Lydia Soule

(4 April 1740 - 20 April 1819)
Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=12 May 2014
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Ancestors of Martha Josselyn (1909 - 2007)
Descendants of Thomas Josselyn (1591 - 1661)
Lydia Soule was born on 4 April 1740 in Pembroke, Massachusetts.1,2,3 Another source shows her born in Duxbury, Massachusetts.4 She was the daughter of Aaron Soule and Lydia Peterson.1,2

Lydia Soule married Jedediah Dwelley, son of Jedediah Dwelley and Elizabeth House, on 24 February 1763 in Pembroke, Massachusetts.5,6,7 A different marriage date, 14 February 1763, is found in the Hanover histories of 1853 and 1910.8,9

Lydia Soule and Jedediah Dwelley sold their homestead to Freedom Chamberlain, gent.10 Jedediah Dwelly, of Pembroke, housewright, and Lydia his wife sold a piece of fresh meadow land in Pembroke to Freedom Chamberlain of Pembroke on 18 February 1786.11

Lydia Soule died on 20 April 1819 in Pembroke, Massachusetts, at age 79.8,9,1,12,13

Children of Lydia Soule and Jedediah Dwelley

Citations

  1. [S82] Kroeger, Josselyn Family History, 45.
  2. [S428] Wakefield, George Soule of the Mayflower, 56.
  3. [S429] Throop, George Soule of the Mayflower, 105, citing Pembroke Vital Records p 188.
  4. [S773] "Statement of Line of Eligibility for Membership in the Society of Mayflower Descendants."
  5. [S407] H. H. Edes, "Marriages Solemnized in Pembroke", 71.
  6. [S408] Pembroke Vital Records, 268.
  7. [S429] Throop, George Soule of the Mayflower, 105, citing Pembroke Vital Records p 268.
  8. [S2] Barry, A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., 298.
  9. [S391] Dwelley and Simmons, History of the Town of Hanover.
  10. [S429] Throop, George Soule of the Mayflower, 105, citing Plymouth County Land Records 62:93.
  11. [S429] Throop, George Soule of the Mayflower, 105, citing Plymouth County Land Records 66:22.
  12. [S408] Pembroke Vital Records, 402.
  13. [S429] Throop, George Soule of the Mayflower, 105, citing Pembroke Vital Records p 402.

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