The name is spelled both Asten and Austin (and other variations). Her birth record uses Asten and her marriage record Astens.
Marriage
Lydia Asten married Jeremiah Stevens at Dracut, Massachusetts, on 26 Dec 1789.[2]
Death
No record has been found of the death of Lydia (Asten) Stevens. The 1928 history of Livermore, Maine, says that Lydia Stevens, the wife of Jeremiah, died in 1834 at the age of 69.[3]
↑Transcription of the marriage record of Jeremiah Stevens and Lydia Astens, in Vital records of Dracut, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, 1907), page 241. Her last name is spelled Astons in the Middlesex County copy of the record. His last name is spelled Stephens and the date is given as 31 Dec 1789 in the First Congregational Church record.
↑ Ira Thompson Monroe, History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County Maine; From Its Inception in 1735 and Its Grant of Land in 1772 to Its Organization in 1795 Up to the Present Time 1928 (Lewiston, Me., 1928), page 207
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