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HISTORY OF MEDFIELD (Mass) by Wm. S. Tilden states that Lydia was the sister of the 'Apostle ' Eliot. She was the widow of James Penniman. She and her daughter Lydia Adams (wife of Edward) both died the year of King Philip's war when Medfield was attacked by the Indians.
THE GENES OF ABRAHAM PARKER by Tom Lawless (1990)
Thomas Hamm, archivist and asst. prof, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana gives her place of birth as Widford, Essex, Eng.
Another unidentified page but probably again NEHGR July 1953, p. 236
From the copy of the Boyd Marriage Index in Salt Lake City, I learned of the marriage in 1631 of James Pemiman [sic] and Lydia - in the parish of High Laver, co. Essex. Upon sending to England for a copy of the record the vicar has given me a copy of the entry in the parish record as follows:
Unfortunately her surname was omitted in the record but as High Laver is not far from Nazing the identity seems unquestionable. According to Savage they probably came in the Lyon in November 1631 to Boston where they were admiteed to the church at the same time as John and Jacob Eliot (her brothers) whom she evidently accompanied here. Wollaston, Mass. Waldo Chamberlain Sprague
In her will, dated 22 December 1673 and proved 27 July 1676, "Lidia Wight" noted that "as for that small portion of worldly goods which the Lord hath graciously given & left by the last will of my former husband James Penniman I have according to my best understanding faithfully performed his will & have truly paid unto my five daughters which are married, the full sum of twenty pounds to each of them," and bequeathed the £80 which was due to her from "my son Samuel Penniman which is the remainder of the price of the several parcels of land which I have sold to him as appears by deed" as follows: £20 to "my daughter Mary Penniman"; £10 to "my daughter Lydia Addams"; £10 to "my daughter Sarah Robinson"; £10 to "my daughter Bethiah Allen"; £10 to "my daughter Hannah Hall"; £10 to "my daughter Abigail Carie"; and £10 and a great kettle to "my daughter Mary Penniman"; "my son Samuel Penniman" to be sole executor and "my loving cousins Jacob Eliot and Theophilus Frary" to be overseers. The inventory of the estate of "the late deceased Lidiah Weight which was formerly the wife of James Penniman" totalled £109 11s., with no real estate included.[1][2]
See Town Records of Medfield, Massachusetts where her second marriage as widow of James, is mentioned and she is stated to have been the sister of John Eliot, the Apostle.
Lydia Eliot was sister of JOHN ELIOT and JACOB ELIOT , and daughter of Bennet Eliot of Widford and Nazeing, Essex. She was baptized at Nazing, Co.Essex, England on Jul 1,1610.(The High Laver parish register omits her maiden name.)
Her brother was the famous Puritan minister, Rev. John Eliot, known as the "Apostle to the Indians". He translated the Bible into the local Native American language.
She would have received her inheritance of 5£ for her father's will about July of 1628, three years before her marriage to James Penniman.
She and her first husband (James Penniman) came from High Laver, Essex to Massachusetts Bay in 1631 on second trip of the "Lyon." [citation needed]
They had ten children: James, Lydia Adams (1635 - 1676)*, John, Joseph (1635 - 1676)*, Sarah Robinson, Bethia Allen, Samuel, Hannah Hall Haskins, Abigail Cary (1651 - 1730), & Mary Paine.
MARRIAGE: High Laver, Essex, 26 July 1631 Lydia Eliot, sister of JOHN ELIOT and JACOB ELIOT , and daughter of Bennet Eliot of Widford and Nazeing, Essex. (The High Laver parish register omits her maiden name.) She married (2) Medfield 7 [December?] 1665 as his second wife Thomas Wight.[3]
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