Person:Lydia Huitt (1)

Lydia Huit was the daughter of Rev. Ephraim Huit of England, then Windsor, CT. They were Puritans and left England primarily because of religious persecution.

1.   Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977).
2.   Booth, Charles E. (Charles Edwin). One branch of the Booth family: showing the lines of connection with one hundred Massachusetts Bay colonists. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986)
   71; 198.
3.   Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   Vol II p 298.
4.   The Smith Family, in Doolittle, Mark. Historical sketch of the Congregational Church in Belchertown, Mass: from its organization, 114 years, with notices of the pastors and officers, and list of communicants chronologically arranged, tracing genealogies, intermarriages and family relatives ; also, embracing numerous facts and incidents relating to the first settlers and early history of the place. (Northampton, Mass.: Hopkins, Bridgman & Co., 1852)
   Appendix A.
5. ↑ Ephraim Hewitt, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:19, 20.

   Named in father's 1644 will.

6. ↑ Lydia Huit (or Hewett) and Lydia Wright are often confused. They married different men named Joseph Smith in different towns. Lydia Huit m Joe of Hartford. Lydia Wright m Joe of Wethersfield.