Person:Richard Lyman (2)

Working Timeline and Notes

• Richard Lyman is believed to be the first Lyman ancestor in America
• 1631 - arrived aboard the Lyon
• member of the church at Roxbury, MA under the care of Rev. John Eliot who came to America with him
• 1635 - part of the "great removal" of settlers from Massachusetts to Connecticut during which he lost most of his 160 head of cattle
• initially settled in Windsor, CT ^{Citation needed}
• Hartford, CT - his name is inscribed in the rear of the Centre Church on a stone column erected in memory of the first settlers of that city

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   BIRTH: Baptized High Ongar, Essex, 30 October 1580, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Rande) Lyman [TAG 30:187-90].
   
   DEATH: Hartford between 22 April 1640 (date of will) and 3 March 1640/1 ("when his thirty acres were called the property of Richard Lyman, deceased" [Moore Anc 349]).
   
   MARRIAGE: By 1611 Sarah _____; "Sarah Lyman, the wife of Richard Lyman," admitted to Roxbury church as member #20 [RChR 74]. She died by 27 January 1642[/3] when her will was brought to court with that of her husband [CCCR 1:81]. (Some older sources claim that Sarah was daughter of Richard Osborne of Halstead, Kent, but there is no support for this identification.)

2. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   3:134.

   RICHARD, Roxbury 1631, b. at High Ongar, where he was bapt. 30 Oct. 1580, came with Eliot, in the Lion, bring. says the ch. rec. "Phillis, bapt. 12 Sept. 1611, at H. O. Richard, bapt. 24 Feb. 1618; Sarah, bapt. 8 Feb. 1621; John, b. Sept. 1623; and ano." kn. now to be Robert, b. Sept. 1629; and it goes on to tell how he went to Conn. "when the gr. removal was made," and suffer. greatly in loss of his cattle; was freem. 11 June 1633, and among the orig. proprs. of Hartford, where he d. 1640. His will, of 22 Apr. in that yr. is the first in the valu. work of Trumbull, Coll. Rec. I. 442, 3, foll. by the Inv. His wid. Sarah d. not long aft. All the ch. are nam. in the will, and Phillis is call. w. of William Hills.

3.   Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. (Connecticut, United States: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1934)
   Vol 56.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Richard Lyman, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:22, 23.

   Lyman, Richard. Invt. of Goods, £83-16-02. Taken 6 September, 1641, by John Moodie, Andrew Bacon, John Barnard. Will dated 22 April, 1640.
   
   I give unto my wife all my houseing and Lands during her life, and 1/3 parte of my Lands to dispose of at her death amongst my Children as she pleaseth, and I give her all my moveable goods, as Cattell and howsehold stuffe, and all other implements or moveables. And the other two prts of my land & Howse, I give to my Elder sonne Richard, and to his heires forever ; and if he dy wthout an heir, then I give yt to my sonne Robert, and to his heirs forever. To my dau. Sarah, besides the Cattell I formerly have given her, my will is, that my wife shall pay her £20, two yeres after my death. To my sonne, John Lyman, I give him £30, to be paid by my wife att 22 years of age. To my sonne Robert, I give £24 at 22 years of age; and to my dau. Fillis, the wife of Willia Hills, I give tenne shillings ; and I make my wife sole Executrixe to this my last will.
   -- Richard Lyman.
   Witness: Thomas Bull, John Moodie, Andrew Bacon.
   
   Court Record, Page 81, 27 January, 1642 (Particular Courte).
   The Will and Invt. of Richard Lyman, Deed., is brought into Court.
   John Moody makes oath that yt is the Last Will of the said Rich., and the noate that was brought in is the noate of the Widdow Lyman, Decd. The several prtyes prsent at the prsenting of the said Will agree that John Lyman, if he live, will be 22 yere ould in Septe, 1645 ; Robert Lyman, 22
   in Sept. 1651.
   
   24 Jul (1642)
   The wydowe Lymans mynd is that her sonne Richard Lyman should prforme her husbands will, and that her son Robert should live wth him till he be 22 yeares of age ; and she gives Robert Lyman the third prrte of the howsen & grounds ; & for the prformence of her husbands will she gives Richard all her moveable goods, both wth out the howse and wth in, only her wearing Clothes and some of her lining She will dispose of.
   John Moodie. Andrew Bacon.

5. ↑ Biographical encyclopaedia of Massachusetts of the nineteenth century. (Boston, Massachusetts: Metropolitan Pub. and Engraving, 1879-1883, c1877-c1883)
   318-321.

   ... Richard Lyman, of High Ongar, England, who came to this country with his family in 1631, settling first at Charlestown, Mass., thence going to Connecticut with the company that founded Hartford and Wethersfield. Richard Lyman died in 1640, "a man of considerable estate, keeping two servants." ...

6. ↑ .

   
   

   Lyon (1631)

   The Lyon made several voyages under Captain William Peirce 1630-1632. Sailed: 23 Aug 1631 from London, England Arrived: 2 Nov 1631 at Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony Passengers: ~50 (Full List) William Parke - James Penniman - John Perkins - John Sanford - Robert Scott - Samuel Wakeman - Roger Williams & others Resources: Primary Sources: Other information:

   
   

7. ↑ Banks, Charles Edward. The Planters of the Commonwealth: a study of the emigrants and emigration in colonial times, to which are added lists of passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony, the ships which brought them, their English homes, and the places of their settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1930)
   94.