Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . Somerset county, Eng-land, and had five children. 4. Mary, died in Eng-land and had one son—John. (Ill William Dodge, eldest son of John (l),born about 1604, came to Salem, Massachusetts, in162Q. A tradition was handed down by Col. RobertDodge to his son Francis, of Georgetown, D. C.,that farmer William came to America when abouttwenty-one years of age. to see how he liked it,and returned to England, telling his father that hehad determin
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . Somerset county, Eng-land, and had five children. 4. Mary, died in Eng-land and had one son—John. (Ill William Dodge, eldest son of John (l),born about 1604, came to Salem, Massachusetts, in162Q. A tradition was handed down by Col. RobertDodge to his son Francis, of Georgetown, D. C.,that farmer William came to America when abouttwenty-one years of age. to see how he liked it,and returned to England, telling his father that hehad determined to settle in America, and askedhim for some oresent. His father said, get mar-ried and I will give it. William is said to havehad two refusals, but finally succeeded, married,and for his present his father gave him a pairof bulls. Farmer William, as he was styled, be-came a prominent factor in his new home in theNew World. He was elected to many local ofiicesand served in courts as juryman, helped constructroads; bridges, churches, and was an extensivefarmer. In 1685 he ,sold his real estate, conveyingthe homestead to his son Captain William. His. ^m^^^.^^ c :| I WORCESTER COUNTY 17 :hildren were: I. Capt. William, born September,[640; died 1720. 2. Hannah, born 1642; married5amuel Porter, who died 1660; married Thomask\oodbcrry. Josiah Dodge, killed in the Narragan->ett war in 1O75, may have been another son. (II) Richard Dodge, son of John Dodge (l),:he English ancestor, and a brother to William abovelamed, married in England, and had a son John,ivho died there. His wife was baptized as Edith.[t is quite certain that Richard and wife joined theNew England colony in 1638, and as the Kingit that time was not allowing emigration, it ispossible that he left England without royal sanc-;ion. He settled in Dodge Row, North Beverly,.vhere he built a house that was occupied and keptn the family for more than two hundred and his wife Edith were members of the Wen-lam C
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