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Dummer, Jeremiah, 1680-1739

Patriot; born in Boston, Mass., in 1680; was graduated at Harvard in 1699; went to England as agent of Massachusetts in 1710, and remained in London till 1721. He published a defence of the New England charters, in which he claimed that the colonists through redeeming the wilderness did not derive their rights from the crown but by purchase or conquest from the natives. He died in Plaistow, England, May 19, 1739.

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