Richard Lyman

1580 - 1640  (~ 59 years)

• Name	Richard Lyman
  Christening	20 Oct 1580	Essex, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aug 1640	Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA
  Notes	From "The Descendants of Richard Lyman of Hartford": "Richard Lyman was among the cluster of people around Revs. Thomas Hooker and John Eliot in the Braintree and Chelmsford areas in Essex County, England. They taught school together in Little Baddow, where they were the center of a large community of Puritans, who struggled with the problem of reforming the Church of England from within at a time when the King and the Bishop saw no need of reform and prosecuted all dissenters. Eventually, many of the Puritans from East Anglia solved this dilemma by removing to a more remote part of England...New England, beyond the sea. In 1629 he sold to John Gower lands and orchards at Ongar, and in August, 1631, embarked with his wife and five children in the ship "Lion," William Pierce, mater, for New England. In the ship, which sailed from Bristol, were Martha Winthrop, third wife of Governor Winthrop, the governor's eldest son and his family, and also Eliot, the Indian Apostle. They landed at Boston, and Richard Lyman settled first in Charlestown, and with his wife united with the church of which Eliot was pastor. He was admitted a freeman June 11, 1635, and in October of the same year, joining a party of about a hundred persons, went to Connecticut, and became one of the first settlers of Hartford. Their journey was beset by many dangers and he lost many of his cattle on the way. He was one of the original proprietors of Hartford in 1636, receiving thirty parts of the purchase from the Indians. His house was on the south side of what is now (1910) Buckingham street, the fifth lot from Main street west of the South church, and was bounded apparently on Wadsworth street, either on the east or west. BIOGRAPHY: Was in Roxbury in 1631. DEATH: His will was dated April 22, 1640, and proved Jan. 27, 1642, together with that of his wife, who died soon after he died. His name is inscribed on a stone column in the rear of the Centre church of Hartford, erected in memory of the first settlers of the city
  Person ID	I38616	OurNorthernRoots | Andrew's Ancestor
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2011

  
  

  Family	Sarah Osborne,   b. 1581, Kent Co., England d. Jan 1643, Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	1602	England
  Children	+ 1. Richard Lyman, Jr.,   c. 24 Feb 1618, Essex, England d. 3 Jun 1662, Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA (Age ~ 44 years)
  Family ID	F13719	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Christening - 20 Oct 1580 - Essex, England Marriage - 1602 - England Death - Aug 1640 - Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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