Father said to be, but not:  John LYON, b. 1678
Mother said to be, but not:  Elizabeth RIGGS, b. 1679

1.  LDS.  Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).

John LYON Spouse: Martha BURLLINGGAME Marriage: 27 Oct 1763, Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island Source: Town and Vital Records, 1722-1868. Cranston (Rhode Island). Town Clerk

2.  Sidney Elizabeth Lyon.  1907.  Lyon Memorial:  Families of Connecticut and New Jersey.  Self-published, Jeffersonville, IN (facsimily reprint available from Higginson Books; online at Ancestry.com).

RHODE ISLAND LYONS. PROBABLY OF THE FAMILY OF HENRY.
p. 249	In the "Lyon Memorial, Maassachusetts Families" there is given a record of the descendants of a certin John Lyon of Scituate, R.I., born probably about 1740, whose parentage had not been ascertained, but who was referred doubtfully to the family of William1 Lyon of Roxbury.  It was stated, however, that he might have been a descendant of Henry1 Lyon.  No new light has been shed upon the question of his ancestry, but additional facts have been ascertained about other Rhode Island Lyons who seem to have been of the same family, and these may be given place here as being perhaps not out of their natural connection.  We have seen that one branch of the family of Henry established itself in Rhode Island, descendants of Lieutenant James Lyon (No. 26).  James had a brother John who married but whose descendants have not been traced.  It is quite possible that he also settled in Rhode Island, and it would have been very natural for him to name one of his sons John.  Another son he might naturally have named for his uncle Thomas.
	Emphasis in red mine.  First of all, you are going to have to convince me that Lt. James LYON of Newark, NJ, is the same James LYON who lived in Newport, RI.  The author supplies no evidence supporting that he was.  And if they aren't the same man, that means none of Henry's descendants, in the early generations, moved to Rhode Island — a move that makes very little sense to begin with.  All the given names here (viz., John, James, and Thomas) are far too common to be used to support connections — who didn't name a son John?!
	John Lyon of Scituate married, Oct. 27, 1763, in Cranston, R.I., Martha Burlingame, daughter of Daniel and Rose (Briggs) Burlingame.  Three years before, Thomas Lyon had married Huldah, a sister of Martha Burlingame.  No records have been found as yet in Rhode Island of the descendants of this Thomas, whom we may assume to have been a brother of John, although such records no doubt exist.  It is, however, almost certain that the sons of Thomas removed from Rhode Island to Chenango Co., N.Y., as did some of the sons of John.  At all events, three brothers, Samuel, Alexander and "Major" Lyon, in 1791, settled at Lyon Brook, Chenango Co., and their descendants state that they came either from Connecticut or Rhode Island.  The circumstance that one of them bore the unusual name Alexander is of significance, since Cyrus Lyon, a son of John names his oldest son Alexander in 1797.  That Cyrus and Alexander were cousins therefore, there can hardly be a doubt.  Again the circumstance that a daughter of Samuel Lyon married a Burlingame — whether in Rhode Island or in New York State does not signify — points unmistakably to Rhode Island as the home of the emigrants. One of the three brothers who came to Chenango Co. in 1791, two, Samuel and Alexander, are said to have been previously soldiers in
p. 250	the Revolutionary war, haveing served in a Connecticut regiment.  Alexander was never married.  The third brother "Major" Lyon is said to have been killed at Little York "in a fight with the British in 1812."  The Lyon brothers bought land of Benjamin Hovey, Gov. Cinton's land agent, for one shilling an acre.  They built a grist mill; also, it is said, "a lumber mill and a woolen mill."  Samuel was the only one of them who raised a family.  His wife's name has not been ascertained...
	Samuel's children are then listed.

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