Lydia (Mercer) Draper (abt. 1653)

Descendants

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Research Notes

Originally called Sheepscot Plantation, Newcastle was first settled in the 1630s by fishermen and around 50 families. Around 1649-50, John Mason purchased a tract of land from the sachems Chief Robinhood and Chief Jack Pudding. The territory was claimed in 1665 by the Duke of York. Renamed New Dartmouth, the plantation was attacked and destroyed in 1676 during King Philip's War.[5] When the war was over, some of the inhabitants returned. But it was destroyed again in 1689 during King William's War, and the village was not reoccupied for about 40 years. In 1730, Colonel David Dunbar, the superintendent and governor of the Province of Sagadahoc, resettled it as Newcastle, named in honor of the Duke of Newcastle.[6] wikipedia URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle,_Maine

Biography

Lydia Mercer, daughter of Thomas Mercer; married Nathaniel Draper of Sheepscot Maine before 1673; approximate birth year of their daughter Lydia Draper; who was baptized Jan 7, 1693 at the age of 20 years old.

Lydia (Mercer) Draper a widow by 1680; married (2) Robert Scott^[1]

In 1700, Massachusetts appointed a committee to receive and examine the claims of all persons to lands in Maine, from which they or their ancestors, or grantors, had been driven or dispossessed during the Indian wars; the commission closed in 1720, but numerous claims had been received prior to 1720; in which the records have been preserved in the State Department of Massachusetts^[2] "Robert Scott, for the heirs of Nathaniel Draper, claims several parcels on Sheepscot River bought of Jack Pudding alias Daniel Sagamore of Sheepscot, between the Butt Falls and the Great Bay over against the parting gutts; which lie between Nathaniel Draper, Thomas Mercer, and the house to the river Deed dated March 6, 1661^[3]

In the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire;^[1] it was Nathaniels widow, Lydia Mercer, daughter of Thomas Mercer; who married Robert Scott by 1680, not the daughter Lydia Draper born in 1673.

Nathaniel alive in 1661; died between 1662-1680. ^[1]

Children of Nathaniel Draper and Lydia Mercer

(1) Lydia, born about 1673; baptized in Charleston Jan 7 1693; age 20 and already the wife of Samuel Whittemore

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire; v2, pg 206;
2. ↑ "Pg 234 Collections of the Maine Historical Society V2"
3. ↑ Pgs 234-236 Collections of the Maine Historical Society, V2

• Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby [and] Walter Goodwin Davis. "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire"; V2; The Southworth Press, Portland Maine (1933); Retrieved 1/10/2018 from https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2063105

• Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Volume 2; Portland; Published for the Society 1847; Retrieved 1/10/2018 from https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=NLZIAQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PP7

• Collections of the Maine Historical Society; JOHN CHAMBERLAIN; January 1, 1890; published for the Society

Also See:

• William Bingham And His Kennebec Purchase; "The Million Acres"; Old Canada Road Historical Society ; Retrieved 1/10/2018 from http://www.oldcanadaroad.org/william_bingham/binghams_purchase.html