Person:Lydia Ward (15)

Name	Lydia Ward
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]^[2]^[3]	8 Sep 1763	Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	6 Jul 1781	Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto William Raymond
Death^[4]	May 1782	Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Petersham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1904)
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Ward, Lydia, d. Beriah and Hannah, [born] Sept. 8, 176- [1764?] [Note: This estimate is in the original, made by the compiler.]
↑ William, Descendant #112 of John, in Raymond, Samuel. Genealogies of the Raymond families of New England, 1630-1 to 1886: with a historical sketch of some of the Raymonds of early times, their origin, etc. (New York: J.J. Little, 1886).

William Raymond m. 6 Jul 1778 [sic] Lydia Ward of Athol, b. 13 July 1760. [It is not clear where this date came from, as it doesn't match the month or day of the Petersham record, nor is there a record of any Lydia Ward born in Athol before 1782 (that being the daughter of this Lydia's brother Alpheus, Ward and his wife Molley Raymond)].
↑ Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward Who Settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1639. (Boston: S.G. Drake, 1851)
39.

Lydia Ward, d/o Beriah and Hannah (Stow) Ward, b. 8 Sep 1763, m. William Raymond.
↑ Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward Who Settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1639. (Boston: S.G. Drake, 1851)
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Capt. William Raymond of Royalston m. Lydia Ward June 1781. She d. May 1782, aged 29. [Given the birth date they quote on p. 39, cited above, the age at death would be 19, not 29.]