Benjamin Lyon Revolutionary War Soldier

Henry Lyon (d.1703) immigrated in 1648 from Scotland to Milford, Connecticut with two brothers, Thomas and Richard. Henry married Elizabeth Bateman in 1652, moved to Newark, New Jersey in 1666, and married again after Elizabeth died. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi and elsewhere.

Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.

Excerpted by permission from the Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society, this unusual work lists the names of nearly 6,000 Revolutionary soldiers buried in Vermont, many of the soldiers having emigrated there from other states during the years immediately following the Revolution. The names were gathered from a variety of sources, but the largest number by far was extracted from a rare list of Vermont Revolutionary pensioners, a list embracing invalid pensioners, pensioners under the act of March 18, 1818, and pensioners under the act of June 7, 1832. Supplementing the lists is a section devoted to anecdotes and incidents of some of the Vermont soldiers in the various campaigns. The soldiers are listed alphabetically by county or town of interment.

On a cold day on the thirtieth of January 1649 in London, an anonymous executioner severed the head of King Charles I of England. The watching crowds had very mixed feelings about this regicide, but Oliver Cromwell's troops kept order, and eventually the crowd dispersed, stunned by this momentous event in English history, which left the country in turmoil. Amongst the crowd that day were a father of fifty-nine years and his three sons. This moment in history was to change their lives. Who were this family? Where had they come from? What would become of them? The answer to these questions would lead us back to King Robert the Bruce of Scotland, forward to our own Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, and would also greatly influence much of American history.

"The records given in this volume are not strickly official, for much of the data has not been obtained from official records, but in order to complete as far as possible the service of each officer, other sources of reliable information have been consulted and the data obtained therefrom [sic] included"--Preface