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Excerpt from Genealogy of the Four Brothers: William, Samuel, Daniel and Charles Who Came to Bainbridge in 1803
Many years ago, so the story goes, two brothers came from England and settled in Rhode Island. From a descend ant of one of these brothers, Underhill Lyon of Byron Shore, Connecticut, came the Lyons of this vicinity. Not much is known of them however till the time of Israel and Moses Lyon of Bedford, New York.
Moses Lyon was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was taken prisoner, it is said, and confined in a sugar house in New York City all of one winter where he suffered so intensely that he declared that while he might be killed in battle, taken prisoner never. He lived for a time in Kortri'ght, New York where he was burned out. He often visited his relatives in Bainbridge but it is believed that he spent his last days in Kortright. Eli Lyon of Bainbridge is the only living descendant of Moses Lyon now known.
Israel, a brother of Moses Lyon, was the father of William, Samuel, Daniel, Charles. Clara, Betsey, Caleb, Abijah, Jared and Alvah. The youngest son Alvah remained with his father on the old homestead in Bedford. After the death of his father he bought a farm near, where he lived to a good old age. He left three daughters. Jared settled in Illinois. Abijah lived for a time in New York City but after the death of his wife he with a large family of children moved to Illinois. Betsey married a man by the name of Miller and settled in the western part of New York. Clara married Harry Seeley and lived for a number of years on what is now known as the Dr. Evans place one and one-half miles west of Bainbridge on the old State road. Later they moved to a farm one and one-half miles above Bainbridge on the west side of the river Susquehanna. After the death of her husband, she with several of her children, went west where her bro thers, Abijah and Jared lived. Caleb was blind and spent the greater part of his life in New York City. He left two sons.
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