"John Lyman5 … m. Sept 13, 1739, Hope Hawley, dau. of Jehiel Hawley, and Hope Stow Hawley, of Middletown and Durham, they lived on the boundary line, and granddaughter of the Rev. Samuel Stow, of Middletown, who owned much land in Middlefield, 'some of which descended to John Lyman's wife.'"