Lydia (Younglove) Granger (1672 - 1730)

Born 1672 in Hadley, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of George Granger — married 26 Apr 1693 in Suffield, Hartford Co., CT

Descendants

Died 23 Nov 1730 at about age 58 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Lydia was born about 1672 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, to parents Reverend John Younglove and Sarah (Unknown).

Lydia married George Granger on 16 April 1693 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut.
Judge Pynchon's Marriage Record 1685-1711. ^[1]

George was not success in supporting a family, Indeed, before his marriage he had shown himself to be a shiftless fellow.

Like all the men of that day George I became the father of a large number of children. Soon after his marriage he seems to have risen to the dignity of a fence viewer, but that appears to have ended his office holding in the town.

George and Lydia had 12 children:
John Granger 1694–1782
Lydia Granger 1695–1706
Rebecca Granger 1697–1774
Mercy Granger 1700–1729
Alice Granger 1700–?
George Granger II 1702–1796
Rachel Granger 1704–1723
Isaac Granger 1706–1794
John Granger 1706–1791
Daniel Granger 1710–1757
Child Granger 1712–1777
Elisha Granger 1715–1777

• Court Battles

In the court records of 1691; I find George Granger of Suffield as being presented to this court for neglecting public worship of God, and petitioning this court pleading his sickness, weakness, and want of clothes this cold winter. This court ordered that the worshipful Colonel Pynchon sent for George I, and admonish him.

On November 29, 1716, the town voted "To be at the charge at present with respect of the wife of George Granger," and also "To be at the charge of a petition to send to the General Court to see what may be done with respect to the maintenance of the wife of George Granger"; and further voted "To allow Goodman Banes seven shilling for his trouble about keeping the wife of George Granger."

On June 19, 1717, the town voted "To sue George I for the money which the town had necessarily expended on his wife or may expend for her relief before process be made in the law thereabout "; also, "The town did by a clear vote make choice of John Kent, Jr., in their behalf to sue George as above voted, and to proceed therein as Captain Ebenezer Pumry shall advise."

On Oct. 7, 1717, the town voted: "It is agreed and voted that upon condition that John Granger the son of George Grander do take care of his mother will give the Town of Suffield sufficient security in the judgement of the Selectmen to secure the town from any future charge with respect to his mother Liddia Granger; that then the Town will defray all charge that has been passed w/respect to the said Liddia Granger and quit-all other perticular persons expecting only the bond of thirty shillings given to the selectmen by the said John Granger; but if the said John do not speedily do as aforesaid, then to proceed to sue George according to a former vote of the Town."

On Nov. 29 is was voted: "The Town granted William Huxley half a crown for digging George Granger's child's grave." Evidently these attempts to force husband or son to support the wife and mother were failures, for ten years afterward the Town voted "To allow three shillings a week for the keeping of Liddia," and still later voted "To bare the charge of caring (carrying) Liddia the wife of George to the House of Correction" (poor-house).

Poor Lydia's last appearance as a town charge was in Dec., 1724, and it may be presumed she soon after died in the poor-house neglected by husband and children. These unhappy events, however seem to have driven George I and all his children from Suffield. And few, if any of his descendants have ever returned to Suffield. George and his family settled in the parish of Turkey Hills in the adjoining town of Simbsbuy (now East Granby) about 5 miles west from the Suffield meeting-house. Here they lived, married, and died for several generations, but today only one of the name remains in East Granby.

Sources

• Tom Bredehoft, Pettibone Registry, (see Sharp-661), also see Granger, Jacobus, Marble Ancestral Lines, 130

https://www.geni.com/people/George-Granger/6000000000208691245

Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp., Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000., Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, Page number: Birth year: 1675; Birth city: Hadley; Birth state: MA.

"Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F74J-FMC : 3 December 2014), Lydia in entry for John Granger, 31 May 1694; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

"Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F74J-XBX : 3 December 2014), Lydia in entry for George Granger, 27 Mar 1702; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

"Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7WD-695 : 3 December 2014), Lydia in entry for Lydia Granger, 05 Jul 1709; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

Launcelot Granger Biography
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062880828;view=1up;seq=7

George is Granger book index no. 33. See the Granger Genealogy book titled Launcelot Granger by James N. Granger. 350 copies were printed in 1893. One copy no 150 is in the posession of Tom Keyes, 12th great grandson of Launcelot, 421 Pine St., Sheboygan Falls, WI 53085. Another copy is on file at the LDS Library.

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q2SM-L3YX : 11 July 2016), Lydia Younglove Granger, ; Burial, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America, Ancient Burying Ground; citing record ID 154970153, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• Source: The granger Clan by Wm L Flint 1985
• Source: New England Historical and Genealogical Register Abbreviation: NEHGR Publication: Boston, MA

• Larson, Jean Younglove (1978) A Younglove family history

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Footnotes

1. ↑ Original manuscript at Harvard Law School Library