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Title: Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Biographical Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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with three men, three women and fourteen children were cap-tured by one of the bands of Canada Indians, but declined to availhimself of an opportunity to escape from his captors while enroute to Canada, that he might continue to render such serviceand protection as possible to the women and children of thecaptured party. But upon their arrival in Canada, and beforethe prisoners were turned over to the French for ransom, he, witha Mrs. Waite, was selected to be tortured to death by fire. Thewoman escaped torture, through the intervention of an IndianChief, but Plimpton was burned to death at the stake. Hisdescendants still own the land in Medfield where the originalhouse stood. Henry Dorrs father was Andrew Cunningham Dorr (1804-1868),a man of eminent integrity. For many years he was Secretary tothe American Insurance Company, preferring to retain that positionrather than to become its President as he was many times urgedto do. He was an indefatigable reader of the best literature. He
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HENRY GUSTAVUS DORR married Anne Bradish Billings, a daughter of Bradish Billings, formany years Deputy Sheriff to Boston. She was a woman of fineliterary abilities and contributed many stories and poems to Godeys Magazine and other journals of the day. Henry Gustavus Dorr was educated in the schools of Dorchester,and later began to prepare for college at Chauncy Hall School,where he studied for four years. When he was in his seventeenthyear he became a clerk in the firm of Conant and Edmands, ship-merchants, at nineteen India Street, Boston. He stayed withthem a year and a half and then determined to go to China. Hewas the only passenger on the ship Samuel Appleton, sailingfrom New York, February 10, 1859, to Shanghai, and was armedwith half a dozen letters of introduction. The vessel met withdisaster and put into Port Elizabeth, on Algoa Bay, South Africa,where he decided to remain. In June, 1859, shortly after his arrival in Cape Colony, whileupon a two weeks trip through the inter

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