Highly Suspect
From the unsourced Lilly Families in America: a Concise Ancestry of the Lilly, Lilley and Lillie Families in the Colonies by Lilly, Charles (Charles J.) (typescript), 1976. p. ?.
I. Christopher Lilly b. c. 1573; m. Wilma Edwards 23 Feb 1660, in Plymouth, Devonshire, England, had a son.
1. Luke Lilly b. 1602, in Devonshire, England. Luke m. Mary and had two children b. in England. Luke and Mary and their children went to New England in 1643. Luke Lilly lived in Farmington, Connecticut. In 1643, was living in Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1647 sold his land and went to Southampton, Long Island, New York, where many descendants live.
a. Daughter, Mary Lilly, b. 1624 in England; m. John Andrews in 1642, in Farmington, Connecticut.
There is some obvious stretching of the facts. As in the claim that Luke and wife were in Farmington. This is so that his alleged daughter can marry John Andrews (1620-1682). But there is no mention of a Luke Lilly in early Farmington. Luke may have gone to Long Island, but the Genealogies of Long Island Families, Vol. I and Vol II (from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record) contain only one listing for a Lilley (in 1798.) and the Long Island Surnames website has no trees for Luke Lilley/Lilly/Lily/Lillye.
Sources
↑ "List of Those Able to Bear Arms in New Plymouth" New England Historical and Genealogical Society 4:259. 1850.
↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. Vol. I-IV. Boston, MA, USA: 1860-1862.
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