Simon Lynde, Esq.

• 'Full text of "Family histories and genealogies. A series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and notes on the families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, De Wolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite. With twenty-nine pedigree-charts and two charts of combined descents"
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• 'Family histories and genealogies. A series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and notes on the families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, De Wolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite. With twenty-nine pedigree-charts and two charts of combined descents (1892)
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• By the marriage of Elizabeth eldest daughter of Judge Nathaniel Lynde to Judge Richard Lord, and that of his second daughter Hannah to Rev. George Griswold, and of his granddaughter Susannah Lynde to Ensign Thomas Griswold, the Lord and Griswold families, in several of their branches, have the blood of the Lyndes and the Digbys. The two following monographs are memorials of these two distinguished families.
• 'Mr. Simon Lynde, father of Judge Nathaniel Lynde, removed from London to Boston in 1650. The family-records that he brought over, or received after his emigration, enabled his son Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde, and his grandson the second Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde, to compile the valuable notes which were the foundation of our Lynde and Digby investigations. He left these records with his immediate family in three forms : on the back of an escutcheon, in an old Bible, and on an old chart-pedigree. "The date of the former is 1740 [several years before the death of the elder Chief Justice]. . . . The younger Judge was the antiquary of the family, and got much of his information from his father, who was living at the time the record on the escutcheon was made, so that what we know of the family, traditionally, came from the elder Judge."1
• The oldest records extant are found in a Bible printed in 1595.2 It is a large folio volume, bound in brown leather, having on the outside of both covers " Enoch Lynd " in large gilt letters. The present owner of this Bible, Mrs. Cornelia (Walter) Richards of Boston, who descends from the Chief Justices Lynde, has kindly sent us, in several letters, the following statements respecting it :
• Pasted into the volume, on the first fly-leaf, is the following :
• "An Extract of something to be remembered, from the leafe before the Title-page of a Bible of my Grandmother Mrs. Eliza Lynde, sent over to my Father, 'Mr. Simon Lynde,3 and Recd by him 13th May 1675 ; at the same time written in the sd Leaf wth his own hand as Followeth, viz : ' This Bible, formerly my Father' Mr. Enoch Lynde's, who died the 23rd Aprill 1636, afterwards my dear Mother Mrs. Eliza Lynde had. She departed this Life 1669, and 13th May 1675 This Bible was brought me here to Boston in New England, and sent me by Eliza Parker, who writes me my mother gave it her when she Tended on her, but presents it to me, that It might not goe from my Family, But that I and mine might improve It and Its holy Truths — which I beg of God we may! That keeping his Word we may thereby be kept, and found among the number of the Righteous ones. So prayeth 'Simon Lynde, Boston, New England, 13th May 1675.' "
• Then follows, on the first page of the second fly-leaf, this record :
• "My grandparents by my Father" {" Mr. Enoch Lynde dyed 23d April Ano Dom. 1636. Mrs. Elizabeth Lynde his wife (whose maiden-name was Digby) dyed Anno Dom. 1669.
• "My grandparents by my Mother" { "Mr. John Newdigate dyed 4th Sept'ber 1665, aged 85. Mrs. Anne Newdigate died 1679, aged 84 years.
• " N. B. Living children, 9 sons and 3 daughters were born unto them in 23 years from Dec. 1653 —1676" { " 'My hon'd Father Simon Lynde Esq're was born June 1624; was contracted to my hon'd mother, then Hannah Newdigate, in Feb'ry 1651, and was married to her upon his return from England Feb. 1652 ; and dyed 22'd Nov'br 1687, aged 63 years. "My hon'd Mother, Mrs. Hannah Lynde, was born 28 June 1635, and dyed 20'th Dec'ber 1684, in the old house, and the same room, where she herselfe and most of her 12 children were born, in Boston."
• 'After this come the names and dates of birth and death of the first six of Simon Lynde's children, with a note on Elizabeth's birth : " In the old house, yet living in her 79'th year, wid. Pordage."
• On the next page, that is, on the reverse of the second fly-leaf, in writing very much defaced, are found the following memoranda, as nearly as they can be made out :
• " 'July 5th, 1658. This Bible given to Enoch Linde ye gr. son of Nathan Linde by his Grandmother Mrs. Elizabeth Linde
• " '. . . gave the ... El [izabeth Parker]
• " ' Given by El [izabeth Parker] to me S. Lynde by my mother Elizabeth Lynde ['s direction (or some such word)].' "
• 'Then, on the same page, is continued and ended the record of the names, births and deaths of Simon Lynde's children.
• On two following pages, that is, of the third fly-leaf, follows an account of the first Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde's early life ; and on the reverse of the third fly-leaf is the same account of the Bible received from England, in the very same words, as in the extract with which these statements begin, in 'Simon Lynde s handwriting, and signed by him.
• Below this are these words :
• " My Grandfather Mr. John Newgate dyed the 4 th September 1665, aged 85 years. My Grandmother Mrs. Anne Newgate dyed 1679, agen 84 years."
• " Samuel Lynde."
• Next comes the title-page, on which, alongside of "E. Lynde, 1657," in very quaint old handwriting, the autograph, unquestionably, of Elizabeth (Digby) Lynde, we find the inscription " 'Simon Lynde of Boston," by his own hand.
• The history, then, of this precious heirloom, now belonging to Mrs. Richards, appears to be as follows. In the year 1675, six years after the death of Elizabeth (Digby) Lynde, the widow of Enoch and mother of 'Simon Lynde, the Bible was sent over from England to Simon Lynde in Boston by Elizabeth Parker, a waiting-woman of his mother, who had received it from her, and was probably charged to transmit it, eventually, to her so'n. The memorandum dated July 5, 1658, twenty-two years after Enoch Lynde's death, and seventeen years before Simon Lynde possessed the volume, was undoubtedly written by Enoch Lynde's widow. This memorandum is of special interest to us, from its giving something of the previous history of the book ; for it shows that the Bible of Enoch Lynde was a gift to him from his grandmother Elizabeth, the wife of Nathan Lynde. It may have been printed in Holland, as many English Bibles were, at that time, though bearing another imprint. 'The two next following memoranda must have been made by Simon Lynde'.
• The memorandum, above quoted, signed by Samuel Lynde, seems to show that the Bible passed from 'Simon Lynde' to his eldest son Samuel; while the family-records on one of the fly-leaves of the volume prove that Samuel Lynde surrendered his ownership of it to his younger brother the first Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde, in whose line it has since then been handed down. As we shall see farther on, Samuel Lynde provided for a record of his own immediate family, in a separate Bible which has been transmitted in his line.
• It only remains to speak of the first Chief Justice Lynde's " Extract of something to be remembered, from the leafe before the Title-page of a Bible," now pasted into this old Bible. That the "Extract" was made from this very volume all the circumstances prove. 'Not the least significant one is that Simon Lynde's own signed statement stands, in this old Bible, just where the Chief Justice found it in the volume from which he extracted it. He may have intended the "Extract" for some other Bible of family-records, before Samuel Lynde gave him this one ; or he may have pasted it where we find it, in order to draw attention to the original statement on the third fly-leaf, and as a heading to the records which follow.'
• "Simon Lynde was born in London England in June 1624. He was bred to trade in Holland and after coming to Boston and residing here several years, 1650 to 1670, he returned to London and was engaged in business. He married in Boston Feb 22 1653 (to) Hannah Newgate. In Boston Town Records April 27 1655 he first appears as being in arrears to the town forty shillings for four years rent. He was a constable in 1659. He was clerk of the Artillery Company in 1661, first sergeant in 1669, and was a soldier in King Philip's War. In 1672 he was interested as a land speculator in planting a colony near Stonington Conn. He died Nov. 22, 1687." Source: "History of the Military company of the Massachusetts, now called The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts" Vol. 1, by Oliver Ayer Roberts, pg. 187

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Simon was the son of Enoch Lynde and Elizabeth Digby, an Heiress of Hackney, England. The family lived in Buttolph London, an area full of nobility.

Simon's father died when he was 12 years old and he was raised by his mother. In the Lynde Bible it is written by both his mother and himself that he was presented to King Charles I through his mother's relative, Sir John Digby.

Simon became a merchant and handled the books for Mr. Delanay of London, going to Holland and keeping the books in a Dutch tongue. The Lynde's (Lyde)have roots to the Dutch Van Der Linden family and it is believed Dutch was spoken in the household, as well as English

Simon came to New England in 1650 and lived as a merchant in Boston. He married Hannah Newdigate (Newgate)in Boston Feb. 1652, also of Artistocratic status. The couple lived with her father, John Newdigate in large house on Hanover and King's Lane(now Elm St) near Boston Common in the Aristocratic Quarter.

In 1652, Simon's name is on the Roster of Capt. Oliver's Company in King Phillip's War. In 1658, he is listed in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery.

In 1666, Simon signed a petition acknowledging the King's Authority.

As well as inheriting wealth, Simon increased his holdings in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhodes Island and was appointed by President Dudley of the 1st Colonial Court to become one of the Assistant Justices of Pleas and Sessions.

In 1687, prior to his death, he was appointed to Justice Assistant of Superior Court, as documented in Wasburn's Sketches of Judicial History of MA. pg. 85-87.

Children born to Hannah and Simon in Boston Vital Records:

1. Samuel b. Dec. 1, 1653 d. Dec. 20, 1721 m. Mary Ballard 2. Simon b.Sept. 26, 1655
3. John b. Nov. 8, 1657
4. Nathaniel b. Nov. 22, 1659
5. Elizabeth b. Mar. 25, 1662
6. Joseph b. Feb.. 12, 1664

Simon is buried in the Granary Burying Ground 11, Family Tomb 49 Boston, MA.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 7 2022, 22:16:55 UTC