Person:Lydia Sturges (1)

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Lydia Sturges
b.Cal 1743
m. Bef 1762
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Name[1] Lydia Sturges
Married Name Lydia Tuttle
Gender Female
Birth[1] Cal 1743
Marriage Bef 1762 Estimate based on calculated date of birth of eldest known child (Ayers).
to Andrew Tuttle
Death[1][2] 17 Dec 1819 Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
Burial[3] South Cemetery, Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 .12.55 Andrew Tuttle, in Tuttle, George Frederick. The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle: … Also, Some Account of the Descendants of John Tuttle, of Dover, N. H.; Richard Tuttle, of Boston; John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill of Higham, Mass.; to Which are Appended Genealogical Notes of Several Allied Families. (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle & Company, 1883)
    580.

    "… Lydia Sturgis of Stamford; d. Dec. 17, 1819, a. 78; … The father of Lydia Sturgis was an Englishman, was impressed and made clerk on board an English ship; deserted in the night and swam, pursued by a ship's boat, three miles to the American shore, which he reached with great difficulty, benumbed with cold."

  2. Deaths in Woodbury, in Cothren, William. History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: From the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1854, Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlehem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury. (Waterbury, Conn.: Bronson Brothers, 1854-1879)
    3:257.

    "1819. … Wife of Andrew Tuttle, aged 78, [died] Dec. 17."

  3. Lydia Sturgis Tuttle, in Find A Grave.