Person:Benjamin Dyer (10)

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m. 1640
  1. Mary Dyer1641 - 1716
  2. John Dyer1643 - 1696
  3. Thomas Dyer1645 -
  4. Abigail Dyer1647 -
  5. Sarah Dyer1649 - 1687
  6. Thomas Dyer1651 -
  7. Benjamin Dyer1653 - 1718
  8. Joseph Dyer1653 - 1704
  • HBenjamin Dyer1653 - 1718
  • WMary Nanny1661 - 1690
m. 10 Mar 1679/80
m. 10 Dec 1691
Facts and Events
Name Benjamin Dyer
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][4] 6 Nov 1653 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 10 Mar 1679/80 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USAto Mary Nanny
Marriage 10 Dec 1691 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USAto Hannah Odlin
Death[2][4][5] 29 Dec 1718 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Chamberlain, George Walter. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. (Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, under direction of the town, 1923)
    3:210.

    Benjamin (twin), b. 6 Nov. 1653; removed to Boston.

  2. 2.0 2.1 Dyar, Harrison Gray. A preliminary genealogy of the Dyar family. (Washington, D.C.?: unknown, 1987)
    5.

    link Benjamin2 Dyer (Thomas1) 1653-1718. He was a solder in King Philip's War, 1675-6. He married Mary ___[Note see GDMNH she was Mary Nanny daughter of Robert] and settled in Boston, living one time on Brattle Street, 1690, He was a freeman in Boston in 1675. His wife died March 16, 1690, and he married Hannah Odlin, December 10, 1691. By her he had ten children. His will was probated in Boston in 1719. His children were:...

    [Note this is Benjamin Dyer of Boston. This is not the Benjamin Dyer of Dedham who married Hannah Avery. That Benjamin Dyer died 15 Mar 1690. See Avery, Samuel Putnam, and John Reynolds Totten. The Warren, Little, Lothrop, Park, Dix, Whitman, Fairchild, Platt, Wheeler, Lane and Avery pedigrees of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1847-1920. (The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1925), 218 link.

  3.   Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
    503.

    NANNY, Robert, Mr., merchant, came in the Increase in 1635, aged 22. See Gibbins (2). Prob. first at Saco, he was of Dover in 1640 and, with Humphrey Chadbourne, bot a ho. there in 1645. In 1647 he took poss. of a ho. and 12 a. at York belonging to Sir Ferdinando Gorges to satisfy a debt of £11. Then at Wells, where he acquired much land and a w., Katherine Wheelwright (Rev. John). By 1652 he reached Boston, after a stop at Hampton. He had business dealings with the West Indies and made voyages thither. Lists 73, 262, 351ab, 354. Shortly bef. his death, 27 Aug. 1663, he estab. a trust for his w. and ch. His will, 22 Aug. - 7 Nov., named his w., s. Samuel, dau. Mary and an expected ch. The inv., £1089, discloses prop, in Hamp., Wells, Bos., Jamaica and Barbadoes. The wid. m. 2d Edward Naylor, and, after her death, adm. on the Nanny est. was gr. to her s.-in-law, Benjamin Dyer, there being no surv. heirs, 10 Apr. 1716. The inv. incl. 500 a. bot of Wm. Cole, 150 a. bot of Wm. Hammond and 230 a. bot of Wm. Symonds. Ch: John, b. 16 Feb.1653-4, d. 20 Sept. 1654. John, b. 12 Aug. 1655. John, b. 12 Aug. (sic) 1656, d. 10 Dec. 1658. Joseph, b. 1 June 1658. Samuel, b. 27 Aug. 1659, wit. at Wells 1688, sued Eph. Severance of Salisbury in 1689, d. in Bermuda 1690, s.p. Mary, b. 22 June 1661, m. 10 Mar. 1679-80 Benjamin Dyer, d. s.p. in Boston 15 Mar. 1690. Dyer m. 2d 10 Dec. 1691 Hannah Odlin, sister of Rev. John. Elizabeth (posth.), b. 2 Jan. 1663-4, d. 1 July 1664

  4. 4.0 4.1 Thomas Dyer, in Alicia Crane Williams. Early New England Families, 1641-1700. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013)
    6.
  5. King's Chapel Cem, in Bridgman, Thomas. Memorials of the dead in Boston: containing exact transcripts of inscriptions on the sepulchral monuments in the King's Chapel Burial Ground in the city of Boston. With copious historical and biographical notices of the early settlers of the metropolis of New England. (Boston, Massachusetts: B.B. Mussey, 1853)
    156.

    Benjamin Dyer died Boston 29 Dec 1718, aged 64 years.

    Benjamin [on stone with Hannah]: “Here Lyes Ye Body Of / Mr Benjamin Dyar / Aged 64 Years Decd / Decr Ye 29th 1718.”

  6.   Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    2:5:219-29.

    Nanney, Robert: London; 1635 on Increase; Saco, Dover, Hampton,
    Boston link Mary Nanney, b. Boston 22 Jun 1661 [BVR 79]; m. 10 Mar 1679/80 Benjamin Dyer [SPR NS 2:43]. On 12 Jun 1717, John Marion testified that "a little time after I heard that Benjamin Dyer was married to Mary the daughter of Mr. Robert Nanney & Katharin his wife, myself wit several others wen to joy them on that occasion, at the house of her mother the said Katharin, where they dwelt, and there was courteously entertained by them" [SPR NS 2:48]

  7.   Benjamin Dyer , in Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers
    Case # 4154, 9 Mar 1718.

    SPR 21:322 link Benjamin Dyer shopkeeper Boston, will dated 18 Feb 1707 probated 9 Mar 1718: Exec & Adm. wife Hannah. Legatees: Wife and children

  8.   Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Suffolk deeds. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1880-1906).

    SD 20:277 27 Jul 1700 Benjamin Dyer, clothier buy land of Elisha Odlin [his father-in-law] on Essex St. Boston

    SD 30:208 11 Aug 1716 Benj Dyer (shopkeeper) wife Hannah mortgages to John Fayerweather, mariner, brick house by land of Elisha Odlin...(canceled)

    SD 31:60 13 Feb 1716/7 Ben Dyer shopkeeper with Hannah mortgages to John Clark et al the same brick house

    Estate SD 34:271 12 Oct 1720 Hannah Dyer widow and sole Ex of last will of Benj Dyer mortgages to Daniel Oliver house North of Elisha Oldlin (canceled)

    Estate SD 38:32 28 Oct 1724 Hannah Dyer widow of Benj and sole Ex. of last will deed to Stephen Avery, shopkeeper brick house North of land of heirs of Elisha Odlin rear by land of sd Hannah Dyer.

    Estate: SD 47:168 21 Apr 1733 Benjamin Dyar brazier [his son] Adm. estate of Benjmain Dyer (shopkeeper) [This Benjamin Dyer] dec'd deeds to Robert Auchmuty, Esq.land at the rear of Auchmuty's house fronting Essex St.