Background
Phineas Lyman was born in 1715 near Durham, Connecticut, United States, the second son of Noah and Elizabeth Lyman and a descendant of Richard Lyman who emigrated to America in 1631.
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Phineas Lyman was born in 1715 near Durham, Connecticut, United States, the second son of Noah and Elizabeth Lyman and a descendant of Richard Lyman who emigrated to America in 1631.
Phineas Lyman studied at Yale University and graduated in 1738.
Lyman was a tutor at Yale from 1738 to 1742. Then he moved to Suffield, where he became prominent at the bar, in the local militia, and in town government. Through his efforts Suffield, in 1749, joined Connecticut, and he represented the town as deputy in the colonial Assembly until 1752, then acted as assistant until 1759.
During the Seven Years' War, Lyman was as commanding officer of the Connecticut troops. His military career contains few brilliant feats, but dull work conscientiously done. In 1755, as major-general and second in command of the Lake George expedition, he shared with Johnson the honors of defeating the French under Dieskau. In 1756 he associated with the moderates in the provincial-regular dispute over military rank; as commander of the garrison at Fort Edward, which he had laid out as Fort Lyman the previous year, he followed the suggestions and orders of his superiors in matters of camp discipline and sanitation.
In 1757 he was with Webb, and in 1758 he was leading one column at the lower end of Lake George when Lord Howe, leading another, was killed. He accompanied Amherst the following year against Crown Point, and later commanded at Ticonderoga. There, over the construction work that his provincial troops were engaged upon, he conducted with Amherst a close, friendly correspondence that shows him to have been earnest, responsible, grateful for favors and flattery, and proud of his trust. In 1760, after serving at Montreal, he commanded the construction work at Fort Ontario. He was again in New York the next year and in 1762, arrayed in "the finest Coat ever seen at New York, " he sailed to join Albemarle at Havana as commander of all the provincial troops on that expedition.
In the third and last period of his life Lyman became known as one of the chief projectors of western colonies. Having Amherst's support, he first hoped to settle discharged provincial soldiers on lands east of Lake Champlain; but after 1763, when he went to England as agent for his own company of "Military Adventurers, " and for the remaining subscribers to Samuel Hazard's colonization scheme of 1755, he planned a series of colonies along the Mississippi, and especially a large one of his own at the mouth of the Ohio. The unfavorable attitude of the ministry to western colonization, and the uncertainty of British politics prevented any of his various schemes from succeeding, although in 1770 he obtained 20, 000 acres near Natchez.
In 1772 he returned home, with a pension, but broken in health and disappointed. He served two further terms as deputy, and when the inclusion of Dartmouth in the ministry seemed to promise favorable action on his last petition for a new colony, "Georgiana, " he reorganized the Adventurers, and left for the west. A change of policy defeated this project, too, and he obtained only squatters' rights. Soon after his arrival at Natchez, he died, leaving his wife and surviving children to continue his ill fortune.
Lyman was distinguished for his service in the provincial British army during the Seven Years' War. He served eight campaigns, and won the reputation of being the ablest and most trustworthy provincial general in the northern colonies, he succeeded in gaining the approval of his British superiors in maintaining the independence of his colony.
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In October in 1742 Lyman married Eleanor, only daughter of Colonel Timothy Dwight of Northampton.
