Person:Edward Rawson (23)
Edward Rawson
b.Bet 15 Apr 1615 and 16 Apr 1615 London, England (probably)
d.27 Aug 1693 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 1612
  1. Edward Rawson1615 - 1693
Spouse and Children
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m. Bef 1634
  1. Rev. Edward Rawson1634 - Bef 1674
  2. Rachel Rawson1636/37 - Aft 1684
  3. Margaret RawsonBet 1641 & 1642 - 1660
  4. Mary RawsonAbt 1642 - 1692
  5. David Rawson1644 - Bef 1674
  6. Perne Rawson1646 -
  7. Grindal Rawson1648/49 -
  8. William Rawson1651 -
  9. Hannah Rawson1653 - 1656
  10. Rebecca Rawson1656 -
  11. Elizabeth Rawson1657 -
  12. Rev. Grindal Rawson1658/59 - 1714/15
  13. John Rawson1661 -
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Facts and Events
Name Edward Rawson
Gender Male
Birth[2] Bet 15 Apr 1615 and 16 Apr 1615 London, England (probably)
Marriage Bef 1634 EnglandEstimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Edward).
to Rachel Perne
Emigration[1] 1637
Residence[1] 1637 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[6] Mar 1637/38 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Residence[1][2] 1650 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2] 27 Aug 1693 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial? 1693 Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory[2] 2 Feb 1693/94 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number[5] Q5345000?


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Edward Rawson (April 16, 1615August 27, 1693) served as the first Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Edward Rawson was born in Dorset, England in 1615. Around 1636 he married his young wife, Rachel Perne, and soon left England for the Americas. He settled in Newbury in 1637. On April 19, 1638, at the age of 23, he was chosen to be Public Notary and Register for that town, and was annually reelected until 1647. Many other public trusts and responsible duties were laid upon him by the people of Newbury. As early as the year 1638, he was one of the deputies to represent the town at the General Court, and was reelected for nearly all the successive years to May 22, 1650, at which time he was chosen Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which office he continued to hold for thirty-six years, until 1686. His home was on Rawson Street in Boston, now Bromfield Lane. He is buried in Boston's Granary Burying Ground.

Rachel Perne's family was related to the Hooker and Hawley families of New England. By the time of her death in the year 1677, Rachel Perne Rawson had borne twelve children to Edward Rawson. Of the twelve, at least nine survived until adulthood. One of these, Rebecca, was the heroine of the 1849 book Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, by John G. Whittier.

Rawson died in 1693 at the age of 78. The New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston has, in its collection, a 1670 portrait of Rawson by the Freake Painter.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Edward Rawson, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    278.

    "Rawson, Edward: [Origin] London; [Emigration] 1637; [Resided] Newbury, Boston[ NGSQ 71:176; NeTR 10; MBCR 1:230, 236, 374; Waters 57-59; TAG 83:207-16; NEHGR 3:201-8, 297-300; Abandoning 262-63; E. B. Crane, The Rawson Family: A Revised Memoir of Edward Rawson (Worcester, Massachusetts, 1875; Ellery Bicknell Crane, The Ancestry of Edward Rawson (Worcester, Massachusetts, 1887)]."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Schmidt, Alwin E., Jr. Rebecca's Siblings: The Overlooked Children of Secretary Edward1 and Rachel (Perne) Rawson. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Winter, Spring, Summer 2019).
  3.   Crane, Ellery B. (Ellery Bicknell). The Rawson Family: a Revised Memoir of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay from 1650 to 1686; with Genealogical Notices of His Descendants, Including Nine Generations.. (Worcester, Mass.: The Family, 1875).
  4.   Edward Rawson (politician), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  5. ↑ Wikidata.
  6. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:95.
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