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History of the New England Family of William Dummer The history of the Dummer family in England goes back to the beginning of the 12th century. In Penne Domer, Co. Somerset, and in Dummer, Co. Hants, are ancient monuments of this family. l.ater they lived near Southampton, at a place called Bishopstoke, where Richard Dummer was born in 1591. He came to New England with his wife, Mary, in the ship IV!zfz!v, arriving 26 May 1632. Richard Dummer first lived in Roxbury, where he built a mill in 1633. The next year he moved into Boston, and on 6 May 1635 received a grant of 5oo acres of land at the Falls in Newbury. In 1636 he joined the early settlers of Newbury, and became a Freeman on 22 May 1639. His farm in the present town of Byfield became the country home of a grandson, Lieut. Governor XYilliam Dummer, and is now the site of Governor Dummer Academy. Richard was a Magistrate of the Colony, one of the largest landholders, and probably the richest man in the Province. In com- pany with Saltonstall and Sew all he imported cattle, horses, sheep and fruit trees for the new Colony. The first grist mill of Newbury was built by Richard and John Spencer at the Falls, the head of tide water on the Parker River. Richard was also prominent in Church affairs, and in the controversy regarding discipline, which so long agitated the First Parish of Newbury, he took part against the Ruling Elders, Parker and Noyes, and was one of the Ruling Elders elected to manage the affairs of the Church. He earlier became greatly involved because of his sympathy with Rev. John XYheelwright and Mrs. Anne Hutchinson in the Anti- nomian Controversy, and sided with Sir Harry Vane against Governor Winthrop. YVhen Winthrop was victorious, Richard was left out of the blagistracy, and on IO Nov. 1637 was ordered with others to deliver to the Constable at Newbury his guns, swords, pistols, powder, shot and matches under the Disarming Act. Greatly dis- pleased Richard went to England, only to return in 1638 on the ship Basis. Richard Dummer's wife, Mary, died soon after they settled in Newbury, leav- ing an only child, Shubael, born I7 Feb. 1636. He graduated from Harvard College in 1656, and preceded Samuel or Faithful Moody as the minister of York. This Samuel Moody was the grandfather of Samuel Moody, the first Headmaster of Governor Dummer Academy. Shubael was killed by Indians, 25 Jan. 1692, while mounting his horse at his own door at York. His wife and son were taken prisoners in this same Indian attack. She died soon afterward, and the son was never again heard from. In 1643,f.i Richard married Mrs. Francis Burr. She was the widow of Rev. Jonathan Burr, formerly Rector of Rickengall in Suffolk, England, and later an associate of Richard Mather of Dorchester. By his second wife Richard had five

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children, W'illiam, Jeremiah, Nathaniel, Hannah and Richard. He and his wife lie buried near the trayneing green in Newbury. Their gravestones bear the follow- ing inscriptions: Richard Dummer, Esq. Died December ye' 14th 1679 in his 880' year, and Mrs. Francis Dummer died in the jon' year of her Age being the 19th day of November 1631 Of Richard Dummer's live children by his second wife, W'illiam and Nathaniel died without marrying. The youngest son, Richard, Jr., married Flizabeth Appleton, and is the ancestor of Joseph N. Dummer, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Governor Dummer Academy. The daughter, Hannah, married Rev. James Allen, pastor ofthe First Church of Boston lFounded I63Ol. Later ministers ofthis Church, Thomas Foxcroft and Charles Chauncy, were named as the first Trustees of Govern- or Dummer Academy, along with Nathaniel Dummer, a son of Richard Jr. Jeremiah, the second son of Richard Dummer by his second wife, was born at Newbury on 14 Sept. 1645. Shortly before he was fourteen he was sent to Boston for an eight-years' apprenticeship to John Hull the Silversmith and Master of the Klint. Hull lived on the south-west corner of the present Washington Street and Temple Place, and his silver shop and mint were probably near by. After his apprenticeship Jeremiah set up business for himself, and became a notable silversmith whose pieces are highly valued by collectors. He made five standing cups and a tankard for the communion table of the First Church of Boston. These pieces were given by various people, as was the custom in those days, and are now on exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Of most interest is a cup inscribed as follows: Hx dono A D se: Testm J A The initials are for Anna Dummer, wife of Jeremiah, and Joshua Atwater, her father. On 9 June ITOQ the Connecticut .Assembly enacted a bill providing for the print- ing of bills ofcredit on the Colony, because of the great scarcity of money. Jeremiah Dummer was commissioned to print this money in suitable sums from two shillings to five pounds to the value of I0,000 pounds, from plates presumably engraved by himself. The colonists, however, had the custom of raising the amounts stated on these bills, and on Il June 1713 the General Assembly instructed Jeremiah to alter the plates, adding to each a creature to represent the amount, i.e., 2 shillings a dove, 5 shillings a fox, io shillings a lamb, etc. This was done and an additional 1o,ooo pounds taken off. Evidence has come to light in the last decade making it probable that Jeremiah Dummer was the first native-born Massachusetts painter. His interest in art may have come through the portraits of his sons, W'illiam and Jeremiah Jr., by the popular Fnglish court painter Sir Godfrey Kneller. He apparently taught himself how to paint, copying Kneller's style, and in this must have been aided by his long experience in the design and engraving of his silver. He is said to have painted por- traits of himself and his wife, and of his brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. John Coney. He may have painted the portraits of his son W'illiam and his wife Katherine now in the Mansion House at Governor Dummer Academy. 9