The Lobdell Genealogy

Our Lobdell ancestors were descended from LT. SIMON LOBDELL (1632-1717), an early settler of Milford, Connecticut. Simon, born in Northam, Devonshire, England, was the son of Nicholas Lobdell -- both father and son settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635. Our lineage going back to Lt. Simon Lobdell is recorded in Julia Ardelia (Harrison) Lobdell's Simon Lobdell--1646 of Milford, Conn. and his descendants (1907). The genealogy of Simon's father Nicholas has been tentatively traced back to Sussex during the 1400s, and may ultimately originate in a family of minor Sussex nobility who lived in the 1200s and 1300s.

The surname Lobdell or Lopdell, sometimes spelled "Lobden," first appears as a medieval placename in Sussex, England, during the 1200s A.D. The name is thought to mean "Spider Dell" or "Spider Valley," from Anglo-Saxon hloppa, "lob" or spider ("lob" and "cob" are archaic English words for "spider," as in "cobwebs"). Genealogical researcher Jared Lobdell, a descendant of Simon Lobdell's son Joshua Lobdell (1671-c.1742), thinks Lobdell was a location near the Bourne River in Sussex.  Commenting in a 15 Aug. 2000 post in one of Genealogy.com's defunct discussion forums, Jared Lobdell said he thought the medieval Sussex Lobdells were "of Anglo-Norman stock (Norman because they owned land under Edward I and presumably Henry III, but Anglo- because they were not major land holders likely to have preserved pure Norman lines on both sides)."  As an old Sussex family, they may have been of Norman origin, or perhaps descendants of the South Saxons who came to Britain in the 400s A.D. and gave their name to Sussex -- or perhaps even of Briton descent, stemming from the ancient tribes of the Regni or Cantiaci who inhabited Sussex and Kent in pre-Roman times.  Be that as it may, the first appearance of this surname is in 1296, in the tax rolls of Ecclesdon and Preston-with-Hove in Sussex, England, in which Robert de Loppedell and Agatha (Agnes?) de Loppedell are listed. Continuing with the history of this family in the same comment, Lobdell said:

"In the next generation were Robert de Loppedell (I assume the eldest son who got the land), William de Loppedell, in orders and apparently a member of the English embassy to France in the matter of the so-called War of St.-Sardos (1322), and Thomas de Loppedell, Rector of East Hoathly in Sussex, who died in the Black Death of 1348-9. The name appears in Roger (a knight if I recall, in Middlesex) in the XIVth c., and then in the line of Stephen Lopdell of the Isle of Horsey, near Eastbourne (Sussex) in 1467, William (probably his son d. circa 1525), John, William, and Nicholas."

Elsewhere at Genealogy.com's defunct discussion forums, in a post dated 19 July 2003, Jared Lobdell presented a tentative outline of the descendants of Stephen Lopdell of the Isle of Horsey down to Nicholas Lobdell, father of Lt. Simon Lobdell.  A few years after that, Jared Lobdell also sketched the tentative ancestry of Simon Lobdell in a private email to me.  Based on his information, the line down to Simon's father Nicholas would be as follows:

  Robert de Loppedell, fl. 1296, of Ecclesdon and Preston-with-Hove, Sussex, England
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  Robert de Loppedell
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  Stephen Lopdell of the Isle of Horsey, Sussex (1430?-c.1500?)
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  William Lopdell (1455/60?-c.1525/30?), probably Stephen's son
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  John Lopdell (1480?-1543)
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  Nicholas Lobdell (1505/10?-1546), believed to be son of John
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  William Lobdell of Eastbourne, Sussex (1535?-1588)
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  Nicholas Lobdell of Eastbourne, Sussex (1578-1650?)

There is apparently some doubt whether this is the same as Simon's father Nicholas, or else perhaps the father of Nicholas, father of Simon, but Jared Lobdell is of the opinion that it is indeed Simon's father. In any case, the genealogy of our Lobdells reaches firm and solid ground with Simon's father Nicholas.

1. NICHOLAS LOBDELL, came from Northam, County Devon, England, about 1630 and settled with his wife JANE and his family in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635. Douglas Richardson has said that Nicholas was born circa 1605 in County Devon, and was married to Jane by 1631, residing in Northam, Devon, until 1635. Nicholas and Jane had settled in Hingham by early 1636, and it was in Hingham that Jane died in March 1641. Nicholas himself last appeared in Hingham in Nov. 1648 As for his ancestry in England, Nicholas likely was either the same as the above named Nycholas Lobdell of Eastbourne (c.1578-1650?) or else perhaps a son of that Nycholas.  On that and related speculative questions, Jared Lobdell shared the following discussion in a private email in 2007 (emphasis added):

"In an article in The American Genealogist 1978 (pp. 35-37), Douglas Richardson showed [SEE BELOW] that Simon Lobdell was baptized in Northam, Devon, Dec 1632, son of Nicholas and Jane. He hypothesized that this was an unknown son Nicholas (b 1605) of Nycholas of Eastbourne in Sussex, who was living in Northam in 1598. There is no record whatever of any such Nicholas b. 1605. But there is some indication that Nicholas b 1578 was around the Dutch colony in New Amsterdam ca 1620-23, and probably before: certainly a number of Eastbourners served the Dutch 1600-1620. My reconstruction is that Nicholas of Northam father of Simon was the same Nicholas who was in Northam 1598, with a younger wife (their first son James was b 1625). . . . Another database says Nicholas b.1605 Northam, Devon, d.1690 Hingham, Mass., son of William Lobdell d.1588, son of Nicholas Lobdell d.1546, son of John Lopdell d.c.1541, son of William Lopdell d. post 1525. Nicholas Lobdell (b. Devon, Eng. 1594 d. Massachusetts Bay 1641?) was not a Count, so far as I know. Count is not an English title, and Nicholas' English ancestry went back at least to the time of Robert de Loppedell in Sussex in the 1290s. Not Nicholas but his son Simon (b. 1632 also in Devon) settled in Connecticut, or rather in New Haven Colony, when he reached manhood. This Nicholas is not to be confused with another Nicholas, apparently of Plymouth and apparently b. 1605 (also Devon?) d. 1690. Nicholas of Hingham had two children in England and three (John, Joseph, and Ann?) in Massachusetts Bay. The Lobdell/Lopdell (also Lobden/Lopden) family seems to have originated in the area around Eastbourne in Sussex at least as early as the XIIIth C. and possibly earlier. Nicholas and William, who were brothers, seem to have left the family wool business in Sussex around the time that the family ship fought against the Armada. They got lands in Sussex for that, but sold them ca 1588 and went to Devon. I guess the seafaring life got to them. The Sussex line of the family died out in the early XVIIIth C. (I think, at least the last reference I've found is to 1705), principally because they received lands in Ireland in the time of Charles II. Charles James Lopdell (their spelling) was Lord Mayor of Galway in the XVIIIth C. So, no Count in the family. A pirate, yes -- Cordy Lobden, probably the one guilty of piracy 1618, fled to North America in the land between New Amsterdam and New Haven Colony, rode off a cliff near the present Greenwich, Connecticut, escaping either Indians or the Law, and gave his name to Lobden's Leap, now Aladdin's Leap -- but no Count."

Jared Lobdell offered similar, albeit less developed, remarks and speculations in an earlier message that Jared Lobdell posted on 7 March 2002 to the defunct Lobdell genealogy message board at Genealogy.com:

"I will be very interested to see what lineage the M&J people [i.e. genealogists who research colonists who arrived on the ship Mary & Jane] have found for Nicholas Lobdell. It is possible that Nicholas could have crossed in the Mary & John in 1630, then gone back to Devon to get his wife and children, since we know that Simon was b. in Northam in Nov/Dec 1632. There's no other Nicholas available unless we assume without evidence that the Nicholas of 1630 was Nicholas (b. 1578) and the Nicholas of 1635 a putative Nicholas b. 1605 (as Douglas Richardson suggests) -- or the other way 'round. There are no records I know of for any Lobdell births in Northam (Devon) before James, son of Nicholas, in 1629/30, and we know Nicholas (b. 1578 in Eastbourne) was in Northam in 1598. His cousin Nicholas (b. 1575) died 1621 and names usually skipped a generation in the family. My own guess is that both Nicholas (b. 1575) and Nicholas (b. 1578) served in the Dutch Wars, that they were known as Long Nicholas (b. 1575) and Short ("Kort") Nicholas (b. 1578), that Kort Nicholas is the "Cornelius" Lobden of Greenwich, Connecticut legend (first printed 1853) who leapt from the rocks known as Lobden's (now "Aladdin's")Leap, that he had therefore been in the NY/CT area as early as the 1620s, gone back to Devon, come back on the M&J, went back, and finally brought his young family over in 1635. But I have no documents yet to support (or oppose) this."

In reference to the above statement that Nycholas Lobdell of Eastbourne, Sussex, was living in Northam, County Devon, in 1598, this derives from a 16 Oct. 1598 Hailsham, Sussex, quit-claim (British National Archives Reference No. SAS-M/1/231) in which Nycholas Lopdell is said to be of "Northiham," interpreted as Northam, Devon. Following is an abstract of the Hailsham quit-claim:

"By NICHOLAS LOPDELL of Northiham, son & heir of William Lopdell late of Eastbourne, yeoman, to RICHARD PORTER of Hastinge, yeoman, of and in lands called Hyes and Cockeshothe in Hailesham, late his father's. Signature of Nicholas Lobdell and part seal. Witnesses:--George Porter, Richd. Gaynsforde"

While it is not unreasonable to interpret "Northiham" as Northam, Devon, genealogist Mark Downen made the following significant observations in a private email to me dated 14 Dec. 2017 (emphasis added):

"Most researchers seem to believe that the Nicholas Lopdell mentioned in the 1598 quit-claim was of Northam, Devon, but Northiham more likely, in my opinion, refers to Northiam, Sussex. He may well still be the same person, but this complicates the certainty."

Although the origins and ancestry of Nicholas Lobdell are as yet uncertain, Douglas Richardson's abovementioned essay, "Nicholas Lobdell, Founder of the New England Lobdell Family," in The American Genealogist, 54 (1978), provides a convenient resume of the available facts and sources regarding Nicholas and his family. Richardson's essay is worth quoting at length:

To date the background and history of Nicholas Lobdell, an early settler of Hingham, Mass., has remained all but obscure. What few facts are known indicate that Lobdell emigrated from England in late 1635, and obtained a grant of land at Hingham, in 1636. By 4 Feb. 1636 he was already living at Hingham for on that date Nathaniel Peck a resident of Hingham, incurred a debt of 34 pounds to him. In 1640, with John Mansfield, Nicholas "Lopdell" witnessed the will of Thomas Mussell, a seaman of Suffolk County, Mass. Although Hingham town records do not say so, it is known that Lobdell had a wife with him, for Hobart's Diary contains an entry which reads simply, "Goodman Lobdell's wife died March 1641" (see History of Hingham 3:24). Aspinwall's Notarial Records establish that Lobdell was living at Hingham as late as 1648, for in that year "Nicholas Lobdell of Hingham" issued a letter of attorney to Richard Shelton to collect the debt due him from Nathaniel Peck "of Barbadoes or St. Christophers late of Hingham." After that, no further trace is found of Nicholas Lobdell in colonial records and it is presumed that he died soon afterwards at Hingham intestate. In the 1650s an Isaac and a John Lobdell appear in Hingham records and most genealogists (including Julia Harrison Lobdell, author of the Lobdell Genealogy) have presumed that Isaac and John were sons of the earlier Nicholas Lobdell. Isaac and his wife, Martha, did name one of their sons Nicholas, and this fact, if nothing else, has provided circumstantial evidence that Isaac and John were sons of the immigrant, Nicholas Londell. By 1673 Isaac and John moved with their families to Hull, Mass., at which place John died in that year and Isaac in 1718.

A known contemporary of the two brothers was a Simon Lobdell who appeared in 1655 as a resident of Milford, Conn. In 1657 Simon took the freeman's oath at Hartford, Conn., and was recorded as a tax-payer there in 1667. From 1666 to 1674, he was the prison keeper at Springfield, Mass., but by 1677 he had returned with his family to Milford, Conn., where he remained until his death in 1717. On the surface, there seems nothing that would connect Isaac and John Lobdell of Hull, Mass., with Simon Lobdell of Milford, Conn. However, the Lobdell Genealogy contains the curious statement that in 1682 Simon Lobdell had land interests in Hull, Mass., and, although this statement is not explained, there would seem little reason for Simon Lobdell to own land at Hull unless he had relatives in that town. Genealogists generally credit Simon Lobdell with two sisters in the New World: Elizabeth Lobdell who married at Springfield, Mass., on 20 Oct. 1651, Jonathan Burt, and Ann Lobdell who married in the same town on 3 Jan. 1660/1, Samuel Terry. The husbands of both Elizabeth and Ann were prominent men in Springfield, and their presence there no doubt explains why Simon Lobdell settled in that town for a few years in 1666.

Thus the evidence is slight but the question arises: Could Simon Lobdell and his two sisters, Elizabeth and Ann, be the brother and sisters of Isaac and John Lobdell of Hull? Likewise, are these the five children of Nicholas Lobdell of Hingham? Information which has just come to light would seem to indicate that this is exactly the case. Search through the parish records of Northam, Devonshire, England, produced the following entries pertaining to the Lobdell family:

- Lobdell, Elizabeth daughter of Nicholas chr. 21 August 1631

- Symon son of Nicholas chr. 23 Dec. 1632

- unnamed daughter of Nicholas and Jane chr. 8 Mar. 1634/5

- James son of Nicholas buried 23 Sept. 1632

These entries regarding four children of Nicholas Lobdell are doubtless the record of the New England Lobdell family prior to its departure for the New World in late 1635. . . .

The known and probable children of Nicholas and Jane Lobdell are:

     --  JAMES LOBDELL, buried 23 Sept. 1632 at Northam, England.
     --  ELIZABETH LOBDELL, baptised 21 Aug. 1631, died 11 Nov. 1684 at Springfield, Massachusetts, md. Jonathan Burt.
     2.  SIMON LOBDELL, baptised 23 Dec. 1632 at Northam, England.
     --  ANN LOBDELL, probably baptised 8 March 1634/5, died May 1684 at Springfield, Massachusetts, md. Samuel Terry.
     --  ISAAC LOBDELL, born circa 1637 at Hingham, Massachusetts, died 26 April 1718 at Hull, Massachusetts, md. Martha Ward.
     --  JOHN LOBDELL, born circa 1639 at Hingham, Massachusetts, died Autumn 1673 at Hull, Massachusetts, married twice.

2. LT. SIMON LOBDELL, son of Nicholas and Jane Lobdell, born Dec. 1632 in Northam, Devonshire, England, baptised 23 Dec. 1632 in Northam, England, died not too much prior to 4 Oct. 1717 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut. According to Lobdell family tradition, Simon's wife was PERSIS PIERCE, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Pierce of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Soon after her birth Persis was baptised 7 Jan. 1645/6 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Simon and Persis had four daughters and one son. Julia Ardelia (Harrison) Lobdell's Simon Lobdell--1646 of Milford, Conn. and his descendants (1907), pages 9-11, provides a review of the state of our knowledge of Simon's life as of 1907. Her account of Lt. Simon Lobdell is below quoted in full, with my emphasis added and my own comments occasionally interspersed. I have also shifted the location of some of Lobdell's footnotes for the sake of clarity.

The name of "Simon Lobdell" appears among the "after-planters" names of Milford, Conn. -- about forty- -- a framed list of which is now hanging in the Town Clerk's office at Milford, Conn.

My supposition � after much study � is, that Simon came as a young lad with one of a party from Hereford, England (a shire in West of England, bordering on Wales) in 1645, at which time history tells us the second party came � that his sisters Ann and Elizabeth came at same time but remained in Boston.

As is clear from Douglas Richardson's above-quoted research on Nicholas Lobdell, we now know that Julia Ardelia (Harrison) Lobdell's supposition regarding Simon's origins was incorrect. Simon and his sisters Elizabeth and Ann did not come from Herefordshire at all, but rather were born and baptised in Northam in County Devon, England. Simon and his sisters likely came over with their father Nicholas, of whom Julia Ardelia (Harrison) Lobdell was unaware.

From public records at Milford it appears that Simon Lobdell, in 1646, had given him by the "first planters" of the town, for a house lot, a triangular shaped half-acre of ground.*

* These first planters formed a general court under whose direction and au- thority land was distributed among the so-called after-planters. The deeds from the original planters are short and have an informal tone, simply stating as in Simon's case.

A. In 1655 we find his name given as a resident of Milford. He took the freeman's oath at Hartford, Conn. May 21, 1657 and was a tax-payer of that place in 1667. He went to Springfield, Mass., probably through the influence of his brothers-in-law (his sisters both having married prosperous men of Springfield.) There he was prison-keeper from 1666 to 1674, and there he must have accumulated considerable property.

WILL OF SIMON LOBDELL.

"To all Christian people to whom these presents shall come, I, Simon Lobdell, send greeting in the Lord God everlasting.

Know ye, that I, Simon Lobdell (Lieut.), of Milford in the colony of Connecticut and county of New Haven in New England, for and in consideration of my fatherly affection unto my only son Joshua Lobdell, have given, granted and confirmed and by these presents do freely, clearly and absolutely give, grant, endorse and confirm unto the said Joshua Lobdell, his heirs and assigns forever, all my lands, rights in lands, housing, out-housing, orchards and whatsoever freehold estate or leases or interests in or of any lands or orchards lying within the bounds of Milford aforesaid viz.: my house-lot containing about one acre, be it more or less, bounded with Walter Smith, his lot north, with all the buildings, orchards and whatever privileges and appurtenances thereunto belongeth; also one parcel of land containing twenty- seven acres, be it more or less, lying partly on the west side of the road and partly across the westerly part of the Mill River and being bounded with a highway or New Haven line eastward, and Capt. Sam'l Ells' land southward and a highway westward and John Terrill's land northward, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging.

Likewise all my rights in the two last Indian purchases of lands within the bounds of Milford made by the inhabitants of Milford, and all other leases, rights, interests and privileges I have in other lands or orchards the said Joshua Lobdell is to have and to hold to him, his heirs and assigns forever.

And further, I, the said Simon Lobdell, do covenant and promise for myself, my heirs and assigns that those who so possess, hold and enjoy the premises without any lett or molestation from any person or persons whatsoever that shall lay any legal claim thereunto.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of January, 1703-4."

SIMON LOBDELL (Seal.)

The five known children of Lt. Simon Lobdell of Milford were:

     --  MARY LOBDELL, born circa 1667, died after March 1711, married David Wooster.
     --  ELIZABETH LOBDELL, born 7 Oct. 1669 at Springfield, Massachusetts, md. William Roberts.
     3.  JOSHUA LOBDELL, born 23 Dec. 1671 at Springfield, Massachusetts
     --  ANNA LOBDELL, born 1 Dec. 1674 at Springfield, Massachusetts, died after Oct. 1717.
     --  REBECCA LOBDELL, born 1677 at Springfield, Massachusetts, md. Deliverance Downs.

3. JOSHUA LOBDELL, only son of Simon and Persis Lobdell, born 23 Dec. 1671 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, died in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, after 1718 but before 31 Oct. 1743. Joshua married his first wife MARY BURWELL, daughter of John and Alice Burwell, on 11 August 1695 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut. Joshua and Mary had at least six children before Mary's death circa 1710. A few years later, circa 1713, Joshua married EUNICE OLMSTEAD, daughter of Lt. John and Mary (Benedict) Olmstead, with whom Joshua had at least seven children. Julia Ardelia (Harrison) Lobdell's Simon Lobdell--1646 of Milford, Conn. and his descendants (1907), pages 13-14, provides this information on Joshua's life:

Joshua, an only son, b. at Springfield, Mass., 23 Dec, 1671, m. for his first wife at Milford, Conn., 11 Aug., 1695 -- Gov. Robert Treat performing the ceremony -- Mary, dau. of John and Alice Burwell, early settlers of Milford. Upon one of the stones of "Memorial Bridge" at Milford, is carved the name of the father of Mary. No record can be found of her death, but perhaps it occurred soon after the birth of her dau., Susannah, who was bapt. 5 March, 1710, and on 9 April, 1710, Simon Lobdell, then an old man, was admitted to the First Church of Milford.

'Samuel Lobdell ; Caleb and John Lobdell ; Jabez Northrup and wife Sarah; Seaborn Burt and wife Susannah � all of Ridgefield, Conn. Samuel Plum and wife Mary, of Derby, Conn., and Joshua Lobdell of Cortlandt Manor, N. Y., to Ebenezer Lobdell of Ridgefield. Conn., all interest in estate of our father Joshua � and land that formerly belonged to Simon Lobdell, formerly of Springfield, Mass.' [SEE BELOW]

About 1713 Joshua m. for his second wife, Eunice,* dau. of Lieut. John Olmstead and his wife, Mary Benedict of Norwalk, Conn. Eunice was b. about 1689. and was aunt of Rebecca St. John, who m. Samuel, eldest child of Joshua and Mary (Burwell) Lobdell.

From Norwalk Land Records : � "Joshua Lobdell of Ridgefield sells land in Norwalk, in 1718, his right � that was one of the daughters of Lieut. John Olmstead of Norwalk, (deceased). She had it by distribution from Lieut. Olmstead's estate, March 23, 1722-3."

The thirteen known children of Joshua Lobdell by his two wives are:

     --  SAMUEL LOBDELL, born 2 Feb. 1699, md. Rebecca St. John.
     --  SARAH LOBDELL, born 1 Feb. 1702, died young before 1714
     --  JOSHUA LOBDELL, born 16 March 1703, md. Mary Reynolds.
     --  MARY LOBDELL, born 30 Oct. 1704, md. Samuel Plum.
     4.  EBENEZER LOBDELL, born 24 Feb. 1707/8
     --  SUSANNAH LOBDELL, born 27 Feb. 1709, md. Seaborn Burt.
     --  SARAH LOBDELL, born 27 Sept. 1714.
     --  CALEB LOBDELL, born 1 Feb. 1716, md. Anna St. John.
     --  JOHN LOBDELL, born 21 Aug. 1721, md. John Chappell.
     --  DARIUS LOBDELL, born 18 Oct. 1729.
     --  ELIZABETH LOBDELL, born 14 Nov. 1732, md. Michael Warren.
     --  SIMON LOBDELL, born 1739.
     --  DAVID LOBDELL, born 1739.

4. EBENEZER LOBDELL, son of Joshua and Mary Lobdell, born 24 Feb. 1707 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, died in 1801 in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut. On 28 Dec. 1732, Ebenezer married REBECCA BENEDICT, born 1713 in Connecticut, died 1 Aug. 1798 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hickock) Benedict. Julia Ardelia (Harrison) Lobdell's Simon Lobdell--1646 of Milford, Conn. and his descendants (1907), page 19, includes this information about Ebenezer (though she repeats the old error that the maiden name of Ebenezer's mother-in-law was Barnum):

"Ebenezer, b. 24 Feby., 1707 ; m. 28 Dec., 1732. Rebecca Benedict, b. 1713; dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth (Barnum) Benedict. Ebenezer was evidently a man of property. History says that he was one of the principal inhabitants of Ridgefield, 1784. In 1743 he bought from the heirs of his father the property that was formerly the property of Simon Lobdell. In 1751 Ridgefield court granted him license to keep public house and sell strong drinks. (Fairfield Co. court records). Husband and wife died where they had lived, he, in 1801 ; she, 1 Aug. 1798; aged 85 years."

Ebenezer and Rebecca had seven daughters and seven sons:

     --  ELIZABETH LOBDELL, born 21 Sept. 1733, md. Henry Whitney.
     --  EBENEZER LOBDELL JR., born 13 July 1735, md. Eunice Bradley.
     --  THOMAS LOBDELL, born 2 Nov. 1737, migrated to Orange County, N.Y. in 1768.
     --  URIAH LOBDELL, born 11 March 1740, md. Phoebe Chapman.
     --  RACHEL LOBDELL, born 22 May 1742, md. William Hurlbutt.
     --  EUNICE LOBDELL, born 17 Sept. 1744, died 29 Oct. 1825, unmarried.
     --  SARAH LOBDELL, born 10 Sept. 1746, died 1751.
     --  BURWELL LOBDELL ("Burrell"), born 24 Feb. 1749, md. Anna St. John.
     --  REBECCA LOBDELL, born 20 Feb. 1751, md. John Chappell.
     --  SAMUEL LOBDELL, born 12 July 1753.
     --  SARAH LOBDELL, born 5 Aug. 1755, md. Michael Warren.
     5.  SUSANNAH LOBDELL, born 9 July 1758.
     --  JARED LOBDELL, born and died in 1759.
     --  JOSIAH LOBDELL, born 14 Aug. 1760, md. Miriam Hickock, widow.

5. SUSANNAH LOBDELL, daughter of Ebenezer and Rebecca Lobdell, born 9 July 1758 at Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died at the age of 83 on 5 Aug. 1841, at the Ridgefield home of her granddaughter Sarah Ann (Gray) Roberts. Susannah's paternal lineage back to Lt. Simon Lobdell is recorded in Julia Ardelia (Harrison) Lobdell's Simon Lobdell--1646 of Milford, Conn. and his descendants (1907), and Susannah herself is recorded therein on page 216. She married DANIEL RIGGS, a Revolutionary War veteran, only child of Joseph and Mary Riggs, born circa 1762 at Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, killed accidentally on 6 June 1793 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, when he fell from the roof of a house he was working on. Subsequently Susannah successfully applied for a veteran's widow's pension. Daniel and Susanna resided at Ridgefield, where their five children were born:

     --  SAMUEL RIGGS, born 20 May 1785.
     --  ISAAC RIGGS, born 5 March 1787, md. Marinda Smith.
     --  JACOB RIGGS, born perhaps circa 1789.
     --  POLLY RIGGS, born 6 July 1791.
     --  DANIEL RIGGS, born 16 May 1793.

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