Isabella Dyer

     Isabella Dyer was born on 9 August 1773 at Truro, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Solomon Dyer and Isabella Eldridge. Isabella Dyer was baptized on 10 October 1773 at Truro, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts. She married Job Stanley circa 1795 at Barnstable Co, Massachusetts. Isabella Dyer died after 1851 at Mispec, Saint John Co, New Brunswick.
     On 7 Jun 1842, Both Job and "Belta?" (definitely not Isabella or Bella) arrived in Boston on the ship "Banner" from the port of St George in New Brunswick. Job was aged 74 and Isabella, 69.² On 10 June 1842, Isabella Standley appeared in Boston to obtain benefit of the pension of her father, Solomon Dyer. She stated she was the daughter of Isabella Nickerson, deceased, and Solomon Dyer who had enlisted the first year of the War. After serving time in Boston, he went to Canada where "he was killed by the bursting of a cannon".³