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Lydia Cook (Merriman)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Death: December 25, 1785 (83)
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
Place of Burial: Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Capt. Caleb Merriman, Sr and Mary Munson
Wife of Ephraim Cook; Samuel Cooke and Ephraim Cook
Mother of Tirzah Cook; Phebe Cook; Mary Cook; Lydia Cook Hitchcock Hotchkiss; Mary Jane Smith and 8 others
Sister of Moses Merriman; Elizabeth Royce; Capt. Eliasaph Merriman; Hannah Andrews; Phebe Munson (Merriman) and 1 other

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Immediate Family

About Lydia Cook


Birth

Mary & Caleb Merriman's daughter Lydia Merriman, born Wallingford, Connecticut on 12 November 1702[1]

Family

Children born to Lydia/Lidea and Ephraim Cook in Wallingford, Connecticut:

Lydia Cook, born 02 March 1726[2]
Ephraim Cook, born 07 September 1730[3]

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Merriman-4

Profile last modified 8 Jan 2022 | Created 13 Sep 2010

Lydia (Merriman) Cook (1702 - 1785)

Lydia Cook formerly Merriman

Born 12 Nov 1702 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Daughter of Caleb Merriman and Mary (Preston) Munson

Sister of Moses Merriman, Elizabeth (Merriman) Royce, Eliasaph Merriman Sr, Hannah (Merriman) Andrews, Phebe (Merriman) Munson, Lemuel Munson [half], Merriman Munson [half], Mamre (Munson) Ives [half] and Lent Munson [half]

Wife of Ephraim Cook — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Wife of Samuel (Cooke) Cook — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants

Mother of Mamre Cook, Lydia (Cook) Hitchcock, Mary (Cook) Blakeslee, Ephraim Cook and Elam Cook
Died 25 Dec 1785 [location unknown]

Sources

↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/12969/225/147368609
↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/12969/72/147359882
↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/12969/68/147360025
Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven (Clarence D. Smith, Rome, NY, 1923) Vol. 1, Page 441

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Lydia Cook's Timeline

1702
November 12, 1702
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, British Colonial America
1720
1720
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
1723
February 13, 1723
Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
1726
March 2, 1726
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
1728
April 7, 1728
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
1730
September 7, 1730
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
1733
October 3, 1733
Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
October 5, 1733
Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA