Frederick William Geyer, Sr.

Inscription on tombstone: AE 78 y.

Frederick William Geyer (ca. 1736- 1796) [SIC: 1743-1821] was a  principal merchant of Boston. He was proscribed and banished in 1778, but not being an Addresser, or having taken any active part in politics, he was allowed to come back in 1789 and was restored to citizenship by act of the legislature. He was in business with his son at No. 13 Union street, Boston, in 1794.  A daughter who died near London in 1855 at the age of 81, married Mr. Joseph Maryatt, a West Indian merchant. She was the mother of Captain Maryatt of the British Navy, the well known author of sea tales.  Geyer's estate was on Summer street, formerly Seven Star Lane, and was one of the finest in Boston valued at ¬£6,000. It was confiscated and sold to Nathan Frazer, whose daughter afterwards married Frederick W. Geyer, Jr., and the property was once more restored to the family.

From http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/geyer/693/

from: [Ancestry.com. database on-line]. American Migrations 1765-1799, (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006): Original data: Coldham, Peter Wilson. American Migrations 1765-1799: The lives, times, and families of colonial Americans who remained loyal to the British Crown before, during and after the Revolutionary War, as related in their own words and through their correspondence, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000), p. 70:

Geyer, Frederick William of Boston, merchant.Memorial London 1784.He had an income of £2,000 sterling a year in Boston before he came to England in 1775.In 1777 he went to NYC to trade but returned to England with his family at the beginning of 1782 to become a merchant in London.Claim for a house in Summer St; a house and wharf at Wheeler's Point; a house and land at West Boston; debts owing to him [with list].In 1787 he is listed as residing with his family in Boston as a British subject in a house in Summer St., formerly his own, one of the best in town. (12/81/10, 81/40, 82/2, 83/1; 13/98/160-170).

[Information compiled by the author from records held in the Public Record Office under the title American Loyalist Claims gathered by the the Audit Office (AO) classes 12 and 13, Series I and II; p. vii]

Frederick W Geyer in the Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988

• Name: Frederick W Geyer
• Event Type: Death
• Birth Date: abt 1743
• Death Date: 18 Mar 1821
• Death Place: Boston, Massachusetts
• Death Age: 78

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Sources

1. The loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution By James Henry Stark. Page 351

FREDERICK WILLIAM GEYER.
The Gayers or Geyers as it was variously spelled, first settled at Nantucket. Some of the family came very early to Boston. The name is first mentioned in Boston Town Records 1690, when William Gayer married Maria Guard. In her will recorded with Suffolk Probate Records, Vol. 17, p. 80, 1710, she described herself as the wife of William Gayer, Mariner of Nantucket. In 1692 Damaris Gayer, the daughter of William Gayer, married Nathaniel Coffin. Their son William Coffin removed to Boston and was the ancestor of the Boston family of Coffins.
The Geyers were prominent merchants in Boston. They did not interest themselves in political matters or held office. The records mention that in 1765 Mr. Henry Christian Geyer was paid £173. 4. 1. for repairs done on Faneuil Hall.
*Find A Grave Memorial# 107340265 Plot: Tomb 21 - (old no. 11) FREDERICK WILLIAM GEYER, 1796

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