Family:John Eliot and Lydia Atwater (1)

Parents: John Eliot and Mary Wolcott John Eliot b. 21 Jan 1716/17 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States d. 27 Nov 1790 Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States	Parents: Jeremiah Atwater and Lydia Rosewell Lydia Atwater b. 18 Oct 1715 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States d. 28 Jan 1776 Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States

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Marriage^[1]

22 Oct 1740

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	John Eliot	22 Apr 1745 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States	Bef 31 Mar 1808 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

References

↑ Eliot, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
3:594.

"John (Eliot) … m 22 Oct 1730 (New Haven Vital Records) [error for 1740] Lydia da. Jeremiah & Lydia (Rosewell) Atwater, div. w. Alexander Wolcott, …"
22. John⁴ Eliot, in Emerson, Wilimena Hannah Eliot; Ellsworth Eliot; and George Edwin Eliot. Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot: "Apostle to the Indians", 1598-1905. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1905)
4849.

"22. John⁴ (John³, John², John¹), … married ~~Mar. 7, 1739~~, Lydia, daughter of Jeremiah and Lydia (Rosewell) Atwater, … She had been divorced from her first husband, Dr. Alexander Wolcott, at his request, by whom she had had three children. … After the death of his wife Lydia, it is said that John married Hannah Phelps of Simsbury, Conn. This is not improbable, as 'My wife Hannah' is mentioned in his will." NOTE: He married Hannah (Day) Lewis of Westchester (Colchester); marriage recorded in the church records there.
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of New Haven, 1649-1850. (Hartford [Connecticut]: Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917-1924)
1:248.

"M^r: John Eliot and M^rs Lydia Daughter of M^r Jeremiah Atwater Dec^d: were marryed the 22^d day of October A D: ~~1730~~ [1740] … the Rev^d: mr Timothy Allen of Weft Haven"