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Lydia Spear

BIRTH: 29 Jan 1751/1752, prob, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island
DEATH: 10 Dec 1824, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
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Father: Elkanah Spear (____ - ____)
Mother: Elizabeth Capron (____ - ____)

Family 1: David Wilkinson (30 Oct 1748 - Bet 5 Apr and 29 May 1780)

Family 2: James Smith (23 Oct 1752 - AFT 22 Aug 1835)

MARRIAGE: 2 Jun 1791, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island

Lydia Smith (7 Jul 1792 - ____)

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Notes

!SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in _Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals_ (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:92.

!DEATH: At 63. --C.W. Farnham

!IDENTITY: "Possibly she is the Lydia, Daughter of Elkanah and Elizabeth Spear, who married David Wilkinson, [son] of Israel, in Smithfield 25 April 1773." --C.W. Farnham

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 1 Jan 2007. Confirms C.W. Farnham's suggestion that Lydia is the daughter of Elkanah and Elizabeth Spear (see above). Cites the following:

The marriage record: Smith, James {18951}, of Glocester, son of Rufus and Mercy, and Lydia Wilkinson, widow of David, of Smithfield. (src: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, 7:174, Smithfield Friends Record).
Lydia Spear {19007}, b. January 29, 1751/52, prob. Smithfield, Providence, RI is the daughter of Elkanah Spear {79607} and his wife Elizabeth {79608}. (src: James Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, 7:200, Smithfield Friends Record).

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