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- Resided Newport RI; Nevis, West Indies; New York, NY; Lewes, Sussex, Co.,De [WAD] 'William's birth date (1640) based on speculation, not proof.' [JohanWinsser] ================================================================ Database: Full Context of Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records,1680-1800 Prim Name: William Dyre, Major Admin Name: Will Made Date: 20 Feb 1687/88 Will Loc: Heirs Name: wife Mary Dyre; eldest son William Dyre, of Boston; youngestson Edmund Dyer, son James Dyre; dau. (eldest) Sarah Dyer, (youngest)Mary Dyer Exec/Trus Name: wife Mary Dyer, son William Dyre, John Hill and SamuelGray (friends); New England property, Sir Edmund Andross Wit Name: Charles Sanders, Will Rodeney Will Probate Date: 05 Jun 1688 Will Book: Penna. Hist. Soc. Papers, vol. AM 2013; Arch. vol. A70; Reg.of Wills, Liber A Page: 95-97; 27; folios 85-88 Comment: [Note:--Arch. vol. A70, page 27 mentions dec'd father William] ============================================================ 'Capt. NATHANIEL WALKER, (from N.E., as shown by his will), gives to hisbro.-in-law, Capt. Wm. Dyre, 'all my lands in the Gov't of Penna., at thePLACE formerly called the WHOREKILL, since NEW DEAL, and now LEWIS,(LEWES).' Northampton, Va., 27 Apr. 1683-29 Oct. 1683. (xv-26) (TheCounty Court Note-Book, Feb., 1927, Vol. VI, No. 1, p. 6.) In Delaware, Capt. William Dyre was exalted to Major William Dyre, orDyer. [First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodsridge OldeEast New Jersey part 5] =========================================================== NATHANIEL WALKER, b. say 1642 (called 'Mr.' 9 June 1663 when Robert Starrrecalled that Nathaniel sailed on the Swallow [EQC 6:35]); wrote fromVirginia in 1671 to his brother Obadiah, referring to 'brother Dyer'[LynnHSR 14:112, citing Middlesex court files]; administration granted inSussex County, Delaware, on 20 July 1685 to Major William Dyer [LeondeValinger, ed., Calendar of Sussex County Delaware Probate Records,1680-1800 (Dover, Delaware, 1964), p. 10]. (The Great Migration Begins,p.918) ============================================== Page 725-726 NEW JERSEYITES BECOME FIRST SETTLERS OF DELAWARE BEFORE 1700 (From the auth., listed supra.) Those of New Amsterdam and New Jersey first appearing in Delaware were: MAJOR WILLIAM DYER, of R. I. Sarah Dyer. Mary Dyer. [First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodsridge Olde EastNew Jersey part 5] Page 880 MAJOR WILLIAM DYER, COLONIAL NEW YORK (Identical with N. J., and Delaware man.) (Vide, ante, this PART, pp. 821and 865.) CAPT. WILLIAM DYRE, a N. Y. Colonial, Mar. 10, 1680, (vide, ante, PARTTWO, p. 155). 'Dyer's Commission, Date 4th January, 1682, ffor Coll. of his MatiesCustoms, as well as of this Province of East New Jersey as Sezaria(Caesariae), with Pensilvania--wch was Read, allowed and ordered to berecorded.' (ARCH., Vol. XIII, p. 142.) [First Settlers of Ye Plantationsof Piscataway and Woodsridge Olde East New Jersey part 5] NEHGR Vol 146 p294 & Vol 145 p22 'Mary (Dyre) Ward, Mary Barrett Dyre'smissing daughter traced' by Johan Winsser says; William, 2nd survivingson, in Oct 1659 sent a plea for his mother's life to court in Boston, in1674 became collector of customs at New York, in 1681 was indicted forhigh treason because of irregularities in his collector job, Had chargestransferred to England where case was dropped due to lack of witnesses.Owned land in NY, RI, vast acres in PA and Sussex Co. Del. where he diedin 1688.' NEHGR Vol 48 p143 - The complete will of William Dyre, son of William &Mary (the Quaker martyr). Land in Sussex Co., PA; NewCastle Co.,PA;Narraganset Country in New England;,Providence,RI;Dyers Is,RI;Readingin New England; the Clabbord Islands in Cascoe Bay, New England; andlarge sums of money. NEHGR vol 98 p25ff 'Tradition of Mary Dyer, Quaker Martyr' says William2d was member of the Governor's Council, and two years later mayor of theCity of New York. In 1674 he was appointed by James, Duke of York, ascollector of customs in New York for America. CHILD: Wm. Heller Dyar, 'The DYAR (DYER) Families', ms. from Natl GenSoc. NOTE: A son of Williams married a Bradford and their descendantssupposedly have the relics of Mary Dyer. These records are in CatherineCornelia Joy-Dyer 'Some Records of the Dyer Family', NY: T Whitaker, 1884. [e-mail from Aurie Morrison] The 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol. 3,p.366 Dyre, William, mayor of New York, was a son of Captain William andMary Dyre, who came from England to Boston, Mass., and joined the Firstchurch there in December, 1635. Captain Dyre was disfranchised for'seditious writing' Nov. 15, 1637, removed to Rhode Island, and was one of thesigners of the compact of government for that province, March 7, 1638. Hewas secretary the same year, general recorder, 1648; attorney-general,1650-53; member of the general court, 1661-62, 1664-66; generalsolicitor, 1665-66, and 1668, and secretary to the council, 1669. He was commissionedcommander-in-chief upon the sea in 1653, and headed an expedition fittedout in Rhode Island against the Dutch. His wife, Mary Dyre, was the onlywoman to suffer capital punishment in all the oppression of the Friendsthe world over. She accompanied her husband on his mission to England with RogerWilliams and Dr. John Clarke to obtain the revocation of GovernorCoddington's power in Rhode Island and while there became a convert toQuakerism and a preacher in the society. On arriving in Boston in 1657she was imprisoned and on the petition of her husband was permitted to gowith him to Rhode Island, but never to return to Massachusetts. Shereturned, however, and with William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson wastried and convicted for 'their rebellion, sedition and presumptuousobtruding upon us notwithstanding their being sentenced to banishment onpayne of death, as underminers of the government.' Robinson and Stevensonwere executed, but through the petition of her son, Mayor William Dyre,she was reprieved on the same conditions as before, but in May, 1660,again appeared on the public streets of Boston, and was brought beforethe court, May 31, and condemned to death. She was executed June 1, 1660. Mayor William Dyre was appointed to the military service under the crownand proposed the conquest of New York from the Dutch in 1673. He was made collector of customs ofhis territories in America by the Duke of York, July 2, 1674, and took uphis residence in New York. He was a member of the governor's council, andin 1680 was elected mayor of the city. He was arrested on charge of high treason by the merchants of New York in 1680 and indicted in 1681. He wasplaced upon trial, denied the authority of the court, and was sent toLondon for trial, which was delayed by Samuel Winder, his prosecutor, andhe was given his liberty by the council, Sept. 30, 1682. He was advancedby King Charles II., Jan. 4, 1682, to the position of surveyor-general of hismajesty's customs in America and held the office till his death. He wasalso made king's collector of customs for Pennsylvania and New Jersey andremoved to Penn's province, settling on a large tract of land in Sussexcounty (now in Delaware). In 1687 he was elected a provincial councillor ofpennsylvania for three years, but was not allowed to take his seat. Hiswill, dated Feb. 20, 1688, was probated June 5, 1688. and proved inLondon, Sept. 4, 1690. He left surviving him, his wife, Mary, andchildren, William, Edmund, James, Sarah and Mary. He bequeathed his estate of 2500 acres in Sussex county(Del.), and Dyre's island, between Providence plantations and RhodeIsland, and two islands in Casco bay, to his wife, and 2000 acres inSussex county to his son William, who was elected to the Pennsylvaniaassembly in 1699, and helped to found the Episcopal church in New Castle, Del. The date ofMayor William Dyre's death is not known the time being only fixed asbetween the dates of making and probating his will.[p.367] Court Records 1680-1682 and 1693-1701 ==================================================== From The New York Historical Society Collections, this 1912 volumefeatures preceedings of the General Court of Assizes, held in the city ofNew York from 10/6/1680 to 10/6/1862, and minutes of the Supreme Court ofJudicature, 4/4/1693 to 4/1/1701. Bibliographic Information: Court Records 1680-1682 and 1693-1701, The NewYork Historical Society, 1912. The Bill or Accusacon against Capt William Dyre found by the Grand Jury. William Dyre standeth Charged and accused by the name of Wm Dyre Late ofthe Citty of New Yorke Gentlm for that he the said Wm Dyre Severall timessince the first of May Anno: one thousand Six hundred and Eighty att theCitty aforesaid as a false Traytor to sd Soverigne Lord the King hathTratorously Maliciously and Advisedly used and Exercised Regall Power andAuthority over the Kings Subjects; for the Better Support and upholdingwhereof he the said Wm Dyre hath Traiterously Maliciously and advisedlyPlotted, and Contrived Innovacons in Governmt, and the Subversion andChange of the Known antient and fundimentall Laws of the Realme ofEngland by Virtue of which Arbitrary and Unlawfull Power he the said WmDyre (Together with other some false Traitors Unknowne) hath many timesSince the first of November Last Past Establish't and Imposed UnlawfullCustomes and Imposicons on the Goods and Merchandizes, of his MajtisLeige People trading in this Place by force Compelling them to Pay thesame, and hath Imployed and made use of Souldiers to maintaine and Defendhim in these his Unjust and Unlawfull Practises Contrary to the GreateCharter of Liberties, Contrary to the Peticon of Right and Contrary toother Statutes in those Cases made and Provided, and Contrary to theHonor and Peace of ye most Soverigne Lord the King that now is his Crowneand Dignity. 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