" Rose and “her Child” were to be set at liberty according to Lydia Thomas’s will"[3]
Sources
Genealogies of the Early Families of Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts Author: George Walter Chamberlain, M.S. Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore: Reprint, 1984 Note: #NS051681 Repository: Note: #NS051683 Call Number: 84-80081 Media: Book
Genealogies of the Families Of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850 Author: Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, AB Publication: Including the modern town of Randolph & Holbrook and the city of Quincy, after the separation from Braintree in 1792-3. Repository: Note: #NS051853 Call Number: CD-ROM (SCD-BF) Media: Card
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived Note:
Family Data Collection - Marriages Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001. Note:
No NOTE record found with id NS051853.
Notes
Will of Lydia Thomas, widow of John of Braintrey, Mar.9,1753, proved May 13,1757:
To son John all lands with the house bounded E. on Wm. Salisbury & Lydia his wife, S. on Samuel Wild (Wile), W. on my dower or thirds.
To dau. Lydia all land lying east of son & dau. Salisbury, bounded E. on road on way leading toward Samuel "Wiles", S. land of Samuel "Wiles", W. on Salisbury's land, etc.
Mentions her negro Rosy and her child to have their freedom.
Grandson Wm. Salisbury, 1 cow and all estate real personal not previously mentioned.
Abiah Whitman in consideration of the faithful services performed for Capt. john'Thomas, my son-in-law, gives Jaynes Hogg land in the North Purchase of Taunton, 8 Aug. 1704. On 13 Sept.17-50, Rev. Samuel Whitman of Farmington, Conn., made hin will in which he stated that Lydia Whitman lived with his father as a maid many years, and was married to Capt. Thomas, who died and left her 3 widow with several children. He gave her or her children that are living 116.
↑ Whiting, Gloria McCahon. "Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from Probate Court." The William and Mary Quarterly 77, no. 3 (2020): 431. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.77.3.0405 Citing Lydia Thomas’s will, 1753, FS, vol. 52, 314
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