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Early Government Of Dedham, Massachusetts
The early government of Dedham, Massachusetts describes the governance of Dedham from its founding in 1636 to the turn of the 18th century. It has been described as being both "a peculiar oligarchy" and a "a most peculiar democracy." Most freemen could participate in Town Meeting, though they soon established a Board of Selectmen. Power and initiative ebbed and flowed between the two bodies. Background The colonial settlers met for the first time on August 18, 1636 in Watertown. By September 5, 1636, their number grew from 18 at the first meeting to 25 proprietors willing to set out for the new community. By November 25th, however, so few people had actually moved to Dedham that the proprietors voted to require every man to move to Dedham permanently by the first day of the following November or they would lose the land they had been granted. A few young men without families set off to spend the winter there, including Nicholas Phillips, Ezekiel Holliman, and likely Ralph Shepar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Wheelock
Ralph Wheelock (1600–1683) was an English Puritan minister, American colonial public official, and educator. He is known for having been the first public school teacher in America. Early life and education Ralph Wheelock was most likely born in the year 1600 in Donington, Shropshire, England. He was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge University alongside John Milton and John Elliot. He enrolled in 1623, obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1626, and a Master of Arts in 1631. He participated in the radical Puritan movement that was centered at Cambridge University at the time. Marriage and family On 17 May 1630, in the church of Wramplingham St Peter and St Paul, Wramplingham, England, Wheelock married Rebecca Clarke. The two had three children in England: Mary, baptized in Banham, County of Norfolk, 2 September 1631; Gershom, baptized in the village of Eccles, County of Norfolk, 3 January 1632 (O.S); and Rebecca Wheelock, baptized in Eccles as well, on 24 August 1634. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Alleyn (Massachusetts)
Edward Alleyn (died 1642) was a businessman and early American politician. He served on the first board of selectmen in Dedham in 1639 and was a frequent representative to the Great and General Court beginning in 1638. He was town clerk for two years, having first been elected in 1639. As a businessman, he was involved with establishing an iron foundry. Alleyn was a "pillar of the church" at the First Church and Parish in Dedham. In early records he was given the title of "mister," which typically indicated that he had a university degree. For his service to the community, he was later given the title of "gent." Although several men initially complained that he had offended them, Alleyn's answers were sufficient enough to make him a founding member of the church. He was killed in 1642 in Boston and buried in the Old Village Cemetery The Old Village Cemetery is an historic cemetery in Dedham, Massachusetts. History The first portion of the cemetery was set apart at the first rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hayward (Massachusetts Politician)
John Hayward (died 1672) also known as John Haward, represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court in 1645. He served for nine years as a Selectman in Dedham. He was elected to office before he became a member of the First Church and Parish in Dedham. Previously he lived in Watertown, Massachusetts Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston. The population was 35,329 in the 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Square, and the West End. Watertow .... Hayward died in 1672 in Charlestown. References Works cited * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayward, John 1672 deaths Year of birth missing Dedham, Massachusetts selectmen Signers of the Dedham Covenant Members of the colonial Massachusetts General Court from Dedham People from Watertown, Massachusetts People from Charlestown, Boston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Richards (Massachusetts Politician)
Edward Richards was an early settler of and nine term selectman in Dedham, Massachusetts. Richards was born circa 1610 -1615. He may have been the brother of Nathaniel Richards and, through his wife Susan, was brother-in-law of John Hunting. He may have traveled in 1632 on board the ''Lyon'' from England to Massachusetts with Nathaniel and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts until 1636. Nathaniel moved to Connecticut to found Hartford, but Edward Richards first appears in Dedham in 1636, which is where he married Susan in 1638. He signed the Dedham Covenant and was a member of First Church and Parish in Dedham. Though Dedham was intended to be a Utopian commune, and there was little disparity in wealth, Richards went by the title of "Gent" and, unlike others, aspired to a manor. He received large tracts of land, second only to the minister, John Allin John Maury Allin (April 22, 1921 – March 6, 1998) was an American Episcopalian bishop who served as the 23rd Presiding Bis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Fisher (Massachusetts Politician)
Lieutenant Anthony Fisher represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also a selectman for three years. Fisher was baptized in Syleham, Suffolk in April 1591 and lived on the south bank of the River Waveney on an estate known as Wignotte. He came to America on board the ''Rose'' in 1637 and settled in Dedham. Once in Dedham he signed the Dedham Covenant. As of 2004, one of his descendants in Dedham still owned a part of his land. Fisher served as lieutenant in the French and Indian Wars of 1652. He briefly owned the land that came to be known as Broad Oak. He was a member of the First Church and Parish in Dedham First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ... but was not "comfortably received into the church until March 1645 on account of his proud a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Phillips (Massachusetts Politician)
Henry Phillips (died 1685) was a wealthy businessman and politician from Boston and 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 .... Phillips was described as "tender and brokenhearted." Life in Dedham Phillips moved from Boston to Dedham in 1637, two years after the town was first settled and one year after it was incorporated. He was a member of the church and a militia officer. Though he received "better than average" dividends of land, he complained in 1656 that too many people had been admitted to the town commons, diluting the value of his interest. He led a group of dissatisfied settlers in a rare public complaint. He brought his complaint before the General Court, which was an action even more rare in a community whose covenant called for disputes to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kingsbury (Dedham)
Joseph Kingsbury (1600–1676) was an early settler and selectman from Dedham, Massachusetts. Personal life Kingsbury was born in Boxford, Suffolk to John Kingsbury. He traveled to Massachusetts in the early 1630s with his younger brother, John Kingsbury, and his wife Millicent, whom he married in Boxford in 1628. He had a daughter, Sarah, born in 1635. Their second daughter, Mary, was the second child ever born in Dedham on September 1, 1637. Their third child, Elizabeth, was born in 1638. Four boys then followed, including Joseph, born 1640, John, born in 1643, Eleazer, born in 1645, and Nathaniel, born in 1650. Dedham Kingsbury was one of the ten men who were selected to seek out the "living stones" upon which First Church and Parish in Dedham would be founded. He was found to be "stiff" and "too much addicted to the world," however, and was not selected to be a founding member in 1638. He was later admitted in 1641. Some sources suggest he was displeased with the church after g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Dwight (Massachusetts Politician)
Captain Timothy Dwight (1629–1718) represented Dedham in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and was the progenitor of the Dwight family. Personal life Dwight was born in England in 1629 to John and Hannah Dwight and was brought to Dedham, Massachusetts in 1635 as a child. John Dwight was one of the first settlers of Dedham. Timothy was made a freeman in 1655 and was a member of the First Church and Parish in Dedham beginning in 1652. Dwight was married six times. The first time was on November 11, 1651, to Sarah Perman, who died in childbirth on May 29, 1652. On May 3, 1653, he married Sarah Powell, who died on June 27, 1664; she gave him four children. Anna Flynt, his third wife on January 9, 1664 – 1665, gave him 10 children, including Josiah Dwight. His fourth wife, the widow Mary Endwind of Reading, Massachusetts, married him on January 7, 1686 – 1687 and died August 30, 1688, without any children. Esther Fisher became his fifth wife on July 31, 1690, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bullard (Dedham)
William Bullard (1594-December 23, 1686.) was an early resident and two term Selectman in Dedham, Massachusetts. He built the first bridge across the Charles River in Dedham at the site of the present day Ames Street Bridge. He also served in the trainband Trainbands or Trained Bands were companies of militia in England or the Americas,The Century Company: ''The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, A Work of General Reference in all Departments of Knowledge'', New York, 1911, Volume X, p. 6422, http ... led by Eleazer Lusher. Bullard was born in England in 1594 and first settled in Watertown in 1635 before moving to Dedham. He signed the Dedham Covenant. He moved for a time to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was an ancestor of Isaac Bullard. He died December 23, 1686, at the home of his daughter. References Works cited * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bullard, William Dedham, Massachusetts selectmen People from Watertown, Massachusetts 1594 births 1686 deaths Signers of the Dedham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Powell (Massachusetts Politician)
Michael Powell represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court in 1641 and 1648. His daughter, Sarah, married Timothy Dwight. He was also town clerk for a total of four years, having first been elected in 1643. He was a selectman for four years, beginning in 1641. He was the first tavern owner in Dedham. Powell later moved to Boston and taught, without being ordained, at Second Church, Boston prior to Increase Mather Increase Mather (; June 21, 1639 Old Style – August 23, 1723 Old Style) was a New England Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and president of Harvard College for twenty years (1681–1701). He was influential in the administrati .... References Works cited * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Michael Dedham, Massachusetts selectmen Members of the colonial Massachusetts General Court from Dedham Year of birth missing Year of death missing Dedham Town Clerks Signers of the Dedham Covenant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Woodward (Massachusetts Politician)
Peter Woodward (died May 9, 1685) represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court in 1665, 1669, and 1670. He also served on the board of selectmen for 16 years, with his first term beginning in 1643 and his last ending in 1670. His daughter, Ann, married Robert Hinsdale, probably in England. He had at least two sons, William and Peter. William, a Harvard College graduate, was hired to assist John Allin in preaching at the First Church and Parish in Dedham in 1668, but died the following June. His brother collected his salary from the church 16 years later. He died May 9, 1685. The Town gathered on January 4, 1669, to elect selectmen for the year. At the end of the meeting, Woodward was declared one of the winners. Many supporters of Anthony Fisher Anthony Colin Fisher (born 10 March 1960) is an Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and a friar of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). Since 12 November 2014, he has been the ninth Catholic Archbisho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Chickering
Henry Chickering was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts who served in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and for six years on the Dedham Board of Selectmen. He may have been the brother of Francis Chickering, with whom he served in the General Court. He was granted land in Salem, Massachusetts in 1640 and was made a freeman in 1641. Chickering was a deacon of the First Church and Parish in Dedham First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and rec .... With his wife, Ann, he had a son, John. References Works cited * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chickering, Henry Dedham, Massachusetts selectmen People from Salem, Massachusetts Members of the colonial Massachusetts General Court from Dedham Deacons at First Church and Parish in Dedham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
