Lydia Collings or Collins was born in Truro, Barnstable County, (then) Province of Massachusetts Bay, on 30 September 1712, the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Bangs) Collins.[1][2]
Lydia Collins married in Truro on 5 March 1729/30, Robert Rich, the son of John & Mary (Treat) Rich of Eastham.[3] The marriage record gives the groom's name as John, however it is clear from the publishment of their intentions that it was Robert.[4]
With her husband Robert, she witnessed a deed of sale between his brothers, Joshua, John and Reuben, of a piece of meadow land at Hopkins Island on 1 October 1757.[5] (Apparently the last record found of the couple).
Children:
Mary, b. 12 July 1732; mar. Simeon Baker of Eastham
Moses, b. 15 Aug 1735; d. before 1801; mar.(1) Thankful Atwood; mar.(2) Hannah Rich
↑ George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital records of the town of Truro, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1933), Vol. 1:11.
"Lidia Collings the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Collings was Born the thirtieth day of September In the year 1712."
↑ George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital records of the town of Truro, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1933), Vol. 1:22.
"John Rich and Lidia collins were married March ye 5th 1729/30 all by the Revrd Mr Jno : Avery Pastor of the chh in Truroe Recorded Pr Tho : Paine Town Clr"
↑ George E. Bowman, Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 28:171, Eastham-Orleans - Vol. 1:215
"february ye 5th 1729/30 Robert Rich of Eastham Signified his purpose to marry with Lidia Collins of Truro in order to be published"
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