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Note N4205
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Asa Ludden was born 8 February 1750 in Braintree, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to parents Benjamin Ludden and Esther Capen.[1]
He married first Elizabeth Paine,[2] sometime before March 1784 (9 months before the birth of their first child, Eli, on 10 December 1784 in
Ludden, Wallace, James Ludden, The Old Planter, 1611-1692 and descendants, 1971. Page 24.
Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed November 2, 2015), "Record of Asa Ludden", Ancestor # A072304.
"Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHLS-GJN : 9 February 2018), Asa Lt. Ludden and Sarah Wid. Morton, 29 Nov 1781; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 760,643.
Deacon Asa Ludden died
Note re birth location: Braintree was part of Suffolk County until Norfolk County was created in 1793.
RESEARCH NOTES:
The 3 wives of Asa Ludden are named in Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880, page 303 (American Ancestors, subscription site): 1st, Deliverance Paine, m. 27 Nov 1782; 2nd, Mrs. Sally Moulton (or widow Sarah Morton) m. 29 Nov 1787; 3rd, Deliverance Rust, m. 4 Dec 1796. This was taken from James Ludden, the Old Planter, 1611-1692, page 24.
However, the second paragraph of Ludden raises a doubt about first wife Deliverance Paine which MF did not address. Supposedly Deliverance and Asa had a son, Daniel. The Williamsburg town records, for the same time period, record the birth in 1784 of son Eli for Elizabeth and Asa, and the death of Elizabeth and child in childbirth in 1786.
My search of americanancestors.org, ancestry.com, and familysearch.org, and google searches in multiple forms of questioning, did not find any Deliverance Paine born anywhere in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or Connecticut of the correct age to be this Deliverance, and neither was an appropriate Daniel Ludden found. The ancestry.com family trees that did include Deliverance Paine as wife of Asa Ludden uses for her birth and death dates
The earliest mention of Deliverance Paine that I have found is in the June 13 1917 issue of the Boston Evening Transcript: Genealogy Pages, 1911-1940. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016. It is a request for information by an unnamed person for a large number of people, including: "Ludden, Paine. Asa Ludden, son of Benjamin and Esther (Capen) Ludden, born Feb. 8, 1750, fifth from John Alden, married first Deliverance Paine (ancestry desired)(emphasis added) and second, ______ Moulton, and had: Daniel, Betsey, Polly, Sally, Amelia and Judith." The unnamed inquirer gives no source for assigning Deliverance as wife to Asa; in fact, has asked for ancestry for her. Nor does he include Asa's third wife.
However, I do find Elisabeth Paine born Wednesday, 30 October 1754 at Hatfield, Hampshire County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to parents Elijah and Mary Paine. [3] Hatfield is near Williamsburg, as witnessed by the Hatfield birth being recorded in Williamsburg. Asa and Elizabeth had son Eli, born 10 December 1784. Daughter Betsey was born 23 February 1786, and according to the Williamsburg town records, she and Betsy died 28 February.[4] However, her gravestone recites "Mrs Elizabeth/Wife of Mr Asa/Ludden Died/Febr 23d 1786/in ye 32d Year/of her age/Also their Infant/Child". She, and infant Betsey, are buried in Old Village Hill Cemetery in Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA.[5]
In summary, I believe that Mayflower Families in its Asa Ludden entry relied on a genealogy that erred in mistakenly attaching the wrong Paine as Asa's first wife. No sources were found for birth or marriage of a Deliverance Paine, or for a supposed son Daniel. Elizabeth Paine has both a birth record, in a town very near where Asa settled. While I find no marriage record, birth records in Williamsburg name them as husband and wife, and Elizabeth's gravestone in Old Village Hill Cemetery in WilliamsburgCite error 4; Invalid
[ tag; refs with no name must have content calls her wife of Asa. Furthermore, "in the 32nd year of her age" proves she is the Elizabeth Paine born in 1754]
"Dean Asa Ludden and Widw Deliverance Rust [were married] Novbr [sic.] 5th 1796." Possibly 6 was a 7 written over. However, the date falls chronologically in month and day order, so 6 in probably correct.[6]
Sources
↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCVY-ZZZ : 15 January 2020), Asa Ludden, 1750.
↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line accessed 1 June 2020.) Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.)[https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2495/40143_271050__0005-00010/3751220/ Volume: Williamsburg, Births, Marriages and Deaths.
↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line accessed 1 June 2020.) Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.)[https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2495/40143_271050__0005-00010/3751220/ Volume: Williamsburg, Births, Marriages and Deaths.
↑ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images accessed 2 June 2020, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RSP-46L? : 13 July 2016), Hampshire > Williamsburg > Births, marriages, deaths 1765-1851 > image 169 of 222.
↑ ‘’Find A Grave’’, indexed database, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 2 June 2020), Memorial for Elizabeth Ludden (1754-1786) Find A Grave: Memorial # 28258628 with gravestone image ("the moo", photographer).
↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 ancestry.com online database accessed 7 June 2020 (Provo, Utah; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; 2011) Williamsburg Vital Records