The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Cole · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Lydia Cole

Born 1709, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. Died 1776, Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.

Lydia Cole (1 August 1709 – 22 June 1776) was a Connecticut colonist, born at Farmington, who with her husband Zebulon Curtis moved to the new town of Torrington in the early 1740s and raised six children there. She was the fifth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her son John Curtis (1748–1790).

Early life

She was born at Farmington, in Hartford County, Connecticut Colony, the daughter of Nathaniel Cole (1682–1743) and Elizabeth Woodford (1682–before 1739). Her father’s family were among the first settlers of the Great Swamp, the part of Farmington that later became Kensington and Berlin. A printed abstract of the Hartford probate records gives her father’s will, dated 20 March 1738/9, as naming her “eldest daughter Lydia, the wife of Zebulon Curtiss.”

Marriage and family

She married Zebulon Curtis (1710–1798), son of Captain Thomas Curtis, on 3 July 1735. The Farmington town record of the marriage describes both of them as “of Farmington”. Their eldest child, Elizabeth, was born in 1737, probably at Farmington. A Curtis family genealogy records that Zebulon came to Torrington with Ebenezer North, and that the two men bought land there in 1741. Their children born from 1745 onward were recorded at Torrington. The couple had six children, born between 1737 and 1751: Elizabeth, Thomas, Marcy, Job, John and Lydia. The Torrington records name Lydia as the mother of the youngest, Lydia, born in December 1751, and of John, born in 1746. Two of her children married into the Filley family: her son John married Mary Filley in 1769, and her daughter Marcy became Marcy Filley.

On 9 June 1754, Lydia and Zebulon were admitted to the Torrington church together, along with his mother, Mary Curtis. The family did well at Torrington. By the time Zebulon wrote his will in 1790, he held interests in saw and grist mills at Norfolk and New Hartford, and a hundred acres of land in Vermont.

Death

She died at Torrington on 22 June 1776, aged sixty-six. Her husband outlived her by almost twenty-two years and died at Torrington in 1798. His will, written in 1790, names all six of their children as one family. It also records that two of them, Thomas and Marcy, had died before him. The family record places her burial at Kensington, in her father’s home parish, rather than at Torrington, where she died. No gravestone or burial entry confirming this has been found.

Notes

A family chart compiled in 1994 gives her birth year as 1719. The family record gives 1709.

Family time line

◉ Lydia Cole 1709–1776
◉ Zebulon Curtis 1710/1711–1798 ⚔
Married 3 Jul 1735, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, Farmington, Connecticut Colony
○ Elizabeth Curtis 1737–1801
○ Thomas Curtis 1739–1776 ⚔
○ Marcy Freeman Curtis 1740–
○ Job Curtis 1745–1807
◉ John Curtis 1748–bef 1790
○ Lydia Curtis 1751–1820

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth 1 Aug 1709 Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America from a compiled source
Death 22 Jun 1776 Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States on record
17091776 172017301740175017601770

Sources

  • Connecticut, Births and Christenings - Lydia Cole, b. 1 Aug 1709, Farmington — Birth, about this person
  • Connecticut, U.S., Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) — Death, name
  • Torrington, Connecticut. Births, marriages and deaths 1741-1849, page 13 - Curtis entries — Death, about this person
  • Farmington, Connecticut. Marriages in the Town of Farmington (from land records vols 1-47), FS DGS 007730387 image 306 — about this person, Marriage (Zebulon Curtis)
  • Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 — about this person
  • Manwaring, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, vol. III p.394 — Nathaniel Cole of Kensington, will 20 Mar 1738/9 — about this person
  • The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Fairfield 1639-1850 Farmington 1645-1850 — Marriage (Zebulon Curtis)

Borders as they stood about 1715 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. Nathaniel Cole abt 1678–1743
  2. Elizabeth Woodford 1682–bef 1739
    1. Joseph Woodford –bef 1710
    2. Rebecca Newell abt 1643–
      1. Thomas Newell –bef 1689
        1. Thomas Newell 1585–1672
          1. Richard Newell 1565–
          2. Frances (surname unknown) 1565–
        2. Francis (surname unknown) 1590–1683
      2. Rebecca (surname unknown)
        1. Richard Olmstead 1579–1641
          1. James Olmstead 1550–1595
          2. Jane Bristow 1554–1595
        2. Frances Slany 1586–1630
          1. Richard Slaney 1550–1599
          2. Margaret Adams 1550–1597

Descendants

  1. Elizabeth Curtis 1737–1801
  2. Thomas Curtis 1739–1776 ⚔
    1. Mary Curtis 1774–1867
      1. Reuben Gaylord 1812–1880
        1. Sarah Abiah Gaylord 1839–1918
  3. Marcy Freeman Curtis 1740–
  4. Job Curtis 1745–1807
  5. John Curtis 1748–bef 1790
    1. Jeremiah Curtis 1770–aft 1810
      1. John Curtis 1792–1792 ✧
      2. Waterman Curtis 1793–1859
        1. Thomas Day Curtis 1824–1896 ☘⚭
        2. Almira Curtis abt 1826–
        3. Jerusha Curtis 1828–1900
        4. Maria Curtis abt 1831–
        5. Jeremiah Curtis 1833–1856
        6. Lauren Curtis 1835–1865
        7. Alfred Curtis 1839–
        8. Junia Curtis abt 1841–1912 ☘
      3. Junia Curtis 1795–1809 ✧
      4. Truman Curtis 1804–1885 ⚭
        1. Sylvia Ann Curtis abt 1826–1893
        2. Lawren T. Curtis 1832–1905
        3. Sophia Curtis 1840–1918
        4. Melissa A. Curtis 1845–1911
        5. George L. Curtis 1852–1935
        6. Charles Curtis abt 1857–
        7. Albert Curtis abt 1859–
        8. Ella M. Curtis 1861–1902
        9. John L. Curtis 1867–1953
      5. Electa Curtis 1811–1888
        1. Leander Berry 1832–1919
        2. Justus Berry 1833–1914
        3. Truman C. Berry 1835–1914
        4. Mary E. Berry abt 1838–
        5. Lester A. Berry 1840–1913
        6. Olive Berry abt 1842–
        7. Edgar Leroy Berry 1843–1929
        8. Arthur Berry 1846–1918
        9. Dalesky Berry 1848–1907
        10. Herbert W. Berry 1856–1883
    2. Huldah T. Curtis 1772–1872
    3. Junia Curtis 1774–1831
      1. Jacob L. Curtis 1794–1889
        1. Minerva Victoria Curtis 1821–1908 ⚭
        2. Matilda Curtis 1825–1870
      2. Harriet Curtis 1799–1890
      3. Alonzo Curtis 1810–1860
      4. Lewis Leroy Curtis 1813–1904
    4. Lorrain Curtis 1775–1850
    5. Thomas Curtis 1778–abt 1848
    6. Mary Mercy Curtis 1779–
    7. Remembrance Curtis Sr. 1781–1840
      1. Susan Curtis 1805–1831
        1. Rachel Susan Milliman 1826–1851
        2. Edward Arnold Milliman 1831–1911 ⚭
      2. Lorena Curtis 1808–1879
        1. Infant Son Milliman 1829–1829 ✧
        2. Lorena Angeline Milliman 1830–1910
        3. Eliza A. Milliman 1832–1836 ✧
        4. William B. Milliman 1833–1917
        5. Norman Madison Milliman 1835–1916 ⚭
        6. Myron C. Milliman 1837–1848 ✧
        7. Catherine E. Milliman 1842–1926
        8. Sarah J. Milliman 1844–1848 ✧
        9. Almina Chrysilda Milliman 1845–1886
        10. Euphemia Milliman 1848–
        11. Eveline A Milliman 1850–1852 ✧
        12. Danford Adelbert Milliman 1851–1928
        13. Henry M. Milliman 1854–1854 ✧
      3. Remembrance Curtis 1818–1890
        1. Melvina L Curtis 1853–1945
        2. Sarah L Curtis 1855–1939
        3. Charles James Curtis 1857–1937
        4. Henry B. Curtis 1861–1946
  6. Lydia Curtis 1751–1820