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==Richard Dana, immigrant== |
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The patriarch, Richard Dana ({{circa}}1620{{mdash}}1690) was born in France. A [[Huguenot]], he fled to England as a result of the [[Edict of Restitution]] of 1629, and subsequently emigrated to New England, settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts by 1640.<ref name="Eliot p. 189">{{cite book|author=Samuel Atkins Eliot|title=A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=siPZKHPQ1rcC&pg=PA189|year=1913|publisher=Cambridge Tribune|page=189}}</ref><ref name="CHAPTER1907">{{cite book|author=Hannah Winthrop Chapter|title=An Historic Guide to Cambridge|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rZv2ykegv8AC&pg=PA165|year=1907|page=165}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| first=W. B. |last=Sprague |title=The Life of Daniel Dana |location=Boston, MA |publisher=J. E. Tilton |year=1866 |pages=269-273 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M72i-26sDh8C&dq=dana%20family&pg=PA269#v=onepage&q&f=false }}</ref> He served numerous posts in the local government, including [[selectman]], constable, tythingman, and grand juror.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} He married Ann Bullard about 1648.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Clarence Almon Torrey|author2=Elizabeth Petty Bentley|title=New England Marriages Prior to 1700|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mOgK8dM9qqUC&pg=PA202|date=1 January 1985|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=978-0-8063-1102-9|page=202}}</ref> The couple had eleven children, all born in Cambridge:{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} |
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==See also== |
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* [[Dana (disambiguation)|Dana disambiguation page]] |
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Revision as of 18:08, 29 November 2015
The Dana family is a Boston Brahmin family that arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts from England during the later end of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640).
Richard Dana, immigrant
The patriarch, Richard Dana (c.1620—1690) was born in France. A Huguenot, he fled to England as a result of the Edict of Restitution of 1629, and subsequently emigrated to New England, settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts by 1640.[1][2][3] He served numerous posts in the local government, including selectman, constable, tythingman, and grand juror.[citation needed] He married Ann Bullard about 1648.[4] The couple had eleven children, all born in Cambridge:[citation needed]
- John (1649-1650)
- Hannah (1651-1728) married Samuel Oldham
- Samuel (1653-1653)
- Jacob (1654-1698) married Patience Sabin
- Joseph (1656-1700) married Mary Gobell. Abiah's twin brother.
- Abiah (1656-1668). Joseph's twin brother.
- Benjamin (1660-1738) married Mary Buckminster.
- Elizabeth (1662-1702) married Daniel Woodward. Unlike her siblings, she moved to Connecticut.
- Daniel (1663-1749) married Naomi Croswell. Most of the famous Danas of Massachusetts come from Daniel Dana.
- Deliverance (1667-1741) married Samuel Hyde.
- Sarah (1669-1669)
Notable Danas descended from Richard Dana
- Charles A. Dana (philanthropist) (1881-1975): businessman, politician, philanthropist, founder of the Dana Foundation and Dana Corporation
- Charles Anderson Dana (1819-1897): journalist, author, assistant Secretary of War (1864-1866)
- Charles R. Dana (1802-1868): Mormon leader and politician
- Charles S. Dana (1862-1939): Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives
- Daniel Dana (1771-1859): president of Dartmouth College
- Edmund Trowbridge Dana (1818-1869): jurist
- Edward Salisbury Dana (1849-1935): mineralogist, physicist
- Francis Dana (1743–1811): member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Articles of Confederation
- James Dana (clergyman) (1735-1812): pastor of the First Church in New Haven
- James Dana (mayor) (1811-1890): mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts
- James Dwight Dana (1813-1895): geologist, mineralogist, zoologist, volcanologist
- John Cotton Dana (1856-1929): librarian and museum director
- John W. Dana (1808-1867): Governor of Maine
- Joseph Dana (1742-1827): clergyman
- Judah Dana (1772-1845): US Senator
- Lowell Dana (1891-1937): college football coach
- Napoleon J.T. Dana (1822-1905): American general during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War
- Paul Dana (journalist) (1852-1930): journalist
- Richard Dana (lawyer) (1699-1772): colonial Boston politician, a founder of the Sons of Liberty
- Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879): lawyer, poet, critic
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882): lawyer, politician, author (Two Years Before the Mast)
- Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931): lawyer, civil service reformer, husband of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's daughter
- Samuel Dana (1767-1835): US Representative
- Samuel Dana (clergyman) (1739-1798): clergyman, judge, politician
- Samuel Luther Dana (1795-1868): chemist
- Samuel W. Dana (1760-1830): US Senator and US Representative
Other notable descendants:
- Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944): graphic artist, created the "Gibson Girl"
- Samuel Dana Bell (1798-1868): politician and judge
- Samuel Newell Bell (1829-1889): US Representative
See also
References
- ^ Samuel Atkins Eliot (1913). A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913. Cambridge Tribune. p. 189.
- ^ Hannah Winthrop Chapter (1907). An Historic Guide to Cambridge. p. 165.
- ^ Sprague, W. B. (1866). The Life of Daniel Dana. Boston, MA: J. E. Tilton. pp. 269–273.
- ^ Clarence Almon Torrey; Elizabeth Petty Bentley (1 January 1985). New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-8063-1102-9.