Governors Academy - Milestone Yearbook (Byfield, MA)

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William Dummer continued at the head of the Province until IQ July 1728 when William Burnett was transferred from the chief magistracy of New York and New jersey to that of Massachusetts. Burnett's sudden death on 7 Sept. 1729 again called Dummer to the chief magistracy until the arrival of Belcher on II June 1730, when he retired to private life. , William Dummer was an active memher of the Hollis Street Church in Boston and contrihuted toward the cost of its huilding. He gave the Church a large folio Bihle of the Oxford 17311 edition, now in the keeping of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The inscription on the llyleaf, presumahly in the handwriting of the pastor, is as follows: The gift of His Honor W'illiam Dummer, late Lieut. Governor and Commander in Chiefof this Province. M. Bylesf' The lfirst Church of Boston has a silver flagon made hy William Cowell Jr. with the following inscription: Presented to the Church of Christ in Hollis Street under the Pastoral care of the Rev. Mather Byles, l7.lD., and helow the llummer Coat of Arms: By the Honorahle W'illiam Dummer lfsq. l.ate l.ieut. Governor and Commander in Chief of Massachusetts. On the hottom is engraved: This Humhly Dedicated hy Wlilliam Dummer to the Church of Christ in Hollis Street for the Communion 'Tl21l1lC7I'Q'5-'LU In 1719 William Dummer was memher and Captain of the Ancient and Hon- orahle Artillery Company. His Boston home was on the south-east corner of School and Province Streets. The farm at Newhury Cliyfieldl of the immigrant Richard Dummer came into the possession of William, and ahout 1720 he huilt a house there. This line colonial huilding, called the Mansion House, was used as his summer resi- dence. William Dummer died in Boston on IO Oct. 1761, heing 84 years old. He was huried in the Dummer tomh in the Granary Burying Ground. His funeral sermon was preached hy Mather Byles on Octoher ioth from the text, The liheral deviseth liheral things. ln the sermon he speaks of the qualities of William Dummer as a magistrate and citizen, hut dwells mainly on his excellence as a humhle, henevolent, Christian man. The Boston G!l2t'fft'!lHt77C0IlHfI1V :70Il7'7IIZ! on Octoher Czothihad a long ohituary notice dwelling on the many line qualities of the former Lieut. Governor. In his will William Dummer set apart his Mansion House and farm in Newhury for the estahlishment of a school to stand forever on the farm. The property was given in trust to Rev. Thomas lfoxcroft and Rev. Charles Chauncy, ministers of the First Church in Boston, and Nathaniel Dummer of Newhury. ln 1762 a small school huilding was erected, and in 1763 the school was opened with Samuel Moody as the hrst Master. Formal incorporation followed on 1 Oct. 1782, and Governor Dummer Academy continues today the oldest hoys' hoarding school in the llnited States. The original school house is still there, and the heautiful Mansion House now serves Cady Cfaaaf as the home of the Headmaster. Il

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