John Dye - Ezekiel's Brother

John Dye, Brother of Ezekiel Dye, Sr.

Ezekiel's four brothers were as follows:

John Dye Sr. - born near Millstone Creek in Middlesex Co., New Jersey and died in Lawrence, Washington County, Ohio.
[b. 1732 d. 1822]
Thomas Dye Sr. - born in New Jersey
[b. 1738 d. 1772]
He was an executor of his father's estate.
William Dye Sr. - in New Jersey
[b. ?? d. 1772.]
Married Jane Mason - no further record
Amos Dye Sr. - born in New Jersey and died in Prince William County, Virginia in 1797
[b. 1749 d. October 1797]
Married Francis ____ .

Helen Bogener (via Sherry Neff) has written that : "During the American Revolution, New Jersey was involved in five major battles and many minor ones, due partly to the importance of its location between New York and Philadelphia. The Dyes, living in Middlesex County, New Jersey, served in the New Jersey State Militia. Listed in the Official Register of Officers and Men of New Jersey are the following:

Amos Dye (brother of Ezekiel Dye?)
Daniel Dye (the son of Vincent Dye - son of John Dey?)
James Dye
John Dye
Joseph Dye
Laurence Dye (son-in-law of John Dey Sr?)
Thomas Dye (brother of Ezekiel?)

The relationships between the brothers of Ezekiel Dye and these Dyes' is being researched.

John Dye, Sr., brother of Ezekiel Dye, Sr., married ____ Mount before 1774 (in New Jersey). It is thought that she was born in New Jersey. Her death is recorded as in 1780 in Prince William County, Virginia (??). Therefore, John Dye probably moved to Virginia (red dot on the map to the right) sometime after 1774 but before 1776. His uncle Vincent Dye died in Prince William County in 1796 and John Sr. may have followed his uncle into Virginia. John Dye Sr. was a private under Captain Richard Johnston in the Virginia Burges Soldiers of 1776 and is on the 1783 and 1805 Prince William County, Virginia tax rolls.

In the early 1800s his older sons, John and Samuel migrated to Washington County, Ohio. John and Elizabeth Caywood Dye and their younger children followed the older boys to Washington County around 1807. John Dye Sr. died in 1822 in Washington Co., Ohio. [His cousin, Daniel Dye, first son of Vincent Dye, uncle of John Dye Sr., moved with his family to what is now known to be Monroe County (north of Washington County), Ohio at about the time John Dye Sr. was moving his family to Washington County.

There were two sons reported for the Dye-Mount marriage -- John Dye (2, for internal reference) and Thomas Dye

John Dye 2 was born in 1774 in Middlesex County, New Jersey and died in 1823 in Washington Co., Ohio. He migrated at an early age with his father to near where the first battle of Bull Run was fought. Ezekiel Dye was his uncle. He married Hanna Hoff (born in 1774 in New Jersey and died in 1857 in Washington Co., Ohio. [She was the sister of Susan Hoff who married John Dye 2's half-brother Samuel. John Dye 2 and his half-brother Samuel emigrated from Virginia (near Manassas) and settled near Cow Run, in Washington County OH in 1805, located in what would become Lawerence Township]
The following information was graciously provided by Arnold Lake Hovey (Hoff) of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (2/11/98). Hannah Hoff was born in 1774 in Prince William County, Virginia and she died on December 22, 1857 in Washington County, Ohio. Her father was the Reverand Daniel Hoff who was born on July 31, 1747 in Sommerville, New Jersey. He died in 1802 in Prince William County, Virginia. His father was Dirck Huff and his mother was Cornelia Sebring.
Daniel Hoff married Laura Titus on September 19, 1769 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He later married Susan Sophia Moffett who was born in 1748 and died in 1818 in Washington County, Ohio.
Rev. Danile Hoff and Susan Sophia Moffett Hoff had 7 children.
1. Enoch Dye was born in 1792 in Virginia and he died in 1812 in Ohio. He was the first person buried in the Dye Cemetery Washington County, Ohio. Enoch had been a slave master and trader. He settled near the mouth of Morse Run in Washington County. Enoch and his son James P Hoff were "slave catchers". Refugee slaves on several occasions were induced into the Hoff residence and there captured and carried back to bondage.
2. Hannah Hoff was born in 1774 in Prince William County, Virginia, and died on December 22, 1857 in Washington County Ohio. She married John Dye 2.
3. Jonathan Hoff was born in 1775 and died in 1812 in Fearing township, Washington County, Ohio. He married Elizabeth Duncan.
4. Susannah Hoff was born in 1776 in Alexandria, VIrginia and died on December 13, 1847 in Washington County, Ohio; she is buried in the Moss Run Cemetary. She married Samuel Dub Dye, step brother of John Dye 2.
5. William Hoff was born in Virginia in 1780 and died on May 12, 1844 in Cow Run, Washington County, Ohio. He married Elizabeth Duncan.
6. James Hoff was born on April 11, 1788 in Virginia and died on April 15, 1861 in Washington County, Ohio. He married (1) Hannah Dutton (sister of Elizabeth Duncan?) on September 25, 1806; (2) Mary Polly Dye and (3) Jane Griggs.
7. Mary Polly Huff was born on March 20, 1790 in Alexandria, Virginia and died on February 4, 1838 in Ohio. She married Isaac Hill (a neighbor from Cow Run) on October 15, 1806. By 1835/1840 Isaac Hill and family had moved to a farm a few miles east of Coolville, in neighboring Athens County, Ohio.
About 1805 the Hoff Family, consisting of Susan Sophia Moffett Hoff, widow of Reverand Danile Hoff and her three sons and four daughters came from Alexandria, Virginia and settled in Newport Township, above the mouth of Cow Run, Washington County, Ohio. Accompanying them were at least part of the families of John Dye, Sr., John Dye 2 and Samuel Dye.
John Dye 2 and Hanna Hoff had 11 children:
1. Enoch Dye, born 1792 in Virginia and died in 1812 in Ohio (first person buried in the Dye Cemetery, Washington County, Ohio).
2. Thomas Dye, born August,1795 near Prince William County, Virginia and died on July 26, 1843: married Elizabeth Hill who was born on March 15, 1794 in Maryland. She died on December 23, 1851 at Washington County and is buried in the Dye Family Cemetery. They had 7 children - Hannah, Enoch E, Margaret Hill, Moffet , John Q, Isaac H. and Emma.
3. Mophet Dye, born about 1796 in Virginia
4. Susannah, born about 1798 in Prince William County, Virginia and died in 1867 : married Robert Pierce on December 2, 1819 at Washington County, Ohio. Susan and Robert are buried in the Dye Cemetery in Lawrence Township, Washington County, Ohio.
5. Eliza Dye, born about 1800 in Washington Country, Ohio : married Nathan Davis (born in 1812) and they had 8 children.
6. Emma Dye, born about 1805 (married William Chambers)
7. Samuel Moffitt Dye was born in 1806 in Fearing, Washington Co., Ohio and died in Warren Township, Washington Co, Ohio on June 2, 1884. He is buried in the Dye Cemetery in Washington County. Ezekiel Dye would have been his great uncle. In 1830 he married Lucinda Dye who was the daughter of Ezekiel Dye. She died on February 1, 1870 at Gravel Bank, Warren Township, Washington County, Ohio. They were married in Renrock, Ohio and had 16 children. Thus, a grandson of John Dye Sr. married the daughter of Ezekiel Dye. Their first son was Morgan Isaiah Dye who was born December 7, 1832 and died on April 13, 1906 at Moss Run. He was a private in Co, F., 92nd Regt., Ohio Volunteer, from 1862 to 1865).
8. Daniel Hoff Dye, born about 1807
9. John Washington Dye, born about 1810 (married Anna Isabella Dye, daughter of Vincent Dye and grandaughter of Exekiel Dye)
10. Andrew Jackson Dye, born November 23, 1816
11. Hannah Dye, born September 14, 1818 (married George Casady).
Thomas Dye was born in 1776 in New Jersey and died in 1858 in Washington Co., Ohio (?). Sherry Rathbun Neff (Sherneff44@aol.com) shared the following information about Thomas. "Dye Data informs us that at age 18, Thomas settled near Baltimore, MD, hauling goods from Baltimore to Pittsburg, Pa and to Marietta, OH in a freight wagon called "The Old Penn Wagon". Thomas Dye married Jane Mankin. It is believed that Thomas settled in Williamstown, West Virginia, across from Marietta prior to 1806. Thomas then moved his family to Belleville in Wood County, West Virginia (Parkersburg) when his son Martin was 12 years old -- 1813. Around 1819 he moved into Meigs Co., Ohio. "
According to Silas Thorla, Furmin Dye told him that a "Tom" Dye settled in Parkersburg, West Virginia. "He was a "wild one", something like a typical cowboy. He would hit the settlement with a whoop and a hurrah riding an Indian pony. Long live the Dyes!"
In the 1810 Census, Thomas Dye is given as the head of a household in Wood County, (Belleville) with 1 male under 10, 1 male between 10 and 16, 1 male between 26 and 45 (Thomas Dye), 4 females under 10 and 1 female between 26 and 45 (most likely his wife). [Thanks to Carlisle Bowling - zavron@aol.com for the lookup.] There is transfer of deed recorded on December 23, 1819 in which Ephram Cutler and wife sold 649 acres in Scipio Township, Meigs County, Ohio to Thomas Dye.

Thomas is listed in the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 U.S. Federal Census Meigs County reports. They apparently traveled in the "Old Penn Wagon". [Wood County is directly across the Ohio River from Meigs County, Ohio.]
There is a town of Dyesville in Columbia Township, Meigs County, Ohio. The role that Thomas Dye and his family may have played in establishing this town is currently being researched. When Furman Dye attempted to give this name the Dyes Settlement in Nobel County in the mid 1850s, his petition was denied due to the existence of the Dyesville in Meigs County.
Milton Crum supplied me (2/11/98) with the following information about Dyesville. "There is no indication in my book as to the genesis of Dyesville, but the plat book for the time tells a different story. The land where Dyesville is now located was owned in 1867 by a J. S. Dye, and was the only land in Columbia Township owned by a Dye. The Old Ohio Central Railroad went through the town at one time. Unfortunately, I have no clue as to what J.S. stood for."
Mary(Bradfield) Dye, along with Martin's second wife, Mary Riggs, are remembered as being some of the first settlers in Scipio Township. A W. H. Dye is named as a superintendent at the then Cumberland Presbyterian school in Harrisonville, and a Mrs.. Martha Dye listed as an instructor at the same school. The Dye name does not show up in any of the personal histories in the book."
In Hardesty's historical and geographical index for Meigs county (1867, Thomas Shultz) the Dyes appear in Scipio Township list J. Dye on section 9+26, Martin Dye on section 9+19 and T&Z Dye on sections 19.
Thomas Dye and Jane Mankin Dye had 7 children:
1. Catherine Dye, married Jacob Uhl in 1819 and they migrated to California
2. Coley Dye, born on March 6, 1799, married Ann Pugh
3. Martin Dye, born on March 17, 1801, (in Middlesex, New Jersey) and died April 9, 1883 in Meigs County, Ohio. He married Margaret (Mary) Bradfield -- listed in the 1830, 1840, and 1850 U.S. Federal Census Meigs County reports. When Margaret died, Martin married Mary Riggs (who may have been related to James Riggs who married Violena Dye. Her father was Jeremiah Riggs established the first settlement in 1799 when he built a cabin in section 16 in Scipio Township. He married Rachel Keller in 1800. They had a large family. [Thomas Shultz]
  Martin Dye had 12 children: (Laura L. Myers)
  1. Barbara Dye, born on January 12, 1827 and died May 9, 1807
  2. Joseph Sheldon Dye born on November 21, 1829 and died October 10, 1890 in Meigs County, Ohio. Thomas Shultz suppied the following information. In the 1850 Census Joseph appears with the family of Martin Dye in Scipio Township. In the 1860 census Joseph is listed as living in Columbia Township with wife Margaret (McClure - married on November 5, 1854 in Meigs County, Ohio) and Mary (4) and Lecta (1). He appears in the 1870 and 1880 Census records in Columbia Township. He is the only Dye listed as owning property in Columbia Township - which was located at the site of Dyesville. Thomas Dye and his son Martin Dye lived a few miles to the east in Scipio Township. Thus, it was most likely Joseph Sheldon Dye who was involved in the establishment of Dyesville.
  3. Lousia Dye, born on June 17, 1831 and died January 2 in 1892
  4. Martin Dye, born on June 8, 1833 and died on August 6, 1878
  5. Thomas Dye, born August 19, 1834
  6. Zachariah Dye, born on August 19, 1835 in Meigs County and died on December 9, 1930 in Meigs County
  7. John Dye, born March 5, 1838 and died in 1913
  8. William Henry Dye, born on October 7, 1840 and died May 6, 1929
  9. Andrew Dye, born June 26, 1843 and died May 14, 1917 in Meigs County
  10. David Dye, born November 21, 1846 and died in 1914.
4. Violena Dye, born 1800/1804, married James Riggs
5. Eliza Dye, born 1808 and married John Matthew Howell on June 25, 1825 in Meigs Co., Ohio. John Matthew Howell and Eliza Dye had a family of six children:
  1. Thomas W Howell..b..abt 1826/1827?
  2. Franklin F Howell.b..16, Dec, 1829
  3. Matthew Howell..b..28, Nov, 1832
  4. John Wesley Howell..b..9, Dec, 1834
  5. Sarah Howell..b..23, Nov, 1836
  6. Jane Howell..b..abt 1838?
    This family left OH and migrated west to Clark Co, MO about 1840, where John earned his livelihood as a farmer. John died in 1856 in Luray, Clark Co, MO and is buried in Eldorado, Clark Co, MO. Eliza Dye Howell died in 1882 Luray , Clark Co, MO..buried in Eldorado, Clark, MO.
6. Jane Dye, born ???, married Peter Akin
7. Thomas Jr., born about 1818, married (1) Belinda Alkire (2) Elizabeth Wise -- listed in the 1840 U.S. Federal Census Meigs County reports
  The children were all born in OH.
  When Thomas's daughter Violena and her husband, James Riggs, died in Iowa leaving several small children, Thomas hired George Downing to go to Iowa and bring the children to his home in OH.
  Jane Mankin Dye, died 7, April, 1847. Thomas married Elizabeth Wilson prior to the 1850 census. She was born ~ 1784 in Pennsylvania. Thomas died 8, April, 1858 and Elizabeth died 1, Mar, 1860..both in Meigs OH. [this is at variance with John Paul's data.]
  The relationship between the Meigs Co. Dyes and those in Renrock and Washington Co., is unknown.
John Dye Sr., then married Elizabeth Caywood (who was born in 1754 in Virginia) before 1780. A total of 9 children were born to Dye-Caywood.
Samuel Dye was born February 2, 1780 in Pr. William Co., VA and died September 26, 1860 in Lawrence, Washington Co., Ohio. Ezekiel Dye, Sr. was his uncle. Samuel Dye married Susan Hoff before 1799 in Prince William Co., VA. [Susan Hoff was born in 1776 in Prince William County, Virginia and died on December 13, 1847 in Lawrence, Washington Co., Ohio. She was probably the sister of Hanna Hoff who married Samuel's half-brother John Dye 2. Susan Hoff is listed as the second daughter and sixth child of Rev. Daniel Hoff, a farmer near Alexandria, VA. ]
They had 10 children:
1. Hannah Dye - born in 1802 in Prince William County, VA and died May 4, 1840 in Washington Co., Ohio
2. Sophia Dye - born in 1803 in Virginia (Prince William County?) and died in 1868 in Washington Co., Ohio. She married Amos Dye, the son of Ezekiel Dye, Sr. in 1825 in Renrock, Ohio. Ezekiel would have been her great uncle. She died in Lawence County, Ohio.
3. John Hoff Dye - born in 1804?? in Washington Co, Ohio
4. Mary Dye - born about 1808 and died in Washington Co., Ohio
5. Ann Dye - born 1811 in Washington Co., Ohio and died in Washington Co., Ohio
6. Johathan Dye - born 1813 in Washington Co., Ohio and died in Washington Co., Ohio
7. James Hoff Dye - born 1815 in Washington Co., Ohio and died in 1880 in Washington Co., Ohio
8. Nancy Dye - born in 1816 in Washington Co., Ohio and died in Washington Co., Ohio
9. George Dye - born in 1821 in Washington Co., Ohio and died in Washington Co., Ohio
10. Elizabeth Dye born April 7, 1827 in Washington County, Ohio. She died on February 2, 1872. She married Ezekiel Dye, the third son of Thomas Dye, the son of Ezekiel Dye, Sr.
Jane (Jenny) Dye - born ca 1780 in Pr. William Co., VA. Married Henry Chamberlin and she died in 1819 in Washington Co., Ohio
Ezekial Dye - born on 1782 (July 4) in Pr. William Co., VA and died in 1842 in Washington Co., Ohio. Ezekiel Dye, Sr., was his uncle. He married (1) Phebe Davis and (2) Elizabeth Spencer
Jonathan Dye - born in 1787 in Pr. William Co., VA and died in 1851 in Washington Co. Ohio. He married (1) either Catherine Weekly or Betsy Duncan and (2) Fanny Caywood
Mary (Polly) Dye - born in 1789 in Pr. William Co., VA and died in Washington Co., Ohio. She married James Hoff (the brother of Hannah and Susan Hoff from Virginia)
Elizabeth (Bettie) Dye - born in 1791 in Pr. William Co., VA and died in Washington Co., Ohio at a very young age.
Sarah (Sallie) Dye - born in 1792 in Pr. William Co., VA and died in Washington Co., Ohio. Married (1) Thomas Worthington and (2) James Britton.
Patience Dye - born in 1794 in Pr. William Co., VA and died in Washington Co., Ohio. Married John Caldwell.
Amos Dye - born in 1796 in Pr. William Co., VA and died in 1876 in Washington Co., Ohio. Married Maria Taylor/Tyler

Long Live The Dyes!

The relationships noted above are summarized in the following figures. The figure below is an abreviated family tree starting with John Dey, Sr. of Middlesex County, New Jersey, showing the first four generations of some of his descendants. The emphasis was on selecting those family members who migrated from Middlesex County, New Jersey.

This may help keep the relationships between these individuals and the areas they migrated to in perspective. As noted previously, there were a number of migration paths followed by these dyes and an understanding of the history of this family requires the chronology of their movements as fundamental background. In the following figure the migration paths are shown by bold lines.

Migration Times and Paths

~1768 : Vincent Dye from Middlesex County, New Jersey to Prince William County, Virginia
~1776 : John Dye (Vincent's nephew) from Middlesex County, New Jersey to Prince William County, Virginia
~1789 : Ezekiel Dye (John Dye's brother) from Middlesex County, New Jersey to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
~1803 : John Dye (son of John Dye) from Prince William County, Virginia to Lawrence Township, Washington County, Ohio
~1804 : Ezekiel Dye from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania to Nobel County, Ohio (Renrock)
~1806 : Thomas Dye (John Dye's son) to Wood County, West Virginia.
~1806 : John Dye (Ezekiel's brother) from Prince William County, Virginia to Lawrence Township, Washington County, Ohio.
~1806 : Ruben Dye (Vincent's son) from Prince William County, West Virginia to Wood County, West Virginia
~1819 : Thomas Dye (John Dye's son) from Wood County, West Virginia to Meigs County, Ohio (Dyesville?)
1820 - 1850 : Intermarriage between Ezekiel Dye's family (children and grandchildren including Lucinda Dye, Anna Isabella Dye, Ezekiel Dye, and Amos Dye) and his brother John Dye's family (children and grandchildren including Samuel Dye, John W. Dye, Elizabrth,and Sophia Dye).
?1858 : Thomas Dye (John Dye's son) from Meigs County, Ohio to Lawrence Townshop, Washington County, Ohio.

The red dot (4) marks the location of Moss Run in Washington County, Ohio where John Dye settled from 1803-1807 . 1 marks the location of West Newton, Pennsylvania where Ezekiel Dye lived for several years prior to his departure for 2 - Renrock in the time period 1803-1806. 3 marks the location south of Antioch, Monroe County, Ohio, settled by Daniel Dye and his sones in 1813. 5 marks the location of Dyesville settled by Thomas Dye in 1819. 6 marks Hamden, Vinton County, Ohio where Henry Dye moved in 1837.
At this scale, one inch (approximately the distance between Stubenville, Ohio and Wheeling, West Virginia is about 20 miles. Thus, John and Ezekiel's families were about 20 miles apart. John and Daniel's families were about 15 miles apart. Dyesville is about 30 miles from Renrock and about 5 miles from Hamden. Although not meant to be precise, these measures give the reader a sense of the distance separating these families.