Friday, August 25, 2023

52 Ancestors - Week 494: #889 Lydia (White) Metcalf (1686-????) of Mendon and Medway, Massachusetts and Keene, New Hampshire

Lydia (White) Metcalf  (1686-????) is #889 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married  #888 Michael Metcalf (1680-1761)  in 1705 in Mendon, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son #444 Michael Metcalf (1706-1771), married #445 Melatiah Hamant (1704-1751) in 1728.
*  their son #222 Burgess Metcalf (1741-1816), married #223 Jerusha --?--  (1750-1817) in 1770.
*  their daughter #111 Mary Metcalf (1780-1855), married #110 Amos Underhill (1772-1865) in 1801.
*  their daughter, #55, Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1882) in 1839. married #54 Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) in 1839.
*  their daughter, #27 Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931), married #26 Devier James Lamphear Smith (1839-1894) in 1861.
*  their daughter, #13 Abbey Ardell Smith (1862-1944), married #12 Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), in 1887.
*  their son, #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), who married #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977) in 1918.
* their daughter, #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002), who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.
*  their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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

*  Name:                        Lydia White[1–3]
*  Alternate Name:        Ledia White[4–6]

*  Sex:                           Female

*  Father:                      Joseph White (1662-1757)
*  Mother:                    Lydia Copeland (1661-1727)

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

*  Birth:                        10 May 1686, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[1–4]

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

*  Spouse 1:                     Michael Metcalf (1680-1761)    
*  Marriage 1:                  21 March 1704/5 (age 23), Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[3,5-6]

*  Child 1:                      Michael Metcalf 1706-1771
*  Child 2:                      John Metcalf 1709-1791
*  Child 3:                      Joseph Metcalf 1714-1759
*  Child 4:                      Jonathan Metcalf 1715-    
*  Child 5:                      Elizabeth Metcalf 1718-1758
*  Child 6:                      Lydia Metcalf 1721-    

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

Lydia White was born 10 May 1686, the daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Copeland) White,
 in Mendon, Massachusetts[1-4].

She married on 21 March 1704/5 in Mendon, Massachusetts to Michael Metcalf (1680-1761), the son of Michael and Elizabeth (Bowers) Metcalf[3,5-6].  They had six children, the first two were born in Medfield and the last four were born in Medway, Massachusetts:

*  Michael Metcalf (1706-1771), married 1728 Melatiah Hamant (1704-1751). 
*  John Metcalf (1709-1791), married 1733 Tamar Daniels (1714-????).
*  Joseph Metcalf (1714-1759), married 1739 Deborah Adams (1716-????).
*  Jonathan Metcalf (1716-????), married (1) 1733 Hannah Smith (1712-1744); (2) 1742 Mary Adams (1722-1754).
*  Elizabeth Metcalf (1718-1758), married 1737 Gideon Ellis (1714-1800).
*  Lydia Metcalf (1721-????), married 1747 Hopestill Lovell (1711-1776).

The family settled in Medway in about 1714.  As early as 11 February 1750, Michael and his son, Michael Jr. and grandson Oliver, were settlers at Upper Ashuelot, afterward called Keene, New Hampshire, and were among the founders of the town. 

It is not known when Lydia (White) Metcalf died - it may have been in Medway or in Keene, New Hampshire.

There is no known burial location for Lydia (White) Metcalf, and there are no known probate records.

5.  SOURCES

1. Warren Turner Copeland, The Copeland Family; A Copeland Genealogy (Rutland, Vt. : The Tuttle Publishing Company, 1937), page 15, #5 Lydia Copeland family sketch.

2. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital records of Mendon, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1920), Births, page 211, Lydia White entry, 10 May 1686.

3. Howard H. Metcalfe, Some Descendants of Rev. Leonard Metcalf of Tatterford Parish,Norfolk, England (Westminster, Md. : Heritage Books, Inc., 2003), #90 Michael Metcalf family sketch.

4. "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), Mendon > Town Records and Earmarks, with Births, Marriages, and Deaths, page 47 (image 31 of 107), Ledia White birth entry, 10 May 1686.

5. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital records of Mendon, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Marriages, page 428, Ledia White and Micall Medcalf entry, 21 March 1704/5.

6. "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," digital images, Ancestry.com, Mendon, "Town Records and Earmarks, with Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 69 (image 42 of 106), Micall Medcalf and Ledia White marriage entry, 21 March 1704/5.

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NOTE:  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 in 2014.  I have extended this theme in 2023 to 520 Ancestors in 520 Weeks.


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