Dering family

Thomas Dering, born c. 1716, lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to Shelter Island, New York, by 1763. He was a delegate to the Third Provisional Congress in New York from May through June in 1776. He served the congress again in White Plains in July, when they unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence. He was elected a member of the Provincial Convention, which met in Fishkill in 1775 and 1777 to form a constitution for the State of New York. Dering moved his family to Connecticut for the duration of the Revolutionary War. He married Mary Sylvester in 1738; they had a daughter, Betty Dering, and two sons, Sylvester Dering and Henry Parker Dering. Thomas Dering died in 1785.

Sylvester Dering (1758-1820) took part in the Revolutionary war as a brigadier general in the Rhode Island state militia. He was a member of the State Assembly for Suffolk County from 1803 to 1804, and became the first vice-president of the Suffolk County Agricultural Society in 1818. He fell from his horse and died in 1820.

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