Later Life
Dawes refused to join a punitive expedition against Indians ordered by Governor Phillip in December 1790.
His wife died in 1793. Dawes died in Marlborough, Massachusetts on February 25, 1799. He is believed to have been buried in the King's Chapel Burying Ground, though his remains may have been moved to his wife's family plot in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain.
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