Family:Daniel Benjamin and Lydia Spring (1)

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Marriage[1][2][3] 12 Apr 1749 Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Waltham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904)
    p. 117.

    BENJAMIN, Daniel and Mrs. Lydiah [Lydia, MR] Warren, Apr. 12, 1749.

  2. Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Town of Weston, Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1707-1850: 1703-gravestones-1900, church records, 1709-1825. (Boston: McIndoe Bros., 1901)
    p. 273.

    [(see p. 262) Return of Marriages from the following Towns as per Acts of 1857]
    Waltham.
    Mr Daniel Benjamin of Waltham & Mrs Lydia Warren of Weston were married April 27th. [12th] 1749 by Rev. Warham Williams.

  3. Source:Bond, Henry. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston (1855), p. 28, erroneously gives this marriage to Daniel's son Daniel, pairing him with a younger Lydia Warren who can be shown to be still unmarried 2 months after the wedding. Further, Bond does not show a second wife for the father Daniel, but the father's will clearly names a widow Lydia, and Lydia executes a deed with him as early as 1758 (Middlesex deed 60:141). The identification of Lydia as Lydia (Spring) (Bond) Warren is based on being the only widow Lydia Warren found who can't be ruled out, but no direct evidence has been found. Henry Spring's will of 1743 names his daughter Lydia Bond, her name then, but gives her money, and the probate file has no receipt or accounting, and the cash payment means there is no distribution, so her name at the time of his death or after, which should have been Lydia Benjamin, is never documented.