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Dodge Genealogy DODGE GENEALOGY MRS. MARY (DODGE) WOODWARD DODGE GENEALOGY DESCENDANTS OF TRISTRAJ\1 DODGE BY THERON ROYAL vVOODWARD MRMBKR N£W-ENGLAND H1sTORIC GE_NEALOGICAL SocIETY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 1904 LANW ARD PUBLISHING CO. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK "Backward, turn backward, 0 Time, in yourflight ! .ffefake me a child again, just for tonight! " 3ht fltlrtttory of my :filntlrer MARY (DODGE) WOODWARD TO WHOM I AM INDEBTED FOR MY LINEAGE IN THE DODGE FAMILY, I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME WITH THE RESPECT AND AFFEC­ TION OF A LOVING SON. "vVhen at first I took my pen in hand, thus for to write, I did not understand that I at all should make a little book in such a mode." JOHN BUNYAN. PORTRAITS Woodward, Mrs. Mary (Dodge) - Frontispiece Woodward> Theron Royal 5 Dodge, Adiel Sherwood 21 Dodge, Rev. Jordan 29 Downey, Mrs. Jeanette E. - 37 Dodge, Daniel 45 Dodge, Hon. Augustus C. - 53 Dodge, Governor Henry 69 Dodge, Ossian E. 77 Dodge, Robert 85 Lawrence, William H. - IOI Lawrence, Mrs. Tabitha (Dodge) IOI Dodge, Joseph Munsell IOI Dodge, fv'lrs. Martha M. - IOI Dodge Arms 117 Dodge, Governor Henry (Marble Bust) 1 33 Dodge, Russell - . 1 49 Palmer, Mrs. Abigail (Dodge) - 1 49 Rogers, Sarah 149 Miller, Mrs. Mary E. 149 Woodward, Emory Clark 165 Dodge, John Adams , 173 Dodge, Mrs. Sarah (Peake) - 1 73 Dodge, Joel - 173 Dodge, Lebbeus - 1 73 Woodward, Mrs. Estelle (Clark) 181 CONTENTS Abbreviations, 3 Dodge Genealogy, 5-75 Long Island Dodges and their descendants, 77-109 Jeremiah Dodge of East Haddam, Conn., and his descendants, I IO-Ill Related Dodges whose connection has not been found, ll2-II3 1\/I:iscellaneous records of descendants of Tris tram Dodge, l 14-II6 Dodges in England, l 19-123 College Graduates, 124-125 Coat Armor in America, 126-127 Dodge Arms, - 127-131 Revolutionary Pensioners, 132-134 Dodges in the Revolution, Individual and family names, 1~41-14 5 Origin of names of days, weeks and months - 146-1 47 Old and new style, 148-149 Dodge Family of Beverly, Mass., 150-153 Ancestors of descendants of J\!Iary (Dodge) \'yoodward, Additional records received too late for insertion in regular order, 167-180 Indexes­ Dodges, 183-191 Other names, 192-223 Places, 224-232 Authorities, 2 33 ABBREVIATIONS b.-born bapt.-baptized ch.-church chil.-children Col. Rec.-Colchester Records d.-died, dead d. y.-died young dau.-daughter dee' d.-deceased gen.-genealogy grad.-graduate g. s.-grave stone m.-married mo.-month N. S.-N ew Shoreham p.-page rec.-record res.-residence unm.-unmarried.' THERON ROYAL WOOD\VARD See page 73. L1 ff,\)3 ~-he City of Boston p,intecl the -1...spinwall X ota:·'r1l Hecorcls comprising the recorc:s of William A~pimvall, Recorder of the 3,1frolk County Conrt, ln-H-lf,01. This publicmion has opened up a mine c,f information to the geuealogist and historian m:d ,;i-ves us a record uf Tristram Dodge in 16'±7, some 13 years preyious to his appearn,nce at Block Island. Heretofore all efforts to fiud historical mention of him previous to 16fil has been unavailing. The records are as follows: Pages 12fi-12'-:. '' 2H Day of Septemiier 1647 "\Yiiliam D,wies of rerriland. Ne,\·­ founcHancl. acknowledged a debt to Charles Dobson rn be paid in Sterling moneys or merchantable clrie fish. Sealed and signed in the presence of Jam.es \V 8arranie Trustram Dodge. '· Above certified as a true copy by me, ·wm. Aspinwall, Kota,·y. 3 mo., 23 day, 1648." Page 127. "3 mo., 24 day, 1648, I subscribed a copie of a bill of Trustrarn Dodge, another of William \Yoolcots and another of William Davies. Pages 127:128. "3 mo., 24 day, 1648, Valentine Hill granted a tre of Attr. to .Joseph Grafton to recover and receive the biils of Trusrram Duclge. William ________ ----, and William Woolcot and William Da,,-ies, or ·any other in Newfoundland with abso'.ute power, etc." We thus see that Tristram Dodge was living. in )fewfounclbncl as early as 1647. · · 1-Ir. Arthur )fews, Deputy-Colonial Secretary writes as follows: "I return you herewith the two letters which vou forwarded to me some time ago; :making enquiries respecting Trish-am Dodge, who was living in Ferry land in 1647. The Hecords of _Vital Statistics in this Departme:nt, of .course; show nothing, as the first registration is but 14 or 15 years ago .. I, however, sent the papers to the Roman Catholic Clergy­ man at Ferryland, thinking ·be might be a.ble to trace the name through his records, but he informs me that it is utterly impossible. I then gave the papers to one of the 6lc1 f[l.miliesliving there, who have the Church of England records, but they likewise could find nothing whatever so far back as 1647. In those early ye11rs peoplegimply came out here for the summer and left again in the Fall, and it is more likely that a trace of this person could be found in the records iil .England, for I.do not think there was any record of people kept iri Newfoundland in those early years." I trust that some one having acce:,s to literature relating to ea.riv :».: e\.vfoundlancl historv- may be able to find further mention of Tristrari1 Dodge a11d comn111nic.ate it: . THERON R.QYAL WOODWAlW, ,- . .. : . '•· . 323 Minhattai1 Bi1fo:ling, Chicago, nl. DODGE GENEALOGY 1. TRISTRA.M DODGE, according to Robert Dodge's Tristram Dodge ancl Descendants (1886), sailed April, 1661, from Taunton, Mass., with the original fifteen settlers and their families and settled on Block Island, Rhode Island. Rev. S. T. Livermore, A.M., in his History of Block Island (1876), page 17, names Tristrnm Dodge as one of the passengers in the shallop which sailed from Taunton, 1661, and he says on page 327 that, although he wus not among the fii;st purchasers, he was among the first party of settlers. The following, taken from the records of New Shoreham (Block Islap.d), Rhode Island, would indicate that Tristram Dodge closely followed the first settlers if he did not come with them: "To All Persons to Whom This Test-imony Shall Appear: "Know Ye, I, Simon Ray of Block Island, being eighty-one years of age and now upon oath doth testify and declare that on ye first erecting and settleing of s'd Block Island there was some undivided land reserved by ye first purchasers for to accommo­ date fishermen for promoting of a fishing trade, and Tristram Dodge Sr. a fisherman came from Newfoundland and ye freeholders willing for to settle him on s'd Island, gave unto him said Tris­ tram Dodge three acres of land unto him and his heirs _forever which land ordered by freeholders for to be measured unto him said Dodge situated and being on ye South East of ye Harbor that now is joining to the land of John Rathbon. "And unto ye truth of this testimony I set to my hand, "Sum~ RA.T, Warden.* "Block Island, Feb. 28, 1718-19." Harris' Block Island Epitaphs, p. 10, says the grave of the elder Tristram is not marked. 8 1 Descendants of David Britain Dodge (John,2 Tristram ) have carefully preserved records that say that the sons of Tristram followed him in 1667, and that they came from the north of England near the river Tweed. This statement is entitled to much *Simon Ray, Sr., d. 17 March, 1737, age 101. (g. s.) Block Island (N. E. H. & G. Reg., Vol. XIII, p. 38). He had by wife Mary,'dau. of Nathaniel Thom.as of Marshfield,;Mass., the following children: Sibel, b. March 19, 1665; Mary, b. May 19, 1667; Dorothy, b. Oct. 16, 1669; Simon, b. April 9, 1672, d. March 9, 1755. Simon Ray, Jr., had two daughters, who married governors of Rhode Island, viz., Anna, m. Samuel vVard, and Catherine, m ...William Greene. 5 6 DODGE GENEALOGY consideration, as it is corroborated by many families scattered widely over the United States. 'rristram Dodge, Sr., was Free­ man May 4, 1664; Sergeant, 1676. He was dead intestate in 1120. His four sons were made Freemen July, 1670, and of course then of age. Children, order not known; 2. i. JOHN 2, b. 1644, d. 1729, aged 85. 3. ii. ISRAEL. 4. iii. TRISTRAM, b. 1647, d. Aug. 18, 1733, "in ye 87th year of his age," says his slate gravestone in the ancient burial ground at Block Island. · · 5. iv. WILLIAM. v. MARGARET. We havEi no record of her except that given by Jobn C. Cooley of Oswego, N. Y., in his Rathbone Gene­ alogy (1898). He says John3 Rathbone (John2, Richard1), b. about 11334, married Margaret Dodge, dau. of Trustarum Dodge. Children: 1. Thomas• Rathbone, b. 1657, m. Mary Dickens. 2. John Rathbone, b. 1658, m. Ann Dodge. 3. Sarah Rathbone, b. i659, m. Samuel George. 4. lVilliam Rathbone, b. 1661, m. Sarah ---. 5. Joseph Rathbone, b. 1670, rn. Mary Mosher. 6. Samuel Rathbone, b. 1672, m. Patience Coggshall. vi. ANN, given as a dau. of Tristram Sr. in Austin's Gen. Die., p. 66. In view of the above record in the Rathbone Gen. this statement would seem to be an error. New Shore­ ham records say Ann Dodge m. Nov. 11, 1686, John Rathbone, Jr., d. 1723, son of John, d. 1702, and Margaret Rathbone. The Rathbone Gen. says Ann was second wife, and adds that her father settled on Block Island in 1662 and d. 1723, but fails to mention his name. Her children: 1. MarJ./3 Rathbone, b.
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