Lydia Ann Randall

     Lydia Ann was born on Saturday, 12 September 1761 in Orange County, New York. She was the daughter of Joseph Randall and Mary Bartlett. Lydia Ann married John Matthew Jeffery, son of Duncan Jeffery and Doris Kitfield, in 1784 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Before the revolution, he lived in the colonies and was a loyalist. About 1775, determined to remain loyal, he removed to Nova Scotia where he served in the British Army in the American Revolutionary War and was discharged in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1784. His wife, Lydia, was a member of a United Empire Loyalist family and had fled from New York to Shelbourne, Nova Scotia in the spring of 1783. The family settled on a grant of land in Argyle near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and raised their family there. In the mid 1820's, John & Lydia, along with their sons, John & Robert and other relatives moved to Oakville, Ontario.¹ Lydia departed this life in 1850 in Oakville, Halton County, Ontario, Canada, at age 88 years. She was buried there.