Lydia Rodman

Biography

Lydia Gardner was born about 1735 (guess) to John Gardner and Frances Sanford.[1]

Lydia married William Rodman around 1757. They had three children.[1]

Lydia died on 2 January 1789 in Newport.[1]

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Lydia (Gardner) Rodman (abt. 1735 - 1789)

Lydia Rodman formerly Gardner

Born about 1735 in Rhode Island [uncertain]

Daughter of John (Gardner) Gardiner and Frances (Sanford) Gardner

Sister of Frances Sanford (Gardner) Benson, Katharine (Gardner) Rodman, Elizabeth (Gardiner) Wanton, William Gardiner, Sanford Gardiner and Ann (Gardiner) Southwick

Wife of William Rodman — married about 1757 in Rhode Island

Mother of William Rodman, Elizabeth (Rodman) Rogers and Mary (Rodman) Hopkins

Died 2 Jan 1789 at about age 54 [location unknown]

Profile last modified 31 Dec 2018 | Created 10 Mar 2016

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Charles Henry Jones, Genealogy of the Rodman Family (1620-1886); (Philadelphia, Alles, Lane and Scott, 1886) p. 18, 28. [Copy available at (https://archive.org/details/genealogyofrodma00jone).]

5611. Lydia Ballou. Born say 1640. Lydia died bef 17 Mar 1722 in Providence, RI.

Lydia first married George Gardiner as his second wife, second William Hawkins.

ca 1661 Lydia first married George Gardiner. George died ca 1677 in Newport, RI.

George married first Herodias (Long) Hicks, widow of John Hicks. (After George’s death, she married John Porter). George’s second wife was Lydia Ballou.

It’s been suggested that George was the George Gardiner baptized at Greenford Magma, Middlesex on 15 Feb 1598/9 who married Sarah Slaughter on 29 Mar 1630 at St. James Church, Clerkenwell. If so then Herodias would have been his second wife and Lydia his third, and he would have been fathering children into his seventies.

The identification of George Gardiner of Rhode Island with George Gardiner of Clerkenwell appears to be a fabrication of Asa Bird Gardiner. For more information, see Jo Ann Butler’s article “George Gardner, the Second Husband”, http://www.rebelpuritan.com/Gardner.html at her web site Rebel Puritan: Herodias Long, http://www.rebelpuritan.com/

Their children include: 14705 i. Dea. Joseph Gardiner (ca 1666-22 Aug 1726) 14706 ii. Lydia Gardiner (ca 1670-ca 1723) 14707 iii. Mary Gardiner (ca 1671-aft 1704) 14708 iv. Peregreene Gardiner (ca 1672-aft 1690) 14709 v. Robert Gardiner (Died young) (ca 1673-1690) 14710 vi. Jeremiah Gardiner (ca 1676-)

On 14 Jun 1678 Lydia second married William Hawkins (5863) , son of William Hawkins (2339) (-1699) & Margaret Harwood, in Providence, RI. "Memorandum: That William Haughikns of providence, & Liddia Gardner of Newport on Road Island (after Lawfull publication) was joined together in Marriage. By John Whipple junr. Assistant upon ye 14th of june 1678.". Born ca 1647 in Providence, RI.24 William died on 6 Jul 1723 in Providence, RI.200 Marriage intention published on 1 Jun 1678 at Providence, RI.

From Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island :98

   1677, Jan 28 - He gave notice that he had found a strange mare of dark bay color, with four white streaks of saddle gall, etc.

   1678 - Deputy

   1685, Dec 3 - He had 30 acres laid out in the right of his father William Hawkins, Sr.

   1687, Sep 1 - Taxed

   1687 - Ratable estate, 2 oxen, 6 cows, 4 three year and 2 two year cattle, a horse, 2 mares, 18 acres meadow, 5 acres corn land, 12 acres pasture

   1688, Nov 30 - He took receipt from Mary Gardiner, who calls him father-in-law (i.e., stepfather), for 13 pounds, balance of legacy of 20 pounds bequeathed by last will of her father George Gardiner of Newport, deceased.

   1691, Jan 9 - He received a deed of 12 acres of land in Newport from Joseph Gardiner of tat place - said land having been owned by George Gardiner of Newport, father of Joseph Gardiner and Peregrine

   1703-5-6 - Deputy

   1704, Jul 25 - He deeded son Stephen, for love, etc., 50 acres and a dwelling house on north-east side of West River mostly, being part of land whereon I dwell

   1708, Sep 27 - He deeded land to son Stephen, for goodwill and affection, and also at same date deeded son John, but John's lands were to be in care of his brother Stephen, til John was of age, and if he died before that, then William and Stephen were to have it.

   1713, Jun 16 - Taxed

   1721, Jan 28 - He sold William Hopkins a salt cove called Hawkins's Cove, formerly Dirty Cove, which "my father William Hawkins, deceased, gave me by his last will" (Consideration 3 pounds, 7s, 6d

   1722, Mar 17 - Will proved 1723, Oct 22. To his two grandsons Elijah and Joseph (sons of son William, deceased), all the remaining part of homestead farm which had not before been disposed of by deed, being situated north side of West River, and including two houses, barn,orchard, etc. To these grandsons he also gives other land, and if either died without issue other was to have his share. “That I had before given my children such a portion as I thought convenient, excepting my son William, and this estate I have given to my aforenamed grandsons is that which I intended for their father, my son William Hawkins, deceased.”

   If the grandsons could not agree, the Town Council was to make the division to them when of age.

   Inventory 40 pounds, 13s, of personal property undisposed of, and his son John was appointed administrator of the personal estate, consisting of bed, wearing apparel, pewter, warming pan, money due on bond 20 pounds, etc.

Their children include: 14711 i. William Hawkins (ca 1679-8 Oct 1712) 14712 ii. Stephen Hawkins (ca 1680-10 Mar 1711) 14713 iii. Sarah Hawkins (say 1681-) 14714 iv. John Hawkins (ca 1683-25 Mar 1755)

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