Notes for Elizabeth LYON

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Notes for Elizabeth LYON

Lyon Memorial, S. E. Lyon (1907), page 96.
Gen.Collections Charles Carroll Gardner Vol 29 CLARK.
Lyon Memorial,Vol. 2,
Sidney E. Lyon, Louise Lyon Johnson, A.B. Lyons,p88
CAPTAIN EBENEZER2 LYON [Henry1], was born at Newark, N. J. in 1670, and died at Elizabethtown, March 13, 1739. He married Elizabeth, baptized in N. Y. City Dutch Reformed Church, March 28, 1671, daughter of John and Susannah (Melyn) Winans(+), who was
born 1668, and died July 1, 1739. They were both buried in the churchyard of the old First Presbyterian Church at Elizabethtown. Ebenezer Lyon was Captain of the sloop "Three Sisters," from Amboy, N. J. to Boston, Mass. 1723-25, and of the sloop "Dove"
1726-33. In 1694, he was one of the Associates of Elizabethtown. He was a soldier in the Albany Expedition, 1698. The will of Ebenezer Lyon of Elizabethtown, N. J. is dated Jan. 22, 1738-9. It mentions wife Elizabeth (bequest of ś50, etc., etc.);
children: Elizabeth, wife of Ephraim Clark; Darkis, wife of Ebenezer Stebbens; Susanna, wife of David Morehouse; Ebenezer Lyon, and (???), wife of John Thompson; grand-children: Peter Lyon, Ebenezer Wade, Bethia Winans, Samuel and David Man, Elizabeth,
Ephraim, Hannah, Darkis, Henry, Riderous, Nathaniel and Ichabod Clark, Elizabeth and Hannah Thompson, David and Joanna Morehouse and Cornelius, Abigall and Jacob Stebbens. Executors; friends, David Ogden, Attorney-at-Law, Thomas Longworth, Isaac Lyon,
Benjamin Clark, and Joseph Lyon (all of Newark) and Joseph Tuttle of Hanover, N. J. Witnesses: Benjamin Meeker, Samuel Meeker and Thomas Jackman. Probated March 17, 1738-9.
Children of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Winans) Lyon:
*43. I. Phebe; m. John Thompson.
*44. II. Elizabeth; m. Ephraim Clark.
*45. III. Darkis [Dorcas?]; m. Ebenezer Stebbens.
*46. IV. Susannah; m. David Morehouse.
*47. V. Ebenezer.
48. VI. Danghter; m. (???) Man [Mann]; two sons; 1. David, 2. Samuel. She died before Jan. 1739.
49. VII. Daughter; m. (???) Wade: a son, Ebenezer. She died before Jan. 1, 1739.
*50. VIII. Bethia; b. 1713; m. 1st John Winans; d. 1766.
David Morehouse rem from LI to Springfield(now Milburn),NJ where his son Benjamin was b 14 March 1752. likely David Morehouse Jr.
Death date based on date of father's will. She may have remarried after Mr.
Clark's comparatively early death.

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