Eliphalet Pond

Eliphalet Pond (1704-1795) represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.

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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
  1. 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.
  2. Worthington 1827, pp. 106-107.
  3. Worthington 1827, pp. 79.
  4. Worthington 1827, pp. 79-81.
  5. 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.
  6. Brems, Lisa (April 12, 1998). "'baby cemetery,' a taxing reemergence". The Boston Globe. p. 17. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  7. "Bernard Quartich New Acquisitions June 2018" (PDF). Bernard Quartich Ltd. June 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  8. "Dedham Village in 1795". Dedham Historical Register. Dedham Historical Society. XIV (2): 39. April 1903. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  9. Registers of Deeds The Early Years, Norfolk County Registry of Deeds: Norfolk County Registry of Deeds, 225th Anniversary Notable Land Records Project
  10. Louis Atwood Cook (1918). History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1622-1918. S.J. Clarke publishing Company. p. 478.

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