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Hi John,
Lydia wasn't a Bushrod. Her mother, Elizabeth, married Thomas Bushrod. Lydia's uncle was a Capt Farlow, but don't know whether brother of her father or mother. Lydia had a sister, Jane, who married John Scarsbrook. Both the Bushrods and the Chismans were heavily mixed up in Bacon's Rebellion. Lydia's husband, Edmund, died while in prison, afterwards:
"After Bacon's death he (Edmund) was captured by Robert Beverley in York River. When he was arraigned before Berkeley, and was asked 'why he had engaged in Bacon's designs,' his brave young wife took all the blame on herself and besought the Governor 'to hang her and pardon him.' The Governor retorted with an indecent reproach, but Chisman cheated the gallows by dying in prison 'of feare, of griefe or bad usage.'"
Edmund and Lydia had only one son who died young, John, as can be seen by the following court case. Edmund did have a brother, Thomas, whose son, Thomas, married Elizabeth Reade. There is also a record in the parish register that a Lydia Chisman was 'killed in the thunder,' which no doubt was an unmarried daughter of Lydia and Edmund, as Lydia married Thomas Harwood after Edmund died.
Hope this will help clear up a few things for you.
"Abel Dun plt.
Jno Wills and Eliza his wife, defts
We of the Jury do find that Edmund Chisman jr dyed seized in fee simple of the land in question and left only one son, named John wch sd son departed this life the 13th day of June, 1679, without issue, under Age. We find that Thomas Chisman, the Lessor of the Plt, is only Brother of the said Edmund and heir at law to the said John. Wee find that Lydia, the widow of the sd Edmund and mother of the said John, did seat upon the sd Land in the life-time of the said John, and in the fall after the years of Bacon's Rebellion in manner as by the depositions annexed, by building a house and keeping a stock of hoggs thereupon for the space of one year, wch said Lydia dyed the sixteenth day of March, 1694. Wee find the sd Lydia did on the Eleventh of June, 1678, intermarry with one Thomas Harwood, who afterwards did burn the said House. Wee find the sd Thomas Chisman did bring suit for the Land in question in 1699. John Clayton for the plaintiff.
For the deft we find a patent granted to Edmund Chisman, Junr. dated the 8th day of July, 1670, of the Land in question herewith annexed, and to the seating the said Land we find the depositions of Nich Martin and John Drewry hereunto annexed. We find a patent granted to Thomas Harwood, dated 8ber the 26th, 1699, for the said Land as lapsed from the said Chrisman, the which patent is hereunto annexed. Wee find that the said Thomas Harwood dyed seized of the said Land. Wee do not find that Continued Claim hath been made of the sd Land. Wee find that John Brodnzx by the demise of the sd Thomas brought a suit of ejectment for the said Land to a Court held for this County in Septr in the year of our Lord, 1699. We find the last will and testament of Thomas Harwood deced, dated the 25th day of January, 1699, hereunto annexed. We find that John Wills, one of the Defts, before the bringing of this suit intermarryed with Eliza the widow of the sd Thomas Harwood, and that the sd Thomas Harwood, and that the sd Eliza is now living.
If upon the whole matter aforesd the Court bee of opinion that the Law is with the plt we find the plt one shilling damage, otherwise wee find for the defts. Robert Hyde with the defts. Will Sheldon, foreman. At the plts mocon the said Verdict is recorded and by consent of both partyes the matters of Law arising therefrom are referred to the next Court to be argued.'"
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