Lucinda (Fenton) Guild (1768 - 1849)

Born 13 Nov 1768 in Coventry, Windham, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Jeremiah Guild — married 2 Sep 1800 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA

Descendants

Died 22 Feb 1849 at age 80 in Warren, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Name

Lucinda Fenton

Birth

13 NOV 1768 Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut (Burleigh)

Residence

Warren, Litchfield, Connecticut (Barbour Collection)

Marriage

02 SEP 1800 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Burleigh)

Death

Age at Death: 80

22 FEB 1849 Warren, Litchfield, Connecticut (Barbour Collection)

Burial

Milton Cemetery, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut

Notes

• Lucinda is buried in Milton, CT, about a mile west of the center of town, on Blue Swamp Road. Visual inspection of headstone in 1994.
• She also lived in Coventry, CT. Guild Family Records of Ralph Pierpont.

Research Notes

No primary source has been found for her birth date, birth location, or last name at birth.

Sources

• Litchfield Republican' Thursday, Mar 01, 1849 Litchfield, CT Page: 3. Mortuary Notice. In Warren, on the 22nd inst., Lucinda Guild, relict of the late Jeremiah Guild, aged 80.
• Payne, Charles Thomas, Litchfield and Morris Inscriptions (D.C. Kilbourn, Litchfield, Conn., 1905)
  • Page 183: "In Memory of Lucinda wife of Jeremiah Guild who died Feb 22, 1849 aged 80 years"
• Burleigh, Charles. The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile and Gile Family (B. Thurston & Co., 1887)
  • Page 61: "He married second, Sept. 2, 1800, Lucinda Fenton who was born in Coventry, Nov. 13, 1768, and died Feb. 22, 1849."
• International Gen. Index/North America (LDS)  : film 184737 & film 184229, p. 832, ref. 18519.
• Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. Cornwall, Page 43
  • "Guild, Lucinda, farmer's wid. b. Coventry, res. Warren, d. Feb. 22, 1849, ae 80 Vol. 3, Page 106-7"
  • No Coventry records are in this source, because they were already published in Dimock.
• Cornwall CT Vital Records. 106-7 Cornwall CT. Vital Records, Vol. 3, pg. 106 & 7.
• Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Title: U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index

Name: Lucinda Guild

Marital status: Widowed

Estimated birth year: abt 1769

Birth Place: Connecticut

Age: 80

Death: Aug 1849

Cause of Death: Bilious Fever

Census: 1850 Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA

Line: 31

• American Ancestry (Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, N.Y., 1891) Vol. 6.
  • Page 155: "m. 2d, Sep. 2, 1800, Lucinda Fenton, b. at Coventry, Ct."
• Find A Grave: Memorial #217721412: Milton Cemetery, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut
• Find A Grave: Memorial #6294612: burial unknown
• Dimock, Susan Whitney. Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut, 1711-1844 (Baker & Taylor Co., New York, 1897) Page 250.
  • No birth record of a Lucinda Fenton has been found in this source. However, there is a record of what may possibly be her parents: "1768, Feb. 24, ___ Fenton, of Willington, and Anne Carpenter, of Coventry"
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Hale, House, and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1952) Page 69.
• 1830 US Census, Warren, Litchfield, Connecticut

Lucinda Guild, Head of family.

1 male age 15-20 [???]

1 female age 20-30 [Anne Marie]

1 female age 60-70 [Lucinda]