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On Friday and Saturday afternoons, Sept. 18 and 19, the trustees and staff of the local library served afternoon tea to visitors - fruit punch taking the place of tea on the second afternoon. Hostesses on these afternoons were Mrs. Nora Tracy, Mrs. Edward Wright, Jr., Miss Anna P. Rolland and members of the staff. Many visitors were recorded especially on Saturday, librarians and visitors from nearby towns displaying much interest in the exhibits.
The authors whose books were displayed during tercentenary week and for several weeks before and afterward were:
Fiction: -- H. W. Chaplin, Ellen D. Deland, Margaret Deland, Nancy Hale, Leonard Nason, William H. Nutter, Witherspoon, Halliday, pseud .; M. S. C. Pelton, F. J. Stimson, Charles Warren, Gertrude Capen Whitney.
Non-fiction: -- Fisher Ames, Seth Ames, Walter Austin, Dr. H. L. Babcock, S. C. Beach, Louis D. Brandeis, John D. Cobb, Harold Cowan, Wendell Endicott, H. W. Farnsworth, Frank W. Hackett, Philip L. Hale, Herman Mann, Horace Mann, Joanna E. Mills, Edward H. Rudd, Jacqueline Russell, J. B. Seabury, J. S. Seabury, Carlos Slaafter, Frank Smith, Z. Carleton Staples, F. J. Stimson, Margaret Etta Sullivan, Mabel M. Swan, Charles Warren, Stephen M. Weld, Erastus Worthington.
Composers, (Music) : - Mrs. George Cutter, Arthur Foote, Robert W. Gibb, Arthur H. Ryder, Arthur W. Thayer.
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Historical Displays in Stores and Businesses
Many of Dedham's stores and businesses added no little interest to the Tercen- tenary Celebration by displaying in their windows various items of historical interest. In the front window of Wardle's Drug Store was a comprehensive group of pictures of old Dedham and a book of prescriptions dating back to the founding of the store in 1858 Sukowske's Shoe Store exhibited a copy of the Dedham Gazette of 1860 and Hamilton's a miniature log cabin and some old Toby jugs and decanters. In the window of Chase's Hardware Store was a large display of tools typical of those used since the founding of the town. There were chisels, planes, scales, auger braces and many others, each type illustrated by an example from each of the three centuries. Tools and farm implements were also shown in Gates' Drug Store in East Dedham. This group included a measuring rod used by Jeremiah Shuttleworth.
Prominently displayed in the windows of the Dedham Institution for Savings was an extensive group of Dedham Pottery. Beside the well-know grey-crackle ware there were five hard paste vases ranging in color from green through blue. These were made by the present owner's grandfather and are the type that secured for him the Gold Medal at San Francisco, St. Louis, and Paris. Inside the bank were a number of old hymnals and music books. One of them was "The Occasional Champ- ion," a book of music published in Dedham in 1810.
Motor Corps Committee
Mrs. Kennedy Pope, Chairman; Miss Dorothy Austin, Mrs. Patrick B. Carr, Mrs. Lawrence E. Carter, Mrs. Ernestine Canning, Mrs. Woodman C. Hill, Mrs. A. H. Hodg- don, Mrs. Edward J. Keelan Jr., Mrs. Frank B. Hodges Jr., Mrs. Peter Maggione. Mrs. Richard E. Mark, Miss Katherine Mahern, Mrs. Lewis E. Moore, Mrs. William C. Welch, and Mrs. Wilbur Wyman. Assisted by Theodore T. Marsh Jr., Prescott Drew, and Philip Johnson.
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Dedham's first grant of a plantation by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was on September 3, 1635; and on her petition this was enlarged on September 10, 1636 to include all lands south and east of Charles River, not hitherto granted to any town or persons, and five miles square on the other side. This took us to the bounds of Plymouth Colony and to the old Dorchester and Braintree lines.
The Dedham Society held meetings in Watertown until the first recorded as- sembly in Dedham on March 23, 1636-7. At this time twenty-five incorporators have been identified; and Jonathan Fairbanks was then admitted as a member, and became the twenty-sixth man. These men came up the river from Watertown and landed at a place near the present Ames Street Bridge, now marked by a monument on Ames Street in Frances M. Baker Park.
Mother Brook, a canal, was dug in 1639 from the Charles, at its northerly turn, to East Brook giving a fall of several feet to the Neponset River and making possible mill privileges beginning with the first mill in 1640, whose successor today is the Hodges Mill. The whole water course takes the canal name. A hand corn mill of carly date, used by two persons, is preserved in the Dedham Historical Society.
A free public school was established by vote at a general meeting of the town on January 1, 1644-5, to be supported by general taxation. This was a genuine American institution, the first of its kind in our country so far as records can show. On June 17, 1898, the Commonwealth erected a tablet on the Church Green to com- memorate its founding, the site of whose schoolhouse was close to the meetinghouse in 1649.
The Avery Oak, a forest tree in 1636, stands on East Street, a little way north of the Fairbanks House, owned for more than two centuries by the Avery family, and now by the Dedham Historical Society. The family refused to sell the tree for use in building the frigate Constitution. This giant white oak with its wide spreading limbs is still in good condition, and its features form the central emblem in the town seal.
The unique Pitt Monument known as the "Pillar of Liberty," on the Church Green, bearing originally a wooden pillar and bust of William Pitt, the warm friend in the English Parliament of the American Colonies, was erected by the Sons of Liberty in this vicinity on July 22, 1766, on the news of the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765. Also in 1766 the town erected a Powder House "on a Great Rock in Aaron Fuller's Land near Charles River."
Dedham was. on the great highway of travel from New Hampshire to Virginia, connecting the thirteen Colonies by post, stage, and other vehicles till the beginning of the railroads a century ago. Life here became a little cosmopolitan as the years passed. The division of old Suffolk County and the formation of new Norfolk in 1793 brought Dedham into service as its Shire Town. The first Court House erected in 1795 stood in the plot on Court Street just south of Church Green. The first Post Office is almost coeval with the New County, and Jeremiah Shuttleworth who lived on the site of the Dedham Historical Society was the first postmaster. The new Post Office, the first built here by the United States, stands direcly opposite on High Street; corner stone laid April 6, 1935, dedicated October 10th, 1935. * See Frontispiece.
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Three hundred years from the plotting of her first grant of a Plantation, to be about two miles above the Falls on Charles River, on the morning of May 8, 1936, the Dedham Historical Society was honored by the visit of an Englishman, Mr. Lionel R. McColvin, the Borough Librarian of the Hampstead Public Libraries in London, Eng- land. Mr. McColvin's early professional career was spent for several years in Ipswich, England, not far from Dedham on the River Stour; and he was thoroughly familiar with the region there, which Constable's painting so finely shows on canvas. The sight of our Charles River, ever winding through our wide expanse of meadows, quickly reminded him of our English prototype, which Constable has made so famous.
After a short stay at the rooms of the Historical Society and a lunch at the Ded- ham Community Association we strolled down to the monument which marks the place near the river where the very earliest settlers landed when they came up the Charles in canoes, from their homes in Watertown, attracted by the beauty, the eleva- tion, and fertility of the region which they hoped to make their future home. From the bridge nearby, the views greatly interested Mr. McColvin, and he caught two with his camera, one up and one down the stream. A call at the Dedham Public Library gave him a suggestion of American Library methods. Then a brief motor trip to the site of our first grist mill of 1640, through the streets of our village, over Common Street to Needham, through Westwood and Norwood, and back to Dedham, led to his remark that the region, with its trees, meadows, views, and the atmosphere of the place, were all very English.
The little Dedham Society in Watertown, shaping itself probably early in 1635, evidently inspired by the spirit of early adventurers were looking about for a suitable place for settlement in the spacious wilderness outside. Under an order of the General Court, this group had permission to move elsewhere, owing to the overcrowded condition of Watertown. By August 18, 1636, the date of the first recorded meeting of the Society, there were at least twenty-five persons covenanted together under the name Contentment, which name was first chosen for their coming plantation. As noted in our previous history, only twenty-two persons entered into the group; but the names of John Ellis, Daniel Morse and Joseph Morse must be added although Haven in his ad- dress, 1836, says their lots were not taken up immediately. This will be explained in the following list of incorporators, which it is hoped will be helpful to readers, and I may add, who are with the writer indebted to Mr. Earl W. Pilling for the correct de- scription of the various lots and home sites.
EDWARD ALLEYN
Leader among the townsmen; his lots running northeasterly across the junction of Haven and Common Streets, and a plot just south of Motley's Pond; third of the eight founders of Church, Nov. 8, 1638; representative to the Great and General Court, 1639 to Sept. 8, 1642, the day of his death; faithful and devoted to the welfare of the Town; Selectman, first member of the first Board, May 17, 1639, then Dec. 19, 1640, and Dec. 28, 1641; Freeman, March 13, 1638-39; left his estate to his kinsmen, John and Edward Allen.
FRANCIS AUSTIN
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went to William Avery, and was the site of his house which may have been built by Austin. Austin, described by Samuel F. Haven in his address, 1837, as a "man of property" who attempted to return to England, but was taken by the Algerines and carried into slavery; said to have removed to Hampton and then to Ipswich, where his two children, Jemima and Sophia were born, the latter baptized Jan. 24, 1641 accord- ing to Savage's Dictionary, which gives the mother's name as Isabella.
THOMAS BARTLETT
Set out and measured the first lots to proprietors, granted at the first recorded meeting, August 18, 1636; present at the third meeting, Sept. 5, 1636, when the peti- tion for the new and enlarged grant was signed; recorded Nov. 28, 1637, that he had not attended to "Measuring out our Lots, . . . we wholly discharge him . . . until he shall come and inhabit with us"; laid down his rights in Town to John Kingsbury, his lot being probably in the Island in the region of Jenny Lane; including his lot in Purchased Meadows; Freeman, March 4, 1634-5.
WILLIAM BEARSTOWE
Came from England in the ship "Truelove" in 1635; present at the second re- corded meeting, August 29, 1636; lot ran a little northeasterly, across East Street, the second lot north of that of Jonathan Fairbanks; married Ann Hubbard, July 8, 1638, who joined the Church April 16, 1641; children, Joseph, June 6, 1639, Mary, Dec. 28, 1641, Patience, Dec. 3, 1643; removed to Scituate after Jan. 13, 1644-5; his lot and that of John Rogers, next south of it, soon were in possession of William's brother George; the part west of East Street in 1651 went to Francis Chickering, and George Bearstowe obtained the part east of East Street at an early date, the whole lot coming into the possession of William Avery.
JOHN COOLIDGE
Born about 1604, the ancestor of the late President Calvin Coolidge; present at the first recorded meeting, August 18, 1636, in Watertown, and on July 14, 1637, in Dedham; on August 11, 1637, his lot had remained waste for a long time, an order re- corded that if he does not "set on to build" and improve in six days his lot will be disposed of to some other man; Nathaniel Coalborne became the owner of the easterly part at the entrance of Washington Street to High, and John Hunting the owner of the westerly part which in 1651 became Nathaniel's, whose descendant Samuel gave it all by will in 1756, with a life interest by his mother, Mary, who died early in Feb., 1792; very soon afterward Church Street was put through the center of the part west of High Street, and about 1804, the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike (Washington Street ) through the center of the part east of High Street; later John Coolidge owned the Philemon Dalton lot, which he sold to John Hunting, lying between Marsh and Richards Streets at Court Street, but he did not come to Dedham to live.
PHILEMON DALTON
Born about 1590; linen-weaver, came in the ship "Increase" in 1635; had origi- nally two lots, one from Court Street across Washington Street and Eastern Avenue to Dwight's Brook, which later became the house lots of Rowland Clarke, Nicholas Phillips, then Nathan Aldus, later through Aldus into the Richards family; a second smaller lot, between Marsh and Richards Streets, crossing Court Street soon went to Nathaniel Colborne, then to John Coolidge, and then became the home site of John Hunting; and a later lot across East Street, with Madison Street running through it, which John Guild acquired, building his house just south of Madison Street and east of East Street; faithfully attended meetings until May 17, 1639; said to have removed to Hampton and Ipswich soon afterward; married Hannah ( ), child Samuel, about 1630; Freeman, March 3, 1685-6; died at Ipswich, June 4, 1662.
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JOHN DWIGHT
Present at the first recorded meeting August 18, 1636; lot running northeasterly along the southeast side of East Street, beginning at the High Street railroad bridge, on the site of the northerly abutment of which stood his house facing southerly; one of the four purchasers, who bought from Samuel Dudley, Purchased Meadows for the bene- fit of the Town; Freeman, March 13, 1638-9; joined the Church August 24, 1639; of first Board of Selectmen, May 17, 1639, then 1640 to 1644, 1645 to 1648, 1650 to 1654, 1656-7; married Hannah ( ), who joined the Church, Jan. 9, 1639-40; and died Sept. 5, 1656, married 2dly Elizabeth, Jan. 20, 1657-8, widow of William Ripley, and before of Thomas Thaxter; she died, July 17, 1660; children, Hannab, Tim- otby about 1630, John, died March 24, 1638-39, Mary, the first female child, July 25, 1635, Sarab, June 17, 1638; father died Jan. 24, 1660-1; had a brother Timothy.
JOHN FLLIS
Present at the first recorded meeting, August 18, 1636; joined the Church, July 17, 1640; must have signed the petition to the General Court for the enlarged grant to Dedham of Sept. 10, 1636, as he had already signed the Covenant before Sept. 5. Samuel F. Haven in his address of 1836, however, does not add his name to the nineteen, as he does not those of Daniel and Joseph Morse who increase the number to twenty-five, all having signed the Covenant. The complaints Haven refers to were not made until August 1637. Ellis owned a lot in Purchased Meadows, as indicated in the record of the meeting of January 28, 1636-7; he was granted a lot of seven acres which John Haward had laid down on November 23, 1638; granted land in 1653 near Medfield bounds: joined the Church July 17, 1640; listed as a proprietor, Feb. 4, 1644-5; was later in Medfield; Freeman, June 2, 1641; married Suzan Lumber, Nov. 10, 1641. She joined the Church, April 12, 1644; children, Jobn, April 26, 1646, and Hannab, April 9, 1651; Samuel, May 24, 1660, died at 24, Joseph, Oct. 24, 1662; she died April 4, 1654, and he married, 2dly, June 16, 1655, Joan, widow of John Clapp of Dorchester, who died March 12, 1703-4.
RICHARD EVERED
Present at the first recorded meeting, August 18, 1636; later held occasional town ofhce; Freeman, May 6, 1646; joined the Church March 6, 1645-6; lot across East Street, with Munroe Street now running through the center of it; also a lot next south of Philemon Dalton, mostly between Richards and Weatherbee Streets, which he soon sold to Lambert Genere who sold it to John Hunting in 1655; here may have been the Genere clay pit of 1649; married Mary ( ), 2dly, Mary Winch, who came in the ship "Francis" from Ipswich, at Springfield, June 23, 1643, and who joined the Church on March 6, 1645-6; children, John, Mary, Sept. 28, 1638, Samuel, Sept. 30, 1639, Sarab, March 14, 1640-1, James, March 4, 1642-3, Sarab, June 2, 1644, Abigail, Nov. 29, 1647, Israel, July 14, 1651, Ruth, Jan. 14, 1653-4; Jedediab, July 11, 1656.
ROBERT FEAKE
Present at the second meeting on August 29, 1636; when his name was placed first in the list of those present, evidence of appreciation of his interest in the proposed new Township; lot running northeasterly, including most of Wight's Pond, to Common Street, Glen Ridge Road running through the center, and a farm two miles to the west of 150 acres; all laid down Nov. 23, 1638, for twenty marks of English money, and later given to Samuel Cooke, July 6, 1640; Freeman, May 18, 1631; married Elizabeth, widow of Henry Winthrop, son of the Governor, and a daughter of Thomas Fones; never settled in Dedham and died in 1663.
JOHN GAY
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LAMBERT GENERE
One of four proprietors who purchased the so-called Purchased Meadows for the benefit of the Town; lot running across Village Avenue and High Street including Chestnut Street; joined the Church June 9, 1644; called "Goodman Genere," when his first wife was admitted to the Church on Dec. 4, 1640; Freeman, May 1645; married secondly, on May 14, 1658; Thomasin Hews; children, Mary, Dec. 24, 1659 and a daughter ( ), who married Richard Ellis.
THOMAS HASTINGS
Born about 1605 in Suffolk; present at the first recorded meeting, August 18, 1636; lot running across East Street, High Street and Brookdale Avenue was laid down to John Eaton May 11, 1637; but actually went to Edward Richards, who in 1651 transferred it to William Avery; came in the ship "Elizabeth," 1634; admitted as a Townsman again on Feb. 20, 1637-8: Freeman, May 6, 1635; married Susan ( born about 1600, from Ipswich, who died Jan. 20, 1651; married 2dly Margaret Cheney. April, 1651; child, Thomas.
JOHN HAWARD
Born about 1593; present at the meeting which petitioned for the enlarged grant, Sept. 5, 1636; Freeman, May 14, 1634; Selectman, 1640, 1644 to 1646, 1655, 1657 to 1659; joined the Church from Watertown Jan. 19, 1644-5; died at Charlestown Dec. 29, 1672; married Mary ( ) ; she died April 23, 1684; his lot was on Island Plain; no children recorded.
EZECHIELL HOLLIMAN
Present at the second recorded meeting, Aug. 29, 1636; granted the lot just west of Court Street, which was soon transferred to Joseph Kingsbury, who sold to the Town one acre of his lot next south of High Street "for a seat for a publique Meetinge house"; removed to Salem and then to Mount Hope (Providence) to be associated with Roger Williams.
JOHN HUGGEN
Present at the first recorded meeting, Aug. 18, 1636, the first meeting in Dedham, Nar. 23, 1636-7; sold his lot at the source of East Brook, and its enlargements on July 19, 1639 to James Herring; Mother Brook canal from Charles River to the source of the brook, which was also called Huggen's Brook, in 1639; removed to Hampton.
JOHN KINGSBURY
Present at the first recorded meeting, Aug. 18, 1636; joined the Church from Watertown, Oct. 20, 1639; was a faithful attendant at Town Meetings; Selectman of the first Board, then 1640, 1648 to 1656; Representative 1647; Freeman Mar. 13, 1635-6
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DANIEL MORSE
Son of Samuel Morse; present at the first recorded meeting, Aug. 18, 1636; Haven in his address, 1836, thinks he did not sign the petition for the enlarged grant on Sept. 5, 1636; lot from Court Street across Eastern Avenue, just south of Bryant Street, of which John Hunting and John Aldus became owners by 1650, after Daniel's removal to Medfield; was next present at the next meeting of Thanksgiving on Sept. 14 and he was an early signer to the Covenant, and there seems to be no reason to disclaim his signing the Petition thus making the number of the Covenanters including him, twenty- four; married Lydia Fisher, who joined the Church on Jan. 25, 1639-40; followed by his joining on April 30, 1643, both from the Church in Watertown; removed to Medfield, and died in Sherborn, 1688; children, Obadiah, Aug. 8, 1639, Daniel, Jan. 31, 1640-1, Jonathan, Mar. 8, 1642-3, Lideab, bapt., April 3, 1645, Bethia, Mar. 24, 1647-8, Mary, Sept., 1650.
JOSEPH MORSE
Son of Samuel; came in the ship "Increase" from London, age 20; present at the first recorded meeting, Aug. 18, 1636; Freeman, May 6, 1635; at the first meeting in Dedham, Mar. 23, 1636-7, he was granted land in consideration of his aid in the first discovery of the north side of the Town; had early signed the Covenant; and there appears to be no reason to disclaim his signing the Petition, thus making him the twenty- fifth man of the first group; married Hannah Phillips, perhaps sister of Rev. George of Watertown, Sept. 1, 1636; children, Samuel, Jan. 10, 1639-40, Hannab, Aug. 8, 1641, Sarah, Sept. 16, 1643, Dorcas, Aug. 24, 1645, Elizabeth, Sept. 1, 1647, Joseph, Sept. 26, 1649, Jeremiah, June 10, 1651, and another child before Joseph's death on June 20, 1654.
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