Elizabeth Nichols Dyar was born in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She is honored with the title of Real Daughter by the organization Daughters of the American Revolution for her participation in the Boston Tea Party. Elizabeth's husband Joseph Dyar was a member of the revolutionary organization Sons of Liberty. On December 16, 1773, Joseph Dyar and other members of Sons of Liberty gathered in the kitchen of the Dyars home where the 22 year old Elizabeth and two other Daughters of Liberty prepared and applied stains and paint to the faces and bodies of the men to transform them into Mohawk Indians. After the men boarded ships in Boston Harbor and destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.

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