I have written about David Baker (b. NY 1775) in a previous post. His wife, Lydia Agard, was born 17 June 1787 and died 18 August 1817. She married David Baker on 12 December 1806. The dates were provided by Clarence Baker and as Lydia Agard was his great-grandmother, it is expected that the information was readily available from family sources. In years of research I have never found a single corroborating reference to Lydia Agard. Over those same years, however, I have developed a hypothesis about her parents and believe them to be James and Lydia (Soule) Agard.
David Baker was living in the Nine Partners section of the Beekman Patent (NY) at the time of his first and second marriages. In this same area lived James and Lydia Agard, who were married on 18 February 1786. There are records of only two children born to them; Mary in 1789 and Lucy in 1797. The 1797 date is considered questionable as the original records are unclear. Might Lydia, born sixteen months after the marriage, be their unrecorded child?
Stephen Agard has undertaken the revision of his father's book "Agards of America" (by Frederick B. Agard) and is interested in solving the mystery of Lydia. Perhaps increased attention and new information will someday provide an an answer. Whether or not my theory is correct, it is a certainty that Lydia was descended from John Agard. John died on the voyage to Massachusetts and his widow, Esther, remarried to Samuel Storrs. If I have the line correctly, it descends through James Agard and his wife Abigail Leach to Amos Agard and his wife Alice Smith to the James Agard who married Lydia Soule.
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