Reuben
Dyer
Born about [location unknown]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mary (Cussins) Dyer
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Margaret (Dyer) Tate and Martha Patty (Dyer) Weatherford
Died about
at about age 84
in Baldwin, Alabama, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 4 Jan 2017
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Biography
Research Notes
Source: Mother of Tensaw Settlement Survivors Margaret (Dyer) Powell and Martha (Dyer) Weatherford by Deanna M. Slappey, National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 99, No. 1, Pages 43-59, March 2011, National Genealogical Society, Arlington, Virginia
Birth abt 1749, location unknown, parents unknown. The 1789 census lists him as age 40 (Slappey, p. 46).
Reuben purchased land in Georgia in 1776, and sold it in 1779 (Slappey, p. 47). His next known appearance was in the 1789 Spanish census in West Florida.
Marriage: Married Mary Cussins (Cousins) sometime before or during 1783, as the Spanish record of their children would show illegitimate if unmarried (Slappey, p. 46).
Reuben and Mary had seven children. There are no other known spouses, nor any known record of other children. He did NOT marry "Mary Hollinger." This mistaken assertion was debunked by in 2011. There were connections between Dyers and Hollingers in later generations (Slappey, p. 51-53).
Death: Reuben died between 1803-1810 (Slappey, p. 47).
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Mims_massacre
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144626735/rueben-dyer
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Reuben by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Reuben:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Reuben by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Reuben:
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~1.56%
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