Lydia Goodyear, baptized at New Haven, June 1645, was contracted to marry Elkanah Gladman, Jr., of Boston. He died and the inventory of his estate was taken 23 Nov. 1664; the administrators were Capt. Thomas Bredon and Capt. Thomas Lake. "Mr Elkanah Gladman, Father to the late Elkanah Gladman Deceased … Desyres & orders that one hundred pounds of his Late sonnes Estate, with halfe his Bookes shall bee & goe to Mrs Lydia Goodyear, who was the Contracted Wife of the Late Elkanah Gladman Junor." About 1667 she married John Watts of Boston, and died there 29 Sept. 1700. "Here lyeth buried yeBody of Lydia Watts, aged 55 years, decd September ye 29, 1700" (Copp's Hill Epitaphs, p. 30). The age agrees with the birth year of Lydia Goodyear. Her sons John and Richard Watts were called "cousins" in the will of Mary "Goodyear) Lake, and John Watts witnessed the will of John Lake in 1690.
