Thomas DUDLEY
Birth:
12 Oct 1576
Yardley, Hastings, Northampton, England
Chr:
1576
Death:
31 Jul 1653
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Marriage:
25 Apr 1603
Hardingstone, Northampton, England
Father:
Mother:
Notes:
SOURCES: 1. History of Exeter, RI - Orlando, FL, Pub Lib (Inter-Lib Loan)
2. Walter Eli Wilcox's Temple Records - Amanda's Book 2 p.37-38 -
Maria's Book 2 p.43-44
3. Book DAR #972.981 BAR - Gen of Barbados Families - p.664-665 -
Orlando, FL, Pub Lib
4. Ancestral File
5. 1997 Ordinance Index - no new
6. This family group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
7. Ancestral Records and Portraits - p.214 and p.266 to 268
8. Book #974.2 St. - Vol 3 "History of NH" by Stearn - p.1228-1232
9. Dau of Am. Colonists - Lineage Book - Vol X p.79,93,156,158 -
Vol XI p.230,253 - Vol XVII p.298 & 322 & 242 - Vol V p.54 & 115 -
253 - Vol IV p.56 - Vol III p.129 - Vol XVI p.267 & 413 - Vol IX
p.92 - Vol IV p.97 - Vol I p.26 - Vol XVIII p.339 - Vol II p.28 &
97 & 134 & 137 & 149 - Vol VII p.120 - Vol VII p.173 - Vol VIII
p.173 - Vol 15 p.83 - 305 - Vol I p.145 - 282-283 - Vol XIII p.335
- Vol XIV p.19 -105 - Vol III p.22 - Vol IV p.246 - Vol XIV p.110 -
111 - Vol XIV p.26 & 275
10. DAR Vol III p.24
11. Book #974.44C - Vol 13 - "Middlesex County" by Cutter -
pp.1264-1266 Orlando, FL, Pub Lib
12. Book #974.4C Vol 3? - Boston and Eastern MA, pp.42-44 - Orlando,
FL, Pub Lib
TITLE: Gov.
NOTES: Purchased land in Roxbury in 1639. Served as a minister in Exeter, RI
for 33 yrs. People loved him. Trusted him with important affairs. An
intelligent farmer, a considerable mill owner, a sound man of business, legal
adviser and Scrivener of the entire people. Married 3 times (had 18 children).
Came to New Eng. 1630.
NOTES FROM BACK: Gov. Thomas Dudley - 1. Education - gained in a Latin School
toward the close of 16th Century.
2. He was a leader of a company of volunteers - to aid Henry of Navarre, in
France - not called to active duty.
3. He studied law under Judge Augustine Nicholls (a Faxton Kinsman).
4. Having been appointed Deputy - Governor of MA, in 1630 - he came to New
England on the ship Arbella - with Governor John Winthrop and other.
5. Dudley was governor 1634,1640,1645 and 1650.
6. He was Deputy - Governor 13 yrs. (1630) and Assistant 5 yrs in Colony of MA,
Bay.
7. In March 1644 - he became Sergeant Major - General.
8. Dudley was member of the Court which condemned Anne Hutchinson in 1637 (ex-
communicating and banishing her from the Colony).
9. One of the signers of Charter of Harvard College.
10. Among his Descendants are - William Ellery Channing, Richard Henry Dana,
Wendall Phillips, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Donald G. Mitchell.
From Daughters of American Colonists - Lineage Book - Vol X p.79 (p.156)
1. He was Major General of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company -
(Major-General of Boston Train Band 1664).
2. Governor of MA, Bay Colony - founder of the Colony - 1629 (Deputy Gov. 1630-
33, 1636-40, 1641-44 - Governor - 1634-35, 1640-41, 1645-46 of MA Bay Colony)
3. Founder of Harvard College.
4. Member Board of Overseers (1636-1652)
5. Governor's Assistant - 1635
6. President of the United Colonies.
From Book #DAR972.981 BRA -" Genealogies of Barbados Families"
1. Early Governor of MA.
2. Prior to his emigration to New England in 1630, had been Steward to the Earl
of Lincoln.
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)
NOTES:
1. Gov. Thomas Dudley was Governor of the Mass. Bay Colony (1634-40-45-50).He was born in England.
SOURCES:
1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Glbert, AZ.
2. Dau of American Colonists, Vol 17, pg. 241-242.
NOTES:
2nd Governor of MA Bay Colony & Major-General of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company.
SOURCES:
1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
2. Dau of Am Colonists-Vol XVIII p. 339
TITLE:
Gov. Thomas Dudley
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:
Gov. Thomas Dudley
NOTES:
Dorothy Yorke (1st Wife)
Dorothy YORKE
Birth:
15 Apr 1582
Cotton End, Northampton, Northapmton, England
Death:
27 Dec 1643
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Father:
Mother:
Notes:
NOTES: She has Royalty Lines - See Terry Family
Children
Marriage
1
Thomas DUDLEY
Birth:
1605
Northampton, England
Death:
Aft Apr 1630
Marr:
2
Birth:
20 Mar 1612
of Northampton, Northampton, England
Death:
16 Sep 1672
Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
Notes:
NOTES:
Colonial Gorvernor of MA. One of Founders of Harvard College.
4
Birth:
23 Jul 1620
Oakley, Northampton, England
Death:
3 Nov 1659
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
5
Birth:
27 Sep 1621
Oakley, Northampton, England
Death:
1 Jul 1691
Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
6
Dorothy DUDLEY
Birth:
Abt 1622/23
Common, Ashley, England
Death:
27 Feb 1643
Marr:
7
Birth:
30 Nov 1608
Cotton End, Hardingstone, Northapmton, England
Death:
10 Feb 1683
Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island
Notes:
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)
Notes:
SOURCES: 1. This Family Group Sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
Nicholls of Gilbert, Arizona.
2. Daughter's of American Colonist - Lineage Book Vol. #X
(p.79)
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Thomas Dudley - Dorothy Yorke
Thomas Dudley
was born at Yardley, Hastings, Northampton, England 12 Oct 1576.
His parents were Roger Dudley and Susanna Thorne.
He married Dorothy Yorke 25 Apr 1603 at Hardingstone, Northampton, England . Dorothy Yorke was born at Cotton End, Northampton, Northapmton, England 15 Apr 1582 .
They were the parents of 8
children:
Thomas Dudley
born 1605.
Anne Dudley
born 20 Mar 1612.
Patience Dudley
born Abt 1615.
Sarah Dudley
born 23 Jul 1620.
Mercy Dudley
born 27 Sep 1621.
Dorothy Dudley
born Abt 1622/23.
Samuel Dudley, Rev.
born 30 Nov 1608.
Joseph Dudley
born Abt 1645.
Thomas Dudley died 31 Jul 1653 at Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts .
Dorothy Yorke died 27 Dec 1643 at Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts .