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- Title: Hyde Genealogy
Descendents, in the female as well as in the Male Lines, from William
Hyde of Norwich, with their places of residence, and dates of births,marriages, &C., and other particulars of them and their families andancestry.Author: Reuben H. Walworth, LL.D.
Publication: in two Volumes. Vol. I
Page: This Edward Dorr is supposed to be the progenitor of all Dorrs of New
England. He came to this country from West England. He was born in1648, and came here about 1670 and settled in Boston. He m. his firstwife, Elizabeth Hawley, daughter of Thomas Hawley, previous to 1680.They removed to Roxbury, where she died. He was a selectman ofRoxbury. His second wife was the widow Elizabeth (Dickerman) Clapp,who died in 1733. He died at Roxbury in 1734. His children, inaddition to six who died young and unm., were: 1. Ebenezer, b. 25Jan., 1688, who married twice, settled at Roxbury, and had seven sonsand three daughters. 2. Rev. Joseph, b. in 1690, graduated at Harvardin 1711, was settled a minister at Meridan, Mass., in 1716, and d. 9March, 1768, m. Mary Rawson, second daughter of Rev. Grindal Rawsonand Susannah Wilson of Meridan, and had one son and three daughters.3. Edmund, who m. Mary Griswold. 4. Harbottle, b. 11 May, 1696, m.Dorothy Weld and settled in Boston.
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