John Lynde (1712 - 1756)

Born 25 Oct 1712 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth (Converse) Lynde — married 24 Jan 1734 in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts,

Husband of Rebeckah Denny — married 4 Feb 1755 in Province of Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 10 Jul 1756 at age 43 in Leicester, Worcester, MA

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Biography

"History of the Schools of Leicester Massachusetts

On the last day of the year 1731, within ten years of the actual settlement of the town, it was voted to choose a committee of three to provide a school master. Eight dollars and seventy-five cents was appropriated to meet the expense. School was kept in three different parts of the town, by one master, John Lynde, Jr., for three months in the year. When the town was originally laid out, one hundred acres were allotted for school purposes. ........

In 1736 the town voted to build a schoolhouse, and, sometime, probably during the summer of 1738, the first schoolhouse in Leicester was built on or near the site, on the southwestern part of the common, marked now by a granite block. It was twenty by sixteen feet in size and only seven and a half feet high, and cost forty-seven dollars and eighty-four cents. In these first seventeen years John Lynde had taught school, all together, nine months. ....."

Source: Handbook of Historical Data Concerning Leicester, Massachusetts https://accessgenealogy.com/massachusetts/handbook-historical-data-concerning-leicester-massachusetts.htm

Marriage

John, Jr. Lynde and Ruth Converse married 24 Jan 1736 in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts. ^[1]

Will

A will was probated on 17 July 1756 in Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony for John Lynde, late of Leicester, yeoman. The address is to: Rebecca Lynd Widow Daniel Lynn and ? Denny, yeoman? all of Leicester.^[2]

Sources

• Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016).

https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/rd/7739/359/142156851

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCCX-1TY : 9 February 2018), John, Jr. Lynde and Ruth Converse, 24 Jan 1736; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 721,192.
2. ↑ Probate Records (Worcester County, Massachusetts); Index 1731-1881; Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Worcester County); Probate Place: Worcester, Massachusetts; https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/603022:9069?_phsrc=ZBu1916&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=john&gsln=lynde&ml_rpos=13&queryId=8ece894054ee702

Acknowledgement

• WikiTree profile Lynde-44 created through the import of HERMANSON_RICHARDSON.ged on Sep 13, 2011 by John Hermanson. See the Changes page for the details of edits by John and others.