Son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (nee Dodge) Dodge.
Father: Benjamin Dodge
Birth: 06 Dec 1710 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: 1751 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Married: April 23, 1742 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Mother: Elizabeth (nee Dodge) Dodge
Birth: 17 Jun 1721 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: 23 Mar 1808 in New Boston, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States
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Grandfather: Ebenezer Dodge
Birth: 04 Sept 1670 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: 19 Mar 1718 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Married: Jan 14, 1696 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Grandmother: Lydia Nowell
Birth: 2 Jun 1674 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: 1751 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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G-Grandfather: Capt. John Dodge
Birth: 29 Dec 1636 in Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Death: 14 Jan 1722 in Wenham, Beverly, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Dec 29, 1636 in Salem, Massachusetts, USA

G-Grandmother: Sarah Proctor
Birth: 12 Aug 1646 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Death: 08 Feb 1706 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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Children:

1. Hannah DODGE b: 22 AUG 1772
2. Benjamin DODGE b: 1 MAY 1774- d.1838
3. Joseph DODGE b: 1 MAY 1776- d.1849
4. Jabez DODGE b: 10 JUN 1778- d.1803
5. Lydia DODGE b: 31 DEC 1780
6. Samuel DODGE b: 26 FEB 1783- d.1868
7. Elizabeth DODGE b: 28 APR 1785
8. Hannah DODGE b: 4 AUG 1787- d.1787
9. Nancy Ann DODGE b: 16 MAY 1789
10. John DODGE b: 30 NOV 1791- d.1865
11. Isaac DODGE b: 13 APR 1794- d.1832

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Above is bio prior to transfer on August 22, 2018. Additions after transfer:

Top of this bio for Jabez Dodge references :
Father: Benjamin Dodge
Birth: 06 Dec 1710 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: 1751 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Searching, the only possibility found is Benjamin Dodge for which Memorial # 80461960 was created and headstone photo uploaded on Nov 14, 2011. DOB and DOD are unknown and there are no links to other members of the Dodge family or other Dodge family memorials at New Light Cemetery. Jabez's father died in 1751 at age 40 and his mother in 1808 so high probability of a 2nd marriage.

New Light Cemetery in Lynn, Essex County, MA is a close match to place of death of Jabez's father. A photo request and message to memorial creator were sent on Aug 22, 2018.

Zooming the existing photo, there is some inscription below the name "Benjamin Dodge". Would guess it might be DOD and age at death but impossible to determine from existing photo.

The top of Jabez's bio also contains info for his Grandparents and G-Grandparents, none of which I could find with existing memorials. Benjamin is the only Dodge with a memorial at New Light Cemetery, possibly there are more?

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The following was contributed by Julia Nelson (49246824) on October 16, 2019:

Jabez is #4 on the list of children of Benjamin & Elizabeth Dodge below:
Benjamin Dodge (1710-1751), Lineage: EbenezerJohnRichard; of N. Beverly, MA, son of Ebenezer Dodge and Lydia Nowell. He was a chair maker and landowner (21 acres); m. Elizabeth Dodge (1721-1810), dau. of Robert Dodge and Lydia Woodbury, in 1742 and had 6 children. (Sources: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZPS-9MQ/benjamin-dodge-1710-1751; https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dodge-2103)

Benjamin Dodge and Elizabeth Dodge Children:
1. Elizabeth Dodge (1743-1824), m. Aaron Cilley (1746-1804) in Marblehead (now Windham), ME and had 11 children.

2. Benjamin Dodge, Jr. (1744), m. Elizabeth [unknown], lived in Wakefield, NH.

3. Joanna Dodge (1745), m. Nathaniel Clarke in 1768.

4. Jabez Dodge aka Jabesh (1747-1806), was a famous potter in Exeter, MA. He m. Lydia Philbrick (1752-1826) and had 11 children. The Exeter Pottery Works (1771-1935) was established in Exeter, NH circa 1771. Jabez was possibly trained by one of the numerous potters in Essex County, MA, near Exeter, where he established the "Dodge Pottery". This site was the training ground for four of his sons. His third son, Samuel, worked at the Exeter pottery with his father, and in 1819 built the structures that were used continuously throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, known as the Exeter Pottery Works (1819-1935).

Jabez's daughter, Nancy, was married in 1811 to John Lamson (b. 1785), who had trained and worked as a potter at the Dodge Pottery. Nancy and John's son, Asa B. Lamson (b.1818), also became a potter and eventually took over the pottery works in 1838.

Asa's son, Frank Lamson (1859-1936), began operating the family business in 1878. Although Frank continued manufacturing pottery at Exeter, he eventually expanded his operations to include the distribution of goods made elsewhere.

In 1935, following four generations of the Dodge-Lamson families at the helm, the Exeter pottery works closed. The Exeter Pottery works, for most of its existence, produced red earthenware pottery aka redware. Redware, produced in all the colonies, supplied local utilitarian needs for food preparation and storage vessels. (Sources: The Dodge Family Journal, August 1992)

Jabez Dodge and Lydia Philbrick Children:
i. Hannah Dodge (1772-1787), d. age 15.

ii. Benjamin Dodge (1774-1838), a potter at Dodge Pottery; b. in Exeter, NH, m. (1) Abigail Gilman (1772-1807) in 1797 and had 4 children; he m. (2) Sarah Perry (1779-1846) and had 6 more children, 10 in total. He d. in Portland, ME.
10 children: Nancy Dodge (1798-1833), Benjamin Dodge-1 (1800-1801), Benjamin Dodge-2 (1802-1876), Abigail Dodge "Nabby" (1805-1872), Sally Dodge (1808-1810), Elizabeth P. Dodge (1810-1871), Lydia Dodge (1812-1813), Joseph Dodge (1814-1815), John Dodge (1816) and Harriet Dodge (1818-1845).
(Sources: findagrave mem# 86490071; https://athenaeum.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Dodge%2C+Benjamin%2C+1774-1838)

iii. Joseph Dodge (1776-1849), b. in Exeter, NH; m. Jane Dennett (1779-1867) and had 7 children: Joseph Dodge (1798-1855), Jabez Dodge (1804-1884), Leonard Dodge (1809-1863), John Samuel Dodge (1811-1877), Samuel John Dodge (1814 1867), Ann Elizabeth Dodge Goodrich (1817-1890), and Emeline Dodge Senter (1819-1900). He d. in Portsmouth, NH. (findagrave mem# 116188068)

iv. Jabez Dodge, Jr. (1778-1803), d. age 24.

v. Lydia Dodge (1780-1849), b. in Exeter, NH; m. Samuel Gilman Smith (1778-1859) and had 6 children: William O. Smith (1802-1887), Lydia Smith Telyea (1804-1889), Sophia Smith Mighill (1807-1881), Alfred Smith (1811-1835), Fanny Dodge Smith (1814-1885), and Isaac Dodge Smith (1816-1871). (findagrave mem# 95674170)

vi. Samuel Dodge 1783-1868, worked in the family pottery factory, m. (1) Fanny Pearson (1785-1851) in 1812, m. (2) Miriam Dodge (1802-1879) in 1856. (findagrave mem# 100366437)

vii. Elizabeth "Betsey" Dodge (1785-1865), m. Benjamin Leavitt.

viii. Hannah Dodge (b./d. 1787, d. at age 4 mos.

ix. Nancy "Ann" Dodge (178)9-1873), m. John Lamson (1785) in 1811; 2 children: Joseph S. Lamson (1805-1854) and Asa Brown Lamson (1818-1900). (findagrave mem# 90521685)

x. John Dodge (1791-1865), m. Lydia Gerrish (1793-1868) and had 5 children: Frances D. Seamans (1819-1893), Harriet Dodge Ryder (1824-1903), Sarah Ellen Dodge Palmer (1827-1859), Alexander Dodge (1830-1830), and Elizabeth Hurd Dodge (1835-1836). - - picture of his restaurant menu in Dodge homes and businesses - (findagrave mem# 100761123)

xi. Isaac Dodge (1794-1832), m. Eliza Dodge, he d. at age 38. (findagrave mem# 100366407)

Contributor: Julia Nelson (49246824) • [email protected]

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