BRADSTREET, Anne

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Son of Governor Simon Bradstreet, Dudley was a respected citizen of Andover, but that didn't stop the accusations of witchcraft against both he and his wife
• Residence: 1674, Massachusetts, USA
• Public Service: 1692, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; Justice of the Peace during the Salem Witch Hysteria
• Witch Trials Connection: 1692, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; Dudley was a respected citizen of Andover, but that didn't stop the accusations of witchcraft against both he and his wife

Notes:

Sources: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ma-witches-b.html
Historical Sketches of Andover, Massachusetts by Sarah Loring Bailey, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1880

Colonel Dudley Bradstreet was serving as the Justice of Peace in Andover during the witch hysteria. Though he didn't believe the witchcraft delusion, his duties required him to issue almost 50 arrest warrants before he finally refused to issue any more. Afterwards, both Dudley and his wife, Ann were also accused. They temporarily fled the area, evading arrest.

Dudley's father, Simon would serve as the Colonial Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1670 to 1686. After Simon's wife Anne died, he moved back to Salem and Dudley moved into his father's residence in Andover, as well as taking over his father's leadership role in the town. Dudley was an attorney, a colonel in the militia, schoolteacher, and served as a selectman and town clerk in Andover. He would also serve as a Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts and later, was a member of the Governor's Council. Though he opposed the entire witchcraft delusion, he found himself in the unenviable position of Justice of the Peace in Andover during the hysteria. In the eight weeks from July 15, 1692 until the "touch test" on September 7th, Bradstreet granted out arrest warrants against, and committed, some 30 Andover persons to prisons for supposed witchcrafts. On September 7th, after the ludicrous "touch test," he dutifully wrote out an additional 18 warrants. However, after he had issued those warrants, he refused to grant any more. Not long afterwards, both he and his wife Ann Wood (widow of Theodore Price), were themselves, accused of witchcraft, with the "afflicted" claiming that they had killed at least nine people. In response, Colonel Bradstreet and his wife fled the area. However, he later returned to Andover and his name appears first on the petition written in late December. The petition, presented to the Superior Court of Judicature at Salem at its opening session on January 3, 1693. It was signed not only by Colonel Bradstreet, but also the Reverend Francis Dane, Reverend Thomas Barnard, 38 other men, and 12 women. The petition was on behalf of Mary Clement Osgood, Eunice Potter Frye, Deliverance Haseltine Dane, Sarah Lord Wilson and Abigail Wheeler Barker, who were all church members who had been arrested together at the Andover touch test. He died in Andover, Massachusetts in 1706.

Dudley married WOOD, Anne on 12 Nov 1673 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Anne was born in 1647 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1707 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Accused witch during Salem witch trials; fled to avoid arrest
• Witch Trials Connection: 1692, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; Accused witch during Salem witch trials; fled to avoid arrest

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Winthrop; Immigrant
• Great Migration: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/rd/12107/209/235173372
• Historical Importance: 2X Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Occupation: Governor of Massachusetts
• Residence: Massachusetts, USA
• Education: 1621; degrees, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• Occupation: Bef 1630, Horbling, Lincolnshire, England; Steward to the Earl of Lincoln and the Countess of Warwick
• Occupation: 18 Mar 1629/30; 1629/30 - 1678 Assistant, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Religion: Aug 1630; Puritan - admitted to the Boston Church, member #7

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Test of person notes

Simon married DUDLEY, Anne in 1628 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England. Anne (daughter of DUDLEY, Governor Thomas and YORKE, Dorothy) was born on 20 Mar 1612 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; died on 16 Sep 1672 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Plaque dedicated to Anne Bradstreet at Harvard
• Arrival: Maryland, USA
• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Winthrop; Immigrant; First female American poet
• Historical Importance: Famous female poet; First female poet published in America
• Birth: 20 Mar 1612, Northamptonshire, England
• Arrival: 1630, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
• Arrival: 1630, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Simon + BRADSTREET, Margaret. Margaret was born in 1584 in Harbling Parish, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1631 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration;Winthrop; Immigrant; Royal gateway ancestor; 3rd Governor of MA Bay Colony
• Great Migration: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/rd/12107/581/235178649
• Historical Importance: Massachusetts, USA; 3X Goveror of Massachusetts Bay Colony; signed charter founding Harvard; Gateway Ancestor
• Web Address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dudley
• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thorne-41#Magna_Carta_Trails
• Residence: Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
• Occupation: Bef 1616; Page for William, Lord Compton (later Earl of Northampton
• Occupation: 1616; Steward for Thomas, Lord Clinton
• _MILT: Abt 1620; Raised company of soldiers to join forces sent by Queen Elizabeth to aid King Henry iV of France and to serve at the siege of Amiens
• Departure: 1630
• Residence: 1644, Roxbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
• Education: 30 May 1650; Signed Charter forming Harvard College

Notes:

From Collections, Topographical, Historical, and Biographical New Hampshire, Vol 1 (1822) Pgs 156-157
Edward Dudley was a lawyer and privy counsellor to Henry VII and Speaker of the House of Commons 1505. Henry the VIII sent Dudley to the scaffold (text doesn't explain why). John, Edward's son was in the reign of Edward VI and made Earl of Warwick and in 1551 Duke of Northumberland. He tried to raise lady Jane Grey his daughter-in-law to the throne as successor of Edward and was beheaded by order of Queen Mary on 23 Feb 1554. Sir Robert Dudley, sone of Duke of Northumberland, and in 1564 was made Baron of Denhigh and Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1588. According to tradition Governor Thomas Dudley was the great grandson of the Duke of Northumberland.

Mr. Dudley was governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 3 times and continued in the magistry until his death on 31 July 1653 when he was 77. Dr. Cotton Mather described him as "a gentleman whose natural and acquired abilities joined with his excellent moral qualities, entitled him to all great respects with which his country on all opportunities treated him."

Governor Thomas Dudley, Gateway Ancestor, is the direct descendant of 13 of the 25 Magna Carta Surety Barons.

Thomas married YORKE, Dorothy on 25 Apr 1603 in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England. Dorothy (daughter of YORKE, Edmund and FAIRFIELD, Katherine Mary) was born on 25 Apr 1582 in Cotton End, Northamptonshire, England; died on 27 Dec 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Winthrop; Immigrant; Royal gateway ancestor

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Died:
Died of "wind colic"