Dorr, Rev. Joseph Sr. ; @G Graw Father (1690-1768) Edward Dorr Family Edward Dorr (born in Dorset, England, settled in Casco Bay then to Boston in 1677) 1648-1734 m. Rev. Joseph Dorr Elizabeth Hawley 1690-1768 1656-1719 m. Mary Rawsom 1699-1776 Judge Joseph Dorr Nathan Bucknam 1730-1808 1703-1795 m. m. Catherine Bucknam Margaret Fiske 1741-1806 1704-1796 Lucy Tuttle Fox Samuel Fox Dorr Sam 1776-1814 1804- 1836- m. 1803 m.1835 Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Hazen 1837-1856 Susan Elizabeth Dorr Samuel V. Dorr George Bucknam Dorr 1819-1889 1774-1844 1806-1876 m. 1837 1815 m. 2 Joanna Hone Howard * Susan Brown 1820-1842 1779-1841 Albert Dorr Charles Hazen Dorr 1807-1880 1821-1893 m. 1850 Martha Ann Dorr Emily Mary Gray Ward 1809- 1880 -Lucy 1820-1901 m. 1828 Henry Edwards Henry A. 1798-1885 Henry * William Ward Dorr 1851-1876 Francis Fiske Dorr 1811-1870 George Bucknam Dorr 1853-1944 James Augustus Dorr 1812-1869 * All four Edwards offspring died by 1852. Joanna was eldest of first Howland marriage; Catharine Hunt was youngest of second. DORR genealogy 821 NEW ENGLAND ISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. OL. III. OCTOBER, 1849 NO. IV. ENEALOGICAL NOTICES OF THE DESCENDANTS OF SECRETARY RAWSON [Note. - In our last number we gave a brief outline of the public ployments and services of Secretary Rawson. We now present our ders with a genealogical sketch of his posterity, principally condensed m the 'MEMORIAL OF THE RAWSON FAMILY," recently published. 1 word of explanation may be necessary, with regard to the system references which we have adopted, it being, in some respects, differ- from that employed in the Memorial." The Roman numeral fixed to a name, indicates the generation, counting from the first genitor in this country. Beside this character, but one series of abers is made use of, and the same number is always found attached he same individual; thereby preventing all possibility of confusion, affording the greatest facility for reference, backwards or forwards.] Ve have mentioned, in the preceding number, that, of the five sons Secretary Rawson, three settled in England. Respecting two of n, DAVID (born May 6, 1644,) and JOHN, we know nothing. ED- RD, the eldest son of the Secretary, graduated at Harvard College 653, and entered the Ministry. Of his subsequent career our only wledge is derived from Dr. Walker's " Attempt towards recovering Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church England," where his name occurs in the following passage, relative ie Rectory of Horsmanden, in the County of Kent. Good old Dr. Anherst had been Sequestred and forced from this ng about the beginning of the Troubles; at which Time one Elles- succeeded in it; but the Doctor dying about Five or Six Years the Patroness presented this Mr. Couch, who made a shift some or other to get Possession of it, and kept it till about the Year An Attempt Towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the y of the Church of England, who were Sequester'd, Harrass'd, &c., in the late Times Grand Rebellion: Occasion'd by the Ninth Chapter (now the Second Volume) of alamy's Abridgment of the Life of Mr. Baxter. Together with an Examination of Chapter. By John Walker, M. A., Rector of St. Mary's the More in Exeter, and time Fellow of Exeter-College in Oxford." Fol. Lond. 1714. Part. II. pp. 220: 19 300 Notices of the Descendants of Secretary Rawson. Ann, born in Boston, April 11, 1674 Wilson, " died in infancy. " " 1675 " " " Margaret, " " " Aug. 1, 1676 " " " Edward, " " " Sept. 6, 1677 " " " Edward, " " " Aug. 29, 1678 " " " Rachael, " " " Oct. 16, 1679 ; " " " Dorothy, " " " Aug. 8, 1681 ; " " " William, " " " Dec. David, 2 or 8, 1682. (1) " " Dcc. 13, 1683. (2) Dorothy, " June 1686; Ebenezer, " died young. " Dorchester, 1687; " Thankful, Aug. 28, 1691. " " " Aug. , 1688; " Nathaniel, Aug. 21, 1688. " " Braintree, 1689. (3) Ebenezer, " July Edward, 24, 1691; died young. " Jan. 27, 1692. (4) Ann, " " Aug. Patience, 28, 1693 ; died in infancy. " " Nov. 8, 1694; " Nov. 14, 1694. Pelatiah, " " July 2, 1696. (5) Grindal, " Aug. 24,1697 died in infancy. Mary, " 1698 The names of the above twenty children are found recorded in t ancient Family Bible. GRINDAL RAWSON, the fifth son and youngest child of Secretar Rawson, was born Jan 23, 1659, and. graduated, with three others, i Harvard College, in 1678. After taking his first degree, he wa invited," SO writes his wife, in a letter to Cotton Mather, " by hi brother-in-law, the Rev. Mr. Samuel Torrey, to come to his house an study Divinity there, which he did, with such proficiency, that he wa advised to enter upon preaching. He preached his first sermon a Medfield, with great acceptation, and after two months' occasional per formances at other places, he received an invitation [Oct 4, 1680,] tc Mendon," in the County of Worcester, whither about twenty families had recently returned, the town having been abandoned by its inhab itants during King Philip's War. The invitation being accepted, Mr. Rawson entered upon the duties of the pastoral office, and continued preach until April 7, 1684, when he was permanently settled. After an eminently successful ministry of thirty-four years, he died " on the Lord's Day, about sunset," Feb. 6, 1715, aged 56 years. A sermon was preached at his decease, by his friend and classmate Cotton Mather, in the preface to which he favors us with an extract from President Oakes's Latin address, at the Commencement of 1678, wherein the Reverend orator was pleased to notice three of the four members of the graduating Class, viz. John Cotton, Cotton Mather, and Grindal Raw- son, making honorable mention of the progenitors of the latter, and ex- pressing his hope that God would endue him with the learning, sanctity, and moral virtues of a WILSON and a GRINDAL. Mather thus draws the character of his "well accomplished and industrious" friend, in the sermon just alluded to. " We generally esteemed him a truly pious man, and a very prudent one, and a person of temper, and every way qualified for a friend that might be delighted in. We honored him for 1849.] Notices of the Descendants of Secretary Rawson. 301 his industrious oversight of the Flock in the wilderness which had been committed unto him, and the variety of successful pains which he took for the good of those to whom God had therefore exceedingly endeared him. We honored himi for his Intellectual Abilities, which procured frequent applications to him, and brought him sometimes upon our most conspicuous theatres; and we usually took it for granted that things would be fairly done, where he had an hand in the doing of them. We honored him for his doing the work of an Evangelist among our In- dians, of whose language he was a master that had scarce an equal, and for whose welfare his projections and performances were such as render our loss herein hardly to be repaired.' He used to preach the Gospel regularly to the Indians in his neighborhood, in their own language and published a work entitled Confession of Faith," in English and Indian. In the spring of 1698 he was joined with Rev. Samuel Dan- orth, of Taunton, in a commission to visit the several plantations of Indians within the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in pursuance of orders and instructions from the Commissioners for the Propagation of he Gospel among the Indians in New England and the parts adjacent. These two gentlemen accordingly spent from May 30th to June 24th, 1698, in this visitation. Their highly interesting and valuable report hereof may be seen in the tenth volume of the Collections of the Mas- achusetts Historical Society. Mr. Rawson married Susanna, daughter of Rev. John Wilson, first minister of Medfield, and granddaughter of Rev. John Wilson of Bos- on. She died July 8, 1748, in the 84th year of her age, having been he mother of eleven children, as follows - Edmund, born 1684. (6) John, " April 26, 1685; died May 26, 1685. Susanna, " Oct. 3, 1686. (7) Edmon, " July 8, 1689. Wilson, " June 23, 1692. (8) John " Oct. 1, 1695. (9) Mary, " June 1699. (10) Rachael, " Sept. 1701. (11) David, " Oct. 25, 1703; died Jan. 18, 1704. Grindal, " Sept. 6, 1707. (12) Elizabeth, " April 21, 1710. (13) THIRD GENERATION. 1. III. CAPT. WILLIAM RAWSON, eighth child and eldest surviving on of William Rawson, was born Dec. 2 or 8, 1682, and is supposed On page 13 of the "Memorial of the Rawson Family" it is stated that William awson " resided in Boston a number of years after his marriage," that " the births of ten his children are recorded there," and that "he removed to Dorchester, where, according the records of that town, two of his children were born, and from thence to Braintree, W Quincy, to the ancient Rawson farm," &c. &c. Now according to this statement, upt. William Rawson, the eighth child of William, would seem to have been born in oston. How, then, shall we account for the fact, that on page 22 of this same work, he said to have been born in Braintree? Again, on page 14 of the "Memorial" we are informed that this said troublesome Cap- in William was born Dec. 8, 1682, and on page 22 his birth is. recorded as having curred Dec. 2, 1682. 1849.] Notices of the Descendants of Secretary Rawson. 303 1769, aged 73. His wife died Aug. 1, 1775, aged 83. Their children were nine in number, namely, Grindal. (27) Edward. Elliot. (28) Elizabeth, died in 1780, aged 24; Sarah; Jonathan; Experience; Jon- athan; and Lydia, who married Dr. John Cleverly, and had one child. 6. III. EDMUND RAWSON, eldest son and child of Rev. Grindal Rawson, was born in 1684, was a farmer, and settled in Uxbridge, where he sustained the office of Deacon in the Church. He married Elizabeth Howard, of Bridgewater, and had three sons, Edmund, born Aug. 15, 1718. (29) Abner, April 24, 1721. (30) Nathan, " Aug, 4, 1724. (31) 7. III. SUSANNA RAWSON, eldest daughter of Rev. Grindal Rawson, born Oct. 3, 1686, was married, in 1719, to Benjamin Reynolds, of Bristol, R. I., and had children, John. (32) Benjamin, removed to Nova Scotia; Grindal, removed to Putney, Vt.; Anna; Priscilla, married a Morse, and had one daughter, Mary (35); Sarah, married Seth Chapin. 8. III. WILSON RAWSON, son of Rev. Grindal Rawson, born June 23, 1692, was a farmer, and settled in Mendon. He married Margaret Arthur, of Nantucket, May 4, 1712, and died* Nov. 14, 1757, having had eight children, namely, Wilson, born Aug. 13, 1713. (33) Priscilla, " Dec. 17, 1715; Mary, born May 12, 1717; Grindal, " July 13, 1719. (34) Edward, April 2, 1721. (35) Stephen, April 2,1722. (36) Paul, " April 9,1725 (37) Thomas, May ,1733. (38) 9. III. JOHN RAWSON, son of Rev. Grindal Rawson, born Oct. 1, 1695, was a farmer, and settled in Uxbridge. He married Mercy Hayward,t of Bridgewater, Jan. 23, 1719, and had children, John, born Nov. 9, 1720; Joseph, born March 2, 1722-3, killed at Win- chester in the Indian War; Mercy, born Sept. 8, 1725, died Feb., 1725-6; Rhoda, born Nov. 22, 1730; Mercy, born June 3, 1732. 10. III. MARY RAWSON, second daughter of Rev. Grindal Rawson, born June 22, 1699, was married, April 9, 1724, to Rev Joseph Dorr, er father's successor in the ministry at Mendon. He graduated at * On page 21 of the "Memorial" it is stated that he died Dec. 1, 1726, more than six ears previous to the date assigned for the birth of his youngest child, which looks rather uspicious, to say the least. We have, therefore, adopted the more consistent date given n page 26. t An unaccountable discrepancy here occurs in the 'Memorial," inasmuch as it is stated n page 21 that John Rawson "married Mercy Virgon, Feb. 19, 1730 and on page 26 1e same person is made to marry and have children as in the text. 304 Notices of the Descendants of Secretary Rawson. [0c1 March Harvard 9, College 1768, in in the 1711, was settled in Mendon in that "he was endued with 79th year of his age. His epitaph 1716, and die cid. He excell'd in the virtues good sense. of His temper was mild informs and us husband, Divine and exemplary Christian." charity - Mrs. was a good scholar, a learned sobriety, gravity, benevolence, and meekness, patience, temperance. pla Mary, and died April 9, 1776. Their children were Dorr as survived follows:- her Joseph, born " June 6, 1725. (39) Katherine, " May 1730. (40) March 1732. 1779. Susanna, " Sept. 4, 1734; (41) married Rev. Amariah Frost, May 23, 11. born III. RACHAEL Rawson, third daughter of Rev. son, Mendon since Sept. 6, 1701, was married to Samuel Wood, of Grindal Raw- His widow called Upton. He was born in 1696, and died that in part 1790. of died in 1802. They had one daughter, Priscilla, born in 1718. (42) ied was Theology, 6, 1707, graduated at Harvard College in Rawson, 12. born III. Sept. GRINDAL RAWSON, youngest son of Rev. Grindal where he was and was the first Pastor of the Church in South 1728, stud- ministry for settled Oct. 3, 1733, and continued in the Hadley, among was installed people, he was dismissed. He removed to Connecticut, having arisen his about eight years, when, dissatisfaction exercise of his which occurred County, Sept. 18, 1745, and there remained until Hadlyme, his in Middlesex first pastor of the newly-formed Church at and in pleasantry in conversation, and had an was re- markable for March 29, 1777. It is said of him that " he death, of reconciling Rev. parties at variance." His wife was Dorothy, uncommon talent Church in Charles Chauncy, D. D.,t the eminent Pastor of the daughter were College. She died in 1780, aged 70. Their Chauncy, children of Harvard Boston, and great-great-granddaughter of President First Edmund Grindal. (43) young; Hooker; Chauncy, and Dorothy, both died aged 23. Charles, a Physician, died in Rhode Island, aged 23; Wilson, died 13. III. ELIZABETH RAWSON, youngest child of Rev. Grindal Raw- of on, of Mendon, born April 21, 1710, married, 1st, Abner Hazeltine, months after the death of his father, viz.- Sutton, Feb. 11, 1730-1, by whom she had one son, born a few Abner, born Nov. 5, 1731. (44) The widow Hazeltine married, for her 2nd husband, March 8, 1737-8, James Wood, of Mendon, by whom she had seven children, namely, Hampshire, Ms., in Amer. Quart. Register, X. 382, 395; Field's Statistical Account County of the Edwards's Complete List of the Congregational Ministers in the Old of County of Middlesex, Conn., pp. 80, 138. No such clergyman as "Rev. Isaac Chauncy, D. D.," was ever settled in Boston. Not "Rev. Isaac Chauncy, D. D., of Boston," as erroneously stated in the "Memorial." 312 Notices of the Descendants of Secretary Rawson. the Church in Randolph, as successor to Rev. Elisha Eaton, Aug. 1752, and continued in the ministry until his death, Nov. 12,179 He had four sons, Moses, born June 10, 1754, graduated at Harvard College in 1774, 1 a Physician, and settled in Sudbury, Mass.; Eleazer, born Oct. 11, 17 graduated at Harvard in 1783, died at Exeter, N. H., in 1834 Jose born Aug. 15, 1756, graduated at Harvard in 1783 Phineas, born A 11, 1762, graduated at Harvard in 1789 and also four daughters, one whom married an Allen, one a French, one a Henshaw, and one Sam Stetson, of Boston. 40. IV. HON. JOSEPH DORR, eldest son of Rev. Joseph Dorr, bc May 24, 1730, graduated at Harvard College in 1752, studied Divini and preached occasionally for several years. His exertions in the cau of liberty were great and unceasing. He was one of the Commission ers chosen to wait upon the Mandamus Councillors of the County Worcester, and to demand a surrender of their Commissions. Thr hundred days of each year from 1773 to 1780 were devoted by him the public service without compensation. He was Town Clerk, Justi of the Peace, a member of the Secret Committee, of the Committee Safety, and of the Committee of Correspondence, a member of the Le islature, &c. After the War which resulted in our Independence, ] was appointed a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and Judge Probate, which offices were held by him until near the close of his lif He died Oct. 31, 1808. By his wife, Catherine Bucknam, whom 1 married Dec. 6, 1768, he had eight children, namely, Joseph, born March 10, 1769, died March 25, 1769; Catherine, bor Aug. 17, 1770, died young; Joseph Hawley, born July 20, 1772. (102) Samuel, " June 23, 1774. (103) Sarah, " Aug. 10, 1776, married Jonas Newell, of Nev Braintree, and died in 1823; Thomas Shepard, born Nov. 11, 1778, mai ried a Parsons, and died Oct. 1816; Mary, born Jan. 7, 1784, marrie Oliver Fox, Esq., of Fitchburg; Edward, born Oct. 20, 1786, went Sout. in 1815, and settled in Nova Iberia, Louisiana. He owned an Island at th mouth of Trinity River, Texas, called Dorr's Island, where he was exten sively engaged in the breeding of horses and cattle. He died in April, 1847 41. IV. CATHERINE DORR, second daughter of Rev. Joseph Dorr born March 8, 1732, married Rev. Ezekiel Emerson, March 27, 1760. Mr. Emerson was a native of Uxbridge, Mass., and in the summer of 1764 preached in Georgetown, Lincoln County, Maine, as a candidate for settlement. Soon receiving a call, he accepted thereof, was or- dained July 3, 1765, and "remained happily and peacefully with the people for about fourteen years. At that period the Revolutionary War rendered his situation unpleasant. The settlements on the coast, and especially at the mouth of large rivers, were considered unsafe, the expenses of the war lay heavy on the people, and the depreciation of Noyes's Complete List of the Congregational Ministers in the County of Norfolk, Mass., in Amer. Quart. Register, VIII. 45, 54. 349.] Notices of the Descendants of Secretary Rawson. 327 ;athaniel, born Feb. 26, 1780, settled as a Congregational Minister in Iardwick, Vt., subsequently in Hampton, Conn., married, 1st, Betsey Fitch, d, Sarah Piper, and had six children; Jared, born Jan. 2, 1782, married nna T. Waldron, Nov. 5, 1820, and had six children Anna, born March 1, 1785, married Luther Clafton,* June 8, 1809, and had seven children; oxa, born June 30, 1788, married Dea. Peter Rockwood, of Milford. 100. V. RACHAEL RAWSON, daughter of Thomas Rawson, born Iarch 6, 1747, married Stephen Chapin, Jan. 22,1 1768, lived in that art of Mendon since incorporated as Milford, and died Dec. 2, 1797. [er husband died in 1816, having had issue, Calvin, born in 1769, a farmer, married, and settled in Pelbam, Mass. achael, born in 1771, married Elijah Albee, a farmer, of Milford; Luther, arried Polly Wedge, of Milford, settled in Pelham, where he now resides; ynthia, born in 1773, married Nahum Wedge, of Milford, a farmer, who ttled in Pelham; Stephen, born in 1777, graduated at Harvard College 1804, was settled as a Congregational Minister in Hillsborough, N. H., here he married, was afterwards installed at Mount Vernon, N. H., where became a Baptist, was Professor of Theology in Waterville College, aine, from 1822 to 1828, was elected President of Columbia College, ashington, D. C., where he died in 1846; Seth, born in 1783, married olly Wood. of Mendon; Otis, born in 1785, married Abigail Haywood, of ilford, settled in Monson, as a manufacturer. 101. V. ANNA RAWSON, daughter of Thomas Rawson, born May 1749, married Col. Benjamin Hoppin, of Providence, " a worthy in and an honorable merchant," and had children, Davis W.; Candace; Benjamin : George Washington ; and Thomas ple; born, respectively, in 1771, 1773, 1777, 1779, and 1785; Levi, born 1789, died in 1804, while a member of Brown University; Henry rania, married Gen. Edward Carrington, of Providence, and had one son, |ward, who graduated at Middlebury College in 1832. 102. V. JOSEPH HAWLEY DORR, second son of Hon. Joseph Dorr, rn July 20, 1772, married Lucy Penniman, of New Braintree, and :tled in Boston, as a Merchant, where he has sustained numerous ices of trust under the Town and City Governments. Of seven chil- en the following survived infancy, namely, Joseph H., graduated at Bowdoin College in 1827, spent two years at the iversity of Gottingen, Germany, and some time in Paris, at a French hool, is settled as a Physician in Philadelphia; Thomas Edward, was a olar of high rank in the Boston High School; Lucy Penniman, married tvid Whiton, and died soon after. 103. V. SAMUEL DORR, son of Hon. Joseph Dorr, born June 23, 774, married, 1st, Lucy, daughter of Joseph Fox, Esq., of Fitchburg, whom he had five sons, 2d, a Brown, by whom he had two children, S President of the New England Bank for ten years, a member of House of Representatives and Senate at different times, and died Boston, in December, 1844. His children were, Thus on page 80 of the "Memorial;" but on page 106 we read "Luther Cloflen" as name of the husband of Anna Rawson. Thus on page 80 of the "Memorial;" but on page 45 the date of the marriage is en as Jan. 3, 1768." 328 Notices of the Descendants of Secretary Rawson. [Oct. Samuel F., died leaving a wife and two children; George B.; Albert H., settled in Ramsford, N. Y.; Francis F.; Martha Ann, married Henry Edwards; James Augustus, graduated at Harvard College in 1832, is a Lawyer in New York; Susan; Charles H. 104. V. PHEBE EMERSON, eldest child of Rev. Ezekiel Emerson, born July 20, 1762, married Josiah Hale, of Norridgewock, Maine, and died June 19, 1829, having had children as follows: Josiah, born Sept. 7, 1782, married Mercy Baker, in 1801, and had three daughters; Ezekiel, born May 24, 1784, married, 1st, Susan Kidder, in 1810, 2d, Sarah Tazier, and had five children Ebenezer, born Feb. 1, 1786, married Ann Dinsmore, in 1807, and had ten children; Charles, born Feb. 19, 1788, married Nancy Holman, formerly of Milbury, Mass., and had four sons; Calvin, born Dec. 3, 1789, married Maria Gould, set- tled in Norridgewock, Maine, and had six children; Luther, born Dec. 15, 1791, married Phebe Kidder, settled in Norridgewock, and had ten children; Thurston, born Jan., 1793, married Lydia Gould, had ten children, and died April 14, 1839; Lucinda, died aged 18 months; Diantha, born Feb. 19, 1798, married Samuel G. Tuck, and had three children; Sumner, born in 1800, died in 1805 Simon, born in 1802, died in 1826; Eusebius, born Dec. 18, 1805, a Clergyman, married Philena Dinsmore, settled at Water- ville, and afterwards at Foxcroft, Maine, and had four children; Sumner, born March 9, 1808, graduated at Waterville College, has been settled as Pastor of a Baptist Church at Beverly Farms, now resides in Fitchburg, Mass., married a daughter of Deacon Farwell, of Chelmsford. 105. V. EZEKIEL EMERSON, eldest son of Rev. Ezekiel Emerson, born in Mendon, July 6, 1765, married a Mrs. Fish, settled in Nor- ridgewock, Maine, and died suddenly, in the woods, near Moosehead Lake, in the year 1809, having had, Ezekiel, lives in Bangor, has several children; Mary, married Augustus Taylor, and had issue; Isabella, married Melvin Lincoln, lives in Madison, Maine; Betsey, married a Merrill, of Dexter, Maine; Lucina, married a Thurston, and lives in Solon, Maine; Luther, married D. II. Dennett, has nine children; Jotham, married, lives in Dover, and has children. 106. V. HAWLEY EMERSON, son of Rev. Ezekiel Emerson, born Dec. 7, 1766, in Georgetown, Maine, where he married Rachael Linen, and there settled, had children named Catherine; Mary; Rachael; Julia; Rebecca; Theodosia; Diantha; Mar- garet; Betsey; Nancy; and Luther; and died Jan. 6, 1844. 107. V. CALVIN EMERSON, son of Rev. Ezekiel Emerson, born Jan. 9, 1769, in Georgetown, married Elizabeth Petty, of that place, settled in Fairfield, Maine, and died in November, 1827, having had issue, Catherine, born Nov. 14, 1793, married Benjamin Harriman; John, born Jan. 20, 1796, married Mary, daughter of Stephen Holbrook, of Grafton, Mass., April 13, 1831, lives at Norridgewock, Maine, and has had two chil- dren; Ezekiel, born March 15, 1798, married and has a family; Gillette, born in March, 1800; Jeremiah, born Feb. 29, 1804; Miranda, born April 5, 1810, married John Fogg, had two sons and one daughter; Nancy; Collins, born in April, 1802. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept. 8. New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 Rev'd Joseph Dorr, third son of Edward Dorr Joseph Dorr was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1690; graduated from Harvard College in 1711, re- ceiving the degree of Master of Arts in course. He was ordained Minister of the First Church in Mendon, Massachusetts, on the 25th of January, 1717, and so continued until his death, the 9th of March, 1768, in the 79th year of his age, having been in charge of his Parish more than fifty years. He was the first Modera- tor of the Mendon Association, formed in 1751, which for the first five years held its meetings at his house, and continued its standing Moderator until he died. He supported the views of Jonathan Edwards and signed a testimonial in favor of the 'Revival of 1740. 1 The estimate placed upon his character by his parish- oners is shown by the epitaph inscribed by their direction on his gravestone: m COPY 9. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept. New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston. MA 02116 11 This stone is sacred to the memory of the Rev'd Joseph Dorr, late pastor of ye First Church of Christ in Mendon. He died March 9th, 1768, in the 79th year of his age and the 52nd of his ministry. He was indued with good sense. His temper was mild and placid. He excelled in ye virtues of meekness and patience, of temperance, gravity, benevolence and charity. He was a good Scholar, a learned Divine and exem- plary Christian." The Rev'd Joseph Dorr married, on April 9th, 1724, Mary Rawson, daughter of his predecessor in the Church at Mendon, the Rev'd Grindal Rawson, son of Edward Raw- son, Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony for many years; and great-granddaughter of John Wilson, the first Minister of Boston. They had one son, Joseph, and three daughters. COPY 10. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept. New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 Dr. John G. Metcalf, resident physician in the town, in his History of Mendon, published in 1873, says: 'The sites of both the house occupied by the Rev'd Grindal Rawson and that occupied by the Rev'd Joseph Dorr are known. Rev'd Mr. Rawson's house was about a quarter of a mile west of the Post Office. About the site are many trees but none so old as the time of Mr. Rawson. "The site of Mr. Dorr's house lies three quar- ters of a mile north of the Post Office. When I came to Mendon, in 1825, the house was gone but there was an ancient elm that had grown beside it, and the old well, exceptionally deep and pure, is still in con- stant use. "Mr. Dorr's house lay quite outside the village and its site still has the most commanding view of any in the town. From it may be seen two or three neigh- boring villages, Medway, Milford, and others more distant, and the Blue Hills of Milton far in the east * of Neither of these houses, that of the Rev'd Grindal Rawson nor of the Rev'd Joseph Dorr, belonged to the parish of the church they served, but were the property of the ministers, occupied by their families after their decease. These houses and the land on which they set, while no record of it has remained, must have been, as had been their education for the ministry at Harvard College, the gift of their fathers to them, both being men of property, active in affairs, and both deeply interested, as the records show, in church affairs and the Puritan faith. R. Stanton Avery 11. Special Collections Dept. New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 "Two upright headstones of dark slate, in good preservation, marked, in 1874, the Dorr burial place, their lettering, wrought with unusual skill, still clear and distinct. Over Mr. Dorr's grave was grow- ing a large apple tree which must at that time have been 80 or 90 years old. 11 It was here that the Hon. Joseph Dorr was born and lived till middle life, when he removed to Ward, now Auburn; and it was here also that his son, Samuel Dorr, was born and lived till he was 12 years old. ancestry Joseph Dorr 1690-1768 Age 0 - Birth 22 June 1690 . Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America Parents Age 2 - Birth of Sibling Edmund D. Dorr (1692-1772) Edward Dorr 1648-1734 19 October 1692 . Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America Elizabeth Hawley 1656-1719 Age 5 - Birth of Sibling Harbottle Dorr (1696-1746) 11 May 1696 . Massachusetts, United States of America Spouse & Children Age 29 - Death of Mother Elizabeth Hawley (1656-1719) 7 December 1719 . Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of Ameri- Mary Rawson 1699-1776 ca Age 33 - Marriage Joseph Dorr Jr. 1730-1808 9 Apr 1724 Mary Rawson (1699-1776) Age 39 - Birth of Son Joseph Dorr Jr. (1730-1808) 24 May 1730 . Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States of America Ancestry Sources Age 43 - Death of Father Edward Dorr (1648-1734) 9 February 1734 . Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Age 55 - Death of Sibling Harbottle Dorr (1696-1746) U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current 12 June 1746 Age 69 - Death of Sibling Ebenezer Dorr (1686-1760) 25 January 1760 Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America Age 77 - Death 9 March 1768 Burial Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States of America ancestry Mary Rawson 1699-1776 Age 0 - Birth 22 June 1699 . Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States of America Parents Age 24 - Marriage Rev. Grindal Rawson 9 Apr 1724 Joseph Dorr (1690-1768) Susannah Wilson Age 30 - Birth of Son Joseph Dorr Jr. (1730-1808) Spouse & Children 24 May 1730 . Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States of America Age 68 - Death of Husband Joseph Dorr (1690-1768) Joseph Dorr 1690-1768 9 March 1768 Joseph Dorr Jr. 1730-1808 Age 76 - Death 9 April 1776 Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States of America Burial Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States of America Ancestry Sources North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Mg tof 3 John Langdon Sibley. Sibley's Harvard graduates Boston: HUP. 1700- Vol. 1701-17-12 574 CLASS OF I7II JOSEPH DORR 575 Terror to me: It won't take hold of me as an Enemy, but as a Kind got into difficulties when he came up for the M.A. three years Friend; and it will be Welcome whenever it comes. I warn you of later. He submitted an affirmative answer to the quastio, "An my Departure, that you may be more prepared for it, and grow Essentia Rerum sint aternae?" the religious implications of weaned from me! which do not seem to have troubled the college authorities. But "That eminently Faithful, great, powerful and steady Friend to over in Boston Judge Sewall was distressed, and took the Piety, Liberty and his Country; the truly Honourable and dear matter to his parson, Ebenezer Pemberton (A.B. 1691). Mr. Cushing, died on April II, 1746, and was interred in the Mr. Pemberton seem'd to approve of it. When he did not explain it Granary Burying Ground. His will mentions his children Mary, to my satisfaction; He said, I have for got my Philosophy. Upon my Thomas, and Edward, and the estate came to the respectable mentioning Divinity, He said, There was nothing of Divinity in it. sum of 20,000l. Mrs. Cushing, a religious gentlewoman, This he spoke with an Air of displeasure. I came away, Meeting Mr. pleasant in conversation, and charitable to the poor, dropped Remington [Jonathan, A.B. 1696] in the Street I told him of it, and de- sired him to speak to the President; and by Mr. Higginson next day dead in her chamber on the thirtieth of October following. I received a kind Letter from the President with a Master's Thesis in it corrected as it now stands.2 WORKS And the quastio stands on the printed sheet as the affirmative of, In the library of the Harvard Graduate School of Business is Mr. "An Novitas essendi sit de ratione Creationis?" As there is no Cushing's business journal for the years 1739-40. He has sometimes evidence that Dorr took part in the exercises, he was probably been credited with the authorship of The Essential Rights and Liberties not asked to write a new essay. of Protestants (Boston, 1744). That same year, 1714, found Mr. Dorr keeping the school at Andover. Despite his quastio he aimed to enter the ministry, and accepted an invitation to preach at Mendon. There were JOSEPH DORR troublesome Quakers in Mendon, but they were at least not JOSEPH DORR, second minister of Mendon, Massachusetts, addicted to scalping as were the Indians who terrified Andover was one of the younger children of Edward and Elizabeth schoolmasters. The young preacher satisfied the church mem- (Hawley) Dorr of Roxbury. The father has been called "the bers, and at the town meeting of February 9, 1715/16, it was Reverend," but there is no evidence that he was anything more "proposed to the Town to Bring in their votes for Their Concur- rence in the Church's choice of the Rev. Joseph Dorr to Be Their than a respected citizen and a member of the church of Rox- bury. Joseph did not take up residence at the College until the Pastor, which was accordingly Don and voted to be the Town's Minister." Two weeks later he and the town fathers came to an beginning of the sophomore year of his Class. He achieved neither honors nor notable censures, although he was fined in agreement on the terms. every quarter of his junior year. Perhaps this fairly good record Imprimis. That they will give him for a yearly Sallery The sum of can be laid to Joseph Sewall (A.B. 1707), an older student, who seaventy-five pounds per annum, after the first year & the first year seaventy pounds To be paid in money. recorded in his diary: "God helped me to perform what (If I 2ndly. That they will give for Settlement or Encouragement the Mistake not I have attempted once & again, i. e.) To Speak to sum of One hundred and sixty pounds, One hundred pounds in Dor of his Soul's concern to exhort him earnestly to give money and Sixty pounds to be paid in Labour & materials for himself to Christ." Dorr took his first degree in due course, but and towards the building of him an house amongst us. 4 Ibid., 33. The ordination took place on February 25, 1716. 23 Ibid., 24. 24 Suffolk Probate Records, XXXVIII, 519-21. Samuel Sewall, Diary (5 Coll. M. H. S. v-vii), III, 8. 25 Boston News-Letter, Nov. 6, 1746. 3 John G. Metcalf, Annals of the Town of Mendon (Providence, 1880), pp. 173-4. I Joseph Sewall, Ms. Diary (Boston Public Library), pp. 152-3. Ibid., 174. page , 38 576 CLASS OF 1711 JOSEPH DORR 577 It was not until April 9, 1724, that Mr. Dorr obtained a mis- lence, and charity," he was in some sort of ecclesiastical diffi- tress for his new house in the person of Mary, a daughter of his culty and appealing for advice to the Worcester association of predecessor, the Reverend Grindall Rawson, A.B. 1678. She ministers in October, 1740.9 That the dissatisfied members of was a happy choice, for "She filled up the measure of her days his congregation took a like step is shown by a resolution which with religion and devotion was of a tender, courteous, he offered in the town meeting of March 2, 1741. affable and obliging disposition; confined not her offices of kind- ness and respect to her own family was such a friend as GENTLEMEN, In as much as an opposing party in this Town have Obtained a judgment of a Council Against the Minister of the Town, loveth at all times, expressed by a constant series of doing without a Tryal, Relating to his administration viz: - of a Council good to all in their varying circumstances." The Dorrs had Chosen by them Selves in SO private a manner that the Pastor of the four or five children, depending on whether Katherine and Church had No Coppy of the Letters Missive until after the Letters Elizabeth were twins or a mistake in the record.6 The only son, were Sent out to the Churches - If you judge that the Minister of this Joseph, was graduated in 1752. Mary became the wife of the Town Ought to be defended against Such Proceedings and you will de- fend him Signify it by Lifting up your hands. Reverend Moses Taft (A.B. 1751), and Susanna, the second wife GENTLEMEN, if you will choose three persons as a Committee chosen of the Reverend Amariah Frost (A.B. 1740). by the Church, or by that part of it that adheres to the Pastor to ad- While an increasing family and inflation were burdening the vise and concur with them in the choice of a Council, if they shall think parson's purse, the freeing of the Quakers and the Baptists from fit, to judge of the Result of the late Council Chosen by the opposite the necessity of contributing to his salary and the separation party here by Lifting up your hands. from the church of Mendon of what are now the First Churches The parson retained the support of a majority, but "a great of Bellingham, Uxbridge, Upton, Milford, and Blackstone number" of the dissatisfied appealed to the General Court on were making it difficult for the church to meet his needs. They the grounds that Mr. Dorr would not abide by the result of their did, however, from time to time take special contributions and council and would do nothing 'to give the Petitioners reason- vote him supplementary sums sometimes as large as the salary able satisfaction." As a consequence the parish of Mill River, itself. In general, he kept the affections of his parishioners by later the town of Milford, was set up. The strict theology of the such acts of kindness as petitioning to the court for leniency for new covenant suggests that the division was not simply geo- a lady of the congregation who had violated the seventh graphical. There was, however, no doubt cast upon Mr. Dorr. commandment. He was a man It may Justly be Supposed that as the End of the law which is refor- of singular virtue, sobriety and temperance, a Man of good mation is fully answered with respect to her with out the Execution of learning, polemical, political and divine, a father to his family, flock, it. These are therefore to Desire that Shee may with her Judges find and ministers, in the Vicinity: a faithful Minister a strict ad- as much Clemency and favour as can Consist with the Law.7 herent to the doctrines of grace [He] highly recommended the Mr. Dorr has been called a New-Light because he signed the examination of candidates, for the work of the ministry; preventive (if possible) of the introduction of men unsound in the faith into the Testimony and Advice of July 7, 1743, but his experiences during ministry, a great friend to our English Liberties, was much concerned the Great Awakening suggest that he was not New-Light for the peace and good order of the Churches. enough for a large minority of his congregation. Although his "temper was mild and placid," and "He excelled in the virtues It was in an effort to further these ends that he joined in the of meekness, patience, temperance, sobriety, gravity, benevo- gathering of the Mendon association of ministers, of which he was the first moderator. 5 Boston Gazette, Apr. 22, 1776, p. 3. 6 For the children, see N. H. Hist. Gen. Reg. III, passim. Mortimer Blake, Centurial History of the Mendon Association (Boston, 1853), 7 Early Files in the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Suffolk County, p. 86. The quotation is from Mr. Dorr's gravestone. 9 30871. Joseph Allen, Worcester Association (Boston, 1868), p. 22. 10 Annals, p. 237. II Boston News-Letter, Mar. 17, 1768, p. 2. page 3of3 578 CLASS OF 1711 TIMOTHY FALES 579 Through all these years Mr. Dorr carried on the entire work church, and in 1717 married Alethea, the daughter of the of the ministry in Mendon without more assistance than a few Honorable Nathaniel Paine. sermons from schoolmaster Samuel Terry (A.B. 1710) at a time Mr. Fales apparently founded his fortune on trade, for in when the parson was sick. Finally, in April, 1767, the parish deeds of 1720 and 1721 he is mentioned as mariner and captain. sent a committee to ask the old minister on what terms he would In 1724 he was commissioned a justice of the peace and was al- retire. He replied: ready serving as clerk of the court of common pleas. ² The I have Duly Considered the Same and accordingly Propose as following year he began his long service as the notary public of follows, viz. Considering the difficulty you Labour under and to pre- the district, and for the year 1731, at least, he was treasurer of serve Peace a Mong you and to enable and encourage you to proceede the county. In 1739 he was one of the justices of the peace to sit with Unanimity and Chearfulness to the Settlement of another Gospell minister, I find in myself a freedom to accept of the sum of on the bench of the inferior court of common pleas. Thirteen Pounds, Six Shillings and Eight pence, Lawful Money, The year 1747 saw serious changes in Mr. Fales's life. Bristol Annually, During my Natural Life, tho at the same time, as my was ceded to Rhode Island, and he was one of the committee Worldly Estate is small, Labour dear and I am unable by reason of selected by the last town meeting under the old order to petition my great age and Infirmitees to manage my affairs to advantage, I am the new masters for the old rights. The removal of the county apprehensive that said sum will fall short of a Necessary Support, yet seat to Taunton compelled him to follow. And on September I9, Considering the Long Term of years I have Laboured among you in the Gospel of Christ, I am Persuaded, my Brethren, you will not See Mrs. Fales died. On the eleventh of July following, the widower me suffer with Extreem want. 22 married Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas of Plymouth, the daughter of the Reverend James Gardner and relict of Nathaniel Thomas. On March 9, 1768, before the parish had called another minister By her he had one child, Elizabeth, whose love affair became a under this agreement, Mr. Dorr died, then being in the fifty- source of worry to him in later years.3 Concerning it he wrote second year of his service and the seventy-ninth of his age. His to a relative a letter of interest only because of the light which it widow followed him on April 9, 1776. throws on the writer of it: I have Directed these Malonckolly Lines to Your Self whom I hope I have some favourable Regards. The Case is this Betsey has TIMOTHY FALES again falen into the Same measures as before she was in Even as the Dog to his Vomit or Sow etc. TIMOTHY FALES, a magistrate of Bristol County, was born She has wrote me Earnestly to send for to Taunton and that her August 18, 1690, the fourth child of James and Deborah (Fisher) Sister Thomas thinks it best for her I should be glad to be informed Fales of Dedham. Although he was dropped from eighth why Madam Thomas thought SO and whether she has been Informed place to the foot of his Class in the third quarter of his freshman of her return to utmost folly and if persisted must be her unavoidable Ruin both for time and Eternity. [He is] A Person of the worst of year, there is nothing in his college record to suggest the cause. Morals (who from his own mouth has Declard it is his bounden Duty He took both degrees with his Class, for the second offering an to observe that word of Command Go forth and Multiply spoken in affirmative answer to the quastio, "An Elementa maneant the beginning of Times with a very Different Meaning formaliter in mixtis?" About the beginning of the year 1713, Fales went to Bristol, At Taunton Mr. Fales acted as clerk of both of the courts then the seat of Bristol County, Massachusetts, for the purpose, and apparently served in the militia, for he was accorded the tradition says, of tutoring the children of Nathaniel Hubbard, title of captain long after any sea-going days would have been A.B. 1698. On July I3 the town voted to invite him to keep the DeCoursey Fales, Fales Family of Bristol (p.p 1919), p. 34. 2 public school. He settled down there, joined the Congregational New-England Courant, Aug. IO, 1724. 3 For the children, see Fales Family, pp. 43 ff. 4 John Thomas Mss. (M. H. S.), 171.1.9.25. I2 Annals, p. 307. Ancestry World Tree Project: Descendants of Edward Dorr Page 1 of 7 Ancestry.com The No. * Source for Family History Online Home Search Records Family Trees Message Boards Genealogy Help Ancest Become an Ancestry.com Subscriber Welcome, Ronald Epp (Log Out I E Find Your Ancestors in the U.S. Federal Census! Click Here! Descendants of Edward Dorr Entries: 16837 Updated: Wed Aug 21 13:31:13 2002 Contact: Charles Dorr cdorr@cfl.r Index Descendancy Register Pedigree Ahnentafel I Download GEDCOM Add Post- ID: I7 Name: Joseph DORR NPFX: Rev. Given Name: Joseph Surname: Dorr Sex: M UID: FEC545320222447AB505744DFB5E0E62F97 Pr Note: Y Copy of old Letter, Mary Rawson second daughter of Rev. Grindall Rawson born June 22, 1699, married April 9, 1724, to Rev. Joseph Dorr her father' ssuccessor in the ministry at Mendon. He graduated at Harvard College 1711. Settled in Mendon 1716, died March 9, 1768 in 79th year of hisage. His epitaph informs us that he was endued with good sense, histemper was mild and placid, he excelled in the virtues if meekness, patience, temperance, sobriety, gravity, benevolence, and charity- wasa good scholar advances Divine and exemplary Christian. JOSEPH DORR Joseph Dorr, second minister of Mendon, MA., was one of the youngerchildren of Edward and Elizabeth (Hawley) Dorr of Roxbury. The fatherhas been called "the Reverend" but there is no evidence that he wasanything more than a respected citizen and a member of the church ofRoxbury. Joseph did not take up residence at the College until thebeginning of the sophomore year of his Class. He achieved neitherhonors nor notable censures although he was fined in every quarter ofhis Reli junior year. Perhaps this fairly good record can be laid toJoseph Sewall (A.D. 1707), - - an older student, who recorded in hisdiary: "God helped me to perform what (If I Mistake not I haveattempted once & Again, i.e..,) To Speak to Dorr of his CLIC Soul'sconcern to exhort him earnestly to give himself to Christ." Dorr tookhis first degree in due course, but got into difficulties when he cameup for the M.A. three INS years later. He submitted an affirmative answerto the Question, = An Essential Rerun sint aeternae?" the religiousimplications of which do not seem to have troubled the collegeauthorities. But over in Boston Judge Sewall was distressed, and tookthe http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1902448&id=I* 4/2/2003 Ancestry World Tree Project: Descendants of Edward Dorr Page 2 of 7 matter in nis parson, Ebenezer Pemberton (A. B. 1091). Mr. Pemberton seemed to approve of it. When he did not explainit to my satisfaction; He said, I have for got my Philosophy. Upon mymentioning Divinity, He said, There was nothing of Divinity in it. This he spoke with an air of displeasure. I came away, Meeting Mr.Remington (Jonathan, A. B. 1696) in the street I told him of it, anddesired him to speak to the president; and by Mr. Higginson next day Ireceived a kind letter from the President with a Master's Thesis in itcorrected as it now stands. And the Question stands on the printed sheet as the affirmativeof, An Novitas essendi sit de ratione Creations?" As there is noevidence that Dorr tool part in the exercises, he probably not askedto write a new essay. That same year, 1714 found Mr. Dorr keeping the school atAndover. Despite his Question he aimed to enter the ministry, andaccepted an invitation to preach at Mendon. There were troublesomeQuakers in Mendon, but they were at least not addicted to scalping aswere the Indians who terrified Andover schoolmasters. The youngpreacher satisfied the church members, and at the town meeting ofFebruary 9, 1715/16, it was proposed to the Town to Bring in theirvotes for Their Concurrence in the Church's choice of Rev. Joseph Dorrto Be Their Pastor, which was accordingly Don and voted to be the Town's Minister." Two weeks later he and the town fathers came to anagreement on the terms. Imprimis. That they will give him for a yearly salary The Sum ofseventy-five pounds per annum, after the first year & the first yearseventy pounds To be paid in money 2nd. That they will give for Settlement or Encouragement the sumof One hundred and sixty pounds, One hundred pounds in money and Sixty pounds to be paid in Labor & materials for and towards thebuilding of him an house amongst us The ordination took place on February 25, 1716. It was not until April 9, 1724, that Mr. Dorr obtained a mistressfor his new house in the person of Mary, a daughter of hispredecessor, the Reverend Grindall Rawson, A. B. 1678. She was ahappy choice, for " She filled up the measure of her days withreligion and devotion was a tender, courteous, affable and obligingdisposition; confined not to her offices of kindness and respect toher family was such a friend as loveth at all times, expressed bya constant series of doing good to all in their varyingcircumstances." The Dorr's had four or five children, depending onwhether Katherine and Elizabeth were twins or a mistake in the record. The only son, Joseph, was graduated in 1752. Mary became his wife ofthe Reverend Moses Taft (A. B. 1751), and Susannah, the second wife ofReverend Amariah Frost (A. B. 1740). While an increasing family and inflation were burdening theparson's purse, the freeing of the Quakers and the Baptists from thenecessity of contributing to his salary and the separation from thechurch of Mendon of what are now the First Churches of Bellingham, Uxbridge, Upton, Milford, and Blackstone were making it difficult forthe church to meets his needs. they did, however, from time to timetake special contributions and voter him supplementary sums sometimesas large as the salary itself. In general, he kept the affections ofhis parishioners by such acts of kindness as petitioning to the courtfor leniency for a lady of the congregation who had violated theseventh commandment. It may Justly be Supposed that as the End of the law which isreformation is fully answered with respect to her with out theExecution of it. These are therefore to Desire that She may with herJudges find as much Clemency and favour as can Consist with the Law. Mr. Dorr has been called a New-Light because he signed the Testimony and Advice of July 7, 1743, but his experiences during heGreat Awakening suggest that he was http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1902448&id=I7 4/2/2003 Ancestry World Tree Project: Descendants of Edward Dorr Page 3 of 7 not New-Light enough for a largeminority or his congregation. Although his temper was mild landplacid," and He excelled in the virtues of meekness, patience, temperance, sobriety, gravity, benevolence, and charity," he was insome sort of ecclesiastical difficulty and appealing for advice to the Worcester association of ministers in October, 1740. That thedissatisfied members of his congregation took a like step is shown bya resolution which he offered in the town meeting of March 2, 1741. Gentleman, In as much as an opposing party in this Town have Obtaineda judgement of a Council Against the Minister of the Town, without aTrial, Relating to his administration viz: - of a Council Chosen bythem Selves in SO private a manner that the pastor of the Church hadNo Copy of the Letters Missive until after the Letters were Sent outto the Churches - If you judge that the Minister of this Town Ought tobe defended against Such Proceedings and you will defend him Signifyit by Lifting up your hands. Gentlemen, if you will choose three persons as a Committeechosen by the Church, or by that part of it that adheres to the Pastorto advise and concur with them in the choice of a Council, if theyshall think fit, to judge of the Result of the late Council Chosen bythe opposite party here by lifting up your hands. The Parson retained the support of a majority, but " a greatnumber" of the dissatisfied appealed to the General Court on thegrounds that Mr. Dorr would not abide by the results of their counciland would do nothing to give the Petitioners reasonablesatisfaction." As a consequence the parish of mill River, later thetown of Milford, was set up. the strict theology of the new covenantsuggests that the division was not simply geographical. There was ,however, no doubt cast upon Mr. Dorr. He was a man of singularvirtue, sobriety and temperance, a Man of good learning, polemical,political and divine, a father to his family, flock, and ministers, inthe Vicinity: a faithful Minister a strict adherent to thedoctrines of grace (He) highly recommended the examination ofcandidates, for the work of he ministry; preventive (if possible) ofthe introduction of men unsound in the faith into the ministry, agreat friend to our English Liberties, was much concerned for thepeace and good order of the Churches. It was in an effort to further these ends that he joined in thegathering of the Mendon association of ministers, of which he was thefirst moderator. Through all these years Mr. Dorr carried on the entire work of theministry of Mendon without assistance than a few sermons fromschoolmaster Samuel Terry (A. b. 1710) at a time when the parson wassick. Finally, in April, 1767, the parish sent a committee to ask theold minister on what terms he would retire. He replied: I have DulyConsidered the Same and accordingly Propose as follows, z.Considering the difficulty you Labor under and to preserve peace aamong your and to enable and encourage your to proceed with Unanimityand Cheerfulness to the Settlement of another Gospel minister, I findin myself a freedom to accept of the Sum of Thirteen Pounds, SixShillings and Eight pence, Lawful Money, Annually, During my NaturalLife, tho at the same time, as my Worldly Estate is small, Labor dearand I am unable by reason of my great age and Infirmities to manage myaffairs to advantage, I am apprehensive that said sum will fall shortof a Necessary Support, yet Considering the Long Term of years I haveLabored among you in the Gospel of Christ, I am Persuaded, myBrethren, you will not See me suffer Extreme want. On March 9, 1768, before the parish had called another ministerunder this agreement, Mr. Dorr died, then being in the fifty-secondyear of his service and the seventy-ninth of his age. His widowfollowed him on April 9, 1776. http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1902448&id=I7 4/2/2003 Ancestry World Tree Project: Descendants of Edward Dorr Page 4 of 7 1 Birth: 1690 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 2 Death: 9 MAR 1768 in Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts 34 GRAD: 1711 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Note: Class of 1711 The first column is the order in which the class was placed atentrance; the second is the order determined upon by the immediategovernment; and the third is the order in the catalogue of graduates. Williams entered late, and Borland failed to take a degree. 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Pa Harvard University Library I Harvard University Archives : Records Management Office I Harvard Libraries Portal HOLLIS Catalog Harvard Home I Privacy Policy Copyright © 2006 The President and Fellows of Harvard College [an error occurred while processing this directive] http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/biography.shtml 8/20/2007 Sources for Joseph Dorr 1) Title: Abstract from Dorr family records Now in possession of Mrs. Edward C. Spring, 526 South 42nd Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Author: Mrs. Frederick E. Stow, Chairman, Genealogical Records Publication: Member of William Penn Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists Page: Page 35 last Para. 2) Title: Harvard College Biographical Sketches of those who attended Harvard College in the classes of 1701 - 1712 Author: Clifford K. Shipton Publication: Massachusetts Historical Society Boston MA. 1937 Page: Harvard College in the Class 1751 - 1755 Joseph Dorr entered the Class of 1752., at the age of 18. Born 24 May, 1730, only son of Reverend Joseph (A.B. 1711) and Mary (Rawsom) Dorr. After graduation he studied for the ministry. He married 24, Dec., 1767 Catherine, daughter of Nathan Buckman (A.B. 1721). in 1764 was sent to the House of Representatives. In 1768 appointed a Justice of the Peace by Governor Bernard. In 1774 the town sent him to the First Provincial Congress, and in 1776 to the reconstituted House of Representatives. The new Government promptly appointed him Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Worcester County. 1779 he attended the Constitutional Convention. 1780 elected to the Council. Under the new constitution he was twice elected to the State Senate, then became a member of the Board of Overseers. 1781 sold his farm in Mendon and removed to Ward, now Auburn. 1784 he was appointed Judge of Probate. 1797, moved to Leicester, bought the home of Thomas Steel. 3) Title: Vital Records of Mendon, Massachusetts To year 1850. Author: Complied by Thomas W. Baldwin Publication: Member of the New England Historical Genealogical Society Boston, MA. 1920 Page: Mendon Births Page 71: Catherine, d. of Joseph Esq. and Catherine, Aug. 17, 1770 Elizabeth, b. of Joseph and Mary, Mar. 8 1731-2 Joseph, S. of Joseph Esq. and Catherine, Mar 10, 1769 Joseph Hawley, S. of Joseph Esq. and Catherine, July, 20, 1772 Mary d. of Joseph and Mary, June 6, 1725 Mary d. of Joseph and Catherine, Jan. 7, 1784