In about 1781, Lyman married Jerusha Welles, of East Hartford, Connecticut; they had eight children. Jerusha died at age 43, on June 11, 1803.[1]
Lyman served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1787 and in the Massachusetts State Senate in 1789.[1]
Lyman was a candidate for the first congress and ran in the Hampshire Berkshire District as an Anti-Federalist against the Federalist candidate Theodore Sedgwick. Sedgwick was elected. Seventeen towns that were favorable to Lyman were late in sending in their returns; had these towns reported in a timely manner, Lyman would have been elected.[2]
^ abcdefDexter, Franklin Bowditch (1903), Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the College History Vol. III, New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, pp. 619–620
^Stephens, Frank Fletcher (1909), The transitional period, 1788-1789, in the government of the United States, Columbia, MO: E. W. Stephens Publishing Company, p. 59
