Jacob Lyon (1754 - 1829)

Born 12 Oct 1754 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Jerusha (Tucker) Lyon — married Nov 1775 (to 3 Jan 1829) in Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 3 Jan 1829 at age 74 in Wellesley, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Biography

This profile is part of the Lyon Name Study.

Jacob Lyon was born in October 1754 to cobbler (shoemaker) Benjamin Lyon and his wife, Thankful Humphrey Lyon. The family lived in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where Jacob was born. He took up the trade of leather-working and was known as a "currier:" an artisan who colors and shapes leather after it is tanned. It was a perfect complement to his father's shoe and boot making business.

Jacob would have had a quiet life had not the American Revolution intervened. His father was an ardent Massachusetts patriot and was one of the famed "Minutemen" who fought the Battle of Lexington (1774) and other colonial enlistments. Jacob, at 20, was a fifer for the Dorchester men at the Battle of Bunker Hill, aka Breeds Hill, serving in Capt. George Gould's company (1775-76). He later received a pension for 9 months service in the Mass. Militia.

No doubt a dashing figure with his fife and uniform, Jacob found time during his service to marry Jerusha Tucker (b. Oct. 9, 1757) from Milton, Mass. They married in November 1775 and had 7 children together:

1. Peter LYON b: 11 NOV 1776 in Milton, Mass.

2. Benjamin LYON b: 15 DEC 1776

3. Elisha LYON b: 29 SEP 1778 in Milton, Mass.

4. Seth LYON b: 22 JAN 1781

5. Lemuel LYON b. 16 FEB 1783 in Milton, Mass.

6. Amos LYON b: 1788, prob. in Wellesley MA

7. Susanna Tucker LYON, b. 01 MAR 1793

Jacob Lyon died in Wellesley, Norfolk, Mass., on January 3, 1829. He is buried in the Wellesley Congregational Church Cemetery, Wellesley, Norfolk County, Mass. His wife survived him, moving back to her native Milton, until she passed away on October 6, 1840.

Sources

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=myancestorpics&id=I0132

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=philsged&id=I320940

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lyon&GSfn=jacob&GSiman=1&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1859&GSdyrel=before&GSst=21&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=52183445&df=all&

• 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.. pages 341-342