Person:Lydia Griswold (2)

m. Abt 1652
  1. Sarah Griswold1653 - 1692
  2. Joseph Griswold1655 - 1655
  3. Mary Griswold1656 - 1711
  4. Hannah Griswold1658 - 1687/88
  5. Deborah Griswold1661 - Abt 1704
  6. Lydia Griswold1663 - 1664
  7. Captain Samuel Griswold1665 - 1740
  8. Margaret Griswold1668 - 1746
  9. Lydia Griswold1671 - 1752
m. 6 Jun 1692
  1. Joseph Bartlett1693 - 1756
  2. Samuel Bartlett1696 - 1769
  3. Lydia Bartlett1698 - 1742
  4. Benjamin Bartlett1699 - 1760
  5. Sarah Bartlett1703 -
m. 25 Jan 1705/06
  1. Fear Holmes1706 -
  2. Joseph Holmes1714 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Lydia Griswold
Married Name Lydia Bartlett
Married Name Lydia Holmes
Gender Female
Birth[9] Oct 1671 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 6 Jun 1692 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sargeant Joseph Bartlett
Marriage 25 Jan 1705/06 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto Joseph Holmes
Death[4] 6 Jan 1752 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[4][10] Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

She was daughter of Francis Griswold. With Joseph Holmes she had children Fear and Joseph.


From the Bartlett Society


On 18 Jun 1703 Lydia Bartlett, widdow of Joseph Bartlett, late of Plymouth was appointed administratrix of his estate. The division of the estate dated 18 Dec 1713 mentions children Joseph, Samuel, Benjamin, Lydia and Sarah. There is no probate record in Plymouth Co. for Lydia Bartlett.

From Mayflower Descendant


On 24 Jun 1704, "Lidia Bartlett of Plimouth Relect widdow of Joseph Bartlett Junr" was appointed guardian of "Joseph Samuel Benjamin Lidia & Sarah Bartlett all Children of the sd Joseph Bartlett who are Minors under the age of fourteen years".

On 22 December, 1705, Ephraim Little of Plymouth gave a bond of L200, with William Clarke of Plymouth as surety, said Little having been "admitted... Guardian unto Joseph Bartlett Samuel Bartlett & Lidia Bartlett children of Joseph Bartlett late of Plimouth deceased".

References
  1. BARTLETT: The Bartlett Society.
  2. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    Vol. 2, p. 317.

    FRANCIS, Norwich, 1660, eldest s[on]. of Edward, b[orn]. in Eng[land]. a[bout]. 1632, liv[ed]. first at Saybrook, there had Sarah, b[orn]. 28 Mar. 1653; Joseph, 4 June 1655, d[ied]. in few w[ee]ks.; Mary, 26 Aug. 1656; and Hannah, 11 Dec. 1658; d[ied] at N. had Deborah, May 1661; Lydia, June 1663, d[ied]. next y[ea]r.; Samuel, 16 Sept. 1665; Margaret, Oct. 1668; and Lydia, again, Oct. 1671; was freem[an]. 1657, lieut[enant]. and rep[resentative]. sev[eral]. y[ea]rs.; d[ied]. Oct. 1671. Sarah m[arried]. 27 July 1671, Robert Chapman; Mary m[arried]. 11 July 1672, Jonathan Tracy; and, next, 3 Sept. 1717, Eleazer Jewett; d[aughter]. Hannah m[arried]. 7 Mar. 1678, William Clark of Saybrook; and Deborah m[arried]. 19 Dec. 1678, Jonathan Crane.

  3. Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
    Vol. 2, p. 18 (children) 12, p. 86 (children); 14, p. 35 (Holmes marriage); 16, p. 87 (death).
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kingman, Bradford. Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, from 1657 to 1892: with biographical and historical notes. (Brookline, Massachusetts: New England Illustrated Historical Pub., 1892, c1892)
    page 29.

    In memory of Lydia Holmes wife of Mr Joseph Holmes , Formerly wife of Mr Joseph Bartlett . (Decd) who decd Janry 6th 1752 in ye 81st year of her age.

  5. National Genealogical Society Quarterly
    Vol. 74, 96-7.
  6. Glenn E. Griswold. GRISWOLD: The Griswold Family. (Rutland VT)
    p. 48 (b. & 2nd m. & par. of Lydia).
  7. Vital Records of Plymouth, Mass..

    Plymouth Vital Records p. 14 (b. ch.), 86 (m.), 89 (Lydia's 2nd m.), 136 (d. Joseph), 139 (d. Lydia)
    Plymouth Co. Probate Records #1321 (Joseph Bartlett)

  8. William T. Davis. Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families. (1895; 1975)
    p. 141.
  9. Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
    1:18.

    'The names & ages of Some of the children of Leift [Lieut] Griswold deceased ...
    Lidia the second borne in ... Octob An 1671'

  10. Lydia Griswold Holmes, in Find A Grave.