Captain Joseph Dyar

1747 - 1783  (35 years)

• Name	Joseph Dyar
  Title	Captain
  Birth	13 Aug 1747	Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Military Service	1 Jan 1777
  	American Revolution (US) Private, Capt. MUNSON's co., Col. Moses HAZEN's regt.; Continental Army p ay accounts for service from 1 JAN 1777 to 31 DEC 1779; also, same co. a nd regt.; enlisted 20 NOV 1776; service to 10 NOV 1779, 35 mos. 20 days; enlistment, during war; roll certified at Camp at Peekskill; also, Col. HAZEN's Regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from 1 JAN 1780 to 31 D EC 1780; also, Col. HAZEN's regt.; pay abstract for wages for OCT-DEC 1780, dated at Boston, 21 Jan 1783; said Dyer's wages reported to have been paid to Capt. M. WHITE.
  Death	1783	Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Notes	Joseph DYAR was a sea captain, and he was the leader of the "Indians" at the Boston Tea Party -- his wife being one of those who prepared and appli ed the stain used. They lived at Malden, Middlesex, Ma, and during the American Revolution he was engaged in carrying supplies to the colonial army. During that service he was taken prisoner nine times by the British. Joseph died before the birth of his last child. SOURCES: POD: Alice Dyer Finley, 3 MAR 1995. The Dyar Family Tree (1944)Genealogical & Personal Memoirs of Middlesex County (1908) IV, 1751Malden Births, Marriages & Deaths (1903), pp. 23, 226, 271 and 352. NEH&GR XIV (1860), p. 27.Dyar, Harrison Gray Jr., Preliminary Genealogy of the Dyar Family (1903 ), p. 12.Mass. Soldiers & Sailors in the War of the Revolution, pp. 125-6.
  Person ID	I8473	OurNorthernRoots
  Last Modified	14 Jul 2019

  
  

  Father	Joseph Dyar,   b. 7 Feb 1719, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
  Mother	Abiel Marston
  Family ID	F15810	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Nichols,   b. 11 Jan 1751, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 4 Jun 1818, West Freeman, Franklin County, Maine (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	2 May 1771	Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Children	1. Joseph Dyar,   b. 13 Mar 1772, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts d. 4 Apr 1772, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts (Age 0 years) + 2. Reverend Joseph Dyar,   b. 25 Feb 1774, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 31 Jan 1859, Phillips, Franklin County, Maine (Age 84 years)   3. James Dyar,   b. 11 Oct 1775, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 29 Oct 1794 (Age 19 years) > 4. Elizabeth Ann Dyar,   b. 8 Sep 1777, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 23 Jul 1845, West Freeman, Franklin County, Maine (Age 67 years) + 5. John Nichols Dyar,   b. 3 Oct 1778, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 2 May 1853, West Freeman, Franklin County, Maine (Age 74 years) + 6. Ebenezer Dyar,   b. 20 Sep 1782, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 6 Jan 1857, Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 74 years) + 7. Sally Dyar,   b. 13 Aug 1783, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 14 Sep 1847, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F2118	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Jul 2019

  
  

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