Eliphalet Pond
Eliphalet Pond represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
Pond was born in Dedham in 1704. He represented Dedham in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1761 and 1763. He was also town clerk for a total of 12 years, from 1747 to 1754, and in 1757, 1758, 1763. He served as selectman from 1744 to 1754 and in 1757, 1758, and 1763. He was also the Town Meeting moderator in 1756, 1761, 1762, and 1763.
He married Elizabeth Ellis is 1727 and worked as a farmer. He also bought and sold land. Land he owned was eventually sold to Hannah B. Chickering, who established the Temporary Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners on it. Today, the land has a housing development and the Baby Cemetery.
His son Eliphalet Pond, Jr, born in 1745, was Registrar of Deeds in Norfolk County, Massachusetts from the establishment of the county in 1793 to his death in 1813. He also served as the Dedham, Massachusetts town clerk for 25 years and as a selectman for 1813. He also served as a colonel in the American Revolution.
