Samuel DUDLEY, REV.

                   SOURCES:  1. This Family Group Sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls of Gilbert, Arizona.
            2. Book "Daughters of American Colonists  Vol XI (p.253)

SOURCES:  1. Daughter of American Colonists - Lineage Book - Vol X p.156 - Vol
                XI p.253 - Vol V p.253 - Vol II p.28 & 149
            2. History of Exeter, RI - p.158 - 160 - Orlando, FL, Pub Lib (Inter
               - Library loan)
            3. Genealogy and Family History of NH, - By Stearns - Book #974.2 St.
               - Vol 3 p.1228 - 1232
            4. This family group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
            5. Ancestral File - nil, 1/99
            6. 1997 Ordinance Index
            7. Book #974.25 St. - Vol 3 - History of NH - by Stearns - p.1228-
               1232
            8. Book #974.44C - By Cutter - Vol 3 p.1264-1266 - Orlando, FL, Pub
               Lib

TITLE: Rev.

BIRTH: 6 Jan 1648/1649 (Mary, Child #4)

NOTE:  Had children by each marriage - 10 sons 8 daughters-5 or 6 of them died
before reaching maturity. Several married and lived in Exeter, RI. (Breeding
Fine Cattle). Grandsons - Samuel and John Dudley were Quakers. In May 1650, he
became a reverend in Exeter, RI.
NOTES FROM BACK:  First settled in Newton (Cambridge) - living in what is now
Dunster Street. He soon removed to Ipswich. In 1638 - went to help settle
Salisbury and remained there about 12 yrs. He wife died there and he md 2nd
wife - Mary Byley - of Salisbury.
In Salisbury he was:
1. Representative from Salisbury to General Court - (1641-1645)
2. Chairman of - Board of Selectmen - for several years.
3. March 1648 - appointed as ssociate Judge to hold court from year to year in
Salisbury.
4. Was made Commissioner to settle boundaries of towns, etc. - in great dispute.
He has been: Farmer, a Magistrate and owned over 200 acres of land. Has acted
as Lieutenant in a military company.  While in Cambridge - 13 May 1650 - he
agreed to be Minister for people of Exeter, NH. (They paid him forty pounds and
gave him a house and use of land).
In 1652 - He and John Legat were permitted to erect a sawmill and have timber
for the mill - on the Commons.
In 1665 - He asked to have his salary lowered and declined a call to Portsmouth
- at double salary. He was sent - as agent to general court at Boston - before
any deputy was elected. He was often engaged in the public business. He was a
large landowner and was much interested in agricultural, as well as spiritual
and intellectual affairs.

SOURCES:  1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls,
               of Gilbert, AZ.
            2. Daughters of American Colonists-Lineage Book Vol. X p. 156

NOTES:  1. Gov. Thomas Dudley md. Dorothy Yorke.

SOURCES:
      1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, Arizona.
      2. Dau of Am Colonists Vol V p. 253
TITLE:
      Rev. Samuel Dudley
NOTES:
      Mary Winthrop (1st wife)