DYER, Eliphalet [1721-1807] -- American jurist, Delegate
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Delegate (1774)
John ¤Adams said of him: "Dyer is long winded and roundabout, obscure and cloudy, very talkative and very tedious, yet an honest worthy man, means and judges well." Another side of his character is exhibited in the record of expenses incurred by him as congressman in 1777 as rendered to and paid by Connecticut (The Connecticut Magazine, Jan.-Mar. 1906), which shows that he did not despise the good things of life.
[H. W. Howard Knott] BRC 
1747 | General Assembly (MA) |
1753 | An organizer of Susquehana Company |
1754 | Member of committee purchased lands of the Six Nations in Wyoming Valley |
1755 | Lt. Col. of a CT Regiment in French & Indian War |
1762-1784 | Member of the governor's council |
1765 | A CT delegate to Stamp Act Congress |
1766 | Elected judge of CT superior court |
1774 | Appointed CT delegate to First Continental Congress |
1774 | Delegate |
1775 | Member CT Committee of Safety |
1776 | Declines appointment as brigadier-general in Continental Army |
1780 | A CT commissioner at Hartford Convention |
1782 | CT counsel at Trenton hearing on Wyoming issue |
1789-1793 | Chief Justice of CT |
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