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 Est 1604 - 1692 (~ 81 years)
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| Name |
William DODGE [1] |
| Born |
Est 1604 |
Somersetshire, England  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Between 1685 and 1692 |
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts [1] |
| Person ID |
I1520 |
Sturgis |
| Last Modified |
15 Oct 2005 |
| Children |
| | 1. John DODGE, b. Abt 1636, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts , d. 14 Jan 1722/23, Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts (Age ~ 87 years) |
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| Last Modified |
14 Oct 2018 |
| Family ID |
F184 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- From: The Great Migration Begins
ORIGIN: Somersetshire
MIGRATION: 1629 on the Lyon's Whelp
FIRST RESIDENCE: Salem
REMOVES: Beverly
OCCUPATION: Husbandman.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Salem church prior to 25 December 1636 implied by baptism of child on that date; this would be another example of the defects in the earliest Salem list of church members.
FREEMAN: 17 April 1637 [ MBCR 1:373].
EDUCATION: Signed various documents and deeds, 24 June 1654, 11 November 1654 [ EQC 1:359, 379; ELR 3:52, 7:53].
OFFICES: Essex grand jury, 30 December 1645, 30 November 1658, 28 June 1659, 27 November 1666, possibly September 1675 (no Sr.), likewise 27 June 1676 [ EQC 1:89, 2:123, 157, 3:367, 6:73, 145]. Petit jury, 6 July 1647, 29 November 1653 25 November 1656, 24 November 1657, 26 November 1661, 25 November 1662, 24 November 1663, 30 June 1674 [ EQC 1:114, 313, 2:6, 59, 320, 3:6, 102, 5:316]. Jury, 20 October 1653 [ EQC 1:309]. Represented Salem in various lawsuits, 26 June 1649, 28 December 1649 [ EQC 1:170, 183]. Coroner's jury, June Term, 1660 into the death by drowning of William Ellet [ EQC 2:222].
Surveyor or lot layer for Salem: 16 March 1649/50, 20 July 1658 [ STR 1:164; EQC 2:105].
Beverly tythingman, June 1677 [ EQC 6:289].
ESTATE: In the 1636 Salem land division William Dodge received sixty acres "next to John Woodbury" [ STR 1:26]. In the 25 December 1637 division of marsh and meadows "Will[iam] Dodge" received three-quarters of an acre, with a household of five [ STR 1:103].
On 27 October 1644 George Hawkins of Boston, shipwright, as attorney for George "Richesson" of Wapping, sold to William "Dods" two hundred acres at the head of Bass River [ ELR 1:2].
He received an acre in Salem 20 April 1646 [ STR 1:143].
At some point before 18 October 1652, "Guydo Bayley" then of Bass River sold to William Dodge of Bass River, yeoman, a parcel of land for which he received a yellow cow (this deed was retrospectively created by Bayley 14 September 1695 [ ELR 11:19]). On 27 November 1656 William Dodge of Salem sold forty acres of upland, "being part of eighty acres granted to them both," and six acres of meadow to Richard Dodge of Salem [ ELR 1:34].
Both William and his son John were taxed 1s. in the special rate levied by Topsfield in 1667 [ EQC 3:386]. On 28 January 1668[/9] William Dodge Sr. of Beverly on Bass River, husbandman, and Elizabeth his wife, sold to Mr. John Hale, pastor of the church at Beverly, twenty acres of pasture [ ELR 3:52]. On 22 November 1662, John Stone Sr. of Salem, husbandman, sold to William "Dodg" Sr. of Salem, farmer, seven acres in Salem on Bass River [ ELR 3:61]. On 7 June 1664 William Dodge, John Raymond, Roger Conant, Benjamin Balch, and Peter Woodbury of Bass River in Salem gave to Isaac Hull, cooper, "for considerations moving us thereunto" one acre each, totalling five acres near Great Pond [ ELR 3:78]. On 6 June 1667 John Fisk of Chelmsford sold to William Dodge of Salem all his granted land in Salem [ ELR 3:169]. At the request of William Dodge Sr., John Rayment, Sr., and William Rayment, all of Beverly, Brian "Pemelton of Saco" acknowledged that "about the year of one thousand six hundred and fifty three or fifty four" he sold Dodge and the rest a six hundred acre farm "formerly belong[ing] unto Old Mr. Thomas Dudley" and "was honestly paid for it" [ ELR 5:82].
On 12 May 1685, "William Dodge, Senr., of Beverly" made a testamentary deed, giving for "my parental care love & affection" to "my son William Dodge" of Beverly "my house I now dwell in with all other edifices, building, orchards, fences belonging thereto & upon the land about it" being twenty acres, also "my land in the new field with all the rest of my land which adjoineth thereunto," also "my land at the horse bridge being sixty acres more or less," also 'ten acres of meadow lying in the bounds of Topsfield," also "five acres of meadow be it more or less," and also "the pond meadow belonging unto me at Goodman Hull's." This gift was made on the condition that William Sr. could use, occupy or sell any of the properties during his lifetime, and if the elder William improved the land he was to be paid ?30 per year by the younger William, but he need not demand it. William Jr. was also to pay the following legacies as spelled out by William Sr.: to "my daughter Hannah" two cows; to "my granchild John Porter" ?5; and if "my brother --- if he come to New England & dwell in this town I now live in ?5 per annum so long as he here shall dwell" [ ELR 7:53]. William Dodge Sr. acknowledged this deed 13 May 1685.
On 12 May 1685, William Dodge Sr. of Beverly, stating that he had given deeds of gift on the same date to his "two sons" John and William, now proceeded to give to others for whom he has parental love and affection. To "Hannah Woodbery" he gave twelve acres in Beverly, and the "improvement on half my farm at Wenham which I bought of Mr. John Fiske"; to John Porter he gave the reversion of the land left to Hannah Woodberry; if John died without heirs, the land to go to the children of Hannah Woodberry equally divided when they reach 21 or marry; to William Dodge "kinsman my brother's son" sixteen acres of land off the home farm at the south end of Bramble Hill, then to his children and their heirs [ ELR 8:163].
BIRTH: About 1604-1609 (deposed aged about seventy years for April Term 1679 [ EQC 7:181] and aged about seventy-six years at September Term 1680 [ EQC 8:7]).
DEATH: After 12 May 1685 [ ELR 7:53, 8:163].
MARRIAGE: By 1636 Elizabeth ____ (all secondary sources call her Elizabeth, but the record evidence for this is not seen); she died after 1642.
CHILDREN:
i JOHN, bp. Salem 25 December 1636 ("John, son of William Dody") [ SChR 16]; m. (1) Salem 10 [blank] 1659 Sarah Proctor, daughter of John Proctor; m. (2) Elizabeth (_____) Woodbury, widow of John Woodbury [evidence not seen, but so stated in Dawes-Gates 2:323].
ii WILLIAM, bp. Salem 19 September 1640 [ SChR 18]; m. (1) by 1663 Mary (Conant) Balch, daughter of ROGER CONANT and widow of John Balch, son of JOHN BALCH (eldest child b. Salem 20 March 1663/4; William Dodge's wife was executrix of the estate of John Balch in September 1665 [ EQC 3:273]); m. (2) Charlestown 26 May 1685 Joanna (Hale) Larkin [ ChVR 127 (also recorded Beverly)], daughter of ROBERT HALE and widow of John Larkin [ Wyman 452, 599]; m. (3) Marblehead 27 October 1698 Mary Creatty (recorded Beverly).
iii HANNAH, bp. Salem 24 July 1642 [ SChR 19]; m. (1) Samuel Porter (who makes "my father-in-law Wm Dodge" one of the overseers of his 10 February 1658[/9] will [ EPR 1:306, 3:43]); m. (2) Salem 2 December 1661 Thomas Woodbury.
ASSOCIATIONS: Richard Dodge, Sr., of Beverly named "my brother William Dodge Sr." one of the overseers of his 14 November 1670 will [ EQC 4:405]. There was another Dodge brother still in England at the time of William's 1685 testamentary deed, but we do not see if he truly came. These two brothers are said to be sons of John and Margery (_____) Dodge of Middlechinnock, Somersetshire [ Dawes-Gates 2:315, 319]. There was a third brother, Michael, who did not come to New England, but whose son William did [Dodge Gen 13; Dawes-Gates 2:319].
COMMENTS: In the 28 May 1629 letter from the Governor and Deputy of the Massachusetts Bay Company in London to John Endicott and his council in New England is a request from "Mr. Whyte, the minster," to show all lawful favor and respect unto the planters that came over in the Lyons Whelpe out of the counties of Dorset and Somerset; that you would appoint unto William Dodg, a skillful and painful husbandman, the charge of a team of horses [ MBCR 1:401].
According to a family tradition William Dodge returned to England sometime between 1629 and 1636 to acquire a wife and an associated gift from his father. While the absence of any record of William in New England between these dates makes this story a possibility, it is nothing more than that.
On 27 December 1636 "William Dodg's boy whipped for running away from his master several times" [ EQC 1:4]. If this servant is included in the household a year later when the grant of marsh and meadow was made, crediting William Dodge with a household of five, then four of the five are accounted for: William Dodge, wife Elizabeth, son John, and unnamed servant boy. There is the possibility, then, of a child older than John, but this fifth person might as well be another servant, or a kinsman of William or his wife.
In a document presented at June Term, 1679, John West, aged about fifty-eight years, deposed that being present when William Dodge, Sr., and John Proctor, Sr., made up the match between John Dodge and Sarah Procter, son and daughter of Dodge and Procter, said William Dodge promised to give a parcel of land with his son John, and said Proctor engaged to give ?40 with his daughter Sarah. Dodge further said "Notwithstanding what is given, what shall these young beginners do for household stuff," and deponent proposed that Dodge should give his son John ?10 and Proctor should give his daughter ?5 to be paid at the merchant's, to which proposition they both agreed [ EQC 5:195].
With Roger Haskell he was to round up neighbors to mend the two bridges on the country way over the Bass River toward Wenham on 26 October 1646 [ STR 1:145, 148]. William Dodge and Henry Bartholomew, as agents for Mr. George Taylor, late inhabiting in Lynn, sold to Richard Johnson one house and barn and land, and four acres of salt marsh [ ELR 1:19]. Along with the other executors of Thomas Scruggs, William "Dodg" sold ten acres to Edmond Patch of Salem [ ELR 1:33].
William Dodge was one of two attorneys for Gervis Garford, who was accused by Roger Haskell of not laying out upland as agreed [June Term, 1657, EQC 2:44]. William Dodge sued Robert Haskell for not maintaining a fence [June Term, 1659, EQC 2:160]. The matter was something of a draw, since years later the court ordered that the court costs be divided between the two men and that the land be divided equally [June Term, EQC 2:311, 313]. It was over a similar, if not identical, fence that Roger Haskell and Osmond Trask came to blows. John Harris, an eighteen year old servant of William Dodge, testified that he saw Haskell attack Trask with a pitchfork and that he, William Dodge, John Dodge, and William Fiske ran to them when they heard the outcry [November Term, 1661, EQC 2:323]. William's son, William, had little better luck with fences, and both men found themselves deposing about them in the March Term, 1671 [ EQC 4:332].
"Farmer John Porter," William Dodge, and Roger Haskell, all of Salem, were to view the highway at Lynn [June Term, 1660, EQC 2:218]. With Major William Hathorn and Jeffrey Massey, William Dodge was appointed a commissioner to bound out the thirds of Eunice, the widow of Jonathan Porter [November Term, 1660, EQC 2:256].
William Dodge, John Porter and Mr. Edmond Batter were appointed administrators of the estate of Samuel Porter, November Term, 1659 [ EQC 2:192]. William Dodge Sr. took the inventory of the estate of Thomas Scruggs of Salem 24 June 1654 [ EPR 1:185] and of the widow Elizabeth Hardy of Salem 11 November 1654 [ EPR 1:200] and of the estate of Lot Conant 29 September 1674 [ EQC 5:432].
William Dodge Sr. and Joseph Ayers deposed at the November Term 1678 that they had been asked by Ephraim Fellows to appraise a parcel of corn which was destroyed by swine [ EQC 7:120]. William Dodge, Sr., aged about seventy years at April Term, 1679, deposed about a dying cow [ EQC 7:181].
At the September Term, William Dodge Sr. joined with other influential men of Beverly, Wenham and Salem, to request further assistance from the General court in establishing the final bounds of these towns [ EQC 8:19-20].
The Josiah Dodge who was killed in King Philip's War has been suggested as a son of William Dodge [Dodge Gen 15; Dawes-Gates 2:323].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The basic genealogy of the Dodge family was published in 1894 by Joseph Thompson Dodge [Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County, Mass. 1629-1894 (Madison, Wisconsin, 1894), cited above as Dodge Gen]. Mary Walton Ferris prepared studies of both William Dodge and his brother Richard Dodge [ Dawes-Gates 2:315-28]. [3]
- WILLIAM, Salem 1629, came in the Lion's Whelp, call. a skilful husbandman, from Dorsetsh. when Gov. Cradock commends him to Capt. Endicot, had John, bapt. 25 Dec. 1636; William, b. 19 Sept. bapt. 4 Oct. 1640; and Hannah, bapt. 24 July 1642; was freem. 17 Apr. 1637, liv. on Beverly side, was one of the found. of the ch. there 1667. Roger Haskell call. him s.-in-law. Hannah m. Samuel Porter, and next, Thomas Woodbury. [4]
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- [S163] Dodge Family, Dodge, Joseph Thompson, (Oct. 1892).
- [S46] NEHGS Register, v.46, p.385.
- [S45] Great Migration Begins, Anderson, Robert C., (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
- [S94] Savage, Savage, James.
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