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Family tree▼ Facts and Events
| Founders of Dedham, Massachusetts
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| Winthrop's Journal states that a town was formed on the banks of the Charles on September 1, 1635--a town that must have been Dedham. Twelve men attended the first town meeting held on that day. In November 1636, those 12 and 7 others petitioned the General Court for an enlargement of their grant for a township. In July 1637, twelve more men arrived, bringing the total to 31, at which time the town admitted freeman and established a church. [1] [2]
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| 1636 Petitioners: Edward Allyne - Abraham Shaw - Samuel Morse - Phileman Dalton - Ezekiel Holliman - John Kingsbury - John Dwite - John Cooledge - Richard Ewed - John Howard - Lambert Genere - Nicholas Philips - Ralph Shepard - John Gay - Thomas Bartleet - Francis Austin - John Rogers - Joseph Shaw - William Bearstowe
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| Current Location: Norfolk County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: Newton, Cambridge Daughter Towns: Norwood, Westwood, Dover, Natick, Needham, Wellesley, Walpole, Medfield, Medway, Millis
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Notes and Queries", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 48:346, Jul 1894.
Parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, England: Joseph, of Abraham Shawe, Northow'm Baptized March 14, 1618.
- ↑ Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners). (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883), 43.
1653 … Joseph Shaw died 13th - 10th month [December 13, 1653].
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 5:303.
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