Lydia (Tefft) Dibble (1630 - 1690)

Born 1630 in Plymouth, Devon, England

Ancestors

Wife of Abraham Dibble — married 1648 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 31 Dec 1690 at about age 60 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Lydia Tift/Tefft was born in 1630; she married Abraham Dibble by 1648, when the birth and baptism of their son John is recorded in Boston. It is probable that she was the daughter of emigrant tailor William Teffe of that city, who was "admitted to inhabit" in 1638; in her 1896 genealogy of the Tefft/Tifft families, Maria Elizabeth (Maxon) Tifft noted that William had a daughter named Lydia, speculating that possibly she "married John Dibble or Deeble of Boston, and had a son Abraham".^[1] The record suggests the inverse: that she married Abraham, and they had a son named John; more exactly, two sons of that name, the first apparently expiring in infancy: there are baptismal records for Johns ("Deeble", and "Dible") in both 1648 and 1650. The parents are not named in the second case, but no other Dibble family is represented in the records for those years except that of Abraham and Lydia.

When William Teffe composed his will in 1646, it is clear from the transcript offered in Maria Tifft's genealogy that daughter Lydia was not yet of age, as he ties a bequest of £20 to the admonition that she "doe not marry without her mother-in-lawe's Consent" -- in the language of the day, "mother-in'lawe" being perhaps a second wife. Since Lydia clearly does marry, however, within two years and is presumably at least eighteen by that time, it is evident that she was born in or very close to 1630.

Abraham and Lydia removed to Connecticut soon after the Boston christening of the second John; son Benjamin was born at Farmington close to 1650. Lydia passed away at Suffield in 1690.

Research Notes

This source by James Savage, " A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England", records an Abraham Dibble on Pg 46 (son of John Dibble) and his wife Lydia who was perhaps dau. of William Teffe or Tift.

Savage is a bit uncertain of his findings regarding the children listed. But it does help to see this as it is supportive of the next source "Your Ancestors" below.

• Savage, James, "A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register, Vol 2", Internet Archive (archive.org),
  [Abraham Dibble, Deeble or Deble, Pg 46, (accessed 2023-05-29),
  Publication: Boston, Little, Brown and company (1860-62), Dibble, Abraham, Boston ( s. of John), wife Lydia Teffe or Tift

Savage notes the Children of Abraham Dibble and Lydia, but then states his uncertainty with the following they may be the children of another Abraham than him of Boston was father of these;

• John b. 7 Jul 1648 d. Suffield 31 Dec 1690
• Abraham d. 1676
• Benjamin sw. alleg. to Mass 30 Jan 1679 settled Simsbury
• Abigail m. John Filley of Suffield 1st of February 1683
• Lydia m. Thomas Pixley

This next source suggests Abraham Dibble who m. Lydia Tift (Teffe) is possibly son of Robert Deeble of Dorchester, and lists their children. Lamb has no uncertainty about the family group of Abraham and Lydia, just the possible connection to the father Robert Deeble.

• Lamb, VanBuren, "Your ancestors, a national magazine of genealogy and family history, Vol 1-3", Internet Archive (archive.org),
  The Dibble Family Pg 144, (accessed 2023-05-29),
  Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y., H. F. Johnston, The Dibble Family, Pg. 144, 0-3 Abraham Dibble m. Lydia Tift (Teffe) dau. of William

Abraham Dible b. abt. 1625, d. 31 Dec 1690/1 Suffield Conn Lydia Tift (Teffe) dau. of William

Children of Abraham and Lydia;

• John b. 7 July 1648 Boston Mass. d.y.
• Benjamin m. Mary Benjamin
• Abigail m. John Filley or Elgarr
• Hannah
• Jonah d.y.
• Lydia m. Thomas Pixley
• Abraham b. 11 May 1671 Middletown Conn. d. 15 Mar 1676/7 Windsor Conn.

Sources

1. ↑ A partial record of the descendants of John Tefft, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and the nearly complete record of the descendants of John Tifft, of Nassau, New York, by Tifft, Maria Elizabeth (Maxon); Buffalo, N. Y. : The Peter Paul book company, 1896, p. 9; https://archive.org/details/partialrecordofd00tiffiala/page/n13

See Also;

• "Ancestry Family Trees", Ancestry.com, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=21058954&pid=2231

• Marriage: "DEEBLE, Abraham (-1690, Suffield, CT) & Lydia [TEFFT]; by 1648; Boston/Windsor, CT?/Haddam, CT/?Suffield, CT {Warner-Harrington 172; Pope's Pioneers 14; Tefft 2; Farmington CT VR 47}" -- New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21174/450/426883594 (subscription required)

• "Ancestry Family Trees", Ancestry.com, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members, http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=283722&pid=88086071

• Births and christenings of two sons named John: Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1630-1699, Volume 9, Boston (Mass.) Registry Department, Rockwell and Churchill, City printers, 1883 - Boston (Mass.), pp. 27-28 and p. 32; https://books.google.com/books?id=bEEOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27#v=onepage&q&f=false , https://books.google.com/books?id=bEEOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32#v=onepage&q&f=false

Acknowledgments

• This profile was origially created on 13 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.
• This person was created through the import of HOWE(1).ged on 08 April 2011.
• WikiTree profile Tefft-150 created through the import of Rankin-Ridgdill Family Tree.ged on Oct 4, 2011 by Elizabeth Rankin.
• Additional first-hand information was entered as remembered by Lydia Vierson, Monday, February 16, 2015.
• Additional source material was contributed by Christopher Childs on 30 March 2019 as part of efforts by the WikiTree PGM Project to clarify the lineage of Great Migration emigrant Robert Dibble and his known or possible immediate family.