ydia4, b. ca. 1728; d., Wareham
4 April 1789 aged 60 (Wareham First Church Records); mar. 4 Feb.
1747/8 Nathaniel Blackwell, Jr. of Dartmouth (ibid.), b.
ca. 1724; d. Freetown before 25 Aug. 1756; she returned to
Wareham, as the church records show: "Received from the 1st
Chh in Dartmouth 30 May 1784, Lydia Blackwell." Her children
are named in the will of their grandfather, Nathaniel3
Blackwell (The Register 117:194, Jul 1963). "Lydia Blackwell
of Wareham... seamstress", by deed 17 Jan 1789, sold to
Elisha Burgess a parcel of salt meadow at Quasuett, Wareham, and
other lots "that my Honoured father Nathan Landers dyed
seized of and all the meadow I hold by my sd Father's last Will"
(Plymouth County Deeds, 68:254). The grantee was Elisha5
Burgess who mar. her daughter, Desire Blackwell, and later
removed to Butternuts (Duanesburg), New York. [Lydia B. (Phinney)
Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers
of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:57]
Also have birth as abt 1728 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. [Plymouth & Cape Cod MA Genealogy]