? ASHTON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Christopher Ashton, Sr., of Fyfield, co. Berks

? married Capt Henry DUDLEY, Knt. between 1545 and 1550. Henry (son of John 'Lord Quondam' DUDLEY and Cecily GREY) was born about 1517; died between 1568 and 1570. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Possibly the son of Capt. Henry Dudley, b. 1517

Notes:

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Note from author of Plantagenet Ancestry: No study of the Dudley-Sutton families, including a through review in 1993 (as yet unpublished in detail) by Marshall K. Kir, has uncovered any information providing direct identification of the father of Capt. Roger Dudley. The best clues remain (1) that the will of Gov. Thomas Dudley included a seal of the baronial Sutton-Dudley arms differenced with a crescent (i.e. indicating descent from a second son of a Sutton-Dudley baron), (2) that the known associations of Thomas as a young man are with individuals from families with prior connections with Capt. Henry Dudley, and (3) that American descendants of Thomas Dudley as early as 1820 believed they were descendants of John, Duke of Northumberland(also a crescent bearer, and who had two sons name Henry in the generation to be father of Roger, the American descendants being unaware that both Henrys, third cousins of this Capt. Henry, are known to have died as young men without issue.) The only second son of a baron of the appropriate generation from whom a descent was possible is this Capt. Henry Dudley (b.1517) whose children, however, if any, are unknown. Mr. Kirk in preparing his review of the Dudleys, credits Prof. David H. Kelley for first observing the complex circumstantial links between (Henry and Roger) in unpublished notes about 1968.

Capt. Roger Dudley, son, evidently, was born (Perhaps in the fortress at Boulogne), say 1550. He may be the Roger Dudley who was matriculated as pensioner at Christ College, Cambridge University, in1566, but left without degree (when Capt. Henry Dudley was in financial difficulty). He was married, as Mr. Roger Dudley, at Lidlington, co. Bedford, on 8 June 1575 to Susan or Susanna Thorne, daughter of Thomas Thorne, Gent., of yardley-hastings, co. Northampton, by Mary daughter of Edward Purefoy, of Shalston, co. Buckingham. She was baptised at yardley-Hastings on 5 Mar. 1559/60. The will of John Purefoy in 1579 mentions Thomas Dudley. Capt. Roger Dudley was slain in battle before Octoer 158, perhaps at the siege of Zutphen in 1586 (Rev. Cotton Mather of Boston wrote that Thomas Dudley's father was 'Capt. Roger Dudley, who was slain in the wars, when this, his son, and one only daughter were very young'). The will of Thomas Dorne of Yardley Hastings, Gent., dated 29 Oct. 1588, bequeathed "to the children of Susan Dudley, my Daughter, widow, L10 to be equally divided." Cotton Mather also stated that Thomas Dudley was aided in obtaining his education by Mrs. Purefoy (sister-in-law of John Purefoy) "a gentlewoman famed in the parts about Northampton for wisdom, piety and works of charity".

Roger married Susanna THORNE on 8 Jun 1575 in Lidlingto, co. Bedford. Susanna (daughter of Thomas THORNE and Mary PUREFOY) was born in Yardley, Hastings, , England; was christened on 05 Mar 1559/60 in Yardley-Hastings, Northampton, England; died in 1577 in Northampton, England; was buried in Northampton, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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]

Thomas married Katherine DEIGHTON on 14 Apr 1644 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Katherine (daughter of Dr John DEIGHTON, Gent. and Jane BASSET) was born in Jan 1614/5; was christened on 16 Jan 1614/5 in St Nicholas, Gloucester, England; died on 29 Aug 1671 in Dedham, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Educated in England for the ministry
• Occupation: Built mills, cultivated farms and bred cattle
• Reference Number: 1402
• Birth: Abt 1606, England
• Baptism: 30 Nov 1608, All Saints Church, Northampton
• Birth: Abt 1610, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonhire, England
• Immigration: 12 Jun 1630, To Plymouth on the ship "Arbella" with Gov. Winthrop
• Military Service: 1631; Became a lieutenant
• Fact: 07 Oct 1640, Became a freeman

Notes:

Excerpt from "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury: Samuel was the second of the twelve who obtained the original grant for Salisbury; his name stands first on both the list of thirty-seven and that of sixty-nine; he recd. land in the "first division," 1640 and '41; rep. Salisbury in the General Court 1641-'5. He came to Mass. with his father in 1630' res. Cambridge 1631, and Ipswich 1635, then in Salis. about 12 years; and was a settled minister at Exeter, New Hampshire, from about 1650 till his death.

Excerpt from "A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England 1620-1675": Samuel came to N.E. and resided in Cambridge, Boston, and Salisbury, and finally settled at Exeter as the minister of that town, and there died in 1683. He was representative of Salisbury at the March and May sessions 1644.

Samuel married Mary WINTHROP in 1632 in Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Gov. John WINTHROP and Mary FORTH) was born on 30 Dec 1609 in Groton, co Suffolk, England; died on 12 Apr 1643 in Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary BYLEY in 1643. Mary was born between 1615 and 1616 in Sarum, Wiltshire, England; was christened on 08 May 1615 in England; died in 1651 in Exeter, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Elizabeth SMITH about 1651 in Northampton, , England. Elizabeth was born between 1627 and 1628 in Exeter, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1612
• Immigration: 12 Jun 1630, To Plymouth on the ship "Arbella" with Gov. Winthrop

Notes:

Excerpt from Royal Families Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry Vol. One Gov. Thomas Dudley: Anne was purported to have been the first American poetess. Anne and Simon had four sons and four daughters; all of them lived to maturity, were married and left posterity. Her son Simon wrote an obituary at the time of her death: "September 16, 1672. My ever honoured and dear Mother was translated to Heaven. Her death wa occasioned by a consumption; being wasted to skin and bone.***I eing absent from her, lost the opportunity of comiting to memory her pious and memorable expressions uttered in her sickness. O' y ye good Lord would give unto me and mine a heart to walk in her steps, considering what the end of her conversation was; y so wee might some day have a happy and glorious greeting.:

Anne married Gov. Simon BRADSTREET about 1629 in Yardley-Hastings. Simon was born in Mar 1602/3 in Horbling, co. Lincoln, England; died on 28 Mar 1696/7 in Salem, Massachusetts; was buried on 02 Apr 1696/7. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Feb 1618, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
• Immigration: 12 Jun 1630, To Plymouth on the ship "Arbella" with Gov. Winthrop
• Death: 08 Feb 1690, Ipswich, , Massachusetts
• Death: 08 Feb 1690, Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts

Notes:

Excerpts from "Major-General Daniel Denison": Mrs. denison survived her husband eight years, her death occurring Feb. 8, 1690. Of her life and character we know nothing with certainty. They had two children, John and Elizabeth. John maried Martha, daughter of Deputy Governor Symonds, and had three children: one of whom, John, graduated at Harvard College, was chosen as colleague with Mr Hubbard at Ipswich, and was nuch beloved by his people. His life was short. John (senior) died January 9, 1671. Elizabeth married Rev. John Rogers, president of Harvard College.

Patience married Maj. Gen. Daniel DENISON on 18 Oct 1632 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Daniel (son of William DENISON and Margaret CHANDLER) was born in 1612 in Bishop's Stortford, co. Hertford, England; was christened on 18 Oct 1612 in St. Michael's Church, Bishop's Stortford; died on 20 Sep 1682 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Interred at the High Street burying Ground. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Jul 1620, Sempringham, Lincolnshire, England
• Birth: 23 Jul 1620, Oakley, Northamptonshire, England
• Immigration: 12 Jun 1630, To Plymouth on the ship "Arbella" with Gov. Winthrop
• Fact: 09 Jun 1639, Admitted to full communion at First church, Boston.
• Death: Abt 1659
• Death: 1659, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Sarah married Maj. Benjamin KEAYNE on 06 Sep 1648, and was divorced between 1646 and 1647 in Salem, Massachusetts. Benjamin was born between 1618 and 1619 in England; died between 1667 and 1668 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Thomas PACY before 26 Apr 1652. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Mercy married Rev John WOODBRIDGE about 1639. John (son of John WOODBRIDGE and Sarah PARKER) was born in 1612/13 in Stanton, co. Wiltshire, England; died in 1691. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 27 Feb 1645, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA
• Fact: 05 Feb 1664/5, Admitted to full communion at First church, Charlestown

Deborah married Maj. Jonathan WADE between 1664 and 1665 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Jonathan (son of Jonathan WADE and Susanna ?) was born about 1640 in Medford, Massachusetts; died on 24 Nov 1689 in Medford, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 23 Jul 1647
• Baptism: 26 Sep 1647, Roxbury Church, Roxbury, Massachusetts
• Education: 1665; Graduated from Harvard College
• Fact: 1672, Became a freeman
• Fact: Between 1673 and 1675, Respresentive
• Fact: Between 1676 and 1685, Elected assistant
• Fact: 1686, Appointed President of Mass. and N.H.
• Fact: 1687, Member of Sir Edmund Andros' council
• Fact: Between 1702 and 1715, Gov. of Mass.
• Will: 27 Oct 1719
• Death: 02 Apr 1750, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA

Notes:

Excerpt from Royal Families Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Vol. 1 Gov. Thomas Dudley: He graduated 1665 from Harvard College and studied theology. However, he did not pursue the ministry but preferred a political career instead. "His subsequent official career was the most brilliant that had then been witnessed in the new world." He was chosen a representative in 1673 for Roxbury and was present Deember 1675 at the battle with the Narragansett Indians (King Philip's War). He was one of two commissioners for the United Colonies from 1677 to 1681. He visited England in 1682 and was selected by Gov. Edmund Andros to his Council. He was made Chief Justice of an unconstitutional Supreme Court, and was subsequently imprisioned. He became President of the Massachusetts Colony and New Hampshire by a commission dated 27 September 1685 from James II, King of England. He went in February 1690 to England, but came back the same year with a commission as Chief Justice of massachusetts. He returned to England again and was made deputy governor of the Isle of Wight under Lord JohnCutts, which position he held for eight years. He returned to New England in 1702 with a commission as governor, which place he served until November 1715.

Joseph married Rebecca TYNG in 1668/9 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Rebecca (daughter of Edward TYNG and Mary SAYRE) was born on 13 Jul 1651 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 21 Sep 1722 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: A Merchant in Boston; Collector of Port
• Baptism: 08 Sep 1650, First Church, Roxbury, Mass.

Paul married Mary LEVERETT on 15 Dec 1675 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of John LEVERETT, Esq. and Sarah SEDGWICK) was born on 12 Feb 1654/5 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was christened on 16 Mar 1655/6 in Boston, Massachusetts; died in Jun or Jul 1699 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]