"On April 15, 1709, when he was nineteen years of age, William Dyer and Hannah Strout were married in Eastham, by "Mr Samuel Treat." Hannah (Strout) Dyer appears to have been daughter to Christopher Strout, of Truro, who died in 1715; she was the mother of all of William Dyer's children, three daughters and ten sons. "William Dyer [and] Hannah his wife" were admitted Feb. 18, 1727-28, to the church in Truro. A later hand has added: "Dismist July 28, 1749, to Falmouth, Casco bay." It evidently was not thought necessary to add that the wife Hannah, who was dismissed to the church in Falmouth, was a second wife, but she must have been. On June 26, 1749, the marriage intention of William Dyer, of Falmouth, to "Hannah Higgins of Truro;" two days later, they were dismissed to the First Church in Falmouth."
