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- Also Ruben. I have seen his birth date as 1759, or 1765; I've seen his deathdate as 1828.
According to Butler, He moved to Virginia (what was later West Virginia) by 1787, when he appears on a Property Tax list.
According to Butler, ""The following is taken from a book titled Pioneers in Wood County, West Virginia by John A. House (1936):
"DYE FAMILY - Reuben Dye (Ruben Dye is the way the name usually appeared on earlier records) settled on a large land survey at or near the mouth of Burning Springs Run, several years before the organization of Wood County. He was a wealthy man - for that day - and had a number of slaves, as well as several sons, to clear and improve his lands. He appears to have served in the war of 1812. At the time of his death (5-23-1828) or a little earlier, he provided his children with homes in the vicinity, and one son, Vincent Dye was married in 1809. Some of them may have been freeholders in 1800, but I have noted no evidence to that effect. (No Dyes appear on the 1801 Tax List in Wood County) Reuben Dye came from Prince William County, Virginia and he married May ??.
"A family tradition tells that the Dye family in America are all descended from two brothers who came across the ocean (presumably from England) some time back in Colonial days, but there is nothing to show what their names were or where they settled. That Reuben Dye was probably from Virginia is shown by his being a slave holder, and also by the fact that the Dyes of Washington County, Ohio, were related in some way to him. There was Samuel, who came from Fairfax County, Virginia, and settled on Cow Run, of the Little Muskingum, and his son, Samuel, who came from Bull Run, near Manassas, Virginia. -- ]"
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