Person:Edmund Dorr (1)

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  1. Edmund Dorr1692 - 1772
m. 4 Sep 1719
  1. George Dorr1720 - 1787
  2. Rev. Edward Dorr1722 - 1772
  3. Matthew Dorr1725 -
  4. Mary Dorr1727 -
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Name[1] Edmund Dorr
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][3] 19 Oct 1692 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 4 Sep 1719 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Griswold
Death[3] 23 Mar 1772 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Mary Griswold (80), in Walworth, Reuben Hyde. Hyde Genealogy: or, the Descendants, in the Female as Well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde of Norwich With Their Places of Residence, and Dates of Births, Marriages, &c., and Other Particulars of Them and Their Families and Ancestry. (Albany, New York: J. Munsell, 1864)
    1:53-54.

    "… Edmund Dorr, b. 19 Oct., 1692, at Roxbury, Mass., sixth son of Edward Dorr and Elizabeth Hawley his wife, of Roxbury. … settled at Lyme, where he carried on the business of a clothier, or clothdresser. He was a man of mind, and of indomitable perseverance. And he and a few other members of the first congregational society of Lyme carried on an ecclesiastical controversy with the Rev. Jonathan Parsons, the third minister of Lyme, who m. Phebe Griswold, his wife's niece. During this controversy, he obtained the sobriquet of 'Servant Dorr,' which he retained for life, he died at Lyme; date not ascertained.

  2. Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
    1:109.

    "Dorr, … Edmund, s. Edward and Elizabeth, [born] Oct. 19, 1692."

  3. 3.0 3.1 109. Mary4 Griswold, in Wolcott, John Benjamin, and Charles V. Waid. Wolcott immigrants and their early descendants (the first six generations): Henry and Elizabeth Wolcott of Windsor, Connecticut; John and Winifred Wolcott of Watertown, Massachusetts; William and Alice Wolcott of Salem, Massachusetts; John and Sarah Wolcott of Kent County, Maryland; Samuel Wolcott of Shrewsbury, New Jersey. (Society of the Descendants of Henry Wolcott, 2002)
    33.

    "… Edmund Dorr … born 19 Oct 1692 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. He was the son of Edward Dorr and Elizabeth Hawley. Edmund died 23 Mar 1772 in Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut."

  4.   Edmund D Dorr, in Find A Grave.

    This burial is not documented in the Hale Collection. There appears to be no evidence of the actual place of burial.