Lydia (Barstow) Brewster (1717 - 1815)

Born 1 Apr 1717 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Ichabod Brewster — married 3 Jun 1735 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 6 Feb 1815 at age 97 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut

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Biography

Lydia, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Randall) Barstow, was born at Scituate, MA on April 1, 1717.

In 1731, between the age of 14 and 21, Lydia made the choice for her mother, Lydia to be her guardian.^[1]

She married Ichabod Brewster, son of William and Hopestill (Wadsworth) Brewster, at Duxbury, MA on June 3, 1735. They resided in Pembroke, MA and removed to Lebanon, CT after the birth of their third child. She died at Lebanon, CT on February 6, 1815 at the age of 97.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-NHZR : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1730-1733 and 1839-1845 vol 6-6U > image 30-31 of 589; State Archives, Boston.Starts at bottom right hand side.

• Barbara Lambert Merrick, comp., Scott Andrew Bartley, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Elder William Brewster, Volume 24, Part 1, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014), p. 361

• Barbara Lambert Merrick, comp., E. Virginia Hunt, ed., Mayflower Families In Progress, William Brewster and the Fifth Generation Descendants of his son Love, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2003), pp. 47-48

• Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the year 1850, two volumes, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909), 1:33 (birth)

• Vital Records of Duxbury Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911), p. 216 (marriage)

• Duxbury, Mass., Vital Records, The Mayflower Descendant, (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1909), vol. 11, p. 241 (marriage)

• Find A Grave, Memorial #32866540