THE DYE FAMILY HISTORY in America begins in the Bronx and Staten Island area of New York City with the arrival in 1639 of Laurens Duyts (original spelling) who was born in 1610 in Denmark and came to America by way of Holland. He paid for his passage clearing land and farming for his sponsor. Eventually, in trouble in New York, he moved to Middlesex County, NJ where he died in 1668.
HANS DUYTS (1644 - sometime after 1708), the third child of Laurens, was born, lived, and died on Staten Island. He and his first wife had four children. In 1685 he married a widow with a son.
JOHN DUYTS (1687 - 1750 or 51) was the only child of Hans and his second wife. He was born on Staten Island where he married and six of his eight children were born. In 1715 he served with the militia on Staten Island, and in 1725 he moved his family to Middlesex County, NJ where it is known he was a landholder. At some time during John's lifetime the spelling of the family name changed from Duyts to Dey to Dye. All of his children used the spelling Dey, but he signed his last will and testament, (written in October 1750) John Dye.
VINCENT DEY (Dye) (1722 ? - 1796) was John's fifth child. He was born in New York, grew up in New Jersey and had a family of fifteen, ten boys and five girls. About 1782 he moved his family to Prince William County, VA.
DANIEL DYE, SR. (1747 - 1825), Vincent's first child, was born and married in New Jersey where at least four of his eight children were born. Then he and his family went with his parents and other family members to Virginia. About 1807 he purchased land in what became Monroe County, OH, near the town of Antioch, an area called the "Dye Settlement" for his sons Daniel, Jr., Vincent, Reuben, Enoch, David, and John, Jr. and their families also made their homes there. This was a wilderness and the Dyes were among the first settlers. The first school was built in the settlement and the first sermon preached in the township was delivered by a Baptist minister in Daniel, Sr.'s home. Many members of the Dye family are buried in the Unity Baptist Church cemetery.
DANIEL DYE, JR. (1770 - 1840) was born in New Jersey and married in Virginia where at least five of his nine children were born before they moved to Ohio. He is credited with starting the first Sunday School in the settlement. He also operated a ferry across the Ohio River.
ENOCH DYE, Daniel, Jr.'s son, was born in 1803 and died in 1832, leaving his wife, Elizabeth (Brown) Dye and three children, Harvey, Lucy, and Robert Emmett. The two boys lived with their uncle David Dye while Lucy apparently remained with her mother.
ROBERT EMMETT DYE (1827 - 1904), member of the Baptist church, grew up inMonroe County, graduated from college in Granville, OH, and in 1851 married Elizabeth Trippett in Long Reach, WV. They lived in Ohio until 1856 when they moved to Eden Prairie, IA in Decater County near the town of Leon, and here five of their seven children, including Olinthus Trippett, were born.
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