Esther LYON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1691

Family/Spouse: John GRUMMAN. John (son of John GRUMMAN and Sarah TRY) died after 20 May 1695. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nathaniel PERRY. Nathaniel died between 01 and 23 Jan 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary PERRY was born in 1680.
2. Esther PERRY was born in 1678.
3. Joseph PERRY was born about 1676; died on 09 Aug 1753 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

Notes:

Name:
Richard Lyon settled in Fairfield, Conn., as early as May, 1649, the exact date of his arrival there not being now known. According to family tradition he was the youngest of three brothers, who came to New England probably about 1648 and located first in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The earliest item relating to him is found in the Colonial Records of Connecticut (I. 183) where we read in the proceedings of a "Perticular Courte" in Hartford, May 16, 1649 "Nehemiah Olmstead Plt contra Richard Lyon defent in an action of the case to the damage of L12." The report is certainly tantalizingly brief, and leaves us quite in the dark as to the merits or the outcome of the controversy.

Richard Lyon had a house and lot recorded in the Land Records of Fairfield ("Fayarefeild") in january, 153, and was made a freeman there in 1664 (Conn. Colonial Records I. 432). In 1673 he had recorded five acres of land at Barlow's Plains, and 18 1/2 acres "on the Rocks." He was chosen Commissioner for Fairfield, May 1669 ( Conn. Col. Rec. II. 106.) It is related that on the occasion of a witchcraft trial "the prisoner was sharply rebuked by Richard Lyon, one of the keepers, for bold language." From the abusive reply which is recorded one may gather that the rebuke was well deserved.

The will of Richard Lyon, dated April 12, 1678, probated Oct. 17, 1678, is almost the only source of information about his family.

Richard married Margaret ?. Margaret died in 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]