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No baptism record form William Dodge has been found, but his approximate age is given in two depostions at the Essex County Quarterly Court. One was recorded in the minutes of the 1 April 1679 session, his age given as about 70.[Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts , vol. 7 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1921), [https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex/vol7/images/essex181.html p. 181].] The other was noted at the 28 September 1680 session, his age given as about 76.[Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts , vol. 8 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1921), [https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex/vol8/images/essex007.html p. 7].]
One is a list of grantees in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, dating between 26 December 1636 to 12 July 1637. He was given sixty acres next to John Woodbery, but no specific location in Salem is given for any of these grants, but William's entry says it was next to John Woodberry. Town Records of Salem, vol. 1 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1868), 24. The second record is of another grant of 60 acres mentioned in the minutes of the 3 April 1637 Salem town meeting. 43
He was on a committee to check the bounds between Salem and Beverly, chosen 17 March 1671 (MDCB, 403)
Children of William Dodge:
i. John b. abt 1635, bap. 25 December 1636, Salem (church records 1629-1843), p. 201)
ii. William bap. 19 September 1640 (no parents' names given) p. 202
iii. Hannah , bap. 24 July 1642
iv. Josiah Dodge?, a soldier in King Philip's War who was killed in Deerfield in 1675, is usually placed in William's family. There is no other record of him.
vital records sources:
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Municipal Documents of the City of Beverly, Massachusetts (Beverly, 1896), 403.
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