Person:Benjamin Lyman (4)

He lived in Northampton nearly twenty years. In 1745 or soon after, he removed with his family to Bartlett Mills on the Manhan River, a district then in Northampton, but afterwards with other settlements set off and denominated Easthampton. On the 28th of May, 1745, the town deeded to Benjamin Lyman and Stephen Wright who was his neighbor and had removed with him from Northampton, for and in consideration of the sum of sixteen hundred and twenty-five pounds in bills of public credit, old tenor, "a tract of land known as 'School Meadow,' the same being land sequestered by the town 'for the schools,'" about eight acres of the Manhan meadow above the falls on the river and the public road across the same. At that time no place of worship had been erected in Easthampton. He therefore retained his connection with the church in Northampton where he was one of the early and constant supporters of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D.D., being one of the nineteen who voted to retain him as pastor of the church at the time of the opposition to him.^[2]

1. ↑ Corbin, Walter E. Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Northampton, Massachusetts, Corbin Collection Vol. 1: Records of Hampshire County, Massachusetts: Corbin Collection Volume 1. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003)
   964.

   Lyman/Limon, Benja & Thankfull
   Bene (Benjamin), s. b. Jan. 4 1703

2. ↑ Coleman, Lyman. Genealogy of the Lyman family, in Great Britain and America: the Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Lyman, from High Ongar in England, 1631. (Albany, N. Y.: J. Munsell, 1872)
   Page 408.