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Charles Dyer

Male Abt 1685 - 1727  (~ 42 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Charles Dyer was born Abt 1685, Newport, RI (son of Charles Dyer and Mary Waitt); died 7 Jan 1726/27, Cranston, RI.

    Notes:

    General Notes: Charles (2) Dyer was of Newport, RI, Dartmouth, Ma, and Providence, RI.
    He purchased, in 1718, a house and one hundred thirteen acres of land in Providence, also several other parcels of land. In 1735, land was deeded by his widow to his son, John Dyer, sixty acres and dwelling house, in Anshautatuck Neck. Charles Dyer was a blacksmith by trade. [Cutter]

    On 25 July 1712, John Scott of Newport, for L600 current money, deeded to Charles "Dyere" of Dartmouth, in the County of Bristol & Province of Massachusetts, Blacksmith, a mansion house and 113 acres, and several small parcels of land in Providence. (Richard Scott of Providence, RI; NEHGR, Vol.96, Jan 1942, page 11)

    (source: Dyer web site at "freepages" [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/will_ri/d1.htm#i2270].

    Charles married Mary Lapham 26 Aug 1709, Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA. Mary (daughter of John Lapham and Mary Mann) was born 5 Oct 1686, Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA; died Aft 1735, Cranston, RI. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Charles Dyer was born 1710; died 1777.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Charles Dyer was born 1650 (son of William Dyer and Mary Barrett).

    Charles — Mary Waitt. Mary was born Abt 1654. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Mary Waitt was born Abt 1654.

    Notes:

    A Dyer genealogy online gives her name as Mary Lippett and says she was born c. 1650 [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/will_ri/d1.htm#g3].

    Children:
    1. Elizabeth Dyer was born Abt 1682, Little Compton, RI; died Jul 1719, Westerly, RI.
    2. 1. Charles Dyer was born Abt 1685, Newport, RI; died 7 Jan 1726/27, Cranston, RI.
    3. Samuel Dyer was born Abt 1687, Little Compton, RI; died 15 Sep 1767, Newport, RI.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  William Dyer was born Abt 1610, Lincolnshire, England; died Abt 1676, Newport, RI.

    Notes:

    William Dyer came to America from London in 1633, united with the Boston Church, and was made freeman 3 Mar 1636. In 1638 he was disowned and disfranchised as a followed of Anne Hutchinson & Wheelwright, driven out of Massachusetts, and so he fled to Rhode Island where he became Secretary of the colony. His wife Mary was the famous friend & disciple of Anne Hutchinson. Mary Dyer herself was banished from Massachusetts and later suffered martyrdom by hanging on Boston Common 1 June 1660. (source: "The Hull Family in America" by Charles H. Weygant, Hull Family Association, 1913, p. 268)

    William married Mary Barrett 27 Oct 1633, St. Martin in the Fields, London, England. Mary was born Abt 1610, London, England; died 1 Jun 1660, Boston, MA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Mary Barrett was born Abt 1610, London, England; died 1 Jun 1660, Boston, MA.

    Notes:

    Mary (Barrett) Dyer was a Quaker martyr.

    Children:
    1. Samuel Dyer was born Abt 1640.
    2. 2. Charles Dyer was born 1650.