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Lydia (Eliot) Wight (abt. 1610 - 1676)

Lydia Wight formerly Eliot aka Penniman
Born about in Nazeing, Essex, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 26 Jul 1631 (to 26 Dec 1664) in High Laver, Essex, Englandmap
Wife of — married 1665 in Medfield, Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 66 in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Profile last modified | Created 1 Mar 2011
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Biography

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)

Marriage date and location posted on Prodigy Service by George Cabana Jr. on 6/14/1993, not verified (see below). Cabana also posted the children as follows:
Sarah (d.y.)
James
Lydia
Joseph
Bethiah
Hannah
Abigail
Mary
Samuel (d.y.)
Sarah

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

Marriage Record of James Penniman and Lydia Eliot: - It has long been known that Lydia, the wife of James Penniman, of Braintree, was the daughter of Bennet Eliot of Widford and Nazing, co. Essec, England, who in his will names a daughter Lydia (see Waters Gleanings, pp. 904-5). From her will and that of her second husband, Thomas Wight, of Medfield she is shown to be the sister of John Eliot (the Indian Apostle), but the date of marriage has not been known apparently.

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:

1631 James Penieman and Lydia his wife were married 26th July 1631.

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

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]

Sources

  1. The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN
  2. Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) Case 816: Will.
  3. Anderson
  • Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33, Volume: 1-3 (New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995)

See also:

  • Pope, Charles H. The Pioneers of Massachusetts (Boston, Mass., 1900)
  • London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
  • Guildhall, St Andrew Holborn, Register of marriages by banns, 1787 - 1793, P69/AND2/A/01/Ms 6670/7
  • Jeff Walton, transcribed from The Descendants of Rev. John Eliot, Capt. James Parker, Capt. Thomas Prentice from New England and Pulteney, New York, 1620-1967: Including references to the families of Mullins, Southworth, Bradford, Bridge, Stanton, Lord; compiled by Wilford V. Case; Syracuse, NY; December 15, 1967.




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The place in Essex is spelled NazEing, not Nazing.
posted by Janice White