Executed
Lyons
Lyons had served as a lieutenant in the state navy, according to a Philadelphia dispatch reprinted in the Connecticut Courant. The dispatch says he was taken from the jail and shot at a galley moored off Market-street wharf in Philadelphia, in the presence of a large crowd, as the sentence for desertion. The shooting is reported as an execution carried out by the state's authorities. The account is brief and comes from a single newspaper reprint.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Connecticut Courant, reprinting a Philadelphia report.