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Mr. Dudley married (first) Mary, daughter of Governor John Winthrop, about 1632, and by her had five children. She died April 16, 1643, at Salisbury, Massachusetts, and he mar- ried (second), in 1643, Mary Byley, of Salis- bury, daughter of Henry, who was a son of Henry of the city of New Sarum, in Wilts, gentleman. He had probably five children by her. He married (third) Elizabeth, whose family name is not known. By her he had eight children. The children of Mr. Dudley are (probably ) as follows: By the first wife : Thomas, John, Margaret, Samuel (died young ) and Ann. By the second : Theophilus, Mary (died young), Byley, Mary and Thom- as ; and by the third wife: Elizabeth, Stephen, James, Timothy, Abigail, Dorothy, Rebecca and Samuel. Five or six of the above-named children died before reaching maturity.
(III) Stephen, eldest son of Rev. Samuel and Elizabeth Dudley, was born at Exeter. In deeds and other papers he was sometimes styled "gent," and at other times "yoeman," "planter" and so on. He was, perhaps, named for his mother's father. January, 1711, Ste- phen Dudley, senior, gave to his son, James Dudley, one-twelfth part of the six hundred acres granted by the town to his "honored father, Mr. Samuel Dudley." Stephen is there called "planter," and James "cooper." Stephen could write, although at the time he made his will he seems to have been too sick or blind to do more than make his mark. But this was the lowest ebb of learning in New Hampshire.
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Many ladies of rank and fortune were not able to sign their names. Stephen's disposition was very much like his father's. Like his father, he avoided public preferments, and chose quite private life. Like his father, he married early and often, and enjoyed having a swarm of children around him; and, like his father, he looked coldly upon sectarian affairs, being in- different about riches or honors to his name. Stephen Dudley married (first) Sarah Gil- man, daughter of Hon. John, a judge, royal councellor and speaker of the colonial assem- bly. She was born February 25, 1667, and died January 24, 1713. He married (second) Mary Thyng, and ( third) Mercy Gilman, who survived him. His children, all by first wife, were: Samuel. Stephen, James, John, Nicho- las, Joanna, Trueworthy, Joseph, Abigail, Sarah and Elizabeth.
(IV) Lieutenant James, third son of Ste- phen and Sarah ( Gilman) Dudley, was born June 11, 1690, died at Exeter, New Hamp- shire, his native town, September 4, 1746. He was one of the original purchasers of Gilman- ton, New Hampshire, as were also his brothers, Nicholas, Trueworthy and Joseph, but none of them seem to have lived there. He bought an eighth part of Freetown from Colonel Stephen, his brother, in March, 1718. Some of the same land has ever since been in possession of the Dudleys descended from Lieutenant James. The old deed from Colonel Stephen to Lieutenant James is still in existence, though some parts of it are worn out or torn off. The estate bought by James was "three miles in width on both sides of the river by the bridle-path." James learned the cooper's trade, as that was the best way to do in such a time and in so new a country where lumber was plenty and there was a great demand for casks, pipes, hogsheads, and so forth, to ship to the West Indies and other countries. Au- gust 16, 1710, less than a month after Colo- nel Winthrop Hilton, Dudley Hilton and John Dudley, brother to Lieutenant James, had been killed by the Indians, this brave young man, then about twenty years of age, enlisted under his uncle, Captain Nicholas Gilman, with two brothers, Stephen and Samuel Dudley, and served in scouting-parties, in pursuit of the savages. In the history of Exeter are en- rolled their names, with the names of half their cousins and uncles in that pillage. The murder of his brother, John Dudley, and his cousins Hilton, who had all been heroic war- riors, was terribly avenged before his death. He was a good soldier and was commissioned lieutenant by the governor of the province,
and sent with Colonel Samuel Moore's New Hampshire regiment which was raised in 1744 with others, for the reduction of Louisburg, then called Cape Breton, which was accom- plished in 1745. "Lieutenant James Dudley discharged his duty as a subaltern officer with ability, and to the entire satisfaction of his superior officers, as well as those under his command." He returned home with the rest after the expedition, but died soon after very suddenly. Having spent the evening at a neighbor's house, he left it to return home, apparently in his usual health and spirits, but when he reached his door, one of his daughters heard a groan, and, going there, found her father lying near-by, a lifeless corpse. He was fifty-six years of age. Lieu- tenant James had friends who lent him money whenever he required it and waited for pay until he was ready to pay it. Many such notes and bills were paid by his administrator, and many due him were also collected, as the lieutenant was a very bad collector. He seems to have sometimes bought lands to accommo- date friends who wished to sell. Many of these pieces were distant and in out-of-the- way places which he could never use or sell. His grandson says of him: "He was of a merry turn of mind. He was agreeable to all. He discharged his duty with integrity, and gave universal satisfaction as a soldier and civilian." He was the father of Judge John Dudley, the noted patriot of Raymond, New Hampshire. He had possibly given large es- tates to several of his children before his death, as he had been married thirty-two years, and nearly all his children were of age and probably married. James Dudley married Mercy, born about 1691, at Exeter, daughter of Deacon John Folsom, of Exeter, son of John Folsom, the Pilgrim, and his wife, Mary Gilman, daughter of Edward Gilman, the Pil- grim. Eight children were born of this mar- riage: James, Abigail, Samuel, John, Joseph, Joanna, Mercy and Sarah.
(V) Joseph, fourth son of Lieutenant James and Mercy (Folsom) Dudley, was born at Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1728, and died in Raymond, Massachusetts, in 1792. At sixteen years of age he accompanied his father and two brothers in the expedition to the siege of Louisburg, and on his return he acquired a common education. In early manhood he be- came a singular enthusiast in matters of re- ligion. At thirty he became a Friend, or Quaker. The Quakers wore plain clothes of natural colors-often being white from head to foot. They believed themselves endowed
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with the same miraculous power as the apostles of Jesus-Joseph even undertook on one occa- sion to raise to life the dead body of a woman named Clifford, one of their "Light Infantry Quaker Society," as it was called. He re- mained twenty-four hours shut up in a room, trying to perform the miracle. For a long time afterward he insisted that he would have succeeded had it not been for the unbelief or lack of faith in the people engaged with him. He occasionally searched his home, to see that none of his family had transgressed his orders by wearing clothes of artificial colors. If any such articles were found, he burned them. Later in life he abandoned these ideas. He was naturally of a high spirit, even wilful at times and intolerant in theological matters, always reproving members of all denomina- tions, including those of his own sect, if they did not live up to their professions. A relative of his wrote of him: "I once thought differ- ently respecting his character from what I do now, and therefore must do justice to his mem- ory, as I have seen and known him during the last twenty years of his life. He was a man of the purest morals, honest and punctual in all his dealings, hospitable and benevolent to strangers, his hand and his heart being always open for the relief of the poor and unfortunate. He was always alive to the distress of any, and ever ready to assist with his advice and his property, often without waiting to be asked. and considering it his duty to do so, without fee or any reward. Thus he did much good in his day and generation and was hon- ored and beloved. But he would never accept of public honor or office, although he did not refuse to act as arbitrator, umpire, surveyor of land or lumber, etc. He was active in busi- ness. and built a mill at Raymond, carried on farming and other useful trades. Hisjusticeand veracity were never impeached. He was an advocate for common schools and all such mat- ters of common utility, but an enemy to priests of every sort and name, never failing to re- buke iniquity in high or low ; a kind husband, a tender father, an obliging neighbor. He brought up well a large family on his small farm, being also an excellent cooper, and was so faithful and industrious that he left an es- tate valued at about one thousand pounds, to be divided among his children, four sons and five daughters." He married Susanna Lord.
Their children were : Joseph, Benjamin, Thom- as. Daniel, Elizabeth, Joanna, Mary. Hannah and Susannah.
(VI) Daniel, fourth son of Lieutenant Jo- seph and Susanna ( Lord) Dudley, was born
at Exeter, New Hampshire, February 15, 1750, died October 28, 1825, at Raymond, New Hampshire. He married ( first) Susan Glid- den, daughter of John, of Exeter, sister of the wife of Moses Dudley, of Raymond. He mar- ried (second) a Miss Brown. The first wife was an excellent woman and helped her hus- band to make a decent living during her life. After her decease, Daniel Dudley left his chil- dren in Maine, scattered among strangers, al- though "they were all good and promising." He spent his last years in Raymond. He left five children by the first wife, all born prob- ably in Mount Vernon, Maine. They were : Joseph, Ann. Susanna, Benjamin and Thomas.
(VII) Benjamin, second son of Daniel and Susan (Glidden) Dudley, was born in Mount Vernon, January 16, 1802, died at Bangor, November 6, 1853. He married, in 1829, Cyn- thia Whittier, of Corinth, who died at Ban- gor, January 2, 1864. Their children were : Sylvia A., Adaline B., Emily V. and Frank.
(VIII) Frank, youngest child of Benjamin and Cynthia ( Whittier) Dudley, was born in West Bangor, February 10, 1844, died in Portland, December 19, 1898. He was edu- cated in the Bangor schools and later entered Colby University, where he remained two years; but his tastes were for business, and especially lumbering, his father having been successfully engaged in that pursuit for many years. After leaving Waterville College, Mr. Dudley went to business college in Pough- keepsie, New York, and obtained a thorough business education. Then, in company with a cousin, went into lumbering operations at Moosehead Lake, and was quite fortunate in his venture. At the age of twenty-seven he established himself in the lumber trade, with headquarters at Montreal. He remained in Montreal about five years, and then moved to Burlington, Vermont, where he connected him- self with the Shepard & Morse Lumber Com- pany. Here he resided about seven years, and then removed to Portland, Maine, and estab- lished himself in the same business under the name of Frank Dudley, and there he remained until the end of his life, a period of fifteen years. During all this time Mr. Dudley built up not only a large export lumber trade to Argentina and Brazil, but also transacted a very important domestic business. He was preeminently a business man devoted to his vocation, and consequently successful. For some years he was a director in the Cumber- land National Bank. He was a strong Re- publican, but he never held office of any kind. Neither did he belong to any of the secret
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orders. He attended the Free Street Baptist Church, in the affairs of which he took much interest. He was also a member of the Cum- berland, Rowland and Portland Athletic clubs. He was a man of quiet tastes, but was a well- known and much-liked citizen. About a year before his death he purchased the Hersey place, on Danforth street, one of the first resi- dences in the city. which from that time he occupied. He spent a great deal of his time and money and care in remodeling his home and arranging the spacious grounds, and when it was all finished. the spring before his death, he had one of the handsomest resilences in Maine. He was seized with typhoid fever several weeks before his death. The disease developed very serious phases, but he finally rallied and was thought to be convalescent when he relapsed and in a few days died. Frank Dudley married, April 6, 1871, Marga- ret Cole, born in Bangor, June 26, 1847, daughter of Arad and Margaret (Cole) Thompson, of Bangor. Their children were : Frank ( died young) : Frederic Cole, men- tioned below : Arthur T., Charles, Edward and Albert (twins), all of whom died young ; Mar- garet L., Philip (died young), Dorothea, and Bessie, who died young.
( IX) Frederic Cole, second child of Frank and Margaret C. (Thompson) Dudley, was born in Montreal, Canada, November 19, 1873. He acquired his education in the public schools, at Phillips Andover Academy, and Harvard College, graduating from the last-named in- stitution with the class of 1896. After leaving college he took a place in his father's business which he filled until his father's death, when he assumed the management of the concern, which he has since successfully carried on. He is not given to clubs and similar organizations, and the only two in which he has membership are the Country and Cumberland clubs. Fred- eric Cole married, in 1899. Katherine Clare, born in Des Moines, Iowa. May 20, 1876, daughter of Daniel O. and Catherine G. (Eaton) Eshbaugh, of Montclair, New Jer- sey. Children : Katherine, born September 25, 1901; Margaret, April 23, 1903; Fred C .. March 30, 1905.
(I) Benjamin Dudley came to DUDLEY Pembroke, Maine, during the year 1830 and settled. He was a farmer. He married Margaret Kelly, born in Lubec, died in 1871. He died in 1879.
(11) John, son of Benjamin and Margaret (Kelly) Dudley, was born July 29, 1845, at Pembroke, Maine. He was educated in the
public schools, learned the trade of tinsmith, and followed that trade and farming. He is a Democrat in politics. He married Aldana Marinda, born at Milltown, Calais, Maine. February 27, 1845, died Pembroke, Maine, No- vember 11. 1908, daughter of Daniel L. Choate, a descendant of John Choate, who came from England to Ipswich, Massachu- setts, before 1648, the progenitor of Rufus Choate and other eminent men of the name, in fact of all in this country, as far as known. Children : I. Herbert John, born in Calais, June 11, 1871, mentioned below. 2. Florence Gertrude, Calais, October 31, 1874, married Richard M. Rivinac, of Knoxville, Tennessee, a railroad contractor. ( See Choate. )
(III) Herbert John, son of John and Al- dana M. ( Choate) Dudley, was born at Calais, Maine, June 11, 1871. He attended the pub- lic schools of Pembroke and Calais. He fitted for college at Washington Academy, in East Machias. Maine, and entered Bowdoin Col- lege in 1891, graduating with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1895. He worked for the Boston & Maine Railroad Company in the auditor's department for a time, taught school one term at Princeton, Maine, and sev- eral terms at Pembroke, and then was ap- pointed inspector in the United States customs service at Calais. He studied law while filling this position in the law office of General B. B. Murray, of Calais, and was admitted to the bar in 1902. While in the custom house he was chairman of the civil service examina- tion board. He resigned from the service in 1903 and began to practice law. In 1904 he was admitted to practice in the United States
courts. Mr. Dudley has been prominent in public life. He has been an active and ener- getic Republican. He was a member of the board of aldermen in Calais in 1904-05, and has been city solicitor since 1906. In 1908 he was elected county attorney of Washington county. He has been delegate to various nomi- nating conventions of his party. He is a member of St. Croix Lodge, No. 46, Free Masons : of St. Croix Chapter, No. 17, Royal Arch Masons ; of Hugh de Payens Command- ery, Knights Templar; of Etchimon Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men; of Eastport Lodge, No. 880, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He attends the Congregational church. He married, October 31, 1905, Cora Ellen, born at St. Stephen, New Brunswick. March 25. 1883, daughter of John M. and Fannie (Gordon) Murchie. She has one brother, Victor McAdam Murchie, of Calais. Her father was a native of St. Stephen.
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While the early origin of the Choate family is unknown, and CHOATE while it is quite possible that "at a still earlier period the family came from the Netherlands into the eastern part of Great Britain with some of the numerous migra- tions caused by the religious persecutions of the Roman Catholics in the sixteenth century. In their lowland homes, in the province of Brabant, the Choates bore the prefix Van, which was soon dropped in England. To this day, however, the name Van Choate is com- mon in and about Antwerp. The first seat of the family in England was near the line be- tween Essex and Suffolk counties, and there are still many of the name in that locality. The name is found in Essex in the parish records of Finchingfield as early as A. D. 1500 ; later at Birdbrooke and Groton, in Es- sex, and at Hundon, Clare, county Suffolk.
(I) John Choate, immigrant ancestor of the American family, was baptized June 6, 1624, at Groton parish, Boxford, Colchester (postal division). In this place Governor Winthrop was also born. The inscription on the Winthrop brass in Groton chancel is as follows: "Here lyeth Mr. Adam Winthrop Lorde and patron of Groton which departed out of this worlde this ix day of November in the yere of oure Lorde God MCCCCCXIV." The plate, removed at some remote period * * and long in the possession of the fam- ily in America, was restored in 1878 by the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, in New England, his descendant in the eighth generation. In a letter written June 12, 1633. by Rev. Henry Jacie, of Aughton, Yorkshire, to Governor John Winthrop Jr., of Massachusetts, the Choates remind the governor of a promise : "Goodman Choate with his wife and Good- man Bowhan, an honest simple poor man, a locksmith of Sudbury and goodman Bacon with his good wife of Boxford (having divers young children) desire to have their service humbly remembered to Mr. Governor and de- sire his kind remembrance of them to pity their poor condition here and when he can send for them, as it pleased him to say he would." The Goodman Choate and wife were doubtless the parents of the American immi- grant ; they died in 1638. The earliest record of John Choate in Massachusetts is in 1648, when at the age of twenty-four years he was a subscriber to the Major Denison fund. The probate records of Essex county contain a deposition stating that Choate was forty years old in 1664. He settled in that part of Ips- wich known as Chebacco, now Essex. In a
few years he purchased a farm near the line between Chebacco and Ipswich, at the head of the creek. His house stood a few rods north- east of the residence recently occupied by John Low, and for many years it was known as the Choate place, inherited successively by his son, Joseph Choate, and grandson, Daniel Choate. In later years the old house was torn down, and nothing remains to mark the location but the old well across the street. The record shows that he paid for his little farm "in cattle not over eight years old ; in grain English and Indian and partly in West India goods." As the years went by he added to his real estate purchase. As early as 1667 he began to buy the shares in Hog Island, which contains about three hundred acres, and in 1690 he was vir- tually the sole owner. As his sons came to manhood he was able to give eachı a farm, excepting the youngest, Benjamin, whom he sent to Ilarvard. He was admitted a freeman in 1667; was sergeant of the militia company. He appears often in court records as witness or defendant, but was never found guilty of the petty offences charged. "He was tried for stealing apples in 1651, but triumphantly ac- quitted (having permission to 'help himself') ; he was arraigned for lying in 1657, but the charge was disproved, and in 1659 he was brought before the court for refusing to assist the marshal in making an arrest, but made good his defence." He died December 4, 1695. His will was made December 7, 1691, and an agreement of the heirs substituted for the will May 14, 1697. His widow, Anne, died February 16, 1727, aged upwards of ninety. Children: 1. John, born June 15, 1661, at Chebacco, married, July 7, 1684, Elizabeth Graves. 2. Margaret, Chehacco, married Abraham Fitts. 3. Samuel, Chebacco, married, November 23, 1688, Mary Williams. 4. Mary, August 16, 1666, died before 1691. 5. Thomas, 1671, mentioned below. 6. Sarah, Chebacco, married, April 13, 1693, John Burn- ham. 7. Joseph, 1678, married Rebecca -, who died February 9, 1746. 8. Ben- jamin. 1680, married, June 12, 1707, Abigail Burnham.
(II) Thomas, son of John Choate, was born in Chebacco, Ipswich, 1671, died March 31, 1745. He inherited Hog Island from his father and hecame a practical farmer. He was a leading citizen of Ipswich and was rep- resentative to the general court in 1723-24-25- 27. He was a man of sound sense and judg- ment, and his utterance in 1728 of ideas upon currency would do credit to the broader in- telligence of to-day. He came to be popu-
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larly known as "the Governor," or "Governor Choate," partly on account of his sole owner- ship of Hog Island, and partly because he was a natural leader. There is a tradition that. the people of the colony being dissatisfied with their governor, the majority of the Ipswich votes were cast one year for Thomas Choate. He was a man of great industry and energy, a little rough, according to some traditions, but well fitted for pioneer life. He was a warm friend of Rev. John Wise, his minister, and later his near neighbor. He was one of those who signed the letter to Rev. Mr. Wise in behalf of John Proctor, who was condemned for witchcraft. Jolin Proctor was an uncle of Mary (Varney) Choate, wife of Thomas. Mr. Choate was one of the wit- nesses of the will of the condemned man, writ- ten in Salem jail, while the manacles were on. Proctor's wrists, only three days before his execution. Mr. Choate lived on the island thirty-five years, and in 1725 removed to the main land. to what is known as the John Burnham place. Besides the farms on the island, Mr. Choate owned the Randall An- drews farm in Ipswich, a farm of four hun- dred acres in Rockport, on the coast near Thatcher's Island, a farm in the west parish, one on Jeffrey's Neck, and the farm to which he had removed. In 1727 he gave farms to his three eldest sons, and subsequently he gave away the remainder of his real estate, and for some years tilled a forty-acre lot ly- ing between Chebacco and Ipswich, which he rented from Joseph Thompson, of the Inner Temple, London, England. Thomas Choate's farm on the island is the only one that still remains in the possession of the family. Thom- as Choate was the first of the family to own slaves, and July 30, 1714, he bought a negro boy named Ned, just brought from Africa. He bought the boy for his son Francis, who in 1734 offered to give the man his freedom, but he refused to take it. Choate Island, formerly Hog Island, the home of Thomas Choate, consists of three hundred acres of land rising to a central hill somewhat rocky on the northern side, and sloping gently on the east and south to the water's edge. It was sold by the Indians to the town of Ips- wich, and surrendered by them reluctantly, as their burial-ground, held sacred by them, was situated on the island. It is still pointed out on a knoll at the northern end of that part of the island owned now or lately by L. G. Burn- ham. It is said that in September, 1633, there came to the Ipswich river forty birch canoes filled with Tarrentines, with the intention of
cutting off the small settlement of whites on the island, but a friendly Agawam revealed the plot, and the colony was saved. There have been eighty persons by the name of Choate born on the island, covering a period of more than a hundred years.
Thomas Choate married, in 1690, Mary, born 1669, died November 19, 1733, daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Proctor) Varney. Her mother, known as "Madam" Varney, was the leader of a party of women who raised the frame of the meeting-house in Chebacco after an order had been issued by the general court that tlie men should not raise it. Madam Varney and her co-workers were arraigned before the court in Salem, but were finally dis- charged upon their acknowledgment of their offence. But their purpose had been accom- plished. Thomas Choate married (second) September 24, 1734, Mary Calef, widow of Dr. Joseph Calef, who died December 28, 1707. He married (third) November 9, 1743, Hannah Burnham, born 1692, died October 2, 1782, widow, perhaps, of Thomas Burnham, and daughter of John and Hannah ( Goodliue) Coggswell. He died March 31, 1745. Chil- dren : I. Anne, born May 22, 1691, married, October 21, 1710, John Burnham ; died August 15, 1739. 2. Thomas, June 7, 1693, married (first) Elizabeth Burnham; (second) October I, 1738, Mrs. Sarah Marshall; (third) May II, 1769, Mrs. Rachel Lufkin; died August 22, 1774. 3. Mary, March 18, 1695, married, December, 1716, Parker Dodge; died March 6, 1767. 4. John, July 25, 1697, married, March 3, 1717, Miriam Pool ; died December 17, 1765. 5. Abigail, October 20, 1699, mar- ried, 1720, John Boardman. 6. Francis, Sep- tember 13, 1701, mentioned below. 7. Rachel, November 8, 1703, married, January 16, 1723- 24, Joseph Rust ; married (second), March, . 1737, Isaac Martin ; died March 15, 1783. 8. Ebenezer, March 10, 1706, married, Septem- ber 3, 1730, Elizabeth Greenleaf; died 1766. 9. Sarah, July 24, 1708, married, April 5, 1736, Rev. Amos Cheever.
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