Lydia (Chadwick) Rawson (1711 - 1789)

Born 10 Feb 1711 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Joshua Green — married 30 Nov 1732 in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Wife of Samuel Rawson — married 8 Oct 1745 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 4 Oct 1789 at age 78 in New Marlborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Lydia (Lidiah) Chadwick was born on February 10, 1710/11 in Watertowm, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Chadwick and Abigail Grant Chadwick.^[1]

She married Joshua Green on November 30, 1732 in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts.^[2]

Research Notes

According to the Find a Grave web page,^[3] she married Samuel Rawson (Lawson) on September 8, 1745 in Boston. There is a record for the marriage of Lydia Green and Samuel Lawson in Boston on that date,^[4] but it is not clear that this is the same person.

The same web page says that she died on October 4, 1789 in New Marborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts.^[3]

Chadwick-1021 16:27, 9 June 2016 (EDT)

Sources

^{[1] [2] [4] [3]}

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NW-B3J : accessed 8 June 2016), Lidiah Chadwick, 10 Feb 1710; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 745,869.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH7C-FYF : accessed 8 June 2016), Joshua Green and Lydia Chadwick, 30 Nov 1732; citing Marriage, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,239.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Find A Grave Memorial# 125803052
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC7M-1Z6 : accessed 8 June 2016), Samuel Lawson and Lydia Green, 08 Oct 1745; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0928191 IT 2.

See also:

• Western Massachusetts Families in 1790. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. (From various authors, Helen S. Ullmann, FASG, ed.) at AmericanAncestors.org.

• Boyd, Janice and McCracken, George, "The Brothers Thomas and John Chadwick of Watertown", The American Genealogist, Vol. 31, No. 2, April 1955, page 229, NEHGS

• Second marriage to Samuel Rawson needs primary sources. The following undocumented information (and more) is gleaned from the findagrave website and provides a helpful starting point:

Lydia Chadwick, the daughter of Ebenezer & Abigail (Grant) Chadwick, married (1): 1732, Joshua Green (b.1708 d. 1745), son of Thomas & Hannah (Vinton) Green.

married (2) 1745, Samuel Rawson (b.1714 d. 1785) son of Nathaniel & Hannah (Thompson) Rawson. ^[3]