Lydia (Merrill) Poore (1772 - 1852)

Born 28 Jul 1772 in Newbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Noyes Poore — married 3 Jul 1796 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 28 Sep 1852 at age 80 in West Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Lydia was born the only recorded child of John and Mary Little Merrill on July 28, 1772 in Newbury, Massachusetts. She married Dr. Daniel Noyes Poore on July 3, 1796 in Newbury. The couple had six recorded children. Lydia died September 28, 1852 in West Newbury at 80 years old.

Sources

• Birth: Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, 1911) Vol. 1, Page 317

• Marriage Intentions: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHND-9B4 : 13 July 2016), Doct Daniel N. Poor and Lydia Merrill, 25 May 1796; citing Marriage Notice, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 886,203.

• Marriage: Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, 1911) Vol. 2, Page 324

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHL2-6J8 : 13 July 2016), Doct'R Daniel H. Poor and Lydia Merrill, 03 Jul 1796; citing Marriage, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 886,203.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MD9P-4GB : 9 November 2014), Lydia Poore in household of James Stewart, West Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing family 53, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N7KG-YMY : 10 December 2014), Lydia Poore, 28 Sep 1852; citing West Newbury, Massachusetts, v 66 p 169, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,168.

• Merrill, Samuel. A Merrill Memorial An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill (Cambridge, Mass., 1928) Page 400

• Little, George. The Descendants of George Little, Who Came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640 (The Author, Auburn, Maine, 1882) Page 65

• Smith, Charles Banford. Descendants of Samuel Poore, 1620-1683, and His Wife, Rebecca (Newburyport, Mass., 1991) Page 44