TENTH GENERATION

936. Edmund Dolbeare (55) was born before Jun 26 1644 in probably Ashburton, Devonshire. He died before Jul 24 1711 in probably Boston, Massachusetts. Edmund Dolbeare was a pewterer and taught this trade to his two elder children. Ashburton, in Devonshire, was a center of the English pewter industry, located close to the Cornish tin mines. No known pewter of Edmund Dolbeare survives, and his pewterer's mark is unknown.

We know Edmund Dolbeare emigrated to Boston by 1671 as he gave a deposition in a court case on Sep 16 of that year. His wife and two children either came with him at that time or followed later. The family lived in Boston except, apparently, for the years 1684-1691, when his first five children by his second wife are recorded as being born in Salem.
He was married. Children were:

child468 i. John Dolbeare.
child ii. Joseph Dolbeare(55) was born about 1672 in Ashburton, Devonshire.

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