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Lydia (Lapham) Bates (abt. 1644 - aft. 1685)

Lydia Bates formerly Lapham
Born about in Scituate, Plymouth Colonymap
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Wife of — married 20 Feb 1665 in Scituate, Plymouth Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Died after after about age 41 [location unknown]
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Biography

Lydia was born about 1644 in Scituate. She was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Tilden) Lapham.[1][2] In his will, her father Thomas gave "to my daughter Lidia the calfe of my Nancye Cow...[3]

Lydia married Samuel Bates in Scituate on 20 Feb 1666/67.[4] Death records have not been located for either of them and family tradition says they relocated to Long Island.[5]

Sources

  1. Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB394/i/12108/236/23896699
  2. History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol II, p.423
  3. Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB407/i/12209/198/24035017
  4. "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5T-LXD : 24 January 2020), Lydia Lappum in entry for Samuel Bates, 1666.
  5. History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol II, p.39




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There's a WT suggestion that points out that Mary's dob is after Lydia's dod. I don't know which shpuld be corrected because neither is convincingly documented. Could somebody give me a hand here?
posted by Jennifer Lapham
Lapham-225 and Lapham-77 appear to represent the same person because: appear to be duplicates
posted by Doug Lockwood

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