A Maine Family's History - Smith / Glidden Surnames

Dyer

? Dyer, "an affluent Lincolnshire yeoman" per NEHGR, Vol 151

Spouse: ?

Children: William

William DYER, Captain, baptized 9/19/1609 Kirkby Lathrope, County Lincoln, ENG died circa 1676 Newport, Newport, RI; apprenticed in ENG as a Fishmonger; sailed for Boston circa 1635; disfranchised from First Church of Boston 11/15/1637 for "seditious writing" and removed to RI; one of the signers of the compact of government 3/7/1638

Spouse: (1) Mary BARRETT, the Quaker martyr, born circa 1610 London, London, ENG (speculative) hanged from elm tree in Boston Common 9:00 am 6/1/1660 Boston, Suffolk, MA married 10/27/1633 St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, London, ENG (Parish Register "October 27, 1633 Gulielmus Dyer and Maria Barret"); converted to Quakerism on a trip back to ENG, (2) Catharine ? married after 6/1/1660 in Boston Suffolk MA; article re her death http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/enquirer/mary_dyer.htm

Children: William baptized 10/24/1634 London ENG died 10/27/1634 London; Samuel born before 12/20/1635 Boston Suffolk MA died circa 1678 Kingston, Washington, RI married Anne Hutchinson daughter of Edward Hutchinson and Catherine Hamby, granddaughter of Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson who was banished from Boston for her religious activities; Mary born circa 1639 Boston, Suffolk, MA died after 1/26/1678/79 Delaware married Henry Ward; William Dyer, Major, born circa 1642 died 1688 Sussex Co. PA (now Delaware) married Mary Walker daughter of Richard; Mahershallalhashbaz born circa 1643 Boston died before 1670 married Martha Pearce circa 1665 Portsmouth Newport RI; Henry born circa 1647 RI died 2/1689-90 Newport Newport RI married Elizabeth Sanford daughter of John Sanford and Elizabeth Spatchurst; Charles born circa 1650 RI died 5/15/1709 Newport Newport RI married Mary Lippett. Child by (2) Catharine: Elizabeth born circa 1662 Newport Newport RI married John Greenman before 1695

Charles DYER born circa 1650 RI died 5/15/1709 Newport, Newport, RI; husbandman

Spouse: (1) Mary LIPPETT born 1650 died circa 1690 married circa 1669 Newport probably daughter of John & Rebecca Lippitt (2) Martha Brownell born 5/1/1643 Portsmouth Newport RI died 2/15/1743-44 Portsmouth daughter of Thomas Brownell and Ann Bourne married 3/8/1690-91 Newport

Children: of Mary Lippet (1) James born 1669 Little Compton Newport RI died circa 1735 Bucks Co. PA married Elizabeth ? 1696 in Little Compton; William, house carpenter, born circa 1671 Little Compton executed 4/21/1719 Newport RI for murder of his wife Hannah Briggs daughter of Thomas Briggs and Mary Fisher; Elizabeth born circa 1677 Little Compton died 7/1715 RI married Tristram Hull 2/9/1698-99 son of Joseph Hull and Experience Harper; Charles, blacksmith, born circa 1685 Newport Newport RI, died 1/7/1626-7 Cranston Providence RI, married Mary Lapham 8/26/1709 Dartmouth Bristol MA daughter of John Lapham and Mary Mann; Samuel born circa 1687 Little Compton died 9/15/1767 Newport Newport RI married Desire Slocum 1/19/1709-10 Jamestown Newport RI; John, Captain, born circa 1688 died 9/6/1748 Bristol Bristol RI married Rebecca Jones

John DYER, Captain, born circa 1688 died 9/6/1748 Bristol Bristol RI

Spouse: (1) Sarah Bowerman died circa 1729 married 12/1718 Bristol Bristol RI daughter of Tristram Bowerman (2) Rebecca JONES born circa 1712 Taunton Bristol MA died 8/20/1738 married 8/15/1734 daughter of Joseph Jones and Lydia Neale (3) Mary Wheeler Reed born 1719 married 4/17/1739 daughter of John Reed and Mary Whitmarsh

Children: of Sarah Bowerman (1): Ebenezer born 4/19/1720 Bristol Bristol RI; Mary born 5/21/1722 Bristol; John born 9/10/1724 Bristol; Sarah born 8/28/1726 Bristol married Benjamin Boyce 5/17/1744 Bristol; Jonathan born 6/28/1729 Bristol married (1) Neila Button 11/13/1783 N. Stonington CT (2) Penelope Button 1/8/1785 Stonington. Children of Rebecca Jones (2) Mary Jones married Joseph Reed 12/29/1744; Rebecca born 10/31/1731 Bristol; Lydia born 5/16/1733 Bristol; Abigail born 2/25/1734-5 Bristol; Jones born 3/13/1736-7 Bristol died between 1810 and 1819 Calais Washington ME married Hannah Herenden; Martha married Nash

Jones DYER born 3/13/1736-7 Bristol Bristol RI died after 1819 Calais Washington ME, settled in Scarborough ME in early 1760s, one of original grantees of Machias ME, Revolutionary Vet, with brother [son?], James, one of first permanent resident of Calais, built the first frame house approximately 2 miles below Calais where a small stream flows into the St. Croix River (per Joseph W. Pehoushek this was on property owned until 1970s by Eben Smith & Cora Glidden Smith a descendant of Dyer) ; "Beginnings," 1875, says his first home was in Calais where the "Alms House" how stands

Spouse: Hannah HERENDEN/Herrington/Harrington born 5/15/1741 Smithfield Providence RI died 5/8-11/1836 Calais Washington ME, married 9/27/1761 Smithfield Providence RI; Eastern Democrat, Calais says aged 100 when died

Children: Abigail born circa 1779 christened 9/22/1802 Calais died 12/29/1837 Calais, age 58 per Calais Gazette, married Thomas Hill, a sea captain, after 1790 son of Daniel Hill and Elizabeth Holmes, the first permanent white residents of Calais; Martha (Patty) born after 1761 died 1817 had illegitimate child by ? Thompson later married Henry Knight; James born between 1761-5 died between 1798-1800 Spragues Falls married Martha Bailey Calais between 1784-5 daughter of Nathaniel Bailey and Martha Emery, their son Samuel in War of 1812; Mary Jones born circa 1766 Calais ME or N.B. died 1856 St. Stephen NB married (1) Ananiah Bohanon (2) William Jackson, a United Empire Loyalist, before 1790; Stephen born between 1770-5 Machias died after 6/28/1819 married Margaret ? circa 1790; Jones Esq. born 1776 Machias died 1860 Calais, buried Block 49, lot 1, married (1) Lydia Knight daughter of Capt. Jonathan Knight and Mary Atkins (2) Sylvia ? married before 5/1845; owned sloops Challenge & Pilgrim; Nathan born circa 1790 Calais married ? Dyer; John born circa 1770 died before 2/5/1818 Calais; Nancy born circa 1783 died 1852 married Thomas Millbury

Martha (Patty) DYER born after 1761 died 1817

Spouse: (1) had illegitimate child by ? THOMPSON (2) married Henry Knight died 7/30/1840, Henry reportedly would not marry her until she gave Francis away to be raised by one of the grandparents

Children: by (1) Thompson: Francis (Fanny). by (2) Knight: Lydia born 12/29/1804 Calais; Rachel; Hamette born 1/12/1805 Calais died young; Harriet born 1/12/1802 St. Stephen NB; Sophia born circa 1808 Calais christened 2/15/1811 St. Stephen NB; William Henry born circa1810 Calais christened 2/15/1811 St. Stephen; Horatia(o) born 4/27/1812 Calais baptized 1/12/1813 St Stepehn; Edward born in Calais baptized 4/19/1819 St. Stephen; George Stillman born in Calais christened 4/19/1819 St. Stephen [children by Knight per Joseph Pehoushek]

Frances (Fanny) DYER of Calais Washington ME born 5/22/1794 died 10/4/1887, died and buried in Topsfield Washington ME, age 57 in 1850 Calais Census

Spouse: Samuel SCOTT born 2/7/1786 Machias Washington ME

Children: Temperance born 7/21/1811 10/24/1897 Danforth; Atkins / Adkins Perry born 8/5/1813 baptized 7/18/1816 Kirk McColl St. Stephen NB married Elizabeth Bullock 3/17/1836; Maria born 10/6/1815 baptized 7/18/1816 Kirk McColl St. Stephen NB, married Joseph Glidden 6/12/1832 Washington Co. [ME Marriages] brother of John Glidden; Lydia born 4/1/1818; Hiram H. born 7/11/1820 Calais; Charles W. born 10/29/1822; Stillman born 3/19/18725; Harriet born 6/29/1826; Jeremiah Otis born 4/30/1829; Samuel Ezra. [aka Ezra S.] born 7/13/1831, died 6/17/1917, ship carpenter & farmer married Martha James; Martha Elizabeth / Lizzie born 3/30/ 1833 [children per David James]

Loyalists to Canada, pg 185; Dyer, Jones. He probably came to the District of Maine from Providence, Rhode Island. He served with the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War. In November 1777, he accompanied Colonel John Allan, Superintendent of the Eastern Indians, and a party of American Patriots, to St. Andrews, where they held a council with the Indians. The following day an attempt was made to capture Allan by inviting him aboard a sloop. Allan suspected the scheme, and instead of going himself sent Jones Dyer of Machias, Louis F. Delesdernier, and four others. All of them were seized as they boarded the craft, which was a Loyalist vessel the Howe, from Halifax. /P/ Around 1784, Jones Dyer and his brother James moved from Machias to Calais. James Dyer lost his life in a drowning accident, but left two daughters and two sons, Samuel and James Dyer, Jr. Jones Dyer became a prominent citizen at Calais and was a town official. It has been said that, for many years, he was the wealthiest man in Calais. His son, Jones Dyer, Jr. married Lydia Knight, daughter of Captain Jonathan Knight. They had fifteen children. James Dyer and Jones Dyer are named in the 1790 census for Washington Co., township #5 (Calais). Loyalists to Canada, pg 195: Francis Norwood was the leader of the Cape Ann Association. In 1784 they settled at the head of Oak Bay on the St. Croix River in St. David Parish, Charlotte County, N.B., on a tract of land called the Wentworth Division. ... Some members of the Cape Ann Association probably were not Loyalists, but emigrated to N.B. for opportunities of settlement in a new land. At that time, Canadian authorities were encouraging settlement in the Passamaquoddy region, probably to strengthen British claims to the territory. pg 196: Names in the Cape Ann Association grant of 10/1/1784 were: Dyer, John ...Hitchings, Amos; Hitchings, David; Hitchings, Josiah; Hitchings, Josiah, Jr. ...

Beginnings by Rev. I.C. Knowlton (1875): In 1784 or the year preceding, James and Jones Dyer came from Machias and settled in Calais. Their original home appears to have been Providence, R.I. James was accidentally drowned in early manhood. He however left four children: James Jr., Samuel now living, Mrs. chase and Mrs. Westbrook Knight. Jones had been a soldier on the American side in the Revolutionary war. His farm was near that now occupied by William Knight. He was a prominent member of society, and was frequently elected to office in town affairs. His son, Jones Dyer Jr. married Lydia, a daughter of Capt. Jonathan Knight, by whom he had fifteen children. His first home was where the Alms House now stands; his second on Main St, near the foot of Church Ave. Being a man of energy and decided ability, he took an active part in all public affairs, and was for many years the wealthiest man in town. Appendix: Dyer, Jones: came from Machias with his family in 1784. Children were James, Jones Jr., Nathan, Mrs. Thomas (Abigail) Hill, Mrs. William Jackson, Mrs. Henry Knight, all deceased. Jones Jr. married Lydia Knight and their children were Mrs. Maria Sawyer, Thomas; Mrs. Harriet White, L.C. d., Edward S. of Washington Territory; John H. d., Harrison, d.; Mrs. Lydia Kettelle of Boston; Mrs. Sophia Porter, C.C. Dr.; George W. of Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Helen Bradbury, A.R., Dr.; Mrs. Josephine Dodge Dr.; the last two of Santa Barbara, California. George W. dyer, Esq. was a Representative in the Maine Legislature in 1861-2. Information from E. Cumberland ecumberl@gov.nb.ca

A-CHS Newsletter May 1999: Hand written memoir by either Emma or Mamie Bohanon, daughters of Hiram Bohanon and nieces of Ananiah Jones Bohanan who lived on the South Princeton Road in Alexander "as told to me by Aunt Margaret Whitney, July 1914." Margaret married Henry P. Whitney and was a sister of Hiram and Jones: "Our Revolutionary War ancestor, Jones Dyer, was grandfather Ananiah Bohanon's grandfather; his mother Mary having been the daughter of Jones and Hannah Dyer...Mary Dyer married [Ananiah] Bohanon for her first husband.

Washington Co Marriages page 5: Joseph Gledden of Calais & Maria Scott of same m 6/12/1831 by James Harrington
Vital Records of Calais ME pg 56 Marriage Intentions: Ezra Scott & Martha James both of Calais 12/26/1853

Pioneers of MA pg 148: Dyer, William, mylner (miller) Boston adm chh with wife Marie 13 (10) 1635; frm 3/3/1634-6. He & his wife sympathized with Mrs. Hutchinson in 1638 [W] ch Samuel b 20 (10) 6135. He d in Dorchester 18 (4) 1672 in 93d year.

Pioneers on ME Rivers page 287: Dyer, Wlm, planter at Boston 1637, wife Mary executed for her religion 1660; bought land from the Indians at Sheepscot 1663; killed by natives in August 1689; children Christopher the eldest, John born 1648, and Mary who married Samuel son of Joseph Bowler of Cape Porpoise. This is an error as this William was married to Mary Chadbourne per Gen of Maine and New Hampshire.

Gen Register of 1st Settlers of NE: Dyer, Wlm admitted freeman 1636, rem from MA to RI in 1638. Mary Dyer, his wife, became a Quaker, and for "rebellious sedition, and presumptuous obtruding of herself after banishment upon pain of death," was sentenced to be executed but upon the petition of William Dyer, her son, was reprieved on condition that she departed the jurisdiction of MA in 48 hours; and if she returned to suffer the sentence. She returned & was executed 6/1/1660. Hutchinson, Hist MA 184.

Annals of Calais, Maine and St. Stephen NB page 21: In 1784 or the year preceeding, James and Jones Dyer came from Machias and settled in Calais. Their original home appears to have been Providence, RI. James was accidentally drowned in early manhood. He however left four children: James, Jr., Samuel now living, Mrs. Chase and Mrs. Westbrook Knight. Jones had been a soldier on the American side in the Revolutionary war. His farm was near that now occupied by William Knight. He was a prominent member of society, and was frequently elected to office in town affairs. His son, Jones Dyer Jr., married Lydia, a daughter of Capt. Jonathan Knight, by whom he had fifteen children. His first home was where the Alms House now stands; his second, on Main St., near the foot of Church Avenue. Being a man of energy and decided ability, he took an active part in all public affairs, and was for many years the wealthiest man in town.

My Garden of Memory by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Houghton Mifflin 1923: "My father, Robert Noah Smith, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, was educated at Brown University, and took his legal degree at Harvard; but Noah Smith, Jr., my grandfather, removed his family in 1830 to Calais, Maine, with which town, with Machias and its neighboring hamlets, Englishman's River and Carleton Stream, my mother's people, Knights and Dyers, were closely associated. /P/ My mother, Helen Elizabeth Dyer, born in Calais, was the daughter of Jones Dyer, 3d, and Lydia Knight, Jones Dyer, 2d, having been a native of Bristol, Rhode Island, and Jones Dyer, 1st, of "gallant little Wales." My grandfather, Jones Dyer, 3d, is referred to as Jones Dyer, Gentleman, in the old family deeds and papers, while hiss father is described as Jones Dyer, Yeoman. A man of great individuality and marked business ability was Jones Dyer, Gentleman, who conducted his fortunes so successfully that he was able to retire from business at forty years, and thereafter to wander from place to0 place, seeking rest for the sole of his foot, the which, apparently, he never found. /P/ My mother, last but one of the fourteen buds on the family tree, and thus the child of her father's later years, recalled him only after his retirement, and described him as an unusually silent and reserved person, and as a furious and omnivorous reader, his "Websterian" head -- for so it was always described -- constantly bent over books and papers. In spite of his apparently adequate family, my grandfather took into his home and cared for two orphan relatives, and, as his aged father and mother were also under his rook, it may well be imagined that my splendid and heroic maternal grandmother was seldom at a loss for occupation. /P/ To his keen business sense, clear reasoning power, and executive ability, Jones Dyer, Gentleman, added, what must have been rare in a man brought up on the outermost edge of things, a distinct sense of the artistic and unusual and the instincts of a collector. Whatever he bought for his family was valuable and beautiful, although his restless removals from place to place often scattered to the winds his various treasures. ... /P/ The grandparental wanderlust descended to his children in full measure, the members of my immediate family, mother, sister, brother, and I, being so possessed with it as to be almost unable to endure life unless the furniture of our rooms is changed in position often enough to make us feel, at least, that we are in a strange place, though Fate may, in fact, chain us at home. /P/ Packets of letters from my mother's sisters, written in their exquisite Italian hands with a life and vigor that throb through the yellowed paper, invariably recount journeys made or planned. 'My trunk is packed and I am waiting for father's sloop, the Challenge, to take me to Philadelphia,' writes Emily. 'When father's ship, the Pilgrim, comes back,' says Joanna, 'he promises that I may go to New Haven to take further music lessons.' 'If father is willing,' writes a married daughter, Harriet, to her mother, 'I could go to Boston on one of his ships and make you a little visit in Charlestown.' And so on and so on, gay, laughing letters from happy girls equally careless and care-free, and well knowing that father's doubloons, if not always his approval, would back their hopes and plans. /P/ The family lived about the time of these letters in a old-fashioned mansion on Town Hill (Calais, Maine), a residence formerly owned by the Honorable Edward Everett, President of Harvard, and, as there were eight daughters growing up under its roof, each one, according to tradition, something of a belle and a beauty, it may well be imagined that, as a misanthropic young uncle once said, 'the Hill was black with beaux day and night!' One of my mother's rare memory-pictures was of her elder sister, Sophia, sitting (perhaps not accidentally!) under the parlor chandelier, its full light shining on her wavy auburn hair, while a bevy of gallants around her rivaled one another in efforts to disentangle the 'kinks' in a long, slender gold chain she always wore about her neck. The impression of this scene as given by my mother implied that the pranks of the chain were not wholly a cause of regret to the lovely Sophia.

Apr 1774 - Jones Dyer of Machias, yeoman, to William Chaloner, of Machias, physician, for £74, 13s. 4d., seven acre lot No 18 in Machias [Lincoln County Deeds 2:82] http://home.att.net/~n.c.hall/Census.html - website removed

NEHGR, Volume 158, January 2004, #629, Pages 27-28. A Brother Found: A Clue to the Ancestry of Mary (Barrett) Dyer, The Quaker Martyr. by Johan Winsser: . It is now clear that Mary Dyer had a brother...and provides a clue to her true ancestry. In 1634 the Prerogative Court of Canterbury recorded the probate administration of William Barret, which granted the commission jointly to William Dyer of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, fishmonger, and his wife Marie Dyer alias Barret, explicitly described as the sister of William Barret. The following year (1635) William & Mary (Barrett) Dyer settled in Boston.

Dyer information per The New England Dyer Connection http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/y/e/Frank-E-Dyer/index.html and Joseph W. Pehoushek joepeh@comcast.net http://www.pehoushek.com/

Jones Dyer > Mary Jones Dyer/William Jackson: Milton Thornton mthorn@midmaine.com

Parish Register "October 27, 1633 Gulielmus Dyer and Maria Barret" NEHGR, Vol 94 7/1940