Lydia Harding (1781-1806)

Lydia Lucinda Harding (1781-1806)

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 * 1781-Jul-31 : Birth at Colchester, New London County, Connecticut
 * 1806-Dec : Died

Biography
From autobiography of her daughter - Abigail Smith Abbott

I was born in the town of Williamson, Ontario County, New York, September 11, 1806. My mother, Lydia Harding Smith died when I was six weeks old and my father married Mehitable Adams when I was nine months old. I was badly treated by my stepmother so badly, that the neighbors came, unbeknown to my father and took me away. After six weeks time he found me through the assistance of a Baptist minister by the name of Demock, who informed my father as to why I was taken from his home. This caused some discussion between the two parties. Rev. Demock was a very warm friend of my mother’s, she being a member of the church over which he presided. I was not left friendless, being under the care of a kind father whose parental love was too strong to be parted asunder from his motherless child.

Children of Lydia and James Smith

 * 1) Abigail Smith (1806-1889) - md Stephen Abbott