When Rev Elijah Lyman was born on 21 July 1727, in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Lyman, was 43 and his mother, Lydia Loomis, was 41. He married Esther Clark on 14 December 1749, in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 5 April 1782, in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in South Street Cemetery, Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land (see Layman ).
Swedish: habitational name, formed with man ‘man’, for someone from any of several places whose name is beginning with Ly- (e.g. Lyhundra, Lydinge, and Lynäs).
Americanized form of German Leimann (see Leiman ).
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