Born near Cranbury, in Middlesex Co., NJ on July 1, 1750; died on July 1, 1830 at Renrock, Noble Co., Ohio. He married (1) in 1779 to Elizabeth Cox, born 1757; died before 1808; (2) in 1808 in Westmoreland Co., Pa. to Mrs. Sarah M.( Egbert ) Paul, born ; died . There were 19 or 20 children by the two marriages. The youngest was Furman Dye, born Feb. 18, 1820; died . He married Nancy McElroy. It was stated in the Boston Transcript for February 16, 1927 that "Furman (10 years old when his father died) wrote an account of the Battle of Monmouth as he remembered his father relate it".