NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES GENEALOGICAL AND MEMORIAL
A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation
COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF WILLLAM RICHARD CUTTER, A. M.,
Historian of New England Historic-Genealogical Society;
Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," Etc.
THIRD SERIES VOLUME III CLEARFIELD Originally published New York, 1915
Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, Maryland 1996,
DREW The surname Drew is also spelled Drews, Drewes, Druce and in other ways. It has been in use in England from the time surnames were adopted. According to the English pedigree of the Drew family of Yorkshire, by Sir William Bethaun, Ulster, the family traces its ancestry to Drogo or Dru, a Norman of noble birth, son of Walter de Ponz and brother of Richard, ancestor of the Cliffords who accompanied William the Conqueror to England. Several tenants-in-chief of the name Drogo were mentioned in the Domesday Book and one of them had large possessions at Drewcliffe and elsewhere in Devonshire. Drog was anglicized to Dru. It may have originated from the local name of Dreux, a town of Brittany. At the time of the Norman survey Herman De Sreuues was a tenant-in-chief in Hereford. The surname Le Dreu occurs also in the Hundred Rolls. Possibly some of the Drews descend from an ancestor named Andrew abbreviated to Drew, as Dick is from the name Richard.
Vincent Drew, the first of the name in Massachusetts, came from England before 1636 and settled at Hingham, removed to Boston before 1655, and with Thomas Hammond bought a farm at Muddy River, August 30, 1658. His will is dated November 29, 1677.
Another immigrant was John Drew, of Plymouth, who married there about 1673, Hannah Churchill. He is thought to be grandson of Sir Edward Drew, of Devonshire.
William and Thomas Drew were early settlers at Dover, New Hampshire. William died April 16, 1669. Thomas was killed by the Indians in 1694
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Genealogy of Captian John Locke of New Hampshire
Author: Arthur H. Locke
Call Number: CS71.L813
This book contains the history and genealogy of Captain John Locke of New Hampshire. Captain Locke was one of the earliest settlers of New York.
Bibliographic Information: Locke, Arthur H. A History and Genealogy of Captain John Locke. The Rumford Press. Concord, New Hampshire.1916.
"Be it known unto all men by these presents that I, John Lock of Portsmouth, on Piscataqs river, Carpenter & Elizabeth my wife for and in consideration of the sum of Thirty two pounds 10 s. to us in hand before the engaging hereof, by James Drew of the same place marrynor, do . . . sell unto the said James Drew my new dwelling house . . . therewith eight acres of uplands on which the said house stands and is situate, and being between ye lands of John Jones on the West northly & ye lands of John Jackson on the East Southerly. Said lands of eight acres be it more or less was given & granted me the said Lock by the Town of Portsmouth, as may appear by the sd Towns grant & record of the bounds when it was laid out. All the said premises with the appurtenances of same which belonging to ye sd Locke & Elizabeth my wife . . . unto the sd Drew & his heirs etc. . . . furthermore whereas there is a piece of marsh in disspute between me the sd Jno Lock & Wm. Cotton; I ye sd Jno. Lock & Elizabeth my wife do include in the sd forementioned bargain, if either ye sd Lock or ye sd Drew can recourus of ye hand of the sd Cotton, & ye sd Lock do hereby promise to do all in my power for the attainment of the same etc. . . . , in witness thereof his hand & seal & deliver the 23 day of March 1660-61."Jno X Lock Elizabeth X Lock
I am convinced also that the grant of 1660 was near the first grant if not adjacent, and this he sold long after he went to Locke's Neck, Hampton, as shown by the sale to his late neighbor Cotton with whom he had the dispute over the marsh land.
Bunker Genealogy
Author: Edward C. Moran Jr.
Call Number: CS71.B988
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This book shows the ancestry and descendants of Benjamin Bunker. There are about 3200 names in print.
Bibliographic Information: Moran, Edward C., Jr. Bunker Genealogy. Private Publisher, Rockland, Maine 1942.
BUNKER GENEALOGY
M1. JAMES 1, b @ 1628 as age 50 in 1678 deposition; in Kittery, Maine, 1646; included in Crowners Jury 24 Mch 1646/7; removed to Oyster River (Dover), N. H. @ 1651; Witness there 1652; Oyster River land grant 8/10/53; signed Dover petition 1654; took oath of fidelity before end of 1655; appears on Dover tax lists 1657, 1659, 1661, 1663; grand juror 30 June 1657 and 4/28/1659; juror 11 Nov 1659 at inquest on death of James Murray; signed petition 26 July 1665 praying to be freed from Massachusetts jurisdiction; admr est William Roberts 29 Mch 1676; on list of persons to vote for representative 16 Feb 1679; married SARAH ..... who was included in coroners jury Dec 1692 and who visited John Knight during his last illness witnessing his will 11 Nov 1694; signed petition to Massachusetts to set up temporary government 20 Feb 1689; Bunker's Garrison successfully defended against Indian attack 17 July 1694; signed petition for Oyster River to be a township 1695; was paid for boarding soldiers for periods 25 July to 24 Nov 1694, 2 Nov 1695 to 6 Mch 1696, and 24 May to 4 Oct 1697. His will dated 14 Oct 1697 proved 24 June 1698 names wife SARAH and sons JAMES JR., JOSEPH and JOHN. (Authorities: Hist Durham 1:10,64,83,103,240,351; 2:31; Spencer's Pioneers on Maine Rivers 112; Maine Province and Court Rec 1:108,164; N. H. Province Deed 1:86; 2:15A, 23,128B; 5:220,221,243; Savage's Gen Dict 1:299; Thompson's Landmarks Ancient Dover 33; Libby's Genealogical Dictionary 52,119; N. H. State Papers 1:212; 17:513,645; 19:660; 31:170,397,432; N. E. Hist Gen Reg 4:247-8; 5:452; Quint's Hist Memoranda Ancient Dover 59,276,356,357; Wadleigh's Notable Events Hist Dover 47, 51, 60; Scales' Hist Dover 238,239,247; Proc Dover Hist Soc 5:240; N. H. Province Probate Rec 2:15,47,49.)
M2. MARY 2, m THOMAS 2 DREW, b @ 1665, son William Drew and Elizabeth Mathes
M3. JAMES JR. 2,
M4. JOSEPH 2, d bef 1705; m bef 1693 MARY ..... who m (2) Richard Denbo
M5. JOHN 2, b 1667; killed by Indians 8 July 1707; m DORCAS FIELD, dau Zecharias Field and Sarah Roberts
M3. JAMES JR. 2 (JAMES 1) granted land Dover, N. H., 1693-4; aided father in defense Bunker Garrison 17 July 1694; signed petition 1695 that Oyster River be made a township; appointed executor father's estate 24 June 1698; Dover constable 1698; married (1) bef 1700 ANNE 2 THOMAS, dau James 1 Thomas and Martha 2 (John 1) Goddard; authorized 7 August 1705 to receive claims against estate of William Follett; bought 28 Mch 1707 the Follett portion of the "land granted in Joynt" 8/10/53 to his father James (M1) Bunker and William Follett; chosen Drover by Dover Town Meeting 7 May 1711; signed counter petition presented 20 Dec 1715 or 6 Jan 1715/6; will of Robert Huckins dated 9 Jan 1719/20 mentions his brother-in-law JAMES (M3) BUNKER who married Anne 2 Thomas, sister of Welthean Thomas, wife of Robert Huckins: court case James Bunker vs Amos Pinkham 1720-21. Married (2) MARTHA DOWNES, dau Thomas Downes and Mary Lord. He died 1722; letter of administration granted his sons James (M7) Bunker and Joseph (M8) Bunker
5 May 1724; his widow married (2) 1722-1725 John Mackellroy. N. H. Province Court File #23424 lists children JAMES eldest son and other sons JOSEPH, BENJAMIN, CLEMENT, ELIJAH, and daughters LOVE MILLETT and
PATIENCE. Strafford County Deed 47:444 shows division of estate among these seven children 15 May 1759. (Authorities: N. E. Hist Gen Reg 5:452; 67:83; Scales' Persons and Places in Old Dover 59, 276; Quint's Memoranda Ancient Dover 195,276; N. H. State Papers 3:147; 9:235; 11:567; 31:339,807; 32:96,219, 368; Hist Durham 1:14,176,191,227; 2:32,219; N. H. Province Probate Rec 2:49; 10:162,335-6; 7:290; N. H. Province Deeds 5:220; 9:158; 17:53,55; N. H. Province Court Files #17324 and #23424; Strafford County Deed 47:444.)
M6. LOVE 3, b 1700; d 3 Nov 1763; m @ 1719 Capt. THOMAS MILLETT, b 20 Dec 1689 Gloucester, Mass., d Aug 1761 Dover, N. H., son Lieut. Thomas Millett
M7. JAMES 3, "Eldest son", d 1774-1780; m SARAH GILES, b 9 Apr 1711, d bef 8 Oct 1799, dau Mark Giles and Sarah
M8. JOSEPH 3, d July 1784, bur 18 July 1784, will probated 11 Aug 1784; m (1) ANN GILES, b 1 Oct 1702, dau Mark Giles and Sarah; m (2) ELIZABETH .....
M9. BENJAMIN 3, b @ 1710
M10. CLEMENT 3, living Durham, N. H. 1781; m bef 22 Mch 1738 REBECCA 3 DREW, b @ 1712, d 1817 aet 105, dau John Drew and Rebecca Cook
M11. PATIENCE 3, m bef 1741 JOHN DREW, JR., b 18 Oct 1712, son John Drew and Rebecca Cook
M12. ELIJAH 3, b 1704-1725 (as not of age 1725) Dover, N. H.; only child by second wife; d after 13 Mch 1804; m JUDITH ....., b @ 1716
M9. BENJAMIN 3 (JAMES 2, JAMES 1), b @ 1710 Dover, N. H.; witnessed deed there 21 Mch 1732/33; m bef 1740 ABIGAIL ..... who signed deeds 1740, 1741, 1758; granted by Proprietors of Brunswick, Maine, 63 acres 10 Jan 1740 and 115 acres 12 Jan 1740; as of Brunswick, quit claim to his brother James (M7) Bunker, his rights in estate of "James Bunker, my father late of Oyster River in Dover, N. H.", 26 Nov 1740; removed to Dover, N. H., during course of litigation with William Booker of York, before 26 June 1741, when, as of Dover, he was deeded 150 acres (Lot 163) in Barrington, N. H., and sold a 12th part thereof on same day to Partridge Farren; litigation with Joseph Patterson of Newington 1741-1744; as Clerk, later promoted to Ensign, of Capt. Samuel Hale's Company he participated in capture of Louisburg on Cape Breton Island 17 June 1745; as of Durham, sued by James Nute of Dover 11 Nov 1745; litigation with Jotham Odiorne, Jr. 5 June 1746; again removed to Brunswick, Maine after June 1748 and before 1752 when he signed petition for new county in Maine, and signed petition of Inhabitants of Kennebec River for protection in 1755; sold his Brunswick (then North Yarmouth and Harpswell) land 1755 and 1758. Moved to Great Cranberry Island near Mt. Desert, Maine, by 1762 where he was found by Governor Bernard's surveyor John Jones; deeded land there to "my sons JOHN, AARON and ISAAC" in 1768; appointed surveyor of roads at Mt. Desert Town Meeting 25 Mch 1777; deeded land on Great Cranberry Isle to John (M13) Bunker 14 Oct 1786; listed 1790 Census Mt. Desert; deeded land to "Mary, wife of my son BENJAMIN" 21 Aug 1793; name appears on Hadlock's Account Book 5 Mch 1794; included among the "names of persons in possession of land 23 June 1805". Died @ 1818 aet @ 108 and said to be "buried in a field across the highway from the Bunker Garrison (Durham, N. H.) and near the river". (Authorities: N. H. Province Deeds 26:409; 28:183; 29:211; 86:84; York Deeds 24:48; 27:163; 30:281; 34:6; Wheeler's Hist Brunswick 39, 865; N. H.
Province Court Files 21780, 22189, 23278, 25117; Hist Durham 1:111-112; 240; N. E. Hist Gen Reg 25:268; 44:202; Bangor Hist Mag 3:189; Lincoln Deeds 11:53; 13:121; Washington Deed 1:63; Hancock Deed 2:428; 10:42; Coll Me. Hist Soc, 2nd Series 2:439; 12:197; Sprague's Journal Me. Hist 13:178; 14:181; Bernard Surveys and Hadlock Account Book at Islesford (Maine) Collection: New Hampshire Men at Louisburg 31; Mount Desert Town Records-1777.
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HISTORY OF THE DUDLEY FAMILY,WITH GENEALOGICAL TABLES, PEDIGREES, &C, NUMBER I.
BY DEAN DUDLEY.
Author of DUDLEY GENEALOGIES; THE FIRST COUNCIL OF NICE, & C.
TO BE PUBLISHED IN NUMBERS OR PARTS, OF 100 PAGES EACH.PRICE, $1.00 PER NUMBER.
WAKEFIELD, MASS.: DEAN DUDLEY. PUBLISHER. 1886.
GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF GOV. THOMAS DUDLEY.
1. THOMAS DUDLEY,1 born 1576, in Northamptonshire, England, son of Capt. Roger Dudley, a warrior; married 1st, Dorothy (???), who was buried at Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 27, 1643, aged 61 years. He married 2nd, Mrs. Catharine Hackburn, April 14, 1644, widow of Samuel Hackburn of Roxbury, Mass., and daughter of Dighton. After having been Deputy Governor and Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Thomas Dudley died July 31, 1653, at his home in Roxbury, Mass. (See sketch of his life, pp. 17-95).
2.
By his wife Dorothy, he had the following children:
i. SAMUEL,2 b. about 1610, in England; d. Feb. 10, 1683, at Exeter, N. H.
ii. ANNE, b. about 1612, in Eng.; d. Sept. 16, 1672, at Andover, Mass. She m. Gov. Simon Bradstreet about 1628, in Eng., and had 8 children.
iii. PATIRNCE, b. in Eng., d. Feb. 8, 1689-90, at Ipswich, Mass. She m. Maj. Gen. Daniel Denison at Cambridge, Mass., and had a son and daughter.
iv. SARAH, bap. July 23, 1620, at Sempringham, Eng.; d. in 1659, at Roxbury, Mass. She m. 1st, Maj. Benj. Keaine, and had a dan. Anne, and m. 2nd, Thomas Paey of Boston,-- having no child by this marriage.
v. MERCY, b. Sept. 27, 1621, in Eng.; d. July 1, 1691, at Newbury, Mass. She m. Rev. John Woodbridge of Newbury and had 12 children.
By his wife Catharine, Governor Thomas Dudley had three children, viz.:
vi. DERORAH, b. Feb. 27, 1645; d. Nov. 1, 1683. She m. Jonathan Wade, of Medford, Mass.
vii. JOSEPH, b. Sept, 23, 1647, at Roxbury, Mass.; d. April 2, 1720, at R. He m. Rebecca Tyng. dau. of Judge Edw. T. She d. Sept. 21, 1722, at R. They had 13 children. (See sketch of his life, p. 163.)
viii. PAUL, b. Sept. 8, 1650; d. Dec. 1, 1681. He m. about 1676, Mary Leverett, dau. of Gov. John L. She was buried July 5, 1699. Paul Dudley had by her 3 children, two of whom lived to maturity. (See sketch of this first Paul Dudley, merehant.)
Mrs. Catharine Dudley, the widow of Governor Thomas, married thirdly, November 8, 1653, Rev. John Allin, of Dedham, Mass., and had by Mr. Allin three children, viz.:
1, Benjamin, b. Aug. 11, 1654;
2, Daniel, b. July 31, 1655;
3, Ellezur, b. May 26, 1658. She d. Aug. 29, 1671. Mr. Allin d. Aug. 26, 1671, and was buried in the same grave with his wife Catharine at Dedham.
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WILL OF GOV. THOMAS DUDLEY.
This is the last will and testament of me, Thomas Dudley, of Roxbury in New England, made in my perfect health the six and We find no mention of any portraits or other pictures in Gov. Thomas Dudley's will or inventory. Is it possible that he never had any? I am inclined to think he had given his daughter Anne some, which were burned with her house at Andover. She says in her writings, that all such things were thus destroyed there.
There are portraits of most of the Governors and noted men of his time but none of him, his wives or any of his children by the first wife. Probably no portrait painter came to New England till after his day. But some portraits were brought over with the pilgrims when they came in the Arbella flest.
No likeness of Gov. Dudley is mentioned in any of his children's wills. If he left no likeness of himself, and no account of his father or mother, it was just for Mr. James Savage to say of him, "there was a rigidity in his private life," although no other historian has said so. He perhaps obeyed too literally the injunction about forsaking father and mother to follow Christ.
In 1642, when Gov. Dudley was alive, his daughter, in his elegy on Sir Philip Sidney, declares that she has the self-same blood in her veins as Sidney had. How did she get that idea? Of course from her father. Her husband, too, might have told her so, for he had been almost brought up by Dudley, having lived with him in his youth when both resided with the Earl of Lincoln. She does not say she is descended from Sidney's grandfather Dudley, but from some of his ancestors. That is the meaning of her words I cannot doubt. And the seal on her father's will, with a crescent shows that he belonged to the second house, or branch of the original family by the name, which had a right to bear the arms without any sigo of difference.
This was a legal right in England, and of much value, so that an honest and intelligent man would not err in it, and steal another's insignia to deceive people. Is it to be supposed that Gov. Dudley would not know his rights, when estates and fortunes were dependent upon such evidence?
In 1852, when Thomas Gill Esq., was Register of Probate for Suffolk County, Mass, I got him to certify to the Seal on Gov. Thomas Dudley's Will. This is the form of his certificate:
"THOMAS DUDLEY'S SEAL.
A lion rampant, with a crescent for difference. The original Will, in Suffolk Probate Office, bears date Apr. 26, 1652. [Image for History of the Dudley Family with Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, & C ]
THOMAS GILL, Reg."
The seal was also tricked with pen and ink on the above certificate as here shown by the engraving. This original certificate I have preserved. D. D.
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Twentieth Day Of April, In The Year Of Our Lord One Thousand Six. Hundred Fifty And Two.
For my soul I commend it into the hand of my God, in whom I have believed, whom I have loved, which he hath promised to receive in Jesus Christ, my Redeemer and Savior, with whom I desire ever to be, leaving this testimony behind me, for the use and example of my posterity, and any other upon whom it may work, that I have hated and do hate every false way in religion, not only the old idolatry and superstition of Popery, which is wearing away, but much more (as being much worse), the new heresies, blasphemies and errors of late sprung up in our native country of England, and secretly received and fostered more than I wish they were, here.
For my body, I desire to be buried near the grave of my first wife, if my present wife be living at my death. For my temporal estate, I intend to dispose of it, as justly and equally as I can contrive it between the posterity of my children by my first wife and my children by my last wife, accounting Thomas Dudley and John. Dudley, my grandchildren (whom I have brought up) in some sort, as my immediate children. First, therefore, I will that what I covenanted at my marriage with my present wife, to give to her, and such children as I should have by her, be made good unto them, with this condition and explanation, that all my lands in Roxbury, being duly valued by my executors hereafter named, together with all my goods, debts, plate, household stuff and books, being inventorled, speedily after my decease, be summed up, and then my will is, that my son, Joseph Dudley, should have a double portion, and Paul Dudley and Deborah Dudley, each of them, a single portion, the land being to go to Joseph according to my forementioned [covenant] and the goods and debts to Paul and Deborah, and if the land amount to more than a double portion then to take out of the same from Joseph, and give it to Paul and Deborah, and if the land will not make a double portion for Joseph, then to take so much out of the goods from Paul and Deborah, and give to Joseph, and if any of these, my three children, die before they receive their portions, my will is that the survivors or survivor shall have the same equally divided between them, if two survive or all, if one only survive what the others should have had if they had lived, and my will and desire is that as any amount or payments shall come to my executors' hands, that they would make new bargains for the same such as I was wont to make, for the benefit of my children and increase of their parents, and to take good securities for the same; so that my present wife and my three children are to have all my lands, goods and debts, except what I now hereafter bequeath and give to others.
I therefore hereby give and bequeath unto the children of my son, Samuel Dudley (other than Thomas Dudley and John Dudley, before named), the inheritance of a sixth part of my mill at Watertown, and of the house and fifteen acres of land with the appurtenances lying and being in Watertown aftersaid, together with a sixth part of the debts which Thomas Mayhew, his heirs, executors and administrators, do owe me for not performing their bargain with me, for which the said mill was part of my assurance, to be equally divided between them and their heirs, and, if any of them die under age, then my will is the surviving children of them shall inherit the same.
Also I give to the children of my daughter, Bradstreet, the inheritance of another sixth part of all the same mill lands and debts, to them and their heirs and the survivors of them, as to my son Dudley's children. Also, I give to the children of my daughter, Denison, another sixth part of the same to them and their heirs and the survivors of them as aforesaid. Also, I give to the children of my daughter Woodbridge, the inheritance of another sixth part of the same, and the survivors of them as aforesaid. Also, I give unto the aforesaid Thomas Dudley, the inheritance of another sixth part of the same to him and his heirs. And to the aforesaid John Dudley, the other sixth part thereof, to him and his heirs, and if the said Thomas Dudley or John Dudley shall die under age, then my will is that the survivors of them shall have his brother's part to him and his heirs, and my will and meaning is, that it my son, Samuel Dudley, or any of my three daughters, Bradstreet, Denison or Woodbridge, shall have any more children than they already have, they shall have equal shares with the rest of, their brethren and sisters, respectively; and my will is that the parties to whom the said mill and lands in Watertown and Thomas Mayhew's debt is hereby bequeathed, shall enter upon the same the twentieth day of October next after my death and not before. And my will is that all the evidences concerning the same mill and lands and debts shall be put into the hands of my son Dudley, because he and his children have hereby most interest therein, and the rest may take copies thereof. Provided always and my will is that only of the said persons to whom I have hereby given the said mill and lands at Watertown, and the debts of Thomas Mayhew shall pay each of them twenty shillings a piece thereby to my daughter, Sarah Pacey, to be paid her half yearly, for and during her natural life, if she so long continue to dwell in the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, so that she may have six pounds yearly paid her during that time. Also, I give to the Deacons of the church of Roxbury five Marks, to be by them distributed to the poor of the said town according to their discretions, also my will is, that all the legacies I shall expressly give to any person by writing, either underneath or on the backside of this my will, or in any schedule hereto to be annexed in my life-time shall be duly paid unto them, my due debts being first paid and discharged, and of this, my will, I hereby make executors, my worthy and beloved friends, John Eliot, teacher of the church at Roxbury, Samuel Danforth, pastor of the said church, John Johnson, Surveyor General of the Arms, and William Parkes, Deacon of the said church, giving to each of them, if they shall live, two years after my death, five pounds apiece; or if any of them die before that time, then to those that shall be then living, intreating them, as my last request, that they will do for me and mine as I would have done for them and theirs in the like case. In my former wills, I had named my sons for my executors, but better considering of their remote dwelling whereby they cannot so often meet to receive my annuities, and make fresh bargains, as my case requireth, and so loss and inconvenience would arise to my younger children, I have rather chosen my aforesaid friends to be executors in trust only, and not for their own benefit. I have written all this with my own hand the day and year above written, and have subscribed my name and set my seal hereto.
THOMAS DUDLEY" and a Seal.
I give to Thomas Dudley, my grand-child, ten pounds a year for two years after my death, besides what I shall owe the college for him at my death.
I give to John Dudley, my grand-child, fifteen pounds a year for three years after my death.
I give to my wife the time and interest I have in John Rankin, if she so long live and continue a widow. Also I give unto her all my rent and profits of my mill at Watertown from the day of my death till the 20th day of October then next following, upon consideration, that she shall give unto my daughter, Sarah Pacey, her diet and lodging, or after the rate of six pounds by the year, in lieu thereof until she is to receive what I have given her out of my will, I mean her first payment thereof.
Whereas, my son, Samuel Dudley, hath lately been importunate with me to maintain his son, Thomas Dudley, at the college at Cambridge until the month of August, which shall be in the year of our Lord, 1654, at which time (if he live) he is to take his second degree. I have consented thereto, but so that the care of the education of my younger children doth compel me to retract and revoke from my said son, Samuel, and his other children and their heirs the sixth part of my mill and lands at Watertown, with the appurtenances, and I do revoke and call back also twenty pounds I gave to the said Thomas Dudley, his son, and forty and five pounds I gave to John Dudley, another of the sons of my said son, Samuel Dudley, which I hereby do, making those bequests in my will, to which this schedule is annexed, utterly void, yet because it is not equal, that John Dudley aforesaid (who hath been serviceable to me), should lose anything by my beneficence to his brother, I do hereby give and bequeath unto him, the said John Dudley, and his heirs, all the said sixth part of my mill and land at Watertown with the appurtenances thereof which I had formerly given and bequeathed to his father and his heirs, or his younger brothers and sisters, so that I have hereby settled a third part of the said mill upon him, the said John Dudley, and a sixth part thereof upon the said Thomas Dudley.
Witness my hand, the 13th day of April, 1653.
THOMAS DUDLEY.
My will is that this schedule be annexed to my will and be as authentical as the same, and my meaning and will is that this sixth part of the mill at Watertown be charged with forty shillings a year to be paid to my daughter, Sarah Pacey as before this schedule was made. I will that my daughter Pacey have given her a feather bed and bolster which she had when she lived last at Boston, one yellow rug and two blankets of the baser sort, two pairs of little sheets and a chest.
May 28th, 1653. THOMAS DUDLEY.
The charge of my long sickness, I thereby being disenabled to make bargains as I was wont for the upholding of my estate, thereby and by other means, so weakened, that the due care of my three young children's education impelleth me to revoke and retract a sixth part of what I had given to mine other children and grandchildren out of my mill at Watertown, and settle it upon my said three younger children. I do therefore hereby recall and retract from my said other children a sixth part out of every share, which, by my will, I had given unto them.
And I do hereby give and bequeath every of the said sixth parts unto my said three youngest children and to their heirs to their own proper use.
Witness my hand to this schedule also. THOMAS DUDLEY.
Witness Samuel Danforth, who wrote this, as Mr. Dudley dictated me by his direction.
This 8th day of July, 1653.
My will is, that my three younger children shall be rateably charged for what is here given them to my daughter, Sarah Pacey, as the others are. THOMAS DUDLEY.
Mr. Dudley died at Roxbury, July 31, 1653. There was a great funeral for that early era. The most distinguished citizens were pallbearers; the clergy were present in large numbers. The Military forces were in attendance with muffled drums and reversed arms. Many guns were fired, and the mournful emblems were extraordinary and long continued. I have seen the account at the State House of the quantity of power burned at this funeral. It has been preserved among the old papers in the State Secretary's Office.
Gov. Dudley was buried in the East graveyard, not far from his house, where his tomb may yet be seen on the highest ground.
Morton, in his History of the Colonies, says, of Gov. D., "His love of justice appeared at all times, and in special upon the judgment seat, without respect of persons in judgment, and in his own particular transactions with all men he was exact and exemplary. He had a piercing judgment to discover the wolf, though clothed with a sheepskin. His love to the people was evident. He lived desired, and died lamented by all good men."
Hubbard in his History of New England, says Gov. D., when he died, left not his peer behind.
Mather says he was a man of sincere piety, exact justice, hospitality to strangers and liberality to the poor. I cannot conceive how he ever learned so much that was wise and good. Nature must have favored him with more high qualities than she vouchsafes to us in these advanced, scientific times.
There was then no science of Astronomy to speak of in England, no Chemistry, no Natural History, Geology or Biology: no Political Economy, no Democracy; no newspapers, no discoveries in light or electricity, but in their stead, superstition, tyranny, warfare, witches, plagues and unjust judgments.
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2. REV. SAMUEL2 DUDLEY (Thomas1) married 1st, Mary Winthrop, daughter of Gov. John W., about 1632, and by her had 5 children. She died April 16, 1643, at Salisbury, Mass. Their children were:
i. THOMAS,8 bap. at Boston, Mass., Mar. 9, 1634; d. Nov. 7, 1655, unmar.
ii. JOHN, bap. at Boston, June 28, 1635; d. young,
iii. MARGARET, bap. at Boston; d. young, at Salisbury.
iv. SAMUEL, bap. at Boston, Aug. 2, 1639, d. April 17, 1643, at S.
v. ANN, b. Oct. 16, 1641; m. Edward Hilton, of Exeter, and had 9 children.
Rev. Samuel,2 married 2nd, Mary Byley(*) of Salisbury, Mass., in 1643, and had probably the following five children:
vi. THEOPHILUS,3 b. Oct. 31, 1644, at Salisbury; d. 1713, at Exeter, aged 69, unm.
vii. MARY, b. Apr. 21, 1646, at S.; d. Dec. 28, 1646.
viii. BYLEY, b. Sept. 27, 1647, at S.; m. Elizabeth Gilman, Oct. 25, 1682; and d. about 1728, at Exeter, s. p. She was b. Apr. 19, 1663, dau. of Moses.
ix. MARY, b. Jan. 6, 1649-50; m. Dr. Samuel Hardy, January 24, 1675-6, at Beverly, and had children
x. THOMAS was one of the Selectmen of Exeter in 1694. He m. Mary, and died in 1713, at Exeter, s. p. He sold land to Moses Gilman in 1697, and then calls his wife Mary.
Rev. Samuel married 3rd, Elizabeth, by whom he had 8 children, viz.:
xi. ELIZABETH,3 b. 1652; m. Hon. Kinsley Hall, Sept. 25, 1674, and had chilren.
xii. STEPHEN, b. at Exeter; m. 1st, Dec. 24, 1684, Sarah Gilman, dau. of Hon. John G., and had 11 children.
xiii. JAMES, b. 1663, a shipmaster and merchant; m. Eliz. Leavitt, and d. s. p., Nov. 14, 1720. She m. 2nd, Robert Briscoe, Oct. 8, 1724, and 3rd, Rev. John Odlin, Sept. 22, 1730
xiv. TIMOTHY, d. before 1702, s. p.
xv. ABIGAIL, m. Jonathan Watson of Dover, N.H., and had children.
xvi. DOROTHY, m. Moses Leavitt of Exeter, Oct. 26, 1681, and had children.
xvii. REBECCA, m. Francis Lyford, Nov. 21, 1681, and had children.
xviii. SAMUEL, m. Hannah Thyng, and d. in 1732, at Exeter. He had 7 children.
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5. STEPHEN3 DUDLEY (Samuel,2 Thomas1), born at Exeter, N. H.; married Sarah Gilman, and they had children:
i. SAMUEL,4 b. Dec. 19, 1685, at Exeter, N. H.; d. Feb. 16, 1718, at E. He m. Hannah Colcord, dau. of Samuel and Mary, Nov. 24, 1709. 10.
ii. STEPHEN, b. Mar. 10, 1688, at E.; d. in 1784, at E. He m. Sarah Davidson, dau. of Mr. Daniel D., of Ipswich. Mass.
iii. JAMES, b. June 11. 1690, at E.; d. Sept. 4, 1746, at E. He m. Mercy Folsoin, dau. of Dea. John F., of Exeter, and had 8 children.
iv. JOHN, b. Oct. 4, 1692, at Exeter; d. June 23, 1710, at Poplin, N. H., being killed by the Indians. He was unmarried. The story of his death is as follows: At that time Queen Anne's French-Indian War prevailed. John Dudley went in the early summer with his cousins, Col. Winthrop and Dudley Hilton, to a place near Epping called then "Shirken" or "Mast-Way," for the purpose of peeling the bark from some masts which had been felled the preceding winter. This work was necessary to prevent the trees from being injured by worms under the bark. The small party were suddenly and unexpectedly attacked by a scout of Indians. The first shots from the savages brought down Col. Hilton and one of his men. The rest of his party retreated, except John Dudley and one other man. This man concealed himself in the top foliage of a pine tree that lay on the ground, and there witnessed, and, afterwards related, what took place. Young Dudley, he said, had a musket, and stood his ground alone against the Indians,
discharging his piece many times, and more than once wounding or killing his antagonist. But the Indians seemed determined to take him alive. They, at length, broke his arm by a shot as he stood behind a large tree. Even after his arm was broken, he loaded and discharged his musket several times. At last the enemy. finding he had only one gun and no helper to load, they rushed upon him while he was recharging; but still, weak as he was from loss of blood. they found he was not to be taken alive, and so shot him through the breast, scalped him, mangled his body and left it there in the woods, where it was found the next day by a party of friends from Exeter and carried home. The sight of it threw his mother (Sarah Gilman) into a fit of insanity; but she recovered soon afterwards and lived till 1713. The body was interred in the Exeter Graveyard, and a stone placed to mark the spot. His cruel, untimely fate, as well as that of all of the party that fell with him, was greatly lamented by all who knew them. (See sketch of Col. Winthrop Hilton, given in another place.)
My grandfather. Nath'l Dudley, records this account of his great uncle John Dudley's death. I wonder he does not mention who the man was that hid in the pine top. But the story of Hilton's death, printed in the collections of Kelley & Moore, fails to mention the names of the two men who fell with Col. Hilton.
v. NICHOLAS, b. Aug. 27, 1694, at E.; d. July, 1766, at Brentwood, N. H., formerly a part of Exeter.
vi. JOANNA, b. May 3, 1697; m. Nicholas Perryman.(*) a lawyer, and had children.
vii. TRUEWORTHY, b. 1700; m. Hannah Gilman, dau. of John G., and d. in 1745.
viii. JOSEPH, b. 1702; d. Sept. 8, 1727, at E. He m. Maria Gilman, Nov. 26, 1724, dau. of Joshua Gilman, son of the first Moses of Exeter. She m. 2nd, Philip Connor, May 14, 1729.
ix. ABIGAIL., m. Mr. Lyford, of Exeter.
x. SARAH, b. Jan. 15, 1706; m. Maj. Ezekiel Gilman.
xi. ELIZABETH, m. Simon Gilman.
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10. STEPHEN4 DUDLEY (Stephen,3 Samuel,2 Thomas1), was born at Exeter, N. H., March 10, 1688; married Sarah Davison or Davidson, of Newbury, born 1682, daughter of Daniel, of Ipswich, Mass., July, 1708. Nathaniel Dudley, his grand-nephew, says his father Judge Dudley and his uncles had informed him that this Stephen Dudley was much given to traffic and speculation,--such as purchasing land of the Indian Sagamores and selling it to Boston merchants, taking for his pay therefor second-hand, ready-made clothing of fine, gaudy colors, periwigs, hats, caps, red cloth, &c. Though poor, he assumed great airs, wore a scarlet coat, laced jacket, large [Page 281] wig and ruffled shirt, on account of which he was commonly called "Gaffer," the rustic name for master, lord or gentleman. I have seen a deed executed by him for one-quarter part of a tract of land lying in Rockingham County, N. H., then known by the name of Freetown, being on the main branch of what is called Lamprey river, and three miles each side of said river, in which deed it is stated that he purchased the same tract of land of one Peter Penniwit, an Indian, the said Peter being seized and possessed of the same in right of Abigail his squaw, who was a daughter and heiress of Omacancanoe, Sagamore and owner of the same, deceased, And the same deed mentions that said Stephen Dudley was lawfully put into possession of the same land by turf and twig delivered to him by the said Peter and Abigail. More than one half this tract lay in the town of Nottingham. Among the Boston purchasers and proprietors was Governor Shute, who had 500 acres given him in the lower end of the tract by the conivance of the pretended proprietors. These were some of the creditors, who had advanced the old clothes, wigs, hats, &c. They had obtained their grants from Gaffer with very little consideration. So he was chcated out of most of his lands. But he was sometimes called the "lord, proprietor of Freetown." Gov. Shute gave him the following Commission, which I copy from Kelley's Collections:
"Province of New Hampshire. Sam'l Shute, Esq., Captain
General and Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty's
Province of New Hampshire, in New England, &c.
To Stephen Dudley of Freetown, in the Province aforesaid.
Greeting.
By virtue of the Power and Authority in and by his Majesty's Royal Commission to me granted to be Captain General, &c., over this His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire aforesaid, I do (by these presents) reposing especial trust and confidence in your loyalty, courage, and good conduct, constitute and appoint you the said Stephen Dudley to be Colonel and Town Major of Freetown aforesaid, which land you have obtained by deed from Capt. Peter Penniwit and Abigail his Squaw. Given under my hand and seal at arms at Boston, the seventeenth day of August in the seventh year of the reign of his Majesty King George, Annoque Domini 1717.
SAM'L SHUTE.
By his Excelleucy's command,
John Boydell his Sec'y."
The historian of Raymond, Mr. Fullonton, says Dudley's deed is not in the Registry at Exeter, but only the date of it, viz.: "Jan., 1717." He says also that Epping and Freetown, [Page 282 ] being then part of Exeter, constituted the western boundary of that town so far as it was occupied. Freetown had been so called because timber there was taken with impunity, although claimed by the British Government. In March, 1718, Col. Dudley sold one-eighth part of his purchase to his brother James Dudley, father of Judge John, Samuel, Esq., and Joseph, senior--all of whom afterwards lived there. Some of their descendants still occupy that land.
About 1725, Col. Stephen Dudley had a saw-mill built a few rods above the present mill, that is, the mill of 1870. Col. Dudley lived there at Freetown mills part of the time, and at Exeter the rest of his life, where he died in 1734, aged 46. He was a shoemaker by trade, and some of his children learned trades, as the custom was then. Some branches of his descendants have always shown great energy and enterprise like their illustrious ancestor, and they furnished many soldiers and patriots in time of the Revolution, and in our glorious war for Union and the abolishment of Slavery. His children were as follows:
i. SAMUEL PAUL,5 b. 1721, at Exeter; d. Jan. 9, 1789, at Andover, N. H.; m. Jane Hubbard, who d. at Andover. July 17, 1814, aged 89 years and 7 mouths.
ii. DAVIDSON, b. at Exeter; d. about 1787, at Brentwood,(*) a blacksmith and farmer; m. Anna Ladd.
iii. STEPHEN, b. Oct. 14, 1724, at Exeter; d. Aug. 22, 1811, at Gilmauton, N. H.
iv. MARGARET, m. Francis Beckett, who came from Wales, G. B., and settled at Exeter. They had a son, Dudley of Exeter, who left children.
v. SARAH.
vi. JOANNA.
vii. ABIGAIL.
20. DAVISON5 DUDLEY (Col. Stephen,4 Stephen,3 Samuel,2 Thomas1). See autograph No. 14, p. 298. Davison Dudley, son of Col. Stephen, was born at Exeter about 1708, and married Anna Ladd. He was a skilful blacksmith by trade, and also carried on his farm at Brentwood. He ever sustained a good character, and was a useful man till late in life, when the shaking palsy disabled his hands. He died of the black jaundice in 1787, aged about 70 years. Davison and Anna (Ladd) Dudley had the following nine children, born at Exeter:
i. DAVISON,6(*) killed by the Indians on Canada frontier in the French war, 1757; unm.
ii. STEPHEN, of the Co. of York, Me.; m. Phebe Webster of Brentwood. 44,
iii. TIMOTHY, killed at the battle of Monmouth, 1776; m. Mary Leavitt of Brentwood.
iv. TRUEWORTHY, d. 1776, at Cambridge, Mass., in the Revolutionary army; unm.
v. DAVISON, d. at Cambridge, Mass., in Washington's army, 1775; unm, 45,
vi. PETER COFFIN,(+) d. at Co. of York, Me.; m. Polly Perry of Waterborough, Me
vii. MARGARET, m. Nathaniel Chase of Brentwood.
viii. ANNA, m. Walden Webster of Brentwood,
ix. LEVI, probably d. s. p.
44. TIMOTHY6 DUDLEY (Davidson,5 Stephen,4 Stephen,3 Samuel,2 Thomas1), a soldier of the Revolution, married Mary Leavitt, daughter of Timothy, Jr., of Brentwood, N. H. In the division of her father's lands after his decease, in 1760, this daughter "Mary Dudley," had 30 acres of land for her share. The amount of her father's estate was œ10,154, 17s. 0d. Timothy Dudley, after having four children born at Brentwood, enlisted in the Revolutionary Army and was slain at the Battle of Monmouth in 1776. Children by his wife Mary (Leavitt.)
i. STEPHEN7, b. at Brentwood, N. H., d. about 1845. 98.
ii. TIMOTHY, living in Vermont in 1848, m. Mercy Strong, and had four children.
iii. LEVI, died at Vershire, Vt., m. Betsey Leroy of Barnard, Vt. iv.
iv. SARAH, living in 1848, m. Elijah Hawkins of Meredith, N. H., and had nine children.
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How strange it has happened, that this most private of all conceivable letters should have been saved for profane eyes in all future ages! He was a victim of Cupid. But he married the loved one, and she had six children, who all died in infancy. She died Oct. 24, 1756, aged 72.
MRS. PAUL DUDLEY'S FUNEHAL.
Rev. Amos Adams preached at her funeral, and said of her: "She, for abilities of mind, for wisdom, knowledge, prudence, discretion, a heavenly tempet, pure morals, unaffected piety, shining graces and an unsullied chatacter, has been rarely equalled by any of her sex among us."
I have copied most of her will, which is quite interesting. It is given upon another page, after her husband's. There are several family portraits mentioned in it.
WILL OF JUDGE PAUL DUDLEY.
In the name and fear of God, Amen. I, Paul Dudley of Roxbury in the County of Suffolk and Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, Esq., being of sound, disposing mind and memory, although laboring under much bodily weakness and infirmity, do make, ordaln and appoint this to be my last will and testament. First and above all things I commend my precious and immertal soul into the hands of the Lord Jasus Christ, the Son of God, the only Redeemer of God's elect, and only mediator between God and man, hoping to obtain mercy from him that day to behold his face in righteousness, and to be everlastingly satisfied with his likeness. Amen and Amen. My body I commit to the earth from whence it came, to be decently but not extravagantly interred at the sole discretion of my executrix. As to such worldly estate which God has graciously given me, I will dispose and bequeathe it in manner following: Imprimis, I will, that all my just debts, funeral expenses and legacies be paid and discharged as soon as may be by my executrix hereinafter named, in the way and manner hereafter mentioned. Item, I give to the six daughters of my deceased brother three hundred pounds Inwful Page 529
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money of this province to be equally divided between them. Item, I give to my nephew Thomas Dudley, fifteen pounds lawful money, having already expended many hundred pounds lawful money for the bettering of his estate. Item, I give the said Thomas one half of my Library. Item, I give to my nephew Joseph Dudley two hundred pounds lawful money and the other half of my Library. Item, I give and demise to him all my real estate whatsoever, and wheresoever it be, to him his heirs and assigns forever, hereby confirming some deeds of settlement that I have already made upon him, saving always the use of a piece of salt marsh, called "Brewer Marsh," in Roxbury, to my dear wife during the term of her natural life. Item, I give to my nephew Dudley Atkins and his sister Mary Russell one hundred pounds lawful money to be equally divided between them. Item, I give to the children of my sister Miller of New Haven, viz. her seven children by her late husband Winthrop, two hundred pounds lawful money to be equally divided between them. Item, I give to my four sisters Sewall, Miller, Dummer and Atkins ten pounds lawful money each for a suit of mourning. Item, I give to my nephew Henry Sewall the like sum of ten pounds for the same use. Item, I give to the free school in Roxbury, seven pounds lawful money. Item, I give the like sum of seven pounds to the poor of the east parish in Roxbury like money. Item, I give to the first church in Roxbury the like sum of seven pounds like money. Item, I give to Harvard College in Cambridge in New England one hundred and thirty-three pounds, six shillings and eight pence, like money to be appropriated and disposed of in such manner as I shall direct under my hand and seal at any time hereafter. Item, I give and bequeathe unto my and my wife's beloved niece Lucy Winthrop,(*) who has lived with us ever since her infancy and as soon as she was capable of it, and so all along unto this day, always behaving to us with the same affection, duty, prudence, faithfulness and dilligence as if she had been truly a daughter and offspring of our bowels, I say I give to her the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds lawful money. Item, I give unto her a (*) This Lucy Winthrop was the daughter of Adam Winthrop, who graduated at Harvard College in 1694, married Anne Wainwright, daughter of Col. John Wainwright, and died Oct. 2, 1743. Adam Winthrop's son Samuel was Executor of the will of Col. Wm. Dudley's widow Elizabeth in 1751. This Samuel Winthrop and his brother John of Cambridge are mentioned in Paul's Will. They were brothers to Lucy, to whom Paul gives œ300. This John Winthrop, son of Adam, was Professor of Mathematies and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College, a very learned man.
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turkey carpet, which was her father's but not to be possessed by her until the death of my dear wife. These legacies I give unto our niece last mentioned, as a token of my sincere affection to her and as a reward of her love, care, service to me and mine. Item, I give to the widow of the late Rev. Mr. Walter, pastor of the first church in Roxbury, forty shillings like money. Item, I give to the Rev. Mr. Peabody, the present pastor of said church, six pounds like money. Item, also the residue of my estate, whether it consists of money, Bonds, plate, Household stuff, Stock, Mortgages, as also my coach, chaises, chair &c. I give the whole of it to my dear, faithful and well-beloved wife to be at her absolute disposal, I say I give the same to her, as a token of my dying and sincere affection, and as a reward in some measure for her remarkable and constant, wise and faithful care, love, duty and service to me ever since we became related to one another. The Lord reward it a thousand fold unto her own bosom. Item, I have mentioned my library already, but I would add, that my dear wife shall have right and power to take out of the same the value of thirteen pounds, six shillings and eight pence lawful money in such Books as she shall choose, and the loan of any other for her own reading, she passing a receipt for the same. Item, I desire and appoint William Brattle and John Winthrop of Cambridge, Esqs. and Samuel Winthrop of Boston to make an equal division of my Library between my two nephews to whom I have given the same as soon as the youngest of them shall come of age. Item, as to such pictures and family medals, as are proper for my father's heirs to have, I desire and impower my Executrix to dispose of them accordingly. Item, whereas, in this my last will and testament, I have given several legacies to divers persons meationed to be in lawful money, my true intentions, will and meaning is that my Executrix pay and discharge said legacies with such Bonds and mortgages, as she shall receive of mine according to the best of her discretion, doing justice to the several legatees, and that she shall be compelled to no other sort of payment whatsoever, and that payments in the manner last mentioned shall be a full discharge of all the legacies by me given in this will. Item, I would have it hereby understood, and my will and meaning is that what estate I have left and given to my executrix by deed or in and by this my last will shall be no part of her dower, or in lien of it, but that she shall have her full right of dower in all such real estate as I stand seized of at the time of my decease, and in particular in all such real estate, as was left me by my honored father, hoping and earnestly desiring, that my nephew Thomas Dudley, unto whom the inheritance will descend, will give his Honored Aunt no trouble respecting that matter; but behave himself with all duty, affection and justice, as he expects the blessing of God on himself and all his affairs. Item, I appoint my said dear and beloved wife the sole executrix of this my last will and testament, and in testimony of all the afore written, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Roxbury aforesaid the first day of January in the twenty fourth year of his majesty's reign, Anno Dom. 1760.
PAUL DUDLHY, and seal.
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Judge Sewall's Diary, continues.
"Feb. 16, 1703, Mrs. Ann and Kate Dudley dined here to-day." This daughter, Ann, born 1684, married, 1st, John Winthrop, F. R. S., son of Hon. Waitstill Winthrop, who was son of Gov. John of Connecticut, and grandson of the pilgrim Governor John. Her second husband was Mr. Miller of New London, Ct. Kate married Lieut. Gov. Wm. Dummer in 1714, and left no children. But Ann is the ancestress of Hon. Robt. C. Winthrop, who has been a member of Congress and a very distinguished man.
"June 9, 1703, the Governor and Lieut. Gov. (Thomas Povey) set out for Ipswich to meet the Indian Sachems.
July 19, my daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Sewall, has a son. Mr. Wincomb
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first told the Governor of it, at the Council table, and then me. I ride home with the Governor and send the Hackney-coach. See my daughter and grandson.
Aug. 10, Gov. D. tells me that reports of all actions tried here must be sent over to England." At the time Gov. Dudley came into office in 1702, the Indian affairs were in a tolerably quiet state. Soon, however, indications of disturbance appeared. In 1703, Gov. D., wishing to prevent mischief in the summer, sent messengers to the Eastern Sagamores, requesting them to meet him on the 20th of June at Casco Bay. This meeting was accordingly held on that day, and Gov. D. with several members of the General Court and other prominent gentlemen from Massachusetts and New Hampshire attended.
It was a notable occasion for the Indians and all. Many Sachems accompanied by their warriors of the Eastern tribes came in their war paint of bright, fantastic hues, strange devices and terrific decorations of wild ornaments. They put on their gayest and best to meet the Governor and chiefs of the Christian whites.
There the leading personages of all parties assembled in a large tent, where the English mingled promiscuously with the savages, not wholly without suspicions of treachery and peril.
Penhallow in his Indian Wars, Vol. I, says, the Governor rose and spoke the following sentiments, but he does not pretend to give the precise words: "I am here, being commissioned by the great and victorious Queen of England, to visit you as friends and fathers. If any troubles or difficulties have taken place since our people made the last treaty with you I wish to reconcile them all."
After a brief space of silence, Capt. Simmo, the Orator of the Indians, arose and replied:
"We thank you for coming with so many of the Council and great men of the Province, to gve us a visit. We love peace and our desire is for friendship. As high as the sun is above the earth, so far from us is any design, on our part, of making the least breach between us and you."
The chiefs then presented the wampum belt, their usual pledge of amity and good faith, which was reciprocated by presents from the whites; and the other ceremonies being ended, all returned home.
"At the Coffee-house, Aug. 12, was an account of Gov. Dudley's transactions with the Indians. This is an abstract of his Excellency's speech, at Casco Bay, June 30, 1703:
"The Queen of England, in six months' time, in the war with the French and Spanish Kings, has taken more towns and done more
1, 1826, at B.; m. Mary Chase of Stratham. 39, ii. SAMUEL, b. Aug. 28, 1753, at B.; d. Oct. 14, 1781, at B.; m. Mary Leavitt of Brentwood. iii. HANNAH, b. July 9, 1751, at B.; d. at B.; m. Jonathan Sleeper of Brentwood. She d. Dec. 8, 1840, aged 89.
19. SAMUEL PAUL5 DUDLEY (Stephen,4 Stephent,3 Samuel,2 Thomas1), born 1721; married Jane Hubbard, and they had four children:
40. i. JEREMT. b. 1756, at Hawk (now Danville), N. H.; m. Polly, or Mary, Roberts. 41. ii. HUBBARD, b. Feb. 18, 1764, at Hawk; d. December 13, 1841, at Dunham, Lower Canada. 42. iii. JACOB, b. 1766, at Hawk, living 1848 at Hanover, N. H. iv. STEPHEN, b. at Hawk, or Danbury, N. H., 1848; m. Abigail Tilbois, and died at Wilmot, N. H., leaving 2 daughters, Abigail6 and Anna6 both d. at Andover, N. H. v. ABIGAIL, h. about 1752; m. John Dudley,5 son of James.5 and d. at Andover, N. H., 1836. vi. ANNA, d. at Andover, N. H.
20. DAVISON5 DUDLEY (Col. Stephen,4 Stephen,3 Samuel,2 Thomas1). See autograph No. 14, p. 298. Davison Dudley, son of Col. Stephen, was born at Exeter about 1708, and married Anna Ladd. He was a skilful blacksmith by trade, and also carried on his farm at Brentwood. He ever sustained a good character, and was a useful man till late in life, when the shaking palsy disabled his hands. He died of the black jaundice in 1787, aged about 70 years. Davison and Anna (Ladd) Dudley had the following nine children, born at Exeter:
i. DAVISON,6(*) killed by the Indians on Canada frontier in the French war, 1757; unm. 43. ii. STEPHEN, of the Co. of York, Me.; m. Phebe Webster of Brentwood. 44, iii. TIMOTHY, killed at the battle of Monmouth, 1776; m. Mary Leavitt of Brentwood. iv. TRUEWORTHY, d. 1776, at Cambridge, Mass., in the Revolutionary army; unm. v. DAVISON, d. at Cambridge, Mass., in Washington's army, 1775; unm, 45, vi. PETER COFFIN,(+) d. at Co. of York, Me.; m. Polly Perry of Waterborough, Me. vii. MARSARET, m. Nathaniel Chase of Brentwood. viii. ANNA, m. Walden Webster of Brentwood, ix. LEVI, probably d. s. p.
(To be continued.)
(*) He was Serg't and Lieut., 11 Aug. 1746, under Capt. Daniel Ladd of Exeter, in a scouting party at Canterbury, &c.--Potter's N. H. Military History. p. 94.
(+) This son seems to have been named for Peter Coffin (the Judge), of Dover, in 1630, who died March 21, 1716, at Exeter. Coffin's daughter, Abigail, married Daniel Davison, whose daughter, Sarah, m. Col. Stephen Dudley4; and she was Peter Coffin Dudley's grandmother.
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WILL OF STEPHEN DUDLEY.
In the name of God, Amen; I Stephen Dudley of Exeter in the Province of New Hampshire in New England, being weak of body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, praise be given to Almighty God therefor; knowing that it is appointed unto man once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form as followeth, that is to say, first and principally I commit my soul into the hand of God who gave it, hoping for the pardon and free remission of all my sins in and through the merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour and Redeemer, and my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named. And as for the wordly goods and estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me, I give and bequeath, as followeth:--
Imprimis: my will is that all my just and honest debts be paid and my funeral charges defrayed.
Item 1: I give unto my son Nicholas Dudley five shillings, he having received his portion already.
Item 2: I give unto my two grandsons John Dudley and Davison Dudley, the sons of Samuel Dudley and Stephen Dudley, to each of them five shillings, their father having received their portions in their life-times.
Item 3: I give unto my two sons, James Dudley and Trueworthy Dudley, my dwelling house, out-housing and all my lands and meadows thereto belonging, after the decease of my well-beloved wife, Mercy Dudley, excepting five acres hereafter to be disposed of.
Item 4: I give unto my daughters Joanna Perryman, Elizabeth Gilman and Sarah Gilman, to each of them five pounds to be paid unto them by their two brothers, James and Trueworthy, within two years after my decease.
Item 5: I give unto my granddaughter Sarah Dudley, the
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daughter of my son Joseph Dudley, deceased, five pounds, to be paid within two years after my wife's decease, by my two sons, James Dudley and Trueworthy Dudley, whom I require to pay all legacies in this will.
Finally I give unto my well-beloved wife Mercy Dudley my house, out-housing and all my lands and meadows during the time of her natural life, and also five acres of land adjoining to the land of Martha Bean which she bought of me, and to have ten rods fronting on the way and so running back till it makes five acres, to be wholly at her disposal forever, and I also give her my well-beloved wife all my movable Estate to be wholly at her disposal forever. And I do, by these presents, make, constitute and appoint her my well-beloved wife Mercy Dudley the sole Executrix of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and disannulling all former wills and testaments by me heretofore made.
In confirmation whereof, I have to this my last will and testament, set my liand and seal this seventeenth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand, seven hundred and thirty-five, 1734-5.
Signed, Sealed and owned in the presence of Cartee Gilman, STEPHEN DUDLEY.
Timothy Leavitt, his mark, John Lufkin. [L. S.]
Province of|Portsmouth, May 13th, 1735. New Hampshire,|
Then Cartee Gilman, Timothy Leavitt and John Lufkin appeared before the Honrble Benja Gambling, Esqr, Judge of Probate, &c. for sd Province, and made oath that they were present and saw Stephen Dudley decd sign and seal this instrument, hearing him declare it to be his last will and testament, and that at the doing thereof he was of a sound disposing mind and memory.
John Penballow, Regr. BENJ. GAMBLING.
I have an original deed from Stephen Dudley, with his autograph and seal, but the seal is not plain. The autograph is clear, but not so elegant as that of his father. Rev. Samuel neglected the education of his younger children. He ought to have hired a teacher and kept a school in his house. But he left the care of the young children too much to their mother. However
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Riding chair and tackling (old), 30; steelyards, 4; sundry things, 4-- 2. 5.
Utensils for husbandry, 8. 14.
Four oxen, 42. 5.
Five cows, 16. 5.
Two-year old steer, 50; two calves, 30; twentyeight sheep, 8. 8-- 12. 8.
Swine, 2. 10. and a horse, 6. 8.
œ603 10 1/2
THEO. SMITH,
SAMUEL DUDLEY.
Province of New Hampshire, Exeter, 27th of October, 1766, Then Theophilus Smith, Esq., and Captain Samuel Dudley made oath that taking the above Inventory they have acted faithfully and impartially according to the best of their skill and judgment.
Jurat Coram,
SAMUEL GILMAN, JR.,
Justice of Peace.
SKETCH OF CAPTAIN TRUEWORTHY DUDLEY.
(See his autograph No. 16, p. 298.)
CAPT. TRUEWORTHY4 DUDLEY (Stephen,3 Samuel,2 Thomas1) was born at Exeter about 1700. and died there in 1745. He married Hannah, daughter of John Gilman who was born June 7, 1668, and died about 1753, son of the first Moses Gilman of Exeter, who was born in England 1631, and died in 1702. Moses was a brother to Hon. John Gilman of the Royal Council. John Gilman, father of Hannah (Dudley), was a rich man of Exeter. Captain Trueworthy Dudley and his wife Hannah Gilman were second cousins--their grandfathers being brothers. This cousin-marrying often produces eccentric types of mankind, as well in the Dudley family as in others. According to "Sigma" (L. M. Sargent) in one of his Transcript papers, I should lop off some branches of my family. He asks, "Who would have a genealogy disfigured by drunken men," &c.? Then, in regard to cousin-marrying, "Sigma" is again "off his base." He says "Death is not more surely the universal lot, than perfect
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equality in the number of ancestors in equal degree." Was not the same man the great-grandfather of both Captain Trueworthy and his wife? Therefore they had not as many great-grandfathers as a couple usually have; and their ancestors would be less in every degree back to the first being of the human species at least. In regard to putting drunkards into a genealogy, I think it was unavoidable in some of the Bible genealogies. Our mythic ancestor Noah got drunk, and that wasn't the worst of it. A dozen prolific persons, by intermarrying centuries ago, may have become the only ancestors (in their generation) of Sigma's great house.
The name "Trueworthy" came from his grandmother Elizabeth (Treworgy) Gilman, wife of Hon. John Gilman. Probably the common people pronounced it so. But we have documents to prove that it was a wrong orthography of the word, as the following deposition shows, being copied from the Suffolk Registry of Deeds (Lib. I. page 127):
"I, John Treworthie, doe testify that the cellar wch is at Pascataway now standing neere the house which Wm. Hilton now lives in, did not any way belong to the land wch was bought by me for my Grandfather Mr. Alexander Shapleigh.
Witness my hand this 25th October, 1650. JOHN TREWORGY.
Witness-- John Sanford, Job Sayer.
Taken upon oath the 25th of October, 1650, before me, WILLIAM HIBBINS."
This John Treworgy was a brother to Elizabeth (Gilman) daughter of James Treworgy and his wife Catharine Shapleigh, daughter of Alexander, merchant and agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges.
There is a place in Cornwall called "Trewargoo," from which the name was probably derived.
Trueworthy Dudley, in the Louisburg Expedition of 1745, under Lieutenant General William Pepperell, belonged to Colonel Samuel Moore's Regiment. The Major was Ezekiel Gilman of Exeter, and Daniel Ladd was one of the Captains. Ladd had thirty-eight men. There were four hundred and forty-two persons in the Regiment. Captain Trueworthy Dudley had fifty-three men in his company, the largest company in the Regiment.
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(See Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, Vol. V., page 368. Captain Dudley and others complained of bad treatment from Colonel Moore, and this complaint was presented to the House of Assembly, Nov. 28, 1745, page 391. The House voted that Colonel Moore be forthwith recalled, and served with a copy of the complaint and required to make answer to it on the 5th day of the Court, that is, the House. The complaint was the work of Captain Ladd, who failed to effect any thing thereby. Colonel Moore said he did the best he could to supply good rations. The fault complained of was chiefly want of food and other necessaries. Colonel Moore was sustained, and all were thanked for their services.
Captain Trueworthy Dudley was not quite 50 years of age when he died. It was an untimely death, considering the length of the lives of his ancestors. That Cape Breton expedition was a fatal enterprise for the health of the officers. But his death might not have been occasioned by that.
He had a good mind and a benevolent disposition, and ever maintained a good moral character. He had a remarkable taste for strong oxen and fast horses. His business was farming. His wife's father, John Gilman, had a saw mill and grist mill on Little River, which he bequeathed to his son John, whose daughter Polly married Captain True Dudley's son Trueworthy.
Captain True, as he was called, the veteran of Louisburg, was lavish in his expenditures and paid extravagant prices for things he took a fancy to; so that he got deeply in debt,--but his wife's father gave him money to pay up with--all square. However, he continued to satisfy his taste. On one occasion, he owned a yoke of oxen so strong that they could hall five or six tons, and he offered to bet them against any other yoke in the country that they could out-pull any other yoke. This bet was taken by a Quaker of Berwick, Me., if Captain Dudley would go there with his cattle and pull on a mill-brow against a yoke of stags. Captain Dudley assenting to this, he went and pulled on the mill-brow, and got beaten. But the Quaker refused to take the oxen, saying he only wished to show Captain Dudley that he must not suppose there was no other cattle equal to his. Captain Dudley'proposed to try them on plain ground, to which the Quaker consented, and the oxen easily beat the stags. Still Captain Dudley would not carry them home, but sold them on the way at a great discount. They had pulled a large stone that
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lay for years on Exeter plain, which no three yoke of cattle in the State could start an inch. My grandfather had seen the stone and related this anecdote.
His wife survived him, and they had two sons and two daughters. The elder son was Gilman, born 1727, who is the ancestor of all the Dudleys by name, of this branch, that I know of. His sons were Trueworthy of Pembroke and Samuel Conner of Sanbornton. The latter I saw in 1848 at his homestead in Sanbornton, N. H. His daughter and son-in-law Lane lived with him and carried on the farm. They had a smart, respectable family of children. The old gentleman was intelligent, retaining his mind and memory remarkably well for his great age. He told me that his grandfather, old Captain True4 Dudley, had his place of residence on Exeter plain in the old house that had been occupied by his father Stephen5 Dudley, son of Rev. Samuel.6
INVENTORY OF CAPTAIN TRUEWORTHY DUDLHY, OF EXETER.DECEASED, INTRSTATE, DATED JAN. 12, 1749-50.
1 dwelling house, 2 barns and 3 acres of land, œ1300. old tenor.
19 3/4 acres meadow and upland, 493. 15.
28 acres pasture land, 1130. 0.
3 cows, 45. 0.
1 heifer coming in 2 years old, 10. 0.
1 warming-pnn, 5. 0.
5 framed pictures, 1. 10.
1 doz. new pewter plates, 7. 0.
" " " " 3. 10.
9 pewter platters, 15. 0.
1 large Bible, 3. 0.
1 doz. small books, 3. 0.
6 good black chairs, 5. 0.
15 gallons of rum, 22. 10.
50 Ibs. sugar, 7. 10.
The whole amount, both real and personal property, was œ3351. 15.
HENRY MARSHALL,|Appraisers.
BENJ. CONNOR, |
Hannah Dudley, the widow of Capt. True Dudley, deceased, was administratrix.
SKETCH OF JUDGE THEOPHILUS3 DUDLEY, SON OF REV. SAMUHL.2
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HE was the Captain Dudley mentioned by Governor Joseph Dudley in one of his letters to Colonel Winthrop Hilton. His mother was Mary Byley, whose family came over in the Bevis of Hampton, in 1634. Henry Byley, who is sometimes erroneously called Byles, came from New Sarum in England. He seems to have been a very respectable man, although styled a
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"tanner." He was 26 years of age: his brother John, aged 20, came with him, and his sister Mary, aged 22, who, in 1643, became the second wife of Rev. Samuel Dudley. In 1664, his daughter Rebecca married Rev. John Hale of Beverly, ancestor of Hon. John P. Hale, late member of Congress from New Hampshire. They settled at Salisbury about 1635, which town doubtless was named for their home in the mother country. By this wife, Rev. Samuel Dudley had five children; but only one of them left posterity. Captain Theophilus probably never married. His two brothers, Byley and Thomas, married, but had no children. Their education was poor; just a fair business training. They studied no profession. Theophilus was a popular man among the people. They called him captain, and delighted to honor him. They chose him Selectman of the town of Exeter as many as fifteen different times, and that was oftener than any other man had the honor. From 1693 to the end of his life he was an active and influential Representative for Exeter in the General Provincial Assembly; and during six or seven of his last years he was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. He held a commission as County magistrate most of his life. I find that he belonged to the Church, as did also his brothers Byley and Thomas, 2d, but not Stephen.
His will is interesting, as was that of the eldest son of Rev. Samuel, viz., Thomas, Fellow of Harvard College. As that young gentleman cherished his mother's children and overlooked the rest of his father's brood, so this Hon. Theophilus, in his will, is very sparing of bequests to the children of his father by the last wife. He is the son, who was administrator of his father's estate, and he claimed to be the gentleman of the family, as he was probably the eldest son alive. He speaks of his house and orchard, and "all his moneys." So he was a well-equipped citizen, in a pecuniary point of view. Perhaps he loved property and feared the expenses of a wife and family. Why does he give his property to his brother Byley, who already had a competence for himself and wife? To his own sister Mary's children he is generous, but of all the others, mentions only his "cousin Stephen Lyford," his "cousin Mercy Hilton," whose father had been slain by the Indians three years before, and his "sister Lyford's three youngest daughters." It may be that he thought the rest sufficiently provided for; but I suspect he felt a partiality for his mother's heirs. The language in his will about his soul
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indicates that he had some fear that the Almighty would not understand that he was a supplicant for pardon and for heaven, unless he left his petition in writing. The Calvinistic theology taught that forgiveness would not be given to a person unless he asked for it before he died. All who did not apply early would he rejected, except children who had been baptized. They were to be saved by free grace, through a sort of divinely-ordained ceremony. There was one fault that was very common in those times, which could not be laid to the charge of Theophilus. He had not increased his fortune by marrying an heiress. He evidently worked faithfully all his life, and earned all he had, unless he inherited an estate from his mother's family, as did his niece, Rebecca (Byley) Hale (wife of Rev. John Hale), who had an estate in England through her father, Henry Byley of Salisbury, uncle of Capt. Theophilus Dudley.
Now the name of "Theophilus," the Greek of which meant God lover, was to be no more found in the Dudley family. It was a puzzle, like "Treworgy," to the plain yeomen of New Hampshire. They spelled it variously. As for Treworgy, they changed it entirely, and wrote "Trueworthy." Hon. Capt. John Gilman of Exeter, who was nearly always selectman with Theophilus Dudley, while they lived, married Elizabeth, daughter of James Treworgy of York Co., Maine. This James was a inerchant of property and fame. His wife was Catharine Shapleigh, daughter of Alexander S., a merchant, and the agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges of England. These families of Shapleighs and Treworgys live there still and preserve their right names in Maine. If you look in our Boston Directory for some years past you will see the name of one of these Treworgys. I called on him not long ago, and found he was one of the descendants of James, Councillor John Gilman's father-in-law. I am, myself, descended from James, through Gilman. We have public records to show how all these things are.
Theophilus Dudley was the right sort of a man for a scholar, but I suppose his father was unable to educate him at Harvard College. That institution was devoted almost wholly to educating ministers. If a man graduated there, he must of course be a minister, and New Hampshire did not patronize that profession so much as to make it coveted by young men. Rev. Samuel Dudley never could get his church organized. He preached to the People. But the next minister of Exeter, Rev. John Clark,
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fixed up a small church organization. Then, in 1706, followed Rev. John Odlin, who, after a while, had his son, Rev. Woodbridge Odlin, for his colleague and successor. But Theophilus only saw Clark and John Odlin, after Rev. Samuel Dudley's time. I cannot discover that Theophilus had much to do with books. But he was not behind most of his neighbors in learning and intelligence. I surmise he leaned to Governor Joseph Dudley's liberal church principles. The Samuel Dudley, who witnessed his will, was his half brother Samuel. Governor Joseph Dudley was probably the author of Captain Theophilus's commissions, as captain of the Exeter Company of Militia in time of Colonel Winthrop Hilton's early warfare against the Indians, and as magistrate and judge in later life. I have spoken of how Captain Judge Theophilus might have helped his young nephews with his bequests. Let us see who they were and what they afterwards did for the country to shame their unmindful uncle, and make him regret his slights if he could only know how it turned out.
They were the sons of Stephen Dudley and Sarah Gilman. First, there was James, 23 years old, who was a Lieutenant under Sir William Pepperell, at the brave capture of Louisburg. His sons Joseph and Samuel were also in the same glorious enterprise. John (another son of Stephen) had already been slain by the Indians, while he was with Colonel Winthrop Hilton in Epping woods. Nicholas, 19 years old when his uncle Theophilus died, fortified his house as a garrison against the Indians, and devoted his time and money to the defence of his country. He also sent a son to help take Louisburg. Trueworthy, another son of Stephen, was Captain of a Company at the Reduction of Louisburg, that is, Cape Breton; and Sarah Dudley, sister of James and Trueworthy, was wife of Ezekiel Gilman, who was a Major, and died at Cape Breton in 1746. Besides these, Lieutenant James's daughter, Joanna, was wife of Daniel Ladd, who was Captain of a Company at the same siege. There were seven warriors in that one famlty; brave, public-spirited and worthy of immortal honor, whom their uncle Capt. Judge Theophilus entirely overlooked in his short-sighted view of his duty to the rising generation of the Dudleys. Captain Theophilus, in his will, requested that his body should be decently buried, but no monument of him can now be found, and I have never heard of a portrait of any of those early Exeter Dudleys.
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Rev. Samuel Dudley, son of Governor Dudley, received his education in England, and was settled in the ministry at Exeter, in this State, in the year 1650, where he spent the remainder of his days in usefulness and honor, and died in 1683, aged 72. His son, Stephen Dudley, married Sarah Gilman, daughter of Hon. John Gilman, of Exeter, December 24, 1684. Mr. Gilmas was of the Royal Council for the Province. His father, Edward Gilman, came into this State soon after its first settlement, and among his descendants in every generation have been men who have done honor to their country, and whom their country has delighted to honor. James Dudley, the third son of Stephen Dudley, was born June 11, 1690. He married Mercy Folsom, of Exeter, where he lived and died. He had four sons and four daughters, whom he educated in habits of industry and morality.
The Hon. John Dudley, the principal subject of this article, and the third son of James Dudley, was born April 9, 1725. His parents were enabled to afford him the advantages of what is now
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of sincere piety, exact justice, hospitality to strangers and liberality to the poor." His will, dated April 26, 1652, additions April 13, May 28 and July 8, 1653, was proved August 15, 1653. He married (first) in England, Dorothy (???), who died at Roxbury, December 27, 1643, aged sixty-one. He married (second) April 14, 1644, Catharine Hackburn, widow of Samuel Hackburn, and daughter of (???) Dighton. She had two sons and two daughters by her first marriage. She married (third) Rev. John Allen, of Dedham, and she died August 29, 1671. Children by first wife: Samuel, mentioned below; Anne, born in England, about 1612; Patience, in England; Sarah, baptized July 23, 1620, at Sempringham, England; Mercy, born September 27, 1621, England. By second wife: Deborah, February 27, 1645; Joseph, September 23, 1647; Paul, September 8, 1650.
(II) Rev. Samuel Dudley, son of Governor Thomas Dudley, was born about 1610, in Northamptonshire, England, and was probably educated for the ministry in the Puritan denomination. He came to New England with his father when he was twenty, and in 1632 or 1633, married Mary, daughter of Governor Winthrop, and their first three children were baptized in Boston. The two sons lived many years with their grandfather, Governor Dudley, and both died early and unmarried. Rev. Samuel Dudley moved from Cambridge to Ipswich about 1635. His wife died in 1643, and he married (second) Mary Byley or Bayley, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, sister of Henry Bayley, from Salisbury, England, Dudley was deputy to the general court from Salisbury in 1641-42-43-44-45, was often chairman, and held other town offices. In March, 1648, he was appointed associate judge with two others to hold a court from year to year at Salisbury. In 1650 he became minister for Exeter, New Hampshire, having preached for sometime in 1649, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He also carried on a farm and lived a simple country life. His second wife died at Exeter about 1651, and he married later, Elizabeth (???). Of his ten sons, Stephen alone had sons who carried on the line. He had many grants of land, but his family was large and he never became wealthy as his father had been. He died at Exeter, February 10, 1683, aged seventy-three. Children by first wife: Thomas, baptized at Boston, March 9, 1634; John, baptized at Boston, June 28, 1635, died young; Margaret, baptized at Boston, died young; Samuel, baptized at Boston, August 2, 1639, died at Salisbury, April 17, 1643; Ann, born October 16, 1641. By second wife: Theophilus, born at Salisbury, October 31, 1644; Mary, April 21, 1646, at Salisbury, died December 28, 1646; Byley, September 27, 1647; Mary, January 6, 1649-50; Thomas. By third wife: Elizabeth, 1652; Stephen, born at Exeter, mentioned below; James, born 1663; Timothy, died before 1702; Abigail; Dorothy; Rebecca; Samuel.
(III) Stephen, son of Rev. Samuel Dudley, was born at Exeter, New Hampshire, and married, December 24, 1684, Sarah, daughter of Hon. John Gilman, of Exeter; she was born February 25, 1667, and died January 24, 1713. He married (second) Mary Tyng, and (third) Mercy Gilman, who survived him. He was a farmer in Exeter. The younger children of Rev. Samuel Dudley were not well educated. Stephen Dudley could write a fair hand, but made his mark in his will, dated February 17, 1734-35, proved May 13, 1735. Like his father, he lived a quiet life and enjoyed having his children near him. Children by first wife: Samuel, born at Exeter, December 19, 1685; Stephen, mentioned below; James, June 11, 1690; John, October 4, 1692, killed by Indians, June 23, 1710, after a brave resistance alone against many; Nicholas, August 27, 1694; Joanna, May 3, 1697; Trueworthy, 1700; Joseph, 1702; Abigail; Sarah, January 15, 1706; Elizabeth.
(IV) Colonel Stephen (2) Dudley, son of Stephen (1) Dudley, was born March 10, 1688, at Exeter. It is said that he was much interested in speculation, such as buying land of the Indian Sagamores and selling it to Boston merchants, receiving as his pay second-hand readymade clothing of bright colors, and though poor he dressed in such fancy style with his red cloak, large wig and ruffled shirt, that he was called "Gaffer," the country name for a lord or gentleman. About 1725 he had a saw mill built near the mill which was in Exeter in 1870. He lived at Freetown mills a part of the time, and at Exeter the rest of his life. He died in 1734, aged forty-six. He was a shoemaker. He married, July, 1708, Sarah Davison or Davidson, of Newbury, New Hampshire, daughter of Daniel Davidson, of Ipswich, Massachusetts; she was born in 1682. Children: Samuel Paul, mentioned below; Davidson, at Exeter; Stephen, October 14, 1724, at Exeter.
(V) Samuel Paul, son of Stephen (2) Dudley, was born at Exeter, in 1721. He married Jane Hubbard. Children: Jeremy, born 1756; Hubbard, February 18, 1764; Jacob, mentioned below; Stephen; Abigail, 1752; Anna, died at Andover, New Hampshire.
(VI) Jacob, son of Samuel Paul Dudley, was born in 1766, and died October 15, 1851, in Hanover, New Hampshire.