William Dyer, born Oct. 30, 1690, in Barnstable. He was eleven or twelve years old when his father moved to Truro.
On April 15, 1709, when he was nineteen years of age, he married Hannah Strout in Eastham, by "Mr Sam'l Treat."[1]
Hannah (Strout) Dyer appears to have been daughter to Christopher Strout, of Truro, who died in 1715 ; she was the mother of all of William Dyer's children, three daughters and ten sons.
He and Hannah were admitted and baptized as "adults" to the church in Truro, 18 February 1727/8.[2]
The children, all but last two, were baptized Mar 11, 1728.
William Dyer, Jr. was of Truro as of 12 March 1736 for on that date and in that place he addressed a letter to James Otis (of Revolutionary War fame) in regard to a lawsuit. Evidently Otis was William's lawyer.
The marriage intention of William Dyer of Falmouth to Hannah Hagans (Higgins) of Truro was recorded in Falmouth 26 June 1749.
On 26 July 1749, William Dyer of Falmouth in Casco Bay was married to Hannah (Cole) Higgins, widow of Ruben Higgins of Truro by the Reverend John Avery of Truro. Two days later they were "Dismist" to the First Church in Falmouth.[3]
On 18 May 1737, William Dyer of Falmouth on Casco Bay, cordwainer, bought of John White of Falmouth, tanner, for 45 pounds, a certain tract or parcel of land lying in the Second Parish in Falmouth and adjoining to the lands of William Elwell ..... "twenty and seven acres of the same ..... it being a part of a thirty acre lot granted to me (White) by the Town of Falmouth and laid out by the town committee. Three acres of which I have [already] sold to John Dyer in said Falmouth."
In April 1743, William Dyer of Falmouth, cordwainer, bought for 26 pounds, of Thomas Millett, twenty acres of the grant made to him (Millett) by the Falmouth Proprietors.
On 5 December 1743, William Dyer, yeoman, of Falmouth, for fifty pounds, bought of William Elwell ten acres of land in Falmouth, "it being part of William Elwell's homestead which lieth below the highway ..... bounded ..... by ed Dyer's land on the easterly side and then bounded by the highway that nowis."
William Dyer, cordwainer, of Falmouth sold property on 6 July 1749 to his son, Samuel Dyer of Falmouth, fisherman, for 200 pounds, including a house and 25 acres of land on "Barren Hill ..... joining to the land of Christopher Dyer's Farm he now live on" near the road which leads to Black Point.
In November 1760, William Dyer was one of the petitioners to the Governor of Massachusetts Bay for a grant of a township on the northern and western side of the Island of Mount Desert and on the mainland next adjoining the same.
On 16 January 1764, William Dyer of Falmouth conveyed land to his "loving daughter, Isabel Ficket, wife of John Ficket of Cape Elizabeth, yeoman."
He died after 16 Jan 1764[4]
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