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    The First Church and Parish in Dedham is a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Dedham, Massachusetts. It was the 14th church established in Massachusetts...
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    and was home to the Dedham Liberty Pole in the late 18th century. When a split occurred at the First Church and Parish in Dedham, the resulting lawsuit...
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  • Isaac Bullard (politician) (category Deacons at First Church and Parish in Dedham)
    1774. He was a deacon of the First Church and Parish in Dedham. In this capacity, he leased out plots of the church's land for 999 year leases. His ancestor...
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  • hung in 1652, Day beat the drum to call worshipers to the First Church and Parish in Dedham. Day married Susan Fairbanks, the daughter of Jonathan Fairbanks...
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  • Henry Chickering (category Deacons at First Church and Parish in Dedham)
    made a freeman in 1641. Chickering was a deacon of the First Church and Parish in Dedham. With his wife, Ann, he had a son, John. Whittemore, Henry (1967)...
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  • Joseph Ellis Jr. (category Deacons at First Church and Parish in Dedham)
    in 1741, 1751, 1758, and 1759. He was a deacon of the First Church and Parish in Dedham from 1735 to 1783. In 1742 and 1743 he was a selectman, and from...
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  • Dedham Square near the First Church and Parish in Dedham by Thomas Thurston at a cost of £11 3 pence. Approved at a town meeting in January 1648–9, it measured...
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  • for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He represented the First Church and Parish in Dedham in the case of Baker v. Fales. Burke 2009, p. 115. Smith 1936...
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    First Church and Parish in the Greek Revival style. The preaching of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield helped to revive the churches of Dedham during...
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  • John Aldis (Massachusetts) (category Deacons at First Church and Parish in Dedham)
    them in a box kept by Aldis in order to better preserve them. He was a deacon at the First Church and Parish in Dedham and an ancestor of Asa O. Aldis...
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  • minister of the First Church and Parish in Dedham. He was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts on May 27, 1650, and graduated from Harvard College in 1671. His parents...
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    Baker v. Fales (redirect from Dedham Case)
    known as The Dedham Case, was a seminal case of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. It involved the First Church and Parish in Dedham rejecting the...
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    first church was constructed in Dedham Centre in 1857 and it was formally established as a parish in 1866. In 1880 the parish built a larger church on...
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  • Mary's Church in Dedham, Massachusetts begins with the first mass said in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1843 and runs to the present day. From the first mass...
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  • construction. He stole the silver from the First Church and Parish in Dedham during a dispute that split the church. Worthington 1827, pp. 106–107. Hanson...
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  • Aaron Fuller (military) (category Deacons at First Church and Parish in Dedham)
    Selectman in Dedham, beginning in 1786. Additionally, he was the town treasurer in 1787. He helped to draft the new covenant at First Church and Parish in Dedham...
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  • was Ruling Elder of the First Church and Parish in Dedham. Hunting was born in Hoxne, England in 1597. He had strong opinions and from an early age began...
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  • from Dedham. He was elected a selectman before joining the First Church and Parish in Dedham. He was a signer of the Dedham Covenant. Morse was born in England...
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    John Hayward (Massachusetts politician) (category Dedham, Massachusetts selectmen)
    became a member of the First Church and Parish in Dedham. Previously he lived in Watertown, Massachusetts. Hayward died in 1672 in Charlestown. Whittemore...
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  • Daniel Pond (category Military personnel from Dedham, Massachusetts)
    meetinghouse of the First Church and Parish in Dedham, including hanging the first bell. When the town of Wrentham, Massachusetts split off from Dedham, he became...
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  • was chosen deacon of the First Church and Parish in Dedham in 1833 and held that office for many years. He was the first President of the Norfolk Mutual...
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    Alvan Lamson (category Clergy from Dedham, Massachusetts)
    1864) was a minister at First Church and Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts. His ordination led to a split in the church and eventually a lawsuit, Baker...
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  • Nathan Aldis (category Deacons at First Church and Parish in Dedham)
    positions in the town and served as a deacon at First Church and Parish in Dedham. He signed the Dedham Covenant. In 1642, John Elderkin sold half of his rights...
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    The town of Dedham, Massachusetts, participated in the American Revolutionary War and the protests and actions that led up to it in a number of ways....
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    The first classes were likely in the meetinghouse. The first schoolhouse was built in present-day Dedham Square near the First Church and Parish in Dedham...
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    Martin Marsh (category Deacons at First Church and Parish in Dedham)
    the First Church and Parish in Dedham and became a deacon there. He was responsible for managing the church's finances. Marsh was a large landowner in Dedham...
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    family. Deac. John Everett (1676–1751), early deacon at the First Church and Parish in Dedham and member of the Massachusetts General Court. John Everett...
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    Constable's paintings feature Dedham, including Dedham Mill, which his father owned, and Dedham Parish Church, whose massive Caen stone and flint tower is a focal...
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    Mother Brook (category Parks in Dedham, Massachusetts)
    artificial waterway in Dedham, and Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and the first man-made canal in the present-day United States. Constructed in 1639 by settlers...
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    parishioners at the First Church and Parish in Dedham convinced him to stay. As a port town in the 17th century, Boston played an important role in the world of...
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