Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 59

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876

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( Il) Rev. Samuel, eldest child of Governor

Thomas and Dorothy ( Yorke) Dudley, was born in England about 1610. He became pastor of the church in Exeter. New Hampshire in 1650, and resided there till his death, February 10, 1683. He married (first) Mary Winthrop, daughter of Governor John Winthrop, about 1632, and by her had five children. She died April 16, 1643, at Salisbury, Massachusetts, and he married, in 1643, Mary Byley, of Salisbury, who also bore him five children. His third wife. Elizabeth, (surname unknown) bore him eight chil- dren.

(III ) Stephen, twelfth child of Rev. Samuel Dud- ley, and second child of his third wife Elizabeth. was born in Exeter, and was a lifelong resident of that place. where he died in 1734. His first wife was Sarah Gilman, daughter of Hon. John Gilman, to whom he was married December 24, 1684. His sec- ond wife was Mary Thing, and the third Mercy Gilman. He had eleven children. (An account of one of these, James, and descendants will be found in this article ).

(IV) Stephen (2), second child of Stephen (I) and Sarah ( Gilman) Dudley, was born March 10. 1688. in Exeter, and died in that town in 1734. Tra- dition says that he was a speculator in lands which he purchased from Indians and sold to Boston mer- chants, receiving barter which he again traded to the Indians. He was town major and colonel of Freetown, a part of Exeter, and wore a scarlet coat, laced jacket, large wig and ruffled shirt. He was of- ten called Gaffer, a rustic name for master, lord or gentleman. He was married in July, 1708, to Sarah Davison (or Davidson), of Newbury, who was born 1682. daughter of Daniel Davidson. of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and they had five children. (Ste- phen. the third, is mentioned, with descendants, in a later paragraph.)

(V) Samuel Paul, eldest child of Stephen (2) and Sarah ( Davidson) Dudley, was born in Exeter, in 1721, and died in Andover, January 0. 1789. He married Jane Hubbard, who died at Andover. July 17, 1814, in the ninetieth year of her age. Their children were: Jeremy. Hubbard, Jacob and Ste- phen. ( Hubbard and descendants receive mention in this article).

(VT) Jacob, third son and child of Samuel (2) and Jane ( Hubbard) Dudley, was born in Hawke. now Danville, in 1756, died in Andover, October 15. 1851. He was a lifelong farmer. He was married January 17. 1779. by Rev. J. Babcock. to Mehitable Scribner, of Andover, who died at Hanover, April (, 1858, aged eighty-nine years. They removed from Andover to Hanover in 1815. They had seven sons and three daughters, all born in Andover. as follows: Sarah C., Polly or Mary, Betsey H .. Jacob. Jonathan, Abner True, David P., Nathan W., Amos P. and Jason.

(VII) Jonathan, fifth child and second son of Jacob and Mehitable ( Scribner ) Dudley, was born in Andover. February 18, 1800, and died February 28, 1872. He was a farmer and resided at Hanover. He was active in politics. was a Democrat, and held many town offices. He married (first), October 20, 1824, Delight Snow, of Hanover, who died No- vember 20. 1827. He married ( second) January 26, 1820, Minerva Armstrong, of Norwich. Vermont, daughter of William Armstrong, who died in 1842. She died August 30. 1004. By his second wife he had ten children. Allen Samuel, Byron Jacob, William Henry (died young), Jason (died young), Jason H .. Albert, Minerva Delight, Sarah. Fred W and Charles (died young).

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(VIH) Jason Henry, sixth child and fifth son of Jonathan and Minerva (Armstrong) Dudley, was born in Hanover, November 24, 1842. He attended the public schools of Hanover and the education he acquired there was supplemented by private tutors. In 1858, he entered Chandler Scientific School, and a year later matriculated at Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in class of 1862. In the fall of 1861 he taught a select school at Cornish Flats. Af- ter graduation he became principal of Colebrook Academy, which at that time was not in a prosper- ous condition. Into the work of developing this institution to a more flourishing condition he gave his best energies, and by faithful and enthusiastic labor increased the number of pupils from forty to nearly one hundred. While principal of the academy he began the study of law under the supervision of the Hon. William S. Ladd. In the fall of 1865 he went to Danville, Vermont, and had charge of Phil- lip's Academy for a year, continuing his legal studies with Hon. Bliss N. Davis. In the fall of 1866 he conducted the academy at West Randolph, Vermont, pursuing the study of law while there with Hon. Edmund Weston. He was admitted to the bar at Chelsea, Vermont. in December, 1867. and then returned to Colebrook, where he associated himself in the practice of law with James 1. Par- sons, the two forming the firm of Dudley & Parsons and taking the business of Judge Ladd who had re- moved to Lancaster. This partnership continued two years and then Mr. Parsons disposed of his in- terest to Mr. Dudley, who has since practiced alone with the exception of four years from April, 1878, to May, 1882, when he and D. C. Remich were as- sociated under the style of Dudley & Remich.

Natural ability, hard study, a generous but vig- orous and efficient action have enabled Mr. Dudley to become not only a leading lawyer of Coos county, but a representative man of his profession in the state of New Hampshire. While he is an able lawyer and fights his cases with a vigor which con- mands all respect and taxes the energy of his op- ponents, he is far from being one who encourages anything that smacks of unnecessary litigation. In fact he is a peace maker instead of a promoter of strife. He is interested in all of those movements which tend to a broader plane of citizenship, and is always willing to bear his just proportion in all public movements. In politics he is a Democrat, and has been honored by his party with the election to various offices of trust and responsi- bility. and in the discharge of the duties of his posi- tion has given unstinted use of his fine intellectual powers, and to-day stands as an honored representa- tive of his party and of his fellow citizens of Cole- brook and Cons county. It has been written of him, "Mr. Dudley is square, genial, approachable, faithful to his friends, one who has made the best of his opportunities and a man of sagacity in af- fairs, and a wise judge of character." These qual- ities he has combined with well directed industry. He has taken a prominent position in public affairs on his merits, and he has maintained himself in prominent positions in northern New Hampshire, and more recently in the general concerns of the state, by proving himself a man who is always true to the trust confided to him, and he is all this with- out ever losing a friend by any false word or un- fair act. These qualities have made him conspicu- ous and popular in social, political, business and pro- fessional circles. He is capable of graceful and ap- propriate expression in prose and verse, on occa-

sions where these qualities are in demand. His ef- fort, in verse are often commended; at the same time in serious argument he is skilful in marshalling facts, and forcible and effective in their presenta tion before any tribunal. He was superintendent of schools at Colebrook for several years ; was elected county solicitor in 1878, and re-elected in 1880-82- 84-80, holding this important office longer than any other man in the state under the elective system. In 1890 his effective services in the lower house and in other positions led to his nomination as sen- ator from the first district, which was followed by his election to that office by a handsome majority. Although a member of the minority party he was made chairman of the committee on the revision of laws and discharged his duties in that position with credit. As an exponent of the principles of his party he is zealous, energetic and fearless, and stands in the front rank of the active workers of the Demo- cracy in the northern district. He was one of the trustees of the State Normal School at Plymouth, and was appointed to the board of trustees of the New Hampshire Agricultural College and after serv- ing one year, believing that he could not afford the time to discharge the duties of the position, he re- signed. In 1880 he represented Colebrook in the legislature, and took a conspicuous and leading part in the debates in that body, and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1903, at Concord. New Hampshire. He is a member of the Grafton and Coos Bar Associations and of the Dartmouth Alumni Association. He is a member of Excelsior Lodge, No. 73, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of Colebrook Lodge. No. 38, Knights of Pythias, of Colebrook. Jason H. Dudley was married September 22, 1869, at Randolph, Ver- mont, to Lucy A. Bradford, of Vergennes, Vermont, a descendant in the eighth generation from Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth colony. She is the daughter of Dr. Austin and Aurelia (Bissell) Brad- ford, of Vergennes, and was born April 6, 1843. Two children have been born to them: Allen B .. June 18, ISTI, and William H., April 13. 1873, who died July 2. 1876. Allen Bradford married Alice Drew, of Colebrook, who was born December 1, 1867, daughter of Edwin W. Drew, and died at the age of twenty-seven, leaving two children: William Allen and Bessie Mildred.

(VI) Hubbard, second son of Samuel Paul and Jane ( Hubbard) Dudley. born February 18. 1704. in Hawk, now Danville, New Hampshire, was mar- ried January 8. 1789, to Sarah Ingalls. They had seven children, and moved to Dunham, Lower Can- ada, in 1816, and he died there December 13, 1841.

(VII) Peter, son of Hubbard and Sarah ( In- galls) Dudley, was born August 22, 1801. in Bridge- water (or Bristol), New Hampshire. He was a pioneer stage man of the state and operated lines from Hanover to Boston and other points in this state for many years before the advent of the rail- road. He moved in 1838 to Concord, where he re- sided until his death in 1871. lle was well known and respected throughout the state, was a trustee in two or more banks, was connected with the South Congregational Church and always identified with those things that make for the betterment of the town. He was married in 1832 to Elizabeth Bassett of Derry, New Hampshire, a descendant in the fourth generation of Rov. James McGregor, first set- tled minister at Londonderry. They were the par- ents of three children. An Elizabeth. the elde-t. became the wife of J. Warren George. and resided

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in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Thomas Hubbard. the second, is the subject of the succeeding paragraph. Helen Miranda Walker resides in Concord.

(VIII) Thomas Hubbard, only son of Peter and Elizabeth ( Bassett) Dudley, was born June 19, 1836, in Derry, and was educated in the public schools and the academics at Pembroke and Hopkinton, New Hampshire. When the Civil war broke out the Dud- ley military spirit showed itself and he enlisted, November 20. 1861. in Company I, Sixth New Hampshire Infantry. He received the rank of lieu- tenant, and was with General Burnside at Cape Hat- teras, where he contracted disease which resulted in his di-charge. Returning to his hime in Concord, hie died in March, 1863. in the twenty-seventh year of his age. He married Antoinette Gordon, daughter of John Gordon, of Concord. They had two children, namely: Elizabeth. who is the wife of Hon. Harry G. Sargent. of Concord ( see Sargent, VINI), and Harry Hubbard. mentioned below.

( IX) Harry Hubbard, only son of Thomas Hub- hard and Antoinette (Gordon) Dudley, was born June H. 1859. in Concord, and graduated from the high school of that city in the class of 1878. For a year subsequently he received private instruction from Professor Amos Hadley. He began his busi- ness career as clerk in the freight office of the Con- cord Railroad, and was afterward for four years a clerk in the First National Bank of Concord, from which bank he went to the banking house of E. H. Rollins & Sons Company, of which he was treasurer, with an interest in the business. He accompanied this concern upon the removal of its offices to Bos- ton in 1803, and served as one of its directors until January, 1906, when he resigned. In the year 1804. at the personal solicitation of the president of the Mechan'es' National Bank, he returned to Concord to take the position of cashier of that bank, which he still holds ( 1900). He is a man of excellent finan- cial ability and has a large influence in the monetary circles and finincial institutions of New Hampshire. being a director and treasurer, respectively, of the New Hampshire Spinning Mills. Home Realty Com- pany and Becchier Falls Company. He was for many years a vestryman of St. Paul's parish of Concord, of which he is now treasurer. is treasurer and a member of the board of managers of Diocesan Mis- sions, and worden of St. Andrew's Church, Hopkin- ton, where he has a summer home. In civic af- fairs he has always taken a deep interest. has been a member of the board of aldermen of Concord, was a member of the New Hampshire house of rep- resentatives one term, and in 1904-05 was senator from the tenth district. During Governor Rollins administration AMIr. Dudley was, by nomination of the governor, elected by the legislature as commis- sary general upon the gubernatorial staff. Mr. Dud- ley is of social disposition. fond of the society of good men, and naturally is a member of many so- cial organizations, including the Wonolancet and Snowshoe clubs of Concord and the New Hamp- shire Chutb of Boston. He inherits from father and grandfather a love of fine horses, and is the pos-es- sor of some excellent specimens of this noble friend of inan. Te is president of the Concord Driving Club, which ene nages road driving, among horse- men of Concord and vicinity. Ile is a charter mem- ber and was president of the Wonolancet Club at the time of the erection of its present handsome home.

Mr Dudley was married October 30. 1883. te Anne Minot, daughter of Charles and Sarah ( Tilton ) Minot, the former of the well known banking house

of Minot & Company of Concord. Mrs. Dudley is an active and influential member of church and social circles and a member of the Colonial Dames. She is the mother of three children, namely: Dorothea Minot. Charles Hubbard and Thomas Minot Dudley. Dorothea Minot Dudley, died December, 1902, nearly fourteen years of age.

(IV) James, son of Stephen and Sarah (Gil- man) Dudley, of the fourth generation from Gover- nor Thomas Dudley, of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was born June IT. 1600. at Exeter, New Hamp- shire, and died in the same town September 4. 1746. He married Mercy Folsom, who was born about 1601, at Exeter and they had eight children.

(V) Samuel, son of James and Mercy ( Folsom) Dudley, was born at Exeter in 1720. Ile married (fir-t) Mrs. Ladd. (second) Mrs. Sleeper, and ( third) Mrs. Clark and was the father of ten chil- dren.

(VI) Micajah, son of Samuel Dudley, was born November 27. 1751, at Brentwood, and died May, 1798, at Durham, Maine. He was approved Septem- ber 3, 1795, as a minister of the Society of Friends, and continued in the Society in that relation during his life, and some of his descendants have followed after his example and have been more distinguished as teachers than he, and are honored members of the sect in different states and countries. It is thought that in early life he was a Baptist, but was led to change his belief by David Sands and Aaron Lancaster, noted members of the Friends' Society. Friend C. W. Webber remembers when he lived in Durham, on the south east tier of lots, nearly oppo- site his house. There are some remains of the old ' cellar yet to be seen. and flowers still bloom there, and in his pasture is a fountain called the Dudley Spring. Micaiah's children were all Friends except Lydia and William. He married Susannah Forster, born March 16. 1751, at Attleboro, Massachusetts. died in China. Maine, January 8. 1838, daughter of Timothy and Sybella ( Freeman) Forster. They had eleven children.

(VII) John, son of Micajah and Susannah (Fors- ter) Dudley, was born in Winthrop. Maine, No- vember 5. 1775, and died in China. Maine, October 27. 1847, and was buried in the Friends' cemetery at China. He was a bright and intelligent man. He married Eunice Winslow, and they had eight chil- dren.

(VIII) Matthew Franklin, son of John and Eu- nice (Winslow ) Dudley, was born at Harlem, Maine, September o. 1813, and died at China in 1861. He was a farmer and belonged to the body of Friends at the head of which was Eli Mayo. He married Patience A. Hutchins, and they had four children, of whom only one, David F. Dudley. is living. The children Cynthia J. married Johr R. Meder, of Durham, New Hampshire: Charles, who died 1865. at Saco. Maine; Joseph, 1861, and David Franklin.

( IX) David Franklin, fourth and youngest child of Matthew F. and Patience A. (Hutchins) Dudley. was born October 17. 1857. in China. Maine, and was educated in the public schools and Pembroke Acad- emy. After the death of the father. the support of the family devolved upon the mother, who succes- sively lived in Berwick and Biddeford. Maine, and Newmarket, this state, where she was employed in the cotton mills. The brave spirit of the mother seems to have been inherited or imbibed by the youngest child, who began to aid her at the age of ten years. He was employed five years in the mills

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at Newmarket. with the exception of two summers spent on a farm in Scarborough, Maine. During this time he saved sufficient to maintain himself at school a part of the time. While at work in the mills he often found a few moments to devote to study, and none of this time was ever squandered in the sports usually enjoyed by youth of his age, but was faith- fully employed in extending his range of knowledge. He also studied at evening, and so contrived to keep up with many others who enjoyed the advantage of instruction at school. After leaving the mill he worked at shoemaking in Newmarket and in Hav- erhill, Massachusetts, which he followed during va- cations and while a student at Pembroke Academy, earning enough in this way to defray his expenses. Be- fore entering Pembroke, he taught school in Ep- som, New Hampshire, and immediately following his graduation in 1879 he taught a year in Deerfield. He then took up the study of law in the office of Leach & Stevens, in Concord, and was admitted to the bar in 1883. Since that time he has been continuously engaged in practice at Concord and has succeeded, through habits of industry, combined with legal abil- ity and a pleasing personality. It may be truly said that Mr. Dudley carved out his own fortune, and his example may be commended to any ambitious youth. He is an active supporter of Republican principles, and has been elected to various offices on the ticket of his party. In 1885 he was a member of the com- mon council of Concord, and in 1895-96 served in the board of aldermen. In 1900 he was elected county solicitor, and re-elected in 1902, and was elected a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1903. He is a member of Horace Chase Lodge, No. 72. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Con- cord, and of Contoocook Lodge, No. 26. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. of Penacook, in which he has filled the principal chairs. Since ISSy he has been a member of Ezekiel Webster Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.

Mr. Dudley was married in 1879 to Blanchie L. Fowler, born February 29, 1860. a daughter of True worthy L. and Catherine (Sargent) Fowler, of Pem- broke (see Sargent, IX). She is active in various church and social societies of Penacook. They have had four children, namely: Gale Dudley, born I&So ; Trueworthy L., died when two years old; True- worthy L., born 1888; Roy, 1890; and Ethel May, 1892.

(V) Stephen. third child of Stephen and Sarah (Davison or Davidson) Dudley, and of the fifth generation in descent from Governor Thomas Dud- ley, of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was born at Exc- ter, October 14, 1724. and died at Gilmanton, New Hampshire, August 22, 18II. He took part in the French and Indian war, and in 1758 served in the expedition against Crown Point. In 1763 he went to Gilmanton and was one of the petitioners for the first town meeting. He was one of the original members and a deacon of the church founded there. He was also selectman and one of the com- mittee of safety. He married Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Sanborn. She was born February 3, 1724. An account of their son, John. and descend- ants forms part of this article).

(VI) Nicholas G., first child of Stephen and Hannah (Sanborn) Dudley, was born 1746, in Exe- ter, and died in Barnstead in 1818. He bought a large traet of land in Barnstead and Alton, and set- tled upon it with his sons.

(VII) John, first child of Nicholas G. Dudley, was born 1769, and died 1833, in Barnstead.

(VI) Lieutenant John, second son and child of Deacon Stephen and Hanna ( Sanborn) Dudley, was born at Exeter, September 15. 1748. He removed with his father to Gilmanton, and died October 2, 1837, aged eighty-seven. It is said that he assisted in the construction of the first grist mill at Gilman- ton, and, October 28, 1762, received cash for his labor, £41, James Dudley being the builder of the mill. John Dudley was a prominent citizen of Gilmanton, and held many town offices. He and his brothers, Daniel and Stephen, all signed the agree- ment in 1776, to oppose the British fleets and armies, and he served in the Revolutionary army, as the muster rolls of New Hampshire show. He married, October 17. 1771, Olive Kimball, of Exeter, daughter of John Kimball. She was born July 12, 1746, and They died April 23, 1841, aged ninety-five years. had six children: Hannah, married John Dudley, son of Major Nicholas Dudley, and located in Barn- stead; Sarah, John, Ann, Nathaniel and Mary Light.

(VII) Nathaniel, second son and fifth child of John and Olive (Kimball) Dudley, was born April 3. 1780, and died March 24, 1870. aged eighty-nine. He married, November 22, 1803. Mary Smith, datigh- ter of William Smith, both of Gilmanton.

(VIII) William, second child of John Dudley was born in Barnstead, August 20, 1805. He was a farm- er in Barnstead, and a member of the Congregational Church at Gilmanton. New Hampshire. In politics he was a Whig until the dissolution of that party and then he followed the natural trend of opinion and became a member of the Republican party. He dicd December 10, 1889. He married Harriet Dudley, born in Alton, New Hampshire, February 23, 18II, daughter of Gilman Dudley, son of Stephen, broth- er of Major Nicholas G., so she was the second cous- in to her husband. Their children were as follows : I. Jolin Henry, born February 5. 1834, married Mary A. Hodgdon. January 1, 1859, and settled in Alton, New Hampshire, and in 1885 removed to Con- cord where he still resides. 2. Mary Ellen, born January 15, 1836, married, November 25, 1858. John L. Piper, and located in Gilmanton. He served as a sergeant in Company B. Twelfth New Hampshire Regiment, United States Volunteers. After the close of the war he removed to Barnstead, where he died July, 1903. 3. Charles Van Buren, horn January 2, 1838, (see forward). 4. Ann Maria, born July 4, 1840, married, January 1, 1861. Perley P. Prescott : she died in Farmington, New Ilamp-hire. January, 1897: her husband still survives at this date ( 1907). 5. George Washington, born October 7, 1844, see forward. 6. Harriet Adeline, born March 1. 1851, married Charles G. Thibets: she died in Franklin, New Hampshire, June, 1885. 7. William. born January, 1854.

(IX) Charles Van Buren, second son and third child of William and Harriet (Dudley) Dudley, born in Barnstead in 1838. was educated in the com- mon schools. After attaining his majority he left the farm and went to Concord where he obtained a position in the New Hampshire Hospital for the In- sane, where he spent twelve years between 1862 and 1874. After leaving that institution he was engaged for a time in other lines of business until February. 1879, when he became superintendent of the Brook- lyn hospital in Brooklyn, New York, which position he filled twenty years, severing his connection with it in June. 1890. Returning to his native state he settled on the Fair View road, in Pittsfield. where has a new house with modern improvements, beauti- fully situated and overlooking the village of Pitts-

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field. Mr. Dudley is a gentlemen of culture, up-to- date in his ideas, and is now living a quiet life in close touch with nature, after years of useful service in public positions. He married, May 8. 1865, Diana P. Miller, born in Hartland, Vermont, May 8, 1841, daughter of William and Diana ( Palmer) Miller. She died January 26, 1881. They had one son, Charles Miller Dudley, born August, 1870. died Oc- tober. 1870.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 59

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 876

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876