Eliphalet Dyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Eliphalet Dyer

American judge and politician

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1721

Place of Birth: Windham, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 13-May-1807

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Eliphalet Dyer

  • Eliphalet Dyer (September 14, 1721 – May 13, 1807) was a lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Windham, Connecticut.
  • He was a delegate for Connecticut to many sessions of the Continental Congress. Eliphalet was born in Windham and attended Yale where he graduated in 1740.
  • He read for the law and was admitted to the bar in 1746.
  • He became a member of the militia, then in 1747 was elected justice of the peace and a member of the colonial assembly.
  • He was also involved in several of the land development schemes for the Susquehanna and Wyoming Valley areas. In the French and Indian War Dyer was a Lt.
  • Colonel in the militia.
  • He participated in the expedition that captured Crown Point from the French, as a Colonel of the Third Connecticut Provincial Regiment, in 1755.
  • In 1758, as a Colonel, he led his regiment to Canada in support of Amherst’s and Wolfe’s operations. In 1763 he visited London as an agent for the Susquehanna Land Company in a failed attempt to gain title for a colonial venture to the Wyoming region.
  • Connecticut sent Dyer to New York for the Stamp Act Congress.
  • This congress of protest was an important precursor to the American Revolution.
  • In 1766 he was elected a justice of Connecticut’s superior court.
  • He would hold that post until 1793, serving as Chief Justice after 1789. As the revolution began, Dyer was named to the state’s Committee of Safety, and named a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1774.
  • He would serve in the Congress during 1774–1775, 1777–1779, and 1782–1783.
  • John Adams, in his diary, characterized Dyer as "...longwinded and roundabout, obscure and cloudy, very talkative and very tedious, yet an honest, worthy man; means and judges well." Eliphalet retired from public life in 1793.
  • He died at home in Windham on May 13, 1807, and is buried in the Windham Cemetery.
  • His daughter Amelia was married to Joseph Trumbull, who served with Dyer in the Continental Congress.

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