Daniel Fisher represented
Dedham, Massachusetts
Dedham ( ) is a New England town, town in, and the county seat of, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on Boston's southwestern border, the population was 25,364 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
First settled by E ...
in the
Great and General Court
The Massachusetts General Court, formally the General Court of Massachusetts, is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts located in the state capital of Boston. The name "General Court" is a holdover from the earliest days of ...
. He served from 1700 to 1704 and then again in 1712 and 1713. He also served nine terms as selectman beginning in 1690.
In the years leading to the
American Revolution
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was a colonial rebellion and war of independence in which the Thirteen Colonies broke from British America, British rule to form the United States of America. The revolution culminated in the American ...
Dedham had a number of men rise to protect the liberties of the colonists. When Governor
Edmund Andros
Sir Edmund Andros (6 December 1637 – 24 February 1714; also spelled ''Edmond'') was an English colonial administrator in British America. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. At other ...
was deposed and arrested in 1689 it was Dedham's Daniel Fisher who "burst into
ohnUsher'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. Before being sent to England, he was brought to the home of dominion official John Usher and held under close watch.
He died in 1713
[ and is interred in a tomb at the ]Old Village Cemetery
The Old Village Cemetery is an historic cemetery in Dedham, Massachusetts.
History
The first portion of the cemetery was set apart at the first recorded meeting of the settlers of Dedham on August 18, 1636, with land taken from Nicholas Phillips ...
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His father, Daniel Fisher, was Speaker of the House of Representatives. He was said to be "heir to his ather'senergetic ardor in the cause of freedom." His daughter, Esther, married Timothy Dwight.
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Members of the colonial Massachusetts General Court from Dedham
Year of birth missing
1713 deaths
Burials at Old Village Cemetery
Dedham, Massachusetts selectmen