Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Benjamin DYER | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - occupation: tallow chandler [candle maker] prob was boyhood friend with Benjamin Franklin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Benjamin Dyer married Margaret Clapp Nov 22, 1725 Boston, Suffolk Co., MA [ref 23:0818093 - 0818095] (married by Thomas Foxcroft, Minister of First Church) (children 1726-49: Benjamin, Thomas, John, Margaret, Joseph, Mary, Margaret, Hannah, Sarah, Benjamin, Daniel) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - bought 64 acres in Simsbury from John and Mary Colt [Benjamin eventually owned 600 acres] 2 Aug 1773 will implies Mary is a second wife of short time, gives her "...all the Moveable Estate which She my Said Wife brought with her at the time of our Marriage & also One Certain flowered Coverlet She has worked on and Made Since our Said Marriage..." inventory �378:16 included 159 acres (son Thomas had already received 50 acres) a "Mrs. Mary Dyer Widow and Relict of Benjamin Dyer late of this place Decd" presented a petition at Court of Probate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Last Modified 26 Apr 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |