Daniel Pond
Lt. Daniel Pond was a prominent early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts.
Life in Dedham
Pond arrived in Dedham around 1652 and purchased land from Nathaniel Fisher and Ralph Wheelock.[1] Pond served as a selectman in Dedham for 14 terms, beginning in 1661.[2][1] As a selectmen, he was one of ten men, or roughly 5% of the adult male population, who filled 60% of the seats on the board.[3]
Pond and Ezra Morse were given permission by the Town to erect a new corn mill on Mother Brook, so long as it was completed by June 24, 1665.[4][5][6][7][8] He performed several carpentry jobs on the meetinghouse of the First Church and Parish in Dedham, including hanging the first bell.[9]
When the town of Wrentham, Massachusetts split off from Dedham, he became an owner of real estate there as well.[1] He was awarded several lots there, but probably never lived in Wrentham.[1]
He was a lieutenant in the militia and took the freeman's oath in 1690.[10] He was a husbandman.[11]
Family
He married Abigail Shepard around 1652, a member of the church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] They had a daughter, also named Abigail, who was born in Dedham but not baptized there.[1] A son was baptized, however, on August 22, 1653, less than two weeks after he joined the church on the 11th.[1] They had seven children, including John, Ephraim, Robert, and Jabez.[1][11]
After his wife died on July 5, 1661, he married Ann Edwards two months later.[10] He died on February 4, 1697-8 and Ann outlived him.[10]
References
- Harris 1873, p. 9.
- Worthington 1827, p. 79–81.
- Lockridge, Kenneth (1985). A New England Town. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-0-393-95459-3.
- Worthington 1900, p. 3.
- Lamson 1839, pp. 56–7.
- Hanson 1976, p. 54.
- Sconyers, Jake and Stewart, Nikki (December 18, 2017). "Episode 59: Corn, Cotton, and Condos; 378 Years on the Mother Brook". Hub History (Podcast). Retrieved December 26, 2017.
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- Hanson 1976, p. 50-51.
- Harris 1873, p. 10.
- Wight, William Ward (1890). The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of His Descendants, 1635-1890. Swain & Tate, Printers. p. 164. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
Works cited
- Hanson, Robert Brand (1976). Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1890. Dedham Historical Society.
- Worthington, Erastus (1827). The history of Dedham: from the beginning of its settlement, in September 1635, to May 1827. Dutton and Wentworth. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Harris, Edward Doubleday (1873). A Genealogical Record of Daniel Pond, and His Descendants. W.P. Lunt. ISBN 978-0-7404-3260-6. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- Worthington, Erastus (1900). Historical sketch of Mother Brook, Dedham, Mass: compiled from various records and papers, showing the diversion of a portion of the Charles River into the Neponset River and the manufactures on the stream, from 1639 to 1900. Dedham, MA: C.G. Wheeler.
- Lamson, Alvan (1839). A History of the First Church and Parish in Dedham, in Three Discourses. Herman Mann.
- Mann, Herman (1847). Historical Annals of Dedham: From Its Settlement in 1635 to 1847. H. Mann. Retrieved April 9, 2021.