DUDLEY, Rev. Samuel

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant; Winthrop
• Gateway Ancestor: Royal Descent; Magna Carta
• Great Migration: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/rd/12107/581/235178649
• Education: 1626; Graduated: Cambridge from Emmanuel College (no degree taken)
• Occupation: 1650, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; Ministry

Notes:

Reverend Samuel Dudley was among the founding families of Salisbury, MA

From Collections, Topographical, Historical, and Biographical New Hampshire, Vol 1 (1822) Pgs 156-157
Received his education in England, began his ministry in Exeter, NH in 1650. Died 1683 aged 77

Rev. Samuel Dudley, was born at Canons Ashley, England, 1606, eldest son of Thomas Dudley, many times elected governor of Massachusetts Colony, and his first wife, Dorothy Yorke. Rev. Samuel Dudley came to America in 1630 with his father Thomas and Governor Winthrop.

Rev. Samuel Dudley was baptized on 30 November 1608 in All Saints, Northampton, England. Rev. Samuel Dudley graduated in 1626 from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He came to New England in 1630 on the Arabella. He lived in Cambridge, Ipswich and Salisbury as a planter and a farmer; called to Exeter, New Hampshire, 30 May 1650 where he settled as minister. He married firstly Mary Winthrop, daughter of Governor John Winthrop and Mary Forth, about 1632. Rev. Samuel Dudley died on 10 February 1682/83 in Exeter, New Hampshire, at the age of 74.
http://www.sewellgenealogy.com/p68.htm#i7082

In 1630 came the arrival of John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Aboard the Arabella from Yarmouth, England, Winthrop and Dudley sailed, and after a difficult ten week voyage, they landed on the shores of the New World, with Salem and Boston Harbor being the Arabella's earliest destinations. In 1637, the General Court of Massachusetts granted some 2,200 acres (9 km²) of land, including Huckins Farmland to the first residential Governor Winthrop and Deputy Governor Dudley. The following year, the two men agreed to divide the land so that the parcel south of the two large boulders by the Concord River (Brothers Rocks) belonged to Governor Winthrop and north of the Rocks was to belong to Deputy Governor Dudley. Later, Dudley became governor. Dudley’s son Rev. Samuel Dudley[1] and Winthrop’s daughter Mary were married, thus Brothers Rocks were so named because of this marriage of families.

The Two Brothers
When Governor Winthrop and his Deputy Thomas Dudley viewed their lands in early 1638, they decided to use two great stones on the site to divide the property. Winthrop claimed the land to one side of one rock; Dudley claimed the land on the other side of the other rock. They named the rocks "The Two Brothers." Over the years, the two men had many differences; however they learned to work together and even considered themselves "brothers" by their children's marriage. The rocks have come to symbolize the men's spirit of cooperation and democracy. The two brothers can still be seen near the banks of the Concord River in the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. This site is currently the eagle project of Dennis Warner.

The Reverend Samuel Dudley
by Barbara Rimkunas
This "Historically Speaking" column appeared in the Exeter News-Letter on Friday, May 24, 2013.

In Exeter, as in most of New England in the 1600s, the most important man in town was the minister. The Reverend John Wheelwright had organized Exeter in 1638, but had been forced to leave when the townsmen voted to align themselves with the Massachusetts Bay Colony just five years later. Some of Wheelwright’s followers left with him, but many remained and quietly absorbed newcomers who arrived after Wheelwright’s departure. Although the town was able to govern itself with elders and selectmen, not having a spiritual leader weighed heavily on the inhabitants.

Wheelwright had hoped that his friend Thomas Rashleigh would accept the job, but Rashleigh refused for his own reasons. A substitute, the Reverend Hatevil Nutter of Dover, was asked to fill-in while the town searched for a new permanent minister. It was a time when money was in short supply, and so the Rev. Nutter was paid not with cash but with service. He owned a tract of land on the Lamprey River and it needed fencing. Every year, the townsmen of Exeter were required to donate time and materials to enclose the property. After five years, the job was done, the Reverend Nutter signed the town book acknowledging the work was done and his services were no longer needed. Fortunately, by that time, June of 1650, the search committee had located a new preacher when the Reverend Samuel Dudley accepted the call to come to Exeter.

It had been difficult finding someone to serve the town. There were few trained ministers available and Exeter had little to offer. It was still a fledgling community; the only resources in town were trees and fish. Several times, the committee had made offers to likely candidates, only to see the deal fall through. To attract Dudley, they had to make his commitment worth the privations he would have to endure. In exchange for his services, Mr. Dudley was to receive Wheelwright’s house, garden and cow-house - all of which needed some renovations before he could move in. He would also receive £40 a year as pay. The particulars are written into a contract that was transcribed into the town records, “it is further agreed upon that the old cow-house, which was Mr. Wheelwright’s, shall by the town be fixed up fit for the settling of cattle in, and that the aforesaid pay of £40 a year is to be made in good pay every half year, in corn and English commodities at a price current, as they go generally in the country at the time or times of payment.”

There was very little actual money circulating in the colonies during this time and commerce was done with a barter system similar to the Rev. Dudley’s contract. To pay the minister his due, townsmen were taxed based on the number of pipe staves, hogshead staves or bolts that they produced. These were finished pieces of saleable lumber that the people used as currency. The tax rate, as listed in the town records, was, “for every thousand of pipe staves he makes, two shillings, which shall be for the maintenance of the ministry; and for every thousand of hogshead staves, one shilling sixpence; and for every thousand of bolts sold before they be made into staves, four shillings.” All the lumber had to be delivered to the wharf twice annually and would be shipped down the river to Portsmouth or Boston to be exchanged for “English commodities.” The type of goods that were collected was not listed, but one can imagine Mr. Dudley received bolts of cloth, tea and rum for his efforts. Some of these he would no doubt trade around town in exchange for other goods. It was a complicated system - how much was one yard of cloth worth? Perhaps two or three chickens?

Dudley came to the town well-recommended from Massachusetts. He was the son of Governor Thomas Dudley and, although not university trained, had studied hard under his father’s tutelage and was considered well-qualified to preach. His first wife, Mary, had been the daughter of Governor John Winthrop. After Mary’s death in Salisbury, Dudley had married Mary Byley of Salisbury. She was his wife when he arrived in Exeter in 1650. After her death, he married a third time, to Elizabeth Smith of Exeter. The succession of wives bore him eighteen children, a sure sign of God’s grace to the people of that era.

Quite often during his tenure, the town was incapable of paying him the promised £40. To keep him in town, he was granted land and water rights. At the time of his death, his personal inventory showed him to be a man of means and great commercial instincts.
Dudley remained in Exeter and served as minister for thirty-three years. Charles Bell, author of the “History of Exeter, New Hampshire,” comments that, “there was no visible sign of failure of the powers, physical or mental, of Mr. Dudley, as he drew on to old age. When he was sixty-nine, he was appointed upon a committee for the equal distribution of the of the town lands, a duty which no feeble man would have been selected to perform.” He died in Exeter in 1683 and was buried, according to tradition, in the small cemetery on Green Street.

Rev. Samuel Dudley
Rev. Samuel Dudley was baptised on 30 November 1608 at All Saints, Northampton, England.2 He was the son of Govenor Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke. Rev. Samuel Dudley graduated in 1626 from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.2 He came to New England in 1630 on the Arabella.2 Lived in Cambridge, Ipswich and Salisbury as a planter and a farmer; called to Exeter, New Hampshire 30 May 1650 where he settled as minister.2 He married firstly Mary Winthrop, daughter of Governor John Winthrop and Mary Forth, circa 1632.3,4 Rev. Samuel Dudley died on 10 February 1682/83 in Exeter, New Hampshire, at the age of 74.2
Children of Rev. Samuel Dudley and Mary Winthrop
Ann Dudley+ b. c 1633
John Dudley5 b. 1635
Citations
[S70] Unknown author, The Chandler family. The descendants of William and Annis Chandler, who settled in Roxbury, Mass. 1637., p. 144 (calculation).
[S75] Frederick Lewis Weis, Colonial Clergy, p. 74.
[S62] William Richard Cutter, New England Families, p. 77.
[S70] Unknown author, The Chandler family. The descendants of William and Annis Chandler, who settled in Roxbury, Mass. 1637., p. 144.
[S102] Annie Haven Thwing, Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, 29466.

Rev. married SMITH, Elizabeth in 1654 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of SMITH, Richard and CHENEY, Hannah) was born in 1628 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1702 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DUDLEY, Dorothy was born in 1662 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 28 Oct 1681 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
2. DUDLEY, Stephen Esq. was born on 24 Dec 1660 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 13 May 1734 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; was buried in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
3. DUDLEY, Rebeccah was born in 1658 in Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 20 Dec 1674 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
4. DUDLEY, Elizabeth was born in 1652 in Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1713 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
5. DUDLEY, Timothy was born in 1656 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1702 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
6. DUDLEY, Samuel was born in 1665 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1732 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
7. DUDLEY, Abigail was born in 1654 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1688 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA.
8. DUDLEY, James was born in 1663 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 14 Nov 1720 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.

Rev. married WINTHROP, Mary in 1632 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of WINTHROP, John and FORTH, MARY. 1st wife) was born on 30 Dec 1609 in Groton, Suffolk, England; died on 12 Apr 1643 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DUDLEY, Samuel was born on 2 Aug 1639 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 17 Apr 1643 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
2. DUDLEY, Margaret was born in 1637 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Dec 1646 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
3. DUDLEY, John was born on 28 Jun 1635 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 30 May 1690 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
4. DUDLEY, Thomas was born on 9 Mar 1633 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 7 Nov 1655 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
5. DUDLEY, Ann was born on 16 Oct 1641 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1700 in New Hampshire, USA.

Rev. married BYLEY, Mary in 1644 in New Hampshire, USA. Mary was born on 8 May 1615 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1651 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DUDLEY, Mary was born on 6 Jan 1649 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1713 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
2. DUDLEY, Byley was born on 27 Apr 1647 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 4 Sep 1728 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.

Rev. married Northampton, Northamptonshire, 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

Notes:

Died:
Died of "wind colic"

Notes:

While the paternal ancestry of Thomas Dudley has long been questioned, after a careful reading of the following documents attached to this record, for our family tree I have accepted the lineage hypothesized and detailed by Marshall Kirk in 1993. This is the most accepted lineage of all the hypotheses put forth and H. Allen Curtis' extensive research and docuentation seems to confirm this beyond any reasonable doubt. For more details, please read the following PDFs attached to this record:

Roger Dudley's Father Proved to be Captain Henry Dudley
The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Paternal Ancestors
Marshall Kirk on Thomas Dudley's Paternal Line

More notes on Roger Dudley:

Capt. Roger Dudley: Roger Dudley (born between 1535 and 1545 -1586?/1590) was an English soldier.

Dudley was born in London, England, but some[who?] say that he was baptised in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire. However Dudley's parentage has never been satisfactorily established. Genealogist and researcher Marshall Kirk in 1993 published the results of his exhaustive survey of the Dudley families, and came to the conclusion that he was the son of Henry Sutton Dudley.

Roger may be the Roger Dudley who was matriculated as pensioner at Christ Church College, Cambridge, in 1566, but left without a degree. It is believed that he married, on June 8, 1575, at Lidlington, Bedfordshire, Susannah (Thorne), herself recorded as having been born on March 5, 1559/60 in Northamptonshire, and baptised at Yardley Hastings, the daughter of Thomas Thorne and Mary Purefoy.

He is reported to have been a Captain in (the Earl of Leicester)'s militia, fighting with a commission from Elizabeth I, and under the banner of Henry of Navarre. He is thought to have died at the Battle of Ivry, France in 1590. Yet in 1586, four years earlier, the Reverend Cotton Mather of Boston wrote: "Thomas Dudley's father was Captain Roger Dudley, -- slain in the wars, when -- his son, and one only daughter were very young". The will of Thomas Dorne (Thorne) of Yardley Hastings, Gent., dated 29 Oct 1588, bequeathed "to the children of Susan Dudley, my Daughter, widow, to be equally divided". (S1,S11). Therefore, he was apparently dead by the time of the will of his father-in-law, which was written in 1588, which eliminates the time of the Battle of Ivry as a possibility for his death.

It is most probable that he died at the Siege of Zutphen in 1586, having followed a relative, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, who was a principal figure in that battle. Marshall K. Kirk suggests that Roger made his home after his father's death with Peter Grey, a "Queen's servant", whose manor of Segenhoe was two miles from Lidlington, (Bedfordshire), where Roger was later married. Roger and Susannah Dudley raised at least five children, listed as: Thomas Dudley (second governor of Massachusetts) Mary Dudley Richard Dudley (b. 1583 – d. 20 Aug 1603) Dorothy Dudley. David Dudley.

Died:
Possibly killed in battle at Siege of Zutphen

Captain married THORNE, Susanna on 8 Jun 1575 in Lidlington, Bedfordshire, England. Susanna (daughter of THORNE, Thomas and PUREFOY, Mary) was born on 5 Mar 1559 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England; was christened on 18 Oct 1560 in Rye, Sussex, England; died on 29 Oct 1588 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married FAIRFIELD, Katherine Mary in 1580 in Cotton End, Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England. Katherine was born in 1550 in Cotton End, Northamptonshire, England; died on 21 Jun 1633 in Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

While the paternal ancestry of Thomas Dudley has long been questioned, after a careful reading of the following documents attached to this record, for our family tree I have accepted the lineage hypothesized and detailed by Marshall Kirk in 1993. This is the most accepted lineage of all the hypotheses put forth and H. Allen Curtis' extensive research and docuentation seems to confirm this beyond any reasonable doubt. For more details, please read the following PDFs attached to this record:

Roger Dudley's Father Proved to be Captain Henry Dudley
The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Paternal Ancestors
Marshall Kirk on Thomas Dudley's Paternal Line


Birth:
Dudley, Straffordshire, England

Henry married ASHTON, Elizabeth in 1545 in Fyfield, Berkshire, England. Elizabeth was born in 1525 in Fyfield, Berkshire, England; died before Nov 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Hastings, Northamptonshire, England

Thomas married PUREFOY, Mary in 1549 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England. Mary (daughter of PUREFOY, Edward and FETTIPLACE, Anne) was born in 1533 in Shalston, Bucks, England; died on 9 May 1579 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]