Lydia Lyman

1709-1790

Born 1709

Died 1790

Father: Lt. Jonathan Lyman

Mother: Lydia Loomis

Children include Zerviah

Lydia Lyman was born on 23 November 1709, a daughter of Lt. Jonathan Lyman and Lydia Loomis. On 17 August 1727, at Lebanon in Connecticut, she married Thomas Webster, a son of Capt. John Webster of Lebanon. She was seventeen.

In 1732 the couple settled at Gilead, the northern society of Hebron, on land Thomas bought from Nathaniel Dewey. Her children were all born at Hebron: Thomas in 1729, Lydia in 1731, Jonathan in 1733, Elijah in 1734, Simeon in 1736, Rachel in 1737, David in 1739, Zeruah in 1740, Joseph in 1742, Sarah in 1744, Jacob in 1746, Elizabeth in 1748 and Ann in 1751, with one more who died young. Zeruah was "often called 'Viah' for short," and Elizabeth was Betty.

About 1751, when Bolton was set off and the line left the house in Hebron, her husband moved the house itself across into Bolton. On 16 April 1760 she joined him in selling land in Coventry to Elijah Lyman, of her own family's name: "Thomas Webster and Lydia his wife of Bolton."

She died at Bolton on 10 December 1790, aged eighty one, and is buried at Bolton Center. Her husband outlived her by twelve years. Her headstone has a winged face in its arch and a carved vine border, and its lettering is badly worn.

Parents

Lt. Jonathan Lyman 1684-1753 Lydia Loomis 1686-1775

Children

Zerviah Webster 1740-1819

Sources

William Holcomb Webster and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut (1915), p. 76, archive.org historygenealogy00webs, leaf n105

William Holcomb Webster and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut (1915), p. 77, archive.org historygenealogy00webs, leaf n106

Find a Grave memorial 48981170, Bolton Center Cemetery, Bolton, Connecticut, photograph

Lyman Coleman, Genealogy of the Lyman Family in Great Britain and America (1872), p. 165, archive.org genealogyoflyman1872cole, leaf n180

William Holcomb Webster and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut (Rochester, 1915), archive.org historygenealogy00webs, pp. 76-77; Find a Grave memorial 48981170; Webster 1915 p. 76; Webster 1915 p. 77; Find a Grave 48981170

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Cite: Heirology, "Lydia Lyman (1709-1790)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/lydia-lyman-1709-1790-aa5b43.