Isaac Dyer (1734 - aft. 1788)

Born 13 Oct 1734 in Truro, Barnstable, Ma

Ancestors

Husband of Jerusha (White) Dyer — married 5 Oct 1758 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Me

Descendants

Died after 1788 after age 53 in Maine, Massachusetts, United States

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Research Notes

Note: In the division of his father's estate, in 1767, Isaac was "to have the Log end of the House" in which his mother lived, and ten acres adjoining land of his brother Henry.

In 1785, he sold to James Dyer and other heirs land formerly belonging to "their father Henry Dyer."(*)

This youngest son to Henry Dyer appears very little in the records; tradition, however, states that he was sent to England to be educated among his father's people; it also adds that the family came from "the West of England." He brought back with him a copy of the Dyer Coat-of-Arms. Elderly people in Cape Elizabeth remember hearing it talked about, perhaps some may have seen it, yet no one to-day knows where it is. Young men who had been educated abroad were rare in the section of the country where he lived, and his youthful bride was congratulated on making a very desirable marriage. Isaac Dyer was a Tory in the Revolutionary period. Isaac, Jr., enlisted in 1775, and soon after leaving the army he went to Limington, where he remained.

Filled with that inherent love of the sea so common to his environment, Isaac Dyer became a shipmaster, sailing to foreign ports. Profitable trade relations existed at that time with the West Indies and Dutch Guiana, also the ports of Spain and Portugal, and Captain Dyer became a man of means. He probably died at sea, as did all of his sons except the eldest; there is no record of his death nor that of his wife Jerusha. None of their children were recorded, but it is accepted among descendants that the son Isaac5 was the eldest. "Watson Dyer," eldest son to Isaac5 Dyer, in his old age, gave the names of his grandparents' children to his nephew, Isaac Watson Dyer, the sons in the order of their birth, beginning with Isaac, the eldest, and the daughters in the order of their birth; this arrangement is used here. It is doubtful if more can be found unless some descendant, now unknown, has the old Bible.

(Descendants of Edward Small)

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Note: Multiple claims exist in the Dyer Family History and Public Trees for Isaac's youngest daughter Abigail having been born in 1788 (which conflicts with the age of her mother). The Dyer History is linked from Abigail's Profile. No records exist to date to resolve the conflict.

Source

See also:

• "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HJB-TSK : 2 March 2021), Isaac Dyer and Jerusha White, 05 Oct 1758; citing Falmouth, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.

• Lora Altine Woodbury Underhill, Descendants of Edward Small of New England, Vol.3, Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1934

• Truro, Barnstable, Mass., Church Records, The Mayflower Descendant, Vol.X, CD 203

• Ward Dana, A.B., M.D., of Brookline, Norfolk, Mass, Billings of Deer Isle, Maine, NEHGR, Vol. 97, October 1943, John(5) Billings of Deer Isle, Maine, Originally from "Genealogy of William Billings", Frank Billings, M.D., n.d., published about 1931.