Lydia MINOR

Female Abt 1679 - 1707  (28 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Lydia MINOR was born about 1679 (daughter of Manasseh MINER and Lydia MOORE); died on 22 Apr 1707.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Sister to Thomas, who married Hannah Avery, her sister

    Lydia married Sylvester BALDWIN on 8 Jul 1706. Sylvester (son of John BALDWIN and Rebecca PALMER) was born on 4 Mar 1677 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut; died about 1732. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Elizabeth BALDWIN was born on 6 Jul 1725 in Stonington, New London Co. Connecticut; died on 21 Dec 1777.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Manasseh MINER was born on 28 Apr 1647 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA (son of Thomas MINER and Grace PALMER); died on 22 Aug 1728 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Military Service: Served in King Phillip\'s war

    Manasseh married Lydia MOORE on 26 Sep 1670 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. Lydia was born in 1650; died on 12 Aug 1720 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Lydia MOORE was born in 1650; died on 12 Aug 1720 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    Children:
    1. Elnathan MINER was born on 28 Dec 1673.
    2. Hannah MINER was born on 8 Dec 1676 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 23 Aug 1751 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    3. 1. Lydia MINOR was born about 1679; died on 22 Apr 1707.
    4. Thomas MINOR was born on 20 Sep 1683 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut; was christened on 14 Nov 1683 in First Church of Stonington; died on 9 Apr 1739 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Thomas MINER was born on 23 Apr 1608 in Chew Magna, Somerset, England (son of Clement MINER and Sarah POPE); died on 23 Oct 1690 in Quiambaug, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Wequetequock Cemetery, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Immigration: 1630, Sailed from England in the Ship "Arabella" and landed at Salem, June 14.
    • Residence: 1634, Removed to Saybrook, in the colony of Connecticut, with the younger John Winthrop and company.
    • Fact: 1646, Elected a townsman and admitted to the rights accorded freemen
    • Death: 03 Oct 1690

    Notes:

    A long stone of rough granite lies in the ancient burial ground at Wickulequack, almost buried in the turf beneath, and bears the following inscription:

    Here lyeth the body of Lieutenant Thomas Minor
    Aged Eighty three years, departed 1690

    Thomas married Grace PALMER on 29 Apr 1633/4. Grace (daughter of Walter PALMER and Ann/Elizabeth ?) was born in England; died on 31 Dec 1690 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Grace PALMER was born in England (daughter of Walter PALMER and Ann/Elizabeth ?); died on 31 Dec 1690 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.

    Notes:

    "Groups of Palmer Families from Walter Palmer of Charlestown and Rehoboth, Mass., Stonington, Conn. (1901) (NewEnglandAncestors.org)

    Grace Palmer, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Palmer, was born in England between the years 1608-10. She became a member of the First Church in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Mass., June 1, 1632, at the same time her father and step-mother united with it. She married, in Charlestown, Thomas Minor, who was born in Chew Magne, county Somerset, England, April 23, 1608, and was of the tenth generation in the Minor family. He came in the fleet which bore John Winthrop, future governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which put into port at Cape Ann, now Salem, Essex Co., Mass., Saturday, June 12, 1630.
    Thomas Minor received Lot 18 in the first division of land at Mystic Side, now Charlestown, on the sixth of the first month, 1637. His future father-in-law, Walter Palmer, receiving Lot 15.
    From Charlestown, Thomas Minor migrated, first to Hingham, Plymouth County, where four children were born, thence to Stonington, New London County, Conn., where he bouth a large tract of land lying on the borders of Wequetequack Cove, in 1652, whereon he built his house, having made a brief previous residence in Hingham, Plymouth Co. Mass. going thence to New London in 1645, where he had a grant of one home lot and built a house, but sold the whole to settle at his final abode in Stonington, where he met with some difficulty, by the fact that a grant of three hundred acres of land from the town of New London to Governor Haynes, and sold by the latter to Walter Palmer, being found to cover Minor's lot. He, however, signed the conveyance, qualifying it by the reservation that he should inhabit the place until he should have time to erect another dwelling at Mistupet. He held a very prominent place in all the stirring events which ensued in the settlement of this plantation where he died October 23, 1690. She died October, 1690, and is said to have been born the same year as her husband.

    Children:
    1. John MINER died on 17 Sep 1719 in Woodbury, Litchfield Count, Connecticut.
    2. Clement MINER was christened on 4 Mar 1638 in Hingham, Massachusetts; died in Oct 1700 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    3. Thomas MINER was christened on 10 May 1640 in Hingham, Massachusetts; died on 20 Apr 1662 in Narragansett, Washington Co., Rhode Island; was buried in Narragansett, Washington Co., Rhode Island.
    4. Ephraim MINER was christened on 1 May 1642 in Hingham, Massachusetts; died on 16 May 1724 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    5. Joseph MINER was christened on 25 Aug 1644 in Hingham, Massachusetts; died on 31 Jan 1710/1 in Stonington, Connecticut; was buried in Taugwonk Cemetery, Stonington, New London, Connecticut.
    6. 2. Manasseh MINER was born on 28 Apr 1647 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 22 Aug 1728 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    7. Ann MINER was born on 28 Apr 1649 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 13 Aug 1652 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    8. Maria MINER was born on 05 May 1651 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 29 Jan 1660 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    9. Samuel MINER was born on 04 Mar 1652 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died in 1682.
    10. Hannah MINER was born on 15 Sep 1655 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Clement MINER was born about 1546 in England (son of William MINER and Isabella HARCOPE); died on 31 Mar 1640 in England.

    Clement married Sarah POPE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Sarah POPE
    Children:
    1. 4. Thomas MINER was born on 23 Apr 1608 in Chew Magna, Somerset, England; died on 23 Oct 1690 in Quiambaug, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Wequetequock Cemetery, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.

  3. 10.  Walter PALMER was born after 1585 in Yetminster, Dorset, England; died on 10 Nov 1661 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: 1631, Made a Freeman
    • Residence: 1642, Removed to Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony.
    • Death: 1662

    Walter married Ann/Elizabeth ? about 1615 in England. Ann/Elizabeth was born in England; died in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Ann/Elizabeth ? was born in England; died in England.
    Children:
    1. 5. Grace PALMER was born in England; died on 31 Dec 1690 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    2. John PALMER was born in England; died on 24 Aug 1677 in Kinningworth, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.
    3. William PALMER was born in England.
    4. Jonah PALMER was born in England; died on 22 Jun 1709 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.
    5. Elizabeth PALMER was born in England.