According to Silas Thorla, Furmin Dye (the 20th child of Ezekiel 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!"
The relationships that are evolving in this family history are summarized in the following combination of text and figures. This is truly a work in progess and I take this opportunity to thank those that have shared information with me.
Middlesex County, New Jerseyis the starting point for the following analyses. Emphasis is on the movement of the children of John Laurens Dey from Middlesex County, New Jersey, located by the
red dot on the map below.
The focal point, for family history reasons, is Ezekiel Dye who migrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (just south of Pittsburgh) and then to Renrock, Ohio.
The figure below is an abreviated family tree starting with John Laurens Dey 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. The Dyes that migrated are numbered and the migration paths are numbered and dated accordingly. Clearly, there must be a more systematic way to chart the migrations.
Migration Times and Paths
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.