↑ 1.01.1 "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-PCTC : 10 November 2020), Lydia Herrick, 19 Jul 1730; citing Birth, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934217.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5X-GB2 : 10 November 2020), Lydia Herrick, 5 Sep 1750; citing Marriage, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934217.
↑Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 February 2021), memorial page for Mrs Lydia Herrick Thorndike (1730–12 Jun 1802), Find A Grave: Memorial #79183297, citing Mount Pleasant Cemetery, South Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, USA ; Maintained by Stuart Strout Woodside Skolfield (contributor 46954007) .
↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HKW-BJJ : 16 December 2020), Lydia in entry for Benjamin Thorndike, 04 Mar 1759; citing Falmouth, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
Eaton, Cyrus. History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Maine, from Their First Exploration, 1605. Hallowell [Me.: Masters, Smith & Co., printers, 1865. Internet resource.
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