Family:Benjamin Smith and Lydia Wheeler (1)

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Benjamin Smith
 
 
Parents: Josiah Meriam and Lydia Wheeler
Lydia Meriam
b. 1 May 1747 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
d. 26 Mar 1839 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
m. 21 Oct 1817 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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Marriage[1][2] 21 Oct 1817 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. ↑ Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
    p. 371.

    Benjamin Smith of Stow & Lydia Wheeler of Concord were married by Rev. Ezra Ripley Oct'o. 21 1817.

  2. ↑ Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Stow, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society at the charge of the Eddy Town Record Fund, 1911)
    p. 216.

    WHEELER, Lydia, wid., of Concord, and Benjamin Smith, int. Sept. 24, 1817.

  3.   Source:Wheeler, Albert Gallatin. Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, p. 32, does not show the remarriage of the widow of Phineas Wheeler. Instead, he shows the daughter marrying Benjamin Smith. That the widow married Benjamin Smith is clear, from the intention, from her gravestone, and from the probate of her husband [Middlesex 24334], a petition 26 Feb 1818 by "Lydia Smith wife of Benj'n Smith of Stow ... that she was the lawful married wife of the said Phinehas..." In the early stages of probate, the daughter signs some documents as Lydia Wheeler 2d, but as the estate was insolvent, there is no involvement by her in later documents, so there is no clue as to her dispostion, marriage-wise. It appears very probable Wheeler was identifying the marriage of the widow as the daughter's marriage. The husband appears to be Deacon Benjamin Smith of Tyngsborough, whose wife Joanna d. 1814, and who himself died in Tyngsborough in 1824, aged 84 (born about 1740).
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