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 COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES aforesaid Hugh Magnus, and w as the first wife (he was her first husband) o f Robert dc Dcliomont, or Beaumont, a N ornun. E arl of Millent. who accompanied William of N or­ mandy on his e xp ^ itio ii to England, and for the part he took in the conquest w as created in 110 3 E a rl o f Leicester, and granted many manors in England, dying in 1 1 1 8. H e had issue by I.ady Isabel, Robert Bossc dc Bellomont, second E arl o f l.eicester, who w.is justiciar)' o f England, and. dying in it(>K. had issue by his w ife. I.ad y .Amelia or .Arnica, a daughter o f Ralph dc W acr or W aher, who in 10O6 was E a rl o f N orfolk. Suffolk and Cam ­ bridge. but forfeited these earldoms in 1074; Robcrt-blanc-Mains. third Earl o f l.cicc.stcr and steward o f England, whose datighler. I,ady M argaret dc Bcllomont, was an ances­ tress o f Adm iral Dewey. "T h is lady married Sah cr de Quinccy, an English liaron, created in tao? by Ri«'g John, to win him over to his side. E a rl o f M inchester. 'ITiis baron accepted and enjoyed the hon­ ors conferred upon him by John, but never was friendly with him. On the contrary, he was. next to Fitz W alter, the leader of the insurrectionary barons, and did as much work as any of them to compel K in g John to grant the Magna Charia—the charter o f liberty— and w as one of the twenty-five sureties chosen to enforce its observance. It is through this baron that D ewey is eligible to membership in Ihe O rder o f Runnymcde. "T urnin g now lo the pages of the Scottish peerage books, wc learn that this E arl o f Win­ chester’s granddaughter. Elizabeth dc Quincy, w as the w ife o f A lexander dc Comyn. second E arl o f Buchan, who w as a descend­ ant o f Donalbane. K in g o f Scots, which gives D ewey a ‘strain’ of the stunlicst sort. .And reverting again to the F.nglish peerage, wc find that Gilbert. Baron d’ L’ infraville. marricor«l o f Ovvlton Manor, in Xirham. From the authentic ficdigrees of the official Heralds of England, wc leani that a great-granddaughter o f this marriage, was the w ife o f Thomas l.ym an. Gent., o f Navistoke, in E ssex, who died in 1509. and inolhcr o f Henry l.ym an. o f High O ngar. in Essex, w h o was the ancestor o f Richard l.ym an. "R ich ard Lym an, the patriarch of the L y ­ m ans o f English descent in .America, was l»om at Hugh O ngar M anor. Essex County. England, and «-as baptized Ocl. 30. 1580.

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T he date o f his birth is not known. He married Sarah O.sbomc, of Halstead, in Kent. .She went to .America with her husband and ail her children, and died in lla rtfo ril, Conn.. about the year 1640. soon after the death o f her hustond. M r. Lym an embarked about the middle o f August, 16 3 1, with his w ife and childrai, in the ship ‘ Lion,’ fo r New England, taking their departure from the TOrt o f Bristol. T liere went iu the same ship Slartha Winthrop, the third w ife o f John Winthrop, at that time governor o f New E n g ­ land. the governor’s eldest son ami his wife and their children, also Eliot, the celebrated apostle of the Massachusetts Indians. The ship made anchor before Boston on .Nov. 2. 16 3 1. Richard l.ym an first became a settler in Charlestown, M ass.. and. with his wife, united with the Church in what is now called R o xb u iy. under the pastoral carc o f Eliot, the ‘ .Apostle to the Indians.’ H e became a free­ man at the General Court Ju n e i t, 1635. ^nd on Ocl. 15. 1635. he took his departure with his fam ily from Charlestown, joining a party o f about one hundred persons who went through the wilderness from Massachusetts to Connecticut, the object being to fom i set­ tlements at W indsor. H artford and W ethers­ field. H e was one of the first settlers at H art­ ford. T he jounicy from Massachusetts was made in about fourteen days’ time, the dis­ tance being more than one hundred miles, and througit a trackless wilderness. T hey had no guide but their compass, and made thcir w ay over mountains, through swamps, thickets and rivers, which were not passable except with the greatest difficulty. Tltey hail no cover but the heavens, nor any lotlgiugs but those which simple iiattire afforded them. T hey drove with them one hundred ami sixty hcaii o f cattle, and. by the w av. sulisisled in a great measure on the milk o f thcir cows. The iieopic carried their packs, arm s and some utensils. T his adventure w as the more re ­ markable as many of the company were per­ sons o f figure, who had lived in England iu honor, affluence and delicacy, and yere entire strangers to fatigvic and danger. Richard T-yman on his journey suffered greatly in the loss o f cattle. l i e w as one of the original proprietors o f H artford, and there is little doubt that he and his w ife formeil a con­ nection with the first church in H artford, of which the Rev. Thom as Hooker was pastor. H is will, the first on record in H artford, is dated A pril 22. 1640. is first in the valuable collection o f Trumbull, and stands Record I. l>age 442. and followed by an inventor)* o f his