John MYERS
New.familysearch.org, Sep 2011
Fanning-Williams Cemetery Ledyard, New London, CT
Barbour Collection - Vital Records for Ledyard, CT
1820 US Census - New London, New London, Connecticut
1880 US Census - Ledyard, New London, Connecticut
1850 Census Ledyard, New London, Connecticut
Genealogical Research of Lamb-Myers-Linton Families of Eastern Connecticut, by Almira Frink (Ward) Linton (FHL#929.273)
Historic Ledyard (FHL#974.656/L2h2h) Vol.2
Index, Town Meeting Records of Ledyard, Connecituct, 1836-1891 (FHL#974.65/L2, p2i)
Ledyard,New London,Connecticut Probate Records, 1865-1904 (FHL#1312389), p231-215
Ledyard,New London,Connecticut Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1836-1917 (FHL#1312384), p64, 205-6
Records of the Ecclesiastical Society of Ledyard,New London,Connecticut, 1725-1897 (FHL#1010740), p15
1860 Census Ledyard, New London, Connecticut
1870 Census Ledyard, New London, Connecticut
FindAGrave.com Memorials, #123311911
Extracted Swedish BIrth Records, nil
FamilySearch.org/FamilyTree
Ancestry.com
NOTE: In his marriage record to Lucy Brown, he was called "Deacon" Johh Myers. In the church records in Ledyard, New London, Connecticut, he was referred to as John Myers, Jr.
OCCUPATION: Aboard a whaling ship at the 1850 Census. In 1852 he is found in San Francisco working as an inkeeper.
He married Nancy Lamb Abt 1810 at of New London, Connecticut . Nancy Lamb was born at Groton, New London, Connecticut 1 Oct 1794 daughter of William Lamb and Anna Woodward .
They were the parents of 6
children:
Amos Myers
born May 1811.
Mary D. Myers
born Jul 1815.
Henry W. Myers
born 4 Oct 1821.
Austin Washington Myers
born 1823.
Charles Giles Myers
born 16 Mar 1830.
Elias Myers
born 1835.
John Myers died 29 Dec 1884 at Ledyard, New London, Connecticut .
Nancy Lamb died 8 Apr 1853 at Ledyard, New London, Connecticut .