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In 1879, there was a call for a Dodge Reunion to be held at Mechanics Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. In spite of the lack of communication available at that time, Dodges from around the country heard about it. It was attended by many Dodges and they delighted in hearing speeches for 3 days by men descended from William and Richard Dodge, the brothers who settled in Massachusetts in 1629 and 1638 respectively. Robert Dodge assumed, as did all other Dodges that attended the reunion, that all Dodges had sprung from William and/or Richard. Later, Robert found out that there was a line of Dodges from a Tristram Dodge of Block Island, Rhode Island, and that HE himself came from that line. He wrote the first Tristram Dodge Genealogy upon which Theron Royal Woodward based his updated Tristram Dodge Genealogy.
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