Ebenezer Lyon (abt. 1670 - 1739)

Born about 1670 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Winans) Lyon — married 1697 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 31 Mar 1739 at about age 69 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey

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Biography

Ebenezer was born in Newark, NJ in about 1670. The Lyons relocated to Elizabethtown in 1673/74.^[1] He died in 1739 in his 69th year, age 68.^[2]

Ebenezer Lyon lived on "Lyon Farms" between Newark and Elizabethtown, Essex, now Elizabeth, Union County, NJ. Lyon Farms noted for its apple orchards which were noted in Henry Lyon's will.

Ebenezer was a soldier in the Albany Expedition in 1698 (? year?). Excerpt from "Lyon memorial" By Samuel R. Winans (Jr.). See Research Note.

Ebenezer Lyon (also Benjamin, widow Hannah, Henry, Joseph and Nathaniel ) was one of the founding fathers of Elizabethtown church, member 1694-1699.

In 1699 he was listed as an Elizabethtown Associate (freeholder). He held 100 acres in what is now Westfield, NJ. In 1712 he was appointed Constable.^[3][1]

Ebenezer's Will: 22 Jan 1738/39, Elizabethtown, Essex, NJ. It mentions wife Elizabeth (bequest of £50, etc., etc.); CHILDREN: Elizabeth, wife of Ephraim Clark; Darkis, wife of Ebenezer Stebbens; Susanna, wife of David Morehouse; Ebenezer Lyon, and, wife of John Thompson; GRANDCHILDREN: Peter Lyon, Ebenezer Wade, Bethia Winans, Samuel and David Man, Elizabeth, Ephraim, Hannah, Darkis, Henry, Riderous, Nathaniel and Ichabod Clark, Elizabeth and Hannah Thompson, David and Joanna Morehouse and Cornelius, Abigail and Jacob Stebbens. Executors; friends, David Ogden, Attorney-at-Law, Thomas Longworth, Isaac Lyon, Benjamin Clark, and Joseph Lyon (all of Newark) and Joseph Tuttle of Hanover, N. J. Witnesses: Benjamin Meeker, Samuel Meeker and Thomas Jackman. Probated March 17, 1738-1739.^[4] Contributed by Deborah (Hoffman) Weiner (#47643884).

Ebenezer's & his wife Elizabeth's headstone are still standing as of 2015: First Presbyterian Graveyard, Elizabeth, Union, NJ. Inscription: Here lyeth y" Body Of cap' Ebenezer Lyon who departed this life march ye 31 Anno Domini 1739. and in ye 69th Year of his Age [On one stone.] Here lyeth y" Body Of Elizabeth Lyon Who departed this life July the 1st Anno Domini 1739 and in ye 71 Year of her Age.^[2]

Event

Event: Excerpt from "Lyon memorial" by Samuel R. Winans (Jr.)

Military Service Place: Navy Captain

Military:1698, soldier in the Albany Expedition, see Research Note

Note: According to Lyon Memorial, "Ebenezer Lyon was Captain of the sloop 'Three Sisters,' from Amboy, N. J. to Boston, Mass. 1723-25, and of the sloop 'Dove' 1726-33."^[1] These sloops were small, presumably commercial, vessels, not naval.

Research Note: Albany Expedition

Lyon Memorial, p. 89: "He was a soldier in the Albany Expedition, 1698."^[1]

Hatfield makes references to Elizabethtown men, though not Ebenezer, doing military service at Albany, NY:^[5]

• "Among the soldiers in the Fort at Albany, who took the oath, Nov. 10, 1689, to William and Mary, was John Ratliffe."
• John Thomas "accompanied Capt. Milburn's expedition to Albany, April, 1690."
• John Harrison: "In 1709 he served as Captain on the frontiers, at Albany, N.Y."

Men from New Jersey were evidently sometimes assigned militia duty in upstate New York, for defense against French and Indians. The circumstances of an expedition in 1698 are unclear. There were English colonial troops sent from Albany to Montreal during the Battle of Quebec in 1690.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Lyon, Sidney Elizabeth, et. al, Lyon Memorial: Families of Connecticut and New Jersey (Detroit, MI: William Graham Printing Co., 1907), pp. 73, 80, 88-9; Archive.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Burial: Capt. Ebenezer Lyon, First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, NJ; Findagrave.com
3. ↑ Hatfield, Edwin F., History of Elizabeth, New Jersey, including the Early History of Union County (New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1869; Carlisle, MA: Applewood Books, n.d.) pp. 244, 284, 306; Archive.org.
4. ↑ New Jersey Calendar of Wills page 312 https://ia902700.us.archive.org/1/items/calendarofnewjer01newj/calendarofnewjer01newj.pdf; page link.
5. ↑ Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, 261, 269, 273; Archive.org.

• LYON Memorial, Families of Connecticut and New Jersey, published in Detroit, Mich. Press of William Graham Printing Co. in 1982...Page 86.
• Find A Grave <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7289358/ebenezer-lyon>

Acknowledgments

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