GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY

• Death Notes
  • Thomas DUDLEY (12 OCT 1576 - 31 JUL 1653)
    MARRIAGE: 24 APR 1603, Hardingstone,near,Northampton,England

• General Notes
  • HAS TITLE GOV." Father: Roger DUDLEY (Abt 1550 - 1585/1590)
    Mother: Susannah THORNE (5 MAR 1559/1560 - Aft 29 OCT 1588)
    
    Family 1 : Dorothy YORKE (Abt 1582 - 27 DEC 1643)
    MARRIAGE: 24 APR 1603, Hardingstone,near,Northampton,England
    "Dict. Am. Biog", only son of Capt. Roger Dudley; sailed to Salem, Mass. 1630 in "Arbella" with Winthrop, Saltonstall and others; settled at Newtown, later Ipswich, then Roxbury, Mass.; signed charter for Harvard University in 1650; colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay (elected 1634, 1640, 1645, 1650 )
    
    Encyclopedia Britannica 1973: 'He was strong believer in aristocracy and thought that the state should enforce religious conformity. He was dogmatic, prejudiced, austere and unlovable; he dominated the community by sheer strength of will.'
    
    COLVER31.TXT was a Governor and Deputy Governor of Massachusetts (1630-1653) and came to North America as part of the Great Migration.
    
    KINGMAN.GED file
    
    BIRTH: "The Life and Work of Thomas Dudley" by Augustine Jones
    
    4 times governor & 13 time deputy gov. Bay Colony, one of 1st gov. of Harvard
    
    Eliot Burial Ground - Corner of Washington & Eustis Streets, Roxbury, MA
    
    http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/o/o/James--C-Woodard/GENE4-0013.html ... came to New England in 1630, sailing from Yarmouth, April 8, 1630, in the ship 'Arbella,' three hundred and fifty tons, carrying 28 guns and 52 men, and arriving in Salem on June 12, 1630. He was deputy governor in 13 years, governor in 1634, 1640, 1645 and 1650, and assistant five years. He served 4 years as 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 priesthhod. Cotton Mather said of him: "He was a man of sincere piety, exact justice, hospitality to strangers and liberality to the poor."
    Facts from: Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, pg. 571 & 1264. Governor Dudley lived in Northampton as a young man and served under King Henry IV of France at the Seige of Amiens.
    

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