Byers purchased Mary Riel as a redemptioner and afterwards married her.
Children:
1) Peter Byers
2) Andrew Byers
3) John Byers (1)
(1) George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882), 536.