Joseph LYON

Family/Spouse: Mary PIERSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth LYON

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• Death: 23 Mar 1707, Essex County, New Jersey

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Henry Lyon, one of the Lyons of Glen Lyon in Perthshire, Scotland, came to the Colonies with his two brothers, Thomas and Richard Lyon, in 1648. these three Scotch soldiers in Cromwell's army were on guard before the Banqueting House at Whitehall, Jan. 31, 1648, and witnessed the execution of King Charles I. Immediately after the regicide, they fled to America. Henry Lyon went to Milford, Conn., where he is first on record, Feb. 24, 1649, when he was admitted to Milford Chuch. He married in 1652, Elizabeth, daughter of William Bateman, of Fairfield, Conn., and was granted a home lot there. May 28, 1654, he was dismissed from Fairfield to Milford Church. In 1666 he came to Newark, NJ as one of its founders, with the Milford Colonist.

At Newark he was the first Treasurer and first Keeper of the Ordinary. In 1673-4 he removed to Elizabethtown, where he was a large land owner and a merchant of extensive interests. Nov. 5, 1675, he was a Member of the General Assembly. August 11, 1681 he was appointed Justice of the Peace, in the Colonial period equivalent to Judge of the Supreme Court. February 4, 1681, he was Judge of the Small auses; February 28, 1681, a Member of the Governor's Council; December, 1682, Commissioner; November 26, 1684, Representative in the Council of Governor, etc., etc. Among his lands was 100 acres of upland, since known as Lyons Farms. he married a second wife, marry (?), about 1689-90. Returned to Newark, 1696, and died there in 1703.

Henry married Elizabeth BATEMAN in 1652 in Milford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of William Bateman of Fairfield, Conn.