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Lydia Gay (King)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
Death: June 24, 1787 (58-66)
Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
Place of Burial: Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Josiah King and Mindwell King
Wife of Deacon Richard Dana Gay
Mother of Richard Gay Jr.; Lydia Howe; Apollos Gay; Elizabeth Hillyer and Mary Skinner
Sister of Phoebe Austin; Mindwell Pease and Experience Granger

Managed by: Sue Douglass
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About Lydia Gay

JOHN GAY, OF DEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS and Some of His Descendants, by Frederick Lewis Gay, Published by D. Clapp & Son, printers, 1879, p. 9



ID: I01228

Name: Lydia King 1 2 3

Sex: F

Birth: 27 JAN 1724/25 in Suffield, Hartford Co., CT 4

Death: 24 JUN 1787 in Turkey Hills, CT 1 3

Burial: West Suffield Cemetery, Suffield, Hartford Co., CT 3

Father: Josiah King , Esq. b: ABT 1694

Mother: Midwell Burt b: 22 NOV 1700 in Northampton, MA

Marriage 1 Richard Dana Gay b: 21 MAR 1719/20 in Turkey Hills,Simsbury (now, East Granby), CT

Married: 6 JUN 1745 in Turkey Hills, East Granby, CT 1

Children

Lydia Gay b: 15 AUG 1746
Apollos Gay b: 16 NOV 1748
Richard Gay b: 20 DEC 1750 in Simsbury (now E.Granby), CT
Elizabeth Gay b: 1 JAN 1753
Mary Gay b: 15 FEB 1755

Sources:

Title: Launcelot Granger of Newbury, MA and Suffield, Conn - A Genealogical History by James N. Granger

Author: James N. Granger

Publication: Hartford, Conn. ; Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainarb Company; 1893 -- Reprinted by Higgison Book Company, Salem, MA

Note: Also check the NEHG Register, Vol. 11, Jan 1857 And in The Essex Antiquarian, Vol II, #2, Feb. 1898

Note: Good

Repository:

Note: Reprint in Possesion of Catherine Granger Glover

Media: Book

Page: 144

Title: Joanne Hunt

Author: Joanne Hunte, ajh2@earthlink.net

Note: The following descendant chart on John Gay was sent in by Joanne Hunt. Anyone who might be connected to this family or who have additions or corrections may contact her at Email. Joanne also has information on more generations.

Repository:

Note: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~gxchange/johngay.html

Media: Electronic

Title: Headstone Inscriptions, Town Of Suffield, Connecticut

Author: compiled under the supervision of Charles R. Hale, State Military Necrologist, assisted by Miss Mary H. Babin, Secretary

Publication: Hartford, Connecticut, December 1937.

Repository:

Note: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kathycamp/Inscriptions.htm

Media: Electronic

Page: Page 29

Title: Launcelot Granger of Newbury, MA and Suffield, Conn - A Genealogical History by James N. Granger

Author: James N. Granger

Publication: Hartford, Conn. ; Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainarb Company; 1893 -- Reprinted by Higgison Book Company, Salem, MA

Note: Also check the NEHG Register, Vol. 11, Jan 1857 And in The Essex Antiquarian, Vol II, #2, Feb. 1898

Note: Good

Repository:

Note: Reprint in Possesion of Catherine Granger Glover

Media: Book

Page: 95, 144

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Lydia Gay's Timeline

1725
January 27, 1725
Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
1746
August 15, 1746
1748
November 16, 1748
1750
December 20, 1750
Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
1753
January 1, 1753
1755
February 15, 1755
1787
June 24, 1787
Age 62
Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
1787
Age 61
West Suffield Cemetery, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States