He was upright and honest in his disposition, blunt in his manners, and withstood magistrates and ministers when he thought them worthy of reproof. Nor woud he yield to any popular opinion to gain honour and authority. A serious dispute took place between him and governour WINTHROP, which required the interposition of their friends among the clergy and laity. He was more firm in the Hutchinsonian or Antinonian controversy, than any of the magistrates, and even accused Mr. COTTON of departing from the faith; and without prejudice or attachment from prior connexions, required an explanation of his principles and conduct. ENDICOT also found him an opponent that was not to be moved when he dissented from the general opinion of the magistrates, or wished to introduce some novel things in their proceedings. Mr. DUDLEY was not a man of learning equal to WINTHROP or BELLINGHAM, but in this respect was not inferior to ENDICOT. Neither ENDICOT nor DUDLEY possessed what, in the present age, would be called liberality of sentiment, or urbanity of manners. Mr. DUDLEY was such an enemy to toleration that he not only spoke against it, but left a number of lines which the friends of rational religion must wish he had never written, as they are not to the credit of his poetry or his charity, but being written and handed down are quoted to give a just view of the character of the man:

Let men of God, in courts and churches watch
O'er such as do a toleration hatch;
Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice
To poison all with Heresy and vice.
If men be left, and otherwise combine,
My epitaph's, I die no libertine.
                           Thomas Dudley

REGISTER of the Massachusetts Society of THE COLONIAL DAMES of America,
1893-1944

DUDLEY, Thomas (1576-1653). Roxbury, Massachusetts. A Founder of Harvard College, 20 Nov. 1637; Assistant, 1629, 1635, 1636, 1641-1644; Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1643, and President of the Board, 1647, 1649; Deputy Governor, 1630-1633, 1637-1639, 1646-1649, 1651, 1652; Governor, 1634, 1640, 1645, 1650; Lieutenant-Colonel of First Massachusetts Regiment, 1636; First Major-General of Massachusetts, 1644.

WEBSTER'S American Biographies
Edited by:
CHARLES VAN DOREN

THOMAS DUDLEY

DUDLEY, Thomas (1576-1653), colonial official. Born in Northampton, England, in 1576 to a family of means, DUDLEY was orphaned early. After commanding a company of troops in an expedition against France in 1597 he became steward to the Earl of Lincoln. At some point he became interested in Puritanism; he was for a time a member of John COTTON'S congregation, and he took some part in the formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company. In 1630, along with Governor John WINTHROP, he sailed for America as deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. For the rest of his life he was almost constantly in public office, four times as governor (1634, 1640, 1645, 1650) and 13 times as deputy governor; he also served on numerous public committees. He helped to found New Towne (now Cambridge), Massachusetts, and later lived in Roxbury. He was active in promoting the establishment of a college in Cambridge, was one of Harvard's first overseers, and as governor in 1650 signed the college's charter. In 1643 he was a delegate to the New England Confederation. A harsh and uncompromising Puritan, DUDLEY was a leading force in the suppression of heresy and dissent in the colony, once even bringing charges against John COTTON. He died on July 31, 1653 in Roxbury.

Gov. Thomas Dudley

Thomas DUDLEY

article written by Bill Kauffman

Thomas Dudley, the only son of Capt. Roger Dudley and Susanna Thorne, was born in 1576 at Northampton, England. On March 14, 1590, when he was fourteen years old, his father was killed at the Battle of Ivery, leaving Thomas and his sister orphans, as their mother had died previously.

Thomas inherited 500 pounds from his father and was raised as a page in the family of Lord Compton, Earl of Northampton. Afterwards, he became a clerk to his maternal kinsman, Judge Nichols, thus obtaining some knowledge of the law, which proved to be of great service to him in his later life. Also, while still in his minority, he was trained in Latin by a "Mrs. Purefoy", who was probably his maternal grandmother, Mary Purefoy. All in all, he gained a competent education and was able to understand any Latin author as well as most educated people of his time.

In 1596, at the age of twenty, Thomas received a Captain's commission in the army. According to Cotton Mather, "the young sparks about Northampton were none of them willing to enter into the service until a commission was given to our young Dudley to be their Captain, and thus presently there were four-score that listed under him." Thomas and his company of volunteers went to France and fought on the side of Henry IV, King of France, at the siege of Amiens in 1597.

On the conclusion of peace in 1597, Thomas returned to England, settled at Northampton and became acquainted with Dod, Hildersham and other Puritan leaders and himself became a Puritan. In 1603, he married Dorothy Yorke, daughter of Edmonde Yorke, yeoman, of Cotton End, Northamptonshire. She was described by Cotton Mather as "a gentlewoman both of good estate and good extraction." By her he had five children. During the period from about 1600 to 1630, Thomas was steward (manager of estates) to Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln, who had been deep in debt prior to Thomas' stewardship. After only a few years of management by Thomas, however, the Earl was out of debt and was prospering. Also, during this period, Thomas became acquainted with John Cotton, renowned minister of Boston, Lincolnshire (and later of Boston, MA). The Puritans were considered by many political leaders and by the Church of England to be a threat and were subjected to substantial persecution. During the 1620's, relations between the Church of England and the Puritans worsened. Continuing pressure led to a decision by a large group of Puritans to emigrate to New England.

In 1629, Thomas Dudley was one of the signers of the agreement to form the Massachusetts Bay Company. On Oct. 20, 1629, in the city of London, he was chosen one of the five officers to come to America with the Royal Charter.

The Massachusetts Bay Company was essentially similar to any other trading company of the time, except that its members had managed to obtain possession of the company charter, or patent, and thus could take it with them to the New World. With possession of the patent that established their rights and privileges, they could control their own government and elect their own magistrates. The group elected John Winthrop governor and Thomas Dudley deputy governor in October 1629.

It is difficult to understand Thomas Dudley's decision to leave England for the unknown shores of North America. In England he had friends, position and prosperity. But he decided to leave all this behind. Apparently, the pressures of persecution were so great that he was virtually forced to leave England or give up his religious convictions.

In 1630, Thomas and his wife and children sailed to New England with the Winthrop Fleet, a group of eleven vessels carrying 700 passengers. The Dudley family was on the flagship, the "Arbella". The Fleet left England in the Spring and arrived in Salem in June. Not approving of Salem as the capital, John Winthrop ordered the fleet south along the coast to Charlestown, ultimately settling at Newtown. Before leaving England, Winthrop had been elected governor and Thomas Dudley deputy-governor. Many of those who came with Winthrop separated and founded Roxbury, Lynn, Medford, Cambridge and Watertown. According to Thomas Dudley, about 200 of the emigrants died the first year in New England.

A somewhat violent disagreement between Dudley and Winthrop, the first of many owing to Dudley's touchy and over-bearing temper, occurred when Winthrop abandoned the chosen settlement and moved to Boston. Dudley subsequently moved to Ipswich but after a short time, in order to be nearer the seat of government, settled at Roxbury. He built on the west side of Smelt Brook, just across the watering place, at the foot of the hill where the road that runs up to the First Church joins the Town Street.

Although Thomas Dudley was 54 years of age when he landed in New England, he still had a long public career ahead of him. Throughout the rest of his life, he was almost constantly in public office. He was four times elected governor and thirteen times made deputy-governor. When not occupying either of these offices, he was usually to be found in the House as an Assistant. When the Standing Council with the idea of forming a body of members for life, Dudley was one of the three first chosen. When the New England Federation was formed in 1643, Dudley was one of the two commissioners chosen by Massachusetts to confer with those of the other colonies. There is hardly an event in the life of the colony during his own in which he did not act a part.

Thomas Dudley and Simon Bradstreet (both future governors) founded Cambridge in 1631. Thomas, however, lived for many years in Roxbury (now part of Boston). In 1636, he was one of twelve men appointed by the General Court to consider the matter of a college at Newtown (Cambridge) and was one to report favorably on the project. In 1650, as Governor, Thomas signed the original charter of the new college, named Harvard College.

Thomas was a strict Puritan and clashed several times with other leaders of the colony. He was known to be very inflexible in his views. Cotton Mather wrote that if Thomas Dudley had been alive at the time of the witchcraft trouble, New England would never have been disgraced by the bloodshed of innocent persons. He was one of the principal founders of the First Church at Boston and in the church now standing at Berkley and Marlborough streets is a tablet with the following inscription:

THOMAS DUDLEY. FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS GOVERNOR OR DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY. AS GOVERNOR HE SIGNED THE CHARTER OF HARVARD COLLEGE. BORN IN ENGLAND 1576. DIED IN ROXBURY 1653. A MAN OF APPROVED WISDOM AND OF MUCH GOOD SERVICE TO THE STATE.

Thomas was evidently as strong in body as he was unyielding in temper and unbreakable in will. Dorothy Dudley died in 1643 and Thomas remarried to Catherine Dighton. By her he had three children, the most noted being Joseph Dudley (1647) the future royal governor of Massachusetts, who was born when the old man was 70 years of age.

Dudley was an able man with marked executive and business ability. His integrity was unimpeachable. His eye, though somewhat religiously jaundiced, was single to the public interest as he saw it. He was something of a scholar and wrote poetry, read in his day, but unreadable in ours. In him, New England Puritanism took on some of its harshest and least pleasant aspects. He often won approval, but never affection. He was positive, dogmatic, austere, prejudiced, unlovable. He dominated by sheer strength of will as a leader in his community. Like many of the others, he was no friend to popular government and a strong believer in autocracy. Opposed to the clergy in one respect, he believed that the state should control even the church and enforce conformity as the superior, and not the handmaid, of the ecclesiastical organization.

Thomas was a thrifty man, who became one of the largest landowners in Roxbury, He was a "trading, money-getting man" and was said to be somewhat hard and "prone to usury." When he died, his property was valued at £1,560 and included bandoleers, corselets, some Latin books, some on law, some that indicate a taste for literature, and many on the doctrines of religion.

On July 31, 1653, Thomas Dudley died at the age of 77 at Roxbury, Massachusetts. There was a great funeral, with the most distinguished citizens as pall bearers. the clergy were present in large numbers. Military units were present with muffled drums and reversed arms. He was buried at Roxbury, near his home, where his tomb may be seen on the highest point of land. His epitaph was written by Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and reads as follows:

                          In books a Prodigal they say;
                          A table talker rich in sense;
                          And witty without wits pretense;
                          An able champion in debate;
                          Whose words lacked number but not weight;
                          Both Catholic and Christian too;
                          A soldier timely, tried and true;
                          Condemned to share the common doom;
                          Reposes here in Dudley's tomb;

There has been much debate among historians and some genealogists concerning descent of the Massachusetts Dudleys from the famous Barons Dudley of England. Suffice it to say that Rev. Samuel Dudley, oldest son of Thomas, claimed such descent during his lifetime and apparently was not challenged. Furthermore, Thomas Dudley was accustomed to using the arms (seal) of the Barons Dudley to seal legal documents bearing his signature. In fact his will, written with his own hand, was sealed with the Dudley arms, indicating that he was descended from the Sutton-Dudleys of Dudley Castle. It was a serious offense under English law to use arms under false pretenses.

HIS RELATIONSHIP TO DUDLEYTOWN: Ed and Lorraine Warren say that Gov Dudley was an Uncle to the Dudleytown brothers (see "Ghost Hunters") and that he was "hacked to death in the vicinity of Dudleytown, and the murderer was never caught." As we can see, the Warrens never did any research into their claims. <font color="#dd1400">Gov Dudley died 84 years BEFORE the first Dudleytown brother set foot there, and that he died of natural causes in Roxbury.

One Purposed Dudley Ancestry

Margaret Dudley b. c1744 Brentwood, Rockingham Co., NH - d. 1828 Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH; md c1768 Nathaniel Chase (8 children)

Davison Dudley b. c1718 Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH - d. 1787 Brentwood; md Anna Ladd (9 children)

Col. Stephen Dudley b. 1688 Exeter - d. there 1734; md 1708 Sarah Davison (8 children)

Stephen Dudley b.c1654 Exeter; md 1684 Sarah Gilman (11 children)

Rev. Samuel Dudley b. 1608 Andover, Hants, England - d. 1683 Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH: md 1) 1632 Mary Winthrop(5 children); md 2) 1643 Mary Byley (5 children); md 3) Elizabeth (8 children)

Gov. Thomas Dudley b. 1576 Yardley Hastings, Northampton, England - d. 1653 Roxbury, Rowley Co., MA; md 1) 1603 England to Dorothy Yorke; md 2) 1644 widow Catherine Leighton Heckburne Dighton (8 children)

Thomas came to America aboard the Arabella 1630 as deputy governor of the Massachusettes Bay Colony & was the second governor of the Colony 1634 +; commissioned for and twice president of the United Colonies; major general in A & HA Company

Capt Roger Dudley ----- d. 1590 England; md 1575 Lidlington, Befordshire, England to Susannah Thorne (4 children)

John Dudley -------- md Elizabeth Clerke

Thomas Sutton/Dudley b. c1497 - d. 1549 Dudley, Worchestershire, England; md Margaret

Sir Edward Sutton/Dudley b. c1459 Dudley - d. 1531; md Cecilia Willowghby

Edmund Sutton/Dudley b. c1425 Dudley - d. 1487; md 1) Joyce Tiptoft; md 2) Matilda Harrington de Clifford

John Sutton/Dudley b. 1401 Dudley Castle, Stafford, England - d. there 1487; md Elizabeth de Berkeley

John Sutton/Dudley b. c1381 Malpas, Cheshire, England - d. 1406; md Constancia Blount

John Sutton/Dudley b. 1361; md 1) Jean/Joan de Clinton; md 2) Alice Dispenser

John Sutton/Dudley b. 1338 England; md 1) Catherine; md 2) Margaret de Mortimer

John Sutton/Dudley b. 1312 England - d. 1359; md Isabel de Cherleton; The Lord of Dudley

John Sutton b. c1286; md Margaret de Someri

Sir Richard Sutton b. 1266 Warsop, Notthinghamshire, England; md 1284 Isabel Patric

Robert Sutton b. 1240 Warsop - d. 1291; md Lucy Bartram

William Sutton b. 1217 - d. 1267 England; md Matilda

Rowland Sutton b. c1195 Sutton-Upton-Trent, England; md 1215 Alice de Lexington

Hervey de Sutton b. c1168 Sutton-Upton-Trent

Hervius

FROM
One BASSETT Family in America
by
Buell Burdett BASSETTE
Pages 245.

 Catharine DEIGHTON     bp. 14 Jan 1614; St. Nicholas Gloucester,
                                         Gloucestershire, England.
                     m. (1)        1634 Samuel HAGBURNE;
 He                      d. 24 Jan 1643; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
 They settled in Roxbury, Mass. He left will [Vol. II, p261 N E H & G]
 (4 children).
   1. Elizabeth HACKBOURNE b:  7 May 1635; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
   2. Samuel    HACKBOURNE b: 20 Jan 1637; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
   3. John      HACKBOURNE b: 26 Mar 1640; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massaxhusetts.
   4. Hannah    HACKBORNE  b:  5 Jan 1642; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
 She                 m. (2) 14 Apr 1644, Gov. Thomas DUDLEY[1576-1653].
 She was 29 and he 68.
 He was                  b. 12 Oct 1576
 He                      d. 31 Jul 1653
 (3 children)
   1. Deborah   DUDLEY    b: 27 Feb 1645; Roxbury, Suffolk Massaxhusetts.
   2. Joseph    DUDLEY    b: 23 Sep 1647; Roxbury, Suffolk Massaxhusetts.
   3. Paul      Dudley    b:  8 Sep 1650; Roxbury, Suffolk Massaxhusetts.
 She                 m. (3)  8 Nov 1653, Rev. John ALLIN
             of Dedham, 1st minister there, she dying three days after him.
 He was                 bp. 22 May 1597; Colby, Norfolk, England. 
 (3 children)
   1. Benjamin  ALLIN     b: 11 Aug 1654; Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
   2. Daniel    ALLIN     b: 31 Jul 1655; Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
   3. Eliezur   ALLIN     b: 26 May 1658; Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
 He                      d. 26 Aug 1671.
 She                     d. 29 Aug 1671
 Catherine had children by each of her husbands.
 (for a total of 10 children in all)

THE PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS

ALLEN, Rev. John, bapt. at Colby, co. Norfolk, Eng. May 22, 1597; Caius Coll. Cambridge, Eng., 1612, A.B. 1615, A.M. 1619. He m. at Wrentham, Eng. Oct. 22, 1622, Margaret Morse. She d. 1 (3) 1653; He m. 8 (9) 1653 Katharine, widow, in turn, of Samuel Hagborne and Governor Thomas Dudley; ch. John bapt. Oct. 24, 1653, Benjamin b. 11 (6) 1654, Daniel b. 31 (5) 1656, Eliezer b. 26 (3) 1658. Mrs. Katharine Allin d. Aug. 29, 1671. He settled at Dedham, N. E. in 1637; was ord. pastor in 1638 and continued in office until his death, Aug. 26, 1671. "He was a man of peace and truth;" author of A Paper marking the just limitations of colonial allegiance and imperial right, 1643; and other works. See introduction to and early portion of Dedham chh. rec. Will dated 23 (6) 1670, prob. ---- 167l; beq. to near kinsmen Samuel Fisher, Thomas Fisher and Robert Allin; cousin, the widow [Caine] living at Cambridge; cousin James Allin of Medfield; sons John, Benjamin, Daniel and Eleazer; daus. Dudley and Chickerin. Wife exec. The widow made nunc. will 28 (6) 1671. To sister Negus; to dau. Hunting and her dau. Katharine; to her son [Henry] Chickerin's 2 daus.; to dau. Wade's 2 daus. and sundry other persons.

BRADSTREET, Simon, gent., son of a minister in Lincolnshire, [C. M.] b. at Hobling, Eng., in March, 1603; was one of the assts. of the Mass. Bay Co. in England in 1629. He came with governor Winthrop in 1630. With wife Anne joined the chh. at its organization. Rem. to Cambridge. Selectman in 1634; secretary of the Colony from 1630 till 1643. Asst., deputy governor and governor in successive years. Owned property at Ipswich in 1635. Resided at Andover. A man of discretion and fidelity. He m. 1, Anne, dau. of Thomas Dudley, Esq., celebrated as the first poetess of N.E., who d. Sept. 16, 1672, ae. about 60 years. He m. 2, Ann, dau. of ---- Downing. Ch. Samuel, Dorothy, (m. June 14, 1654, Mr. Seaborn Cotton,) Simon, Dudley, John b. 22 July, 1652, Hannah, (m. Andrew Wiggin,) Sarah, (m. Richard Hubbard,) Mercy, (m. Nathaniel Wade). He d. at Salem March 27, 1697, ae. 94. His will, dated 23 Dec. 1689, and 27 Jan. 1692-3, prob. 2 April, 1697, beq. to wife Ann; to son Samuel, and his ch. Mercy, John, Simon and Anne; to the 3 ch. of dec. son Simon, Simon, John and Lucy; to son Dudley B. and each of his ch.; to son John, with entail to his ch.; to gr. ch. John Cotton, and to his 6 sisters, daus. of my dau. Dorothy; to son-in-law Andrew Wiggin, and his ch. by my dau. Hannah; to dau. Mercy and her husband, Mr. Nathaniel Wade, and to their ch.; to Mr. Samuel Willard. [Reg. I, 75, and VIII, 312.]

HAGBORNE, Samuel, Roxbury, propr. He m. Katharine, dau. of John Deighton of Gloucester, Eng., bapt Jan. 16, 1614. Named in her fathers will 1640. [Reg. XLV, 303.] Ch. Elizabeth "b. in England" May 7, 1635, Samuel b. Jan. 20, 1637, John b. March 26, 1640, Hannah b. Jan. 5, 1642. He was bur. Dec. 27, 1642. Will dated 19 Jan. prob. 8 (1) 1642-3. Beq. to eldest dau. Elizabeth articles her grandfather left her; to bro. Abraham H.; to bro. Lugg; to maid Alice and man Nathaniel, wife, son Samuel, son John, younger dau.; to the free school of Rox. The widow m. 2, Gov. Thomas Dudley and 3, Rev. James Allen, q. v.

PACY, Nicholas, Salem, propr. 1638. He m. 1, Katharine --, who had plighted her troth to Mark Vermais; both confessed their error before the Court 28 (10) 1640. She was adm. chh. 23 (3) 1641. Ch. Hannah bapt. 29 (3) 1642. He m. 2, Sarah, dau. of Gov. Thomas Dudley, who had been the wife of Benjamin Keayne, Jr., and had been divorced from him. She was admitted inhabitant of Boston in 1655. She d. Nov. 3, 1659. Will prob. 26 (9) 1659, gave all to her dau. Anna Keayne.

WOODBRIDGE, Rev. Benjamin, son of Rev. John, of Stanton, Wilts, and of his wife Dorothy, dau. of Rev. Thomas Parker, came to N. E. [with his brother John?] and settled at Newbury. Grad. Harvard College in the first class, 1642; returned to England and took orders. Had a long and useful ministry. Died at Newbury, Eng. Nov. 4, 1684.

Rev. John, bro. of the above, came to New Eng. in the Mary and John March 24, 1633-4. Resided at Ipswich, then at Newbury. Town clerk, deputy, surveyor of the arms May 17, 1636. Rem. to Boston, and was schoolmaster in 1643. Having been advised by his father-in-law, Gov. Thomas Dudley, in letter dated Nov. 8, 1642, to enter the ministry, he completed preparation, and was ordained pastor of the church at Andover at its organization, (8) 1645. [W.] Ret. to Eng. in 1647; was chaplain of the Parliamentary commissioners, treating with King Charles. Was minister at Andover, Hunts, and at Barford, Wilts. Ret. to N. E. in 1663; res. at Newbury; colleague pastor with his kinsman Mr. Thomas Parker till 1670. He m. Mercy, dau. of Thomas Dudley, Esq. Ch. Sarah b. June 7, 1640, Lucia b. 13 March, 1641-2, (m. Mr. Simon Bradstreet, and 2, Mr. Daniel Epps,) John, Benjamin, Thomas, Dorothy, Mary, Anne, Timothy, Joseph, Martha. Will dated Sept. 12, 1691, prob. March 27, 1695, beq. to dau. Sarah and her 5 ch., daus. Lucy Eps, Dorothy Fryer, Martha Ruggles, Mary Appleton and Anne W.; sons John, Benjamin, Joseph, Thomas, Timothy; and to several of their children. Bro. Benjamin. Gr. son Richard Broccas afterward receipted. [Reg. XXXII, 292, 337. 342, XXXVII, 241, and The Woodbridge Record.]

AUTHORITIES QUOTED.

Gov. Thomas, Letter to Countess of Lincoln, in Mass. Hist. Coll.

CHILDREN of Thomas DUDLEY and Dorothy YORKE:

  
   1. SAMUEL   b: 30 Nov 1608; Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.
              md:        1632; Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                               Mary WINTHROP.
              md:    Abt 1643; Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts.
                               Mary BYLEY.
              md:        1652; Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire.
                               Elizabeth SMITH.
               d: 10 Feb 1683; Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire.
   2. ANN      b:    Abt 1612; , Northamptonshire, England.
              md:        1628; Sempringham, Lincolnshire, England
                               Simon BRADSTREET.
               d: 16 Sep 1672; Andover, Essex, Massachusetts. 
         For a short piece on Ann DUDLEY BRADSTREET (poet)
CLICK HER NAME ABOVE.
   3. PATIENCE b:    Abt 1615; , , England.
              md:            ; Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                               Daniel DENNISON.
               d:  8 Feb 1689; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
   4. SARAH  chr: 23 Jul 1620; Sempringham, Lincolnshire, England.
              md:  1 SEP 1638; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
                               Benjamin KEAYNE.  (div.)
              md:        1649; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
                               Thomas PACEY
                  d:        1659; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
   5. MERCY    b:    Abt 1622; , , England.
              md:        1639; Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts.
                               John WOODBRIDGE.
               d:  1 Jul 1691;

CHILDREN of Thomas DUDLEY and Catharine DEIGHTON:

  
 + 6. DEBORAH  b: 27 Feb 1645; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
              md:    Abt 1665; , Suffolk, Massachusetts.
                               Jonathan WADE.
               d:  1 Nov 1683; , , Massachusetts.
   7. JOSEPH   b: 23 Sep 1647; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
              md:        1667; , Suffolk, Massachusetts.
                               Rebecca TYNG.
               d:  2 Apr 1750; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
   8. PAUL     b:  8 Sep 1650; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
              md:        1677; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
                               Mary LEVERETT.
               d:  1 Dec 1681; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

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