Lydia
Spencer
formerly [surname unknown]
Born about in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Bailey
and Lydia (Backus) Bailey
Sister of
John Bailey Jr., Ephraim Bailey, Elizabeth (Bailey) Clark, Benjamin Bailey, Susannah (Bailey) Hubbard, Nathaniel Bailey and Mary Bailey
Wife of
Nathaniel Spencer
— married
1681 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
Descendants 
Mother of
Lydia (Spencer) Bates, Lydia Spencer, Nathaniel Spencer, Elizabeth Spencer, John Spencer, Mary (Spencer) Belden, Daniel Spencer, Susanna Spencer, Dorothy Spencer and Phineas Spencer
Died about
at about age 60
in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut Colony
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Biography
Note: in preparation for merge with Bailey-636 this Lydia has been detached from undocumented parents John Bailey and Lydia Backus. The profiles will be merged with LNAB Unknown per the research to be combined from both profiles during the merge. This Lydia is the wife of Nathaniel Spencer.
Lydia’s birth is unsourced.
Lydia was married several times. (this is not confirmed by sources)
She was the wife of: Thomas Smith; Nathaniel Spencer, Sr. (These marriages are not confirmed)
There was a Lydia Bailey who married a Nathaniel Spencer by 1682 in Haddam, Connecticut.
Name
- Lydia /Smith Bailey/
- Other possible last names: Bayley, Smith
Birth
- 1660 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
- Other possible dates: 1659
Marriage
- 1681 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
Death
- 17 Jun 1696 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
- Other possible death dates: 2 Jan 1729
Sources
- Dewey, Louis Marinus. John Bailey of Haddam, Conn., and Some of His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1907) Vol. 61, Page 60.
- Genealogies of Connecticut Families (Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983) Vol. 1, Page 66
See also:
- Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2004)
- American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA
- Geni Tree: http://www.geni.com/people/Lydia-Bailey/6000000003180793714
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lydia:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lydia:
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Jeff Matchan
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~0.39%
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~0.39%
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- Are these two Lydia Bailey's the same person? Jan 8, 2021.
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edited by T Stanton
Would it not make more sense to merge them with note that the parentage of Bailey has yet to be proved. This is how it is done with earlier names. To leave an individual (Nathaniel) with 4 spouses of the same name only adds to confusion, when in this case likely 3 of the spouses are the same person.
edited by Tim Prince
Andrew Lester Jr. married Lydia Starkweather, not Lydia Bailey: "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPQH-YFWQ : 21 September 2019), Andrew Lester in entry for Lidia Starkweather, ; citing Marriage, , Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008143425.”
edited by Veronica (Gilbert) Newsom
Colonial Families of American Vol II page 688 (on ancestry.com) call Lydia nee Smith, not Bailey. North American Families (Lineage data from the DAR) also call her nee Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith of Haddam. Dates this first marriage as 1681 and that Natl married second to a Hannah ________ no dates. States all nine ch by first wife.
Torrey queries her surname as Bailey too. (as cited above in sources)
edited by Beryl Meehan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union
Profile: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bailey-974