Thomas DUDLEY

                   SOURCES:  1. History of Exeter, RI - Orlando, FL, Pub Lib (Inter-Lib Loan)
            2. Walter Eli Wilcox's Temple Records - Amanda's Book 2 p.37-38 -
               Maria's Book 2 p.43-44
            3. Book DAR #972.981 BAR - Gen of Barbados Families - p.664-665 -
               Orlando, FL, Pub Lib
            4. Ancestral File
            5. 1997 Ordinance Index - no new
            6. This family group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
            7. Ancestral Records and Portraits - p.214 and p.266 to 268
            8. Book #974.2 St. - Vol 3 "History of NH" by Stearn - p.1228-1232
            9. Dau of Am. Colonists - Lineage Book - Vol X p.79,93,156,158 -
               Vol XI p.230,253 - Vol XVII p.298 & 322 & 242 - Vol V p.54 & 115 -
               253 - Vol IV p.56 - Vol III p.129 - Vol XVI p.267 & 413 - Vol IX
               p.92 - Vol IV p.97 - Vol I p.26 - Vol XVIII p.339 - Vol II p.28 &
               97 & 134 & 137 & 149 - Vol VII p.120 - Vol VII p.173 - Vol VIII
               p.173 - Vol 15 p.83 - 305 - Vol I p.145 - 282-283 - Vol XIII p.335
               - Vol XIV p.19 -105 - Vol III p.22 - Vol IV p.246 - Vol XIV p.110 -
               111 - Vol XIV p.26 & 275
           10. DAR Vol III p.24
           11. Book #974.44C - Vol 13 - "Middlesex County" by Cutter -
               pp.1264-1266 Orlando, FL, Pub Lib
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               FL, Pub Lib

TITLE: Gov.

NOTES:  Purchased land in Roxbury in 1639. Served as a minister in Exeter, RI
for 33 yrs. People loved him. Trusted him with important affairs. An
intelligent farmer, a considerable mill owner, a sound man of business, legal
adviser and Scrivener of the entire people. Married 3 times (had 18 children).
Came to New Eng. 1630.
NOTES FROM BACK:  Gov. Thomas Dudley - 1. Education - gained in a Latin School
toward the close of 16th Century.
2. He was a leader of a company of volunteers - to aid Henry of Navarre, in
France - not called to active duty.
3. He studied law under Judge Augustine Nicholls (a Faxton Kinsman).
4. Having been appointed Deputy - Governor of MA, in 1630 - he came to New
England on the ship Arbella - with Governor John Winthrop and other.
5. Dudley was governor 1634,1640,1645 and 1650.
6. He was Deputy - Governor 13 yrs. (1630) and Assistant 5 yrs in Colony of MA,
Bay.
7. In March 1644 - he became Sergeant Major - General.
8. Dudley was member of the Court which condemned Anne Hutchinson in 1637 (ex-
communicating and banishing her from the Colony).
9. One of the signers of Charter of Harvard College.
10. Among his Descendants are - William Ellery Channing, Richard Henry Dana,
Wendall Phillips, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Donald G. Mitchell.

From Daughters of American Colonists - Lineage Book - Vol X p.79 (p.156)
1. He was Major General of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company -
(Major-General of Boston Train Band 1664).
2. Governor of MA, Bay Colony - founder of the Colony - 1629 (Deputy Gov. 1630-
33, 1636-40, 1641-44 - Governor - 1634-35, 1640-41, 1645-46 of MA Bay Colony)
3. Founder of Harvard College.
4. Member Board of Overseers (1636-1652)
5. Governor's Assistant - 1635
6. President of the United Colonies.

   From Book #DAR972.981 BRA -" Genealogies of Barbados Families"
1. Early Governor of MA.
2. Prior to his emigration to New England in 1630, had been Steward to the Earl
of Lincoln.

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

NOTES:
      1. Gov. Thomas Dudley was Governor of the Mass. Bay Colony (1634-40-45-50).He was born in England.

SOURCES:
      1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Glbert, AZ.
      2. Dau of American Colonists, Vol 17, pg. 241-242.
NOTES:
      2nd Governor of MA Bay Colony & Major-General of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company.

SOURCES:
      1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
      2. Dau of Am Colonists-Vol XVIII p. 339
TITLE:
      Gov. Thomas Dudley

SOURCES:
      1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, Arizona.
      2. Dau of Am Colonists Vol V p. 253
TITLE:
      Gov. Thomas Dudley
NOTES:
      Dorothy Yorke (1st Wife)