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References
- ↑ Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1908)
p. 266.
HOW, Abraham Jr. and Lydia How, Sept. 17 [30, CR], 1755.
[Note: since 30 Sep is found in the church records, 17 Sep is probably intentions.]
- ↑ The Edmund Rice website says of the wife of Abraham Howe: "She was undoubtedly one of the two Lydia Hows born at Marlborough 1731-2". These would be the d/o Jonathan & Lydia versus the d/o Ephraim and Elizabeth, and a scan of the vital records of Marlborough for a Lydia Howe born 1730 (not much older than Abraham) - 1737 (so she is of legal age) yields only those two. Hudson's History of Marlborough confuses things, as on p. 385, it says Ephraim's daughter Lydia m. Noah Beaman, but on p. 395, contradicts itself by saying that Abraham Howe married Lydia, d/o of Ephraim and Elizabeth. Jonathan Howe's probate mentions a daughter Lydia, but since he died in 1738, it predates any possible marriage, and has no clues about who his daughter married. An agreement of heirs of Ephraim How [Middlesex Probate 12016] in 1766 includes Lidia Beaman wife of Noah Beaman, ruling her out as wife of Abraham, and suggesting by elimination, that the daughter of Jonathan Howe was probably the Lydia Howe who married Abraham Howe.
However, this alternative is contradicted by the marriage of Lydia Howe Jr. in 1752 to Timothy Goodenow, the "Jr." a strong indicator that her mother's name was also Lydia, hence probably the daughter of Jonathan and Lydia.
Enter, Source:Howe, Daniel Wait. Howe Genealogies, Vol. 2 (John Howe of Sudbury), p. 300, which says Abraham How married Lydia Stow (How and Stow being common misinterpretations of each other when reading colonial handwriting). She was born as Lydia Morse, a daughter of Elizabeth Morse, apparently used the name Lydia Stow after her mother married her second husband Thomas Stow. Her step-brother Hezekiah Newton, s/o of Elizabeth Morse's first husband Joseph Newton, refers to his sister "Lydia Rise" in 1777 (see Source:Leonard, Ermina Newton. Newton Genealogy, p. 462-3), at which time she was housekeeper, and possibly common-law wife of Zerubbabel Rice. Zerubbabel Rice's will bequeathed "to Mrs. Lydia Howe, housekeeper, widow of Abraham Howe, Jr., or by whatever name the said Lydia may be called" (see Source:Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Genealogical History of the Rice Family : Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, p. 59).
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