Lydia (Brinton) Buffington (1737 - 1801)

Born 1737 in Kennett Township, Chester, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of Neal Woodward — married 9 May 1754 in Birmingham, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 1801 at about age 64 in Newlin Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Lydia was born in 1737. She was the daughter of John Brinton and Hannah Vernon. She passed away in 1801. In 1754, she married Nayle Woodward. He was the son of her stepfather. (He was 18 and she was 12 when her mother married his father.) They became members of the Birmingham Meeting. Together, they had 7 children. In 1769, Nayle died. Close to the beginning of 1771, she remarried to Thomas Buffington. From Quaker Records, this was accomplished with a priest which appears to have led to their removal from the Society of Friends. They had one more child. Thomas died in 1796. The farm where they lived was left to this one child, Joshua. I believe Lydia lived there until her death 5 years later.

Sources

• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Marriages, 1698-1783; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR-PH 83, Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (2014), Quaker Marriage
• The Brinton genealogy : a history of William Brinton who came from England to Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1684, and of his, Page 157, The Brinton Genealogy
• Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1713-1825, Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (2000), Thomas Buffington Will
• U. S and International Marriage Records, 1560 - 1900, for Lydia Brinton and Nayle Woodward, May 9, 1754, page 1. Birmingham, Chester, Pennsylvania.