Captain Benjamin Lyon

DAR# A072721

A Patriot of the American Revolution for PENNSYLVANIA with the rank of CAPTAIN.

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Benjamin Lyon b. in Enniskilleii, County of Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1752. Emigrated with the family of his uncle, John Lyon. in 1763, finally settling in Milford township, where he was assessed as a single freeman, in 1775. He enlisted in the Revolutionary cause, and participated in the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776; recommended by General Hand to General Washington for promotion, and appointed lieutenant, September 25, 1776. His regiment was engaged in the battles of Brandy wine, Paoli, and Germantown. in 1777. Promoted to first lieutenant, July 16, 1777, and to a captaincy, December 8, 1778. The hardships of the service affected his health, and, as a consequence, his resignation ensued in May, 1779, when he returned to Milford township.

He removed about 4 years after his marriage to Northumberland, Pa., and returned to Tuscarora valley about the year 1800, where he remained till his wife's death, in 1811, when he went to reside with his daughter, Elizabeth, in Shirleysburg, Huntingdon County. Pa., where he died in 1826. Advanced in years, he appeared as a man of medium height, weighing about 150 pounds, rather full in the face, with florid complexion, blunt in manner, and plain in speech; m., in 1780, his cousin, Mary Lyon, b. April, 1748, daughter of John Lyon, who d. October 9, 1811, and buried in Tuscarora. http://clanlyon.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/lyon-family-in-pennsylvania/

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