Joseph Richards (Massachusetts Politician)
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Dr. Joseph Richards represented
Dedham, Massachusetts Dedham ( ) is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 25,364 at the 2020 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest b ...
in the Great and General Court. Beginning in 1731, he served five terms as selectman. He married the daughter of Rev.
Joseph Belcher Joseph Belcher (May 14, 1669 – April 27, 1723) was a minister at the First Church in Dedham, Massachusetts. Personal life Belcher was born on May 14, 1669, in Milton, Massachusetts and was graduated from Harvard College in 1690. After his parent ...
but did not get along with Belcher's successor,
Samuel Dexter Samuel Dexter (May 14, 1761May 4, 1816) was an early American statesman who served both in Congress and in the Presidential Cabinets of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Dexter was an 1881 graduate of Harvard ...
. He was one of the richest men in Dedham and a Lt. Colonel in the Suffolk Regiment. Richards was graduated from Harvard College in 1721.


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