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Daniel Fisher (Dedham)

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Daniel Fisher represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.[1] He served from 1700 to 1704 and then again in 1712 and 1713.[1] He also served nine terms as selectman beginning in 1690.[2]

In the years leading to the American Revolution Dedham had a number of men rise to protect the liberties of the colonists. When Governor Edmund Andros was deposed and arrested in 1689 it was Dedham's Daniel Fisher who "burst into [John] Usher's house, to drag forth the tyrant by the collar, to bind him and cast him into a fort" and eventually send him back to England to stand trial.[3][4] Before being sent to England, he was brought to the home of dominion official John Usher and held under close watch.[5][6]

He died in 1713[7] and is interred in a tomb at the Old Village Cemetery.[8]

His father, Daniel Fisher, was Speaker of the House of Representatives.[9] He was said to be "heir to his [father's] energetic ardor in the cause of freedom."[10] His daughter, Esther, married Timothy Dwight.[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b Worthington 1827, pp. 106–107.
  2. ^ Worthington 1827, pp. 79–81.
  3. ^ Abbott 1903, pp. 290–297.
  4. ^ Hanson 1976, p. 99-100.
  5. ^ Webb 1998, p. 192.
  6. ^ Lustig 2002, p. 145, 197.
  7. ^ "List of burials" (PDF). Dedham Village Preservation Association. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  8. ^ Smith 1936, p. 145.
  9. ^ Goodwin 1982, pp. 40–41.
  10. ^ Goodwin 1982, p. 41.
  11. ^ Goodwin 1982, p. 40.

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