Lydia (Powell) Skeels (abt. 1754 - 1827)

Born about Jun 1754 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of David (Skeel) Skeels — married about 1778 in Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 5 Aug 1827 at about age 73 in Highgate, Franklin, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Lydia Powell was born in Jun 1754 in Connecticut to parents John Powell and Ruth Adkins (birth record currently unsourced).

A Lydia Powell/Powel, with father John, was baptized on 16 May 1756 in Middletown, Connecticut.^[1]

She married David Skeels about 1778 in Lanesborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts. (Marriage record unsourced.) Records show she married the David Skeels born in 1749, not 1746. He died in 1833. ^[2]

Children: William, David Jr., Amos, Hiram, Anna, Eunice Sibley, Almira, Rhoda, Lydia, Sarah Anne. She died on 5 Aug 1827 in Highgate, Franklin, Vermont, and was buried in Highgate Falls Episcopal Church Cemetery, Highgate Falls, Franklin, Vermont.

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut, Volume 070 Part 2 Middletown, p. 438.
2. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V8M1-MRF : 19 February 2021), Lydia Skeels in entry for David Skeels, 1833.

• "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPQP-7M5G : 27 December 2020), Lydia Skeels in entry for Eunice Skeels Wait, 23 May 1874; citing Death, Swanton, Franklin, Vermont, United States, various town clerks and records divisions, Vermont; FHL microfilm 005488057.
• "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V8M1-9QF : 14 April 2020), Lydia in entry for William Skeeles, 1860.
• "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V8M1-MRF : 19 February 2021), Lydia Skeels in entry for David Skeels, 1833.
• "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V89C-FM5 : 19 February 2021), L Skeels in entry for Rhoda S Tryon, 1857.

Research Notes

• Other than the listing on Find A Grave, I can find no records supporting Lydia had a middle name of Sarah, and it does not say Sarah on the headstone. The name has been removed pending a better source. -V. Newsom, 25 Feb 2021.
• Many of the Connecticut records for this family spell last name as “Powel”, not “Powell”.
• This is not the same person as Lydia Powers, born in Middletown, Connecticut in 1754.
• This is not the same person as Lydia Powell b. 1758, married to John Powell in Vermont.
• Robert Powell b. 1758 in Massachusetts was not this person’s brother or a son of Ruth Adkins- Ruth died in 1754.