Hyde genealogy, or, The descendants, in the female as well as in ...

HYDE GENEALOGY.
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1. CliarloUe Aiiffusfa, who m. Thomas S. Swan, a farmer
of Lyme, and had iu 1859 two children : Walter; and Ada
Auo'usta.
2. ffe/Ien, who m. Dr. Stone of Rome, 0., where thcj were
living in 1859, .J,. «.,^„^^^
VI. Anne Lord (1824), born at Lyme, Conn., 4 Dec,
1754, eldest daughter of Capt. Enoch Lord (436) and
Hepzibah Marvin, was a great granddaughter of Elizabeth
Hyde (9) of the third generation. She m. 1 Sept., 1774,
Capt. Stephen Johnson, b. 22 Feb., 1753, at Lyme, second
son of the Rev. Stephen Johnson of Lyme, by his first
wife, Elizabeth Diodate.
[The Rev. Stephen Johnson, b. May, 1724, at Newark,
]Sr. J., was son of N"atlianiel Johnson, Esq., aud Sarah
Ogden of Newark. He graduated at Yale, 1743, and was a
Congregational clergyman. He m. 26 July, 1744, Elizabeth
Diodate, b. 11 July, 1722, at New Haven, eldest
daughter of William Diodate and Elizabeth, his wife.
This William Diodate was a descendant in the fourth
generation of the Rev. John Diodate of Geneva, in
Switzerland, in whose family John Milton lived when he
was in Geneva. The Rev. John Diodate was b. about
1579, at Lucca, was professor of divinity at Geneva, and
was the author of a large volume of commentaries upon
an English translation of which commentaries
the Bible ;
was published in 1651, containing a likeness of the venerable
author. The Rev. Stephen Johnson was settled as
minister of Lyme, 10 Dec, 1746, where his wife d. 2 May,
1761. He then m. 1 Dec, 1762, Mary Blague of Saybrook,
who d. 10 Dec, 1772. He afterwards married a
third wife by the name of Leverett, and d. 8 Nov., 1786,
in the 63d year of his age, and the 40th year of his
ministry. At the request of his friend and parishioner,
John McCurdy of Lyme, he wrote a series of articles in
opposition to the stamp act, which the latter caused to be
published in the Connecticut Gazette, whicli aroused the spirit
of the country against British aggressions ; which spirit
at length broke out in an armed resistance. And when
Boston became the seat of war in 1775, this patriotic
minister went there in person, as chaplain to the American
troops. He had by his first wife six children : 1. Diodate,
b. 29 July, 1745, graduated at Yale, 1764, and was
a tutor there, and a clergyman at Millington, and d. 1773,
s. p. 2. Sarah, b. 29 Jan., 1748, who m. Deacon John
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