …
William Beadle’s Last Will and Testament
THE WILL [This is a confused mixture of great and little Concerns I select a few things chiefly such as respect moral Ideas.  He is greatly incensed with the public for Depreciation.] There is a parcel of Continental Trash that cost me from first to last Twelve hundred Pounds. I …
The Story of the Murder of the Beadle family by William Beadle
The following article is excerpted from “A Life of William Beadle” by James R. Smart. The complete work with footnotes and bibliography is available from the Library of the Wethersfield Historical Society. The poems illustrating this article are a broadside by William Woods followed by an account from the Connecticut …
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An Advertisement by William Beadle in the Hartford Courant
ADVERTISEMENT. Addressed to the LADIES.Fair Ladies, ’tis not very arch, To talk about the first of March. That woful day when each of ye.Must leave your darling Nectar, TEA!Your China, which attracts the Eye.Like Lumber, must neglected lie:And dearest Tea-Kettle’s harder Lot.Must change him to a Porridge Pot.But now, methinks …
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