"In 1737 [John Dawson] and his wife were parties to a sale of land of her late father, William Luddington, sold to pay the debts of his estate [June 21, 1737. ─ N. H. R., vol. 10, p. 366. In the same year, it having been voted in a village meeting 'to sell the parsonage and constitute a permanent fund with the avails,' he and a few others entered their protest against the sale of the property [E. H.. R., p. 66]. Dodd states that he died Aug. 28, 1732, aged 55 [E. H. R., p. 166]. As to the year the error is manifest; it may have been 1737, but could not have been earlier [The original record, which Dodd must have seen but incorrectly transcribed, as to date, and perhaps as to age, has not been found by the compiler hereof, and the discrepancies here apparent cannot at present be explained. … It is not impossible that J. D. was son of the second wife of R. D., since 1683 + 55 = 1738.
