William who espoused the British cause in the Revolutionary war, settled in Canada, and became estranged from the family. Neither he nor his wife are believed to have been living at the date of the emigration. James LvoN,1 the younger brother of John Lyon, who heads this record, never emigrated to America, but his three sons came over with the family of John Lyon, their uncle, in 1763. April 4,1813 both buried in Tuscarora ceme-ħ. about 1793, and also buried in Tuscarora. in Ireland, Margaret Armstrong, sister of Colonel John Armstrong, one of the prominent and patriotic PennsyIvanians of Provincial and Revolutionary times was a woman of bright intellect, remarkable intelligence, and a fine conversationalist d. al twenty acres of land for the use of the Presbyterian church of Tuscarora, where he is buried d. In 1773, the Proprietaries grant to John Lyon et. The warrant for his tract of land, two hundred and seventy-three acres and sixty-three perches, is dated September 18,1766. JOHN LYON,1 with his family, emigrated from Knniskil- len, county Fermanagh, Province of Ulster, Ireland, to the Province of Pennsylvania, in the year 17(53, and settled in Camber- land county, now Milford township, Juniata county, about two miles west of Mifflintown.
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