Person:George Dyer (17)

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George Dyer
b.Abt 1579 England
Facts and Events
Name George Dyer
Gender Male
Birth[1][3] Abt 1579 England
Marriage to Elizabeth (add)
Death[1][2] 18 Jun 1672 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
    p. 28.

    1672.
    William Dyer Departed this Life, the 18th. of the (4 mon:) called June 1672. being the 92d year of his Age.
    [Note: Robert Charles Anderson [GMB, p. 605] gives this death to George, saying "There is no other record of a person of that name [i.e., William Dyer] in Dorchester so early, and this date falls conveniently between the dates of the making and proving of the will of George Dyer".]

  2. Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County). Probate records, 1636-1899. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-1971)
    Vol. 7, original p. 233.

    [This is a copy.]
    Will of "George Dyer of Dorchest'r ... calling to minde my old age", dated 30 Dec 1671, proved 2 Aug 1672, names "my beloved daughter Elisabeth the wife of William Trescot", my beloved daughter Mary the wife of William Pond", "my Loving Sone in Law James White of Dorchester". sons in Law William Trescot & William Pond to be executors.
    29 Jun 1672: Inventory of "George Dyer Late of Dorchester deceased", by Hope Still Foster, William Sumner, James Blake.

  3. Anderson argues the claim of birth about 1579 is probably exaggerated, suggests early 1590s but offers no evidence.