Grace Dyer1

b. circa 1666
Grace Dyer|b. c 1666|p8382.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
     Grace Dyer was born circa 1666 in Sheepscot, Maine.1 She was the daughter of Christopher Dyer.1 She married John Alliset.1,2
     
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, 1733.3

Citations

  1. [S749] Charles Thornton Libby, compiler, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Maine: The Southward Press, 1928), 213.
  2. [S752] Descendants of William Dyer of Sheepscot, Maine, online <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/dyer.htm>.
  3. [S752] Dyer, online <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/dyer.htm>, citing York Deeds 14-228. [Sprague #1464]