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Peter Lyon III (1686 - 1752)

Peter Lyon III
Born in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusettsmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of , and
Husband of — married 13 Feb 1710 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Husband of — married 23 Sep 1731 in Walpole, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
Husband of — married 15 Feb 1734 in Walpole, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and
Died at age 65 in Walpole, Massachusettsmap
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Biography

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Peter was born on 19 December 1686 in Dorchester, Massachusetts He was the son of Peter Lyon II (1663-1733) and Jane (Vose) Lyon (1665-).[1][2]

Peter Lyon married Waitstill Wiat on 13 February 1710/11 in Dorchester, Massachusetts.[3][4] Children of Peter and his first wife Waitstill:

  1. Waitstill, b. 17 Feb 1712, m. Mathias Evans 24 Oct 1738
  2. Maria, b. 7 May 1715, m. John Dickerman 17 Apr 1735
  3. Mary, b. ?, m. Thomas Foster 27 Sep 1737
  4. Beulah, b. ?, m. Simon Hadley 15 Nov 1750
  5. Abigail, b. ? m. Henry Crane 23 Nov 1744
  6. Hepsibah, b. ? m. Pelatiah Herring 9 Sep 1747
  7. Jane, b. ?, m. Robert Capen 1 Nov 1744
  8. Peter, b. 18 Sep 1717, m. Mrs. Mary Holden 11 May 1752
  9. Lemuel, b. 13 Feb 1729, m. Lydia Perry 10 May 1750

Peter married Jemima (Fales) Lyon (1707-1732) on 28 September 1731 in Walpole, Massachusetts.[5] Their child was:

  1. Benjamin Lyon, b. 30 Jun 1732, m. Thankful Humphrey 17 Jan 1754

Peter married Sarah (Hall) Lyon (1709-aft.1749) on 9 June 1734 in Walpole, Massachusetts.[6] Their children were...

  1. Eliab (Lyons) Lyon, b. 2 Jul 1735, m. Meriah Smith 3 Feb 1757
  2. Isaiah Lyon, b. 7 Dec 1736, d. 1762
  3. Sarah (Lyon) Carver, twin, b. 23 Dec 1733, m. Joseph Carver 1756
  4. Jemima (Lyon) Holmes, twin, b. 23 Dec 1733, m. Ebenezer Holmes 12 Jan 1761
  5. Drusilla (Lyon) Smith , b. 26 Apr 1741, m. Seth Smith 24 Oct 1769
  6. Tamar (Lyon) Ellis, b. 13 Mar 1743, m. Jacob Ellis 29 Sep 1773
  7. Adah Lyon, b. 12 Feb 1745
  8. Zillah (Lyon) Dexter, b. 19 Feb 1747, m. John Dexter 5 Jun 1771
  9. Asaph, b. 3 Apr 1750

Peter died on 8 April 1752 in Walpole, Massachusetts.[7] His probate case 9985 was 47 pages.[8]

Widow Sarah appointed guardian for minor children:
  1. Eliab, age 17
  2. Isaiah, age 16
  3. Jemima & Sarah, above 14
  4. Benjamin, age 20
  5. Tamar, age 10
  6. Adah, age 8
  7. Zillah, age 6
  8. Asaph, age 3
Other beneficiaries:
  • Abigail Lyon Crane, wife of Henry Crane of Stoughton
  • Benjamin Lyon of Dorchester
  • Mary Lyon Foster, wife of Thomas Foster of Dorchester
  • Waitstill Lyon Evens of Dorchester
  • Jane Lyon Capen, wife of Robert Capen of Stoughton
  • Beulah Lyon Hadley of Dedham
  • Hepsibah Lyon Herring, wife of Pelatiah Herring of Dedham
Quitlclaim deed signatories:
  • Waitstill Evens
  • Susanna Turner
  • Increase Leadbetter
  • Robert Capen
  • Seth Morton
  • Jean Capen
  • Josiah Deary
  • John Dickerman
  • Thomas Mason (Foster?)
  • Meriah Dickerman
  • Jean Capen
  • Pelatiah Herring
  • Jean Capen
  • Hepsibah Herring
  • Tamar Lyon
  • Belulah Hadley
Peter Lyon is mentioned in the Families of Dickerman Ancestry[9]:
" John Dickerman, son of John and Mary (Tucker) Dickerman (John*, Thomas', Thomas*), born April 1715 at Reading, died November 1760 at Stoughton. married April 17, 1735, at Stoughton by Rev. Samuel Dunbar, Meriah Lyon, daughter of Peter and Waitstill (Wyatt) Lyon, born July 15, 1715.

Sources

  1. ↑ Birth: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #43442515 (accessed 24 December 2021)
    Peter Lyon born on 19 Dec 1686 in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
  2. ↑ 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 Company, 1905. Page 329
  3. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7693/105/142208719 Dorchester, Vol. 1, page 105.
  4. ↑ "A Register of Publishments and Marriages in Dorchester," 1684-1744. Accessed on Ancestry.com in "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988" at Ancestry Sharing Link or Ancestry Record 2495 #43445500 (accessed 24 December 2021). "Marriages in 1710" (listed in chronological order for the Old Style year 1710): Peter Lyon, Waitstill Wiat. Married by Rev. Mr. John Danforth. Feb. 13.
  5. ↑ Marriage: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #4271652 (accessed 24 December 2021)
    Peter Lyon marriage to Jemima Fales on 28 Sep 1731 in Walpole, Massachusetts.
  6. ↑ Marriage: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #4270609 (accessed 24 December 2021)
    Peter Lyon marriage to Sorie Holl on 9 Jun 1734 in Walpole, Massachusetts.
  7. ↑ Death Registration: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #4250824 (accessed 24 December 2021)
    Peter Lyon death 8 Apr 1752 in Walpole, Massachusetts.
  8. ↑ Probate: Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org); Suffolk Cases 8000-9999; Case 9985, 1752. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2735/rd/48706/9985-co1/1416838253
  9. ↑ Dickerman: SECONDARY SOURCE: Families of Dickerman Ancestry; Descendants of Thomas Dickerman - an Early Settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts; The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1897; Page 24. Link to Page 24.
See also:
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Evans-3182 Kathy Evans
Lyon-3392 and Lyon-322 appear to represent the same person because: Peter Lyon's daughter Maria married John Dickerman. There will be another merge request for the duplicate profile for Maria. See page 331 of the Lyon Memorial.
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Rejected matches › Peter Lyon IV (1717-)

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