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Marriage of Ralph Waldo and Lidian Emerson in Plymouth
The Winslow House was the home of Lydia Jackson. She married Ralph Waldo Emerson in the front parlor.
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It has since been greatly enlarged and ornamented and is presently owned by the Mayflower Society of Descendants.
In March of 1834, Lydia Jackson stepped out of the old Winslow House on North Street in Plymouth on her way to hear a lecture.
The stately old mansion, built in 1754 by Edward Winslow, had been her home nearly all her life. Her grandfather had purchased it after Winslow (a Tory) was forced to flee Plymouth prior to the Revolution. Her parents, Charles and Lucy Cotton Jackson, raised their family there.
Tragically, both Lydia’s parents died in 1818, leaving her an orphan at age 16.
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Although not the oldest of her siblings, Lydia took on the role of parent and managed the household. Her father had been a successful merchant and had left a healthy inheritance. Lydia’s older sister, Lucy, married a m