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Married:
- Patience Mann Spofford Lyman was born near Lake Champlain in Vermont in 1774...She had a brother, Asa Mann, who was the founder of Mansfield, Pa., in about the year 1800...She lived near Lake Chaplain at the time of the Surrender of Gen. Burgoyne. Although quite young, she remembered that event well, especially the bonfires and hurrahs among the people at the time. She also remembered the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Saw Gen. Washington; remembered all the presidents from Washington to Lincoln.
Married Spafford about 1793. Of this union six children were born as follows:
- Cordelia;
- Orlin;
- Ansell;
- Lucretia;
- Marietta;
- Lorenzo D.
She must have been left a widow soon after as in 1807 or 1808 she married Major Isaac Lyman and moved from Vermont to Tioga Co. Pa. They remained there about two years and in 1810 moved into the wilderness of Potter Co.
Children from Isaac,
- Charles - known as Judge Lyman.
- Milo, died young, born in 1812.
- Eulalia born in 1814.
- Edwin born in 1815.
- Lewis W. born in 1817.
Added by: dorothy Rowen-Olson
10/06/2010
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- Patience Mann Spofford Lyman was born near Lake Champlain in Vermont in 1774...She had a brother, Asa Mann, who was the founder of Mansfield, Pa., in about the year 1800...She lived near Lake Chaplain at the time of the Surrender of Gen. Burgoyne. Although quite young, she remembered that event well, especially the bonfires and hurrahs among the people at the time. She also remembered the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Saw Gen. Washington; remembered all the presidents from Washington to Lincoln.
Married Spafford about 1793. Of this union six children were born as follows:
- Cordelia;
- Orlin;
- Ansell;
- Lucretia;
- Marietta;
- Lorenzo D.
She must have been left a widow soon after as in 1807 or 1808 she married Major Isaac Lyman and moved from Vermont to Tioga Co. Pa. They remained there about two years and in 1810 moved into the wilderness of Potter Co.
Children from Isaac,
- Charles - known as Judge Lyman.
- Milo, died young, born in 1812.
- Eulalia born in 1814.
- Edwin born in 1815.
- Lewis W. born in 1817.
Added by: dorothy Rowen-Olson
10/06/2010
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ERRATA
The following interesting information about one of the very oldest Potter County families came to the knowledge of
the writer too late for insertion in its proper place. It is contained in letters to Mrs. Derna Bloomer dated 1902, from Edgar L. Spafford of Watervliet, N. Y., who was engaged in compiling a genealogy of the Spafford family.
Patience Mann was born in Vermont in 1774.
She married Bradstreet Spafford, by whom she had six children:
- Orlean, born 1796; - Ansel, born 1798;
- Lorenzo D. born 1800; - Lucretia, born 1802, married Jonathan Edg- comb;
- Eliza, born 1805, married Harley Knickerbocker;
- Marietta, born March 7, 1807, married William Earl.
Mr. Spafford thinks all these children were born in Vermont.
Bradstreet Spafford and his wife separated, and she came to Tioga County, Pa., and married Major Isaac Lyman, March 3, 1809.
The account of the Lyman family is given in the text in its proper place.
Bradstreet Spafford was twice married after the separation from his first wife, and had three more children. It would appear that the two oldest sons of Bradstreet and Patience Spafford never left Vermont, though a daughter of Ansel Spafford lived for a time at the house of Jonathan Edgcomb.
The name of Eliza Spafford is omitted in the account of the family on page 30. Her husband, Harley Knickerbocker, was an early settler on Ayres Hill, and taugbt one of the fist terms of school in the county.
Patience Lyman died at the home of her son Lewis Lyman at Sweden Valley in 1867, aged 93. She was bedridden and her mind failed in her latter years.
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