Lydia Pomeroy

Lydia Brown

• Birth: 1618
• Death: June 14 1674
• Parents: Thomas Brown, Lydia
• Husband: Thomas Parsons, IV

Lydia married 1st Thomas Parsons, married 2nd Eltweed Pomeroy.

Sources

1. New England families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the ..., Volume 2 edited by William Richard Cutter Pg.881
2. A. A. (Albert Alonzo) Pomeroy. History and genealogy of the Pomeroy family, colateral lines in family groups, Normandy, Great Britain and America; comprising the ancestors and descendants of Eltweed Pomeroy from Beaminster, County Dorset, England, 1630 (Volume pt. 3).

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Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England...Vol 1 p. 136 Lydia Parsons, widow of Thomas Parsons, married Eltweed Pomeroy on Nov. 30, 1661. In 1665 he made a generous provision for "his dear and loving wife Lydia." In 1671 he moved to his son's Medad (baptized Windsor Aug 19, 1638), in Northampton, MA. He died March 1673. Tradition, according to this book, says that Eltweed went blind.

See History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut Vol II, p.735

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THOMAS PARSONS, an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut, was probably the Thomas baptized at Beaminster, Dorset, 8 February 1608/9, son of William and Margaret (Hoskins) Parsons. He came to New England probably about 1635, and died at Windsor 23 September 1661. He married at Windsor 28 June 1641, LYDIA BROWN, who was born in England about 1616, and was still living at Windsor on 7 November l67l. She married second, at Windsor 30 November 1664, as his third wife, Eltweed Pomeroy, who was baptized at Beaminster, Dorset, 4 July 1585, and died at Northampton, in March 1673, son of Richard Pomeroy. Thomas Parsons was one of the earliest settlers and founders of Windsor, one of the first settlements made by the English in Connecticut. It would appear that he was settled there by 1636, for in the spring of 1637 he served in the Pequot War from Windsor. For this service he received 50 acres of land, which was given to his sons Ebenezer and Samuel by the General Court of Connecticut 13 October 1698.

Children of Thomas Parsons and Lydia Brown Bethia, b. 21 May 1642. Abigail, b. 21 Jan. 1643; bur. at Windsor, 5 Dec. 1659. Thomas, b. 9 Aug. 1645. John, b. 13 Nov. 1647. Mercy/Marcy, b. 23 July 1652. Ebenezer, b. 14 May 1655. Samuel, b. 18 July 1657. Joseph, b. 1 May 1661; d. prob. young.

For additional information on Thomas Parsons and his descendents see “The Early Parsons Families of the Connecticut River Valley” by Gerald J. Parsons. Originally printed in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.

married second husband November 30, 1664 in Beminster, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England...Vol 1 p. 136 Lydia Parsons, widow of Thomas Parsons, married Eltweed Pomeroy on Nov. 30, 1661. In 1665 he made a generous provision for "his dear and loving wife Lydia." In 1671 he moved to his son's Medad (baptized Windsor Aug 19, 1638), in Northampton, MA. He died March 1673. Tradition, according to this book, says that Eltweed went blind.

See History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut Vol II, p.735