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Jonathan Metcalf represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. [1] He was also town clerk and [2] selectman in 1755. [3]
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Jonathan Metcalf represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. [1] He was also town clerk and [2] selectman in 1755. [3]
Major Eleazer Lusher was a politician and military leader from Dedham, Massachusetts.
Samuel Dexter (1726—1810) was an early American politician from Dedham, Massachusetts.
John Fuller represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also town clerk for a total of four years, having first been elected in 1690. Also beginning in 1690, he began the first of his five terms as selectman.
John Metcalf represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also town clerk for a total of 16 years, having first been elected in 1731. Starting in 1716, he served 27 terms as selectman.
Dr. Joseph Richards represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. Beginning in 1731, he served five terms as selectman.
Eliphalet Pond (1704-1795) represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
Col. Abner Ellis represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court for five years. Ellis was the son of Abner and Meletiah Ellis and was born on January 4, 1770.
Captain Ebenezer Battle, also known as Ebenezer Battelle, represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also a selectman in 1779. Battle fought the retreating British soldiers following the battles of Lexington and Concord. One of his men, Elias Haven, died at Menotomy. After the fighting ended, his men walked the entire length of the battlefield, collecting weapons and burying the dead.
Nathaniel Kingsbury represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also town clerk in 1783 and served five terms as selectman, beginning in 1773.
Isaac Bullard represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also town clerk for a total of three years, having first been elected in 1784. He was also elected five times as selectman, beginning in 1773. Bullard was the first treasurer of Norfolk County, serving from 1793 to 1808.
Ebenezer Fisher represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. The Fisher School, now in Westwood, Massachusetts, was named in his honor. He served as selectman in 1785. He voted against the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike as a member of the legislature in 1802. Fisher Ames was a driver for the road, and his brother Nathaniel believed his no vote made him a "traitor" motivated by "an ancient prejudice against the Old Parish," i.e. modern day Dedham.
Richard Ellis represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
Captain Timothy Dwight (1629–1718) represented Dedham in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and was the progenitor of the Dwight family.
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.
John Hunting was Ruling Elder of the First Church and Parish in Dedham.
Nathan Aldis was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts who served on that town's Board of Selectmen in 1641, 1642, and 1644. He served in a variety of other positions in the town and served as a deacon at First Church and Parish in Dedham. He signed the Dedham Covenant.
Francis Chickering was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts who served in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and on that town's Board of Selectmen for 15 years. He was also a teacher in the first public school in America, today well known as the Dedham Public Schools.
Samuel Morse (1585-1654) was an original proprietor of Dedham, Massachusetts who served on the board of selectmen for two years. He was also a founder of Medfield, Massachusetts when it broke away from Dedham. He was elected a selectman before joining the First Church and Parish in Dedham. He was a signer of the Dedham Covenant.
Ralph Day was an early settler and selectman in Dedham, Massachusetts. Day emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
John Farrington was an early American colonist. He settled in Dedham, Massachusetts and served as a selectman there. When the town of Wrentham separated, he became one of the first settlers there. Later, he would become one of the founders of Deerfield, Massachusetts. His wife, Mary Bullard, was the cousin of Quentin Stockwell's wife Abigail. The Stockwells were also original settlers of Deerfield. He was the ancestor of Representative John Farrington.
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