In the years leading to the American Revolution Dedham had a number of men rise to protect the liberties of the colonists. When Governor Edmund Andros was deposed and arrested in 1689 it was Dedham's Daniel Fisher who "burst into [John] Usher's house, to drag forth the tyrant by the collar, to bind him and cast him into a fort" and eventually send him back to England to stand trial.[3][4] Before being sent to England, he was brought to the home of dominion official John Usher and held under close watch.[5][6]
His father, Daniel Fisher, was Speaker of the House of Representatives.[9] He was said to be "heir to his [father's] energetic ardor in the cause of freedom."[10] His daughter, Esther, married Timothy Dwight.[11]
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