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Biography

RICHARD LYMAN was born in High Ongar, Essex, England, Oct. 30, 1580. He married SARAH OSBORNE of Halstead, Kent, England, about 1608.

They came to America in 1631 with Eliot on the Lyon, landing at Boston, Suffolk, MA, November 11. They first settled in Charlestowne, Middlesex, MA, where they both joined the church in what is now Roxbury, on Oct. 15, 1635. They then went with a party of about 100 persons to Connecticut, where he was one of the first settlers in Hartford, Hartford, CT. He was admitted Freeman Jun. 11, 1638. He was among the original proprietors of Hartford. His will dated Apr. 22, 1640, the first recorded in Hartford, is in the valued work of Trumbull, Coll. Rec. I, 442, 3.

His house lot was on the south side of Buckingham Street, between Main and Washington Streets, the fifth lot from Main.

His name is inscribed on a stone column now standing in the rear of the Center Church of Hartford, erected in memory of the first settlers of the city.