Henry Lyon, of Newark

Update

http://dgmweb.net/Resources/GenLin/Gen-LyonHenry.html

UPDATE (25 May 2010): Y-DNA testing has proven that Richard LYON and Henry LYON were closely related. Rather surprisingly, it also appears William Lyon, of Roxbury is closely related to them, while Thomas LYON of Rye is not. At last, some solid evidence on the relationships of these four men!

Biography

It hasn’t been confirmed when Henry arrived in New England, but there is a record of a Henry Lyon being allotted three acres of land in 1639. It has been confirmed that Henry’s name first shows up in Milford, CT. in 1648. From Milford, Henry went then went to Fairfield, in 1652. Later in 1666, he moved to New Milford, renamed New-Ark, now Newark, as a founder and first treasurer. Finally in 1673, with his son, Thomas, he moved to Elizabethtown where he became a merchant of extensive interests and a large landowner (including one hundred acres of upland, known as Lyons Farms).

He became a member of the general assembly in 1675, and a justice of the peace in 1681.

He married twice and had 10 children.

Henry (1623) was a brother of Thomas (1621 [NO] ) and Richard Lyon (1624) and also settled in Connecticut (CT). He later moved to New Jersey where he became an early resident of Newark. Henry Lyon was the most enterprising and forceful of the three brothers. He settled first in Milford, CT, removed later to Fairfield, CT, and finally joined the Colony that established in New Jersey the town of Passaic to which the name Newark was afterwards given. The descendants of Henry Lyon were prominent in the early history of New Jersey and included several officers in the Revolutionary Army.

Henry LYON

• Birth: 1623/4
• Death: 23 Mar 1707/8, at age 84, Newark, Essex Co., New Jersey Colony
• Disposition: interred Old Burying Ground, Newark, Essex Co., NJ
• Y-DNA Haplogroup: R1b-DF5
• Office: ca. 1667, 1st Treasurer of the City of Newark, Essex Co., New Jersey Colony
• Henry is said to have been born in Glen Lyon, Perthshire, Scotland, but I know of nothing to document this location — nor is there any historical evidence that any LYON ever lived in the Glen. The genetic connecton of Henry and Richard to William of Middlesex, England, then Roxbury, MA, suggests their origin is England, not Scotland.
• WARNING: There is not a shred of evidence identifying Henry's parents, only secondary sources.
• Father possibly: Richard LYON
• or
• Father very doubtfully: John LYON
• Mother very doubtfully: Eupham GLEDSTANES
• or
• Father definitely not: Sir Glenn LYON
• Mother definitely not: Lady Priscilla BOWES
• Marriage-1: 4 May 1652, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony
• Wife-1: Elizabeth BATEMAN
• Birth: ca. 1631, Toppesfield, co. Essex, England
• Death: aft. 1669/70, Newark, East Jersey Province
• Father: William BATEMAN
• Marriage-2: prob. ca. 1690, prob. in Elizabethtown, East Jersey Province
• Wife-2: Mary __?__

Children with Elizabeth BATEMAN (birthdates and places undocumented, except for Ebenezer's birthyear):
— by deduction, born in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony:

• 1. Thomas LYON, b. 1653
• 2. Mary LYON, b. 1654/5; m. John WARD
• 3. Samuel LYON, b. 1655/6
• 4. Joseph LYON, b. aft. 1658; d. 1726, Newark, Essex Co., NJ; m1. Mary PIERSON; m2. Sarah BROWN
• 5. Nathaniel LYON, b. 1663/4; d. 1701; m. Mary __?__
• 6. John LYON, b. 1665/6; d. Oct/Nov 1694, Burlington, NJ; m. Hannah BALDWIN
• — by deduction, born in Newark, East Jersey Province:
• 7. Benjamin LYON, b. ca. 1668; m. Bethia/Bethyah __?__ — 6th great-grandparents of Barbara PIERCE, wife of President George H.W. BUSH
• 8. Ebenezer LYON, b. 1669/70

Children with Mary — born in Elizabethtown, East Jersey Province:

• 9. Mary LYON, b. 1690/1
• 10. Dorcas LYON, b. 1692/3

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Timeline

• 1649 - Henry Lyon appears in Milford, CT where he is first on record Feb 24 1649 when he was admitted to Milford Church.
• He married 4 May 1652, Elizabeth, daughter of William Bateman of Fairfield CT and was granted a home lot there.
• May 28, 1654 he was dismissed from Milford to Fairfield Church.
• In 1666 he came to Newark, NJ as one of its founders with the Milford Colonists.
• 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, 1661 he was Judge of Small Causes:
• February 28, 1681, a member of the Governor's Council;
• December 1682. Commissioner;
• November 26 1684 Representative in the Council of the Governor, etc. etc.
• Among his lands was 100 acres of upland since known as Lyons Farms.
• He married a second wife, Mary C _____ about 1689-90.
• Returned to Newark 1696 and died there in 1702/03 [or1707/08].

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12949976/henry-lyon

Henry Lyon BIRTH 1619, Perth and Kinross, Scotland DEATH 23 Mar 1703 (aged 83–84), Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA at 84 year. BURIAL Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA, PLOT Old Burying Ground relocated to Fairmount Cemetery, MEMORIAL ID 12949976, Photos by TF Lyon

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 1649. These three Scotch soldiers in Cromwell's army were on guard before the Banqueting House at Whitehall, Jan. 31, 1649, 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 Church.

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, N. J., he kept a tavern, was the town treasurer, and was one of its founders, with the Milford Colonists. Henry Lyon was brother to Thomas (1622) and Richard (1624) Lyon. Ref History of Union Co, NJ. [Beryl Meehan (#48054380)]

One of the Founders of Newark, New Jersey. Came to Newark in 1666 from Fairfield, Conn., as a PURITAN, first arriving in the New World about 1630, with about 1000 other Puritans to form THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY. First Treasurer of the city of Newark, in 1667. Held many more posts. Also, Newark's first tavern keeper. See "Lion Memorial" for a very descriptive account of Henry Lion.

For more information, please see this additional memorial for Henry Lyon

Inscription aged 84y

Gravesite Details Reinterred at Fairmount Cemetery, Newark in a mass grave.

Spouse Elizabeth Bateman Lyon 1631–1688 (m. 1652)

Children Joseph Lyon 1658–1726 Benjamin Lyon 1668–1720 Ebenezer Lyon 1670–1739

NJGenWeb ~ Morris County, New Jersey - The Lyon Family < link >

Source: J. Percy Crayon, Rockaway Records of Morris County, N. J. Families, (Rockaway, N.J., Rockaway Publishing Co., 1902)

The general outlook at this time, New Jersey under the charter granted to Berkeley and Carteret, promised greater freedom in civil and religious affairs than could be hoped for with the existing conditions of Connecticut, and they severed home ties for sill another pioneer beginning, known only by hearsay.

Staunch they were in all things, sternly zealous in church matters, and sternly opposed to monarchial interference. The spirit of independence that animated the Puritan fathers was transmitted to their descendants, an aversion to the domination of kings that reached a climax in the Essex Riots 1745, which was the first overt act of resistance to the authority of Great Britain, making the men of New Jersey Plantations the earliest aggressors in the cause of civil liberty.

Henry LYON of the Milford colony was one of the founders of Newark, NJ, first called Milford, received home lot number 8, held several public offices and is cited as having been at Elizabeth, NJ, with son Thomas in 1673, where he purchased among other lands 100 acres of upland by the lyne (line?) of Elizabethport, which has since been called Lyons Farms.

Henry LYON, of Milford, the Passaic pilgrim, in 1652 was married at Fairfield church to Mary, daughter of William BATEMAN. His will, dated 1702 in Newark, names wife Mary, and children: Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, Ebenezer, Thomas, deceased; John, deceased, Nathaniel, deceased; Dorcas and Mary.

Children of Henry LYON and wife Mary: Samuel, had home lot 39, married (1) Sarah BEACH, (2) Hannah PIERSON. Will 1765 mentions children: Samuel, Henry, Joseph, John, James, Mary, Sarah, Hannah, and wife Hannah.

References

• For more information, please see this additional memorial for Henry Lyon
• https://archive.org/details/lyonmemorial00lyon/page/n3
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12949976/henry-lyon
• https://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/htol/lyonmemorialVol1.pd
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 20 2022, 3:26:38 UTC
• http://www.usgenwebsites.org/NJMorris/biographies/rockawayrecords/l...
• See http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/Pedigrees/0/Bush/27-00-DanielCoe.shtml for lots more information *http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/L/LyonHenry-ElizabethBateman-Mary_....
• http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/5/Lyon/LyonHome.shtml
• http://www.sallysfamilyplace.com/Wheeler/lyonh.htm
• https://www.familytreedna.com/public/lyon?iframe=yresults

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