Thomas DAWES (Col.)

• Birth: 5 AUG 1731, Boston,,MA
• Death: 2 JAN 1809, Boston,,MA
• Burial: King's Chapel,Boston,MA

• Marriage: 1 JUL 1752, Boston,,MA

1. Thomas DAWES

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Notes

Resided in Boston. One of the best-known architects and builders of Boston; designed the Old State House and Brattle Street Church. Member of Old South Church, Deacon, 1786-1809. Prominent in political and military life. Angered the Royalists. Conspicuous patriot in the Revolution. House in Purchase Street sacked by British soldiers. Coroner, 1759. Major, 1771; Lt. Col., Col., 1772, etc. Intimate friend of Hancock. representative, Senator, Councillor, Presidential Selector at first three elections. Mansion on Purchase Street, next to Samuel Adams. Left large property.

Monument at center of King's Chapel burying ground. Inscription: "Of his taste for the Grecian simplicity in Architecture there are many monuments which he raised when that act was new to us. The records of Massachusetts show that he was one of her active legislators from the year 1776 until he was 70 years old, when he retired with faculties unimpaired. To the Fiscal concerns of this metropolis, to its literary and other institutions he was a zealous friend. He was an elector at the three first elections of President of the United States, and discharged various trusts to his own honor and the public weal."

Photo taken about 1928 of monument in my possession (Frank Eliot)

From Blake's Increase Blake, 48; and Holland's William Dawes, 80-87. As Cronicled by Earl M. Wilbur, 1928.