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was secretary of the Portsmouth and
Newport Colony, from 1640 to 1647, S^^-
1 eral recorder in 1648 and attorney-general
i from 1650 to 1653, inclusive. In 1661-62
he was a commissioner and from 1664 to
1666, inclusive, was a deputy to the Gen-
eral Court. He was general secretary of
the Colony in 1664, 1665, 1668 and died in
1677. His first wife, Mary, was one of the
martyrs, executed on Boston Common,
May 31, 1660. Their eldest child, Samuel
Dyer, baptized December 20, 1635, in
Boston, lived in Newport and Kingstown,
Rhode Island, and died in 1678. He was
appointed. May 21, 1669, one of two con-
servators of peace with the Narragansett
Country and was long active in promoting
its settlement. He married Anne
Hutchinson, daughter of Captain Edward
and Catherine (Hanby) Hutchinson, baptized
November 19, 1643, granddaughter
of the famous Anne Hutchinson of the
RTassachusetts Bay Colony, great-granddaughter
of Rev. Francis Marbury and
grand-niece of the poet Dryden. She was
descended from Edward Hutchinson of
Alford, England, through his son, William
Hutchinson, and his wife, Anne Marlow.
Edward Dyer, third son of Samuel
and Anne (Hutchinson) Dyer, born in
1670, was a house carpenter and owned
a farm in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
He married Mary Green, who was
born July 8, 1677, in Warwick, daughter
of William and Mary (Sayles) Green, a
great-granddaughter of Roger Williams.
Edward Dyer, eldest child of Edward and
Mary (Green) Dyer, born January 6, 1701,
in North Kingstown, lived in that town,
was made a freeman May i, 1722, and was
deputy to the General Court in 1748. He
was the father of Edward Dyer, born
1725, in North Kingstown, made a freeman
in 1752. He married, November 29,
1750, Elizabeth Fish, who was probably a
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daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Fish of
South Kingstown. Their fifth son, Henry
Dyer, born July 12, 1759, in North Kings-
town, was a pioneer settler in Shaftsbury,
Vermont. He was a man of much mental
capacity and as a youth was so eager for
knowledge that he traveled three miles
twice a day in order to attend school. He
was very much interested in mathematics
and was often wont to calculate in
his mind mathematical problems quicker
than his sons could master them with
pencil. He settled in Manchester, Bennington
County, Vermont, where he had
a fine farm and died January 2, 1855. He
married, March 19, 1787, Sarah Coy, and
they had children: Moses, Anna, Olive,
Lydia, Rufus, Dennis, David, Daniel,
Louis and Heman.
Heman Dyer, grandson of Henry and
Sarah (Coy) Dyer, was born, 1847, in Man-
chester, where he grew up, attending the
public schools and a seminary. About
1878 he removed to Rock Falls, Illinois,
where he conducted a mercantile business
and was postmaster for several years. In
1885 he removed to Pasadena, California,
and there engaged in the real estate busi-
ness and was long in the public service.
For twenty-eight years preceding his
death he was city clerk of Pasadena. He
was buried December i, 1920. He was an
active member and Deacon of the Con-
gregational Church, a thirty-second de-
gree Scottish Rite Mason, served as State
treasurer of the Royal Arcanum and was
a member of the Modern Woodmen and
Knights of the Maccabees. Politically, a
Republican, he was many times unanimously
elected city clerk of Pasadena, being
supported by both parties. He married
Sarah Elizabeth Worrell, who was
born in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania. Their only surviving child is
the subject of this biography.