Lydia Holt^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]}

1693 - 1776  (82 years)

• Name	Lydia Holt  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Birth	05 Nov 1693	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America   [3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Christening	05 Nov 1693	First Congregational Church, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America   [7]
  Gender	Female
  Death	31 Aug 1776	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America   [3, 8, 9]
  Burial	Sep 1776	Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States   [3, 9]
  Person ID	I312684225389	Oswald Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	Eleazer Holt,   b. 05 Apr 1651, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America d. 24 Jun 1736, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Tabitha Thomas,   b. 18 Dec 1653, Quinnipiac, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America d. 18 Aug 1725, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	05 Nov 1674	New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
  Family ID	F1492	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Stephen Sperry,   c. 09 Apr 1699, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States d. 17 Feb 1765, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age ~ 65 years)
  Marriage	Abt. 1739	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
  Family ID	F1475	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

  Family 2	John Bassett,   c. 03 Dec 1699, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America d. 11 Jul 1726, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America (Age ~ 26 years)
  Marriage	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America
  Family ID	F1476	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

• Notes

  !See notes for her husband. "Families o !See notes for her husband. "Families of Ancient New Haven" gives her christening and death, daughter of Eleazer Holt and Tabitha Thomas, widoe of John Bassett Ancestral File (TM)-ver 4.17 as of 27 Se Ancestral File (TM)-ver 4.17 as of 27 Sep. 1997. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. One AF record shows her name as Lydia Holt Bassett, perhaps indicatingthat she was previously married to a Mr. Bassett. "Lydia, the youngest daughter of Eleaza "Lydia, the youngest daughter of Eleazar Holt, was born at New Havenin 1693, and captized November fifth of that same year. ..... (P) Shemarried February the fourth, 1724, John Bassett. ..... Lydia outlivedall her brothers and sisters. She died at New Haven, August 31, 1776,a little more than a month after the Declaration of Independence...... In her youth the sheep grazed on the hillside and the blue flaxbent to the breeze in the meadows. Every girl was taught to spin thewool and the flax and to weave their thread into cloth. The most ofthe people wore linen or wool, or sometimes a combination known asLinsey-woolsey. But New Haven was a rich community, and, excepting toevade the English taxes, the people were now [at the end of Lydia'slifetime] importing material from England. The shop keepers kept avaried assortment and the high cost of living was talked about eventhen. ..... New Haven had been from the beginning on the direct lineof the mail service between Boston and New York. As early as 1673, apost-rider left New York the first Monday of each month with a sealedbag of mail for Boston. He changed horses at Hartford and was to beback in New York with the Boston mail in time to start again the firstMonday of the following month. He followed the Indian trail fromlower Broadway, then the old Mohican path through Weschester, alongthe Sound, to New Haven, along the river to Springfield, thence toWorcester and Boston. Travellers often accompanied the post-rider.One lady, a Boston school teacher, wrote in her diary that she leftBoston on Monday, Oct. 2, 1704, at three P.M. and arrived at New Havenat 2 P.M. on Saturday the sixth. She remained in New York Yorkthe ninth. Throughout the life of Lydia HOlt the mail was carried bypost-riders, but their number had increased and the better roads madethe deliveryof mail safer and speedier. In 1775, an independentpostoffice was established in New York with John Holt as the firstpostmaster. (P) Only about four years before the d eath of Lydia wasthe great innovation, the true beginning of our transportation, thestage coach. This was a box-wagon mounted on springs with four seatswhich accommodated eleven passengers besides the driver. It had acanvas or leather-covered top and side curtains for inclement weather.The seats were without backs excepting the rear seats which had thewagon itself for support. It set out on a Monday morning via Hartfordand returned by Saturday evening. The price to passengers was 4d NewYork money, or 3d lawful money, per mile. (P) The stage coach wasnever very popular, for during the administration of George Washingtontwo coaches and twelve horses supplied the demand." --- Clara Holt Whitmore in *The First Three Generations of Holts inAmerica*, no date, p 271-2 ! Dau/o Eleazer & Tabitha (Thomas) Holt ! Dau/o Eleazer & Tabitha (Thomas) Holt & wid/o John Bassett. ! NHT1 and NHC1 records list Lydia as ae 83 at death. chr. 5 Nov 1693 chr. 5 Nov 1693

  
  

• Sources

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