Lydia Smith

Citations

1. [S575] New England Families, online nefamilies.com, Source 1. Genealogies of the Early Families of Weymouth, Mass.
   
   Source 2. History of Bridgewater, Plymouth, Mass. Book: 974.482/B2 D2m; The Death date for Nathaniel Packard is the date of his will which is 1720;
   
   There has been a long standing written and oral tradiation in the Packard and Kingman families that Nathaniel packard was married to Lydia Kingman, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Edson) Kingman. There is considerable evidence that Nathaniel packard was married to Lydia Smith, not Lydia Kingman. Lydia Smiths mother was a niece of Rev. John Eliot, apostle to the indians of Massachusetts Bay. Her fathers second wife was jael packard, daughter of Samuel Packard & Elizabeth Stream, making Jael a sister to Nathaniel Packard;
   
   Source 3: Mitchell, in his History of Bridgewater (source above) says of Nathaniel Packard, son of Samuel, that he married, probably, a daughter of John Kingman. Kingmans History of orth Bridgewater and the Genealogy of Samuel Pakcard 1871, repeat this statement as a fact.
   However, the settlement of the estate of John Kingman, made 19 March 1690, names the eldest son (John), second son, Henry, third son, Samuel, and three daughters; (The Genealogical Advertiser, vol. 2, pg: 60, gives the marriages of these three daughters of John Kingman, named in his will: They are as follows: Elizabeth, who married 1 Jan 1696 to Thomas Mitchell; Deliverance, who married Jacob Mitchell, the same date, and Susanna, who married 6 Dec. 1699, Chilton Latham. The three daughters mentioned in John Kingmans will are therefore accounted for and none married our Nathaniel Packard;
   
   The following data proves that Nathaniel Packard instead married Miss Smith, given name not known & daughter of John Smith of Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts;
   In Taungon, January the twenty first in the year sixteen hundred ninety and five or six, then I the subscriber received of Thomas Leonard executor to the estate of my father in law John Smith, deceased, an iron pot and pot hooks and a brass kettle and a tramill all to the value of twenty four shillings towards my wives due out of said deceased estate as witness, my hand, the day and year above written; (This document is then given the marke of Nathaniel T. Packard)
   This document is from Thomas Leonard Papers now in the possession of Charles E. Goodspeedl.
2. [S183] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (GPC) (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), 549, "Packard, Nathaniel2 (see Samuel) & [Lydia Smith]/Kingman?, dau John; b 1694, ca 1682, b 1696; Bridgewater, CT" and "Packard, Samuel2 (–1716) (see Nathaniel) & Elizabeth [Lathrop/Lydia Smith] (1662–1716); ca 1681, 1678?; Bridgewater/Duxbury". Online Ancestry.com.
3. [S575] New England Families, online nefamilies.com, Source 1. Genealogies of the Early Families of Weymouth, Mass.
   Source 2. History of Bridgewater, Plymouth, Mass. Book: 974.482/B2 D2m; The Death date for Nathaniel Packard is the date of his will which is 1720;
   There has been a long standing written and oral tradiation in the Packard and Kingman families that Nathaniel Packard was married to Lydia Kingman, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Edson) Kingman. There is considerable evidence that Nathaniel Packard was married to Lydia Smith, not Lydia Kingman. Lydia Smith's mother was a niece of Rev. John Eliot, apostle to the indians of Massachusetts Bay. Her father's second wife was Jael Packard, daughter of Samuel Packard & Elizabeth Stream, making Jael a sister to Nathaniel Packard;
   Source 3: Mitchell, in his History of Bridgewater (source above) says of Nathaniel Packard, son of Samuel, that he married, probably, a daughter of John Kingman. Kingman's History of North Bridgewater and the Genealogy of Samuel Pakcard (1871), repeat this statement as a fact.
   However, the settlement of the estate of John Kingman, made 19 March 1690, names the eldest son (John), second son, Henry, third son, Samuel, and three daughters; (The Genealogical Advertiser, vol. 2, pg: 60, gives the marriages of these three daughters of John Kingman, named in his will: They are as follows: Elizabeth, who married 1 Jan 1696 to Thomas Mitchell; Deliverance, who married Jacob Mitchell, the same date, and Susanna, who married 6 Dec. 1699, Chilton Latham. The three daughters mentioned in John Kingmans will are therefore accounted for and none married our Nathaniel Packard).
   
   The following data proves that Nathaniel Packard instead married Miss Smith, given name not known & daughter of John Smith of Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts;
   In Taunton, January the twenty first in the year sixteen hundred ninety and five or six, then I the subscriber received of Thomas Leonard executor to the estate of my father in law John Smith, deceased, an iron pot and pot hooks and a brass kettle and a tramill all to the value of twenty four shillings towards my wives due out of said deceased estate as witness, my hand, the day and year above written; (This document is then given the marke of Nathaniel T. Packard). This document is from Thomas Leonard Papers now in the possession of Charles E. Goodspeed.