Enoch Lynde

Enoch Lynde, born about 1585, was a resident of London who "was a merchant engaged in foreign trade, and was for some years connected with the postal service between England and Holland...," according to The Diaries of Benjamin Lynde and of Benjamin Lynde, Jr (available as a Google book), p. v. Of Enoch's arms, this book says (pp. iii-iv), "The arms borne by him, as engraved upon his seal and elsewhere, suggest the probability that the family came originally from the Low Countries. These arms are nowhere recorded in England, and differ materially from those of other families bearing the name of Lynde, while they are almost identical with those granted in Holland to the noble family of Van der Linden, as recorded in the College of Arms at the Hague, a branch of which family is said to have emigrated to England at no very remote period, possibly during the religious dissensions of the sixteenth century." Don Stone, "Dymoke - Waller - Kirkner" at soc.genealogy.medieval, Feb. 10, 2012.

• VAN DER LINDE, LEONARD. Will of Leonard Van der Linde, tallowchandler, born at Ostend in Flanders, living in Hackney, co. Midd., dated 28 July 1625. To the poor of St. Sepulchre's without Newgate, London, 40 s., and to the poor of St. Andrew Hubbard, 20 s.; to my cousin Louisa Truwe, wife of Cornelius Janson, living in Middelbergh, Zealand, £6.; to my brother in law, John Chambers, £3; to Matthew and Simon Linde, sons of my exor., £60 each at ages of 21 ; to Richard Skarby als Baker, 20 s. ; to my godson Michael Maynet, 11 s. Res. leg. and exor., cousin Enoch Linde, living in London, merchant. Overseers: cousin Peter Soons and Mr. Francis Penneter, merchants in London. Witness: Joshua Maniett, not. pub., Giles de Buet, James de Buet. Proved, 17 Oct. 1625, by exor. (Commissary Court of London, 1623-6, f. 583).'
• 'Full text of "Family histories and genealogies. A series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and notes on the families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, De Wolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite. With twenty-nine pedigree-charts and two charts of combined descents"
• http://www.archive.org/stream/familyhistoriesg12sali/familyhistorie...
• 'Family histories and genealogies. A series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and notes on the families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, De Wolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite. With twenty-nine pedigree-charts and two charts of combined descents (1892)
• http://www.archive.org/stream/familyhistoriesg12sali#page/n7/mode/2up
• By the marriage of Elizabeth eldest daughter of Judge Nathaniel Lynde to Judge Richard Lord, and that of his second daughter Hannah to Rev. George Griswold, and of his granddaughter Susannah Lynde to Ensign Thomas Griswold, the Lord and Griswold families, in several of their branches, have the blood of the Lyndes and the Digbys. The two following monographs are memorials of these two distinguished families.
• Mr. Simon Lynde, father of Judge Nathaniel Lynde, removed from London to Boston in 1650. The family-records that he brought over, or received after his emigration, enabled his son Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde, and his grandson the second Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde, to compile the valuable notes which were the foundation of our Lynde and Digby investigations. He left these records with his immediate family in three forms : on the back of an escutcheon, in an old Bible, and on an old chart-pedigree. "The date of the former is 1740 [several years before the death of the elder Chief Justice]. . . . The younger Judge was the antiquary of the family, and got much of his information from his father, who was living at the time the record on the escutcheon was made, so that what we know of the family, traditionally, came from the elder Judge."1
• The oldest records extant are found in a Bible printed in 1595.2 It is a large folio volume, bound in brown leather, having on the outside of both covers ' " Enoch Lynd " in large gilt letters'. The present owner of this Bible, Mrs. Cornelia (Walter) Richards of Boston, who descends from the Chief Justices Lynde, has kindly sent us, in several letters, the following statements respecting it :
• Pasted into the volume, on the first fly-leaf, is the following :
• "An Extract of something to be remembered, from the leafe before the Title-page of a Bible of my Grandmother 'Mrs. Eliza Lynde', sent over to my Father, Mr. Simon Lynde,3 and Recd by him 13th May 1675 ; at the same time written in the sd Leaf wth his own hand as Followeth, viz : ' This Bible, formerly my Father 'Mr. Enoch Lynde's, who died the 23rd Aprill 1636, afterwards my dear Mother Mrs. Eliza Lynde had. She departed this Life 1669, and 13th May 1675'. This Bible was brought me here to Boston in New England, and sent me by Eliza Parker, who writes me my 'mother gave it her when she Tended on her, but presents it to me, that It might not goe from my Family', But that I and mine might improve It and Its holy Truths — which I beg of God we may! That keeping his Word we may thereby be kept, and found among the number of the Righteous ones. So prayeth Simon Lynde, Boston, New England, 13th May 1675.' "
• Then follows, on the first page of the second fly-leaf, this record :
• "My grandparents by my Father" {" 'Mr. Enoch Lynde dyed 23d April Ano Dom. 1636. Mrs. Elizabeth Lynde his wife (whose maiden-name was Digby) dyed Anno Dom. 1669.
• "My grandparents by my Mother" { "Mr. John Newdigate dyed 4th Sept'ber 1665, aged 85. Mrs. Anne Newdigate died 1679, aged 84 years.
• " N. B. Living children, 9 sons and 3 daughters were born unto them in 23 years from Dec. 1653 —1676" { " My hon'd Father Simon Lynde Esq're was born June 1624; was contracted to my hon'd mother, then Hannah Newdigate, in Feb'ry 1651, and was married to her upon his return from England Feb. 1652 ; and dyed 22'd Nov'br 1687, aged 63 years. "My hon'd Mother, Mrs. Hannah Lynde, was born 28 June 1635, and dyed 20'th Dec'ber 1684, in the old house, and the same room, where she herselfe and most of her 12 children were born, in Boston."
• After this come the names and dates of birth and death of the first six of Simon Lynde's children, with a note on Elizabeth's birth : " In the old house, yet living in her 79'th year, wid. Pordage."
• On the next page, that is, on the reverse of the second fly-leaf, in writing very much defaced, are found the following memoranda, as nearly as they can be made out :
• " 'July 5th, 1658. This Bible given to 'Enoch Linde' ye gr. son of Nathan Linde by his Grandmother Mrs. Elizabeth Linde
• " '. . . gave the ... El [izabeth Parker]
• " ' Given by El [izabeth Parker] to me S. Lynde by my mother 'Elizabeth Lynde ['s direction (or some such word)].' " '
• Then, on the same page, is continued and ended the record of the names, births and deaths of Simon Lynde's children.
• On two following pages, that is, of the third fly-leaf, follows an account of the first Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde's early life ; and on the reverse of the third fly-leaf is the same account of the Bible received from England, in the very same words, as in the extract with which these statements begin, in Simon Lynde s handwriting, and signed by him.
• Below this are these words :
• " My Grandfather Mr. John Newgate dyed the 4 th September 1665, aged 85 years. My Grandmother Mrs. Anne Newgate dyed 1679, agen 84 years."
• " Samuel Lynde."
• Next comes the title-page, on which, alongside 'of "E. Lynde, 1657," in very quaint old handwriting, the autograph, unquestionably, of Elizabeth (Digby) Lynde', we find the inscription " Simon Lynde of Boston," by his own hand.
• The history, then, of this precious heirloom, now belonging to Mrs. Richards, appears to be as follows. In the year '1675, six years after the death of Elizabeth (Digby) Lynde, the widow of Enoch and mother of Simon Lynde', the Bible was sent over from England to Simon Lynde in Boston by Elizabeth Parker, a waiting-woman of his mother, who had received it from her, and was probably charged to transmit it, eventually, to her son. The memorandum dated 'July 5, 1658, twenty-two years after Enoch Lynde's death', and seventeen years before Simon Lynde possessed the volume, was undoubtedly 'written by Enoch Lynde's widow'. This memorandum is of special interest to us, from its giving something of the previous history of the book ; for it shows that the Bible of 'Enoch Lynde' was a gift to him from his grandmother Elizabeth, the wife of Nathan Lynde. It may have been printed in Holland, as many English Bibles were, at that time, though bearing another imprint. The two next following memoranda must have been made by Simon Lynde.
• The memorandum, above quoted, signed by Samuel Lynde, seems to show that the Bible passed from Simon Lynde to his eldest son Samuel; while the family-records on one of the fly-leaves of the volume prove that Samuel Lynde surrendered his ownership of it to his younger brother the first Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde, in whose line it has since then been handed down. As we shall see farther on, Samuel Lynde provided for a record of his own immediate family, in a separate Bible which has been transmitted in his line.
• It only remains to speak of the first Chief Justice Lynde's " Extract of something to be remembered, from the leafe before the Title-page of a Bible," now pasted into this old Bible. That the "Extract" was made from this very volume all the circumstances prove. Not the least significant one is that Simon Lynde's own signed statement stands, in this old Bible, just where the Chief Justice found it in the volume from which he extracted it. He may have intended the "Extract" for some other Bible of family-records, before Samuel Lynde gave him this one ; or he may have pasted it where we find it, in order to draw attention to the original statement on the third fly-leaf, and as a heading to the records which follow.
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• http://books.google.com/books?id=iEkAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA328&lpg=PA328&dq...
• Pg. 328
• 'Their daughter Hannah married Mr. Simon Lynde, a wealthy merchant of Boston, son of Enoch Lynde, a shipping merchant of London, of the Dutch Van der Linden family, whose wife was Elizabeth, great-great-granddaughter of Sir John Digby, of Eye, Kettleby, and Lincolnshire. .....
• 'In a pedigree of the Lynde family, prepared by Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde, second grandson of Simon and Hannah (Newgate) Lynde, copied from an earlier paper, in mentioning his grandfather John Newgate ......
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