GENERAL DAWES
FREEDOM OF SUDBURY
HOME OF PILGRIM FATHERS
British Official Wireless.
BTJGBY, 30 th Sept. 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 the Pilgrim Fathers.
The parchment conveying the freedom will be handed to General Dawes m 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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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 81, 2 October 1929, Page 11
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86GENERAL DAWES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 81, 2 October 1929, Page 11
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