Samson Gabriel Dyer aka Sampson Dyers (9 September 1773 Newport, Rhode Island - 1843) was an African-American noted for his association with Dyer Island off the Cape Agulhas coast of South Africa. As a young man Dyer moved to Nantucket where he found work as a harpooner on a whale boat. In 1806 he boarded the vessel `President” bound for Cape .....