Lydia Chapin Taft died in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 66.
Lydia Chapin Taft died on November 9, 1778, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, at the age of sixty-six. She passed during the early years of the American Revolutionary War, a conflict whose ideals of representation and civic participation echoed, in some ways, the exceptional circumstances of her own earlier voting history.
By the time of her death, Taft had lived through decades of significant social and political change in colonial New England, from the French and Indian War to the outbreak of revolution against British rule. She was buried in Uxbridge, the town where she had spent much of her adult life and where her singular acts of civic participation had reportedly taken place.
Though she did not live to see the founding of the United States as an independent nation, nor any formal extension of voting rights to women, her life became, in later centuries, a touchstone for historians and advocates examining the deep roots of women's civic engagement in America. Her grave and the town of Uxbridge remain sites of historical interest connected to her legacy.