The Dedham Covenant was a covenant that governed the early settlement of Dedham, Massachusetts. It mandated that only those with similar, Puritan, community...
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Dedham (/ˈdɛdəm/ DED-əm) is a town in, and the county seat of, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on Boston's southwestern border, the...
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of the settlers of Dedham on August 18, 1636, with land taken from Kingsbury and Nicholas Phillips. He signed the Dedham Covenant. He died in 1676. Worthington...
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Dedham Pottery was an American art pottery company opened by the Robertson Family in Dedham, Massachusetts during the American arts & crafts movement...
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Jonathan Fairbanks (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
31. ISBN 0-393-95459-5. Covenant of the First Church in Dedham: with some facts of history and ... By First Church (Dedham, Mass., H. H. McQuillen, 1878)...
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Henry Phillips (politician) (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
politician from Boston and Dedham, Massachusetts. Phillips was described as "tender and brokenhearted." Phillips moved from Boston to Dedham in 1637, two years...
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house is complete. November 8, 1638- The church covenant was signed and the First Church and Parish in Dedham was gathered. 1639 - Thomas Bartlett had stopped...
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Nathaniel Colburn (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
on July 25, 1639, and together they had 11 children. He signed the Dedham Covenant and was an original proprietor. In addition to being selectman for...
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Ralph Wheelock (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
town. In July 1637 (O.S), Wheelock signed the Dedham Covenant, effectively the founding constitution of Dedham. In 1639, he and six others were chosen to...
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The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1637, making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America...
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Robert Hinsdale (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
of the First Church and Parish in Dedham on November 8, 1638. It took months of discussions before a church covenant could be agreed upon and drafted....
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Avery (Massachusetts politician) (c. 1622–1686), a signatory of the Dedham Covenant Bill Avery (born 1942), Nebraska politician and professor William Avery...
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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. Morse was...
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Michael Metcalf (puritan) (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
of Dedham, Massachusetts and a signer of the Covenant. In 1641, he served as Selectman. At the age of 70 he began teaching reading in the Dedham Public...
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Thomas Bartlet may refer to: Thomas Bartlet (Dedham Covenant) (17th century), signer of the Dedham Covenant Thomas Bartlet (master founder) (17th century)...
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Francis Chickering (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
standing, in 1661 school was kept in Chickering's home. He signed the Dedham Covenant. Whittemore, Henry (1967). Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers...
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plantation of Dedham, Massachusetts. He was one of those who petitioned for incorporation of the town on September 6, 1636 and signed the Dedham Covenant. He served...
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Death of Elizabeth Fales (category History of Dedham, Massachusetts)
The death of Elizabeth Fales took place on May 18, 1801, in Dedham, Massachusetts. Her boyfriend, Jason Fairbanks, was convicted of the murder and sentenced...
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George Barbour (politician) (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
the Great and General Court of Massachusetts. He was a signer of the Dedham Covenant. Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia...
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John Hayward (Massachusetts politician) (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
Haward, represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court in 1645. He served for nine years as a Selectman in Dedham. He was elected to...
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John Hunting (settler) (redirect from John Hunting (Dedham))
1597-April 12, 1689) was Ruling Elder of the First Church and Parish in Dedham. Hunting was born in Hoxne, England in 1597. He had strong opinions and...
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Thomas Carter (minister) (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
minister in Dedham, Watertown, and Woburn. A prominent religious figure in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Carter was one signers of the Dedham Covenant and one...
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John Kingsbury (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
served as selectman for 12 years in total. Kingsbury also signed the Dedham Covenant. He was appointed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony to end small causes...
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John Dwight (died 1661) (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
John Dwight (c. 1601–1661) was one of the first settlers of Dedham, Massachusetts and progenitor of the Dwight family. Dwight was born in Woolverstone...
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in Watertown in 1635 before moving to Dedham. He signed the Dedham Covenant, which was used to govern the Dedham settlement. He moved for a time to Cambridge...
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Papa Gino's (redirect from Papa Gino's, Dedham)
Papa Gino's, Inc. is a restaurant chain based in Dedham, Massachusetts, specializing in traditional thin crust pizza along with pasta, subs, salads, and...
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Nathan Aldis (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
town and served as a deacon at First Church and Parish in Dedham. He signed the Dedham Covenant. In 1642, John Elderkin sold half of his rights to the mill...
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James Draper (settler) (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
Massachusetts town of Roxbury, but also lived for a short while in the towns of Dedham and Charlestown. He and his wife had nine children and many notable descendants...
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Daniel Pond (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
Lt. Daniel Pond was a prominent early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts. Pond arrived in Dedham around 1652 and purchased land from Nathaniel Fisher and...
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Edward Richards (Massachusetts politician) (category Signers of the Dedham Covenant)
appears in Dedham in 1636, which is where he married Susan in 1638. He signed the Dedham Covenant and was a member of First Church and Parish in Dedham. Though...
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