Jabez Fisher

 Jabez was born on November 19 1717 and married Mary (Adams) on March 5 1740. Four years later he was on the Wrentham Committee of Correspondence and elected Selectman in 1755. He was a deacon in the church in 1760 and assessor the following year. In 1764 he was a constable and paid for setting rates. Two years later he was our Representative to the General Court as well as Justice of the Peace. In 1768 Fisher was an assessor and again our Representative to the General Court and had his name engraved on the silver bowl made by Paul Revere. In 1771 he was our representative to the General Court at Harvard and in 1774 at the Revolutionary Convention at Salem while he was on our Committee of Correspondence. JJM