Martha Johanna Lyon

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: May 2 2018, 19:32:02 UTC

Martha Winthrop was born to Elizabeth Fones who was born at Groton Manor, Suffolk, England on 21 January 1610 to Thomas Fones, a London apothecary, and his wife, Anne Winthrop, sister of John Winthrop, a staunch puritan and the eventual Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

As a young girl, Elizabeth worked at her father's shop in London. To the dismay of her family, she entered a whirlwind courtship with her first cousin Henry Winthrop, a son of Governor John Winthrop; they were married on 25 April 1629, at the Church of St. Sepulchre at New Gate, London. A year later, her husband sailed alone for the Massachusetts Bay Colony on the ship Talbot, leaving his young bride behind in England on account of her pregnancy. The baby, a daughter named Martha Johanna Winthrop, was born on 9 May 1630 at Groton Manor. Shortly after his arrival in Massachusetts, Henry was killed in a drowning accident on 2 July 1630 when he went swimming in the North River after visiting an Indian village near Salem.[1]

Martha Johanna Winthrop, daughter of Henry Winthrop and his wife, Elizabeth Fones, was born May 9, 1630. She married Thomas Lyon of Stamford, Connecticut.[1][2] They married in about 1647 and had two known children, only one of whom survived her:[3]

Mary Lyon, born 1649; married first Joseph Stedwell of Rye, New York; married second John Willson of Bedford, New York; she was known to be living in 1698. Martha (Winthrop) Lyon died about 1650.[3]