Dyer, Eliphalet
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1721, in Windham, Conn. He was a representative to the general court; and was appointed to the command of a Connecticut regiment during the French war in 1755. He was elected a member of the council in 1762; and was a delegate to the stamp act congress of 1765. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1774, and held a seat in that body during the war, excepting 1779. He was appointed judge of the supreme court in 1766; was chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He died May 13, 1807, in Windham, Conn.