{{Short description|English settler (1620s/30s–1697/98)}} Lt. '''Daniel Pond''' (1620s/1630s – 1697/1698) was a prominent early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts.
==Early life== Pond was born in the 1620s or 1630s in England to Robert and Mary Pond.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=markeminer |date=2010-06-17 |title=Daniel Pond |url=https://minerdescent.com/2010/06/17/daniel-pond/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Miner Descent |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Pedigree: Daniel POND |url=https://fabpedigree.com/s042/f126821.htm |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=fabpedigree.com}}</ref>
==Life in Dedham== Pond arrived in Dedham around 1652 and purchased land from Nathaniel Fisher and Ralph Wheelock.{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=9}} Pond served as a selectman in Dedham for 14 terms, beginning in 1661.{{sfn|Worthington|1827|p=79–81}}{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=9}} As a selectmen, he was one of ten men, or roughly 5% of the adult male population, who filled 60% of the seats on the board.<ref name=kl/>
Pond and Ezra Morse were given permission by the Town to erect a new corn mill on Mother Brook, so long as it was completed by June 24, 1665.{{sfn|Worthington|1900|p=3}}{{sfn|Lamson|1839|pp=56-7}}{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=54}}<ref name=hub/>{{sfn|Mann|1847|p=103}} He performed several carpentry jobs on the meetinghouse of the First Church and Parish in Dedham, including hanging the first bell.{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=50-51}}
When the town of Wrentham, Massachusetts split off from Dedham, he became an owner of real estate there as well.{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=9}} He was awarded several lots there, but probably never lived in Wrentham.{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=9}}
He was a lieutenant in the militia and took the freeman's oath in 1690.{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=10}} He was a husbandman.<ref name="Wight1890"/> He also worked as a carpenter.<ref name=":0" />
==Family== He married Abigail Shepard around 1652, a member of the church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=9}} They had a daughter, also named Abigail, who was born in Dedham but not baptized there.{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=9}} A son was baptized, however, on August 22, 1653, less than two weeks after he joined the church on the 11th.{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=9}} They had seven children, including John, Ephraim, Robert, and Jabez.{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=9}}<ref name="Wight1890"/>
After his wife died on July 5, 1661, he married Ann Edwards two months later.{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=10}} He died on February 4, 1697-8 and Ann outlived him.{{sfn|Harris|1873|p=10}}
His great-great grandson was Oliver Ellsworth, an American founding father and jurist.<ref name=":1" />
==References== <references>
<ref name="Wight1890">{{cite book|last=Wight|first=William Ward |title=The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of His Descendants, 1635-1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-QUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA164|access-date=April 9, 2021|year=1890|publisher=Swain & Tate, Printers|page=164}}</ref>
<ref name=hub>{{cite podcast | url =http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/episode-59-corn-cotton-condos-378-years-mother-brook/ | title= Episode 59: Corn, Cotton, and Condos; 378 Years on the Mother Brook | website= Hub History | host= Sconyers, Jake and Stewart, Nikki | date= December 18, 2017 | access-date= December 26, 2017 }}</ref>
<ref name=kl>{{cite book | title = A New England Town | last = Lockridge | first = Kenneth | year = 1985 | publisher = W.W. Norton & Company | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-393-95459-3 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/newenglandtown00lock |pages=42–43}}</ref>
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==Works cited== *{{cite book|last=Hanson|first=Robert Brand |title=Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oslAQAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Dedham Historical Society}} *{{cite book|last=Worthington|first=Erastus |title=The history of Dedham: from the beginning of its settlement, in September 1635, to May 1827|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v2sWAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA29|access-date=November 8, 2019|year=1827|publisher=Dutton and Wentworth}} *{{cite book|last=Harris|first=Edward Doubleday |title=A Genealogical Record of Daniel Pond, and His Descendants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THpIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9|access-date=9 April 2021|year=1873|publisher=W.P. Lunt|isbn=978-0-7404-3260-6}} * {{cite book| title = Historical sketch of Mother Brook, Dedham, Mass: compiled from various records and papers, showing the diversion of a portion of the Charles River into the Neponset River and the manufactures on the stream, from 1639 to 1900| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zUMlLghlcGoC&q=Historical+sketch+of+Mother+Brook,+Dedham,+Mass| first = Erastus| last = Worthington| year = 1900| publisher =C.G. Wheeler| location = Dedham, MA}} *{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=om8WAAAAYAAJ&q=dedham+mill| title = A History of the First Church and Parish in Dedham, in Three Discourses| year = 1839| publisher = Herman Mann| last = Lamson| first = Alvan}} *{{cite book|last=Mann|first=Herman |title=Historical Annals of Dedham: From Its Settlement in 1635 to 1847|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWsWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80|access-date=April 9, 2021|year=1847|publisher=H. Mann}}
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