Mary (Wheeler) Dyer (1695 - 1777)

Born 18 Mar 1695 in Swansea, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of John Reed — married 1 Dec 1715 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Wife of John Dyer — married 17 Apr 1739 in Abington, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died Dec 1777 at age 82 in Bristol, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Mary Wheeler, daughter of James Wheeler and Grizzell (Squire) Wheeler, was born in Swansea, Massachusetts on March 18, 1694[/5?].^[1][2]

Mary married John Reed (whose first wife had recently died) in Rehoboth, Massachusetts on either October 8, 1715^[3] or December 1, 1715.^[4][5] Mary and John had the following children, all born in Abington:

1. James, b. Oct 12, 1716
2. Joseph, b. February 1717/8
3. Mary, b. December 21, 1719
4. Ezekiel, b. November 14, 1722
5. Peter, b. March 29, 1723
6. Squire, b. Mary 25, 1725
7. Silence, b. August 10, 1728
8. Benjamin, b. April 8, 1730
9. Samuel, b. July 13, 1732^[6]

Mary's first husband, John Reed, died sometime before 1739 and, on April 17, 1739, Mary married John Dyer of Bristol.^[7] John Dyer brought Mary and at least three of her children (Joseph, Mary and Samuel) back to Bristol. Together, they had no children. Mary's second husband, John Dyer, died in Bristol in 1748.^[8]

Mary Wheeler Reed Dyer died in Bristol in December 1777 at the age of 83.^[8]

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Rounds, H.L. Peter. Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992. p. 14. Link to page at americanancestors.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr., "The Genealogical and Encyclopdic History of the Wheeler Family in America," American College of Genealogy, 1914, p 430
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
5. ↑ The earlier date may have been the date of their declaration of intentions, and the latter one the actual marriage date.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Ancestry.com. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Vital Record of Rhode Island, Vol 6, p 130