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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Rev. Isaac Lyman |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2][3] |
25 Feb 1724/25 |
Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States |
| Degree[1] |
1747 |
Yale College |
| Ordination[1] |
20 Dec 1749 |
York, York, Maine, United StatesMinister |
| Occupation[1] |
Bet 1749 and 1810 |
York, York, Maine, United StatesMinister |
| Marriage |
30 Apr 1750 |
York, York, Maine, United Statesto Ruth Plummer |
| Death[1] |
12 Mar 1810 |
York, York, Maine, United States |
| Burial[5] |
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Old York Cemetery, York Village, York, Maine, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College With Annals of the College History. (New York / New Haven: Holt / Yale University Press, 1885-1912)
2:125-26.
"Isaac Lyman, sixth child and fourth son of Captain Moses Lyman, and grandson of Moses and Ann Lyman, of Northampton, Massachusetts, was born in that town, on February 25, 1724-5. His mother was Mindwell, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Warner) Sheldon, of Northampton. A younger brother was graduated here in 1756.
He studied divinity, probably with his pastor, the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, and in March, 1749, began to preach in Northfield, Massachusetts, where the church invited him in September to settle. He declined this call, and accepted one to the First Church in York, Maine, where he was ordained pastor, on December 20, 1749.
He continued in office as sole pastor for forty-nine years, and retained the relation of senior pastor for the rest of his life, though wholly retired from service, and in fact confined to his house by infirmity. He died in York, March 12, 1810, at the age of 85.
His tombstone describes him quaintly, as 'the social, venerable, and pious pastor of the First Church in York,' and his contemporary and neighbor, the Rev. Dr. Moses Hemmenway (Harvard College 1755), of Wells, thus characterizes him in a published funeral sermon:—
'His talents appeared to be rather solid than shining. … Prudence in the conduct of life was an eminent and acknowledged part of his character, as was also great integrity and probity … None appeared to be more universally loved and respected by such as knew him.'
His doctrinal views were strictly Calvinistic.
He married, April 24 [30 per York VR], 1750, Ruth Plummer, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, who was born July 22, 1730, and died in York, about the 1st of March, 1824, in her 94th year.
Their children were seven daughters and two sons,—the elder son being Theodore Lyman, of Boston and Waltham, Massachusetts, the father of the distinguished mayor of Boston of the same name. One daughter married the Rev. Joseph Buckminster (Y. C. 1770)."
- ↑ Trumbull, James Russell. History of Northampton : Northampton Genealogies, 1640-1838. (Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States: n.p., bef 1899)
294.
"Isaac (Lyman): b. Feb., 1725"
- ↑ Corbin, Walter E. (Compiler), and Robert J. (Transcriber) Dunkle. Corbin Collection. Volume 1: Records of Hampshire County, Massachusetts: Northampton Vital Records. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003)
973.
"[4099A] Lyman, Moses & Mindwell …
Isaac, b. Feb. __ 1725"
- Biographical encyclopaedia of Massachusetts of the nineteenth century. (Boston, Massachusetts: Metropolitan Pub. and Engraving, 1879-1883, c1877-c1883)
318-321.
... Isaac, the sixth child of Moses and Mindwell Lyman, and the grandfather of the subject of this memoir, was born in Northampton, February 25, 1725.
He was graduated at Yale College in 1747, and in 1749 was settled over the Congregational parish of York, Me.
He married Ruth Plummer, of Gloucester, Mass., a lovely and cultivated woman, who brought up nine children in the simple parsonage at York.
The Rev. Isaac Lyman died in 1810, aged eighty six, after sixty years of useful and faithful labor in his parish, watching over the physical as well as the spiritual wants of his flock. ...
- ↑ Rev Isaac Lyman, in Find A Grave
includes headstone photo and portrait, last accessed Jun 2025.
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