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from the town a home-lot and five acres
of land. His wife died in Stamford, in
1657. No record of his own death has
been found.
(II) John Mead, son of William Mead,
was born about 1634, and was one of the
early settlers of Connecticut, being made
a freeman of Greenwich in 1670. In 1679-
80-86 he was a member of Assembly. He
married, probably in 1660, Hannah Potter,
daughter of William Potter, of Stamford,
Connecticut, who was the owner of Shippan
Point. Thus, through his wife, John
Mead came into possession of a large
amount of property. He died February
5. 1699.
(III) Ebenezer Mead, son of John and
Hannah (Potter) Mead, was born in 1663,
and was the proprietor of the Greenwich
tavern. He married, in 1691, Sarah
Knapp, of Stamford, Connecticut, and his
death occurred in 1728.
(IV) Ebenezer (2) Mead, son of Ebenezer
and Sarah (Knapp) Mead, was
born October 25, 1692, and married, in
1 71 7, Hannah Brown, of Rye, New York.
Ebenezer (2) Mead died May 3, 1775.
(V) Dr. Amos Mead, son of Ebenezer
(2) and Hannah (Brown) Mead, was born
February 22, 1730, and married, in 1753,
Ruth Bush, daughter of Justus Bush.
The death of Dr. Mead occurred February
24, 1807.
(VI) Richard Mead, son of Dr. Amos
and Ruth (Bush) Mead, was born in 1753,
and married (first), in 1776, Sarah Mead,
daughter of Nehemiah Mead, who died
November 28, 1777, leaving one daughter,
Sophia. Mr. Mead married (second), in
1798, Rachel (Mead) Mead, daughter of
Deliverance Mead and widow of Whitman
Mead. Richard Mead died April 20,
1826, and his widow passed away Septem-
ber 25, 1831.
(VII) Sarah E. Mead, daughter of
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Richard and Rachel (Mead-Mead) Mead,
was born January 9, 1803, and on March
18, 1823, became the wife of Joseph
Brush, as stated above.
(The Lyon Line).
This name, sometimes written Lyons,
is of French origin and first appears in
history as De Lyons, the family taking the
name of the castle and forest of Lyons,
France. Ingelram de Lyons accompanied
William the Conqueror to England.
(I) Thomas Lyon, called "of Rye" dur-
ing the latter years of his life, was born
about 1621, in England, and is supposed
to have come first to the Massachusetts
colony. He is known to have been in
Stamford, Connecticut, in 1647. He married
(first) Martha Joanna Winthrop, who
died about 1653, daughter of Henry Winthrop
and granddaughter of Governor
John Winthrop, of Salem, Massachusetts.
He married (second), about 1654, Mary
Hoyt, daughter of Simon Hoyt, of Stam-
ford, Connecticut. Thomas Lyon removed
from that place and died in 1690,
at Byram Point, Greenwich, Connecticut.
(II) John Lyon, son of Thomas and
Mary (Hoyt) Lyon, was born about 1655,
probably at Fairfield, Connecticut. From
1725 to 1730 he was deputy from that
town to the General Assembly of Connecticut,
a fact which shows him to have
been a prominent man in the community.
The name of his wife is unknown. John
Lyon died in 1736, in Greenwich, Con-
necticut.
(III) Thomas (2) Lyon, son of John
Lyon, was born before 1689, at Byram
Point, Greenwich, Connecticut, and married
Rebecca Hobby, daughter of Thomas
and Rebecca Hobby. Thomas Lyon died
in 1732 or 1733, and his widow became
the second wife of Samuel Banks.
(IV) Caleb Lyon, son of Thomas (2)