Thursday, October 4, 2018

1707 Birth of Lydia Gray in Little Compton, R.I. - Post 432 for Treasure Chest Thursday

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1707 birth record of Lydia Gray in the Little Compton, Rhode Island  Town Records:


The birth record is in the middle of the G listings:


The transcription of the birth record for Lydia Gray is:


"GRAY, Lydia, of Samuel, b. -------, 1707"

The source citation for this record is:

"Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 September 2018), Volume 8, Church Records: Member Lists, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, "United Congregational Church - Little Compton," page 15 (image 62 of 679), Lydia Gray birth entry.

There is another birth record for Lydia (Gray) Ladd in the Ladd portion of Volume 4 of the Rhode Island Vital Records Extracts:


The transcription of this record is:

"LADD, Lydia (Gray), his wife, Oct. 16, 1707."

The source citation for this record is:

"Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 September 2018), Volume 4, Newport County Vital Records, "Little Compton - Births and Deaths," page 134 (image 501 of 691), Lydia (Gray) Ladd birth entry.

These records are derivative source records for the birth of Lydia Gray.   The original record is in the Little Compton church record books, which are on the Family History Library US/CAN microfilms, available at the local FamilySearch Center.  The information is also published in the book by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families ( Little Compton, R.I.: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967), on pages 292-296, The Gray Family sketches.

Lydia Gray (1707-????) was the daughter of Samuel and Deborah (Church) Gray.  She married Joseph Ladd of Little Compton in 1731.  

Joseph Ladd and Lydia Gray are my  6th great-grandparents, through their daughter Elizabeth Ladd (1735-1814) who married  Benedict Oatley (1732-1821).

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