Daniel Lyman (1756–1830) was a New England soldier, Chief Justice of the

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and member of the secessionist

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. Lyman was born in

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to Thomas Lyman. While attending

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, Lyman was commissioned as a captain in the Continental Army, 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

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. He married Mary "Polly" Wanton in 1782 in Newport, Rhode Island, and they had 13 children. Lyman served as a member of the

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

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. Lyman was elected a member of the

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in 1815.American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
/ref> Lyman's daughter Harriet Hazard and his son-in-law Benjamin Hazard 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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External links

American Revolution Institute

Society of the Cincinnati
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