JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK

Town of LYME

A detailed 1864 town MAP showing residents. (661K file)
An 1864 map of Three Mile Bay
1918 TOWN OF LYME FARM MAP
Hough's History--Town of Lyme

A list of POSTMASTERS in the town in existing and discontinued postoffices.

1863 Civil war draft and exemption lists
Town of Lyme 1890 Census of Civil War Veterans
Civil War Soldiers Buried in the Town of Lyme
Lyme Civil War Index, a listing of Civil War service records

NORTHERN NEW YORK BUSINESS DIRECTORY 1867-68
LYME
THREE MILE BAY

Family sketches from CHILD'S GAZETTEER for the town of Lyme.
Child's Business Directory for the Town of Lyme.
Haddock Family Sketches--Town of Lyme

Bartlett's Cemetery Inscriptions for the TOown of Lyme.
Vital Records 1847-1849 for the Town of Lyme.
1820 Federal Census of Lyme

TOWN OF LYME

Jefferson County maintains Town contact information on their site

The Lyme Heritage Center

Contact person:
Julia Gosier, telephone (315) 649-5454,
US mail: 28589 Empie Rd. Three Mile Bay 13693

Our location for research is 8718 County Route 5, in the yellow grange building on the corner of Academy and Depot Streets in Three Mile Bay.

Visit their website

Information about The Lyme Heritage Center available on our website.

Lyme Heritage Center Family Files

We are fortunate to have a complete listing of the family files held by Lyme Heritage Center in Chaumont, Town of Lyme. They are being added to continually. This list was prepared by the staff of Lyme Heritage Center. Some cautions in using the list: every surname is listed, but many have very little information, perhaps an obituary, or a wedding notice. On the other hand, someone may have donated a family group sheet or a complete family history. There is no guarantee that the person you are looking for, even though she has the same unusual surname listed, will appear in this family file.

Be prepared to pay copying and mailing costs. Lyme Heritage has NO governmental support. A small donation may hurry your request, but understand that members of the extremely small staff have many other calls on their time, so be patient and courteous. As always, those two virtues bring their own reward!

History of the Town of Lyme linked from Shirley Farone's Home Page taken from CHILD'S GAZETTEER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY by HAMILTON CHILDS, published in 1890, transcribed by Shirley Farone.

A List of People who contributed information concerning the Town of Lyme in 1878 to Durant and Peirce's History of Jefferson County

History of the Town of Lyme, from Durant and Peirce's History of Jefferson County, 1878.

History of the Town of Lyme, taken from A HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK by FRANKLIN B. HOUGH, A. M., M.D. linked from Shirley Farone's Home Page

In 1801, James D. Le Ray, at one time owner of much of Jefferson County, sent his agents to sell land in the present Town of Lyme. Traveling from Ulster County, they first went to Oswego, from whence they sailed to Chaumont Bay, following Mr. Le Ray's instructions, and then up the Chaumont River two and a half miles to found one of the first settlements north of the Black River. When they came back the next year, 1802, they found their first settlement flooded, and went on to settle what is now the village of Chaumont, surveying and laying out the village.

The township was created 6 March 1818, containing all of present day Lyme as well as Cape Vincent and a piece of Clayton. Today's Lyme covers about fifty square miles, and lies north of the Town of Brownville, west of Clayton and south of Cape Vincent. Chaumont Bay, with Point Salubrious, Three Mile Point and Point Peninsula, gives the Town of Lyme a long waterfront, today crowded with summer homes. Guffin's Bay is shared by the Towns of Brownville and Lyme. Cherry Island, about 108 acres, lies about half a mile off Point Salubrious, in Chaumont Bay. The principal waterways are Three Mile Creek (once called Horse Creek) and the Chaumont River, which reaches from Lyme through Clayton and into the Town of Orleans.

Centers of population include Chaumont, the chief village, Three Mile Bay village at the mouth of Three Mile Creek, and Wilcoxville, a small hamlet on the east side of Point Peninsula.

From the 1864 Jefferson County Atlas: a summary of statistics for Lyme

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