Lydia Abbott

Lydia married Jonathan Gifford on 3 Aug 1708 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Jonathan (son of William Gifford and Mary Mills) was born on 4 May 1684 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 10 Feb 1735 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Peleg Gifford was born on 14 Aug 1711 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in Jul 1802 in Conway, Hampshire, Massachusetts.

Lydia married Joseph Taber on 30 Nov 1738 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of Capt. Thomas Taber and Mary Tomson) was born on 8 Mar 1679 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts; died between 20 Dec 1748 and 27 Nov 1752 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Lydia Wing between Sep 1683 and 1685. Lydia (daughter of Daniel Wing and Hannah Swift) was born on 28 May 1647 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died between 11 Jun 1704 and 1714. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Daniel Wing, Senior, of Sandwich, had a daughter Lydia who was a most remarkable rebel against the conventional lifestyle in her family and town. [Following the death of her first husband, Thomas Hambleton,] she returned to Sandwich about 1677 at age 30 with two small sons born in Rhode Island, and lived with these boys in a primitive hovel previously used by Indian women tending to summer crops on open planting fields. This was unheard-of, and furthermore, the land had not been granted to her or to anyone. (This field where she settled is now the park around the Military Museum at Heritage Plantation of Sandwich.) Her living here was a matter of deep embarrassment to her father and to the Quaker community, who gave her gifts of shoes, com, wool and cash, and would have found her a proper house, but she refused to move. Her story continues to her death at about 57, a rebel to the end." [From Sandwich: A Cape Cod Town by R. A. Lovell, Jr. Sandwich, Massachusetts: Town of Sandwich, 2015. The reader will be excused for rolling their eyes at the racist language about "Indian women" and their "primitive hovel." As we now know, native Americans in New England were far more sophisticated agriculturalists than the immigrant Europeans realized.]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1616, Sandwich, Kent, England

Notes:

The Wing Family rootsweb tree says he was "possibly" born in Sandwich, Kent.

Daniel married Hannah Swift on 5 Nov 1642 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of William Swift and Sarah) was born about 1620 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England; died on 31 Jan 1665 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 2 Nov 1629

Notes:

Also known as John Winge.

Ordained about 1608, Stroud, St. Nicholas, Kent, England.

B.A., 12 Feb 1604, Queen's College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.

Was in Hamburg, Germany, 1617; Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands, 1620; The Hague, Netherlands, 1624.

John married Deborah before 1611. Deborah died before 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She came to New England with her children after the death of her husband John Wing, sometime in the late 1630s.

She was long held to have been a daughter of the Rev. Stephen Bachiler, but in her sketch of Daniel Wing (~1616-1698), son of Deborah and the Rev. John Wing (paywall), in in the NEHGS's Early New England Families 1641-1700 study project (also published in Early New England Families 1641-1700, Volume 2, Boston, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 2019), Alicia Crane Williams took a deep dive into the history of this claim and concluded that it is unproven; indeed, the first published account that links the names Wing and Bachiler is in John Farmer's 1829 Genealogical Register, and notably, earlier chroniclers of New England ministers and their family relationships, notable the Rev. Thomas Prince, who certainly knew of and referred to the Rev. Wing and the Rev. Bachiler in several contexts, never said anything about any family relationship between them.

It is true, as Williams acknowledges, that John and Deborah Wing's son Daniel gave his fourth son, eleventh child, and first son by his second wife, Anna/Hannah (_____) (Ewer) Wing, the unusual name Bacheler, also spelled Bachelor, Batchelor, etc., but as Williams also points out, (1) if this was in honor of his maternal grandfather, Daniel Wing would likely have bestowed the name on an earlier child; (2) Daniel Wing was a Quaker and Stephen Bachiler was a Puritan, and this was a time when relations between the two groups were at peak hostility, and (3) until we know anything about the origins of Daniel Wing's second wife (which we do not) we cannot leap to the conclusion that this means that Daniel's mother, the Rev. John Wing's wife Deborah, was a daughter of the Rev. Stephen Bachiler, particularly when nothing suggests this prior to an unsourced assertion by John Farmer in 1829.

We are unsure exactly when Alicia Crane Williams posted her Daniel Wing monograph to the online Early New England Families 1641-1700 database, but it must have been fairly recently, since as recently as 2018, in Puritan Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England, Robert Charles Anderson was still saying, on page 325, that Stephen Bachiler had a daughter Deborah who married John Wing.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1590, Bermondsey, Surrey, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1593

Notes:

Citizen and leatherseller of London; received his freedom as a member of the Company of Leathersellers on 26 Sep 1620.

Emigrated 1634, with his second wife Joan, widow of Roger Dimbleby (himself also a citizen and leatherseller of London). First at Watertown, then Sandwich 1639. In England midsummer 1637, back in New England by 27 Mar 1638.

Fined in 1660 for attending Quaker meetings.

William Swift (~1593-1643) = Joan (d. ~1663)
Esther Swift (b. 1629) = Ralph Allen (1615-1659)
Jedediah Allen (1647-1712) = Elizabeth Howland (d. >1711)
Mary Allen (b. 1681) = Thomas Smith (~1672-1732)
Anthony Smith (1723-1810) = Lydia Willets (b. 1726)
Judith Smith (1751-1836) = Jacob Burdg (1743->1797)
Jacob Burdg (1783-1862) = Miriam Matthews (1786->1860)
Oliver Burdg (1821-1908) = Jane M. Hemingway (1824-1890)
Almira Park Burdg (1849-1943) = Franklin Milhous (1848-1919)
Hannah Milhous (1885-1967) = Francis Anthony Nixon (1878-1956)
Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1993)

William Swift (~1593-1643) = Joan (d. ~1663)
William Swift (1627-1706) = Ruth (d. >1705)
Jireh Swift (~1673-1749) = Abigail Gibbs (~1677-1740)
Nathaniel Swift (1708-1790) = Abiah Tupper (1713-1782)
Nathaniel Swift (1749-1825) = Sarah Thomas (1751-1835)
Julius Swift (1792-1876) = Lydia Hawkins (1818-1894)
Charles Julius Swift (b. 1845) = Josephine Reno (1848-1920)
Archie Dean Swift (1877-1961) = Bernice Maude Thompson (1882-1979)
Archie Dean Swift (1914-1998) = Rose Baldi Douglas (1920-1994)
Scott Kingsley Swift (1952- ) = Andrea Gardner Finlay (1958- )
Taylor Alison Swift (1989- )

William married Sarah before 1618. Sarah died before 24 Aug 1625 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England; was buried on 24 Aug 1625 in St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matthew married Mary. Mary was born in of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]