By Cornelia C. Joy-Dyer

This book gives information covering the genealogy of the Dyre family. The name is an old English one, formerly spelled Dyer or Dyre, Dyar. This book focuses on the descendants of William and Mary Dyre of Boston in 1627-29..  Several Dyars, Dyers came from England to America in the very early days of colonization. What was the Antinomian controversy that the Dyres and the orthodox Puritans were caught up in? Who was Wheelright and who was Ann Hutchinson? Why were the Dyres banished from the community?

(130p. 1884)