Lydia Dibble

Lydia Tefft

• Born 1630 in Plymouth, Devon, England
• Died 31 Dec 1690 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut
• Daughter of William Tefft and Ann (Sands) Tefft
• Sister of John Tefft, William Tefft and Sarah Tefft
• Wife of Abraham Dibble — married 1648 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
• Mother of Benjamin Dibble and Abigail (Dibble) Elgar

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tefft-53

Lydia Tift/Tefft was born in 1630; she married Abraham Dibble by 1648, when the birth and baptism of their son John is recorded in Boston. It is probable that she was the daughter of emigrant tailor William Teffe of that city, who was "admitted to inhabit" in 1638; in her 1896 genealogy of the Tefft/Tifft families, Maria Elizabeth (Maxon) Tifft noted that William had a daughter named Lydia, speculating that possibly she "married John Dibble or Deeble of Boston, and had a son Abraham".[1] The record suggests the inverse: that she married Abraham, and they had a son named John; more exactly, two sons of that name, the first apparently expiring in infancy: there are baptismal records for Johns ("Deeble", and "Dible") in both 1648 and 1650. The parents are not named in the second case, but no other Dibble family is represented in the records for those years except that of Abraham and Lydia.

When William Teffe composed his will in 1646, it is clear from the transcript offered in Maria Tifft's genealogy that daughter Lydia was not yet of age, as he ties a bequest of £20 to the admonition that she "doe not marry without her mother-in-lawe's Consent" -- in the language of the day, "mother-in'lawe" being perhaps a second wife. Since Lydia clearly does marry, however, within two years and is presumably at least eighteen by that time, it is evident that she was born in or very close to 1630.

Abraham and Lydia removed to Connecticut soon after the Boston christening of the second John; son Benjamin was born at Farmington close to 1650. Lydia passed away at Suffield in 1690.

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GEDCOM Note

Also, possibly Tift