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Descendants of Matthew Lyle

Generation No. 1

1. MATTHEW¹ LYLE was born 1748 in Mounthill, Ireland, and died Aft. 1812 in Georgia or Camden, SC. He married JENNET ROBERTSON in St. George's Parish, Camden Co., GA.

Notes for MATTHEW LYLE:
After the Revolutionary War, he returned to Ireland where JOHN and his youngest son David, were born.

Quote from LYLE FAMILY book by Oscar K. Lyle, Page 357:

Matthew Lyle, born at Mounthill, near Larne, Ireland. Came to South Carolina about 1785. He went back to Ireland in 1791 when his youngest son, David, was born. Returned to South Carolina 1794. Lived Georgetown, and later Camden, where he died. Issue 5: Mary, who married a Stewart and lived in Charleston;
Matthew, Robertson, John and David. The son David married ...................."
END QUOTE (Note: Descrepancy in place of death. One source says he died in Georgia.)

Other information about MATTHEW LYLE:(Source 12)

: "Matthew Lyle, came to Georgia in 1768 and settled in what is now Jefferson County, Georgia. He was an officer with the local militia under the British when the Revolutionary War began and he refused to take the rebel oath and was placed in Prison in Savannah, Georgia. He broke jail and went to Florida and fought with the Queen's Rangers until the British captured Savannah. He then returned to Georgia and was commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel. He was captured and again imprisoned in Charleston, South Carolina. He broke out of that Jail, went back to Florida and eventually back to Ireland.(Note: No record of Queen's rangers in Florida. May have been East Florida Rangers.)

Because he was a Loyalist, his lands were confiscated in Georgia. He did return and settled in South Carolina. Some of his sons did move to Alabama, Mississippi and on to Texas."

The Colonial Records of Georgia, Proceedings and Minutes of the Governor and Council from January 6, 1767 to December 5, 1769, Page 697,"GEORGIA At a Council held in the Council Chamber at Savannah on Monday the 20th February 1769--
On Reading a petition of Noble Wimberly Jones, Lachlan McGillivray, John Mullryne, John Smyth and Alexander Wylly Esq nominated and appointed to carry into Execution an Act of the last General Assembly for settling a Township on the Branches of Great Ogechee River on Lands some time since reserved for that purpost It is Ordered that the following Tracts, out of the said reserve, be Surveyed and laid out to the several persons herunder Mentioned and that the Surveyer General do issue his Precept or Precepts for that purpose, and that Grants do pass to them for their Several Tracts Accordingly- That is to say -
To MATTHEW LYLE.......one hundred Acres"

The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Volume LVIII, Winter 1974, Number 4, page 428.
"For two months after the British reoccupation of Augusta, the backcountry was politically calm. Oaths of allegiance were accepted from Loyalist as well as former Whigs who desired to return to THE King's protection, and the loyal militia was reactivated to assist Brown's royal provincials in maintaining law and order. James Grierson was restored to command of the Augusta Regiment of Militia, MATHEW LYLE WAS ENTRUSTED WITH THE SAME POSITION IN ST. GEORGE'S PARISH. "
(Article indicates Augusta was unfortified throughout the summer of 1780 and by the end of the summer the errors in Cornwallis' thinking would become clear--especially to the men who wore the green and crimson of THE KING'S RANGERS. This precedes the above paragraph and might indicate the MATTHEW LYLE was in the King's Rangers not Queen's Rangers.)

The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Volume XXXV, March 1951, Number 1, Page 50of 60 pages..
The Proceedings and Minutes of the Governor and Council of Georgia, October 4, 1774 through November 7, 1775 and September 6, 1779 through September 20, 1780. Part III.............
"His Exclly next represented to the Board that Application had been made to Him by several of the Inhabitants of Queensborough, requesting certain Persons of that Part of the Country may be made Justices of the Peace, and others, Officers of the Militia. The Board having considered the Application advised that Joseph Marshal, Matthew Lyle and Samuel Montgomery, be inserted in the (sic) commission of the Peace for the Parish of St. George, and that MATTHEW LYLE be appointed Major of Militia. And the Clerk was ordered to notify to the Secretary Accordingly".

The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Volume XXXV, September 1951, Number 3. Page 204.of 221. The Proceedings and Minutes of the Governor and Council of Georgia, Octrober 4, 1774, through November 7, 1775 and September 6, 1779 through September 20, 1780. " That Matthew Lyle (and five others listed) shall be Commissioners of the Roads in St. George's Parish.....

Page 210..At a Council held at His Excellency's House in Savannah on Monday, the 21st day of August 1780..."Ordered, that the clerk write to Lt. Coll. Lyle, to inquire into the Merits of the Petition, and into the Character of the said Mizzell and how far he is proper for the Service".

Page 212...At a Council Held at His Excellency's houe, in Savannah, on Monday the 28th day of August 1780...."Ordered, that Commissions be made out of the following Persons as Officers in the 4th Regiment of Foot Militia, commanded by Lieut. Coll. Matthew Lyle.

Page 213.. At a Council held 8th Day of Septmeber 1780. His Excellency then laid before the Board a List which He had received from Lt. Coll. Lyle of Persons recommended by him and the Magistrates of St. George's Parish, as proper for Militia Officers".

ROYAL GEORGIA GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 22, 1781, PAGE 2, COL 2. "Taken up by James Lyle and James Robefon, Conftables, Two Negro Men named Caefar andCyrus; two Women named Phillis and Grace, the laft of who has lately had the fmallpox; and a Boy named Lymus, fon to Grace. The Owners must apply to Samuel Montgomery, Efq. near the Old Town, in St. George's parifh."

The GAZETTE OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Sept. 11, 1783. Page 2. C-1:
"GEORGIA Houfe of Affembly, 15th July, 1783...Ordered That hsi Honor the Governor and Council be recommended and requefted to tranfmit to the Executive and legiflative Powers or Departments, in every State in the United States, a Lift of Perfons at this Time within our Act of Attainder, bainifhment, and confifcation, and requeft a Lift from them of Perfons named in their Law; fo that, by this Correfpondence, each State may know, or be informed from Time to Time what is done by each State relative to thofe Perfons fo profcribed.

"In Council, Savannah, 19th April 1783. Pursuant to the foregoing order of the Honourable the Houfe of Affembly, paffed at Augufta on the Fifteenth July laft paft, the following Perfons are named within our Act of Attainder, Banifhment, and Confifcation, and ftood profcribed on that Day.

A LIST of Perfons on the Bill: (on the 4th day of May), ...JAMES LYLE, MATTHEW LYLE."

Children of MATTHEW LYLE and JENNET ROBERTSON are:

	i.		MARY² LYLE, b. 1779; m. ROBERT STEWART.
	ii.		MATTHEW LYLE, b. Bet. 1775 - 1780, Ireland.

More About MATTHEW LYLE:
Census-KERSHAW CO SC: 1810, Age 25-44, Married wife age 26-44 Living next door to Matthew Lyle

	iii.	ROBERTSON LYLE.
2.	iv.	JOHN LYLE, b. 1790, Ireland; d. 1855, Henry County, GA*.
	v.	DAVID LYLE, b. 04 Sep 1792, Ireland; d. 1878, Choctaw Co. MS; m. ELIZABETH SMALL.

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