Charles Dyer (1742 - 1823)

Born 21 Nov 1742 in Cranston, Providence, Ri

Ancestors

Husband of Phebe (Pearce) Dyer — married 1764 in Providence, Rhode Island [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 14 Aug 1823 at age 80 in Cranston, Providence, Ri

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Biography

Charles Dyer, the fourth in his line sequentially to bear that name, was born at Cranston, Rhode Island, in November of 1742, a son of Charles and Abigail (Williams) Dyer. His parents were, respectively, a great grandson of Quaker martyr Mary (Barrett) Dyer and her husband William, first attorney general of Rhode island; and a great granddaughter of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence.

Charles married Phebe Pearce in 1764, and the couple lived at Cranston; he died there, in his eighty-first year, in mid-August of 1823.

Census Records

Dyer, Charles

State: RI

County: Providence Co.

Location: Cranston

Census/Enumeration year: 1782

Dyer, Charles, Jr.

State: RI

County: Cranston

Page #: 212

Census/Enumeration year: 1774

Age ranges in household: 1-3-2-0-0-0

Sources

• Birth and lineage: Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders Born in the 18th Century, by John Osborne Austin, Albany, N.Y., Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889, p. 117; chart: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028775222&view=1up&seq=127&size=150

• Parentage and marriage: Magazine of New England History, Volumes 1-2, R.H. Tilley, 1891, p. 146; https://books.google.com/books?id=lb4UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false

• Marriage; birth and death: Roger Williams of Providence, R.I., compiled by Mrs. C. W. (Bertha Williams) Anthony and Mrs. C. H. (Harriett Wood) Weeden, 1949; [Cranston, R.I. : B. W. Anthony and H. W. Weeden], 1949, 1966, p. 160 (see V. 2. Charles Dyer III); https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062448378&view=1up&seq=167

• Death: Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850, Births, Marriages & Deaths, Vol. 21, R.I. American, James N. Arnold, Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1912; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t86h4q71v&view=1up&seq=232. See also Vol. 13, p. 357; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t54f1xv14&view=1up&seq=431

• Lineage: The Ancestral Dictionary, by John Osborne Austin, Central Falls, R. I., E. L. Freeman & son, 1891, p. 39 ("Amasa Manton"); https://archive.org/details/ancestraldiction00inaust/page/n89/mode/2up/search/%22Dyre%22

• Birth, family, death, and burial (with image of gravestone): Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 March 2020), memorial page for Charles Dyer, III (21 Nov 1742–14 Aug 1823), Find A Grave Memorial no. 26999683, citing Pocasset Cemetery, Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by Lanie (contributor 47381115); https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26999683/charles-dyer

Additional source (death) from original gedcom import, not found online via NEHGS (March 2020):

Source: #S443

Page: Independent Chronicle & Boston Patriot.; Date: 1823-08-20; Vol: LVIII; Iss: 4415; Page: [1

Source S443

Title: Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876

Publication: NEHGS

Acknowledgments

• This profile was originally created through the import of dyermaeettaaug2010.ged on 11 September 2010.