Richard Lyman, of Hartford

Richard Lyman came to New England in September 1631. He was the patriarch of the Lymans in New England.

Biographical Summary #1:

Richard Lyman was baptized at High Ongar, Co. Essex, England on Oct. 30, 1580, the son of Henry Lyman and Elizabeth (Rande) Lyman. His mother was buried in 1587, and Henry Lyman married Phillis Scott by 1591.

Richard Lyman married Sarah __?__. She died before 27 Jan 1641/2 when their wills were proved. (She was possibly the daughter of Roger Osborne of Halstead, Co. Kent, however, "Great Migration states there is no support for this identification.)

Richard and Sarah had nine children born in England. The family (with five children) immigrated to America in 1631. They arrived in Boston Nov. 2, 1631 aboard the ship "Lion" with 60 passengers. The trip took 10 weeks.

They settled first in Roxbury, Massachusetts and in 1635 moved to Hartford, Connecticut along with a group of about 100 people led by Rev.Thomas Hooker.

Children: Phillis Lyman Hills, Richard Lyman, William Lyman, William Lyman, Richard Lyman Jr, Sarah Lyman Bridgman, Anna Lyman, John Lyman, and Robert Lyman.

Richard Lyman died between 22 Apr 1640 (date of will) and 3 Mar 1640/1 ("when his thirty acres were called the property of Richard Lyman, deceased." He was deceased before 24 July 1641/2 when his wife, the "widow Lyman" made her will. His will was proved January 27, 1642, together with that of his wife [?], who died soon after he did.

(See "New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins," 1620-1635, Vol 2, G-O)

Source: < FindAGrave MEMORIAL ID 24045590 >

Biographical Summary #2:

He was born about 25 miles east by south from London and was baptized 30 Oct 1580.

Richard was born in High Ongar, which is in Essex, in 1580 and was baptized on October 30th of that year. His parents were Henry Lyman and Elizabeth Rande, and he was one of six children. It has been claimed that Henry was of royal descent, but modern researchers have firmly disproven this. Richard married Sarah Osborne sometime before 1611, and they settled in High Ongar. Between 1611 and 1629, they had nine children, three of whom died as infants. …

Famous descendants of Richard Lyman include Franklin Delano Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, Frederick Law Olmstead, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gloria Vanderbilt, Thomas Dewey, Bess Truman, Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Hyde Pierce and Helen Hunt.

Source: < “The Journey to Settle Hartford — Richard Lyman” > (March 2012)

Biographical Summary #3:

Richard Lyman, born and baptized at High Ongar, Co. Essex, October 30, 1580; son of Henry Lyman and his wife, Phillis—this Henry was buried at Navistoke, in Essex, April 15, 1587. Richard Lyman sold, in 1629, to John Gower, two messuages, a garden, orchard, and divers lands arable, also a meadow and posture at Norton Mandevillo, in the parish of Ongur. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Roger Osborne, of Halstead, Co. Kent; came with Eliot in the "Lion," 1631; settled at Roxbury;' freeman, Massachusetts. June 11, 1633; the Church record at Roxbury tells how he went to Connecticut "when the great removal was made," and suffered greatly in the loss of his cattle. He was one of the original proprietors of Hartford, and in 1639 his home-lot was on the south side of the "road from George Steel's to the South Meadow." He died in 1641, will dated April 22, 1640; inventory September 6, 1641, £83.16. 2.; the will mentions his wife, but she died before Jan. 27,1642-3.

Children:

i. Phillis, baptized at High Ongar, September 12, 1611; mentioned in her father's will, as the wife of William Hill.

ii. Richard, baptized at High Ongar, February 24, 1618; settled in Windsor; married Hepzibah, daughter of Thomas Ford; removed to Northampton in 1655; he died June 3, 1662; his widow married John Marsh, of Northampton, who soon after removed to Hartford,

iii. Sarah, baptized February 8, 1621; mentioned in her father's will.

iv. John, born September, 1623. Savage says his wife Dorcas was a daughter of John Plum, of Wethersfield; married Jan., 1655; removed soon after to Northampton; died there August 20, 1690.

v. Robert, born September, 1629, at High Ongar; married November 5, 1662, Hepzibah, daughter of Thomas Bascom; settled in Northampton, where he died.

Source: James Hammond Trumbull, editor, The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1 (Boston, Massachusetts: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), page 250. Retrieved: 3 May 2011 from Google Books

Biographical Summary #4:

ORIGIN: High Ongar, Essex
MIGRATION: 1631
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
REMOVES: Hartford 1636
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Roxbury church as member #11: "Richard Lyman. He came to N.E. in the 9th month 1631. He brought children: Phillis, Richard, a Sarah._____ John. He was an ancient christian, but weak, yet after some time of trial & quickening he joined to the church; when the great removal was made to Conecticot he also went, & underwent much affliction, for going toward winter, his cattle were lost in driving, & some never found again; & the winter being cold & ill provided, he was sick and melancholy, yet after he had some revivings through God's mercy, and died in the year 1640" [ RChR 74].
FREEMAN: 11 June 1633 [ MBCR 1:368].
ESTATE: In the Hartford land inventory in February 1639[/40] Richard Lyman held six parcels: three acres and one rood with dwelling house, outhouses, yards and gardens; eight acres of upland; twenty acres of upland; seven acres in the South Meadow; two acres in the South Meadow; and six acres of swamp on the east side of the Great River [ HaBOP 271-72]. At an unknown date James Ensine purchased the six acre parcel of swamp on the east side of the Great River from Richard Lyman [HaBOP 224].
BIRTH: Baptized High Ongar, Essex, 30 October 1580, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Rande) Lyman [ TAG 30:187-90].
DEATH: Hartford between 22 April 1640 (date of will) and 3 March 1640/1 ("when his thirty acres were called the property of Richard Lyman, deceased" [ Moore Anc 349]).
MARRIAGE: By 1611 Sarah _____; "Sarah Lyman, the wife of Richard Lyman," admitted to Roxbury church as member #20 [RChR 74]. She died by 27 January 1642[/3] when her will was brought to court with that of her husband [ CCCR 1:81]. (Some older sources claim that Sarah was daughter of Richard Osborne of Halstead, Kent, but there is no support for this identification.)

CHILDREN (baptisms in TAG 30:188): IZE="2" >

• i PHILLIS, bp. High Ongar, Essex, 12 September 1611; m. by about 1638 WILLIAM HILLS.
• ii RICHARD, bp. High Ongar 18 July 1613; d. soon.
• iii WILLIAM, bur. High Ongar 28 August 1615.
• iv WILLIAM, bp. High Ongar 8 September 1616; bur. there November 1616.
• v RICHARD, bp. High Ongar 24 February 1617/8; m. by about 1644 Hepzibah Ford, daughter of THOMAS FORD (eldest child b. about 1644 [Moore Anc 260-61, 354]).
• vi SARAH, bp. High Ongar 8 February 1619/20; came to New England in 1631 with family [RChR 74]; named in father's will, 22 April 1640; no further record.
• vii ANNE, bp. Navestock, Essex, 20 April 1621; no further record.
• viii JOHN, b. September 1623 ("if he live will be twenty-two year old in September 1645" [CCCR 1:81]); m. Branford 12 January 1654[/5] Dorcas Plumb [BranVR Barbour 113], daughter of John Plumb.
• ix ROBERT, b. September 1629 ("twenty-two in September 1651" [CCCR 1:81]); m. Northampton 5 November 1662 Hepzibah Bascomb [ Pynchon VR 141].

In his will, dated 22 April 1640 and proved 27 January 1642[/3], Richard Lyman bequeathed to "my wife all my housing and lands during her life and one third part of my lands to dispose of at her death amongst my children as she pleaseth and I give her all my moveable goods"; "the other two parts of my land & house I give to my elder son Richard ... if he die without an heir, then I give it to my son Robert"; to "my daughter Sarah, besides the cattle I formerly have given her, my will is that my wife shall pay her £20 two years after my death"; to "my son John Lyman I give him £30 to be paid by my wife at twenty-two years of age"; to "my son Robert I give £24 at twenty-two years of age"; to "my daughter Fillis, the wife of William Hills I give 10s."; "my wife sole executrix" [ Manwaring 1:22-23].

The inventory of Richard Lyman was taken 6 September 1641 and totalled £83 16s. 3d. [Manwaring 1:22].

In her will, dated 24 July [1642?], the "widow Lyman" made the following disposition of her goods: "The widow Lyman's mind is that her son Richard Lyman should perform her husband's will and that her son Robert should live with him till he be twenty-two years of age, and she gives Robert Lyman the third part of the housing & grounds, & for the performance of her husband's will she gives Richard all her moveable goods, both without the house and within, only her wearing clothes and some of her linen she will dispose of" [Manwaring 1:23]

COMMENTS: Lilian J. Redstone checked the High Ongar manorial court records for 25 April 1639 and discovered that Richard Lyman had surrendered his tenements of Petfield, Serleshope and Cachmans and a cottage in Pashfield to Richard Dike by 19 September 1631 [TAG 30:190].

In 1632 William Pynchon, as Massachusetts Bay treasurer, paid £3 10s. to "Goodman Lyman for a fat hog for [to victual the pinnace for the taking of Dixie Bull]" [ MHSC 2:8:232].

On 5 September 1639 Richard Lyman complained against Sequassen for "burning up his hedge which before Mr. Governor formerly he promised to satisfy for, but yet hath not done it" [CCCR 4].

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1938 Louis Effingham DeForest compiled a substantial account of the Lyman family [Moore Anc 348-56]. Ten years later Mary Lovering Holman published a briefer account, but this time incorporating parish register entries which identify the English origin of the Lyman family [ Stevens-Miller Anc 383-84]. In 1954 Donald Lines Jacobus and Clarence Almon Torrey identified the mother of the immigrant [TAG 30:187-90].

Source: “The Great Migration Begins. “Sketch for Richard Lyman.”

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Will of Richard Lyman

Invt. of Goods, £83-16-02. Taken 6 September, 1641, by John Moodie, Andrew Bacon, John Barnard. Will dated 22 April, 1640. I give unto my wife all my houseing and Lands during her life, and 1/3 parte of my Lands to dispose of at her death amongst my Children as she pleaseth, and I give her all my moveable goods, as Cattell and howsehold stuffe, and all other implements or moveables. And the other two prts of my land & Howse, I give to my Elder sonne Richard, and to his heires forever; and if he dy wthout an heir, then I give yt to my sonne Robert, and to his heirs forever. To my dau. Sarah, besides the Cattell I formerly have given her, my will is, that my wife shall pay her £20, two yeres after my death. To my sonne, John Lyman, I give him £30, to be paid by my wife att 22 years of age. To my sonne Robert. I give £24 at 22 years of age; and to my dau. Fillis, the wife of Willia Hills. I give tenne shillings; and I make my wife sole Executrixe to this my last will. Richard Lyman Witness: Thomas Bull, John Moodie, Andrew Bacon.

Court Record, Page 81--27 January, 1642 (Particular Courte). The Will and Invt. of Richard Lyman, Decd., is brought into Court. John Moody makes oath that it is the Last Will of the said Rich., and the noate that was brought in is the noate of the Widdow Lyman, Decd. The several prtyes prsent at the prsenting of the said Will agree that John Lyman, if he live, will be 22 yere ould in Septe, 1645; Robert Lyman, 22 in Sept. 1651.

Source: A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS. 1635 to 1650. Pages 442-3

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This 19th century illustration depicts the imagined scene of the settlers' arrival in Connecticut.

Founders of Hartford Monument at the Ancient Burying Ground

Source: < FindAGrave >

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