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Thomas Dudley Born: 12-Oct-1576 Died: 31-Jul-1653 Father: Roger Dudley Mother: Susanna Thorne Occupation: Magistrate Thomas Dudley came to New England in 1630, sailing from Yarmouth 8 April 1630 on the ship Arbella, three hundred and fifty tons, carrying 28 guns and 52 men, and arrived in Salem on 12 June 1630. He was Deputy Governor for 13 years, Governor in 1634, 1640, 1645, and 1650, and Assistant for five years. He served four years as Sergeant Major General, under appointment by the General Court in 1644. As member of a special committee of 12 men appointed by the General Court, he favored establishing a college at Cambridge, and as Governor signed the charter of Harvard College in 1650. Governor Dudley vigorously opposed the doctrine preached by Rev. John Cotton that the secular government should be subservient to the priesthood. Cotton Mather said of him, "He was a man of sincere piety, exact justice, hospitality to strangers and liberality to the poor." (Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, p. 571 and 1264.) "And enigmatic man, as pious as Winthrop and as deeply religious, he had none of Winthrop's gentleness or moderation. On the contrary, he was proud and overbearing, irascible and argumentative. The orphaned son of an English soldier, he had been brought up on the fringes of good society in England--page in the household of the Earl of Northampton, clerk to a judge, protege of Lord Saye and Sele, steward to the Earl of Lincoln, handling the lands and rents of that young lord. Thus he knew authority and high position but had possessed little of either. In his election as deputy governor of the company as it prepared to leave England and in his continued officeholding in New England, he was to have and relish both. (Winthrop's Boston, Darrett B. Rutman, p. 25) "Touching the plantation which we here have begun, it fell out thus. About the year 1627 some friends being together in Lincolnshire, fell into discourse about New England and the planting of the Gospel there, and after some deliberation we imparted our reasons by letters and messages to some in London and the West Country, where it was likewise deliberately thought upon, and at length with often negotiations so ripened, that in the year 1628 we procured a patent from His Majesty for our planting between Massachusetts Bay and Charles River on the south, and the River Merrimac on the north, and three miles on either side of those rivers and bay, and Mr. Winthrop, of Suffolk, coming into us, we came to such resolution . . . ." (Thomas Dudley) The Covenant of the Charles-Boston Church (1630): In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in Obedience to his holy Will and Divine Ordinance, We whose Names are here under written, being by his most wise and good providence brought together into this part of America in the Bay of Massachusetts, and desirous to unite ourselves into one Congregation or Church under the Lord Jesus Christ our Head, in such sort as becometh all those whom he hath redeemed, and sanctified to himself, DO hereby solemnly and religiously (as in his most holy Presence) promise and bind ourselves, to walk in all our ways according to the Rule of the Gospel, and in all sincere Conformity to his holy Ordinances, and in mutual Love and Respect each to other, so near as God shall give us Grace. John Winthrop | Thomas Dudley | Isaac Johnson | John Wilson | &c | &c ********** |
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Wife:
Dorothy York Born: 25-Apr-1582 Died: 27-Dec-1643 Father: Edmund Yorke Mother: Katherine |
Child 1:
Mercy DudleyBorn: 27-Sep-1621 Died: 1-Jul-1691 Spouse: John Woodbridge Children: John Woodbridge |