Lydia

- 1749

• Name	Lydia   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	7 Nov 1749	Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Burial	Cypress Cemetery, Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut   [4]
  Person ID	I23330	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2019

  
  

  Family	John Kirtland,   b. 11 Jul 1681, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Children	1. Constant Kirtland,   b. 24 Dec 1727, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut d. 3 Feb 1792, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F14027	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Feb 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Sometimes called Lydia Baldwin; often called Lydia Belden. Her gravestone says that she died in "the 60 year of her age". She is often said to be a daughter of John Belden (1658-1714) and Dorothy Willard, but of their two daughters named Lydia, the one who was born between 59 and 60 years before the death of our Lydia died three days short of her third birthday, in 1693. Their second daughter named Lydia was born 30 Nov 1694 and would therefore have been just short of 55 when our Lydia died on 7 Nov 1749. Our conclusion is that we don't actually know who this Lydia's parents were. They may even have been named Baldwin after all.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3042] Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 3, by William Richard Cutter. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910. [S1051] History of Wallingford, Connecticut from its Settlement in 1670 to the Present Time by Charles Henry Stanley Davis, M.D. Meriden, Connecticut: 1870. [S2230] Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, on americanancestors.org. In print as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vols. 1-55, ed. Lorraine Cook White. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994-2002. [S3043] Find a Grave page for Lydia Belden Kirtland.