Lydia (Hallett) Blackwell (abt. 1732 - abt. 1812)

Born about 1732 in Newtown, Queens, Province of New York

Ancestors

Wife of Jacob Blackwell — married 19 Feb 1755 in Hallet's Cove, Queens, Province of New York

Descendants

Died about 26 Feb 1812 at about age 80 in Newtown, Queens, New York, USA

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Biography

Lydia Hallett was born to Joseph Hallett and Lydia Alsop in 1732 at Hallett's Point in Newtown, Queens New York.^[1]

In 1755, she married widower Jacob Blackwell in New York City.^[2]

They had several children together:^[3]

• Jacob Blackwell, b. abt. 1756
• Josiah, b. abt. 1758^{[citation needed]}
• Samuel, b. 1759^[4]
• Lydia, b. abt. 1762^{[citation needed]}
• Mary, b. abt. 1762^[5]

Her husband Jacob died in 1780, leaving to Lydia an enslaved woman named Belinda, and allowing Lydia, in her widowhood, use of a third of Blackwell's Island and "her choice of any room in the house [in Newtown] in which [he then dwelt]".^[3]

She lived in the home in Newtown until her death in 1812 (Feb 26).^[6] She was buried in the Blackwell burying ground that her husband had devised.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Greene, Richard H, Henry R. Stiles, Melatiah E. Dwight, George A. Morrison, Hopper S. Mott, John R. Totten, H M. Pitman, Charles A. Ditmas, Forest L. E. De, Conklin Mann, and Arthur S. Maynard. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1870. Print., Vol. VI (1887), p. 110.
2. ↑ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 069, No. 3, July 1938., p. 277], citing RECORDS OF TRINITY CHURCH PARISH, New York City.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries. New York: W. Abbatt. Volume 8. July 1980. Print. pp. 48-50
4. ↑ Died. The Evening Post. New York, New York. Tueday, Nov 27, 1832., p. 2.
5. ↑ Died. The Evening Post. New York, New York. Saturday, Nov 19, 1831., p. 2.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1800," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5Y-5WJ : accessed 21 May 2015), Lydia Blackwell, New Town, Queens, New York; citing p. 537, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 25; FHL microfilm 193,713.
7. ↑ Find A Grave, (accessed 20 May 2015), memorial for Lydia Hallet Blackwell, probably referencing Powell, Charles U. 1975 Supplement to Description of Private and Family Cemeteries in the Borough of Queens. Long Island Collection, The Queens Borough Public Library. Jamaica, New York.

• Riker, James, Jr., The Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York (D. Fanshaw, New-York, 1852) Page 355