A very cool find if you ask me..interesting to say the least

[Norwichnut]

Dug this a week or 2 ago..was very deep.. it has "Lydia Pygen 1694" engraved on it ..its not magnetic so maybe its silver? .....

I posted it on another forum , and we came up with it being a name plate on a portrait is the best guess , the thing is a person pointed out her family was documented in a book.. i think it is pretty neat ..
They also posted about her coming to new london, which is exactly where i dug this...i will post the links below some of you may find this interesting..
Thanks for the looks
Another guy posted this .below
Googling the name I found the below, maybe a typo on the last name through the records, but seems close all things considered.
Lydia PYGAN of New London, Conn.

married Eliphalet ADAMS 1709/12/15

# referred to in Colonial Families of the United States of America, Volume 2, page 714: one Joseph Trumann settled in New London in 1666 and purchased some pits for tanning from Alexander PIGGIN in 1667. An additional reference to this is in the Hamilton HURD History of New London County, Connecticut.

Here's the full link, her name is bottom of the first major section
Piggin One-Name Study: Printed and other Works

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11339976/lydia-adams

 

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[Molewacker]

Great find and awesome research!

 

[billb]

Great research and thanks for sharing with us

 

[Silvermonkey]

I'd call that a very intersting find! Nice bit of history for sure. Congrats.

 

[BigWaveDave]

You just got a Banner nomination from me....
Simply amazing find, and research.
Another forum?..... Obviously a history site, right?

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Wow,that's cool. Sure looks silver to me. Great job

 

[Norwichnut]

You just got a Banner nomination from me....
Simply amazing find, and research.
Another forum?..... Obviously a history site, right?

Yes , a connecticut forum..... thanks for the looks..i thought some of you would find it interesting!!

 

[Red-Coat]

What a fantastic piece of history and a great piece of research.

You have something rather more interesting than a nameplate though! That will probably be one of Lydia's (much treasured) dress-making items. It's a blunt bodkin for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or stitched piping/casing. The holes are for thread/cord and the slots are for ribbon. Similar to this one from the mid-17th Century:

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Wow ... a very cool find indeed !

 

[Norwichnut]

UNBELIEVABLE..thank you SO MUCH

 

[GeoW]

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Banner vote in!

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[Norwichnut]

Thanks!!!

 

[fyrffytr1]

The 1694 date would have made her 10 years old if she is the same as Pygan. To add, when I did a search for Lydia Pygen with no filters like birth date no results came back so I would think that Pygan is the correct spelling.

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZ6F-1ZJ

 

[Norwichnut]

Yes it would. Its crazy how times have changed, kids had to put in work at a young age..girls would learn to sow even younger than 10....

 

[fyrffytr1]

To add some confusion to this here is a link to the only Lydia Pygan on Find a grave.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11367293/lydia-pygan

 

[Norwichnut]

I posted that findagrave link in the first post, from what i researched thier name was originally piggin, and the spelling had changed over the yrs..in emails to the N.L historical society the nice lady said she will try to get the complete history of the name and changes and possibly where she lived , I never understood why they changed the spelling and pronunciation so much over the centuries, but was told its common when going back this far

 

[fyrffytr1]

Maybe Lydia Beamon Pygan was Lydia's mother?

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Interesting!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Norwichnut]

Mother ..maybe grandmother..but this is the link I posted above..just realized yours was different
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11339976/lydia-adams

 

[Lost Signal]

What a great ID by Red-Coat! I'm voting Banner.