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Lydia
Van Valkenburgh Bloodgood
Lydia Van Valkenburgh was born in 1733. She was the daughter of Albany carpenter Jacobus and Margarita Radcliff Van Valkenburgh.
In
October 1759, she married newcomer James Bloodgood
at the Albany Dutch church. Over the next two decades
at least four of her children were baptized in Albany
churches.
These
Bloodgoods lived in the first ward and then in substantial
holdings on Market Street between the river and the
Dutch church.
Lydia's
husband died in 1799. In 1800, she was listed on
the census as the head of her third ward household.
She continued to control her husbands property which
included three houses and lots and dock space in
the third ward. Seventy-seven-year-old Lydia Van
Valkenburgh Bloodgood died in 1811 and was buried
in the Presbyterian church cemetery. She was the
mother of future Albany mayor, Francis Bloodgood.
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Sources: The life of Lydia Van Valkenburgh Bloodgood is CAP
biography number 1380. This profile is derived chiefly
from family and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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