Born in Ashford, Kent, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Nicholas Butler
and Joice (Baker) Butler
Sister of
Jane Butler [half], Mary Butler [half], Lydia Butler [half], Mary Butler [half], John Butler, Henry Butler and Thomas Butler
Wife of
John Minott
— married
19 May 1647 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 37
in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
Lydia (Butler) Minott immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
She was christened on 23 Feb 1628/9 in Ashford, Kent, England, daughter of Nicholas and Joice.[1]
Immigration
- Lydia Butler immigrated with her parents from Eastwell, Kent on May 11, 1637.[2] "Persons which have taken passage from Sandwich, Kent, England for the American plantations. Butler, Nocholas, of Eastwell, yeoman, Joyce his wief, children John, Henry, Lidia, and servants: John Pope, John Gill, Richard Jenkin, Margaret Angells, Christian Spice"[3]
Death
- 24 January 1667 giving birth to her 6th child.[4]
Sources
- Shattuck, Lemuel, Esq. The Minot Family, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.) Vol. 1, Page 171
- Wheeler, Albert Gallatin The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America (American College of Genealogy, Boston, Massachusetts, 1914)
- Banks, Charles Edward.The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts in Three Volumes. (Boston, George H. Dean, 1911) , Volume III Annals of Edgartown: pp. 47-48
- Sherwood, George. American Colonists in English Records (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1961) Page 30
- Butler, Henry Langdon. Tales of Our Kinsfolk, Past and Present, The Story of Our Butler Ancestors (New York, 1919) Page 29.
- "Lydia, who married in Dorchester, Mass., May 19, 1647, John Minott, who was born in 1626; she had five children and died as the sixth was born, Jan. 24, 1667, in Dorchester."
- https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/21888859/person/1172477699/facts
- https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/21888859/family
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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:
-
~0.59%
Joan (Greene) Pierpont
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M390794 [compare]
-
~0.39%
Prescott Smith :
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Categories: Puritan Great Migration Minor Child | Ashford, Kent | Dorchester, Massachusetts
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"John and Lydia that lovely pair, ?A whale killed him, her body lies here, ?There souls we hope with Christ now reign, ?So our great loss was there great gain." Someone had the graves and stones moved from this lot to the Oak Grove Cemetery at Vineyard Haven. !BIRTH, DEATH, MARRIAGE: From: "The History of Martha's Vineyard" by Dr. Charles Banks; Vol . III; Family Genealogies: pg. 47-66. [1] LYDIA, bapt. 23 Feb. 1628-9; m. JOHN MINOT 19 May 1647; she d. 25 Jan 1667, and an elegy on her death was printed (see Minot Genealogy p. 12).