Daniel Fisher represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
[2] 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.
[8] His father, Daniel Fisher, was Speaker of the House of Representatives.