He patented a farm in Canton township, Washington Co. known as "Spencer" (survey made Jan. 25 1786). The farm joining the "Spencer" was patented by Isaac Leet and the Leet's farm was known as "Leet's Fancy" . Isaac Leet, born in Bordentown, NJ, died on May 12, 1802, in Washington Co. PA. He and his wife are buried in the old Dye Graveyard on what is now (this was written in 1922) the Weirick farm. The old Dye Fort was on this farm and was located not far from the Graveyard.
Isaac Leet, in 1746, married Rebecca Vahan, born in Hunterden Co. NJ. She died in 1796. They had 10 children (all listed) including Rebecca Leet who married Enoch Dey.
Enoch married Rebecca Leet in 1781. She was born 1754-55 and died October 5, 1850.
Her father was Issac Leet and her mother was Rebecca Vaughn. Issac was born in 1726 in New Jersey and Rebecca died in 1796. They were married in 1746.
Enoch and Rebecca Leet had 12 children:
This suggests that Daniel moved to Prince William County, Virginia with his parents Enoch and
Rebecca. Around 179? they moved to Pennsylvania. At a later date he and his wife (and children?)
moved to Troy Township, Morrow County, Ohio. His sister Mary Dye had moved to Richland County,
Ohio by 1844.
Daniel married Jane McIntyre in 1796 in Washington County, Pennsylvania,
the daughter of William McIntyre and Margaret Harris. They had 15 children
William married a Miss Crothers of Washington County Pennsylvania and then left.
They had an unknown number of children but at least two boys. William
McEntyre Dye (he preferred this spelling) graduated from West Point Military
Academy in the same class with Philip Sheridan, He was in the Mexican War
as a lieutenant and came out of the Civil War as a Brig. General. His book
"Egypt and Abyssinia" was published in 1880 after spending several years
serving with "Gordon". In approximately 1886 he received an appointment to
reorganize the Korean Army. He married Ellen Rucker of Chicago and in 1922
had a daughter still living there. He is buried in the Rucker-Dye section
of Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
Enoch Dye III (b. Oct 1808 Washington Co. PA, d.Jul 2, 1881at
McConnelsville, OH) He was a preacher in the Campbellite Faith and a saddler
by trade. In 1832 at Smithfield, Jefferson Co. OH he married Juliette Ann
Hall (b. Sep 4, 1813 d. Apr 29, 1896) and they had 6 children (all listed)
including William Vincent Dye.
She married James Carrothers, half-brother of Samuel Carrothers who married her sister Mary.
In a biographical sketch, "Hardesty's History" provides the following
information about James and Susannah.
"James planted an orchard in the woods and then built his log house.
When Susannah and James moved into their new home, the forest trees
were standing within a few feet of the door, and wolves howled during
the night. Long after this, James would rise in the morning to find his
sheep all torn and bleeding, damage caused by the wolves."
Use the RETURN arrow on your browser to return to where you requested this link"In 1814, James and Susannah
pruchased a tract of land in Monroe County, Ohio, one mile West of
Woodsfield, and James moved his family to Woodsfield until he could
build a log cabin on his land. Woodsfield was settled in 1812, and at the
time Susannah and James lived there, there were all of eighteen houses
in the town; six were hewed log houses and the rest were log cabins.