Lydia Bates1

b. 25 February 1673
Lydia Bates|b. 25 Feb 1673|p968.htm|John Bates|b. 9 Jan 1641/42\nd. 11 Apr 1722|p906.htm|Mary Farwell|b. 26 Dec 1640\nd. 7 Mar 1713/14|p907.htm|Edward Bates|b. 1616\nd. a 28 Apr 1644|p963.htm|Lydia (—?—) (Bates-Fletcher)|d. 12 Oct 1704|p964.htm|Deacon Henry Farwell|b. c 1605\nd. 1 Aug 1670|p979.htm|Olive Welby|b. 17 Jun 1604\nd. 1 Mar 1691/92|p980.htm|

5th great-grandaunt of Louise Underwood.
7th great-grandaunt of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Lydia Bates was born on 25 February 1673 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1,2 She was the daughter of John Bates and Mary Farwell.1 She married Samuel Cotton on 22 July 1695 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1,3
     
     John Bates willed to the children of his daughter Lydia Cotton "that shall be alive at my death," dated 18 July 1716.1 She and Samuel Cotton had one known child.4

Citations

  1. [S184] Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian M. Wilson, compilers, A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass. 1605-1927, 2 volumes (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1929), 45.
  2. [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914), 23.
  3. [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 184.
  4. [S184] Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian M. Wilson, Farwell Family, 64.