Lydia Harding (1701 - 1773)

Born 14 Dec 1701 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Ephraim Partridge — married 22 Mar 1728 in Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

Descendants

Died 15 May 1773 at age 71 in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Lydia was born to Abraham and Sarah Harding in Medway on Dec. 14, 1701^[1]

Ephraim Partridge married Lydia Harding in Medway on March 22, 1727-8.^[2]

Ephraim and Lydia had, in Medway:^[3]

• Lydia, b. Dec. 27, 1728, bp. Jan. 3, 1730, married Nathaniel Whiting, June 17, 1762
• Elizabeth, b. Nov. 19, 1730, died Oct. 19, 1784 in her 54th year.
• Nathaniel, b. Dec. 17, 1734, married Mehitable Metcalf, May 19, 1763, then Mary Leland Oct. 24, 1799, died Oct. 27, 1801, in his 67th year
• Elisha, b. June 3, 1737, bp. July 1, 1737, died two days later.
• Olive, b. Dec. 31, 1743 (born to "Ephraim and Eleady"), married Nathaniel Holbrook, July 12, 1774
• Elisha, b. 1749, died May 13, 1752 in his 4th year.

Ephraim died in Medway on Feb. 7, 1770, in his 68th year. His widow Lydia died May 15, 1773, or 1772, in her 72nd year. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, pp. 57-60
2. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 239
3. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 98, 99, 101 103, 240, 241, 328, 330
4. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 329 & 330