Dyre Kearney (born ~ 1722,
[ died November 1, 1791) was an American lawyer from ]Dover, Delaware
Dover () is the capital and second-largest city of the U.S. state of Delaware. It is also the county seat of Kent County and the principal city of the Dover, DE, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of ...
. He served as a delegate for Delaware to the Continental Congress
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in 1787 and 1788.Kent County, Delaware
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, around 1722.[Dyre Kearney (C. 1722-1791). (2015). In M. Grossman (Ed.), ''The encyclopedia of the Continental Congresses''. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing] His exact date of birth is not known. He was admitted to the bar of New Castle County in 1784, and practiced law in Dover until his death there in 1791.
According to a genealogy site, he was the son of Edward Kearney and Rebecca Dyre (or Dyer)(d. abt. 1795).[ The same site notes that Rebecca was a great granddaughter of the Quaker martyr ]Mary Dyer
Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. ...
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Continental Congressmen from Delaware
18th-century American politicians
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