John Dyer1

b. circa 1664
John Dyer|b. c 1664|p8381.htm|Christopher Dyer|b. c 1640\nd. Dec 1689|p8371.htm||||William Dyer|b. c 1620\nd. 16 Aug 1689|p8327.htm||||||||||

1st cousin 7 times removed of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
1st cousin 9 times removed of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     John Dyer was born circa 1664 in Sheepscot, Maine.1 He was the son of Christopher Dyer.1
     
Additional Data
In an affidavit of Esther Roberts of Boston, aged about 64 years, she says that she very well knew William Dyer of Sheepscot father of Christopher and John and Mary who married Samuel Bowles, said Christopher was said William's eldest son and had by his first wife two sons William, and John and one daughter Grace who married one Allicet. The first William Dyer lived on a neck of land called Dyer's Neck and had a house, field, orchard, garden, and cattle, and at the same time a little distance from him on said neck, his second son John. The said William Dyer was mending his garden or orchard fence when the Indians came and knocked him down which I saw, and they killed and scalped him and wounded grievously his second son John Dyer but he recovered of his wounds. Christopher Dyer was killed by the Indians a few months afterwards which I also well remember upwards of 40 years ago: dated Mar. 31, 1733.2

Citations

  1. [S752] Descendants of William Dyer of Sheepscot, Maine, online <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/dyer.htm>.
  2. [S752] Dyer, online <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/dyer.htm>, citing York Deeds 14-228. [Sprague #1464]