Lydia (Howland) Soule (1701 - 1784)

Born 16 Oct 1701 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of George Soule — married 1719 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

Died Feb 1784 at age 82 in Oblong MM, Dutchess, New York, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Howland Name Study.

Lydia was a Friend (Quaker)

Lydia Howland was the sixth child of Benjamin Howland and Judith Sampson born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts on the 16th of 8th month, 1702 (16 October 1701).^[1][2][3]

Lydia acknowledged before the Dartmouth monthly meeting on 21d 7m 1724 [21 Sep 1724] for marrying contrary to discipline in 1719.^[4] Her husband acknowledged on the same day.^[4] The acknowledgement is as follows:^[4]

To the monthly meeting of men and women friends in Dartmouth to be held the 21st day of ye 7th month 1724: Whereas in the year 1719, I proceeded in marriage Contrary to the good order of truth and advice of friends among whom I have been brought up and had any Education and for my Disorderly proceeding I was Justly denied to be one in unity with them the people of God Called Quakers Wherein I freely do acknowledge my fault and I Do desire to be one in unity that God would forgive me my trespass and that friends would pass it by and I to come under the Care of friends again.
Lidia Soule

She died in Feb 1784 in Oblong, Dutchess, New York.

Lydia (Howland) Soule is registered in the records of Sons of American Revolution.^[5]

Children

Children of Lydia Soule:

• Margaret Soule.^[6]
• Elizabeth Soule.^[7]
• Daniel Soule.^[8]
• Sarah Soule.^[9]
• Benjamin Soule.^[10]
• George Soule Jr..^[11]
• Rowland Soule.^[12]
• Lydia Soule.

Lydia was born about 1701. She passed away after 1776.

Elvis Presley's mother, Gladys Smith (Presley) is from the line of Jonathon Ricketson-Abigail Howland union. per Piver -37.

2023 4 20 Lydia Howland Soule is Great Granddaughter of Henry Howland II, (Puritan Immigrant). Henry II came to MA several years after his brother John arrived. As did another brother, Authur. Henry II was born 1604 in England. Henry II is brother of John Howland born 1598 in England and was on the "Pilgrim" Mayflower 1620 voyage to Plymouth. Of these three brothers alone come at least 5 future family tie-in presidents, if not more. Lydia Howland married George Soule, Great Grandson of George Soule, pilgrim of Mayflower 1620 voyage to Plymouth, and also, co-signer of Mayflower Compact. per Piver-37.

Research Notes

Birth Date: The Soule and Terry reference below lists Lydia Howland's birth date certain as 11 Oct 1701. See also "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-T4P5 : 20 May 2022), Lydia Howland, 11 Oct 1701 and "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-4P7G : 20 May 2022), Lydia Howland, 11 Oct 1701.

Death Date: The Soule and Terry reference below also lists Lydia Howland's death date as being after 1776.

Sources

1. ↑ Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 3.
2. ↑ Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts to the year 1850. NEHGS, Boston: 1930. Volume I - Births. p. 128.
3. ↑ Emery, William M. The Howland Heirs. E. Anthony & Sons, New Bedford, Mass: 1919. p. 10.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Monthly meeting records, Men's Minutes 1699 – 1727, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, N.Y.), p 246.
5. ↑ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application. Membership Number: 73438.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-T2DN : 10 November 2020), Lydia in entry for Margaret Soule, 3 Jun 1720; citing Birth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-T2X8 : 10 November 2020), Lydia in entry for Elizabeth Soule, 12 Aug 1722; citing Birth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-T2F4 : 10 November 2020), Lydia in entry for Daniel Soule, 13 Apr 1724; citing Birth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.
9. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-T2NY : 10 November 2020), Lydia in entry for Sarah Soule, 21 Mar 1726; citing Birth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.
10. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-T2VC : 10 November 2020), Lydia in entry for Benjamin Soule, 12 Aug 1728; citing Birth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.
11. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-T22C : 10 November 2020), Lydia in entry for George Soule, 12 Apr 1730; citing Birth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.
12. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-T2LL : 10 November 2020), Lydia in entry for Rowland Soule, 5 Nov 1733; citing Birth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.

• Ancestry Profile
• “Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001”, database with images, FamilySearch, Bristol > Dartmouth > Births, marriages, deaths 1667-1844 > image 43 of 408.
• Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital records, 1620-1988 for Benjamin Howland, Dartmouth, Births, marriages and death.
• John E. Soule and Milton E. Terry, George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 7th ed., ed. Louise Walsh Throop (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015), 119.
• “Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, “database with images, Family Search, Bristol > New Bedford > Births 1686-1787 > image 84 of 207.