John Lyon (abt. 1655 - 1736)

Born about 1655 in Fairfield County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth (Ogden) Lyon — married 15 Mar 1688 in Rye, Westchester, New York

Descendants

Died 1736 at about age 81 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut

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Biography

John is buried at Lyon-Rawson Cemetery, Greenwich, Fairfield, CT

Origin

John was born c. 1655 probably Fairfield County, Connecticut, a son of Thomas Lyon and Mary Hoyt.^[1]

Marriage and Children

John married to an unknown wife.^[1] This profile reports wife, Rebecca Hull.^{[citation needed]}

A merged profile has wife Ruth Ogden. His will was witnessed by an Ogden and one of his daughters is named Ruth, so this marriage seems circumstantially quite possible.

Children:

1. Thomas Lyon b before 1689; mar Rebecca Hobby
2. Daniel Lyon b before 1688; mar Sarah Jennings
3. John Lyon b before 1690; mar Hannah, widow of Joseph Banks
4. Ruth Lyon living in 1736
5. Mary Lyon living in 1736
6. Hannah Lyon b 1704; mar Unknown Close
7. Jude Lyon b before living in 1736

He lived with his brother Samuel on the undivided estate left by their father, Thomas Lyon. The name of his wife has not been ascertained. John Lyon was deputy to the General Court of Connecticut from Fairfield, Conn., 1725- 1730. Feb. 27, 1698-9, at a meeting of the proprietors of the town, it was agreed "that we doe impower the aforesaid men (Hecaliah Brown, Deliverance Brown, John Merritt, Robert Bloomer and John Stockham) to bargain with and sell unto John Lyon a certain tract of land lying up Byram River, if they shall see good and convenient soe to doe," and to John Lyon was confirmed "a parcel of land lying against the mill between the cartway down into the Neck and the mill creek bounded up the said creek by John Hoit's meddow and to run down to the said Creek till it comes to John Boyd's meddow, provided the said John Lyon doe not praidice the carte way into the neck, nor the way to the mill, neither shall hee hinder any person from settin up thare field fence if they have occasion." At a town meeting held Sept. 20, 1697, Capt Theall, John Horton, Joseph Purdy, Hecaliah Brown, John Lyon, Thomas Merritt and Isaac Denman were chosen a committee "for the management and carrying on of the worke of building a meeting house for the towne of Ry, and also for the appointing of a place where it shall set, and the above meeting house shall not acsed above thirty square feet." The seating space of this place of worship speaks for the size of the congregation, which doubtless comprised every family in the settlement.

In April 1699, John Lyon and Isaac Denman were chosen to lay out a road to White Plains, "beginning at the head of Capt. Theall's land and so to run to the caseaway (causeway) brook," said road to be three rods in breadth. July 14, 1710, John Lyon signed a quit claim for all obligations due him from his brother Joseph; witnesses Richard Ogden and John Stockham. Feb. 1714 ("one thousand seven hundred and thirteen fourteen") John Lyon, Sr., living at Byram in the Town of Greenwich, deeded to his son Daniel Lyon of the same place his dwelling house and home lot, with all his lands and meadows on "Byrum Neck" not already disposed of to his son John Lyon, Jr.; John Corbit witness. His will (Stamford Probate Rec. Lib. I. p. 115) was dated Jan. 24, 1736; executors John Merritt and Samuel Brown; witnesses Johannes Dow, David Lyon, George Gorham. He bequeathed to Caleb Lyon, son of his son Thomas, deceased, one half the mill in Greenwich, with one half the lands pertaining to it, he to pay to his sister, when he should come of age, £30 current money; Thomas, brother of Caleb to have the other half of the mill property; to his son John the western and to his son Daniel the eastern half of the land at Byram Neck already deeded to them, Daniel to have also the lands on "Mary's Hill." (In case Daniel died leaving no male heir the lands bequeathed to him were to go to James Lyon, son of John, Jr.) The moveable estate to be divided equally between "my four daughters, Ruth, Mary, Hannah and Jude.^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Miller, Robert B and A. B. Lyons, editors, Lyon Memoriall, New York Families Descended from the Immigrant Thomas Lyon of Rye. (Pages 47-48) Detroit, Mich.: Press of W. Graham Printing Co., 1907, Archive,org accessed November 7, 2015.
2. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 1-3, 1728-1772”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-7SR1 : 21 March 2021), , FHL microfilm 007626803, image 9697 Stamford, Connecticut, Vol 1, 1728-1749, Page 115-118.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90183791

See also:

• Miller, Robert B. Lyon Memorial: New York Families (William Graham Printing, Co., Detroit, Mich., 1907), 47
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/a/n/Roxanne-Langner/PDFODT5.pdf
• Bible Records, The Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Connecticut, 1973) Vol. 6, Page 158.