Mary Dorr

Mary was born in Mendon, MA on June 22, 1699. She was one of the ten children of Rev. Grindall Rawson and his wife, Susanna (Wilson) Rawson. Rev. Rawson came to Mendon from Boston to be the second town minister in 1680.

In 1724 she married Rev. Joseph Dorr who had taken over the ministry of Mendon in 1716, a year after the death of Rev. Rawson. They had five children together, four daughters and one son, and all but one daughter would outlive their parents. Her husband passed in 1768 in the 52nd year of his ministry.

Mrs. Dorr passed on April 9, 1776 in the 77th year of her age and is buried in the Old Cemetery in Mendon.