Jedediah Lyon (1721 - 1807)

Born 7 Sep 1721 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Cushman) Lyon — married 24 Nov 1743 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 9 Feb 1807 at age 85 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Biography

Corporal Jedediah Lyon served with Col. Abijah Pierce's Regiment of Minutemen, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Jedediah Lyon is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A072770.

Jedidiah, son of Samuel Lyon (1679-1756) and Joanna (Weld) Lyon (1685-), was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, on September 7, 1721.^{[1] [2]} Jedediah was baptised on 10 September 1721 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.^[3]

Jedidiah married Mary (Cushman) Lyon (1723-1796) on 24 November 1743 in Middleborough, Massachusetts.^[4]They had eleven children all born in Middleborough. ^[5]

Jedediah served in the American Revolution. He was a Corporal in Captain Abiel Pearce's 2nd Middleborough Company of Militia, which marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775.^[6][7] He also served three month in 1776-1777 as a private in Captain Nehemiah Allen's company, at age 55.

He died in Middleborough on February 9, 1807 at the age of 85. Jedediah's will was written 3 April 1789, and his estate passed probate on 6 March 1807.^[8] Heirs:

• wife Mary
• son Vinal (executor)
• daughter Fear Tomson
• daughter Molly Tribou
• daughter Rebecca Leonard
• daughter Phebe Lyon
• daughter Lucy Thomas
• grandson Isaac Lyon, son of Lemuel Lyon, deceased

Burial

Purchade Cemetery, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Find A Grave)

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #80838339 (accessed 26 December 2021)
   Jedediah Lyon born on 7 Sep 1721 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
2. ↑ Lyon Memorial: Lyons, Albert Brown. Lyon Memorial: Massachusetts Families, Including Descendants of the Immigrants William Lyon, of Roxbury, Peter Lyon, of Dorchester, George Lyon, of Dorchester, with Intro. Treating of the English Ancestry of the American Families. W. Graham Printing; Page 41-42 https://archive.org/details/lyonmemorialmas00lyongoog/page/n55/mode/1up?view=theater
3. ↑ Baptism: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #10989840 (accessed 26 December 2021)
   Jedediah Lyon baptism on 10 Sep 1721 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
4. ↑ Marriage: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #11059482 (accessed 26 December 2021)
   Jedidiah Lyon marriage to Mary Cushman on 24 Nov 1743 in Middleborough, Massachusetts.
5. ↑ Lyon Memorial: Lyons, Albert Brown. Lyon Memorial: Massachusetts Families, Including Descendants of the Immigrants William Lyon, of Roxbury, Peter Lyon, of Dorchester, George Lyon, of Dorchester, with Intro. Treating of the English Ancestry of the American Families. W. Graham Printing; Page 62-63 https://archive.org/details/lyonmemorialmas00lyongoog/page/n79/mode/1up?view=theater
6. ↑ Military: "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783"
   Citing Military Service, Middleborough, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711087.
   FamilySearch (accessed 26 December 2021)
   FamilySearch Image Image number 00092
   Name: Jedediah Lyon; Military Service Date: 19 Apr 1775; Military Service Place: Middleborough, Baltimore, Maryland, United States; Residence Place: Middleborough; Mil Rank: Corporal; Mil Regiment: Capt Abiel Pearce's 2d Middleborough Co Of Militia; Mil Status: 2 days; Id: 403928; Event Place Year Range: 1775-1783; Source Reference: Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War Boston, Massachusetts : Wright & Potter, 1896-1908.
7. ↑ DAR: Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 26 Dec 2021), "Record of Jedidiah Lyon", Ancestor # A072770.
8. ↑ Probate: "Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991"
   Probate File Papers; Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Plymouth County); Probate Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 9069 #2936731 (accessed 26 December 2021)
   Jedediah Lyon probate on 6 Mar 1807.

• Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, Margaret Harris Stover, CG, comp., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Isaac Allerton, Volume 17, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2013), pp. 131-132
• "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRM-KVH : accessed 4 December 2021), Jedediah Lyon, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 90, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 16; FHL microfilm 205,617.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #45614539