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- ↑ Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Indexes to and Vital Records of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1635-1880. (Microfilm of manuscript at Hingham: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1965)
p. 197.
Sam'll Capen & Lydia Waterman the Daughter of Robart waterman were Married by the Rev'd: Ebenezer Gay March 28th 1722.
- Source:Hayden, Charles Albert. Capen Family : Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass, p. 25, identifies the husband of Lydia Waterman as the Samuel Capen, s/o Samuel, b. 1686. But as this sources makes several errors on other identifications, and offers no proof other than showing whichever Samuel married Lydia had sons Josiah and Robert, further evidence is needed.
Source:Jacobus, Donald Lines. Waterman Family, Vol. 1, p. 67, says, "Two men named Samuel Capen had children born in Dorchester during the same period." It cites two baptisms from Source:Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734, p. 237, to decide which married Lydia, namely,
Susan Daughter of Sam'l Capen Jan. 30 & grand daughter of mr Sam'l Capen 1725/26
Timothy Son of Sam'l Capen Feb. 6, Grandson of mr John Capen 1725/26
matching the second one with a recorded birth from Dorchester VRs, p. 75:
Timothy ye Son of Samuel Capen Tertius & Deborah his Wife was Born Febr. 3d. 1725/6
to suggest that Lydia must have married the Samuel who was the son of Samuel. There are some assumptions in this (no birth record for Susan to confirm her mother's name was Lydia: Susan is a Waterman family name so assumed she must be Lydia's daughter, Susan not mentioned in grandfather's will so assumed to have died young, and baptisms vary in proximity to the birth but assumed to represent a recent birth, records are assumed accurate but are wrong as there is no Samuel son of John in Dorchester at that time, except Samuel Sr. who was b. 1648, d. 1733, and clearly isn't fathering a child in 1725), and it is built on an incomplete knowledge of the Capen family.
It turns out the Lydia's husband is Samuel, s/o Samuel and Susannah, as indicated by the Capen Family, but not Samuel, s/o Samuel and Anne, as indicated by the Waterman Family. The s/o Samuel and Anne actually turns out to be exactly the Samuel Tertius who they identify as not her husband, he having a wife Deborah.
This Samuel Tertius, father of Timothy, is shown by deed to be (Samuel5, Samuel4, John3, John2, Bernard1).
Another deed in 1723 mentions Samuel Capen Sr. and wife Susannah, Samuel Capen Jr and wife Lydia, and the children of Bernard Capen selling land to Hezekiah Fuller. So it is Samuel Jr. that married Lydia Waterman, which is also shown by her gravestone naming her as the wife of Samuel Jr., and is mentioned by the Waterman Family, even though they obviously didn't known which was Samuel Jr. At this point in time, 1723, since (Samuel4, John3, John2, Bernard1) b. 1667, had died in 1720, (Samuel3, John2, Bernard1) b. 1648 was clearly Sr., his son (Samuel4, Samuel3, John2, Bernard1) b. 1686 was Jr., and (Samuel5, Samuel4, John3, John2, Bernard1) b. 1698 was Tertius.
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