So far as we can learn, his life was uneventful, though he was Precinct Clerk and Assessor in Stoughton, 17. His wife died almost immediately after the birth of this last child, and for the rest of his life he seems, by the records, to have been in Walpole. Possibly some bumps received there jarred his memory to a recollection of his boyhood warnings for he must have returned to Stoughton about 1716-17, as he had children there in 17. In spite of his forceful admonition, however, Peter early in life lift his father's home in Canton, returning to Dorchester, where he was married, and where he practiced his trade of housewright.
It is said that the early Cantonians had the peculiar custom of requiring their boys to undergo the exhilarating exercise of "bumping" - swinging them by the hands and feet against the boundary marks - by way teaching them respect the land marks which their fathers had set. Family traditions gives him twenty-one children, ten are recorded in Walpole, two in Stoughton, and two in Dorchester five more are known to belong to Peter and Waitstill, though their births are not recorded, leaving two of whom there is no account. Peter lived for the greater part of his life in Dorchester. June 1734 (W) Sarai Hall who survived him. She died July 7, 1732, and he married third [int. He married second, Sept 23, 1731, Jemina, daughter of Peter and Abigail Fales, born April 20, 1707. PETER (3) LYON was born in Dorchester, Mass., Dec. Lyon Memorial: Massachusetts families, including descendants of the immigrants William Lyon of Roxbury, Peter Lyon of DorchesterĢ2. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
1,61157::0 GEDCOM Sourceīook Title: Lyon memorial 1,61157::1427461 GEDCOM Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA:.
GEDCOM North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Operations, Inc. By Single Threads a Fabric: The Lineage and Heirs of Simon Willoughby Smith.Treating of the English Ancestry of the American Families. Lyon Memorial: Massachusetts Families, Including Descendants of the Immigrants William Lyon, of Roxbury, Peter Lyon, of Dorchester, George Lyon, of Dorchester, with Intro. Married Waitstill Wyatt /11 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA. Some of these swords will become family heirlooms, becoming a focus of interest and questions for future generations, and continue to tell their stories long after you and I are gone.Son of Peter Lyon & Jane (Vose) Lyon, II. I always strive to make each sword as well as I can, to meet the needs of the new owner. Working with some of the best designers in the world has taught me a lot about designing functional fantastical weapons for my own clients.
I have been fortunate in my career to be asked to help others tell their stories on screen, making swords for many film productions during my years at Weta Workshop. They tell us the story of their creation for their owner and by their maker. The sword lives on today as a way of telling a story, whether in print or on the screen.Įvery sword tells a story – whether it is a surviving historical sword that can tell us about how and why it was made and how it was meant to be used – or modern reproductions that link us to those times when a sword gave life and death – or art swords to be appreciated for their beauty as much as their function. Obsolete as weapons, swords live as functional art, as tools to relearn the ways swords were used historically, and as powerful symbols of life, death and justice. Swords hold a special place in our modern world.
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