52 Ancestors - Week 398: #621 Lydia (Ward) Maynard (1664-1740) of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts

Lydia Ward (1665-1740) is #621 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #620 John Maynard (1661-1731)  in 1688 in Marlborough, Middlesex County,  Massachusetts Bay Colony.

I am descended through:

* their son #310 James Maynard (1694-????) married #331 Mary Morse (1697-????) in about 1719.

* their daughter #155 Lydia Maynard (1722-1802) married #154 David Batherick (1722-1794)in 1742.

* their daughter #77 Lydia Batherick (1752-1795) married #76 Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802)  in 1779.

* their son #38 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) married #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882) in 1817.
* their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) married #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

*  Name:                   Lydia Ward[1–3]

*  Alternate Name:   Lidea Ward[4]

*  Alternate Name:   Lydia Maynard[5]

*  Sex:                      Female

*  Father:                 Richard Ward (1635-1667)

*  Mother:               Mary Moore (1641-1702)

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                 16 March 1664/5, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,4]

*  Distribution:     14 June 1731 (age 66), husband's will proved; Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]

*  Death:              10 January 1740 (age 74), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:          John Maynard (1661-1731)

*  Marriage 1:       about 1688 (about age 24), Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–3]

*  Child 1:            John Maynard (1690-1741)

*  Child 2:            Daniel Maynard (1692-1760)

*  Child 3:            James Maynard (1694-    )

*  Child 4:            Mary Maynard (1695-1717)

*  Child 5:            Reuben Maynard (1698-1762)

*  Child 6:            Abigail Maynard (1701-1778)

*  Child 7:            Phineas Maynard (1703-1725)

*  Child 8:            Bethia Maynard (1705-1720)

*  Child 9:            Hezekiah Maynard (1708-1781)

   

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Lydia Ward was born 16 March 1664/5 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay, the only daughter and second child of Richard and Mary (Moore) Ward[1,4].

Lydia married at age 24 in about 1688 to John Maynard (1661-1731) son of John and Mary (Gates) Maynard of Marlborough, Massachusetts Bay[1-3].

The family resided in Marlborough, and they had nine children, all but Bethia born and recorded in Marlborough town records:

*  John Maynard (1690-1741), married 1719 Hepsibah Brigham (1686-1757).

*  Daniel Maynard (1692-1760), married 1735 Mary Oaks (1710-1805).

*  James Maynard (1694-????), married 1719 Mary Morse (1697-????).

*  Mary Maynard (1696-1717).

*  Reuben Maynard (1698-1762), married 1745 Dorothy Williams (1714-????).

*  Abigail Maynard (1701-1778), married 1743 Nathan Tyler (1687-1782).

*  Phineas Maynard (1703-1725).

*  Bethia Maynard (1705-1720)

*  Hezekiah Maynard (1708-1781), married 1739 Tabitha How (1712-1757)

John Maynard wrote his will on 15 April 1731 and it was proved on 14 June 1731 in Middlesex County Probate Court[5].  In his will he provided for his wife, Lydia:

"Item I Give unto and bequeath to Lydia my dearly beloved wife one half of all my household ????? or Goods to be her own, and at her own disposing."

and:

"... But if ???? ????? should so order That I should Leave my now wife a widow, and she should not chuse to be provided for by him my said son  Hezekiah,  then my will is that my wife that now is shal have the privilege of her conveniancy  she stand in need of in this my house and have one cow which she shall chuse out of my stock of cretures, and be keept summer and winter at the ???? of my said son Hezekiah and one third part of the income of my pleace yearly for her Livlyhood during the time She Remains my widow."

After her husband John died, Lydia (Ward) Maynard likely lived the rest of her life with her youngest son, Hezekiah Maynard, who inherited the John Maynard homestead in Marlborough.  

Lydia died at age 75 on 10 January 1740 in Sudbury[6].  There is no known burial location, and there are no probate records for her in Middlesex County Probate Court records.

5.  SOURCES

1. Andrew Henshaw Ward, Ward Family; Descendants of William Ward, who settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639 (Boston, Mass. : Samuel G. Drake, 1851), page 13, Richard Ward family sketch, Lydia Ward birth entry, 16 March 1664/5.

2. Charles Hudson, History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement in 1657 to 1861 (Boston, Mass. : Press of T.R. Marvin & Son, 1862), page 413, #1-5- John Maynard (1661-1731) family sketch.

3. "New England Marriages to 1700," online database with digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008, page 499, Marlborough, John Maynard and Lydia Ward, before 1690.

4. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Births, page 148, Lidea Ward entry, 16 March 1664.

5. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Volume: Middlesex 14000-15999 - Estate File #14854 (7 images) John Maynard estate, 1731; "Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871," indexed database and digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 2 January 2021); Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org from original records at Probate Registry, Cambridge, Mass.

6. Andrew Henshaw Ward, Ward Family; Descendants of William Ward, who settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639 (Boston, Mass. : Samuel G. Drake, 1851), page 23, John Maynard family sketch, Lydia (Ward) Maynard death entry, 10 January 1740.

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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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