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[ Flag Message Mark as Unread Sent Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:09:22 -0400 Bulk [Empty] From: "Andy Dorr" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert Trash [Empty] Subject: RE: George Bucknam Dorr My Folders [Hide] To: "ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP" Eliz messages Member See Below; Information Ron Archives (18) Original Message From: ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP [mailto:eppster2@verizon.net] Search Shortcuts Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:51 AM My Photos To: Andy Dorr Subject: RE: George Bucknam Dorr My Attachments Dear Andy, What a wonderful surprise this morning to read your illuminating message at 6 a.m. Thank you for the effort and trust ! I want to respond later this week to many of the points that you made but to do this I must recheck my files to make sure that my memory ( on the mark. For the moment some more immediate reactions and questions. 1. Send me your Sarasota address and I'll forward the Dorr articles as well as other germane resources. Answer: Andrew Dorr 1770 S. Oval Drive Sarasota, F1 34239 (941) 953-6264 Please send your address. 2. I find it fascinating that "a fellow researcher" is compiling a history of the seed business and I would very much like his address to make about G.B. Dorr and his Mount Desert Nurseries (established in 1896). Can you provide? I too am intrigued by the horticultural connection Dorr but alas I cannot provide you with a link. Answer: Her name is Louise. We have corresponded a number of times regarding Charles Wesley. We meet bidding on a seed package for company, which at the time I had little knowledge. We is very knowledgeable about the 19th century seed business. She out bid me for his would love to hear from you. Her address is: Louise Mastrantonio P.O. Box 723 Manzanita, OR 97130 wildgoose@nehalemtel.net Verizon Yahoo! Mail -eppster2@verizon.net Page 2 of 7 DORR'S WASSEEDS Ars sold at reasonable prices direct to the planthr+ They ara TRUE TO NAME and reliable. We re cundreds of Testimonials from overths United States ONL customers speak-in the highest tarms of our SURCN, you have nut yet tried them, the sure and da,soin the spring that is, if you want to plant good seeds in the garden br on the farm. For full particulars SEB a copy of DORR'S SEED MANUAL, Which is published for all who era interested If will cost you nothing Sear tries mail: a W. DORU S Co., Seedsnien, DeeMoines, TOWN. 2. Good to know that you too love to hike. Perhaps this trait is your closest connection to our Mr. Dorr whose hiking exploits are lege Answer: Some friends and 1 help to run our local Boy Scout program. We have been canoeing in Canada, hiking in Philmont, and various outdoors. We like the High in high adventure. 4. Do you have access to an academic or public library that will provide energetic inter-library loan service for hard copy? If so, I can send references that I think you will want to pursue. Answer: We have a very good County Public Library. The main branch is a block from my office. 5. Regarding your ancestor Henry Wolcott, when the Dorr's opened their Bar Harbor estate (Old Farm) in 1881 a guest book was kept; mar signed it but I suspect that many did not. This document is the most cherished possession of the Bar Harbor Historical Society which is "ac "curator" with no formal training. It took me four years to persuade her to remove this document from its case and allow me to examine it i content. I now I have a alphabetical and dated list (which I'll send attach to a later email) of guests which includes the names of Cornelia Wolcott, Roger Wolcott, S. Huntington Wolcott, and W. Prescott Wolcott, with visits in 1887, 1888, and 1897. Is this meaningful to you? Answer; The Wolcott Family is legendary in the early history of the county. Some of my ancestors were the founders of the Colony of Cor one 7 men listed as the founders of Windsor. Another ancestor Simon Hoyt was also in this select group. Henry's Grandson, Rodger Wolc Colony of Connecticut from 1750 to 1754. We have been able to trace the Wolcott name back to the 10th Century in England. Henry is my Rodger's Son Oliver Wolcott was Governor from 1796 798. He severed as lieutenant Governor for 10 years. He participated in the Sigr of Impendence. Rodger's son in law became Governor of Connecticut from 1784 to 1786. His name was Mathew Griswold (1st Cousin 7 son, Rodger Griswold was also Governor of Connecticut from 1810 to 1812. The Wolcott and Prescott family's were intertwined. Attacher Oliver Wolcott. He was a General in the Revolutionary war and some of our Dorr ancestors served proudly with him. I raise these issues/c believe the Dorr family was considered one of the First families and enjoyed some privileges as a result. Our current president is a descend Family. 6. I can answer your question about the English origins of Edward Dorr but I'd rather quote directly from the Dorr Papers at the BHHS. Th as an attachment that I put together two years ago that inventories the collection. Answer: I can't wait to hear more. 7. What are the sources for the Dorr House images from Roxbury? Your photos? How did you determine that this was a Dorr House--and have an address? I know that Charles and Mary Dorr moved to Jamaica Plain (then part of Roxbury) when they married in 1850 and that George was born in Answer: I took the pictures of the Door house myself in Oct. 1985. Edward is buried at the old Roxbury burial grounds, which is known to Burial grounds. From there I went to the the First Church of Roxbury. While reviewing Church records. they suggested 1 go to the Dorr Hc from the Church is an old stone home on "Dorr Street". Again, I'm not sure its Edwards home or one of his son's or Grandson's home. The inherited by His oldest son Ebenezer. The church person suggesting its Edwards home. As I said last night, his grandson Ebenezer was ver Roxbury (Paul Revere Ride) and the house could have been his. I have no proof yet. It may not be a Dorr house at all, but I feel it is. This Possible the house has been restored. Possibly there are better records today. I'm looking for old maps that show the area in the 1730's to 1 maps callout the ownership. (The following biographical sketches of America's founding fathers are taken from the 1829 book, Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, by the Rev Some editing has been done including an effort to modernize the spelling. Few families have been more distinguished in the annals of Connecticut, than the Wolcott family. The ancestor of this family was Henry Wolcott, an English gentlema who was born in the year 1578. During the progress of the Independents in England, he embraced the principles of that sect, and hence becoming obnoxious to the Bri it expedient to emigrate to America. His emigration, with his family, took place in 1630. They settled for a time at Dorchester, in Massachusetts Mr. Wolcott is represented to have been a man of talents and enterprise. Possessing an ample fortune, he associated himself with John Mason, Roger Ludlow, Mr. Stou who were also men of wealth. in the settlement of Windsor, in Connecticut. About the same time, as is well known, settlements were made at Hartford and Wethersfie In 1639, the first general assembly of Connecticut was holden at Hartford. It was composed of delegates from the above towns Among these delegates was Henry We to the present time, some of the members of this distinguished family have been concerned in the city government of the state. Simon Wolcott was the youngest son of Henry Wolcott. Roger Wolcott. who is distinguished both in the civil and military annals of the state, was the youngest son of Wolcott, the subject of the present memoir, was the youngest son of Roger Wolcott. He was born in the year 1726, and graduated at Yale College in 1747 In this latte commission as captain in the army, in the French war. At the head of a company, which was raised by his own exertions, he proceeded to the defense of the northern f continued until the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. At this time he returned to Connecticut, and commenced the study of medicine He, however, never entered into the practice of the profession, in consequence of recei sheriff of the county of Litchfield, which was organized about the year 1751. In 1774 he was appointed an assistant in the council of the state. This may be considered as the commencement of his political career. To the office of assistant, he cor elected till 1786. In the interval, he was for some time chief judge of the court of common pleas for the county, and judge of the court of probate for the district of Litc In the revolutionary contest, Mr. Wolcott was one of the strong pillars of the American cause. He inherited much of the independent feeling of the ancestor of the fami spoken in the commencement of this memoir. In 1776, he was summoned by his native state to represent it in the national congress in Philadelphia. He had the honor deliberations of that body, on the Declaration of Independence, and of recording his vote in favor of its adoption. Immediately after the adoption of that instrument, he returned to Connecticut, and was now invested with the command of fourteen regiments of the state militia, whic defense of New-York. In November, he resumed his seat in congress, and on the adjournment of that, body to Baltimore, he accompanied them, and there spent the wi summer, he was engaged in several military movements; after which, he joined the northern army, under General Gates, with a corps of several hundred volunteers, ar memorable defeat of the British army under General Burgoyne. From this period, until 1786, he was either in attendance upon congress. in the field in defense of his C commissioner of Indian affairs for the northern department he war. assisting in setting the terms of peace with the six nations In 1786 he was elected lieutenant gove was, annually elected for ten years, when he was raised to the chief magistracy of the state. This latter office, however, he enjoyed but a little time, death putting an en life, on the first of December, 1797, in the 72d year of his age. The life of Mr. Wolcott was extended beyond the common age of inan, but it was well filled with honor country. He merited and received the confidence of his fellow citizens. In his person, he was tall, and had the appearance of great muscular strength. His manners were resolution of character, and might be said to be tenacious of his own opinions; yet he could surrender them, in view of evidence, and was ready to alter, a course which http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=8096_9795393_109678_1943_435... 8/24/2007 ahoo! Mail - eppster2@verizon.net Page 3 of 7 himself, when duty and propriety seemed to require it. In 1755. he was married to a Miss Collins, of Guilford, with whom he enjoyed great domestic felicity, for the space of forty years. Few women were better qualified f( duties, than was Mrs. Wolcott. During, the long absence of her husband, she superintended the education of her children, and by her prudence and frugality administer family, and rendered her house the seat of comfort and hospitality. Mr. Wolcott never pursued any of the learned professions, yet his reading was various and extensive. He cultivated an acquaintance with the sciences, through the wor learned men of Europe, and was intimately acquainted with history, both ancient and modern. He has the reputation, and it is believed justly, of having been an accom Mr. Wolcott was also distinguished for his love of order and religion. In his last sickness he expressed, according to Dr. Backus, who preached his funeral sermon, a d unworthiness and guilt. For several days before his departure, every breath seemed, to bring with it a prayer. At length, he fell asleep. He was an old man, and full of y distinguished for a long series of services rendered both to his state and nation. The memory of his personal worth, of his patriotism, his integrity, his Christian walk as down to generations yet unborn. E 28 Eustis Burial Grounds First Church of Roxbury Dudley Street WarrenPlace Dorr Street - Boston Cedat 2007 Europa Technologies Image MassGIS Commonwealth of Massachusetts EOEA 2007 Telo Atlas Verizon Yahoo! Mail eppster2@verizon.net Page 4 of 7 BURIED Edward Dorr Grave Stone, 1885 Eustis Burying Grounds, Roxbury MA 8. Were you aware that there was a strong Dorr presence in the Berkshires, specifically Lenox, Massachusetts? Sons and daughters of Sam there in the 1840's and purchased an estate where they lived out their lives and interacted with many notable literary men and women of the Mary Dorr purchased property there as did George's famous uncle (on his mother's side), Samuel Gray Ward; some of this property was la Tanglewood. I have a great deal of information on "The Dorrs in the Berkshires" that I can share. Answer, I was not aware of this. 9. Were you aware that the most famous cemetery in America contains the remains of Dorr family members? Answer: No A friend of min Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and I've made use of their historical archives. Lot # 1151 on Pine Avenue in MAC contains the remains of members beginning with Lucy J. Dorr (37 yrs.), Susan Dorr (61 yrs.), Samuel F. Dorr (40 yrs.), and Samuel Dorr (70 years) who all were 1845, apparently relocated from another site. The uncle after whom our George Bucknam Dorr was named was interred here as well on Se last burial was Susan Elizabeth Dorr on Dec. 8, 1889. I can send you photocopies as long as their source in the MAC archives is so acknow Thank you! Of course you know that our Mr. Dorr was cremated and his ashes scattered behind Storm Cottage on the Old Farm estate; the apparently had a hand in marking a plot with a namestone at the other Dorr Family plot at Mt. Auburn, #4474 on the Ratyhan the en Path y and William Dorr are buried along with the cherished family nurse, Elizabeth Hind. Answer There are 10 Dorr's buried at Eustis. 10. Finally, I find some of your remarks about the Dorr's as businessmen to be provocative. Our Mr. Dorr is often credited with the inherita the death of his mother on October 21, 1901; some say one to ten million dollars! To date I have not been able to track down the extent of ] far murkier than the business enterprises of his father. More about this later. Answer: I look forward to hearing more. This has turned out to be lengthier than I suspected. I hope it whetted your appetites ! More to follow in a few days. Like Edward and his Wife buried at Eustis Burying Grounds, Ron Answer Andy Dorr wrote: Dear Ron: I learned of your efforts via some internet research I was dong about our family's history. My great Grandfather and grandfather both had strong inter I took a trip 22 years ago to New England after college and got hooked. I've worked on a detailed history of the Dorr family and other lines on and off years. Some of the material comes from by grandfathers papers, but most of it is just detective work. A lot of what find is work done by other geneal- the information comes from classical books that are written in the 19thb century, like the Hyde Family Genealogy. Lots of information comes from the to be verified. Currently I have about 1,650 persons in my history's database. For some persons I have extensive records and others are just names I've been working at trying to provide context for their lives. Edward, our progenitor as example lived in Roxbury, in the Colony of Massachusetts. I've grave, seen what I believe to be his home (possibly a sons') and visited his church (pictures attached). However, modern day Boston is nothing like F and at the end of the 17th Century. I believe it to be very rural and live was very difficult for most. He moved there 100 years before the Revolutionary amazing that Edward lived to be 85 years old. I've attached a file with the sources for the information I've collected about Samuel and Joseph. Joseph is my first Cousin seven times removed and http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=8096_9795393_109678_1943_435.. 8/24/2007 Verizon Yahoo! Mail l-eppster2@verizon.net Page 5 of 7 Cousin, 6 times removed. George tums out to be my 4th Cousin, 4 times removed. I've included reports from my data base on how we are related. I'm cite sources much more carefully and am revising things as I get time. I wish what I had to offer was in better shape. Oh well. A fellow research who is compiling a history of the seed business had told me about George B. Dorr and what he had done. She thought that since m grandfather was in the seed business and George's interest in botany, that they might some how have had a relationship during their early years. My Grandfather Charles Wesley Dorr was in the seed business in lowa for about 10 years from 1876 to 1886, and then moved to Washington State and lawyer and politician. Charles W. was born in 1856 is three years younger than his cousin George. Louise and I thought they may have know each otl about each other. I've been looking for a possible link. It's just a hunch, but there maybe a connection. Do you know of one? I hope to get to Arcadia wife was there three years ago and raved about it, Bar Harbor and the whole region. She brought me back a reproduction of George's book. That's h of him. I love to hike and camp, so I'm looking forward to a trip to Maine someday to visit the park and beyond. One thing I'm just beginning to do is correlate all this information in my data base to geophysical maps. It's kind of like trying to plot their courses arou and abroad. I don't know how far I'll get, but feel it's a novel approach. I think people will enjoy seeing where they have come from using various ma one I've been working on for another ancestor, Henry Wolcott. As far as know Henry and George are not related, but I don't come anywhere close tc George's lines, so who knows. I don't know much about Charles Hazen. He has some Dorr cousins who were quite well off and left a lot of records and correspondence. Joseph hac Ebenezer Dorr II. His son's son was Samuel's 2nd cousin, once removed and in the shipping and trade business, Sullivan Dom (see report attached). the same time. Samuel was 4 years older than Sullivan, born is 1774 vs.1778. There is a wonderful Dorr house in Providence that still remains, on Be was owed by Sullivan. The best collection of Dorr material regarding Sullivan, his brothers and sons is in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, author and Maritime Studies Faculty Member at Woods Hole Institute, Massachusetts. She has done a lot of work on these members of the family. O in the Hay Library at Brown. They were involved in the China Trade and owed dozen major ships. Their ships were going around the hom from 1790 believe, but have no proof that many members of the family may have profited from this substantial trade business. The business was known as Dorr in both Boston and Rhode Island. Joseph's cousin, Ebenezer Il was well known for riding with Paul Revere sounding the alarm that the British were coming. Sullivan's son, Thomas Will Governor of Rhode Island briefly in 1842, but was found to be treasonous, only later to be released from prison after 2 years. Both the General Assen President Tyler, refused to recognize Dom as the legitimate leader of the State. This set off armed confrontations and resulting in the loss of life and is Dorr's Rebellion. I've got to believe that George would have been aware of this act on behalf of a old cousin as he went to school/ college. Thomas W early death due to prison life in 1854, when George was 1. His father, Charles Hazen certainly should have known about this hullabaloo with Thomas governorship. He was 21 when his older cousin was elected. I could go on about this for quite a bit, if it's of any interest. Do you have copies of the Genealogy that George and his father worked on? Is it possible to send or somehow obtain a copy? A number of us have I years for more information about Edward, his wife and their Children, life in Roxbury, etc. We don't know of any Dorr's prior to him, or exactly where h England. We live in Sarasota, Florida, but are originally from California in the Bay Area. I would like to read the articles if you can send them. Thanks for getting back to me. Hope this is helpful to your effort. Andy Dorr Dear Andy, I've just returned from a week in New York State and was pleased to receive your message. How did you learn about me and the Dorr biography I'm writing? When you say you are a distant cousin, please give details of th the extended quotes you provide about Samuel and Joseph Dorr are not credited. What is the source? I've spent seven years delving through archives researching your ancestor. I've got the genealogy pretty tightly defined from the 1 Englishman Edward Dorr through Acadia's founder. The most complete set of documents relative to this arm of the Dorr family manuscripts left by G.B. Dorr to the New England Historic Genealogical Society which holds several hundred pages of family his Mr. Dorr, most of the content written by Dorr and his father, Charles Hazen Dorr (1821-1893) -who remains a most elusive figur Dorr also gifted his own annotated family papers from the Ward side of his family, Mary Gray Ward Dorr (1820-1901), the grand highly prominent Salem seafaring family whose father, Thomas Wren Ward was a banking giant, the sole American representativ Brothers Banking establishment of London as well as Treasurer of Harvard University from 1830-42, George B. Dorr's uncle, Sar has a rich family history which is documented in the Ward Family Papers published in a limited edition of 12 copies in 1900. His Harvard University, Houghton Library. It was my interest in his early years that prompted my research. When Dorr allied himself with the President of Harvard Universit Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations in 1901 Dorr became the executive that assembled over the next decade the parc land that eventually was donated to the Federal government to form a national monument that became Lafayette National Park in wondered, why would this man--48 years of age in 1901--engage in such an ambitious enterprise that would consume his life for 1 years? None of the published accounts asked that question and they completely ignored the first five decades of life of this largely pioneer conservationist. Of course I could go on and on, but do get back to me and we'll try and continue this email conversation. Where do you reside? I retired last year from library administration. I've got a couple of articles on Dorr published thus far on Do if you'd like to read them and I'll ship them off to you. With best wishes, Ron "Growney, Kathryn" wrote: Ron, The below email is for you. Kathy From: Andy Dorr [mailto:adorr@comcast.net] http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=8096_9795393_109678_1943_435. 8/24/2007 Verizon Yahoo! Mail - eppster2@verizon.net Page 6 of 7 Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 8:07 PM To: Growney, Kathryn Subject: Please forward to Robert Epp George Dorr I'm trying to get this to Dr. Robert Epp. If possible please forward it to him. If you can not, please let me know so I can find another way. Thank you, Andy Dorr Dr. Epp: I heard your researching George B. Dorr. He is a distant cousin and I'm trying to piece together my family history. Ar background information you can offer me would be much appreciated. Good luck on your forth coming book. I'm sun know his history, but just in case, I've attached a bit family history. His middle name, "Bucknam" came form his great grandmother Dorr's family surname. His older brother William died when George was 25. Unfortunately, I don't know much about his father or his early years. Thank you Andy Dorr His Grandfather, Hon. Samuel V. Dorr was well known in Boston and was probably the source of some of George's "Samuel was a merchant in Boston was a member of the House of Representatives and of the Senate. He was one original petitioners for the charter of the New England Bank in 1811. He was director from 1813 to 1840 and was pre from 1823 to 1831. Through his excellent judgment, no loss was ever sustained by the acceptance of bad paper whi an officer of the bank. Most references list the date of death in 1844, except Ancestry.C uses 1845. He was a dire the New England Bank, Boston Suffolk County MA. He was appointed President of the New England Bank, Bostc Suffolk County MA Hon. Samuel V. Dorr, was the son of Hon. Joseph Dorr and Catherine Bucknam, born June 23, 1774, died in Bosto: 1844; married Lucy Tuttle Fox of Fitchburg, born 1776, died 1814. He married a second wife, Susan Brown (George Dorr's Grandmother). He was a merchant in Boston was a member of the House of Representatives and of the Ser children of the first wife, were: Samuel Fox, b. 1804, d. 1844, m. Elizabeth Chapman Hazen; George Bucknam, b. 1806; Albert Henry, b. 1807; Martha Ann, b. 1809, m. Henry Edwards; Francis Fiske, b. 1811; James Augustus, 1812, graduated of Harvard 1832, lawyer resided in NY.; Children of Samuel Dorr and his second wife, Susan Brown were; Susan Elizabeth, b. 1819; Charles Hazen, b. 1821. Father Great Grandfather: Hon. Joseph Dorr, studied Divinity and preached occasionally for several years. His exertions in the cause of the COL during the Revolution were great. He was one of the Commissioners to demand of the Mandamus Councilors of the Worcester a surrender of the commission. From 1773 to 1780 he filled several town and state offices was member Secret Committee - Member of the Committee of Safety - Member of the Committee of Correspondence Member o Legislature. After the treaty of peace he was appointed Justice of the court of Common Pleas - and Judge of Probate held other offices until the close of his life. JUDGE JOSEPH DORR Judge Joseph Dorr of Mendon, MA, was born in that town on May 24, 1730, the only son of Reverend Joseph (A. E and Mary (Rawson) Dorr. At college he held Hollis, Hopkinton and Stoughton scholarships, and when he took his M. a speaking part in the Commencement exercises, the affirmative of "An certiorari sint quae Discursu, quam quae Se percipiuntur." During his college vacations, Dorr had kept the Mendon School "by Spells." After graduation, he studied for the minis preached where occasion offered, although his circle was narrowed by an affliction of boils "so situated" as to make difficult. He was at Provincetown for a while, but when his father began to fail he returned to Mendon where on Dece 1767, he married Catherine, daughter of Rev. Nathan Bucknam (A. b. 1721). He quickly began to take over the town of assessor, clerk, treasurer, and selectman, and in1764 was sent to the House of Representatives where he opposi Thomas Hutchinson (A. b. 1727). In this he represented the wishes of his town, for it instructed him to vote against n "any Compensation to the sufferers in Boston by Mobs." However, in 1767 he quitted the patriot ranks to vote for a p tax on liquor, and the next year was appointed a Justice of the Peace by Governor Bernard, and was not returned to House. If this represents political wavering on Dorr's part, he redeemed himself when in March, 1773; he reported for a town committee a long list of resolutions, which in substance have a remarkable resemblance to the preamble of the Decl Independence. They begin: "Resolved That a Right to Liberty and Property (which is one of the Natural Means of Se Preservation) is absolutely unalienable, and can never, lawfully, be given up by committees of Correspondence and Inspection, and on that to obtain the resignation of the Mandamus Councilors. As a Justice of the Peace he happily promise to stay all proceedings of the Court of General Sessions when ordered to do so by the Convention of Comm Correspondence. In 1774 the town sent him to the First Provincial Congress, and in 1776, to there constituted House Representatives. The new government promptly appointed him a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Worcester During the war period, Dorr spent, he calculated, three hundred days a year in uncompensated public service, living farm. As Town Clerk, he copied the text of the Declaration of Independence into the town records, but he continued uncomplainingly to the demands for his services made by the town and the Proprietors. In1779 he attended the Con Convention, and the next year he accepted election to the Council, sending this note of thanks to Sam Adams (A. b. 1 am very sensible of the dignity conferred upon me by this Election, and feel the warmest emotions of Gratitude to t Honorable Gentlemen of the General Assembly for their suffrages on the occasion; at The same time, conscious of I Inability to discharge the important Duties of this elevated station with that benefit and real service to the public as earnestly wish, I shall enter upon this arduous business with great Diffidence and some degree of Reluctance. The http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=8096_9795393_109678_1943_435... 8/24/2007 Verizon Yahoo! Mail -eppster2@verizon.net Page 7 of 7 Circumstances of my Family and domestic Affairs are such as will render my Constant attendance at Court extremel inconvenient. I doubt not therefore that the Honorable Board will readily grant me all reasonable Indulgence. Under the new Constitution he was twice elected to the State Senate, and by virtue of these offices he sat as a mem Board of Overseers. For the rest of his life Dorr moved around Worcester County in a bewildering way. In 1781 he sold his farm in Mendc moved to Ward, now Auburn, while looking around for a choice farm to purchase. Two years later he was back in M leading the incorporation of the First Congregational Society in the First Parish, but when he was appointed Judge o in 1784, he was described as an inhabitant of Ward. In 1797 he moved to Leicester where he bought the house built Thomas Steel (A. b. 1730). In 1800 he resigned from the Probate Court and in 1801 from the Court of Common Plea following year he moved to Brookfield where he died on October 31,1808. His eight children had no Harvard conne He was buried in the Brookfield Cemetery, , Brookfield , Worcester County, MA. He graduated from Harvard College Cambridge , Middlesex County , MA. Ronald H. 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