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(III) Samuel Shattuck, son of Sergeant John Shattuck (2), born in Watertown, 1673, died in Groton, July 22, 1758. aged eighty-five years. His eldest son, Samuel, was adminis- trator of his estate. He married Elizabeth Blood, born April 27, 1675, died October 20, 1759. daughter of James and Elizabeth (Long- ley) Blood. She joined the church in 1705, he in 1709. Children : 1. Samuel, born April 7. 1696. 2. James, born February 9, 1700. 3. Jeremiah, born June II, 1703; mentioned be- low. 4. Elizabeth, born July 2, 1705. 5. Joseph, born 1707. 6. Ruth, born February 6, 1700. 7. John, born January 21, 1711. 8. David, born August 4, 1713. 9. Sarah, born December 11. 1717. 10. Rachel. born June 9, 1719.
(IV) Jeremiah Shattuck, son of Samuel Shattuck (3), was born in Groton, Massachu- setts, June 11, 1703. He was a blacksmith by trade, and lived in that section of the town now Pepperell. He was a very prominent man in the town, selectman many years, cap- tain of the militia company, and holding other positions of honor and trust. He died August 2, 1798, aged ninety-five years one month twenty-one days. He married, July 2, 1723,
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Sarah Parker, born April 12, 1705, died June 8, 1789, daughter of Nathaniel and Lydia Parker, granddaughter of Joseph, and great granddaughter of Joseph Parker. The in- scription on her gravestone commends her "in- dustry, prudence and sobriety." He married second, February 8, 1792, Ruth Bixby, when lie was aged ninety years and she was seventy- five. Children : I. Nathaniel, born August 12, 1724. 2. Jeremiah, born April II, 1726. 3. Elizabeth, born May 17, 1728. 4. Oliver, born August 15, 1730. 5. Sarah, born Decem- ber 8, 1732. 6. David, born February 19, 1735. 7. Solomon, born June 9, 1737; men- tioned below. 8. Nehemiah, born February 21, 1740. 9. Sybil, born 1743. 10. Parker.
(V) Solomon Shattuck, son of Captain Jeremiah Shattuck (4). was born June 9, 1737. He married Hepzibah Perkins. Chil- dren : I. Hepzibah, born March 20, 1764; died July 14, 1789. 2. Solomon, born March 14, 1766; mentioned below. 3. Huldah, born June 20, 1769; died May 20, 1790. 4. Mary, born October 12, 1771 ; married Joseph Eddy.
(VI) Solomon Shattuck, son of Solomon Shattuck (5), was born in Pepperell, Massa- chusetts, March 14, 1766. He first settled there as a farmer, but in 1802 removed to Windsor, Vermont, where he died July 1, 1836. He married, December 31, 1789, Mary Tarbell, born February, 1777. died at Burling- ton, Vermont, October 2, 1854, daughter of Edmund and Mary Tarbell. Children : I. Solomon, born November 6, 1790; married first. H. Folger. 2. Sewall, born November 23. 1791. 3. Huldah, born November 3. 1793; died January 7, 1795. 4. Oliver T., born Jan- uary 7, 1795: married Susan Barrett. 5. Mary, born August 4, 1797. 6. Abel Lewis, born January 4, 1799. 7. Edmund, born March 10, 1800; mentioned below. 8. Ira, born March 16, 1804; married Lucinda Cot- trell. 9. Minerva. 10. Lucy, married Samuel Stone. II. Albert, born November 6, 1810; married Hannah Hutchinson. 12. Sylvester. 13. Henry S., born May 15, 1814; married Nancy Simpson.
(VII) Edmund Shattuck, son of Solomon Shattuck (6), was born at Windsor, Vermont, March 10, 1800, and died February 3, 1874. He was a farmer. He married first, Lois Proctor, died in Windsor, May 7, 1836: sec- ond, Louisa D. Hall. Children of first wife: I. Charles Proctor, born August 20, 1825 ; mentioned below. 2. Arabella A., born Sep- tember 14, 1827, died February II, 1900. 3: William J., born October 10, 1830, killed on
railroad July 27, 1858. 4. Edmund S., born September 4, 1832. 5. Henry S., born August I, 1834, died March 20, 1899. Children of second wife: 6. Eliza J., born October II, 1838, died September 7, 1896. 7. Julia A., born January 10, 1842.
(VIII) Charles Proctor Shattuck, son of Edmund Shattuck (7), was born August 20, 1825, in Windsor, Vermont. He married April 8, 1857, Mary C. Mitchell, born April 8, 1825, daughter of James and Clauda ( Whit- man ) Mitchell. Children : I. Edmund J. born March 25, 1853, mentioned below. 2. Helen Arabelle, born Middlesex, Vermont, February 24, 1855; married August 15, 1878, J. Frederick Boyden, son of Lewis and Millie ( Morse) Boyden ; children: i. Charles Lewis Boyden, born May 31, 1879; ii. Mary Shat- tuck Boyden, born July 11, 1883. 3. Charles H., born September 8, 1857, in Middlesex, Vermont, died in Alameda, California, De- cember 13, 1895; married April 12, 1882, Emma Wheelock, daughter of Elijah and Mary (Colburn ) Wheelock : children : Natalie and Charles Lloyd, twins, born De- cember 10, 1885; the former died March 25, 1887, and the latter died September 8, 1886; Charles H., Jr., born January 1, 1890.
(IX) Edmund J. Shattuck, son of Charles P. Shattuck (8), was born March 25, 1853, at Northfield, Vermont, and died October 4, 1903, at Norwood, Massachusetts, where he resided for thirty years. In his younger days he was employed for a short time in the office of the old Boston, Hartford & Erie railroad, Boston. When a young man he entered the firm of George H. Morrill & Company, manu- facturers of printing inks, and he attained a high position in the business world. The firm with which he was connected has been for many years among the foremost in its line in this country.
Mr. Shattuck made his home in Norwood, Massachusetts, and for many years was one of its most prominent citizens. There was not an office within the gift of his townsmen that he could not have had, and indeed he was almost constantly in public office, giving his time and ability freely for the public wel- fare. He was an influential and earnest Re- publican and year after year was elected chair- man of the Republican town committee. He was on the board of water commissioners of the town of Norwood from 1888 until shortly before his death. For many years he served on the committtee of nine appointed by the town of Norwood to encourage the establish-
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ment of new industries in that town, one of the fruits of which was the coming of the Norwood Press. He was a member of the town committee on appropriations and on many other important committees of the town, in- cluding the building committee in charge of the high school building, the Guild School build- ing and the West School building. Socially as well as politically he was the leader. He was a member of Orient Lodge of Free Masons, of which he was treasurer for many years ; of Hebron Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Norwood, and Cypress Commandery, Knights Templar, of Hyde Park : and was well known and honored in Masonic circles. He was a liberal supporter of the Congregational Church.
Mr. Shattuck combined keen business judg- ment and strict integrity with unusual force of character. He was a useful citizen in both private and public life, energetic, optimistic, tactful. The Edmund J. Shattuck public school building of Norwood was named in his honor, he being a member of the building committee.
He married December 11, 1877. Emma L. Morrill, born at Andover, Massachusetts. daughter of George II. and Sarah Bond (Tidd) Morrill. Her father was senior mem- ber of the firm of George H. Morrill & Com- pany. (See Morrill family). Children, born at Norwood: I. Lois Mitchell (twin). born August 30, 1878, graduate of Smith College. 1903; married, October 2, 1906. Harry F. Allen, of Lynn. 2. Louise Morrill, (twin ). born August 30, 1878, graduate of Smith Col- lege, 1903; married, November 4. 1907, Wil- liam W. Adams, Jr., of Philadelphia. 3 Maude Alice, born September 1, 1880, grad- uate of Smith College, 1902. 4. Edmund J .. Jr., born August 24, 1887, a student in Dart- mouth College, class of 1910. 5. Sarah Bond Morrill, born April 3, 1895.
The history of this family in DUDLEY England extends back to the days of William the Conqueror. and many distinguished and noble families of this name are found in the history of Eng- land. But the most careful research has not made clear the exact lineage of Governor Thomas Dudley, next to Winthrop the most famous of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A full account of the various English families is given in the family his- tory. The families bore arms, and Thomas Dudley himself used a seal bearing the Dud-
ley arms-lion rampant, with a star for differ- ence.
(I) Governor Thomas Dudley, immigrant ancestor of the American family, was born about 1676, in the vicinity of Northampton, England. His father, Captain Roger Dudley, a military man, flourished in the time of Rob- ert Dudley. Queen Elizabeth's famous Earl of Leicester, and appears to have been one of his soldiers, sent over by the Queen to aid Henry of Navarre to establish his throne, and to have fallen in the famous battle of Ivry. Captain Dudley is presumed to have been one of the Dudley Castle race. llis mother was a kinswoman of Augustine Nicholls, of Fax- ton. in Northampton, who was born at Ecton in that county in 1559: judge of the court of common pleas and Knight of the Bath, who was educated at the Middle Temple in Lon- don and became "Reader" there during the last year of the reign of Elizabeth. and ser-
geant-at-law at the following Michaelmas term. Nicholls was also keeper of the great seal to Prince Charles. He was of a distin- guished family : his grandfather, a gentleman and physician, died 1575, aged ninety-six : his father, Thomas Nicholls, born 1530, died June 29. 1568, was buried at Pichley. North- amptonshire: was apparently reader of the Middle Temple in 1566; his arms belong on one of the windows of the Temple Hall. Thomas Nicholls married Anne, daughter of John Pell of Eltington, son of Thomas. Not even the name of Governor Dudley's mother is known, however, and the degree of kin- ship to Judge Nicholls is problematical. The wife of Captain Roger Dudley must have died when Thomas was very young. Mrs. Pure- foy. a gentlewoman related to him, famous in the region around Northampton for her piety and wisdom as well as for her philanthropic works, took extraordinary care of him, and by her efforts he was trained up in some Latin school, where he learned the rudiments of grammar and literature, which he much im- proved afterwards by his own industry, to such a degree that he read Latin as well as the best readers of his day. When still a lad he became page in the establishment of the Earl of Northampton. We are told by contem- porary writers that he was "a man of high
spirit suitable to the family to which his father belonged." Strictly speaking, however, it was afterwards that his employer became an earl. In 1597, when Thomas Dudley was only twenty-one, the government asked for volun- teers to go over and help Henry of Navarre
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in time of civil war. Dudley was given a captain's commission and raised a company of eighty in Northampton. He was assigned to help Amiens, in Picardy, then besieged by the Spaniards, but before the first great battle was fought, the armies being drawn up at Amiens, peace was declared and the English- men came home. Dudley was then clerk for his kinsman Judge Augustine Nicholls. He would doubtless have continued a lawyer or clerk, but for the death of the Judge in Aug- ust, 1616, when Dudley was thirty years old. Dudley became steward to the Earl of Lincoln. In a few years, by shrewd management, Dud- ley cleared off a debt of a hundred thousand dollars (twenty thousand pounds) on the Earl's estates. He continued in this respect- able position to the great satisfaction of his employer, until he resigned in 1627. He then hired a house in Boston, Lincolnshire, where Rev. John Cotton preached. The Earl of Lincoln soon required Mr. Dudley's services again, and until he came to America he was employed by the Earl. But the unjust and cruel hand of Charles I fell upon the Earl of Lincoln and his family. For distributing in- formation about the laws of the kingdom, the Earl was thrown in prison. Dudley and other Puritan neighbors became interested in New England in 1627. In 1628 they procured a patent from the King for a plantation bounded on one side by Massachusetts Bay, Charles river on the south and Merrimac river on the north, and to include a strip of land three miles wide upon the shore of the bay and each shore of the two rivers, also for government of all who should come within that section of the country. The company sent over John Endicott, one of the undertakers, to take charge of the settlement, then under Roger Conant : in 1629 the company sent over three hundred settlers. In April, 1630, with Win- throp and a large party of four ships, Dudley embarked for the colony to make his home there. He was an undertaker from December I, 1629; assistant March 18, and deputy governor March 23, 1629-30, at the last court held in England. He came to Salem in the ship "Arabella," sailing April 8, arriving June 12, 1630. Mr. Dudley settled first at New- towne (now Cambridge). His house was at the corner of Dunster street, but he soon sold his place to Roger Harlakanden, and removed to Ipswich with his son, Rev. Samuel Dudley, Simon Bradstreet, Major Denison and others. He had large grants of land in various towns of the colony. He was one of the four first
signers of the covenant of the first church, organized at Charlestown, where he was then living, in July, 1630, but which removed to Boston a few months later. In May, 1634, he was elected governor to succeed Winthrop, and was re-elected three times afterward-in 1640, 1646 and 1650; and was deputy-gover- nor thirteen years. When not governor he was generally deputy-governor, but sometimes assistant, an office he held five years. Before 1634 the court of assistants chose the governor and deputy, and Mr. Dudley was the first governor chosen by the people at a general election. Governor Dudley vigorously opposed the doctrine preached by Rev. John Cotton that the secular government should be sub- servient to the priesthood. Mr. Dudley was one of the twelve men appointed by the gen- eral court to establish Harvard College in 1636, and when the charter of the college was granted in 1650, Dudley signed it as governor. The parchment is still preserved. At the gen- eral court, March, 1644, Dudley was appointed sergeant major-general of the colony. He was in the office four years, the first to hold this position. Governor Dudley's residence in Roxbury was nearly opposite the house of Rev. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle. The Dudley mansion was taken down in 1775, and a fort erected on the site, which is now occu- pied by the Universalist church. His tomb is in the graveyard nearest the church.
Historians all agree that Governor Dudley was a man of large ability and noble character ; perfectly honest, though blunt and severe. He died at Roxbury, July 31, 1653, sincerely mourned by the little American commonwealth he helped so much to build up. Cotton Mather said of him: "He was a man of sincere piety. exact justice, hospitality to strangers and liberality to the poor." His will was dated April 26, 1652, with additions April 13, May 28 and July 8, 1653. It expresses his desire to be buried in the grave of his first wife ; be- queathing to all his children by both wives, and to grandchildren Thomas and John Dud- ley, whom he had brought up. He married first, in England, Dorothy , who died at Roxbury, December 27, 1643, aged sixty- one years; second, April 14, 1644, Catherine Hackburn, widow of Samuel Hackburn, and daughter of Dighton. She had two sons and two daughters by her first marriage, and two sons and a daughter by her second. She married third, Rev. John Allen, of Ded- ham, and died August 29, 1671. Children of Thomas and Dorothy Dudley: I. Rev. Sam-
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uel, born 1610, in England ; married Mary Winthrop. 2. Anne, born about 1612, in Eng- land; married Governor Simon Bradstreet (see Bradstreet family). 3. Patience, born in England; died February 8, 1689-90, at Ips- wich ; married Major Daniel Denison, at Cam- bridge. 4. Sarah, baptized July 23, 1620, at Sempringham, England; died 1659, at Rox- bury ; married Major Benjamin Keane: sec- ond, Thomas Pacy, of Boston. 5. Mercy, born September 27, 1621, in England; died July 1. 1691, at Newbury, Massachusetts ; married Rev. John Woodbridge. Children of Thomas and Catherine Dudley: 6. Deborah, born February 27. 1645; died November I, 1683; married Jonathan Wade, of Medford, Massachusetts. 7. Joseph, born September 23, 1647. at Roxbury ; died April 2, 1720 ; married Rebecca Tyng. 8. Paul, born September 8, 1650 ; died December 1, 1681 : married Mary, daughter of Governor John Leverett.
This surname originated BRADSTREET from a locality in Lon- don, Broad Street, where was in ancient times the bread market of the city. As early as 1273, at a time when sur- names were but just coming into general use in England, Master Thomas de Bread Street, clerk, received the grant of a quit rent issu- ing from a tenement in the parish of All Hal- lows, Bread street. His name also occurs as "De Bredstrate" and "de Bradstrat." till in 1294 we find him rector of Tollesberry, Essex. acting as deputy of the Bishop of London, for collecting from the neighboring church of Heybridge the tenth lately granted King Ed- ward I at Ely. In 1293 Walter de Bredstrete received a tenement in the parish of All Hal- lows de Bredstrete, under the will of Peter son of John de Long ; and William de Bred- strete, bokeler, had a grant in 1243 of land in Wood street, parish of St. Alphege. From the old London family of De Bredstrete came the Suffolk family of Broadstreet or Bradstreet from which Rev. Simon Bradstreet descended. The Bradstreet coat-of-arms used by Gover- nor Bradstreet and his ancestors: Argent, a greyhound passant gules, on a chief sable. three crescents or. Crest : An arm in armour embowed, the hand grasping a scimitar all proper. Motto: Virtute et non vi. ( By cour- age, not by strength). The arms of Sir Simon Bradstreet, Bart. of Stracumnie, county Kil- dare, Ireland, a descendant of the same Eng- lish family to which Governor Bradstreet be- longed, were the same. The present seat of
the Bradstreet family in Ireland is Castilla, Clontarf, county Dublin.
(I) Rev. Simon Bradstreet, father of the governor, was "the son of a Suffolk gentleman of fine estate." He was under Dr. Laurence Chaderton, one of the earliest fellows of Em- manuel College, Cambridge. This Dr. Chad- erton was prebendary of Lincoln, and one of the translators of the King James Bible. When Emmanuel College was built by Sir Walter Mildway, in 1584. Dr. Chaderton became its first master, and many of the Puritan leaders of that generation were educated there. Eliz- abeth Chaderton, daughter of the first master. was mother of Isaac Johnson, who married Lady Arabella, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Lincoln, and who with Dudley, Bradstreet and others founded the colony of Massachusetts Bay as a refuge for Puritans. After taking his degrees, Rev. Simon Bradstreet became vicar of Horbling parish, county Lincoln, as early as October 3. 1596, the date of the first transcript of records in his handwriting. He spelled his name "Symon Broadstreet" at that time. The parish records have been lost or destroyed, but from the transcripts of the Bishop of Lincoln a copy has been obtained of the baptism of the vicar's children. The record of his own funeral occurs in the tran- script at Lincoln running "from the 25 of March 1620 to the 25 of March. 1621," as follows: "Simon Bradstreete, minister (Fri- day) Februarie 9" 1621-2." Only two wills of the name of Bradstreet are found in the calendar of Lincoln wills from 1500 to 1650, viz: Simon Bradstreet, of Horbling. 1621; and Margaret, his wife, 1631. Rev. Simon bequeathed to his eldest son Samuel, his second son Simon, and his youngest son John, all minors : to wife Margaret the house at North Rawceby. Lincolnshire, to be sold after her death and the price equally divided among his three sons ; to the poor of Horbling and Brig- end. Margaret, his widow, bequeathed in a nuncupative will to her son John Bradstreet as residuary legatee, also to Samuel and Simon ten pounds each. It appears that she had borrowed ten pounds of Simon and lent the same sum to Samuel, so she freed Samuel of his obligation but stipulated that Simon should be paid according to his bond, if he demanded payment, which she did not expect him to do. The will was signed by Mr. William Watson, the minister, and Anne Wright, wife of Thomas. Children: 1. Samuel, baptized Sep- tember 19, 1602. 2. Governor Simon, baptized March 18, 1604: mentioned below. 3. Mercy,
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baptized March 9, 1606; died a few hours after birth. 4. John, baptized February 8, 1607-8; believed to be the John Bradstreet, Esq .. who had large grants of land in Blanche- ville Park, county Kilkenny, Ireland; ances- tor of Sir Simon Bradstreet, whose coat-of- arms is referred to above.
(II) Governor Simon Bradstreet, son of Rev. Simon Bradstreet, was baptized March 18, 1603-4, at Horbling, Lincolnshire. He matriculated at Emmanuel College, and doubt- less intended to take holy orders as his father had done. His capacity, we are told, and the desire of his father to give him an education, induced Dr. Preston, an intimate friend of his father, to take an interest in the son. When he was sixteen he was entered at Emmantiel College as governor to the young Lord Rich, son of the Earl of Warwick. "This young nobleman did not come to the University, and a brother of the Earl of Lincoln, of rather idle and dissipated habits, being then in col- lege and claiming too much of the time and attention of Bradstreet, he left the institution after a year and returned to the Earl of Lin- coln." The death of his father at this time may have influenced him in leaving college. For the next eight years he assisted Thomas Dudley (later governor of Massachusetts Bay), then steward of the Earl of Lincoln at Sempringham. There, in 1628, he married Anne Dudley, then but sixteen years old, daughter of Thomas Dudley. Subsequently Bradstreet was steward of the Dowager Coun- tess of Warwick. He came with Governor Winthrop to Massachusetts Bay colony in the ship "Arabella," in 1630. He had become a Puritan in religion, and joined the movement to found a colony of Puritans in America, one of the youngest of the leaders. He was elected an assistant when he was twenty-six, before leaving England. With Dudley, his father-in- law, he was one of the founders of Newtown, now Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1631, and was a resident of that town sev- eral years. In 1639 the general court granted to him five hundred acres of land in Salem, "in the next convenient place to Governor Endicott's farm." For a short time, too, he resided at Ipswich, removing thence to An- dover, of which he was one of the first settlers in 1648, and for many years its first citizen. In addition to his office of assistant he was selectman of the town of Andover from the first meeting until 1672. He was also the first secretary of the colony, and held that office continuously from 1630 to 1644. In 1643 he
was appointed one of the commissioners of the united colonies, and served many years. In 1653 he vigorously opposed making war on the Dutch in New York and on the Indians, "and it was prevented by his steady and con- scientious opposition and the decision of the general court of Massachusetts, though earn- estly and strenuously urged by all the com- missioners of the other colonies." In 1650 he was one of the commissioners to determine the boundary between the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam and the English colony at New Haven. Another difficult problem he solved in 1651 as a commissioner to treat with the people of York and Kittery, Maine, claimed by the Massachusetts Bay colony as part of its territory, and in 1652 an instru- ment was signed by the inhabitants of what became York county, acknowledging the jur- isdiction of Massachusetts. In June, 1654. Mr. Bradstreet was active in a meeting at Ips- wich to take action to refute certain calumnies against the colony. forwarded to Protector Cromwell, and in May, 1661, after the restora- tion of the Stewarts, he was placed on a com- mittee of the general courts to look after their charter rights. Bradstreet drew up an ad- dress to the king, declaring the rights and liberties of the colony as well as the allegiance, loyalty and duty to the king, and it was favor- ably received. Soon afterward the colony was summoned to court to answer charges, parti- cularly of persecution of Quakers, and Brad- street and Norton were sent to England to answer. Though the mission was entirely successful, the king promising a full pardon of past political offences and confirmation of the ancient charter rights, some of the condi- tions were obnoxious and the commissioners were blamed for making concessions to an unreasonable populace. In 1673 he was in the public confidence enough to be elected deputy- governor, and he continued, through re-election in that office until 1679 when, at the age of seventy-six, he was first chosen governor, hav- ing been an assistant, however, for fifty years in succession. He was the last governor under the charter which in May, 1686, was dissolved, and Joseph Dudley, his brother-in-law, be- came by royal appointment the president of New England. Bradstreet was appointed one of the counselors, but he declined to serve, as did also his son Colonel Dudley Bradstreet. During the tyrannical administration of Sir Edmund Andros, who followed Dudley, Gov- ernor Bradstreet, though nearly ninety years old, was active in resenting the oppressive
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