Richard Dana

Bef 1617 - 1690  (> 72 years)

• Name	Richard Dana  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 31 Oct 1617  [3, 4]
  Baptism	31 Oct 1617	Collegiate Church of Manchester, Lancashire, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Apr 1690	Little Cambridge, now Brighton, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I33862	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DGH
  Last Modified	9 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert Dawney,   b. Bef 16 Jun 1571   d. Bef 24 May 1644 (Age < 72 years)
  Family ID	F19948	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Bullard,   b. Abt 1627   d. 15 Jul 1711, Little Cambridge, now Brighton, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 84 years)
  Marriage	Between 1647 and 1648  [3, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Hannah Dana,   b. 8 Jul 1651, Little Cambridge, now Brighton, Suffolk, Massachusetts + 2. Elizabeth Dana,   b. 20 Feb 1662, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F19947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was the patriarch of the Boston Brahmin Dana family, although his own life and origins were modest. He was not, as long supposed, descended from Huguenot refugees. He died of injuries sustained from a fall from a high place in his barn. Among the direct descendants listed on his Wikipedia page are: Charles A. Dana (philanthropist) (1881–1975): businessman, politician, philanthropist, founder of the Dana Foundation and Dana Holding Corporation Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897): journalist, author, assistant Secretary of War (1864-1866) Charles Loomis Dana (1852–1935): neurologist at Cornell Medical College Charles R. Dana (1802–1868): Mormon leader and politician Charles S. Dana (1862–1939): Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives Daniel Dana (1771–1859): president of Dartmouth College Edmund Trowbridge Dana (1818–1869): jurist Edward Salisbury Dana (1849–1935): mineralogist, physicist Francis Dana (1743–1811): member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Articles of Confederation Henry Dana (1820-1852): established the Native Police Corps of the Port Phillip District (later Victoria ) James Dana (clergyman) (1735–1812): pastor of the First Church in New Haven James Dana (mayor) (1811–1890): mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts James Dwight Dana (1813–1895): geologist, mineralogist, zoologist, volcanologist John Cotton Dana (1856–1929): librarian and museum director John W. Dana (1808–1867): Governor of Maine Joseph Dana (1742–1827): clergyman Judah Dana (1772–1845): US Senator Lowell Dana (1891–1937): college football coach Napoleon J.T. Dana (1822–1905): American general during the Civil War and the Mexican–American War Olive E. Dana (1859–?): author Paul Dana (journalist) (1852–1930): journalist Richard Dana (lawyer) (1699–1772): colonial Boston politician, a founder of the Sons of Liberty Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879): lawyer, poet, critic Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882): lawyer, politician, author (Two Years Before the Mast) Richard Henry Dana III (1851–1931): lawyer, civil service reformer, husband of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's daughter Samuel Dana (1767–1835): US Representative Samuel Dana (clergyman) (1739–1798): clergyman, judge, politician Samuel Luther Dana (1795–1868): chemist Samuel W. Dana (1760–1830): US Senator and US Representative Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944): graphic artist, created the "Gibson Girl" Samuel Dana Bell (1798–1868): politician and judge Samuel Newell Bell (1829–1889): US Representative William Dana Ewart (1851-1908): Inventor of the Link Belt and founder of the Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company

  
  

• Sources

  [S4814] John Plummer, "The Martyn Wives of Robert and John Bullard." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 146:279, 1992. [S6107] Descendants of Richard Woodward, New England, 1589-1982 by Norma Slater Woodward. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1982. [S5373] Some of the Ancestors of the Reverend John Selby Frame and His Wife Clara Winchester Dana by Julia Locke Frame Bunce. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1948. [S5410] The Dana Family in America by Elizabeth Ellery Dana. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1956. [S4814] John Plummer, "The Martyn Wives of Robert and John Bullard." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 146:279, 1992., says "ca. 1648". [S5410] The Dana Family in America by Elizabeth Ellery Dana. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1956., "about 1648".