Ebenezer Lyon (1709 - 1798)

Born 1709 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail Bullard — married 23 Aug 1733 in Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts Colony

Descendants

Died 4 Jan 1798 at about age 89 in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA

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Buried ^[1]

Note: #NI170.

Marriage Husband Ebenezer Lyon. Wife Abigail Bullard. Marriage 23 Aug 1733. Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts Colony. ^[2]

Child: Mary Lyon.

Notes

Note NI170The name Ebenezer Lyon appears in the list of Association Test subscribers for Reading CT in 1773. 1

From Daniel F. Secomb's, "History of Amherst" (1883 ).

"In 1753, a petition for incorporation was presented to the Governor and Council by the citizens of Souhegan West, who were as follows (by their signatures on the petition): Ephraim Abbot, Joshua Abbot, Josiah Abbot, Andrew Bixbe, Joseph Boutell, William Bradford, Benjamin Cheever, Joseph Clark, Ebenezer Ellinwood, Ebenezer Ellinwood Jr., Joseph Ellinwood, John Everdon, Solomon Hutchinson, Samuel Lamson, Samuel Lamson Jr., Robert Read, Benjamin Lovejoy, Ebenezer Lyon,. Hugh Ross, Josiah Sawyer, Andrew Seetown, John Smith, Joseph Steel, Samuel Stewart, William Stewart, Caleb Stiles, Robert Stuart, Benjamin Taylor, Israel Towne, Benjamin Wilkins, Daniel Wilkins, and Daniel Wilkins, Jr. No action seems to have been taken upon this petition. 1

RESIDENT TAX-PAYERS in AMHERST, September 1760**.

Ephraim Abbot, Joshua Abbot, Josiah Abbot, Ebenezer Averill, Thomas Averill, Andrew Bixby, Joseph Boutele, Kendal Boutele, Andrew Bradford, Samuel Bradford, William Bradford, David Burns, John Burns, Joseph Butterfield, Oliver Carlton, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Clark Jr., Thomas Clark, James Cochran, John Cole, Jacob Curtice [sic Curtis], Benjamin Davis, John Davis, Benjamin Dresser, Ebenezer Ellinwood, Ebenezer Ellinwood Jr., Jedediah Ellinwood, Joseph Ellinwood, Francis Elliott, Elisha Felton, Simeon Fletcher, Nathan Fuller, Richard Gould, Samuel Gray, David Hartshorn, John Harwood, Ephraim Hildreth, Amey Hobbs, William Hogg, Ebenezer Holt, Ebenezer Holt Jr., J. Holt, Isaac How, Solomon Hutchinson, William Jones, Nathan Kendall, Jonathan Lamson, Samuel Lamson, Samuel Lamson Jr., William Lancy, Abijah Lovejoy, Benjamin Lovejoy, Hezekiah Lovejoy, Joseph Lovejoy, Ephraim Lund, «u»Ebenezer Lyon«/u», Jonathan Lyon, John McClernand, Timothy McIntire, William Melendy, Reuben Mussey, William Odall, John Patterson, William Peabody, John Pettengill, Joseph Prince, Robert Read, Alexander Robinson, Samuel Robinson, Hannah Rollins, James Rollins, Hugh Ross, Andrew Seaton, John Seaton, Samuel Steaon, John Shepard, John Shepard Jr., Joseph Small, John Smith, Timothy Smith, Joseph Steel, Caleb Stiles, John Stuart, Robert Stuart, Samuel Stuart, Benjamin Taylor, Israel Towne, Israel Town Jr., Moses Towne, Thomas Towne, David Truel, Moses Truel, Caleb Upton, Thomas Wakefield, William Wallace, Davis Walton, Reuben Walton, John Washer, Stephen Washer, John Wasson, Daniel Weston, Ebenezer Weston, Ebenezer Weston Jr. George Wiley, Amos Wilkins, Benjamin Wilkins, Daniel Wilkins, Lucy Wilkins, William Wilkins and Mary Wilkins (110 in all). 1

At a meeting held in the meeting-house January 30, 1744-45, the proprietors "Voted that they will allow the Inhabitants a stock of Ammunition to defend themselves in case there should be an occasion." Tradition tells us that about this time seven garrison-houses were erected in different parts of the town, to which the inhabitants resorted in times of danger. Beside these, a block-house, or fort, is said to have been built for the protection of the settlers. Among the scouts employed by the province in 1748 we find the names of Daniel Wilkins and Wincol Wright, of Souhegan West, who were members of the company employed to guard Souhegan, Stark's and Monson garrisons that season. The war came to a close in 1749, but was renewed in 1752, and continued until the cession of Canada to the English in 1763. Fortunately, no attack was made upon the settlers at Souhegan West by the enemy, and no account has reached us that any serious damage was done by them within its borders.... Near the close of the war several of the inhabitants served in expeditions sent against the common enemy, «u»Sergeant Ebenezer Lyon«/u», John Everdeen, David Hartshorn Jr., Samuel Lamson, Joseph Small and Thomas Williams served in Colonel Blanchard's regiment at Crown Point in 1755. Humphrey Hobbs was a captain in the ranger service in 1755. «u»Lieutenant Ebenezer Lyon,«/u» Daniel Wilkins, Samuel Bradford, Israel Towne, Joseph Lovejoy, John Burns, Jonathan Lamson, Nathaniel Haseltine, Daniel Weston, Stephen Peabody and John Mills served in Colonel John Hart's regiment at Crown Point in 1758. Benjamin Davis, John Mills, John Stewart, and Robert Stewart were privates in Colonel John Goffe's regiment at Crown Point in 1760.

'MODERATORS OF THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETINGS. «u»Ebenezer Lyon«/u» 1763.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S259 Ebenezer Lyon, one of the first settlers, died 4 Jan. 1798, age 88.
2. ↑ Source: #S184 Volume 56, 1902: Needham Marriages

• Source: S259 Historical Sketch of Amherst, in the County of Hillsborough in New Hampshire... Farmer, John Publication: printed in Concord by Asa M'Farland, 1837 online at https://books.google.co.il/books?id=ylJZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=ebenezer+lyon+amherst&source=bl&ots=W0IoHpw1Vx&sig=FYLsg5bp67Q5sujARXbm3s2vBMw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2XOQVPPMLMKR7Abl34GoBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ebenezer%20lyon%20amherst&f=true