Born in New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Caleb Atwater
and Lydia (Benham) Atwater
Sister of
Hannah (Atwater) Smith, Dorcas (Atwater) Humiston, James Atwater, Esther (Atwater) Daggett, Sarah Atwater, Lois (Atwater) Tuttle, Eunice Atwater, Caleb Atwater, Stephen Atwater, Eunice Atwater and Stephen Atwater
Wife of
Jude Tuttle
— married
14 Jul 1748 (to 13 Dec 1762) in New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
Wife of
Abel Smith
— married
25 Jun 1767 in North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Hezekiah Tuttle, Eunice Tuttle, Ruth (Tuttle) Bishop, Mary (Tuttle) Bishop, Jude Smith and Lyman Smith
Died
at age 78
in North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Jan 2011
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Biography
Lydia Atwater, the daughter of Caleb Atwater and Lydia Benham, was born April 3, 1729[1] and died October 22, 1807 at the age of 79. On July 14, 1748 she married Jude Tuttle, the son of Aaron Tuttle and Mary Munson. Jude died December 13, 1762, and on June 25, 1767 she married Abel Smith, the son of Samuel Smith and Anna Morris.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Vital Records of New Haven 1649-1850 Part I. Hartford: The Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917
- ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, "Families of Ancient New Haven", Vol I, page 78 (Atwater Family) and Vol VII, page 1646 (Smith Family) and Vol VIII, page 1894 (Tuttle Family).
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lydia:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lydia:
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~0.78%
Melinda Gould
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~0.78%
~6.25%
James Carr :
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jamescarr163
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~0.78%
William Fox :
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~0.39%
~3.12%
Jessica (Carr) van Haaften :
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