Editing Royall Tyler (section)

==Start of career==
In late 1778, he began to study law with [[Francis Dana]]. He was admitted to the bar in 1780 and practiced in [[Portland, Maine]], before moving to [[Braintree, Massachusetts]].

In Braintree Tyler lodged with Mary and Richard Cranch. Mary Cranch was the sister of [[Abigail Adams]], and Tyler soon met [[John Quincy Adams]], with whom he became friendly, and [[Abigail "Nabby" Adams Smith|Abigail ("Nabby")]], whom he courted.  Tyler had developed a reputation as a [[wikt:profligate|profligate]] while in college, supposedly squandering half his inheritance on parties, in grog shops and pursuing women after the death of his father.  In a letter to her husband [[John Adams]], Abigail noted that despite having "a sprightly fancy, a warm imagination and an agreeable person," Tyler was "rather negligent in pursueing (sic) his business ... and dissipated two or 3 more years of his Life and too much of his fortune to reflect upon with pleasure; all of which he now laments but cannot recall."  John Quincy Adams apparently enjoyed Tyler's company, but questioned his integrity and did not think him suitable marriage material.  Nabby Adams eventually ended the relationship, to the approval of her parents and brother.

Tyler served again in the militia in 1787, as [[aide de camp]] to [[Benjamin Lincoln]] during the suppressing of [[Shays's Rebellion]].  After the rebels fled he was dispatched to [[Vermont]] to negotiate for the arrest of the rebels.

Tyler was friendly with Joseph Pearce Palmer (a son of the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] [[brigadier general]] [[Joseph Palmer (American Revolutionary War general)|Joseph Palmer]]) and Palmer's wife Elizabeth Hunt, and resided in their Boston boarding house.  In 1796 Tyler married their daughter Mary, who was eighteen years younger, and they moved to [[Guilford, Vermont]].  They moved to [[Brattleboro, Vermont|Brattleboro]] in 1801, and were the parents of eleven children: Royall (Born 1794, died in college); John (b. 1796); Mary (b. 1798); Edward (b. 1800); William (b. 1802); Joseph (b. 1804); Amelia (b. 1807); George (b. 1809); Charles Royall (b. 1812); Thomas (b. 1815); and Abiel (1818–1832).  Several Tyler children had prominent careers, including four who became members of the clergy.

Mary Palmer Tyler lived to age 91.  She died in Brattleboro on July 13, 1866, and was buried next to her husband.