Josias Lyndon (March 10 1704 – March 30 1778) was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations serving for a single one-year term. He was the son of Samuel and Priscilla (Tompkins) Lyndon of Newport the grandson of Josias Lyndon of Newport and the great grandson of Augustin Lyndon a shipwright in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Lyndon married in 1727 Mary Carr the daughter of Edward and Hannah (Stanton) Carr and granddaughter of Governor Caleb Carr.
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birth date
1704-03-10
birth place
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Newport Rhode Island
death date
1778-03-30
death place
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Warren Rhode Island
occupation
Governor, Scrivener
order in office
35th, Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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