Lydia (Brown) Parker (1655 - 1728)

Born 6 Aug 1655 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of William Parker — married 7 Sep 1676 in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 11 Jun 1728 at age 72 in Saybrook Point, Middlesex, Connecticut Colony

Biography

Lydia Brown was born on 6 Aug 1655 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts to parents John Brown Jr. and ___(first wife). She married as his second wife Deacon William Parker son of Deacon William & Margaret (Pritchard) Parker in Connecticut. Children: Lydia.

In 1694, her husband William Parker signed a receipt for her share of her uncle, James Browne's estate in Swansea.^[1]

She died on 11 Jun 1728 in Saybrook, Connecticut. She is buried at Cypress Cemetery, Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut.

Sources

1. ↑ " Probate records 1687-1916; index, 1687-1926 [Bristol County, Massachusetts]," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-98F4 : 3 August 2023), Film# 007703530, Bristol, Massachusetts, image 13, Vol 1., Page 4.

• Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, birth Aug 5 or 6, 1656

• American Marriages Before 1699

• Connecticut Deaths and Burials Index

• Connecticut Town Marriage Records

• Connecticut Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices

• US New England Marriages

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39024472

• John Browne, Gentleman of Plymouth (and one branch of descendants to the 12th generation), 1919 John Browne, Gentleman, of Plymouth (and one branch of descendants to the 12th generation), 1919. Brown, George Tilden, Justice of the Superior Court of Rhode Island Internet Archive