Person:Lydia Unknown (340)

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Lydia Goard
b.20 Feb 1652/53 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.27 Apr 1725 Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 30 Nov 1639
  1. Hannah Goard1641 - Bef 1643
  2. Hannah Goard1643 - Bef 1683
  3. John Goard1643 - 1678/79
  4. Mary Goard1644 - Bef 1683
  5. Phebe Goard1645/46 -
  6. Joseph Goard1647 - 1648
  7. Sarah Goard1649 - Bef 1678/79
  8. Joseph Goard1651 -
  9. Lydia Goard1652/53 - 1725
  10. Benjamin Goard1654 - Bef 1656
  11. Benjamin Goard1656 - 1674
Spouse and Children
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m. Bef 29 Apr 1679
  1. Patience Twitchell1678 -
  2. Content Twitchell1680/81 -
  3. Charity Twitchell1682 -
  4. Sarah Twitchell1684 -
  5. Lydia Twitchell1686 -
  6. Joseph Twitchell1688 - 1727/28
  7. Ephraim Twitchell1695 - 1775
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Lydia Goard
Married Name[1] Lydia Twitchell
Gender Female
Birth[8] 20 Feb 1652/53 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[9] 27 Feb 1652/53 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 29 Apr 1679 Massachusetts, United States[date of court record]
to Joseph Twitchell
Other[1] 29 Apr 1679 Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statessentenced to pay fine for fornication before marriage with husband Joseph Twitchell
Other[2] 22 Dec 1690 Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesnamed as "wife Lidia" in Will of Joseph Twitchell, her husband
Death[5] 27 Apr 1725 Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671-1680, Part II - Session of 29 Apr 1679, in Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. (Boston, Massachusetts: The Society, 1895-1951)
    Vol. 30, p. 1014, 1933.

    "Joseph Twitchell and Lydia his now wife convict'd by their own confession in Court of committing Fornication before marriage, sentenc'd to pay three pounds in money fine to the County & fees of Court standing committ'd & c'd"

  2. ↑ Will of Joseph Twitchell Recorded, in Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
    12:138-9.

    [Will of Joseph Twitchell of Sherborn, signed 22 Dec 1690, proved 4 Dec 1710, mentions wife "Lidia"]

  3.   Division of Lands of Joseph Twitchell Recorded, in Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
    13:39-56.

    [division of lands of Joseph Twitchell, deceased, among his widow and children, specifically to "Lydia Twitchil ye Widow & relict of the sd decd for her Dowry" and six named children]

  4.   The Genealogist (American Society of Genealogists). (New York, New York: Organization for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1980-)
    Vol 23, p 137, 2009.

    THE GENEALOGY OF EDWARD RIGGS OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, REVISITED, by Robert Charles Anderson, F.A.S.G., and Alvy Ray Smith.
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    "m. before 29 Apr 1679 Lydia Goard,44 bp. Roxbury 27 February 1652/3,45 who d. a widow at Sherborn on 27 April 1725, 46 and had seven children.47
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    44 [citing 1, 2, 3]
    45 Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, 5 vols. (to date) (Boston:NEHGS, 1999-2007), 3:78-81.
    46 [citing 5]
    47 [citing 5, pp 87-89]

  5. ↑ Deaths, in Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911)
    p 225.

    TWITCHEL, Lydia, wid. of Joseph, Apr. 27, 1725.

  6.   Twitchell, Ralph Emerson. Genealogy of the Twitchell family: record of the descendants of the Puritan Benjamin Twitchell, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632-1927. (New York: Private printing for H.K. Twitchell, 1929)
    pp 5-11.

    ... He married LYDIA, probably JOHNSON, who was from Lancaster, who died in Sherborn April 27, 1725. She is the "Widow Twitchell" who, in 1721, was assessed the sum of one shilling, eight pence for the payment of the salary of the Rev. Daniel Baker, the minister at Sherborn, along with her sons, Joseph and Ephraim, and her nephews, Benjamin, Ebenezer and John Twitchell. They resided in West Sherborn and built their home a few rods northwest of Royal Stone's, where home-lots had been assigned to him and to his brother, Benjamin. ...

  7.   Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    Vol. 3 (G-H), p. 79.

    In his will, dated 18 Sep 1683, proved 31 Oct 1683, "Richard Gorde" gives estate to son Joseph Gorde he to pay [among others] his sister Lydia wife to Joseph Twtichell.
    Children of Richard Goard and Phebe Hewes: 8) Lydia, bp. Roxbury 27 Feb 1652/53, m. "by an unknown date" Joseph Twitchell.

  8. ↑ Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
    Vol. 1, p. 147.

    GOARD, Lidea, d. Richard, [born] 20 Feb 1652. [1652-3. CR1]

  9. ↑ Record Commissioners of Boston. Roxbury Land and Church Records. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell & Churchill, City Printers, 1881)
    p. 120.

    1652
    Moneth 12 day 27. Lydia Goard daughter to brother Goard [baptized].
    [Note: In old-styles dates, the twelfth month is February. For comparison to the modern calendar, it corresponds to the following year. More info may be found here.]

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