Lydia Patten1

d. before 1802
Lydia Patten|d. b 1802|p7893.htm|Matthew Patten|b. c 1691\nd. 25 Sep 1773|p7538.htm|Margaret (—?—) (Patten)|d. b 1748|p7539.htm|NN Patten||p7915.htm||||||||||

4th great-grandaunt of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
6th great-grandaunt of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     Lydia Patten was the daughter of Matthew Patten and Margaret (—?—) (Patten).1 She died before 1802, unmarried.1
     
     Lydia Patten was living in Boston in 1770 when she received a legacy from her uncle William Patten.1 Lydia was named in her father's will of 31 August 1773: To his beloved daughters Lydia and Susanna, two-thirds of the Weare's landing land in Pepperellboro, bought from William Neck, all his right in the grist-mill on the western side of Saco River, the other half of his interest in the saw-mill in Biddeford, all of his household goods, four cows, two-fifths of the land at Deerwander, that part of "my old homestead farm which lies next to Thomas Emery's land" and pasturage and wood-cutting privileges.2

Additional Data
Lydia and Susanna Patten together sold two-thirds of one hundred and twenty acres to Thomas Sinnott in 1784.1

Sisters Jane Gray, Susanna Patten and Lydia Patten, and brother Robert, sold portions of the Deerwander acreage. They began selling in Phillipsburg (now Dayton and Hollis) in 1799.3

Citations

  1. [S726] Walter Goodwin Davis, "The Ancestry of James Patten," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants) compiled by Maine's Foremost Genealogist, 1916-1963), (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996), 3, 92.
  2. [S726] Walter Goodwin Davis, "The Ancestry of James Patten," MMF, 3, 91, 92, citing York Probate, 12 : 259.
  3. [S726] Walter Goodwin Davis, "The Ancestry of James Patten," MMF, 3, 92, citing York Deeds 51: 240; 63: 112; 70: 106.