Massachusetts[]
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- Capt. David Bradlee (1742 - 1811), born on 24 Nov 1742 in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, North America to Samuel Bradlee (1707 - 1768) and Mary Andrus (1700 - 1798) and died on 10 Mar 1811 at 69 years old. He is buried in Central Burying Ground, Tomb 85 in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. He was a Freemason at St. Andrew's Lodge in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, North America. He was a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was participated in the Boston Tea Party by dressing up like a Mohawk Indian and dumped tea off the British ships. He was married by Rev. Philip Payson on 22 Mar 1764 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, North America to Sarah Watts. She was born in 1745 and died on 16 Feb 1806 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. She was the daughter of the Honorable Judge Watts ( - ).
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- Hon. Rufus Choate (1799 - 1859), born on 1 Oct 1799 in Essex, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA and died on 13 Jul 1859 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. At age six years old he was said to have been able to report large parts of the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress from memory. In 1819 he was elected to Phi Beta kappa and and graduated valedictorian of his class at at Dartmouth College in Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA. From 1819 to 1820 he was a tutor there. He studied for a small time in Washington, DC, USA in the office of William Wirt who was then Attorney Genral of the United States. In 1823 he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and he prated later became known as South Danvers, and is now known was Peabody, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. In 1828 he moved to Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. In 1830 he was elected to Congress as a Whig from Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA after defeating a Jakson candidate for his reelection and my ancestor Hon. Benjamin Crowninshield (1772 - 1851), 5th Secretary of the United States Navy. In 1841 he succeeded his fellow Dartmouth Classmate Daniel Webster in the United States Senate. From 4 Mar 1831 to 30 Jun 1843 he was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts 2nd district. From 23 Feb 1841 to 4 Mar 1845 he was a United Sates Senator form Massachusetts. From 1853 to 1854 he was the 10th Massachusetts Attorney General. In 1845 he graduated from Harvard Law School. He practiced law. He was a Freemason inducted in the Jordan Lodge in Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA and eventually became the chair and Senior Warden. He married Helen Olcott (1803 - 1864). She was born on 29 Mar 1803 in New Hampshire, USA and died on 8 Dec 1864 in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; she is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.
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- Hon. Maj. Perez Morton (1752 - 1837), born on 13 Nov 1751 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, North America to Joseph Morton (1712 - 1793) and Anna Bullock (1722 - 1759) and died on 14 Oct 1837 in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Around 1760 he attended the Boston Latin School in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. In 1771 he graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. He participated on the Committee of Correspondence From 1789 to 1790 he was a Freemason and Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Land of Massachusetts. From 1775 to 1776 he was Deputy Secretary of the Council of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay From 1806 to 1808 he was Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. From 1810 - 1832 he was the 7th Massachusetts Attorney General. He married in 1781 to Sarah Wentworth Apthorp (1759 - 1846). She was born in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, North America to James Apthorp (1730 - ?) and Sarah Wentworth (1735 - 1820) and died on 15 May 1846 in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. She was a poet