General Notes

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GIVN Lydia
SURN Penniman
DATE 29 May 1998
TIME 22:20:05
PEDI birth

!HISTORY:  Lydia's parentage is in question.  Tilden lists her as
the daughter of Richard Rockwood and Agnes Bicknell, which I believe
is incorrect.  Correspondence with John Penniman Cleeve, a direct
descendant of Lydia's brother, gives reference to the book "The
Penniman Family, 1631-1900", compiled by The Rev. Dr. G.W. Penniman.
<GWP>  GWP died in 1943, but his book was not published until 1981
"....with the permission of the Local History and Genealogical
Division, The New York Public Library; Astor, enox and Tilden
Foundations and The Braintree Historical Society".  GWP's book says
of Lydia:
"dau. James and Lydia was bapt. at 1st Church Boston, 22 Feb 1634-35
and married Ensign Edward Adams of Braintree and Medfield.  He was
born 1630 and a son of Henry.  He died in 1715 long after his wife
who had d. 3 Mar. 1675-6.  He left fourteen children, eight became
heads of families."
In the manuscript of Dr. Penniman, according to John Cleeve, all of
the grandchildren of James and Lydia were listed, except the
children of Lydia (Adams).  The unmentioned children were noticed in
1969 by Benjamin P. Richardson, Jr. of Cornish, VT who was examining
the family records at the Braintree Historical Society.  He is a
direct descendant of Lydia."
!MARR: IGI Massachusetts.
!BIR-MARR-DEA:  Ancestral File Submission
!DEA:  "History of the Town of Medfield 1650-1886" by William S.
Tilden, Boston,1887.  Note:  It is evident that Lydia died either as
a result of childbirth, or when their house was burned by the
Indians in the same year (1676)