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Descendants of Tristram Dodge




Generation No. 1


1. TRISTRAM1 DODGE

Notes for TRISTRAM DODGE:
Rev. S. T. Livermore, A.M., in his History of Block Island (1876), page 17, names Tristram Dodge as one of the passengers in the shallop which sailed from Taunton,1661, and he says on page 327 that, although he was not among the first purchasers, he was among the first party of settlers

From the records of New Shoreham (Block Island), Rhode Island:
"To All Persons to Whom This Testimony Shall Appear:
"Know Ye, I, Simon Ray of Block Island, being eighty-one years of age and now upon oath doth
testify and declare that on ye first erecting and settleing of s'd Block Island there was some undivided
land reserved by ye first purchasers for to accommodate fishermen for promoting of a fishing trade,
and Tristram Dodge Sr. a fisherman came from Newfoundland and ye freeholders willing for to settle
him on s'd Island, gave unto him said Tristram Dodge three acres of land unto him and his heirs
forever which land ordered by freeholders for to be measured unto him said Dodge situated and being
on ye South East of ye Harbor that now is joining to the land of John Rathbon.

"And unto ye truth of this testimony I set to my hand,
"SIMON RAY, Warden.(*)

More About TRISTRAM DODGE:
Burial: Unmarked grave on Block Island, RI1
Moved: April 1661, Sailed from Taunton, Mass., with the original fifteen settlers and their families and settled on Block Island, Rhode Island.2
Religion 1: May 4, 1664, Freeman3
Religion 2: 1676, Sergeant4
     
Children of TRISTRAM DODGE are:
  i.   JOHN2 DODGE, b. 16445; d. 1729, Aged 856; m. MARY, February 4, 1695/967.
  More About JOHN DODGE:
Immigrated: 1667, sons of Tristram followed him, and that they came from the north of England near the river Tweed8
Religion: July 1670, Freeman, Block Island9

  More About JOHN DODGE and MARY:
Marriage: February 4, 1695/9610
2. ii.   ISRAEL DODGE.
  iii.   TRISTRAM DODGE, b. 164711; d. August 18, 1733, "in ye 87th year of his age," says his slate gravestone in the ancient burial ground at Block Island.12; m. DORCAS DICKENS, January 7, 1679/8013; b. 166414; d. February 18, 1736/3715.
  More About TRISTRAM DODGE:
Immigrated: 1667, sons of Tristram followed him, and that they came from the north of England near the river Tweed16
Religion: July 1670, Freeman, Block Island17

  More About TRISTRAM DODGE and DORCAS DICKENS:
Marriage: January 7, 1679/8018
  iv.   WILLIAM DODGE, m. SARAH GEORGE19.
  More About WILLIAM DODGE:
Immigrated: 1667, sons of Tristram followed him, and that they came from the north of England near the river Tweed20
Religion: July 1670, Freeman, Block Island21

  More About WILLIAM DODGE and SARAH GEORGE:
Marriage: 22
  v.   MARGARET DODGE, m. JOHN RATHBONE23.
  More About JOHN RATHBONE and MARGARET DODGE:
Marriage: 23


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