| John Lyford migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 2, p. 1214) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm |
This person is an ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln. [1]
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Rev. John Lyford[2] was born by about 1590, based on his estimated date of marriage. He was married in or before 1617 to Sarah, whose maiden name may be Oakley. She was born about 1586, stating in a deposition on 1 August 1639 that she was aged "about fifty-three years" [WP 4:137].
Rev. Lyford emigrated in 1624, perhaps on the Charity," and settled initially in Plymouth, then Nantasket, Salem, and finally Virginia by 1627.[4]
Rev. Lyford went to Virginia in 1627.[5] and on April 9, 1629 he was serving as minister of Martins Hundred. Later that year he was living 35 miles up the James River at Shirley Hundred; it was here where he wrote his will on February 9, 1629/30.[6] The will of "John Liford" of "Sherby [Shirley] Hundred in Virginia, clerk" was probated in Ireland in 19 May 1632. It was transcribed by antiquarian Charles Banks and is printed on p. 175 of The American Genealogist.In it, he bequeathed his son Obadiah all the land in the Countie of Tyrone and the remainder of the lease of Levalaglesh within the Manor of Dromully in the County of Ardmagh. He bequeathed to his daughter Anne, L 40 to be paid in installments beginning at age 16; he wished his wife Sarah to return to England after his decease to the Lease of Levalaglesh for her maintenance. All the rest of his goods to Obadiah who was made sole executor. It was witnessed by Robert Okely and Charels Magner.[6] His probate was settled in Ireland in 1632.[7]
His widow married (2nd) a man with the surname of Oakeley or Okely. Jacobus speculates that this may be Robert Okely, the witness to John Lyford's will.[6]
His widow married (3rd) to Edmund Hobart on 10 October 1634 in Charlestown, and he became guardian of her Lyford children. She died in Hingham on 23 June 1649. [NEHGR 121:22] Her Lyford children -- Ruth and Mordecai -- acquitted "Edmund Hubbert senior" their "stepfather" for a legacy of 200 pounds of tobacco given them by their "father John Leyford by his last will and testament" (22 Oct 1641 and 3 Jun 1642) [SLR 1:27].
Jacobus on page 177 places Obadiah's birth year at 1611 since he would have been at least 21 when he was executor of his father's estate at probate in 1632. He further states that Obadiah may have been born before the marriage of John and Sarah Lyford since Governor Bradfore, "in recounting several of John Lyford's earlier sexual transgressions, cites Sarah Lyford herself, who stated that John Lyford had sired an illegitimate child by someone else before their marriage, and that the bastard was brought home to them after their marriage."[6]
Bradford times his death as about 1628 (having gone from Salem "to Virginia, where he shortly after died" [Bradford 169]).
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Note Jacobus surmises that Sarah's 2nd husband was surnamed Okely, possibly Robert Okely who witnessed John Lyford's will.
Jacobus says Sarah's surname is unknown.... not "Oakley"... as is indicated in this profile. Consideration should be given to changing her LNAB to "Unknown" with the correction also in the biography.
And as the TAG article notes, Robert Oakley witnessed Lyford's will providing a nearby and obviously friend-of-the-family Oakley for her to marry.
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