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Hazen Family tree - Richard Lyman, Hartford Co-Founder

Richard Lyman - Co-Founder of Hartford, Connecticut
Family Connection - 9th great-grandfather of Edward Elihu Hazen, Jr. 


Hartford Founders Memorial in Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Connecticut

Richard Lyman was born in High Ongar, Essex, England in 1580, and was baptized on October 30, 1580. He was the son of Henry Lyman and Elizabeth Rande Lyman. By 1609, he married Sarah, surname unknown. They had nine children, all born in High Ongar:

            William     b. 1609            d. 1615
            Phillis        b. 1611            d. 1648
            Richard      b. 1613            d. 1613
            William      b. 1616            d. 1616
            Richard      b. 1617            d. 1662
            Sarah          b. 1619            d. 1668
            Anne          b. 1621            d. after 1631, but before 1640
            John           b. 1623            d. 1690
            Robert        b. 1629            d. 1655

Richard, Sarah, and the six surviving children immigrated to Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1631. Richard was admitted to the church in Roxbury as member #11. He was named Freeman on June 11, 1633. 

In 1636, Rev. Thomas Hooker led a large group of his Cambridge church members and their families to found the town of Hartford, Connecticut. Even though Richard was a member of the church in Roxbury, not Cambridge, he and his family joined the group headed for Hartford.  Massachusetts Governor Winthrop wrote about the group this way:

 “about sixty men, women and little children, went by land toward Connecticut with their cows, horses and swine, and after a tedious and difficult journey arrived safe there”

Note that Governor Winthrop counted sixty, when other records indicate there were over one hundred - it is likely he counted sixty men, not persons. 

In the Hartford land inventory in February 1639, Richard Lyman owned six parcels, totaling about forty-six acres. 

Richard Lyman died in Hartford between April 22, 1640, when he made his will, and March 3, 1641. In his will, his wife received all of his land and goods for her use until her death. After her death, their eldest son Richard was to receive two thirds of the land and the house, and the other third she could dispose of as she wished in her will. Richard's will also stipulated cash gifts of between £20-£30 to each of his surviving children except his daughter Phillis, who received ten shillings. 

Richard and Sarah are buried in the Hartford Ancient Burying Ground, but no grave markers have been found. 

Richard Lyman > Phyllis Lyman > John Hills > Samuel Hills > Samuel Hills > Hannah Hills > Theodora Pease > Solomon Hazen > Solomon Hazen > Norman Hazen > John Vose Hazen > Edward  Elihu Hazen > Edward Elihu Hazen, Jr.    Charts H-B and H-Main
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