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Personal data Alexander Lyon 

Source 1
  • He was born in the year 1740 in Culpepper, Virginia, United States.Source 2

    Waarschuwing Attention: Was younger than 16 years (12) when child (William S Lyon) was born (February 17, 1752).

    Waarschuwing Attention: Was younger than 16 years (11) when child (John Lyons) was born (??-??-1751).

  • He died on December 16, 1785 in Caswell, North Carolina, United States, he was 45 years old.

    Fout Attention: Died (December 16, 1785) before marriage (October 7, 1786).

  • A child of William Lyon and Elizabeth Osborne

Household of Alexander Lyon

(1) He had a relationship with Polley Humphreys.


(2) He is married to Judith Hill.

They got married on October 7, 1786 at Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, United States, he was 46 years old.Sources 3, 4


Child(ren):

  1. John Lyons  1751-1757
  2. William S Lyon  1752-1847
  4. Jacob Lyon  1763-1840 
  5. William Lyon  1765-????
  6. John Lyon  1767-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Alexander Lyon

William Lyon
1700-1802

Alexander Lyon
1740-1785

(1) 

Polley Humphreys

(2) 1786

Judith Hill
1735-1808

John Lyons
1751-1757
William S Lyon
1752-1847
Hannah Osborne "granny Hanner" Lyons
1760-1866
Jacob Lyon
1763-1840
William Lyon
1765-????
John Lyon
1767-????
Thomas Lyon
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Jonathan Lyon
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Nancy Lyon
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Sallie Lyon
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Abraham Lyon
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Hesekia Lyon
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Humphrey Lyon
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Sources

  1. (Not public)
  2. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.
  3. Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800, Dodd, Jordan
  4. Family Data Collection - Marriages, Edmund West, comp.

Historical events

Day of marriage October 7, 1786

  • The temperature on October 7, 1786 was about 12.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1786: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
    • May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
    • June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
    • June 25 » Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
    • August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
    • August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.

Day of death December 16, 1785

  • The temperature on December 16, 1785 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1785: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
    • January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
    • January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
    • November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.


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Source: Wikipedia


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