GENERAL DAWES
O TO RECEIVE FREEDOM OF SUDBURY
(British Official Wireless.)
Rugby, September 30. General Dawes, the American Ambassador, will to-morrow visit Sudbury, in Suffolk," to receive the freedom of the borough. His ancestor, William Dawes, left Sudbury in the year 1629, with 800 others from the district, as pilgrim fathers. The parchment conveying the freedom will be handed to General Dawes in an oak sixteenth century coffer, bearing on one side the borough's arms and on the other a three-masted sailing ship.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 6, 2 October 1929, Page 11
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83GENERAL DAWES Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 6, 2 October 1929, Page 11
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