Lydia (Spring) Benjamin (1686 - 1769)

Biography

Lydia Spring was born on 12 August 1686 in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Henry Spring and Lydia Cutting.^[1][2]

She married, firstly, Thomas Bond, on 25 April 1706 in Watertown.^[2][3] Their children (all born at Watertown), were:

1. Thomas Bond (1708–?)
2. Jonathan Bond (1710–?)
3. Henry Bond (1712–?)
4. Amos Bond (1714–?)
5. Thaddeus Bond (1716/7?–?)
6. Lydia Bond (1718–?)
7. Phineas Bond (1724/5–?)
8. Abijah Bond (1727–?)

Thomas died in 1737. Lydia remarried to Deacon John Warren in 1744.^[4]

After John's death, Lydia married a third time to Daniel Benjamin, in 1749. ^[5]

Lydia died in 1769 in Watertown.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC99-RQP : 3 November 2017), Lydia Spring, 12 Aug 1686; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Henry Bond (1860). "Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston : to which is appended the early history of the town," p. 443. Retrieved 8 July 2018 by Clare Spring from https://archive.org/stream/genealogiesoffam00bond#page/443/mode/2up.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH3L-Z66 : 5 November 2017), Thomas Bond and Lydia Spring, 25 Apr 1706; citing Marriage, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 745,869.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCSC-Z9F : 3 November 2017), John Warren and Lydia Bond, 20 Jun 1744; citing Marriage, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.
5. ↑ Waltham Vital Records, p 117 ["Benjamin, Daniel and Mrs. Lydiah Warren April 12, 1749*"]
6. ↑ Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).["The widow Lydia Benjamin"

• Bond, Henry, and Horatio G. Jones. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. Boston: The N. E. Historic-genealogical society, for the benefit of the "Bond fund, ", 1860 Page 50.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 24 January 2018), memorial page for Lydia Spring Benjamin (12 Aug 1686–31 Aug 1769), Find A Grave: Memorial #168585818 ; Maintained by Mo Crawfish (contributor 48448098) Non-Cemetery Burial, who reports a Burial location unknown. [Unsourced]