Daniel Lyman (1756–1830) was a New England soldier, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and member of the secessionist Hartford Convention. Lyman was born in Durham, Connecticut to Thomas Lyman. While attending Yale College, Lyman was commissioned as a captain in the

Continental Army The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies (the Thirteen Colonies) in the Revolutionary-era United States. It was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, and was establis ...

, serving in the battles of Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and St. Johns. After his graduation in 1776, he was commissioned as a major, served at the battle of White Plains, and from 1778 until the close of the war was an aide to General William Heath. He married Mary "Polly" Wanton in 1782 in Newport, Rhode Island, and they had 13 children. Lyman served as a member of the Hartford Convention in 1814-15 He later acted as surveyor for the port of Newport. He also practiced law, and served as the chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1812 to 1816. He retired north of Providence in 1808, and became a partner in the Lyman Cotton Manufacturing Company.Rhode Island Historical Society biographical material
/ref> He was also an original member of the

Society of the Cincinnati The Society of the Cincinnati is a fraternal, hereditary society founded in 1783 to commemorate the American Revolutionary War that saw the creation of the United States. Membership is largely restricted to descendants of military officers wh ...

. Lyman was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815.American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
/ref> Lyman's daughter Harriet Hazard and his son-in-law

Benjamin Hazard Benjamin Hazard (1774–1841) was a Rhode Island legislator, attorney and member of the Hartford Convention. Hazard was born on September 9, 1774, in Middletown, Rhode Island. He graduated from Brown University in the class of 1792 and late ...

inherited Lyman's home, the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, now a museum in Newport.

Bibliography

*''Bibliographic Cyclopedia of Rhode Island'' (1881), p. 208. *''National Cyclopedia of American Biography'', volume X, p. 119. *Coleman, Lyman. ''Genealogy of the Lyman Family in Great Britain and North America'' (Albany, N.Y.: J, Munsell, 1872), p. 207.

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American Revolution Institute

Society of the Cincinnati
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