Editing William Dawes (section)

==Later life and death==
[[File:William Dawes tomb Boston.jpg|thumb|right|280px|William Dawes tomb marker in [[King's Chapel Burying Ground]]]]
Dawes refused to join a punitive expedition against Indians ordered by Governor Phillip in December 1790.

Mehitable died on May 19, 1794<ref name=fletcher>{{cite web
|url=http://www.wmdawes.org/wmdawesburial.html
|title=Who's buried in Dawes's tomb?
|first=Ron
|last=Fletcher
|publisher=Boston Globe
|date=February 25, 2005}}</ref> but he remarried (to Lydia) two years later.

Dawes died in [[Marlborough, Massachusetts]], on February 25, 1799.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Klein|first=Christopher|title=The Midnight Ride of William Dawes|url=https://www.history.com/news/the-midnight-ride-of-william-dawes|access-date=September 8, 2021|website=HISTORY|date=April 18, 2012 |language=en}}</ref> He was believed to have been buried in the [[King's Chapel Burying Ground]], but modern research points to his resting place now being in his first wife's family plot in [[Forest Hills Cemetery]] in [[Jamaica Plain]].<ref name=fletcher/>