Mary (Condit) Lyon (abt. 1700 - 1740)

Being a Condit descendant, I tend to believe the Condit genealogy, which had been very thorough trying to find everyone, that Mary, the only daughter of Peter Condit and Mary Harrison, possibly married a man named Gould, but that nothing else is known of her. Which is the description for Cundict-17. So we only have the Lyons Farm Memorial genealogy to thank for telling us Benjamin Lyon had two wives and that the first one, “Mary Condit” had all his children.

As to the comment that Benjamin’s mother was a Condit, this is not correct. This is a misconception based on wording in John Cunditt’s will, where he referred to his “brothers” Benjamin Lyon and Matthew Williams. Most Condit scholars agree he meant these two individuals were his brothers-in-law, as his second wife was most probably Deborah Lindsley. Deborah’s sister Bethia married Benjamin Lyon (Senior) and their sister Ruth married Matthew Williams. So the “brothers” did not marry sisters of John Cunditt, but married instead sisters of John’s second wife Deborah.

I would suggest removing this Mary Condit Lyon (Condit-18) from this family (the children of Peter Condict and Mary Harrison) until someone proves that she is the same person who is the supposed first wife of Benjamin Lyon (Junior). I would point out that the Condit genealogy gives Mary Condit’s birth year as 1705, and Benjamin’s first child Rachel is born in 1717, when Mary would be only 12, another problem.

Condit-384 and Condit-18 are not ready to be merged because: Mary and Martha may well be the same person, but because of the name difference and because I believe Benjamin's mother was also a Condit, I'd like to see something more about the Martha born around 1695 - birth place, marriage record...

Condit-384 and Condit-18 appear to represent the same person because: Not sure of 'Martha' or 'Mary' as a given name, but it is more logical that there was only one wife of Benjamin Lyon considering there were nine children ascribed to this union. Rachel and Mary were of these nine children.

Edit - From reading the bio notes of Benjamin, "Martha" was a daughter of Samuel Day, not a Condit. "Martha" and Mary Condit would not have been the same individual.

Further, in the bio notes, Mary Condit is shown as the mother of all Benjamin's children, and so daughters Rachel and Mary were amended to show Mary as their mother,