Edward Dyer (1774 - 1854)

Born 23 Jun 1774 in West Greenwich, Kent, Ri

Ancestors

Husband of Sally (Bowman) Dyer — married 1 Nov 1798 in Clarendon, Rutland, Vt

Husband of Hannah (Hoxie) Dyer — married 7 Jan 1818 in Milton, Chittenden, Vermont, United States

Descendants

Died 11 May 1854 at age 79 in Conneaut, Ashland, Oh

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Biography

In February 1796, he left to settle in the newly opened farm land in Vermont. He went first to Shrewsbury, worked there until he had= money to purchase a farm. In 1799 he sold it and built a small house in So Clarendon VT, he had married Sally Bowman, he was 25 yrs. old and she 16.

He continued to purchase land in and around Clarendon VT until he owned about 800 acres which became known as "Dyer Farms". He built another house on the best land which became known as "The Dyer Place" it burned in Feb 1910.

Edward DYER settled in Rutland in about the year 1789; he was from Greenwich, R. I. His first wife was Sally BOWMAN, daughter of Lieutenant BOWMAN, of Clarendon, and his second wife was Hannah HOXIE, daughter of Gideon HOXIE, a Quaker of Chittenden county.

Horace H. DYER, (who now resides a little south of Rutland village) is a son of Edward. It was on Mr. DYER's farm that Captain Josiah HART and a party of Revolutionary soldiers camped while on their way from Bellows Falls to Ticonderoga. Soon after the war Mr. HART visited Rutland, sought out the spring near which the encampment was made and resolved to settle there, which he did. He was a practical builder, aided in constructing the first church at Rutland village and other buildings, and died in 1811, aged seventy-two years. His grandson, George W. HART, lives on the homestead.

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Edward Dyer, a native of Rhode Island, immigrated to Clarendon, Rutland, Vt., in 1789, at the age of fifteen years, but for a period of more than half a century, he was a citizen of Rutland, where he was rated as a man possessed of sound judgment, energy of character, and that knowledge of human nature which would have made him a power in any walk of life. Clara D., his fifth child, became the wife of Gardner Gates, in 1831. Their family consisted of three sons, one of whom, Clarence, is engaged in mercantile pursuits at Cambridge village.

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Town Records of Rutland, Vermont:

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In the year 1838 there was considerable agitation of the subject of making different arrangements from those then existing for the care of the town poor. In 1841 when a committee of two, William Y. RIPLEY and Samuel GRIGGS, was appointed to consider the expediency of building a new house or repair the old one on the town farm; and in the same year a committee consisting of Edward DYER, Moses PERKINS and Francis SLASON was appointed to sell the farm and buy another, if deemed expedient; this was not done, and in 1842 the overseer was directed to provide for the poor elsewhere, if it could not be properly done on the farm then owned.

1850 Census, Rutland, Rutland Co., Vermont

Edward Dyre 75, M, Farmer, Real Estate $10,300, b. Rhode Island

Hannah, 62, F

Horace H. 30, M, Farmer

REF: Notebook "Dyer Ancestry of Julia Randall" by Stanwood E Flitner (copy from Franz Buse.

Sources

Source S28

Title: Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1930 (database online) Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc. 2000

Abbreviation: Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1930 (database online) Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc. 2000

Note: Providence Births 1636-1920, Providence Marriages 1851-1920, Providence Deaths 1636-1930, Bristol County - Barrington, Bristol, and Warren, Kent County - Coventry, East Greenwich, Warwick, and West Greenwich, Richmond, South Kingstown, and Westerly.

NS401323

Source Media Type: Electronic

Master Listing Source: Y

Source S339

Title: 1850 US Census, Rutland, Rutland, Vermont

Abbreviation: 1850 US Census, Rutland, Rutland, Vermont

Note: NS032363

Source Media Type: Census

Master Listing Source: Y

Source S44

Title: Hoxie Family Bible

Author: Nettie Drought Petro of Constantia, Oswego, Ny

Abbreviation: Hoxie Family Bible

Note: NS175763

Source Media Type: Manuscript

Master Listing Source: Y

Source S597

Title: Rhode Island Vital Records, New Series, Vol.7, Greenwich, R.I. Marriages from Probate, Grave & Death Records 1680-1860

Abbreviation: Rhode Island Vital Records, New Series, Vol.7, Greenwich, R.I. Marriages from Probate, Grave & Death Records 1680-1860

Note: NS308783

Source Media Type: Electronic

Master Listing Source: Y

Source S600

Call Number: RI929.3A

Title: Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850, Births, Marriages & Deaths, Vol. 1, Kent County

Author: James N. Arnold

Publication: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., Providence, RI. 1891

Abbreviation: Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850, Births, Marriages & Deaths, Vol. 1, Kent County

Note: NS395803

Source Media Type: Book

Master Listing Source: Y

Source S69

Title: Ancestry of James H. Dyer

Author: Ann Marie Youmans

Publication: Passed along by Charles D. Heile, Jr

Abbreviation: Ancestry of James H. Dyer

Note: Putting Genealogical Information on the web.

A computer solution to a visual problem.

Term project for J-336, Fall 1995, by Ann Youmans.

NS088003

Source Media Type: Manuscript

Master Listing Source: Y

Source S713

Title: Rhode Island Genealogical Register, Vol.3, Jan 1981

Author: Alden Gamaliel Beaman, Ph.D

Publication: Some Descendants of Robert Spink of Kingstowne

Abbreviation: Rhode Island Genealogical Register, Vol.3, Jan 1981

Note: NS306783

Source Media Type: Book

Master Listing Source: Y

Source S801

Title: Dyer Ancestry of Julia Randall

Author: Stanwood E Flitner

Publication: cc Franz Buse, & Aurie Morrison

Abbreviation: Dyer Ancestry of Julia Randall

Note: Source Media Type: Manuscript

Master Listing Source: Y