John Aldis was a representative to 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 ...

of colonial Massachusetts in 1683 and served for 12 years on the Board of Selectmen in

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. He was the only son of

Nathan Aldis Nathan Aldis was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts who served on that town's Board of Selectmen in 1641, 1642, and 1644. He served in a variety of other positions in the town and served as a deacon at First Church and Parish in Dedham. He s ...

and his wife Mary. Aldis had a son also named John. Aldis was admitted as a townsman on January 1, 1650 – 1651. He served as a constable in 1660 and in 1663 was returned to the Jury of Trials of Suffolk County. In 1681, the town voted to collect all deeds and other writings and store them in a box kept by Aldis in order to better preserve them. He was a deacon at the

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and an ancestor of

Asa O. Aldis Asa Owen Aldis (September 2, 1811 – June 24, 1891) was a Vermont attorney, judge and diplomat. He served as a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, and as U.S. Consul to Nice, France. Biography Asa O. Aldis was born in St. Albans, Vermont on ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Aldis, John Dedham, Massachusetts selectmen Members of the colonial Massachusetts General Court from Dedham Deacons at First Church and Parish in Dedham Signers of the Dedham Covenant