consumed by a vitriolic dispute over the assembly's failure to grant him a regular salary. After Burnet died suddenly on September 7, 1729, Dummer resumed acting as governor and commander-in-chief. He remained in office until June 11, 1730, when he was replaced by William Tailer, who had been selected by incoming Governor Jonathan Belcher as his lieutenant. After he was replaced as lieutenant governor, Dummer apparently retired into private life as a successful gentleman farmer. He is reported to have served on the provincial council, but there are no further public records of note, and he left no letters or other papers. He died at home on October 10, 1761, and was interred in Boston's Granary Burying Ground six days later. Legacy Dummer made several charitable bequests in his will. He gave £200 to Harvard College, as well as a £50 grant for the purchase of books, and partially endowed two professorial chairs. His single largest gift was the grant of his Newbury property for a preparatory school. First called the Dummer Charity School, it opened on February 27, 1763. In its later history it was known as Dummer Academy, and until recently, Governor Dummer Academy. In July 2006 it changed to The Governor's Academy (the benefactor's surname sounded uncomfortably like "dumber," it was decided, and thus elicited predictable taunts during sport meets). Dummer's Georgian mansion remains a central feature of the school campus, now serving as the headmaster's residence. The towns of Dummer, New Hampshire and Dummerston, Vermont were also named in his honor. Notes References Five-volume history of Massachusetts to the early 20th century. Volume 2 is concerned with pre-revolutionary 18th century Massachusetts. External links Governor William Dummer of Massachusetts The Family of Dummer of British Origin People in Father Rale's War 1677 births 1761 deaths Colonial governors of Massachusetts People from colonial Boston Lieutenant Governors of colonial Massachusetts Burials at Granary Burying Ground People from Newbury, Massachusetts