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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Lydia Todd |
| Married Name |
Lydia Doolittle |
| Married Name |
Lydia Belding |
| Married Name |
Lydia Chapin |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth[1][3] |
28 Jul 1699 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Christening[1] |
Jul 1699 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesFirst Congregational Society |
| Marriage |
24 Oct 1717 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Rev. Benjamin Doolittle |
| Marriage |
26 Oct 1763 |
Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United Statesto Lieutenant Jonathan Belden |
| Marriage Banns |
28 Oct 1778 |
Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United Statesto Lieutenant Japhet Chapin |
| Marriage |
Aft 28 Oct 1778 |
Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States (probably)to Lieutenant Japhet Chapin |
| Death[2][4] |
16 Jan 1792 |
Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States |
| Burial[4] |
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Chicopee Street Burying Ground, Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States |
"It is said that she possessed great mental as well as physical ability, that she received an unusually refined culture, before her first marriage, and ever after had the privilege of that class of society, calculated to increase it. My impression, from what I have heard through those who were well acquainted with her, is that her moral and religious character was fully equal to her other attainments. She had been a school teacher before marriage, and in her old age she devoted much of her time to the instruction of her numerous grand-children, retaining her faculties to the last. Her death, in her 92nd year, was occasioned by a fall, while taking one of these children from a table upon which it had climbed."[5]
After the death of her second husband, Lydia was living with her daughter Lucy. She eventually married the father of Lucy’s husband, Japhet. He died soon after and she returned to Northfield. She is known in the records still as “Widow Doolittle”, probably a reflection of her husband’s standing in the community.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Todd, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
8:1820.
"Lydia (Todd), b 28 July 1699 (New Haven Vital Records), bp July 1699 (church record, First Congregational Society, New Haven), …"
- ↑ Doolittle, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
3:547.
"… Lydia da. Samuel & Susanna (Tuttle) Todd, … d 16 June 1790; …"
- ↑ 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)
1:83.
"Lidiah ye Davghter of Samll Todd Junr born July 28th 1699"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lydia Todd Chapin, in Find A Grave.
- ↑ 4. Japhet Chapin, in Temple, Josiah Howard; George Sheldon; and Mary T. Stratton. History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 years: with an account of the prior occupation of the territory by the Squakheags: and with family genealogies. (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1875)
421.
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