| Note* | | The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN RICHARD LYMAN ORIGIN: High Ongar, Essex MIGRATION: 1631 FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury REMOVES: Hartford 1636 CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Roxbury church as member #11: 'RichardLyman. He came to N.E. in the 9th month 1631. He brought children:Phillis, Richard, a Sarah._____ John. He was an ancient christian, butweak, yet after some time of trial & quickening he joined to the church;when the great removal was made to Conecticot he also went, & underwentmuch affliction, for going toward winter, his cattle were lost indriving, & some never found again; & the winter being cold & illprovided, he was sick and melancholy, yet after he had some revivingsthrough 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] RichardLyman held six parcels: three acres and one rood with dwelling house,outhouses, yards and gardens; eight acres of upland; twenty acres ofupland; 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 [HaBOP271-72]. At an unknown date James Ensine purchased the six acre parcel ofswamp on the east side of the Great River from Richard Lyman [HaBOP 224]. 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 herlife and one third part of my lands to dispose of at her death amongst mychildren as she pleaseth and I give her all my moveable goods'; 'theother two parts of my land & house I give to my elder son Richard ... ifhe die without an heir, then I give it to my son Robert'; to 'my daughterSarah, besides the cattle I formerly have given her, my will is that mywife shall pay her Ð20 two years after my death'; to 'my son John Lyman Igive him Ð30 to be paid by my wife at twenty-two years of age'; to 'myson Robert I give Ð24 at twenty-two years of age'; to 'my daughterFillis, 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 totalledÐ83 16s. 3d. [Manwaring 1:22]. In her will, dated 24 July [1642?], the 'widow Lyman' made thefollowing disposition of her goods: 'The widow Lyman's mind is that herson Richard Lyman should perform her husband's will and that her sonRobert should live with him till he be twenty-two years of age, and shegives Robert Lyman the third part of the housing & grounds, & for theperformance of her husband's will she gives Richard all her moveablegoods, both without the house and within, only her wearing clothes andsome of her linen she will dispose of' [Manwaring 1:23]. BIRTH: Baptized High Ongar, Essex, 30 October 1580, son of Henry andElizabeth (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 27January 1642[/3] when her will was brought to court with that of herhusband [CCCR 1:81]. (Some older sources claim that Sarah was daughter ofRichard Osborne of Halstead, Kent, but there is no support for thisidentification.) CHILDREN (baptisms in TAG 30:188): i PHILLIS, bp. High Ongar, Essex, 12 September 1611; m. by about1638 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 November1616. v RICHARD, bp. High Ongar 24 February 1617/8; m. by about 1644Hepzibah Ford, daughter of THOMAS FORD (eldest child b. about 1644 [MooreAnc 260-61, 354]). vi SARAH, bp. High Ongar 8 February 1619/20; came to New England in1631 with family [RChR 74]; named in father's will, 22 April 1640; nofurther record. vii ANNE, bp. Navestock, Essex, 20 April 1621; no further record. viii JOHN, b. September 1623 ('if he live will be twenty-two yearold 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' [CCCR1:81]); m. Northampton 5 November 1662 Hepzibah Bascomb [Pynchon VR 141]. COMMENTS: Lilian J. Redstone checked the High Ongar manorial courtrecords for 25 April 1639 and discovered that Richard Lyman hadsurrendered his tenements of Petfield, Serleshope and Cachmans and acottage in Pashfield to Richard Dike by 19 September 1631 [TAG 30:190]. In 1632 William Pynchon, as Massachusetts Bay treasurer, paid Ð3 10s.to 'Goodman Lyman for a fat hog for [to victual the pinnace for thetaking 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 tosatisfy for, but yet hath not done it' [CCCR 4]. In 1938 Louis Effingham DeForest compiled a substantial account of theLyman family [Moore Anc 348-56]. Ten years later Mary Lovering Holmanpublished a briefer account, but this time incorporating parish registerentries which identify the English origin of the Lyman family[Stevens-Miller Anc 383-84]. In 1954 Donald Lines Jacobus and ClarenceAlmon Torrey identified the mother of the immigrant [TAG 30:187-90].1 |