Eliphalet Pond (1704-1795) represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
[11] In May 1774, Pond signed a letter with several other addressed to Governor Thomas Hutchinson that was, in the opinion of many in Dedham, too effusive in praise given the actions the British crown had recently taken on the colonies.
According to Pond's own account, he spoke calmly with the group and they were satisfied that he was a patriot.
[2] In others, he and his black servant, Jack, had to hold off a mob by pointing muskets out the second story window.
[2] Land he owned was eventually sold to Hannah B. Chickering, who established the Temporary Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners on it.