Isaac Royall, Jr.

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Isaac Royall, Jr.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: North Yarmouth, York County, Massachusetts
Death: October 1781 (62)
Kensington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom (Smallpox)
Place of Burial: Dorchester North Burying Ground Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Immediate Family:

Son of Isaac Royall, Esq. and Elizabeth Royall
Husband of Elizabeth Royall and Elizabeth MacIntosh
Father of Elizabeth Pepperell; Elizabeth Royall; Mary Macintosh Royall; Miriam Royall and Dorothea Royall
Brother of Penelope Vassall; Robert ROYALL; Asaph Royall and William B Royal

Occupation: Landowner, colonial political figure, overseer of Harvard University
Managed by: Carol Ann Selis
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About Isaac Royall, Jr.

He bequeathed upwards of two thousand acres of land in Worcester County to found the first Law Professorship of Harvard University and his other bequests were numerous and liberal. He has a town (Royalston) in Massachusetts named for him, he was a member of the Artillery Company of Boston in 1750, and was made a brigadier general in 1761, the first of that title among Americans, he was a Deputy in the  General Court of Boston, Justice of the Peace, Suffolk County, MA,  expatriate 1775, merchant mariner.

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Isaac Royall, Jr.'s Timeline

1719
September 13, 1719
North Yarmouth, York County, Massachusetts
1740
January 7, 1740
Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
1745
January 10, 1745
Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1747
October 30, 1747
Medford Center, Piscataquis County, Maine, United States of America
1750
1750
Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
1763
1763
Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
1781
October 1781
Age 62
Kensington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
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Dorchester North Burying Ground Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA