Selected Families and Individuals

Source Citations

Thomas HATCH

¹Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com, contact : Stephen C. Miller. .

²Hale, Mrs. Ruth A. Hatch - Recorder of the Hatch Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Utah
Genealogy and History of the Hatch Family. ""There was a Thomas Hatch, an early proprietor of Dorchester, (Massachusetts Bay Records. Vol. 1, p. 369) He moved to Yarmouth, where he was propounded as a freeman Jan. 7, 1638 or 1639. Later he moved to Barnstable, where he was propounded as a freeman June 1, 1641. At Barnstable in Aug., 1643, he was on the list of those able to bear arms, that is he was between 16 and 60 years of age. He had land in both Yarmouth and Barnstable, and took the oath of fidelity in Yarmouth in 1657. He died about 1660, and on May 7, 1661, his widow, Grace, presented his inventory. On March 3, 1662-3 administration on his estate was granted to Jonathan Hatch and Lydia, wife of Henry Taylor, who were without doubt, his children. (Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, Vol. 2, p. 31). this Thomas Hatch of Dorchester, Yarmouth, and Barnstable did not belong to the Hatch family of Scituate which came from Kent County, England.""Thomas Hatch of family "B" is supposed to have been born about 1603. Of his life previous to his removal to New England, not much is known to us. He married a young woman by the name of Grace, probably as a second wife. Her family name seems not now to be known but she is said to have been of Welch extraction, and in this connection there is a pretty little romance which has been preserved among his descendants to this day. "Miss Grace, it seems, was a very winsome and popular young woman and Thomas had more than one rival for her heart and hand. But the contest finally simmered down to Thomas and one other, and Miss Grace found it difficult to decide which she liked the better. Finally, as they were farmers, it was agreed by all concerned that fate should be determined by a reaping match, he who could reap a certain equal measured portion of a field of grain, to get the prize. And Miss Grace, being herself a farmer's daughter and a skillful reaper determined that she also would have a hand in the contest, that was to decide her fate consequently she, with true feminine diplomacy had her equal portion staked out between the other two and the contest began. Reaping grain at that time was done by the hand sickle. In the meantime as her fate was so near a determination, Miss Grace did some vigorous thinking as is apt to be the case when events of serious consequences are imminent and having concluded that, on the whole, she rather liked Thomas a little the better, she slyly cut over a little onto Thomas' portion, thus enabling him to finish slightly ahead.It was probably early in the year of 1634 that Thomas Hatch removed with his family to the wilderness of the New World, during the great Puritan emigration from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.May 14, 1634 he was by vote of the court of General Assembly made a freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony. The court at that time was very strict as to whom they admitted the right to vote and have a voice in the management of the public affairs of the Colony. To become a freeman of the colony one must be 25 years of age, a man having a family, a freeholder (or land owner) and be a member of the Puritan or Congregational church. They admitted no vagabonds or irresponsible persons into public affairs at that time.Thomas Hatch was a public spirited citizen and a man of business ability and during his residence in Massachusetts Bay Colony, must have acquired some property and been a man of influence in the locality where he lived. According to the town records of Dorchester, Mass., under date of December 29, 1634., "It is ordered that John Philips and Thomas Hatch shall have, each of them, two acres of land that lies betwixt the ends of the great lots and three acres that is granted to Alexander Miller, if so much there be, provided they leave sufficient highway at their great lots." These two acres were apparently some remnants of land that did not come within the bounds of "their great lots" as laid out.January 7, 1639, Thomas Hatch and nine others whose names are given applied to Plymouth Colony for grant of leave to purchase land a conclusion that he must have been a land holder in the town.He died in Barnstable in 1661 probably in April or May. May 27, 1661 an inventory of his personal estate was taken by Isaac Robinson and Thomas Ewer and sworn to by his widow Grace. It amounted to 17 pounds 18 shillings. Authorities are agreed that he was of exemplary character and a very pious man. What became of his widow Grace, seems not to be known."

³Plymouth Colony Records, Wills and Inventories 1633-1669
Edited by C. H. Simmons, Jr., Picton Press, Camden, Maine.Date: 27 May 1661
 Vol I. "Title: InventoryPage: "Vol. II, Part II 65, p. 137Text: A true Inventory of the goods of Thomas hatch of Barnstable lately Deceased taken by Isacke Robinson and Thomas Ewer;lb. S. ds.Imprmi: his working tooles 02 14 00It ffor a Cubbert not fully finished 01 10 00It ffor a wearing Clothes 03 00 00It ffor beding and bedsted 06 00 00It ffor potts pewter and brasse 01 02 00It ffor bookes 00 06 00It ffor other lumber 01 12 00It ffor Timber and glew 00 14 00It ffor an Instrument Called a violen 01 00 0014 18 00by us whose names are underwrittenIsacke RobinsonThomas EwerGrace hatch late wife of the above said Thomas hatch Deceased was deposed to the truth of this above mensioned Inventory this 27th of June 1661 before mee.Thomas hinckleyAssistant."."

Grace

¹Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com. Contact: Stephen C. Miller
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Thomas BRIGHAM

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Mary RICE

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Elizabeth MOORE

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Edmund RICE Deacon

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

²Sumner Chilton Powell, Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, Wesleyan Univ. Press, Hanover, NH,1963. won the Pulitzer prize for history in 1964.  Much of this book is about Peter Noyes and his yeoman role in creating the town of Sudbury. Much of "Puritan Village, The Formation of a New England Town" is about Edmund Rice and his differences with Peter Noyes in creating the town of Sudbury.

³Edmund Rice Association Website, http://www.edmund-rice.org/edmund.htm. "Who was Edmund Rice?  

  Edmund Rice arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1638. Our first record of his presence is in Township Book of the Town of Sudburyin the year 1639.  Regrettably, no ship's passenger list has survived and we have no record of Edmund Rice and his family before 1639 so we can not be certain when or where he and his family arrived in the New World.
   Knowing the names of Edmund Rice's children at Sudbury, family historians have traced his family back to England using church baptismal records for his children and, eventually, to his marriage to Thomasine Frost on 15 October 1618 at Bury  St. Edmunds. However, we have found no record of his baptism or any other record that names his parents. Read more about the search for Edmund Rice's ancestry on another of these pages.
   As yeomen farmers Edmund Rice and the other early settlers at Sudbury were well prepared for the tasks of forming and governing a new community.  As yeomen they had assumed with both personal and community responsibilities back in England.  As Protestant churchmen they had been encouraged to read and write so that they could study and understand their Bible. Although not of the noble class, they had shared many community and church responsibilities in their former communities inEngland.
   Edmund Rice was one of the prominent leaders of his community at both Sudbury and Marlborough. In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, PuritanVillage, The formation of a New England Town, Sumner Chilton Powell sums up the high regard that his fellow citizens had for Edmund: "Not only did Rice become the largest individual landholder in Sudbury, but he represented his new town in the Massachusetts legislature for five years and devoted at least eleven of his last fifteen years to serving asselectman and judge of small causes." and "Two generations of Sudbury men selected Edmund Rice repeatedly as one of their leaders, with the full realization that they were ignoring men of far more English government experience who had come with him." If your ancestry goes back to Sudbury, be sure to read Powell's superb account of the development of this NewEngland town in the mid 17th century.
   Although much respected by his fellow townsmen, Edmund seems to have had an independent side to his nature. In 1656 Edmund Rice and others petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for a new town which  became the City of Marlborough. Edmund moved his immediate family and was elected a Selectman at Marlborough in 1657. Later generations of Rices were founding members of many new communities, first in New England and Nova Scotia, and later across the United States and Canada.
   Like many early New England families, Edmund Rice's family was a very large one. Of his twelve children, ten survived to have children of their own. Edmund Rice's descendants through his great great grandchildren number nearly 1,450. This pattern of large families seems to have continued well into the 19th century. The result is that many living people can trace their ancestry to Edmund Rice."

⁴Edmund Rice Association Website, Our Mysterious Ancestor. "Deacon Edmund Rice 1,2
Deacon Edmund Rice was born circa 1594 at England. As reported later in this account of
Edmund Rice, no record of his birth or christening has been found.1 Deacon Edmund Rice
married 1st Thomasine Frost, daughter of Edward Frost and Thomasine Belgrave, on 15 October
1618 at Saint Marys Church, Bury Saint Edmunds, co Suffolk, England.3,2,4,5 Deacon Edmund
Rice married Mercy Hurd on 1 March 1655/56 at Sudbury, MA (literally 1655) registered as
Mary Brigham.2,6 Deacon Edmund Rice died on 3 May 1663 at Sudbury, MA (not found in the
published records).1,2 He was buried at Old Burying Ground, Wayland, MA. One possible site of
the grave is marked by a monument designed by Arthur Wallace Rice of Boston, MA. It was
dedicated by the Edmund Rice Association on 29 August 1914. A boulder with a bronze tablet
was also erected by the Association and it marks Edmund's homestead on the Old Connecticut
Path in Wayland.2
Deacon Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost resided in 1627 at Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire,
England.7,8
In 1638 Edmund Rice acquired 4 acres in then Sudbury (now Wayland) and laid out in the fall of
that year. He was one of the first to build in the area. According to Massachusetts Colonial
Records, Volume 1, page 271, on 4 September 1639 Edmund Rice was one of the committee
appointed by the Massachusetts General Court to lay out the land in Sudbury.
Edmund Rice's house was situated on the "Old North Street," near Mill brook. He received his
proportion of "Meadowlands," which were divided "to the present inhabitants" under dates of 4
September 1639, 20 April, and 18 November 164-, his share being 42½ acres. He shared in all the
division of Uplands and Commons - the total number of acres which fell to his lot, as an original
inhabitant, was 247.9,10
Deacon Edmund Rice was a Selectman in 1639, 1643, 1644 and subsequent years; a Deacon of
the church in 1648, and, in 1656, one of the petitioners for a new plantation that became known
as Marlborough at Sudbury, MA.11,12 He was designated a Freeman on 13 May 1640 at
Massachusetts.13,14 Edmund Rice was recorded as being present as a Deputy at the Massachusetts
General Court (legislative assembly) in Boston on 7 October 1640.15 On 2 June 1641 at Boston
Edmund Rice was appointed an assosiate [sic] for the Courts and comission'r for the toune [sic]
of Sudberry [sic].16 He was a deputy to the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (the
Massachusetts legislature) representing the Town of Sudbury, serving on 27 May 1652, 18 May
1653, and 3 May 1654 between 1652 and 1654 at Boston, MA.17 He resided after 1656 at
Marlborough, MA, lived on "The Great Road" on the northerly side of the pond (Cochituate
Pond), not far fromWilliams Tavern. The pond is also spelled Wachittuate, Caochituet,
Chochichawicke, Coijchawicke, Catchchauitt, Charchittawick, Katchetuit, Cochichawauke, or
Cochichowicke.18
Twice in the 20th century nationally recognized research genealogists have attempted to
determine the parents and ancestors of Edmund Rice. Mary Lovering Holman described the
negative result of her search for records in the parishes near Stanstead and Sudbury, Suffolk
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County, England in "English Notes on Edmund Rice," The American Genealogist, Volume 10
(1933/34), pp. 133 - 137. Mrs Holman is considered by many to be one of the best research
genealogists in the 20th century. I n 1997 the Edmund Rice (1638) Association commissioned Dr.
Joanna Martin, a nationally recognized research genealogist who lives in Hitcham, Suffolk,
England, only a few miles from Stanstead and Sudbury, to search again for records of Edmund
Rice's parents. Dr. Martin reported in 1999 that she found no record that identified Edmund's
parents or ancestral line.
Several authors of published works and computer data sets have claimed names for Edmund
Rice's parents. Regrettably they have not given sources that would assist in definitive
genealogical research. For example, the Ancestral File and International Genealogical Index, two
popular computer data sets widely distributed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,
offer parent candidates that include: Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Henry Rice and Elizabeth
Frost, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, and Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost.
From Mrs. Holman's paper we have an excellent record of one Henry Rice's marriage to Elizabeth
Frost in November 1605 at Stanstead. Mrs. Holman also documents the baptism of Edmund's first
child on 23 August 1619 at Stanstead. If this is the Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost to which the
LDS records refer, the LDS records must be erroneous. Our researchers have not been able to
find records that support any Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Henry Rice and Margaret Baker,
Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, or Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost as parents of Edmund
Rice.
A scholarly investigation by Donald Lines Jacobus, considered by many as the dean of modern
American genealogy, appeared in The American Genealogist, volume 11, (1936), pp. 14-21 and
was reprinted in the fall of 1968 and the winter of 1998 issues of Newsletter of the Edmund Rice
(1638) Association. Jacobus traced many of the false accounts to the book by Dr. Charles Elmer
Rice entitled "By the Name of Rice," privately published by Dr. Rice at Alliance, Ohio in 1911.
Sudbury, England includes three parishes, two of which do not have complete records for the
years near 1594, which is Edmund's most likely birth year. Edmund Rice deposed in a court
document on 3 April 1656 that he was about 62 years old. Thus, if he were born in Sudbury his
records have been lost and we may never know his origin.
In his address to the 1999 annual meeting of the Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Gary Boyd
Roberts, Senior Researcher, New England Historic Genealogy Society, reviewed all of the
genealogical sleuthing on Edmund's parentage. Mr. Roberts is well known for his research on
royal lineage. He concluded that there was no evidence whatsoever that supports the published
accounts of Edmund Rice's parents and no evidence that Edmund Rice was from a royal lineage.
The Edmund Rice (1638) Association is very interested in proving the ancestry of Edmund Rice.
The association encourages anyone who can identify a primary source that names Edmund and his
parents to identify that source. Records of a baptism, estate probate, or land transaction naming
Edmund and his parents are the most likely records to contain that proof. Until someone can cite
such a record, the association must state emphatically that Edmund Rice's parents and ancestry
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are not known and that Edmund Rice's descendants can not claim royal ancestry.19,20,21
Children of Deacon Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost
* Henry Rice1
* Mary Rice
* Deacon Edward Rice
* Thomas Rice
* Lydia Rice
* Matthew Rice
* Daniel Rice
* Samuel Rice
* Joseph Rice
* Benjamin Rice
Children of Deacon Edmund Rice and Mercy Hurd (?)
* Lydia Rice
* Ruth Rice
Citations
1. [S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, Rice Family (Ward), p. 5.
2. [S3] Rice Gen'l Register, p. 1.
3. [S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, Rice Family (Ward).
4. [S258] Harold F Porter, "The Strutt Ancestry of Thomasine Frost", p. 166.
5. [S1171] Letter, Dr Joanna Martin to Dr Robert V Rice, 13 November 1997.
6. [S2365] SudburyMA, Sudbury, MA, Vital Records, p. 258.
7. [S53] Mary Lovering Holman, "TAG, Vol. X, Notes on Edmund Rice", p. 136.
8. [S120] David Kent Young, Young, Siobhan Eddy.
9. [S228] Josiah H Temple, Framingham Families (Temple), pp. 680-681.
10. [S1150] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Massachusetts colonial records, vol. I, p. 271.
11. [S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, Rice Family (Ward), p. 1.
12. [S3036] Sudbury, MA, Town records: book 1.
13. [S233] Lucius R. Paige, Freemen of Massachusetts.
14. [S1150] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Massachusetts colonial records, vol. I, p. 377.
15. [S1150] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Massachusetts colonial records, vol. I, p. 301.
16. [S1150] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Massachusetts colonial records, vol. I, p. 328.
17. [S1150] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Massachusetts colonial records, vol. 3, pp. 259, 297, 340.
18. [S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, Rice Family (Ward), p. 2.
19. [S53] Mary Lovering Holman, "TAG, Vol. X, Notes on Edmund Rice", pp. 133 - 137.
20. [S60] D. L Jacobus, TAG - 11, pp. 14 - 21.
21. [S61] Mary Lovering Holman, The American Genealogist, p. 227."

Tamazine FROST

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Thomas GILBERT Jr.

¹Douglas Richardson, M.A.. 

HE ENGLISH ORIGIN OF THOMAS1 GILBERT OF BRAINTREE, MASS., AND WETHERSFIELD, CONN., Douglas Richardson, M.A.. 
"WHO WAS LYDIA GILBERT, EXECUTED FOR WITCHCRAFT IN 1654?
Although past researchers have not been positive about the name of Thomas1 Gilbert's wife, some thought that he might have spent some time in Windsor, Conn., and that this wife was the Lydia Gilbert condemned for witchcraft in 1654 at Windsor. The case both for and against this identification is made in The Gilbert Family. As I shall show below, it was Thomas Gilbert Jr., not Sr., who lived at Windsor. And from the Yardley parish register, we now know that Thomas1 Gilbert's wife was Elizabeth Bennett; if she was his unnamed wife who died at about the same time he did, he could not have married Lydia. Who then was Lydia Gilbert?
Recent research indicates that the immigrant's eldest son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., did not accompany the rest of the family to New England about 1640. Rather, it appears that he married first on 17 Sept. 1639 in All Saints parish, West Bromwich, co. Stafford, England, to Mary James (FHL film #873,647). West Bromwich is some eight miles from Yardley. Following their marriage, they had a daughter, Mary, baptized at Yardley in 1641. Shortly before 24 Jan. 1644/5, Thomas Gilbert Jr. immigrated to New England, for on that date, he bought a five acre houselot in Windsor, Conn., from Francis Stiles (Gilbert Fam. p. 14). The Windsor man has been identified as Thomas Gilbert Sr., but since Thomas Sr. was still living in Braintree, Mass., as late as May 1646, he could not have been the Windsor resident.
Windsor records show that sometime prior to 1652, Thomas Gilbert [Jr.] conveyed his houselot in Windsor to John Drake Sr. and, in turn, acquired an 113/4 acre houselot from Josiah Hull (Gilbert Fam. p. 14). Afterwards, he sold this second Windsor houselot to Thomas Bissell and in 1655 left Windsor for Springfield, Mass. (Gilbert Fam. pp. 14, 50-52). While still "of Windsor," he entered into a marriage contract on 23 May 1655 with Katherine (Chapin) Bliss, the widow of Nathaniel Bliss of Springfield (Joseph H. Smith, ed., Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts (1639-1702): The Pynchon Court Record [Cambridge, Mass., 1961], hereafter Pynchon Court Rec., p. 233). He thereafter lived in Springfield where he died in 1662 (Gilbert Fam. pp. 50-52).
It is apparent that Thomas Gilbert Jr. was widowed before 23 May 1655, when he signed the marriage contract with widow Bliss. Lydia Gilbert of Windsor was condemned to death for witchcraft at a court session which began on 28 Nov. 1654 (Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639- [Hartford 1928] p. 131):
[Indictment] Lydea GiIburt thou art heere indited by that name of Lydea Gilburt that not hauing the feare of god before thy Eyes thou hast of late years or still dust give Entertainement to Bather [sic] the greate Enemy of god and mankinde and by his helpe hast killed the Body of Henry Styles besides other witchcrafts for which according to the law of god and the Estableshed law of this Comon wealth thou deservest to Dye.
[Verdict] ye Party above mentioned is found guilty of witchcraft by ye Jury.
The court record does not identify Lydia Gilbert, but she almost certainly was Thomas Gilbert Jr.'s wife. We can be reasonably sure of this, for Lydia Gilbert was accused of using witchcraft to kill Henry Stiles of Windsor, who had been Thomas Gilbert Jr.'s former employer (Gilbert Fam. pp. 14-19). If this conclusion is correct, Thomas Gilbert Jr. had at least three wives: Mary James, whom he married in 1639 in England; Lydia _____, who was executed for witchcraft in 1654; and Katherine (Chapin) Bliss of Springfield, Mass., whom he married in 1655.
In addition to Thomas Gilbert Jr.'s known issue by his marriage to widow Bliss, he had surviving children by an earlier marriage who have never been identified, for in his will, dated 3 May 1662 and probated 20 Sept. 1662, be specifically left a sum of money to "my sons and daughters which are in the first family" (Gilbert Fam. p. 51). My own efforts to identify them have not gone beyond finding that Clarence Almon Torrey lists no stray Gilberts who married prior to 1700 in the Connecticut River Valley (New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [Baltimore 1985]).".

Lydia

¹contact: Lisa Gorman, New England Witch Trial Lines, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=witchtrials&id=I1863, Ancestry.com. "# : I1863
# Name: Lydia Unknown
# Sex: F
# Death: 28 NOV 1654 in Hartford, Connecticut
# Note:

   Tried and convicted of witchcraft 11/28/1654 in Windsor, Connecticut, sentenced to hang.
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   The practice of accusations brought forth, resulting trials and, if convicted, the execution by hanging of people(s) "... giving entertainment to Satan..." was started in 1647 in Connecticut. Lydia Gilbert was one of the unfortunate people so charged. It is believed that she was the 5th victim of this dreadful practice in colonial Connecticut history. The case was a travesty, as we might perceive the proceedings today, and records dramatically demonstrate this. There is no way, however, to compare, or to relate to, the society as it existed then without a thorough study of the psychology and/or sociology of those times.
   In the autumn of 1651, in Windsor, Conn. an unfortunate 'accident' took place during training exercises by a group of local militiamen. One Thomas Allyn of Windsor, was carrying his musket in a cocked position and inadvertantly hit it against a tree causing it to fire. It struck another trainee and mortally wounded him - he being Henry Stiles an older gentleman of about 52 years of age.
   Thomas Allyn was taken before the "particular court" of the colony and indicted for this accident. He confessed and was found guilty of "..homicide by misadventure.." He was ordered to pay a substantial fine and was 'bound to good behavior' for a period of one year plus was not allowed to bear arms for that period. We might think that would mark the end of the story.
   Apparently the topic of the Stiles death continued on however as talk, rumors, assumptions and ultimately accusations persisted. As a consequence, three years after the accident, records of the Particular Court held at Pequott (now New Haven, Conn.) 24 March 1654 show that an attempt was made to fasten the blame for the accident on witchcraft and was followed by the indictment of Lydia Gilbert, of Windsor. She was accused, by her neighbors, of the practice of witchcraft and they put forth their charges that her abilities as such had enabled her to make the musket of Thomas Allyn discharge. A special session of the court was held starting 28 November 1654 to try the case of witchcraft against her. She was charged with '..procuring the death of Henry Stiles..'. One sole panel of jurors was named. They entered the indictment, heard the evidence and brought forth the verdict which reads: "Ye party is found guilty of witchcraft by the jury".
   The indictment reads: "Lydea Gilburt thou art here indited by that name of Lydea Gilburt that not having the feare of God before thy eyes thou hast of late years or still dust give entertainment to Sathan ... and by his help has killed the body of Henry Stiles besides other witchcrafts .... thou deservest to dye".
   Eventho no record of an actual execution has been uncovered it is doubtful that she escaped the gallows. The verdict "Thou deservest to dye.." was an unescapable sentance. It is felt that she may well have gone to her death either in the jailyard in Hartford but more likely on the lot at the corner of Albany Ave. and Vine St. in Hartford where the public gallows is known to have existed.
   Lydia has been, and still today remains, a mystery in the ancestral lines of the early Gilbert's in the colonies. Her place in these lines has been heavily debated by researchers for many years. It has never been proven who, she was actually the wife of - Thomas Gilbert-1 the Father, or his son Thomas-2 - thus the long standing
   mystery !!
   In the writings and records of H. W. Brainard he states that there were four sons of Lydia who became substantial citizens of Wethersfield and Hartford and were frequent office holders. However no records of such people have been traced and 'proven' as connections to Lydia. J. Wingate Thorton's research, ca 1850, states that Jonathan Gilbert (brother of Thomas-2) b 8 June 1617 - Yardley, Worcestershire was Marshall of the Colony at the time of Lydia's trial, and as such was faced with a most difficult task when he was obliged to condemn his 'mother' to die. If this be true it would mean that she was the wife of Thomas-1 but land holdings records show that Thomas-2 bought , and lived on, lands of Francis Stiles, the father of Henry, and that there appeared to be animosity between Henry and Thomas and Lydia Gilbert. Henry had been a boarder in the the Gilbert household.
   Anyone caring to debate, compare records and/or having information regarding this lady's familial background would be encouraged to contact me (bthomson@catskill.net) I am a direct descendant of this Gilbert family."

Robert GOUSHILL (Sir Knight)

¹Ojibwe.info   Genealogical Database, Ojibwe.info.

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Elizabeth Don FITZALAN Dutchess of Norfolk

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Richard FITZALAN Earl of Arundel

¹Ancestry.com, Millenium File.

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Elizabeth DE BOHUN

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²Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, Millenium File.

William DE BOHUN Earl of Northhampton

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²Ancestry.com, Millenium File.

³Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf.

Elizabeth DEBADLESMERE

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Humphrey BOHUN Earl of Hereford

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Princess of England ELIZABETH

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(Longshanks)King of England EDWARD I

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²Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf.

Eleanor Princess of Castille and Leon

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.