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Facts and Events
Stephen Lyons was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Records in Botetourt County, VA
- Botetourt County Court Minutes
- At a court held for Botetourt County the 12th of August, 1777. - The persons apptd. to view the road from near James Arnold's crossing Arnold's Valley by Stephen Lyons' house, thence through the mountain to George Willson's on Sproul's Run & crossing James River at Thomas Strunson's Ford and into the Great Road near William Maxfield's, report that a good bridle way may be made and the same is established, and the persons petitioning are apptd. to open the same and keep it in repair as the law directs. Source: USGenWeb Archives
Will of Wife Nancy
- LYONS, NANCY - (Will) - 7-18-1805.
- Legatees: Sons Joseph Lyons, Samuel Lyons and George Lyons - (Mentions my other children),
- James, George and Rhoda the three children of James Lyons deceased.
- "Jane Lyons and her two daughters Nancy & Betsy."
- "Peggy Lyons (wife of Samuel) and her two daughters.
- Exors: Son Joseph Lyons & John Everly.
- Wit: Robert B. McAfee, John Lyon and Stephen Lyon.
- Apprs: James McAfee & Nathaniel Burrows.
- Oct. Court 1805, Page 138.
- Inventory - Page 162 & 194 & 152.
- [Source: MERCER COUNTY, KENTUCKY: Abstracts of Will Books 3 and 4, by Jane McAfee, Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 37, No. 119 (April, 1939), pp. 94-115]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
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