William Mears Dawes
(1771-1855)
BIRTH
1771
PLACE
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
DEATH
1855
PLACE
Ripon, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
FAMILY
FATHER
William Dawes
(1745-1799)
CHILDREN
Mehitable May Dawes
(1751-1793)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
William Mears Dawes was born in Boston in 1771, a son of William Dawes, the Revolutionary messenger, and Mehitable May. Family records identify his wife as Abigail “Nabby” Kendall Holden and list children including Henry and John. They place his death in 1855, but one account combines incompatible locations for the death, so its place is not accepted. His father’s 1775 ride was not his own; his occupation and exact vital details need confirmation.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of William Mears Dawes’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for William Mears Dawes is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Family records identify his wife as Abigail “Nabby” Kendall Holden and list children including Henry and John. William Mears Dawes died in 1855, in Ripon, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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