Lois (Woodward) Northrop (abt. 1761 - 1847)

Born about 1761 in Rhode Island [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Lemuel Northrop — married Mar 1795 in Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont, USA

Descendants

Died 14 May 1847 at about age 86 in Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont, USA

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Biography

Lois (Louise/Louisa) Wood(w)ard was born about 1759-1760, probably in or near Smithfield, Rhode Island, where her likely parents lived, probably the daughter of Nathaniel & Mary (Britton) Woodward.^[1] She married, probably in or near Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont, about March 1795, to Lemuel Northrup, the son of Capt. Jonathan & Ruth (Booth) Northrop.^[2][3] She died on 14 May 1847 in Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont, aged about 90 years.^[4]

In Peacham, the couple had at least three children:

1. Jonathan, b. 1796, m. Lydia Beede, d. 1874.
2. Joseph, b. ca. 1799, m. Catherine Farrington, d. 1868.
3. Prudence, b. 1802, m. Samuel Swett.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S868 p. 63 (died aged about 90)
2. ↑ Source: #S868 p. 63. A DAR "Application for membership..." completed by a descendant and accepted in Nov 1990 shows "married 'c 17 ?'. I can't find any mention of a marriage date in his pension file.
3. ↑ Source: #S63 p. 234
4. ↑ Source: #S868 p. 63

• Source: S63 Jennie Chamberlin Watts, Elsie A. Choate People of Peacham (Montpelier, VT: Vermont Historical Society, 1965) Repository: #R42
• Repository: R42 Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
• Source: S868 A. Judd Northrup, The Northrup-Northrop genealogy : record of the known descendants of Joseph Northrup, who came from England in 1637, and was one of the original settlers of Milford, Conn., in 1639 (NY, NY: Grafton Press, 1908), p. 62
• FamilySearch.org L853-LV8
• Northrups\Northorps\Gallops & Families, Rootsweb profile Lois Woodward (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 11 Mar 2023.)