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Lydia Perkins[1, 2, 3, 4]

Female Bef 1639 -


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  • Name Lydia Perkins 
    Birth Bef 8 Dec 1639  [3] 
    Gender Female 
    Religion Quaker  [5]
    Person ID I785  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 1 May 2003 

    Father Isaac Perkins,   b. 26 Jan 1612, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Nov 1685, Hampton, New Hampshire, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Susanna Wise 
    Marriage Y  [6] 
    Family ID F354  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eliakim Wardwell,   b. Nov 1634, Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1692, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 57 years)  [3, 4, 7] 
    Marriage 17 Oct 1659  Hampton, New Hampshire, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10] 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Wardwell
     2. Esther Wardwell
     3. Lydia Wardwell
     4. Mary Wardwell
     5. Meribah Wardwell
     6. Patience Wardwell
     7. Eliakim Wardwell
     8. Joseph Wardwell,   b. 20 Dec 1660, Hampton, New Hampshire, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. William Wardwell,   b. 23 May 1664   d. 1696 (Age 31 years)
     10. Margaret Wardwell,   b. 23 May 1664, Hampton, New Hampshire, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1740 (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F2548  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

  • Event Map
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  • Notes 

    • Lydia Perkins who perhaps as much as any other individual invested the name of Wardwell with memorable interest. She and her husband were both sympathetic with the work of the Quaker cause. As their activities in this direction weakened and Lydia in particular absented herself from the service.

      In the year 1663, the Elders called upon her to appear before them and explain. Lydia paid no attention. The Elders repeated the request. Again she ignored the call. Then the request became an order. This time she responded in a most startling fashion.... Into the Newbury meeting house she marched without a stitch of clothing.

      She intended this act to be taken as a sign of the native innocence of men and women, enforcing her protest against the treatment her husband had received at the hands of the priests and rulers in attempting to curb his Quaker sympathies. Her own rationalization of the incident is not easy for the mind to the present day to follow but we may be sure there was only sincerity, not wantonness in her decision to create a crisis in her relations with the church. George Bishop, in his "New England Judged" fully vindicates her as "A Young, tender chaste woman" who withdrew from the church for what seemed to her compelling reasons.

      Lydia was now arrested, taken to Ipswich and tried at a quarterly Sessions Court of Essex County. The trial was held in the White Horse Tavern on High Street. Lydia, still determined, was forcibly re clothed, fined ten shillings and costs and sentenced to be tied to the horse rail in front of the tavern and given thirty lashes on her bare back.

  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S147] Connecticut Genealogies, 00113.

    2.  2.  [S482] Torrey 1st, 779, 00395.

    3.  3.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 542, 00218.

    4.  4.  [S576] TGMSP, Thomas Wardwell, 00516.

    5.  5.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 719, 00218.

    6.  6.  [S937] Chase - Seven Generations, 482, 00098.

    7.  7.  [S307] Vital Records of Hampton, NH, Vol. 1, 74, 00583.

    8.  8.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 542 and 719, 00218.

    9.  9.  [S544] First Settlers of New England, Vol. 4., 416, 00193.

    10.  10.  [S34] Penobscot Pioneers, Volume 4, 107, 00420.