Ancestry of
William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

Lydia Johnson

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of William Rufus Day — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 27 
  • Father:
  • Obadiah Johnson Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Cleveland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Oct 1733 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Nov 1812 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cleaveland Cemetery, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • David Paine
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Apr 1759 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Lydia Paine (Ahnentafel No:13 )

• Additional marriages for Lydia Johnson

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  • Spouse:
  • Amos Fassett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Apr 1752
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

• Sources for Lydia Johnson

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 120, Marriage record for David Paine and Lydia Fasset.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 76, Marriage record for Amos Fasset and Lydia Johnson.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 120, Birth record for daughter Lydia Paine.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 100, Birth record for Lydia Johnson.
  • ⁵ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A085961.
  • ⁶ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/25/2016).
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1914, Vol. 68, p. 144.
  • ⁸ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2023, Vol. 177, p. 56.
  • ⁹ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 177.
  • ¹⁰ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 85.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 75.