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

  1. Harris 1873, p. 9.
  2. Worthington 1827, p. 79–81.
  3. Lockridge, Kenneth (1985). A New England Town. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-0-393-95459-3.
  4. Worthington 1900, p. 3.
  5. Lamson 1839, pp. 56–7.
  6. Hanson 1976, p. 54.
  7. 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.{{cite podcast}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. Mann 1847, p. 103.
  9. Hanson 1976, p. 50-51.
  10. Harris 1873, p. 10.
  11. 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.

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