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Ancestors

Lydia Loomis

1686-1775 · Windsor CT
Born 1686, Windsor, Connecticut
Died 1775
Father: Dea. Joseph Loomis
Mother: Hannah Marsh
Children include Lydia

Lydia Loomis was born at Windsor in Connecticut on 15 April 1686. She was a daughter of Deacon Joseph Loomis and Hannah Marsh, and one of seven children all born at Windsor. Her twin elder sisters Ann and Hannah were born in January 1678/9, her sister Grace in March 1684/5, and her sister Sarah in 1693. She had a brother Joseph, called Captain Joseph in later life.

Her father died in 1699, when she was thirteen. Her mother survived him.

She married Jonathan Lyman of Lebanon, a farmer whose father had brought the family down from Northampton in 1696. Her sister Grace also settled at Lebanon, marrying Capt. John Webster there in 1709 as his second wife. Lydia's first child, a son Jonathan, was born in September 1708 and died young. Her daughter Lydia was born on 23 November 1709. Eleven more children followed over the next twenty two years, the last, Anna, in January 1731. Among them were twins, Jacob and Rachel, born on 4 May 1721.

In 1727 her daughter Lydia married Thomas Webster, the son of Grace's husband by his first wife.

Her husband died at Lebanon in August 1753. She lived on as a widow for more than twenty years and died on 10 July 1775, in her ninetieth year.

Parents

Dea. Joseph Loomis 1651-1699

Hannah Marsh (b. 1655)

Children

Sources

Lyman Coleman, Genealogy of the Lyman Family in Great Britain and America (1872), p. 165, archive.org genealogyoflyman1872cole, leaf n180
Elisha S. Loomis, Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America (1909), entries 22 and 119, archive.org descendantsofjos00byuloom, leaf n214
Elisha S. Loomis, Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America (1909), archive.org descendantsofjos00byuloom, entries 22 and 119, leaf n214; Elias Loomis, The Descendants of Joseph Loomis, female branches (1880), archive.org descendantsbyfem01loom, no. 119; Elias Loomis, The Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1875), archive.org descendantsofjos1875loom, entry 119; Lyman Coleman, Genealogy of the Lyman Family in Great Britain and America (Albany, 1872), archive.org genealogyoflyman1872cole and genealogyoflyman00cole, p. 165

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