1583.Judith Lyman. Born ca 1578 in Essex, England. Judith was baptized in Navistoke, Essex, on 2 Nov 1578. Judith died on 4 Nov 1578.47
1584.Jane Lyman. Born ca 1579. Jane was baptized on 20 Oct 1579.47 Jane died on 21 Oct 1579.47
1585.Richard Lyman. Born ca 1580 in High Ongar, Essex. Richard was baptized in High Ongar, Essex, on 30 Oct 1580.16 Richard died in Hartford, CT between 22 Apr 1640 adn 3 Mar 1640/1.16 Religion: Ricard was admittted to the Roxbury church as member #11.
Richard came with Eliot on the Lion, was at Roxbury, MA, 1631. He went to Connecticut ‘when the great removal was made,’ and suffered greately in the loss of his cattle. He was made freeman 11 Jun 1633, and was among the original proprietors of Hartford.25
In August, 1631, Richard embarked with his wife and five children in the ship Lion, William Pierce, master, for New England. They landed at Boston, and the Lymans settled first at Charlestown. In Oct 1635 they joined a party of about a hundred people to Connecticut to become the first settlers at Hartford. His house was on the south side of what is now Buckinham St., the fifth lot from Main St., westof the South Church and bounded apparently on Wadsworth St. either on the east or west. His name is inscribed on a stone column in the rear of Centre Chruch of Hartford, erected in memory of the first settlers of the city.47
Will: A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS. 1635 to 1650.
Page 442-3 Name: 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.
24 July.
The wydowe Lymans mynd is that her sonne Richard Lyman should prforme her
husbands will, and that her son Robert should live wth him till he be 22 yeares of age;
and she gives Robert Lyman the third prrte of the howsen & grounds; & for the
prformence of her husbands will she gives Richard all her moveable goods, both wth
out the howse and wth in, only her wearing Clothes and some of her lining She will
dispose of.
John Moodie. Andrew Bacon.
Richard married Sarah. Sarah died in Hartford, CT in Jan 1642.
According to Anderson: “Some older sources claim that Sarah was daughter of Richard Osborne of Halstead, Kent, but there is no aupport for this identification.”16