New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-12
THE LYMAN FAMILY.
THE REUNION AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FROM
HENRY NyARD BEECHER.

THE REUNION AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FROM
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Aug. 1.-The picnic
gathering at Mount Tom. yesterday, was OF more
tOna interest than brief dispatch couid warrant your
readers in believing. The seven hundred iadies and
gentlemen gathered here bearing the honorable ancestral
name OF Lyman represented IA States ana the British
Dominion and have wisely concluded TO eoliate and
publish their genealogy. The family In this country
dates back to 1925. when Richard Lyman and his
two sons settled at Windsor, Conn. whittier
they removed from Boston, about two months
after their arrival in America. From this
old Connecticut stock has sprung countless posterty
OF the settled In these meadow lands OF the Con-
necticut River, and the other went 20 Vermont from
the Connecticut branch came branches very 70
name in several wellknown cases, as Lyman beeeher
the father the Hon Lyman TTeman on AiDny ana me
Lyman Coleman Of Lafayette College. Penn mas Deen az
r Of 6s II %9 hS he Of Of
sons belonging to i IN mt TINS Fac A95g doSbes
prove an important acquisition historical
collections one OF the Connecticut (Goshen) Dranch
merchant resident in London, believes he has succeeded
in tracing the family back far 1850, 70 saxon
origin and finds early intermarriage with the fanl OF
Malcolm, third King Of Scotland He labors under the
equally undecided yet vastly foolish idea that the
Lymans Of this country are heirs to the unclaimed
OF English baronecy and property worth IS
But as so many families in America have sent agents
abroad on wild goose" errand In this dlrecLlon rs
probable that the Lymans will become dupes OF 30
The picnic yesterday was social and genial. rEenus
and relatives met after long separations or for the ns
time the cOnyentlOnates OF ordinary life were so lar
dispensed with admit general selfnroductlon 70
another and there lack Of good speeches. ana
good cheer. DR.. Lyman Coleman presided, and after
score Of addresses poem was read by seymour Lyman
esq, OF Boston, descended from the Vermont STOCK
letter the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher wasread after
which the company separated to meet again in lo Inc
following is Mr. Beecher's letter: ,oeo
A. r. LIrIs-Dear SIR, III. true that am Lyman also
Chapn Ward aud know not bow others Bat Ly
family. Ny fathers mother Lyman from MID
ds6e received the Lyman Beeeher IRON
blood he received certain hopeful buoyaH
slight bypoehendAe faint when be re-
bis father lhAe been suspected myself having some o. mat
ebeensss and bopen which Tepud belong to the real LJ
should meeting was In power Abd
help celebrate virtues Of But cannot
ny engagements The blood prolific All The Lymans
Should Tom hold them May
they m never heard Of Lyman that vas hung or dseIId
be Al that knew worth knowing One loved very
muoh-BIAbesh Lyman, from Mddehsld, who married Rev MI
dead But In 1884 made hrI joumeJ 70 Cnein.
natl with her ADD goody company among Naea sIs
ron NEWTON 70 Cincinnati send ny most Aseona's
sautAon all ousna not trust 20 oner IN my behAh
sEuon all who entitled to call me cousin 'eu
Invisible charged perform hp service
HEsHY WARD BEEcHER,
Son Of Lyman BeechSr