Rev. John WOODBRIDGE

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• Graduation: 1694, Graduated from Harvard College
• Fact: Jun 1698, Ordained the first minister of West Springfield

John married Jemima ELLIOT on 14 Nov 1699 in Guilford, Connecticut. Jemima (daughter of Rev Joseph ELLIOT and Sarah BRENTON) was born on 14 Nov 1679 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Abigail WOODBRIDGE was born on 22 Dec 1700.
2. Rev. John WOODBRIDGE was born on 25 Dec 1702 in West Springfield, Massachusetts; died on 10 Sep 1783 in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
3. Jahleel WOODBRIDGE was born on 11 Dec 1704; died on 27 Apr 1705 in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
4. Jemima WOODBRIDGE was born on 30 Jun 1706.
5. Hon. Joseph WOODBRIDGE was born on 10 Feb 1706/7 in West Springfield, Massachusetts; died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
6. Hon. Timothy WOODBRIDGE was born on 27 Feb 1708/9 in West Springfield, Massachusetts; died on 11 May 1775 in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
7. Benjamin WOODBRIDGE was born on 04 Feb 1710/11; died on 23 Mar 1710/11 in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
8. Benjamin WOODBRIDGE was born on 12 Jun 1712 in West Springfield, Massachusetts; died on 24 Dec 1785 in Woodbridge, New Haven Co., Connecticut.

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• Occupation: Clergymen
• Education: 1664; Graduated from Harvard College
• Fact: 1666, Settled at Killing-worth
• Fact: 1679, Removed to Weathersfield
• Death: 1690

John married Abigail LEETE on 26 Oct 1671 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Abigail (daughter of Gov. William LEETE and Anna PAYNE) was born on 24 Mar 1643 in Connecticut; died on 9 Apr 1710 in Simsbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Hop Meadow Cemetery, Simsbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Gov. Wiliam and Anne (Payne) Leete
• Birth: 1648, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut

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• Occupation: Reverand
• Immigration: Between 1633 and 1634, To Boston
• Death: Between 17 Mar 1694 and 1695, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Excerpt from"Early New England People": Rev. John Woodbridge was a distinguished non-conformist minister, who came to New England from Stanton, Wiltshire, England, in company with his uncle the Rev. Thomas Parker, in 1634. He was of the fourth generation from Rev. John Woodbridge, a follower of Wycliffe, born in 1493. It is said that in eachgeneration there was a Rev. John Woodbridge. Rev. John W. Woodbridge of Andover was the sixth Rev. John, in the regular line of descent."

Excerpt from "Ancestral Records and Portraits Vol l": Rev. John was elected Deputy from Newbury to the General Court of Massachusetts 1637, 1638, 1640, 1641; Associate Magistrate, County Court of Essex, 1678 to 1679. He was Chaplain to the Parliamentary Commission treating with King Charles I at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, 1647.

Excerpt from " A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England 1620-1675": John, the first minister of Andover. He came to New England in 1634, and settled at Newbury as a planter, and was the town clerk, but becoming a preacher, he was ordained at Andover in Oct. 1645. Wend to England in 1647; returned in July, 1663, and took up his residence at Newbury; was elected an assistant in 1683 and 1684, and acted as a magistrate till his death, 17 March, 1695.

Excerpt from Royal Families Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Vol. 1, Thomas Dudley: He matriculated at Oxford university, but left the university because he would not sign the oath of uniformity. He immigrated in 1633-1634 to Boston and settled in Newbouy where he was the town clerk. He was ordained 24 October 1645 at Andover, Mass. He returned to England in 1647 where he was the minister at Andover, co. Hampshire, and Barford St. Martin's co. Wiltshire, from which parish he was ejected at the REstoration. He returned to New England, where he arrived in Boston 27 July 1663. He became an assistant of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683-1684.

John married Mercy DUDLEY about 1639. Mercy (daughter of Gov. Thomas DUDLEY and Dorothy YORKE) was born on 27 Sep 1621 in Yardley-Hastings; died on 01 Jul 1691 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 27 Sep 1621
• Birth: 27 Sep 1621, Oakley, Northamptonshire, England
• Immigration: 12 Jun 1630, To Plymouth on the ship "Arbella" with Gov. Winthrop

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• Fact: Son of John Leete of Dodington, England

William married Anna PAYNE on 1 Aug 1636 in Hail-Weston, England. Anna was born in England; died on 1 Sep 1668. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Rev. John Payne of Southhoe, England

John married Sarah PARKER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 12 Oct 1576, Yardley-Hawstings, co. Northampton
• Birth: 12 Oct 1576, Yardley-Hastings, Northampton, England
• Immigration: 1630, Came to America in the Arbella
• Fact: 1634, Elected Governor of Mass.
• Fact: 1640, Elected Governor of Mass.
• Fact: 1645, Elected Governor of Mass.
• Fact: 1650, Elected Governor of Mass.
• Burial: 06 Aug 1653, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Excerpts taken from NEHG Register, 1856, Vol. 10: Thomas was the only son of Capt. Roger Dudley, a warrior slain in battle, when Thomas and a sister were very young. His mother was a relative to Sir Augustine Nicolls of Faxton, Kt., one of His Majesty's Justices of his Court of Common Pleas and Keeper of the Great Seal to Prince Chrles. She probably died soon after her husband. Thomas was a page in the family of the Earl of Northampton., where he remained for several years. Next he became a clerk to his kinsman, Judge Nicolls, under whose instruction he acquired much skill in the law. At twenty, Queen Elizabeth sent him a captain's commission, and he led a large company of the Northampton gallants over to the siege of Amiens, in Pacardy. He became a zealous Puritan, and so continued through life. He was a steward for many years to Theophilus, fourth Earl of Lincoln, and managed the vast estates of that earldom with great success. Toward the close of King James's reign, he retired to more private life at Boston, in Lincolnshire; but was recalled by the Earl, who thought he could not live without Mr. Dudley's advice and assistance. He continued with the Earl till 1630, when a spirit of persecution arising against the Nonconformists, "he came to the deserts of American for the sake of enjoying his liberty to the utmost of what he desired.: Before leaving England, he was chosen an Assistant and Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Company, John Winthrop, Esq., being Governor. In 1634, He was elected Governor, and 3 times afterwards, 1641, 1645 and 1650. In 1644, he was elected Commander in chief of the military forces of the Colony, with the title of Major General. When not Governor, he was ever Deputy Governor or Assistant, so that he came to be looked up to as a chief pillar of the new commonwealth. He was greatly esteemed for wisdom, piety, justice and zeal.

Excerpts from "A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England 1620-1675": Thomas came to New England in 1630, lived in several places, and finally settled at Roxbury. He was an assistant in 1635, 1636, 1641 to 1644; deputy governor 13 years commencing in 1630; governor 1634, 1641, 1645, and 1650.

Excerpts from Royal Families Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry: Vol 1, Gov. Thomas Dudley: Gov. Dudley resided in Northampton as a young man, where he became a page for William, Lord Compton ( afterwards Earl of Northampton) from about 1590-5. He received a captain's commission in 1596 at age 20. He raised a company of about eighty soldiers to join the forces sent by Queen Elizabeth to aid Henri IV,Roi de France at the siege of Amiens. He returned to England in 1597 to take up the practice of law. He became a steward in 1616 to Thomas, Lord Clinton, who was a cousin of Lord Compton. Gov. Dudley obtained a patent in 1628 from Charles I, King of England, "for our planting between the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River on the south and the river of Merrimac on the north and three miles on either side of those rivers and bay." He and others sent John Endecott "and some with him to begin a plantation." Gov. Dudley immigrated 13 Jun 1630 to Plymouth on the ship "Arbella" with Gov. Winthrop.......He was a strick Puritan and was often inflexible in his views and autocratic in his behavior. He was known to be a thrifty man and an able man with excellent business acumen. He became one of the largest landowners in Roxbury. William Denison, Isaac Heath and Daniel Weld took an inventory of Thomas Dudley's estate on 8 Aug 1653.

Name:
Gov. Thomas Dudley, baptised Yardley-Hastings, co. Northampton, 12 Oct. 1576, became a page for William, Lord Compton (afterwards Earl of Northampton), say, 1590-5, and steward for the latter's cousin, Thomas, Lord Clinton in 1616; resided Northampton as a young man, raised a company of soldiers to join the forces sent by Queen Elizabeth to aid King Henry IV of France, and to serve at the siege of Amiens; returned to take up practice of law; settled in Massachusetts in 1630; Governor and Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts, 1630-1653; buried aged seventy-six years at Roxbury on 25 Apr 1653.

Thomas married Dorothy YORKE on 25 Apr 1603 in Hardingstone, (Near Northampton), England. Dorothy (daughter of Edmund YORKE and Katherine ?) was born on 25 Apr 1582 in Cotton End, co. Northampton, England; was christened on 14 Jun 1583 in All Saints, Northampton; died on 27 Dec 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried on 27 Dec 1643 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1582, England
• Religion: 1630, Admitted to the Boston Church
• Immigration: 12 Jun 1630, To Plymouth on the ship "Arbella" with Gov. Winthrop

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Name:
She m. Hardingstone 25 April 1603, Thomas Dudley, who was the first cousin of Nathaniel Yorke's wife, Margery Lane, as their mothers were sisters. They had a son Samuel bp. All Saints, Northampton, 30 Nov. 1608. Samuel was mentioned in his grandfather Yorke's will. Their daughter Anne, whose baptism has not been found, is also mentioned in Edmund Yorke's will. Thomas Dudley was governor of the Massavcusetts Bay Colony.

John married Anna SHUTE. Anna was born in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Robert Shute, a Justice on the King's Bench