Eliphalet Pond
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Eliphalet Pond (1704-1795) represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
Pond was born in Dedham in 1704.[1] He represented Dedham in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1761 and 1763.[2][1] He was also town clerk for a total of 12 years, from 1747 to 1754, and in 1757, 1758, 1763.[1][3] He served as selectman from 1744 to 1754 and in 1757, 1758, and 1763.[1][4] He was also the Town Meeting moderator in 1756, 1761, 1762, and 1763.[1]
He married Elizabeth Ellis is 1727 and worked as a farmer.[1] He also bought and sold land.[1] Land he owned was eventually sold to Hannah B. Chickering, who established the Temporary Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners on it.[5] Today, the land has a housing development and the Baby Cemetery.[6]
His son Eliphalet Pond, Jr, born in 1745,[7] was Registrar of Deeds in Norfolk County, Massachusetts from the establishment of the county in 1793 to his death in 1813.[8][9][10] He also served as the Dedham, Massachusetts town clerk for 25 years and as a selectman for 1813.[9] He also served as a colonel in the American Revolution.[9]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Schutz, John A. (1997). Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary. UPNE. p. 314. ISBN 978-1-55553-304-5. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- ^ Worthington 1827, pp. 106–107.
- ^ Worthington 1827, pp. 79.
- ^ Worthington 1827, pp. 79–81.
- ^ Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1884). History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. J. W. Lewis & Company. p. 90. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
- ^ Brems, Lisa (April 12, 1998). "'baby cemetery,' a taxing reemergence". The Boston Globe. p. 17. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ "Bernard Quartich New Acquisitions June 2018" (PDF). Bernard Quartich Ltd. June 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
- ^ "Dedham Village in 1795". Dedham Historical Register. XIV (2). Dedham Historical Society: 39. April 1903. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ a b c Registers of Deeds The Early Years, Norfolk County Registry of Deeds: Norfolk County Registry of Deeds, 225th Anniversary Notable Land Records Project
- ^ Louis Atwood Cook (1918). History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1622-1918. S.J. Clarke publishing Company. p. 478.
Works cited
- Worthington, Erastus (1827). The History of Dedham: From the Beginning of Its Settlement, in September 1635, to May 1827. Dutton and Wentworth. Retrieved August 25, 2019.