Lydia, the daughter of Nathaniel and Mehitable Leonard, was born at Easton ca 1740.[1] She married Silas Williams there in 1760.[2] They had at least two children before Silas died (sometime before 1770)[1]
Lydia married second, Thomas Tisdale before 1774 when they were named in a deed for her father's estate.[1]
↑ 1.01.11.2 Brownson, Lydia (Phinney) and McLean, Maclane. "Ezra Perry of Sandwich, Mass. (c1625-1689). The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: Volume 115, 1961. Page 197. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11695/197/23523298
↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCCL-GXK : 14 January 2020), Ledia Williams in entry for Ledia Williams, 1761.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-PBGS : 18 February 2020), Lidiah Williams in entry for Silas Williams, 13 Mar 1766; citing Birth, Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009786.
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