Richard LYMAN

                   7th ggu of Gordon Fisher
"Richard (2), son of Richard (1) Lyman was baptized at High Ongar,
February 24, 1617, died June 3, 1662.  He and his two brothers,John and
Robert, were taxed in 1655 in Hartford for a rate assessed to builda
mill.  They probably moved the same year to Northampton, where in
December, 1655, Richard was chosen one of the selectmen.  He sold his
father's homestead in Hartford in 1660.  He married there Hepsibah,
daughter of Thomas Ford, of Windsor.  She married (second) John Marsh, of
Hadley.  Children:  Hepsibah; Sarah; Richard, mentioned below; Thomas,
born 1647; Eliza; John; Joanna,1658; Hannah, 1660."
--- William Richard Cutter, *New England Families*, NY 1913, p 650
"RICHARD LYMAN ([son of] *Richard*, [son of] *Henry*), baptised inHigh
Ongar, Essex, 24 Feb. 1617-18, died in Northampton, 3 June 1662. He
married, probably in Windsor, Conn., about 1642, HEPZIBAH FORD, baptised
in Holy Trinity, Dorchester, Dorset, 15 May 1625, died in Hadley, 11 Apr.
1683, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Charde) (Cooke) Ford.  Hepzibah
(Ford) Lyman married, secondly, in Northampton, 7 Oct. 1664, JOHN MARSH,
who died in Hartford, Conn., in 1688.  [Footnote:  "By John Marsh,
Hepzibah (Ford) Lyman had, *Lydia*, b. 9 Oct. 1667, Hadley; m. 8 Dec.
1692, David Loomis, of Windsor."] The latter had married, first, ANNE
WEBSTER, daughter of Gov. John Webster ofConnecticut.  (P) Richard Lyman
lived for a short ime in Windsor, owning landthere and also occupying
property belonging to his father-in-law, Thomas Ford.  He was about
twenty-three when his father and mother died, and probably took charge of
his younger brothers, John and Robert, until they reached the age of
twenty-two, respectively, when they were to receive their heritages
according to their father's will.  In 1655, he was living in Hartford
being taxed there, in that year, to build a mill, and moved to
Northampton, soon after, as in December of that year, Richard became a
selectman there. He sold hisfather's homestead, in Hartford, in 1660.
With his brother, John, William Holton, and others, he was appointed to
erect a meeting house.  (P) 19 Feb. 1660, the towne selected a new "Towne
Book," and Richard Lyman, and other, wereappointed to transcibe all that
was orderly into this new book.  He was madea Commissioner (to end Small
Causes) in 1658, and a selectman, 1658-59-60.  When he died, at
forty-four, Northampton lost a valuable citizen.  (P) Children first five
born in Windsor, Conn., rest in Morthampton:  i. HEPZIBAH, b. about 1643;
m. 6 Nov. 1662, JOSIAH DEWEY.  ii. SARAH, b. about 1645; m. 1666, JOHN
MARSH JR.  iii. RICHARD, b. about 1647; m. 1675, ELIZABETH COWLES, and
settled in Lebanon, Conn.  iv. THOMAS, b. about 1649; m. RUTH (HOLTON)
BAKER.v. ELIZABETH, b. about 1652; m. JOSHUA POMEROY.  vi. JOANNA, b.
1658, d. Jan. 1659.  vii. HANNAH. b. 8 July 1660; m. JOSEPH POMEROY.  In
1676, "Hannah Lyman of Northampton was presented [in Court] for weating
silk in a flauntingmanner in an offensive way and garbe, not only
before, but when she stood presented, not only in ordinary times, but in
extraordinary times, when the people of God were falling before the Lord
in public humiliation in resepct of the heavy judggements and calamities
that were threatening to come upon us."  She was the daughter of Richard
Lyman, deceased, and about sixteen years of age.  Sentenced to pay 10s.
(Trumbull's *History of Northampton, 1:291*.)  viii. MOSES, b. 20 Feb.
1662, d.y.  ix. JOHN, b. 5 Dec. 1664, stated by *Lyman Gen.*, to have
gone to Hadley, but Judd's *History of Hadley*, makes Hadley's John
Lyman, a later man."
--- *Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances
Helen Miller*, compiled for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury by Mary
Lovering Holman, Concord NH 1948, p 386-387