Castle, The above cut represents the most ancient portion of Dudley Castle, now standing in Dudley, England. It was built about the year 700 by Athelstan, the roigning monarch of that region and time. It is said by good authority to be the oldest ruin in England. It is now owned by the present Earl Dudley of England. OFFICIAL REPORT REUNION DESCENDANTS OF GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY. A. > / CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS, BUSINESS MEETING, ORGANIZATION, RECEPTION AND DINNER, OF THE GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION. SALEM, MASS.: SALEM OBSERVER BOOK AND JOB PRINT 1893 Prepared and published according to vote of The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, October 25, 1892, and vote of its Board of Directors, Jan. 31, 1893, by SANFORD H. DUDLEY, DUDLEY R. CHILD, ALBION M. DUDLEY, Publication Committee. COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY SANFOBD H. DUDLEY, DUDLEY R. CHILD, ALBION M. DUDLEY,. for The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association. Introduction. In these days of family reunions it has doubtless oc- curred to many descendants of Governor Thomas Dudley that they too ought to join in reunion, and in honor of their illustrious ancestor. And since the great Dudley Reunion of last October, it has doubtless also occurred to many to inquire why so splendid and delightful an occa- sion had ever been deferred till then. Perhaps the answer may not be far to seek. Probably no one desired to seem to put himself forward in the family in that way. The exceeding appropriateness of such a reunion was apparent. The desirability of bringing the family together and mak- ing it acquainted with itself was clear. How to do it, and who should do it, was the question. As always happens in such cases, somebody must begin, somebody must point out the way, and then everybody follows and wonders why it had not been thought of or done before. To Colonel L. Edwin Dudley, the descendants of Governor Thomas Dudley are indebted for originating and preparing the way for their first reunion. It happened as such things do. He suggested it to Mr. Dean Dudley, the compiler of the Dudley genealogies, because of the familiarity of the latter with our family, and in order to further the work he prepared the preliminary circular in his own office, and, with Mr. Dean Dudley's consent, had it issued over his name instead of his own. Colonel Dudley bore all the expense of this, and also offered the use of his office for the meet- ings of the preliminary organization. Most of the meet- ings prior to the reunion were held there. Thus was 4 INTRODUCTION. begun the movement which has resulted in " The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association." The circular referred to, which all will remember, is as follows : REUNION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY. Dear Sir : On the zoth day of October, 1629, at the City of London, Eng- land, Thomas Dudley was chosen one of the five officers to come to America under the Royal charter that had been granted. It is not necessary at this time, to detail the eventful life of the eminent man who was four times Governor of Massa- chusetts Colony, and who was the first Major-General of the militia of the Commonwealth. From the time of his arrival at Salem, in 1631, to the day of his death, in July, 1653, Governor Dudley was second to no man in the Colony in influence and activity. He took a foremost part in all the preliminary work which laid broad and deep the foundations of the liberties we now enjoy. The descendants of Governor Dudley have held honorable station in our Commonwealth from then until now. These descendants are now very numerous, and many now live in other states in the Union. The family has inter-married with many of the leading families of the land, until there are proba- bly more of the Governor's descendants bearing other names than there are that are known by the name of Dudley. For over forty years I have devoted a great part of my time to tracing the lineage of the Dudley family. In consequence I have often been asked to call the family together for a reunion.' I have heretofore declined because I could not afford the time to do the needed work, nor the money to pay the inevitable expense. The time has arrived, however, when the need for a family gathering has become so great that I have decided to issue this preliminary call for a reunion to be held in the city of Boston, on Tuesday, the i8th day of October, 1892. Among other subjects which should claim the family's atten- tion is the present condition of the tomb in the old Roxbury burying ground, in which lie buried Governor Thomas Dudley, Governor Joseph Dudley, Chief Justice Paul Dudley and other distinguished members of our race. INTRODUCTION. 5 This eminent service rendered the Commonwealth in its early days, seems to demand that the descendants shall consider the, question of whether or not a statue or other memorial shall be erected to Governor Dudley's memory. This circular is merely for the purpose of asking each and every one of the descendants of Governor Dudley to write and say whether he or she will be willing to take part in such a reunion as is proposed. If a sufficient number of replies shall be received, I shall ask those interested to form Committees to take charge of the several branches of the work. There are many points of exceptional historical interest to our family which strangers, coming to Boston, would desire to visit. At present no contributions are asked ; one member of the family has advanced the money to pay for this circular ; but if it is decided to hold a reunion, generous contributions from those able to give, will be needed to defray the expenses that will necessarily be incurred. I have assurance from a number of the family that they will gladly take hold of this matter in an energetic manner. If others respond promptly and favorably everything will be put in train forthwith to make this, as it should be, one of the most important family gatherings ever held in the United States. I simply ask that each and every descendant of Governor Thomas Dudley who reads this circular will at once send me a letter or postal expressing his or her thought about the proposed reunion. With Cousinly friendship, Sincerely yours, DEAN DUDLEY, Wakefield, Mass. In the name of Dean Dudley, Colonel Dudley called a meeting of those who had responded to the circular at his office. At the hour appointed and when the ladies and gentlemen had assembled in such numbers as to make it apparent that a lively interest had been created in the pro- posed reunion, Colonel Dudley called the meeting to order, and upon his motion, Mr. Dean Dudley was made chair- man, also those present were made a general committee, 6 INTRODUCTION. and Mr. Dudley R. Child of Boston was elected secretary. Twelve members of the family were present, representing descendants of four of Governor Dudley's six children. The further doings of the committee appear as taken from the records of the secretary. SANFORD H. DUDLEY, DUDLEY R. CHILD, ALBION M. DUDLEY, Publication Committee. At the meeting of the descendants of Governor Thomas Dudley, in the Chapel of the Bowdoin Square Church, Bos- ton, on Tuesday, Oct. 25th, 1892, Sanford H. Dudley, Dudley R. Child and Dr. Albion M. Dudley, were appointed a special committee with Mr. Dean Dudley of Montrose, for the preparation of an account of all matters pertaining to the Reunion of that day. Mr. Dean Dudley declined to meet with the committee for this purpose, and has not accepted the office of Historian of The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, or become a member thereof. The committee presenting this official report were further authorized to prepare and publish the same, by vote of the Board of Directors of the Association. The Executive Committee before mentioned met fre- quently and enlarged itself from time to time until the full membership included the following : EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. DEAN DUDLEY, Chairman, . . Wakefield, Mass. DUDLEY R. CHILD, Secretary, . 30 High St., Boston, Mass. L. EDWIN DUDLEY, Treasurer, 50 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass. SANFORD H. DUDLEY, . 95 Milk St., Boston, Mass. DR. ALBION M. DUDLEY, . . . Salem, Mass. WARREN P. DUDLEY, . 5 Pemberton Sq., Boston, Mass. ELBRIDGE G. DUDLEY, . 202 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. JAMES F. DUDLEY, .... Hartford, Conn. JOHN WARD DEAN, . .18 Somerset St., Boston, Mass. ROBERT T. BABSON, . 113 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. JOSEPH B. MOORS, . 1 1 1 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. 8 PROCEEDINGS. E. DUDLEY FREEMAN, . . . . Portland, Me. JASON H. DUDLEY, . . . . Colebrook, N. H. AUGUSTINE JONES, . ". . Providence, R. I. DR. FRANCIS H. ATKINS, . , E. Las Vegas, N. M. OSCAR L. DUDLEY, . . 113 Adams St., Chicago, 111. RICHARD M. JONES, . 108 So. i2th St., Philadelphia, Pa. GILMAN H. TUCKER, . . 806 Broadway, New York. GEORGE C. CODMAN, .... Woodford's, Me. PROF. DANIEL D. SLADE, . . . Chestnut Hill, Mass. FRANK DUDLEY, . 394 Commercial St., Portland, Me. Miss HARRIET E. HENSHAW, . . Leicester, Mass. MRS. SARAH DUDLEY WILLIAMS CHANDLER, Lexington, Mass. MRS. HARVEY A. JONES, . . . Sycamore, 111. Miss LILY DUDLEY, . . 140 W. nth St., New York. MRS. HEPHSIBAH H. BRADLEE, . . Medford, Mass. JOHN S. SARGENT, . . -45 Munroe St., Chicago. DR. DANIEL D. GILBERT, 308 Boston St., Dorchester, Mass. HENRY F. HARRIS, . . 405 Main St., Worcester, Mass. EDWARD H. WHITMAN, 95 Lawrence Ave., Dorchester, Mass. JAMES B. WIGGIN, . 17 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass. AUGUSTUS M. DUDLEY, . . . Presque Isle, Me. After the second meeting, a circular and blank were is- sued, asking for names and addresses of members of the family. The blanks were promptly returned and the list swelled from a few hundred to nearly a thousand names. Sub-committees were formed on Finance, Memorials, Arrangements and Reception. They were composed as follows : COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. L. EDWIN DUDLEY, Chairman, E. DUDLEY FREEMAN, WARREN P. DUDLEY, JAMES F. DUDLEY, ROBERT T. BABSON, GILMAN H. TUCKER. COMMITTEE ON MEMORIALS. DUDLEY R. CHILD, Chairman, MRS. HEPSIBAH H. BRADLEE, DEAN DUDLEY, Secretary, JOHN WARD DEAN, DANIEL D. GILBERT, EDWARD H. WHITMAN, MRS. SARAH D. W. CHANDLER. PROCEEDINGS. 9 COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS. SANFORDH. DUDLEY, Chairman, ALBION M. DUDLEY, L. EDWIN DUDLEY, DUDLEY R. CHILD, JOSEPH B. MOORS. COMMITTEE ON RECEPTION. DR. A. M. DUDLEY, Chairman, Miss GERTRUDE DUDLEY, ELBRIDGE GERRY DUDLEY, " LILY DUDLEY, EDWARD H. WHITMAN, " JENNIE B. DUDLEY, HOWLAND DUDLEY, " MARY JOHNSON, WILLIAM D. MOORS, " EDITH CHILD. The Finance Committee sent out the following circular, Col. L. Edwin Dudley having been elected Treasurer of the general committee. 50 BROMFIELD ST., Boston, Mass. September 15, 1892. The undersigned have been appointed a committee on finance to raise funds to defray the expense of organizing the reunion of the descendants of Governor Thomas Dudley, to be held in Boston on the 2$th of October, 1892. It is estimated that a fund of about five hundred dollars ($500.00) will be required. Should more money be received than is required, it will be reserved for the fund which it is proposed to raise for the purpose of providing for the care of the family tomb in the Old Roxbury Burying Ground. We appeal to you to contribute as liberally as you can afford- Funds are imperatively needed to carry forward the work ; we hope you will respond promptly. Checks should be made payable to L. EDWIN DUDLEY, Treasurer. Sincerely yours, L. EDWIN DUDLEY, WARREN P. DUDLEY, ROBERT T. BABSON, E. DUDLEY FREEMAN, JAMES F. DUDLEY, GILMAN H. TUCKER. 10 PROCEEDINGS. This request met with a ready and generous response, and nearly four hundred dollars were contributed. The Committee on Memorials planned for an exhibition at the reunion of family portraits, antiquities, etc., and were in communication with members of the family possessing these articles. The Executive Committee de- cided upon Tuesday, Oct. 25th, as the day for the reunion, and selected Mr. Sanford H. Dudley, of Cambridge, to preside at the dinner, and the Committee on Arrangements made provision for the various exercises of the day as ex- pressed in the circulars following : DUDLEY REUNION. BOSTON, MASS., October 8, 1892. THE FIRST REUNION of the descendants of Governor THOMAS DUDLEY will be held on TUESDAY, Oct. 25, 1892, at the Revere House, Boston, Mass. MR. DEAN DUDLEY, the well known genealogist and historian of the Dudley family, will be present as a special guest of the occasion, and will have charge of and explain numerous and valuable memorials and relics, consisting of ancient original portraits of the American Dudley ancestors, governors, judges, statesmen and ladies of renown ; silver-ware, tankards, jewelry, cradles, baptismal robes, etc., which will be on exhibition at the Revere House on the date of the reunion from 2 p. M. until the hour of the dinner. This will give all the members of the family an opportunity to meet MR. DEAN DUDLEY, who has devoted his life to earnest and laborious efforts in behalf of our family name and the successful work of tracing and recording the his- tory of the Dudley family. All who have relics are requested to send or bring them to the reunion. A reception committee will be in attendance between the hours of 2 and 5.30 o'clock p. M., who will endeavor to make all acquainted with each other, and give all information in their power. It is expected that the occasion will be one of much interest and pleasure, and all descendants of the old Puritan Governor are cordially invited to honor his memory, and to contribute to the success of the gathering by their presence. PROCEEDINGS. 11 The Dinner will be given at 5.30 o'clock P. M., at the close of which there will be an address upon the Life, Character and Public Services of Governor THOMAS DUDLEY, by JOSEPH B. MOORS, Esq., of the Bostonian Society, Boston ; and brief ad- dresses by DEAN DUDLEY, Esq., of Wakefield, Mass. ; SANFORD H. DUDLEY, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass. ; Colonel L. EDWIN DUDLEY, of Boston, Mass. ; Dr. ALBION M. DUDLEY, of Salem, Mass. ; ELIAS DUDLEY FREEMAN, of Portland, Me. ; JAMES F. DUDLEY, of Hartford, Conn. ; and others whose names cannot at present be announced. It is expected that during the day, or immediately after the banquet, a permanent organization of the descendants of Gov- ernor THOMAS DUDLEY will be considered, and, if agreed upon, the proper measures instituted with regard to raising a fund for the preservation of the tomb at Roxbury, where rest the remains of Governor DUDLEY and other members of his family (which is to be deeded to the descendants by the heirs of Colonel JOSEPH DUDLEY), and for the erection of some suitable memo- rial of the Governor. Tickets to the Dinner will be $2.50 each, and as the capacity of the tables is limited to about two hundred and fifty plates, it may become necessary to assign tickets in the order in which application therefor is received. Please, therefore, to indicate the number of tickets you desire on the blank enclosed, and for- ward the same with remittance of the money therefor by check or postal order, by earliest mail, to DUDLEY R. CHILD, Secretary Committee on Arrangements, 30 High Street, Boston, Mass. THE REUNION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY. PROGRAMME, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1892. 10 A. M. Business Meeting at the Chapel of the Bowdoin Square Church, directly opposite the Revere House. At this meeting the subject of forming a permanent associa- tion for the purpose of caring for the family tomb and the erection of a monument or other suitable memorial to the memory of our distinguished ancestor, will be consid- ered and acted upon. 12 PROCEEDINGS. 2 P. M. Reception in the parlors of the Revere House, Bowdoin Square, Boston, at which there will be ' exhibited many original family portraits and other relics. Mr. Dean Dudley, the family historian, will be present to receive the guests and. to explain the articles exhibited. 5.30 P. M. Dinner at the Revere House, tickets for which should be obtained from Dudley R. Child, Sec'y, 30 High St., Boston, on or before Saturday, Oct. 22d, in order that the number of guests to be provided for may be known in season. Later applications will be received at the Revere House. Numerous short addresses will be delivered after the dinner by members of the family. The first two meetings are open and free to all, and it is hoped and expected that a large number of the descendants will be present and participate in the discussions of the business mat- ters to be considered at the morning meeting. All who have relics are requested to bring or send them to the Revere House on Monday (or Tuesday at the latest), where they will receive all possible care and attention from the Committee in charge. BOSTON, October 19, 1892. rgantsation. The day of the reunion was bright and clear. At ten o'clock in the morning some seventy-five members of the family met in the Chapel of the Bowdoin Square Church. The meeting organized with the choice of L. Edwin Dud- ley of Boston as chairman, and Warren P. Dudley of Bos- ton, secretary. Mr. Sanford H. Dudley, instructed by the executive committee, presented a plan for the permanent organization of the family, in form of a constitution and by-laws. This document was discussed and agreed upon by sections and finally adopted as a whole. A nominating committee was appointed and, after consultation, presented a list of officers, who were elected by the meeting, thus completing the organization of The Governor Thomas Dud- ley Family Association. Mr. Sanford H. Dudley having been elected president of the Association, was introduced to the chairman of the meeting, and assumed the chair. The further proceedings were brief, and included the ap- pointment of the special publication committee, by whom this report is prepared. Many present availed themselves of the opportunity to sign the constitution and by-laws, pay their fees and become members of the Association. The meeting adjourned at noon, some of the people visiting the Dudley tomb in the Old Roxbury burying ground and other points of interest. 14 ORGANIZATION. CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION, ORGANIZED OCT. 25, 1892. NAME. ARTICLE I. This Association shall be called The GOV- ERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION. PURPOSE. ARTICLE II. The purpose of this association is to pro- mote acquaintance and good-fellowship among the de- scendants of Governor Thomas Dudley, one of the founders of New England, many times governor and dep- uty-governor of the ancient Colony of Massachusetts Bay ; to create and promote sentiments of respect, love and re- gard, for him, his achievements and his honored memory ; to investigate and study his life and achievements and the lives and careers of distinguished men and women among his posterity ; to establish such memorials and monuments to his name and memory as shall be most appropriate and fitting ; to take and to insure the taking of such means and measures for the protection of the place where rest the ashes of our celebrated ancestor as may be found most appropriate and fitting; and finally to knit together in closer bonds of unity and respect the living descendants of Governor Dudley. MEMBERSHIP. ARTICLE III. Any descendant of Governor Thomas Dudley, or the husband or wife of such descendant, may become a member of this Association by signing the Con- stitution and By-Laws and paying an initiation fee of ORGANIZATION. 1 5 Three Dollars and otherwise complying with the terms and conditions hereof upon proposal of any member and rec- ommendation of the Board of Directors ; and upon like recommendation any person may be dropped from member- ship by the Association. OFFICERS. ARTICLE IV. The officers of the Association shall con- sist of a president, ten vice-presidents, a board of ten di- rectors, a treasurer, a secretary, a historian, and such com- mittees of the Association as may from time to time be constituted. ELECTIONS AND TEEM OF OFFICE. ARTICLE V. The annual meeting of the Association shall be held on the third Tuesday of October in each year, at which time the officers of the Association shall be chosen. They shall hold office till the next annual meet- ing or until others shall be chosen in their stead. Such elections shall be by ballot. DUTIES OF THE SEVERAL OFFICERS. ARTICLE VI. The president shall preside at all meet- ings of the Association and of the Board of Directors, and in his absence the senior vice-president who happens to be present. The full board of directors shall consist of the president, the several vice-presidents, the directors, the treasurer, secretary, and historian, and five persons and the records at any meeting of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum thereof. TREASURER. The treasurer shall receive, hold and disburse, all the moneys of the Association, and shall give such bond as by vote of the Board of Directors shall be required of him. He shall from time to time render an account pf the- 16 ORGANIZATION. moneys received and disbursed, both to the Board of Di- rectors and to the Association, and make report to the Association at the annual meeting, which upon examina- tion and approval by an auditing committee appointed for that purpose by the president, shall, if found correct, be accepted and allowed. All bills and charges paid by him shall first receive the approval of the Board of Directors. SECRETARY. The secretary shall have charge of the books, papers, and records of the Association, saving and excepting those pertaining to the duties of the treasurer, and, as to those, the treasurer shall have charge thereof. HISTORIAN. The historian shall from time to time inform the Asso- ciation of such facts, worthy of note or mention, relative to Governor Thomas Dudley and any of his posterity as he shall discover, and give such assistance as he can to mem- bers of the Association who may desire to investigate any such facts. In the absence of any special committee ap- pointed for the purpose, he shall take note of the death of any member and at the next meeting report thereon, with a brief and appropriate eulogy of the deceased. MEETINGS. ARTICLE VII. In addition to the annual meeting of the Association, other meetings shall be held at such times and places as the Board of Directors shall appoint, or as they may be instructed by vote of the Association, or upon the written request of any ten members of the Association. ANNUAL DUES. ARTICLE VIII. Each member shall, in addition to the initiation fee before provided, pay each year thereafter, the sum of one dollar. ORGANIZATION. 17 FINANCES. ARTICLE IX. Moneys received from initiation fees shall be deposited or invested as directed by the Board of Directors, the income thereof only to be applied to pay- ment of current or ordinary expenses, unless otherwise re- quired by vote of the Association. Income derived from the payment of annual dues shall be under the direction of the Board of Directors. INCORPORATION. ARTICLE X. In case an incorporation of this Associa- tion shall at any time be obtained, then upon the vote of the Board of Directors, it shall become the duty of the several officers of the Association to deliver and pay over to the appropriate officers of such incorporated association all the various moneys, books, papers and documents, or other property in their possession and belonging to this Association. CHANGE OF BY-LAWS ARTICLE XI. These by-laws may be changed at any meeting of the Association by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting ; provided that printed notice of the meeting and the proposed amendment has been mailed to each member, not less than three weeks prior to- the meeting. 18 ORGANIZATION. LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION, 1892-93. President. SANFORD H. DUDLEY, 95 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. Vice-Presidents. HENRY F. HARRIS, Worcester, Mass- JAMES HENRY WIGGIN, Bostou, " DR. ELIZABETH ABBOTT CARLETON, Boston, " Miss LOUISE WINTHROP KOUES, New York, N. Y. E. DUDLEY FREEMAN, Portland, Me. JAMES F. DUDLEY, Hartford, Conn. HENRY DUDLEY TEETOR, Denver, Col. RICHARD M. JONES, Philadelphia, Penn. GUILFORD DUDLEY, Topeka, Kan. DR. FRANCIS H. ATKINS. E. Las Vegas, N. M. Secretary. DUDLEY R. CHILD, 30 High St., Boston Mass. Treasurer. L. EDWIN DUDLEY, 50 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass. Directors. CHAS. E. WIGGIN, Boston, Mass. WARREN P. DUDLEY, Boston, " JOSEPH B. MOORS, Boston, " ROBERT T. BABSON, Boston, " Miss JULIA C. CLARKE, Boston, " MRS. FLORENCE M. ADKINSON, Dorchester, " DR. DANIEL DUDLEY GILBERT, Dorchester, " DR. ALBION M. DUDLEY, Salem, " AUGUSTINE JONES, Providence, R. I. FRANK DUDLEY, Portland, Me. IReception anfc IReunioru The Committee on Memorials had been busily engaged, and had gathered and arranged, in the parlors of the Revere House, a large and interesting collection of por- traits of the ancestors of the different branches of the family, which were hung upon the walls, while many smaller articles were placed in show cases. The parlors were crowded from two o'clock until the hour for dinner, the Reception Committee using every endeavor to make all acquainted with each other. LIST OF MEMORIALS EXHIBITED IN THE PARLORS OF THE REVERE HOUSE. PORTRAITS. Gov. JOSEPH DUDLEY, son of Gov. Thomas Dudley. Painted in England about 1790. Owned by Dr. Daniel Dudley Gilbert, Dorchester, Mass. (Photographs of this portrait may be obtained from Elmer Chickering, West Street, Boston.) Gov. JOSEPH DUDLEY. Owned by Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, Cambridge, Mass. HON. WILLIAM DUDLEY, son of Gov. Joseph Dudley. Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee, Medford, Mass. HON. WILLIAM DUDLEY, son of Gov. Joseph Dudley and Rebecca Tyng (1686-1743). Owned by Dudley R. Child, Boston. CHIEF JUSTICE PAUL DUDLEY, son of Governor Joseph Dudley (1675-1751). Owned by Dudley R. Child. 20 RECEPTION AND REUNION. LUCY WAINWRIGHT, wife of Chief Justice Paul Dudley, and daughter of Col. John Wainwright and Elizabeth Norton. Owned by Dudley R. Child. REBECCA DUDLEY, daughter of Hon. Wm. Dudley. (Died 1809). Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee. REBECCA TYNG, wife of Gov. Joseph Dudley. Owned by Prof. Chas. Eliot Norton. JUDGE ADDINGTON DAVENPORT, whose daughter was wife of Hon. William Dudley. Painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee. MRS. ADDINGTON DAVENPORT. Painted by Kneller. Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee. ELIZABETH DAVENPORT, wife of Hon. Wm. Dudley. Painted by Blackburn about 1730. Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee, DUDLEY HALL, (born 1780). Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee. LUCY WINTHROP, niece of Lucy Wainwright. Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee. JOANNA (FERRYMAN) EMERY, great-great-granddaughter of Gov. Thos. Dudley. (Portrait on ivory.) Owned by Charles Emery Stevens, Worcester, Mass. PHOTOGRAPHS, ETC. Gov. JOSEPH DUDLEY. From portrait owned by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. Owned by Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D., Boston. HON. WILLIAM DUDLEY. Owned by Dean Dudley, Montrose, Mass. ELIZABETH DAVENPORT, wife of Hon. Wm. Dudley. Owned by Dean Dudley. REBECCA DUDLEY, daughter of Hon. Wm. Dudley. Owned by Dean Dudley. MARY DUDLEY, (born 1692), at fifteen years of age; daughter of Gov. Joseph Dudley, wife of Francis Wainwright, and later, of Capt. Joseph Atkins. Owned by Dean Dudley. CAPT. JOSEPH ATKINS. Owned by Dean Dudley. MARY DUDLEY, wife of Capt. Jos. Atkins. Owned by Dean Dudley. DR. DUDLEY ATKINS, (1798-1845), great-grandson of Gov. Joseph Dudley. Owned by Dr. Francis H. Atkins, of E. Las Vegas, New Mexico. RECEPTION AND REUNION. 21 LUCY WINTHROP, niece of Lucy Wainwright. Owned by Dean Dudley. DUDLEY HALL, of Medford (1850). Owned by Dean Dudley. SALLIE DUDLEY RUMRILL, sister of Col. Joseph Dudley, of Roxbury. Owned by F. W. Dudley. Six DIFFERENT VIEWS of Dudley Castle in Dudley, England, and the Dudley Fountain at same place. Owned by Dr. Albion M. Dudley, Salem, Mass. THE PORTRAIT OF Gov. JOSEPH DUDLEY before and after its restoration. Owned by Dr. D. D. Gilbert. WILLIAM WARD, late Earl of Dudley, England, and his family, Owned by Dr. Albion M. Dudley, Salem. ENGRAVING OF HON. DUDLEY WOODBRIDGE, great-grandson of Gov. Thos. Dudley. Owned by Dr. W. E. Woodbridge. RELICS, ETC. A " CLOTH OF GOLD " BAPTISMAL ROBE, with its inner robe of white moire antique, and a pair of large silver spoons with Dudley crest. The robe and spoons came down with the portrait of Gov. Joseph, through the line of Dudley ancestry, to the present owner. Owned by Dr. D. D. Gilbert. A MEMORIAL JEWEL in the shape of a funeral urn, set in rubies, and bearing within a representation of the weeping willow over an urn, and the monogram H. S., commemorating Henry Sewall, son of Rebecca Dudley and Samuel Sewall. Owned by Dr. D. D. Gilbert. Gov. JOSEPH DUDLEY'S holsters and horse pistols, snow-shoes, and his wife's overshoes and christening blanket. Owned by Mrs. Mary E. Brigham, Lexington, Mass. THE IRENICON by Major-Gen'l Daniel Denison. Owned by Prof. Daniel Denison Slade, Chestnut Hill, Mass. SILVER CAUDLE CUP, enchased with coat-of-arms. Gift from Gov. John Leverett to his daughter Mary, wife of Paul Dudley, the son of Gov. Thomas Dudley. Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee. FAC-SIMILE OF THE CHARTER OF HARVARD COLLEGE. Signed by Thomas Dudley, Governor of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. Owned by Sanford H. Dudley. 22 RECEPTION AND REUNION. DUDLEY COAT-OF-ARMS, with Dudley crest and quarterings of Dudley, Brandon, Royal England, and Hastings. Owned by Mrs. Catherine A. Dudley Bramble, New London, Conn. PAIR OF SILVER SUGAR BOWLS enchased with coat-of-arms, and owned by Gov. Joseph Dudley or his son Hon. Wm.^Dud- ley. Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee. TWELVE TEASPOONS with Dudley crest enchased. Handed down from Gov. Joseph Dudley. Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee. WICKER CRADLE, brought from EnglandbyGov. Joseph Dudley. It has been used by each generation since about 1700 and is in excellent condition. Owned by Mrs. H. H. Bradlee. Gov. JOSEPH DUDLEY'S gold ring, owned by Dudley H. Bradlee. SILK WEDDING VEST of Gov. Joseph Dudley. Owned byJMrs. Sarah Dudley Williams Chandler, Lexington, Mass. FOUR BABY CAPS made for the first child of William Dudley and Sarah Williams. Several ruffles made for her mother by this child at the age of thirteen. A silver teaspoon which belonged to Sarah Williams. The knitting sheath of wood and ivory which belonged to this family (Wm. Dudley) for seven generations. Exhibited by the N. E. Historic Gen- ealogical Society, through John Ward Dean, Librarian, and presented to the society by Mrs. Elizabeth C. Young, Medford, Mass. SILVER TABLESPOONS, which belonged to Lucretia Woodbridge, great-great-grand daughter of Mercy Dudley and Rev. John Woodbridge. Owned by Mrs. Catherine A. (Dudley) Bram- ble, New London, Conn. AUTOGRAPH letter to Hon. John Dudley, 1776, member of the New Hampshire Committee of safety, from Hon. Meshech Weare, of the committee. Owned by Dean Dudley. COMMISSION from Gov. Joseph Dudley to Lieut. Col. Winthrop Hilton making him commander of the Norridgwock Expedi- tion, 1706. Owned by Dean Dudley. FRONTISPIECE of a book with autograph of Samuel Sewall, Jr., (son of Judge Sewall) who married Rebecca, daughter of Gov. Joseph Dudley, in 1702. Owned by Dean Dudley. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS of Gov. Joseph Dudley to Col. Win- throp Hilton, 1707 and 1708. Col. Hilton was son of Ann Dudley, wife of Edward Hilton, Esq., and daughter of Rev. Samuel Dudley, eldest son of Gov. Thomas Dudley. Owned by Dean Dudley. RECEPTION AND REUNION. 23 DUDLEY coat-of-arms (in colors). Designed by Col. Harry C. Dudley of Buffalo, New York. Owned by Dean Dudley. CHART showing ancestry of the Barons of Dudley. Prepared and arranged by Col. H. C. Dudley, from Dean Dudley's tables. Owned by Dean Dudley. THE LINE OF DESCENT of the American family of Gov. Thomas Dudley, with his coat-of-arms and motto. Prepared by Col. H. C. Dudley. Owned by Dean Dudley. KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND. Line of descent. Compiled by Col. H. C. Dudley. Owned by Dean Dudley. GENEALOGICAL TABLE of the Anglo-Saxon line of kings of Eng- land. Compiled by Col. H. C. Dudley. COURT SUIT worn by Dudley Cotton, great grandson of Gov. Joseph Dudley. Owned by Dudley R. Child. Two WINE GLASSES that belonged to Gov. Joseph Dudley, and piece of embroidered satin from his wedding coat. Owned by Dudley R. Child. LIST OF PERSONS PRESENT AT THE REUNION. J. DOWNIE ALBKEE, . . . Charlestown, Mass. FLORENCE M. ADKINSON, JUNE ADKINSON, . . GBENVILLE M. ATKINS, FRANK W. ATKINS, S. H. ATKINS, MRS. HEPHSIBAII HALL BRADLEE, ARTHUR F. BENSON, MRS. MARY DUDLEY BALDWIN, ALICE MENDON BROOKS, MARY E. BOYER, THOMAS J. BRADSTREET, THOMAS DUDLEY BRADSTREET, . ALBERT P. BRADSTREET, EDWARD THOMAS BRADSTREET, HENRY BALDWIN, ABBY DUDLEY BROWN, HOWARD DUDLEY BROWN, . Medford, Salem, Andover, Brattleboro, Ashmore, Thomas ton, Vt. 111. Conn. Meriden, " Boston, Mass. West Medford, " 24 RECEPTION AND REUNION. MRS. CATHERINE A. DUDLEY BRAMBLE, New London, J. D. BARRY, ..... Boston, ALETHEA H. BUFFUM, . . Franklin Park, DANA PRESCOTT BARTLETT, . . Boston, C. DUDLEY BROWN, ... " MRS. MARY E. BRIGHAM, . . Lexington, EGBERT T. BABSON, . . . Gloucester, MRS. MARY L. BABB, . . . Boston, MRS. R. L. BULLARD, . . . Dorchester, ROBERT BRADSTREET BARTLETT, . Brookline, J. G. BARTLETT, .... Chestnut Hill, EDWIN N. BINGHAM, . . . Hartford, MRS. MARY A. L. CLAPP, . . Framingham, FANNIE L. CLAPP, .... " MELLEN CHAMBERLAIN, . . Chelsea, GEORGE T. CLARK, .... Muskegon, PAUL DUDLEY CHASE, . . . Boston, DR. ELIZABETH ABBOTT CARLETON, " JULIA COGSWELL CLARKE, . . " EDITH CHILD, " DUDLEY RICHARDS CHILD, . . " JOHN Q. A. CHANDLER, . . . Lexington, MRS. SARAH DUDLEY WILLIAMS CHANDLER, " Conn. Mass. MRS. HARRIET A. CURTIS, WILLIAM BROOKS CABOT, MRS. MISSOURI S. CHILD, . DR. ALBION M. DUDLEY, THOMAS W. DUDLEY, CLARA A. DUDLEY, JENNIE BUTLER DUDLEY, FRANK DUDLEY, ELBRIDGE G. DUDLEY, DEAN DUDLEY, ELLA SOPHIA DUDLEY, HENRY W. DUDLEY, CHARLES DUDLEY, . MARY DUDLEY, GEORGE A. DUDLEY, CHARLES HOWARD DUDLEY, Quincy, Lexington, Boston, Salem, Portland, Boston, Wakefield, Biddeford, Abington, Boston, Danvers, Conn. Mass. Mich. Mass. Me. Mass. u Me. Mass. H (I RECEPTION AND REUNION. 25 WILLIAM HENRY DUDLEY, . F. W. DUDLEY, . PALMER DUDLEY, GEORGE E. DUDLEY, . . , WARREN P. DUDLEY, . " . SANFORD H. DUDLEY, . . ABBY WELD DUDLEY, . EDWIN C. DUDLEY, . , . CHARLES H. DUDLEY, . . MRS. CHARLES H. DUDLEY, MRS. HELEN M. DUDLEY, HENRY H. DUDLEY, . . ' ARIANA S. DUDLEY, L. EDWIN DUDLEY, MRS. L. EDWIN DUDLEY, MRS. ELBRIDGE G. DUDLEY, A. PALMER DUDLEY, M. D., ROSE DUDLEY, . HOWLAND DUDLEY, ISABEL IRVING DUDLEY, . MRS. LAURA N. ROWLAND DUDLEY, MARY E. DUDLEY, . DANA T. DUDLEY, JAMES WILLARD DUDLEY, MRS. CHARLES F. DUDLEY, . ALBERTUS T. DUDLEY, FRANCIS PERRY DUDLEY, C. D. DUDLEY, . FRANCIS D. DUDLEY, SUMNER F. DUDLEY, FREDERICK A. DUDLEY, ARABELLA L. DUDLEY, E. GERTRUDE DUDLEY, LAURA HOWLAND DUDLEY, . ' . JOHN WARD DEAN, MRS. WILLIAM B. DUDLEY, SARAH HALE DAVIS, MARY DOUGLAS DAY, MARY CHILD Whitman, Mass. Brighton, " Portland, Me. Boston, Mass. Cambridge, " a n Roxbury, " Augusta, Me. WoBurn, Mass. Roxbury, " Boston, Mass. Brentwood, N. H. Boston, Mass. MR. S. H. DUDLEY, 95 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS. My Dear Sir : I am in receipt of your very kind letter of Oct. i8th, inviting me to be present at the reunion of the descendants of Gov. Thomas Dudley, on the 25th inst. I regret extremely to say that owing to an important engagement for that day it will be impossible for me to be present. Please to express to his descendants my sincere regret that I cannot be with them, and my best wishes for a most enjoyable evening to you all. Thanking you for your kind invitation, I am, Very truly yours, WILLIAM H. HAILE. Some months since I had the great pleasure of listening to a gentleman who gave a brief essay on one or two 38 ADDEESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. episodes in the life of Governor Thomas Dudley. It was so excellent and so appreciative that the ladies and gentle- men having in charge the proper arrangements for this evening had no difficulty, among the able and competent students of our early history, in selecting him to make the principal address of this occasion. That he is able to en- tertain and to instruct us goes without saying, when I mention to you that he is a lineal descendant of Ann Bradstreet, daughter of Governor Dudley, and wife of a man, who, like Dudley, occupied a great place in the his- tory of the colony. I now have the pleasure of presenting to you, Mr. Joseph B. Moors of Boston. 3oeepb B, flDoors, We have met together this evening, the descendants of a common ancestor, one whom Professor Fiske has seen fit to describe in his " Beginnings of New England, " recently published, as one whose Puritanism " was bleak and stern," and who " for Christian charity was not eminent" Thomas Dudley, Second Governor of Massachusetts. And Pro- fessor Fiske, doubtless not contemplating this gathering, has been good enough to add that the history of Dudley's family in the old country, as well as in New England, has not been altogether creditable. For myself, I shall at- tempt no argument as to this latter statement, but as to the former, that Governor Thomas Dudley was a stern and bleak character, and " not eminent for Christian charity, " and one for whom " it is much easier to entertain respect than affection," I will say, that what researches I have been able to make have given me a constantly deeper sense of this man's worth, of his courage, steadfastness, ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOOES. 39 good sense, loyalty, and of that calmness which came to the best of the Puritans with their faith in Almighty God. And I look forward with eagerness to the time when Oct. iQth, 1892. J My Dear Sir : I regret that I shall not be able to be present at the meeting of the descendants of Governor Dudley. After so many gen- erations it may not be possible to trace the lineaments of the old head of the family, but it will be interesting to look for them, and it is far from possible that resemblances among the descendants may here and there show themselves. If there are any such they would be brought out in photographs. It would be well to have the whole group photographed together if possible. Wishing all success to the gathering of the sturdy old Gov- ernor's progeny, Yours very truly, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Another letter I am very sure you will wish to hear. It is from Prof. Charles Eliot Norton. ASHFIELD, MASS, 6 Sept., 1892. My Dear Sir : I regret that" absence from home has delayed my reply to your favor of the 3oth August. I feel greatly honored by the desire of the Committee in charge of the Dudley celebration that I should take part in the proceedings, and I am very sorry that it is quite out of my LETTERS OF REGRET. 63 power to do so, on account of the pressure of engagements which cannot be given up or postponed. With all good wishes for the success of the Reunion, I am Very truly yours, S/ H. DUDLEY, ESQ., C. E. NORTON. Chairman. Among the compeers and co-workers of Dudley and Winthrop and Endecott, and the rest who accomplished so much in founding the colony, was Sir Richard Salton- stall. And what so meet and fitting as that some repre- sentative of Sir Richard should be invited to participate in these festivities ? His distinguished descendant, the Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, writes as follows : 953 EXCHANGE BUILDING, ? BOSTON, Oct. 20, 1892. f S. H. DUDLEY, 95 MILK STREET, BOSTON. My Dear Sir : I regret extremely that my engagements will not permit of my accepting your kind invitation to the Dudley Reunion on Tuesday next. I have the strongest feeling for the memory of the forefathers, especially that noble company who were the founders of the Massachusetts Colony. Your ancestor, Governor Dudley, was of course intimately connected in that great enterprise with Sir Richard Saltonstall. He was one of the fathers of the Colony and as such surely deserves the respect and admiration of his descendants. As I grow older I feel a great interest in everything con- nected with them. I love to think of them, to read of them, and to study their character. Whatever may have been their failings, and they were few, they were wonderful men, and their character has been very generally impressed upon their descen- dants. I trust your Reunion of the Dudley descendants will result in their permanent organization, for such must be conducive to the future welfare of our country. Very truly yours, LEVERETT SALTONSTALL. 64 EXPLANATORY. It is said of Governor Dudley that in his youth he was clerk unto a certain judge, but " before he could ap- pear to do much at the pen, for which he was very well accomplished, he was called upon to do something at the sword ; for being a young gentleman well known for his ingenuity, courage and conduct, when there were soldiers- to be raised by order from Queen Elizabeth for the French service, in the time of King Henry the Fourth, the young sparks about Northampton were none of them willing to 1 enter into the service until a commission was given unto- our young Dudley to be their captain ; and then presently there were forescore that listed under him." Let me sajr to you that martial ardor has not died out among his de- scendants. You well remember the stirring scenes of the war, or the older ones among you do, how call after call was made by President Lincoln for the young men of the country, how they flocked to its defence, and what valiant deeds they did. I need not describe it further, for we have a gentleman here to-night who obeyed that call to duty, went to the front and performed his duty, true to the lineage from which he sprung. Need I mention his name ? I will call upon Col. L. Edwin Dudley to address you. There was much applause as Col. Dudley arose to speak r but at this point occurred a most unlooked for episode. Mr. Dean Dudley, who was assigned to speak later, arose and said that it was unfair not to call him at this time, that the people expected him to speak now, claiming it so intended, and he proceeded to read an address. President Dudley attempted to expostulate with him, but Mr. Dean Dudley declined to discontinue his address, and the presi- dent permitted him to proceed without further objection. [Mr. Dean Dudley proceeded to read an address now appearing in a pamphlet which he claims to have copy- righted. As he has declined to confer with the Committee having this Report in .charge, and has not authorized a. reproduction of his Address, it has seemed inadvisable to the committee to insert it here.] Gomb of 0ov>. bomas The above out represents the tomb of our distinguished ancestor, Gov. Thomas Dudley, as it appears at the present time in the ancient burial ground, on Eustis St., Roxbury, and not far distant from the site of the house where the Governor lived. He died at Roxbnry, July 31, 1054, and was buried here with all the honors to which his distinguished position in life entitled him. [The Association is indebted to Col. L. Edwin Dudley for this excellent cut]. EXPLANATORY. 65 The President : I do not intend to apologize for Mr. Dean Dudley. Had it not been for him I think I can say with confidence that we should not be here to-night. He it is who has done the work which nobody else was willing to do. The wonder is that he has accomplished so much. I am very sure that you will all join with me in tendering to him our heartiest thanks for the great work he has ac- complished in making our family acquainted with itself. Nearly a half century ago, as a young man full of enthu- siam and determination, he set out to complete the task he had set for himself. He worked, he studied, he investi- gated. He travelled to the home of our ancestors and visited their family seat and castle. Wherever a name or a date could be found, there he was sure to go, and the result was a book which most of you may have heard of and some may own, as it has been handed down to us by our fathers. But let me say that now, in his old age, he is collecting a mass of rich material, illustrative of the his- tory of our family which might otherwise have disap- peared ; and to him we are indebted more than to any other man for the means of knowing ourselves. He is the guest of the evening, therefore, and I know how you all have desired to see and hear him. He is much interested as you have observed, in everything that shall conduce to the proper preservation of the tomb of Governor Dud- ley where rest his remains and that of his family ; also in the erection of some suitable monument or memorial to the memory of Governor Dudley and I am very sure that it has been a pleasure to us all to have him here with us to-night. But I shall not permit you to forget that I have called upon another gentleman to address you and that we have not yet heard from him. May I not, then, again present to you Colonel L. Edwin Dudley, of Boston. 66 Col. Emblems Hfcfcress. Mr. Chairman: You all know that when Governor Thomas Dudley came to Massachusetts he brought with him his son Samuel, then twenty years of age. I am his descendant in the seventh generation. You have always heard more of his brother Joseph, younger than himself by thirty-six years ; and all the credit that has been given to Governor Joseph Dudley is more than deserved. He was one of the foremost men of his time, his service to the cause of free government cannot easily be over-rated. I am not surprised that his descendants feel* unusual pride in their ancestry; on every hand we still see the marks of his handiwork. None shall go before me in paying all honor to Joseph Dudley and to his sister Anne Bradstreet, the first American poetess ; to both I give all honor and praise. The descendants of Anne Dudley Bradstreet and those of Governor Joseph Dudley, have spoken and written words of praise more eloquent than any that will come to me, and to all that has and can be said in praise of their lives and good works I say amen, and amen. But I am proud to belong to the pioneer branch of the family ; pioneer in a more particular sense. I am as proud of my descent from the Rev. Samuel Dudley of Exeter, New Hampshire, as any of you can be of yours, and while I take nothing from you, I must speak of the godly man who lived and worked quietly, earnestly and energetically for the salvation of his fellowmen and the regeneration of the world. Born and bred in the lap of luxury in the old world, educated as but few were in his time, the eldest son of Governor Thomas Dudley, desiring with all the ardor of his young heart, religious freedom, gladly joined his father and came here to endure the hardships and privations of ADDRESS BY COL. DUDLEY. 67 the new world. We may indeed, in view of the fact that he and Mary Winthrop, who sometime later became his wife, surmise, there is no record to confirm the thought, that he and his sweetheart agreed together to meet the dangers, the difficulties and the privations of the new world hand in hand. They came with their fathers and mothers in the good ship Arbella and took their part in the struggles, hardships and privations which the new colony endured, and two years later joined their fortunes for better and for worse as man and wife. This reverend pioneer, who aided in the settlement of Cambridge, Boston, Ipswich, and Salisbury, in Massachu- setts, and Exeter in New Hampshire, certainly left an im- press upon this colony hardly second to that left by any man who ever inhabitated this territory. Always con- tented to be an humble teacher and fellow worker with his neighbors and friends, he none the less, led and in- fluenced them for the right in the great work of building the Commonwealth. His thoughts and influence helped on the good cause at all times. The descendants of Rev. Samuel Dudley of Exeter are now scattered far and wide throughout the United States. In every war from the first until now, his descendants have been on the side of the government, for freedom and for union and against rebellion, oppression, slavery and wrong. Several descendants of Rev. Samuel Dudley gave their li ves for the country in the early struggles with the French and the Indians. My own great grandfather laid down his life for his country at Monmouth in the war of the Revolution, and many others did their part nobly and well, and several gave their lives that their country might live. In the war of 1812, although not a popular war in New England, some of Samuel Dudley's descendants took part in behalf of the government. The war with Mexico was. 68 ADDRESS BY COL. DUDLEY. still less popular among the freedom loving people of New England, but when the flag of the Union led the way, many of the descendants of the puritan preacher en- tered the ranks. In the war of the Rebellion, the fight of freedom against slavery, numerous New England regiments bore the names of descendants of Rev. Samuel Dudley. I have yet to find a single descendant of Rev. Samuel Dudley who took arms against his country. It was the proud boast of my brothers and myself in the last war, that we knew of no man among our own immediate kindred, able to bear arms, of the age for military duty, who was not in the ranks doing his duty for the flag, for freedom and for his country ; and there were many who carried their muskets whom no draft could have reached. I was myself the eldest of four brothers who entered the Union army. One of my younger brothers, a brave boy of fifteen carried a musket and did a soldier's duty in the siege of Nash- ville. He suffered the cold, hunger and all the privations of that siege and took his part in the work which brought about the glorious victory which sent Hood on his trip southward, and paved the >way for the subsequent victo- ries in the south-west. The descendants of Rev. Samuel Dudley have always been pioneers. The region about Exeter was no sooner subdued than they pushed out to Brentwood, and on to York, Maine, and to all the region round about. They extended their lines in all directions and subdued the land- They fought all the enemies that contend against settlers in a new country ; they endured all the hardships that those who would make a home in a New England wilder- ness must endure. I have no time to give you details, al- though a most interesting story might be written of their migrations and work ; but I well remember the story of my own father. He was the eleventh child of Stephen ADDRESS BY COL. DUDLEY. 69 Dudley and Deborah Elkins ; his oldest brother was more than twenty years his senior. That eldest brother, my uncle Timothy, in the year 1816, the very year in which my father was born, went to Northern Vermont, then a wilderness, and began to make a home in the woods. He labored well, and in 1820 he had cleared a farm, builded a saw and grist mill and was then ready to provide for his family. He returned to New Hampshire and my grand- father packed up his effects, took his family and started for the new country. My grandfather's eldest child, my aunt Patience, had married a young man by the name of Weeks, and they were settled in their humble home, and they decided to remain behind. My father, then but five years of age, used to tell me of the hardships of the jour- ney ; how the snow covered them at night and how they suffered with cold, sometimes with hunger, and how fa- tigued all became before they reached their journey's end at Barton, Vermont. I can only give you a brief outline of the life of Rev. Samuel Dudley; but his descendants should gather up, and fondly treasure, every record of the life of their great and good ancestor for the benefit and guidance of all future generations of his descendants. The few facts I have been able to learn in the short time I have been able to take from the duties of a position which claims my time during most of my waking hours, are briefly as follows. Rev. Samuel Dudley was born in Northamptonshire, England, in 1610. The exact day I have not been able to learn. During the years of his childhood, his father was clerk to his kinsman, the renowned Judge Nicolls, and all educational advantages enjoyed by the youth of his time were his. During the later time, for several years before coming to America, Thomas Dudley was the steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and his son lived in the 70 ADDRESS BY COL. DUDLEY greatest intimacy with the membrs of that great houses and the numerous guests, embracing some of the brightest and best of English nobility and men of letters of that time. He had the advantage of the teaching of John Dod, the Decaloguist, John Cotton, and of others among the eminent divines and theologians of his time. He was born to the protestant faith and to a belief in the rights of the people. It was not allotted to Samuel Dudley to go through the period of doubt and difficulty in religious and political beliefs which were the inevitable part of the pre- ceding generation. When he came to manhood his mind was clear and free from all doubts upon the questions which had been solved with so much difficulty by his im- mediate progenitors. The fate of his kinsman, Lord Guilford Dudley, and his lovely wife, Lady Jane Grey, were then comparatively re- cent events, and the persecutions of other members of his family for opinion's sake were kept green in the memory of the young people of his day, and generation. But it was not required of him to suffer as they had done. He took his place with his father, who had resolved all these doubts, as an adherent to the protestant faith, and of the theory that all men should have a voice in controlling the government in which they lived. He was not obliged to look back, so far as we must, to the great act of the Barons at Runnimede by which King John was forced to concede the great charter, which first gave to English speaking people a recognition of their inalienable rights, which had always belonged to them and had never before been ac- knowledged by those who claimed a God given right to rule their fellowmen in their own way. But the day of persecution for opinion's sake, both religious and political, had not yet gone by, and Samuel Dudley ranged himself on the side of the people, and, forsaking all that was dear to him in his native country, he came to America to be- ADDRESS BY COL. DUDLEY. 71 come a simple member of a colony which was determined to establish religious freedom and the right of the peopl e to rule. These sentiments he inculcated during all the fifty-three years he lived in America, and to his teaching and example we may well attribute much of the intelli- gence of the people upon these questions when the time came for America to declare herself a free and indepen- dent nation. Arriving at Salem with his father, Governor Winthrop, and the other members of the company, we soon find Sam- uel Dudley settled with others at " Newtown" now Cam- bridge. We find him a lieutenant of Captain Underhill's company, the first of our militia, two years after (1632) his arrival in America he is married to Mary Winthrop, the daughter of the Governor. We find that the colony upon three occasions made him grants of land, and that he erected a house which stood at or near the corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn Streets. In 1635, Samuel Dudley, his brothers-in-law Bradstreet, Winthrop and Dennison removed to Ipswich, and for a time his father also lived there. In 1638, he went with others to found the town of Salisbury. While there he occupied the most important offices in the gift of the people. He represented Salisbury in the General Court in 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645. He was many years the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, and in 1648 he was elected associate judge with Richard Bellingham and Samuel Simonds " to hold court from year to year." He was then, as afterwards, often made a commissioner to settle boundaries, and, indeed, seems to have been here, as always, recognized as one upon whose official acts the peo- ple might at all times depend. During Mr. Dudley's residence at Salisbury his wife died, and sometime later he married Mary Bayles. In 1650, the people of Exeter, New Hampshire, called 72 ADDRESS BY COL. DUDLEY. Mr. Dudley to become their pastor and he accepted their call. The people agreed to give him a salary of forty pounds a year, to furnish him with a house and lot, of which he was to have the use and the benefit of all better- ments. The following year Mr. Dudley and Samuel Le- gat were granted the liberty to erect a saw mill ; they were also given the right to take timber therefor from the Commons. When Exeter came to feel that Dover and Hampton were encroaching upon the boundaries of the town, Mr. Dudley and Edward Gilman were selected as Commission- ers to the General Court, to secure a settlement of the question, a duty that they satisfactorily performed. In 1655, the town of Exeter endured a year of great hardship and misfortune, and Mr. Dudley came forward and asked the town to reduce his salary that he might share his part of the public burden. Small as that salary was, with a large family, it seems to me an act of heroism of which all his descendants should be more than proud. But, during his whole life, he was one of his people and he labored for them, suffered with them, and always put aside all selfish consideration for the benefit of his people. .History already does him this much justice. Four years later, upon invitation, he preached for a considerable time at Portsmouth and the people there were so much pleased that they gave him a call to settle among them, and offered him eighty pounds a year ; double the salary for which he went to Exeter and much more than double what he was then receiving ; but he was one of his peo- ple and he would not leave them for a selfish considera- tion. Mr. Dudley was often deputy from Exeter to the General Court at Boston, where the laws were then made for New Hampshire. Mr. Dudley devoted his leisure time to building and operating mills, to farming and to breeding and raising ADDRESS BY COL. DUDLEY. 73 stock. Indeed, he seems to have been the first in this country to attempt to improve the breed of horses, cattle and sheep ; but none of these occupations were for a sin- gle moment allowed to stand in the way of the perfor- mance of his duty as a minister of the Gospel or public officer. To support his numerous family without burden- ing his people, he did everything in his power, but he was always the devoted clergyman and the faithful public officer. In 1651, very soon after his removal to Exeter, his sec- ond wife died, and later he married Elizabeth. Although I am a descendant from her, as are all of Rev. Samuel Dud- ley's descendants now living, who bear the name of Dud- ley, I do not find anywhere a record of this lady's family name. To find her name should be one of the first duties of the Association we have this day formed. Rev. Samuel Dudley had eighteen children. Mary Winthrop Dudley was the mother of three sons and two daughters ; Mary Bayles of three sons and two daughters ; and Elizabeth of four sons and four daughters ; making in all ten sons and eight daughters. The two eldest sons lived for years with their grandfather and were educated by him ; one of them died soon after graduating at Har- vard College. Indeed, of all the ten sons, the only one having descendants of the name of Dudley now living was Stephen, son of the third wife. But there are many of them and they are generally recognized in the commu- nities where they live as fairly good people, doing the work of their positions in life well and honestly. I have no time to quote the very flattering tributes which historians have paid to the life work of Rev. Samuel Dudley. He died on February 16, 1683, aged 73 years. His grave has been sadly neglected, as have been the graves of many of his immediate descendants. The res- toration and permanent care of these tombs should be a 74 ADDRESS BY COL. DUDLEY. sacred duty to the descendants, and I hope that through the association we have to-day formed, some action will be taken immediately. Rev. Samuel Dudley, has been much less praised and much less abused, than his illustrious younger brother. This is simply because he led a quiet life among his peo- ple and did not go out and take part in the great political struggles of the time. Although less known in his own time, and much less known in our later days, I cannot avoid the feeling that his quiet teaching, his noble exam- ple, his pains taking and energetic work among the peo- ple of the colony, made its mark and influenced the for- mation of our Commonwealth and through it the whole United States, quite as much as the more public career of his younger brother, Governor Joseph Dudley. Each did his part nobly and well, and no other two of the younger generation of the puritan fathers is more entitled to credit and honor from the whole country. Within a few weeks some one, favorable to the Ply- mouth Colony, has spoken of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay as a "mere trading company." Nothing more un- just could have been said. If there ever was a devoted band of people willing to sacrifice their property and, if need be, their lives for opinions' sake, the good men and women who came, in the Arbella and in other ships, to Salem and to Boston, was that band. Far be it from me to belittle in any way the great service to human freedom rendered by those who came to Plymouth in the May- flower and her consorts ; but I must claim and shall in- sist that equal honor is due to the devoted men and women of our Colony. Who can recall the " Body of Liberties " enacted by the Massachusetts Colony in 1641, without feeling that those men planted here the germ of our free institutions ? A hint of it all was contained in the compact signed in the cabin of the Mayflower ; this ADDRESS BY COL. DUDLEY. 75 was somewhat elaborated by subsequent legislation at Plymouth. But our ancestors laid the broad foundation for all the institutions of our government and most of the laws, perhaps a little changed in phraseology, but not in spirit, are still law in this Commonwealth. Those laws have endured because they were founded upon the eternal principles of justice and had for their corner stone and in- spiration the Commandments handed down on tables of stone from Mount Sinai. Long years ago the two colonies became one, and their descendants are now so united that but few know to which they trace their ancestry. Both were the fore-runners of that liberty of the people which belongs to all people and which the men and women of all the world will some day enjoy. When that day comes the whole world will do honor to the early settlers of Massachusetts and they will not discriminate between those who came to the South and those who came to the North shore, nor between those who 1 landed here in 1620 and those who arrived in 1630. Ply- mouth and Massachusetts are to be one forevermore. Our ancestors struggled with great problems of govern- ment and settled them. Later generations have manfully resisted wrong and tyranny as did their fathers. Much has been done ; indeed the whole world has been revolution- ized ; but much still remains to be done. The human race will never see the end of the old con- flict between right and wrong that began in the Garden of Eden, until the millennium co mes ; therefore there are great questions for us to settle in our time ; questions of as great importance as many of those for which our fathers fought and for which so many sacrified their lives. That we may contend for the right by peaceable means now, is by no means evidence that the questions of the hour are less important than those that have gone before. Our fathers have secured to us the right and the opportu- 76 ADDRESS BY COL. DUDLEY. nity to settle our questions upon the hustings and at the ballot box ; none the less is it the duty of every free man and especially of every descendant of such a race ' as ours to read, think and act at all times for the good of his coun- try and his people. Let the illustrious example of our no- ble ancestor stimulate us each and all to high motives, brave resolves and noble deeds ; to constant vigilance and untiring devotion to duty. Let us each and all feel it to be our duty to advance the cause of civilization and freedom, guided by the spirit of the poet who summons us to* "MOVE ONWARD." " Why open history's illumined page And read of heroes of a by-gone age ? Is it that we may shrink back in dismay And weakly cry, " we are not such as they ?" Is it that we may carve their monument With words of praise and go away content ? Is it that we may every footprint trace That marks the.progress of the mighty race, And having found the spot where last they stood May halt there, saying, " this we know is good !" ? Ah! no! the embers in each sacred urn Unquenched by death, with fires immortal burn ; Approach! and from the ashes of your sires Relight the torch, and kindle other fires ; Ye, who are called their sons, do not again In dull routine, with blind, unthinking pain, What they did with conviction fresh and strong, That they were right and their opponents wrong. Ye who would truly to their place succeed, Read not the barren letter of their deed, But catch the spirit of their acts and go Forward to war against the present foe. Use not the borrowed armor of some Saul, Lest thou beneath the cumbrous burden fall ; But when thou fightest in the war of Heaven Take thou the weapons which thy God has given ; Eat not the husks of custom, stale and dead, But feed thy soul upon the living bread ; COL. HENRY LEE'S LETTEK. 77 Wear not the garb of habit, but receive Fresh impulse, and thoughts new vesture weave ; Be not a hollow echo, but a voice From the deep heart and make the heart rejoice; Let not the multitude without hold sway ; Live thy own life, and inward law obey ; Thy fathers all the path of faith have trod, And living faith alone leads thee to God. Col. 1benn? Xee'6 letter. Mr. President : There was a time, and that within my memory, when all the inhabitants of New England and especially of the old town of Boston, were descendants of those brave, pious men, who quitted pleasant homes in their native land to encounter the dangers of the seas, of savage beasts, and still more savage men, to endure the pangs of homesick- ness, the hardships of wilderness life, the rigors of the climate, for conscience's sake. Now that we have become the asylum of all those afflicted or distressed in mind, body or estate, the dump- ing ground of the world ; it is getting to be difficult to distinguish between the descendants of these hardy pio- neers, who levelled the forests, built the villages, and developed the industries ; these far-seeing builders of the State, the leaders of whom, bred in the colleges of the old country, had held the positions of clergymen, lawyers, or men of affairs. I say, it is difficult now to distinguish between the rightful heirs of this goodly heritage, and the new comers, driven by starvation or by justice hither, luxuriat- ing in the abundance and freedom created by the unceas- ing toil of head and hand of eight generations of our an- cestors. I feel the more sensitive on this point, inasmuch as the 78 COL. HENRY LEE'S LETTER. prevalence of my name among the Mongolian immigrants will probably lead to confusion between my descendants and those of Wang or Ching Lee. The company here assembled has this bond of union, that they are all directly descended from Thos. Dudley, the Puritan. One must, of course, judge every man by reference to his time. But the difficulty of recalling the condition of the world, its advance in thought, its code of morals at that epoch, is very great. Thomas Dudley was a Puritan of Puritans. It would have shocked him to foresee that by the process of evolu- tion, and, as we think, of enlightenment, the churches in Boston and Roxbury, which he helped to found, and many of his descendants, profess Unitarian faith today. There- fore, to do him justice we must compare him with his con- temporaries and not with his descendants. Before his advent hither, we find him at the age of twenty-one, a Captain of Volunteers at the siege of Amiens, though his father, Captain Roger Dudley, had been slain in the same service seven years previous at the battle of Ivry. We know that his legal training fitted him to become the Steward of the Earl of Lincoln, that in that capacity he not only paid off the heavy debt on the vast estates, but also acquired a great influence over the character and con- duct of that liberal young nobleman, and retained the friendship of Lady Bridget, his wife, to whom was ad- dressed the well known letter from his new home. We feel sure then that he was a brave soldier, and a man of great force and probity of character, not slothful in business ; just the man to sacrifice all worldly consider- ations for liberty of thought and action in politics and re- ligion. Our information respecting him here is chiefly derived COL. HENRY LEE'S LETTER. 79 from the journal of the other great founder of our Puri- tan Commonwealth, to whom he was closely allied as a magistrate, and afterwards as a brother-in-law. Winthrop, when superseded by Dudley as Governor, speaks of him thus respectfully, "Besides, this gentle- man was a man of approved wisdom and godliness, and of much good service to the country, and therefore it was his due to share in such honor and benefit as the country had to bestow." Their theories of government did not, however, always coincide, " the former (Winthrop) carrying matters with more lenity, and the latter with more severity ;" and I think that impartial judges would prefer Winthrop's leni- ty to our ancestor's severity ; and we must confess that in him justice was not enough seasoned with mercy, that he was choleric and somewhat jealous, that he treated his brother magistrate with undue and unrelenting bitterness on several occasions, and that he lacked that magnanimity which preserved Winthrop's relations with Endicott and Vane and Roger Williams, two of whom he had censured and the other banished. " Mr. Dudley was somewhat hard at first to be brought to see any evil in it ; but at last he was convinced and did acknowledge it, and they were reconciled. " The heart-felt repentance of this rigid man of justice, this " trusty old stud," goes far to redeem his choleric out- bursts. On one occasion he unburdened himself thus, " That he was well persuaded of the Governor's love to him, and did prize it so much if as they had given him X100 in- stead of 20 he would not have had it. " After another outburst of cantankerousness, to which Winthrop returned a soft answer ; he writes, "Your over- coming yourself hath overcome me." It seems as if the proper word to apply to him was 80 COL. HENRY LEE'S LETTER. crusty, and the crust once broken there was a soft and sweet inside. What a pretty passage in the lives of these two sorely tried men, beset with danger from abroad and dissension from within, both disinterested and upright ; this peace- ful episode at Concord, whither they went to divide their lands, "where they offered each other the first choice, but because the deputy's was first granted and himself had store of land already, the Governor (Winthrop) yielded him the choice. So at the place where the deputy's land was to begin there were two great stones, which they called the Two Brothers in remembrance that they were brothers by their childrens' marriage and did so brotherly agree. Dudley had the courage of his convictions ; no man was left ignorant of his sentiments, and no man ever questioned their sincerity. He had constancy ; having put his hand to the plough he never turned back, as did many of the first generation, forsaking their brethren here. So closely intertwined were the two leaders of the little colony that one cannot help associating them and compar- ing them together. In so doing, we must bear in mind that Dudley was the elder of the two, his responsibilities at home had been heavy, his word had almost been law to his noble master, his was a nature not afflicted with doubt, those who differed from him must surely be in error. Both these men, with their associate leaders in church and state, were far before their time in the purity of their lives and the elevation of their thoughts. For they indeed believed that things seen are temporal and things unseen eternal, and so believing laid deep the foundations of their Puritan Commonwealth. For one I congratulate myself that among my ancestors I can include the brave, true, constant Thomas Dudley, the unflinching, uncompromising Defender of the Faith. HENEY LEE. INTRODUCTION OF DR. DUDLEY. 81 The President : Johnson, in his wonder-working Provi- dence, speaking of New England at about the time of Dudley's death, says that the people are, "through the blessing of the Lord, so increased that they have not only fed their elder sisters, Virginia, Barbadoes, and many of the Summer Islands, that were preferred before her, but also the grandmother of us all, even the fertile isle of Great Britain." There is a gentleman here who not only knows all about the landing of the Arbella at Salem on that de- lightful day in June, but having " visited the grandmother of us all," largely for the purpose of visiting and examin- ing the famous Dudley Castle, a picture of which he has kindly allowed us to use in adorning our menu, may well be called upon to say something about what he saw and heard. But this is not all. Winthrop says, under date of June 12, 1630, of the landing of the Arbella, " About four in the morning we were near our port. We shot off two pieces of ordnance, and sent our skiff to Mr. Peirce his ship which lay in the harbor, and had been there days be- fore. About an hour after, Mr. Allerton came aboard us in a shallop as he was sailing to Pemaquid. As we stood towards the harbor, we saw another shallop coming towards us ; so we stood to meet her, and passed through the narrow strait between Baker's Isle and Little Isle, and came to an anchor a little within the islands. After,. Mr. Peirce came aboard us, and returned to fetch Mr. Endecott, and with him Mr. Skelton and Capt. Levett. "We, that were of the assistants, and some other gentle- men, and some of the women, and our captain, returned with them to Nahumkeak, where we supped with a good venison pasty and good beer, and at night we returned to our ship, but some of the women stayed behind. In the meantime most of our people went ashore upon the= 82 REMABKS BY DB. DUDLEY. land of Cape Ann, which lay very near us, and gathered store of fine strawberries." Now, the gentleman I have already referred to, but have not mentioned by name, can not only tell us about Dudley castle, but I believe can also tell us about those " fine strawberries " on Cape Ann ; and, more than that, may possibly explain how it is that they used to spell Salem in such a horrible way [Nahumkeak], Let me, then, at once, present to you Dr. Albion M. Dudley, of Salem. IRemarfcs of S>r- 2>uMe\>. Dr. Dudley said, "Dear Brothers, Sisters, Cousins and Aunts (laughter) : I feel almost overwhelmed by the ex- ceedingly flattering introduction of myself by the presid- ing officer and so am hardly equal to the occasion. I re quested that I should not be called upon, there being so many speakers. The subject assigned me is one which, while I have given the matter some considerable thought and study, could certainly be responded to by others much better than by myself. I am quite sure I could not tell you much with regard to "Cape Ann strawberries," either of the past or present, and as for the description of the landing of our distinguished ancestor and his family, with the others of that noble band, at Salem, in June, 1630, and just why our city was then called "Nahumkeak," though more recently " Naumkeag," I had expected that a dis- tinguished member of our family from Salem, the Hon. Stephen H. Phillips, ex-Attorney General of this common- wealth, would be present to speak to you in relation to those matters for he could do it so much better than I can. In his regretted absence, I think the very best thing REMARKS BY DR. DUDLEY. 83 I can do is to extend to you all a very cordial invitation to pay our ancient city a visit. If you do, I can take you to the spot where tradition says the passengers of the "Arbel- la" were landed ; you can walk along the shore where our ancestors first trod the soil of this country ; you can visit the same little church where Roger Williams preached and the house where he lived until banished by the edict of Gov. Thomas Dudley ; I can show you the tomb of Gov- ernor Simon Bradstreet the husband of Anne Dudley, and I am sure you will find enough of historical interest to well repay you for your visit if you come. I shall not on this occasion 'take up much of your time in the descrip- tion of my two visits to the Dudley castle in England. At some future time I will endeavor to go more into detail. In 1878 and also in 1881 I visited England and the old ancient castle where the name Dudley originated. I spent considerable time in and about this famous old castle and made a careful and minute examination of every nook and corner. I also visited a number of the libraries where may be found the books which give us information con- cerning the early history of our family in England. I vis- ited the three castles in that country which are connected with our family name, viz., Wai-wick, which is still occupied; Kenilworth, made famous by Sir Walter Scott, which is now a magnificent ruin, but about which still lingers the story of Queen Elizabeth, Amy Robsart, and Robert Dud- ley, Earl of Leicester ; and Dudley Castle at Dudley, the oldest ruin in England, built in the year 700, by Athelstan, the reigning monarch of that day in that particular region. It was here that we find our name originated. The best authorities give the name of that monarch as "Dudo" and the plain about there was known as Dudo's lea or leigh, and hence through varying evolutions we arrive at the present family name, although, in England it is still some- times spelled Dudleigh. The picture upon the menu be- 84 REMARKS BY DR. DUDLEY. fore you represents the original keep with its ancient Ro- man tower. It still stands to-day, having been many times restored after the decay of ages, and it will probably remain for centuries to come. To it, from time to time, have been added more modern structures as may be seen by the pic- tures I have placed upon exhibition, but it is uninhabited now in any portion of it, but all an historical old ruin and a reminder of its past grandeur and the original his- tory of our family name. I spent a delightful week in that locality and if time would permit might speak more at length upon this castle and all its surroundings. I could trace down the names of nearly all of its owners and oc- cupants to the present time. I visited the "town home" in London of the late Earl Dudley, then living on the es- tate formerly owned and occupied by the late Duke of Westminster. Although the family were away at the time of my visit, I was cordially welcomed by the Secretary of the Earl and allowed to inspect the house and the rare collection of works of art with which it is so richly adorned. I brought away pictures of the old Earl and his beautiful young wife and children which you have seen upon exhibi- tion to-day. There are others whom you are anxious to hear from and, as it is sometimes said in Congress, I must ask leave to address you at more length, upon this most in- teresting subject, hi print, and possibly in the proceedings of this day which are to be published. I thank you for your kind attention. (Dr. Dudley with the consent of the Board of Directors will endeavor at some future meeting of the Association to give an illustrated talk upon the Dudley name and Castles of England, which will be of more interest than anything which could be prepared in season for this report.) ADDKESS BY DR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. 85 The President : We have with us to-night a gentleman who undertook to correct the accident of birth and to be- come one of us by the only course open to him. You will remember that among the old Romans it was the custom, and religion too, that when a woman married out of her tribe or gens she thereby became a member of the tribe or gens of her husband, and was obliged to wor- ship his ancestors, not her own. Now in these women's rights days we have reversed all that very largely. In fact, I happen to know of one or two instances where the woman's plighted faith could only be obtained on the solemn promise of the prospective husband to assume the wife's family name on their marriage, and, of course, to worship her ancestors ; and thus the husband loyally took the wife's name. Now this was not done in the present instance, except indeed, as to worship of ancestors; but I will ask Dr. Hale to tell us why, and, at the same time, to "lend a hand" at these festivities. Hfcbres0 of IRev, jfcwarfc Everett 1bale t 2BU JBU Mr. Hale said that his marriage into the Dudley family forty years ago had been so successful that he found one of his boys had followed in the same steps. He spoke in some detail of the evidences which make it certain that the Massachusetts colony would never have crossed here but for the religious convictions of the men and women who united in it. When they came here they attended to their business, like honest, Christian men and women ; but it was absurd to argue from that that the colony was not a religious community. At the bottom they believed that they were all sons of God or daughters of God, that they were all kings and all priests, and each man of them 86 ADDRESS BY DR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. went to his daily duty because it was his religious convic- tion that he worked with God in going to that duty. I be- lieve that this is a fair statement of the conviction of the great majority of the first settlers of the Bay Colony ; and such, I believe, were the ancestors of the Dudley family. The triumphs and prosperity of America at the present time are astounding to the foreigner who comes to our shores. He cannot understand it. In the thirty years last past the wealth of this country has increased four-fold, and a great part of this increase has come from the push and energy of New England, or from the men who had a New England training. You will find them all over the coun- try, and how do they do it? They do it simply because they were brought up to live to the glory of God. You do not find it in any other country. New England's sons are taught to live to the glory of God. They are sent out all over the country with that teaching uppermost in their hearts, and that has made them push ahead; among other things they have helped to accumulate the wealth of the country. That is what has made the Dudleys do all that they have toward the glory of God and for the advance- ment of the country. Nine-tenths of the men of New England who have left New England homes, are honored citizens of our sister states. Do not think of oysters and lobsters when you think of a New England man or a Dud- ley, but think of strong women and honest men, who lived and died to the glory of God. The President : We have with us to-night a gentleman whom you all will wish to hear. In the days of our an- cestor here they had but one lawyer, and he did not stay long, for the people seemed to think they did not need a lawyer's assistance. It may be they did not. At any rate he soon returned home to England and then wrote some ADDRESS OF HON. ELIAS DUDLEY FREEMAN. 87 plain truths about our ancestors (lawyers always tell the truth), and but for his book, we should be without some important facts in the history of those early days. Now, we have a lawyer with us to-night and I have no doubt he can tell us some plain truths ; and I will introduce to you as our last speaker, Elias Dudley Freeman, of Portland, Maine. of Ibon. jeitas 3>uWeg freeman. MR. PRESIDENT, AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : The hour is late, and I think you will agree with me that the " feast of reason " has held its own with the rest of the viands. Dr. Dudley has explained to us that we are " evoluted " from the Dodo, now unhappily extinct ; the President and others have told in eloquent language of the past glory and the rising greatness of the Dudley family ; and our venerable historian, Dean Dudley, with his delightful rhetoric, has "gilded the path to the Tomb !" I have been asked to follow with a few words for the State of Maine Dudleys, but, as I have said, the hour is late, and with their permission I will suppress my care- fully type-written impromptu speech, and tell a short story, out of respect to my professional fore-runner, the first lawyer of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who " was looked upon with suspicion " probably because he was in the habit of telling stories. Being called upon, in these surroundings, to speak in praise of one's ancestors reminds me of a circumstance which happened to a friend of mine one Sunday last summer, at a small coast town in Maine. He attended the little church in the, morning and, the minister, a gaunt, cadaverous man, offered up a most humble and abject apology to the Almighty, that a vile, wretched, grovelling worm of the dust should presume to 88 ADDRESS OF HON. ELIAS DUDLEY FREEMAN. address Him in behalf of other grovelling worms no more worthy than himself. My friend said to his companion, " That man is hungry ! What he needs is something to eat !" So, after service, he made the minister's acquaint- ance, took him off to his hotel and gave him the best din- ner he ever had. That evening, he said, the man stood up in the pulpit as straight as an arrow, looked the Al- mighty right in the face and thanked Him fervently that he had " made man just a little lower than the angels !" So much for what a good dinner can do ! But if we can believe much that has been written, the Dudleys have never stood in need of such adventitious aid to self-respect ; for the " Dudley pride " is traditional from Sir Walter Scott to Dr. Holmes. I do not know how much historic justice there may be in this, but I can- not believe it to have been an arrogant pride or an o'er- weening self-esteem, for these are weaknesses which ill comport with the strength of character which made our ancestors men of authority ; but that the Dudleys have been possessed of that degree of personal dignity and self- respect which by small minds is often mistaken for pride, I can well understand. The Dudleys whom I know, of the seventh and eighth generation, had that kind of pride written in their faces and, as an aged friend of mine used to say, " God writes a legible hand !" The sons and grandsons of the brave Lieut. James, the great-grandson of Gov. Thomas, were early settlers in Maine. The virgin forests and the broad waterways at- tracted them from Raymond and Brentwood in New Hampshire, and as early as 1760 we find their names in the records of Pownalborough (now Dresden), Pittston, Readfield, Winthrop, and Mt. Vernon in the region of the Kennebec. Timber lands and kindred enterprises seem to have been attractive to the Dudleys from the days when the Reverend Samuel built the saw-mill at Exeter in ADDRESS OF HON. ELIAS DUDLEY FREEMAN. 89 1652, down to his descendant, Frank Dudley, of the pres- ent generation, whose name and whose ships are as well known in the great lumber markets of South America as in the city and harbor of Portland. Late in the last century, we find the younger grand- children of Lieut. James moving eastward to the Penob- scot, my great-grandfather James building for his growing family a home at Hampden, then and afterwards a place of much importance by reason of its foreign and domestic trade. To this old Dudley homestead my steps turn every year with almost reverent affection. It was built when this century was born, and the stirring events of the first and second decades were fresh in the minds of its occu- pants whom I knew. From the dormer window of the spacious garret, the playroom of my childhood, the children of 1814 watched for the British fleet which had threatened' to lay the town in waste, while below, the mothers, with heavy hearts but busy hands, made lint and cartridges to aid a vain resis- tance. I remember how eagerly we children of the ninth gen- eration used to listen to those " tales of a grandfather " of the brief and unequal struggle, how the Redcoats sacked the town and carried our great-grandfather with others a prisoner to Castine ; how brave Capt. Morris, rather than surrender the frigate " Adams " to the enemy, applied the match to the magazine, and sunk the ship at her moorings in plain sight of the old home. I recall his stories of the Penobscot Indians, disappoint- ingly friendly but always potentially hostile, to our ro- mantic minds ; the London-made piano with its brass strings and spindle legs, and the bayonet marks of British vandalism ; our grandfather Dudley's sword, innocent of Hoodguiltiness, but which we were sure must have slain its thousands ! 90 ADDRESS OF HON. ELIAS DUDLEY FKEEMAN. I remember well the Dudleys of the seventh generation who lived in this town of Hampden in my boyhood ; my grandfather, Elias Dudley, of heroic stature, as erect at nearly fourscore years as any Indian chief who visited him half a century before, a man who had served his country and his state in places of honor, and who left to his chil- dren a name untarnished, " rather to be chosen than great riches." John Dudley, his younger brother, whose snow- white hair seemed always a crown of glory above a face reflecting in its smile the sunlight of his pure soul. The shifting currents of commerce have silenced the busy mills, the ships which bore their products to foreign lands have long ago spread their white wings for their last voyage, the wharves and warehouses are crumbling to de- cay, and the name of Dudley is found only on mossy headstones and in the recorded annals of every good work. But the old mansion which has sheltered five generations of our name still looks down upon the mighty river as it rolls in majesty to the sea, and in our hearts the memory of past years and noble lives " doth breed perpetual bene- diction." I may be an humble and perhaps degenerate descendant of Thomas Dudley, but I yield to no man in admiration of his virtues and example, and in gratitude for the noble character and unpolluted blood which he transmitted not only to the third and fourth, but even to the seventh and eighth generation of men and women who feared God- " Pride of birth," says Lowell, " takes two forms ; one traces itself complacently to a coronet, the other defiantly to a lapstone. It is precisely the same sentiment in both cases, only one is the positive and the other the negative pole of it !" Very neat and epigrammatic, but defective in generalization. There is, I believe, a proper and legitimate pride of birth which is neither complacent nor defiant ; not vanity ADDKBSS OF HON. ELIAS DUDLEY FREEMAN. 91 feeding upon the honors of the past, but an inheritance furnishing inspiration for the present. A pride which surveys the grandeur of our country, the mightiest factor upon earth in its relation to the human race, which fore- casts the future of this land upon which must be wrought out and solved those great social problems which lie be- tween us and that " far-off divine event " to which the whole creation with swift and strenuous celerity is moving on, and which says, " Our ancestors in those early days of self-denial laid the foundations of this republic deep in the fear of God, and our inheritance is the work which they began !" Let this be the "Dudley pride," that our family name bring to us not complacency but responsibility ; that we do nothing to bring discredit upon the fame of Thomas Dudley, and that to the limit of our influence the institu- tions which he labored to found may not perish from the earth. The President : You will remember that I have already mentioned Rev. John Woodbridge, Governor Dudley's " very loving son ", but I did not tell you all he wrote to him, nor have I time to do so. Mr. Woodbridge married Mercy, the Governor's daughter. Woodbridge was in some doubt what course he should pursue, and the fatherly solicitude and beautiful character of our ancestor is made to appear with wonderful clearness in some other things which he said in that letter. Listen : " I desire that you would seriously consider of what I say, and take advice of your uncle, Mr. Noyes, or whom you think meetest about it ; withal considering that no man's opinion in a case wherein he is interested * * * * is absolutely to be allowed without com- paring his reason with others. * * * * I need say no more. The Lord direct and bless you, your wife and children, whom I would fain see, and have again some thought of it, if 1 live till next summer. " 92 ADDRESS OF REV. W. S. WOODBRIDGE. Now, we have with us a lineal descendant of that very John and Mercy Woodbridge, a distinguished son of a distinguished ancestor, whom I have had the pleasure of knowing for many years. I have now the pleasure of pre- senting him to you, the Rev. Warren S. Woodbridge, of Medford. Hfcbress of 1Re\>. MR. PRESIDENT, FRIENDS AND KINDRED : I am very glad to be here tonight as a member of this family, and as a descendant of so good an ancestor. Fifteen years ago I was not aware that I was descended from the strong Puri- tan Governor. At that time I chanced to find a genealogy of the Woodbridge family, and then learned to what race I belonged. My great-grandfather's name was Dudley Woodbridge, which is an indication that in his day the Dudley traditions had not died out in our line. I have had some peculiar sensations since I came into this room. I have met here friends of long ago, a college friend of twenty years standing, and several others, and to-night, for the first time, have learned that they are my blood relations, descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge and Mercy Dudley. Then again it strikes me rather strangely to look about this room into all your strange faces into the faces of this good but we will let the compliments pass, the hour is late, into all your faces, and to realize that you are nearly all my relatives, all in the family. And when I think, too, that this is only a representation of how many others there are, who are not here, I shall expect now as I go about to meet a Dudley on every corner. I shall have a fellow feeling with all New England and be more at home everywhere. ADDRESS OF REV. W. S. WOODBRIDGE. 93 I can join heartily in the high praises which have been bestowed upon our illustrious ancestor. It is not neces- sary that I repeat the good words, but I may be allowed, however, to add one other to the list of compliments al- ready passed : I cannot help thinking that it is a testi- mony to the excellent judgment and sound wisdom of the Puritan governor that he accepted an alliance with the Woodbridge family ; and we think that Mercy inherited something of these qualities from her father when she looked with favor upon the Rev. John Woodbridge, our ancestor. On the other hand, we cannot say enough in praise of the clear discernment and excellent taste of the Rev. John, when he went a-wooing Mercy Dudley. We do well to trace our lineage, especially when it carries us back to the fountain head of so much good. I am most glad to pay my tribute of high regard to our Puritan ancestry. I have always admired and reverenced their sturdy virtues. Their courage, their moral force, their conscientiousness, their faithfulness, their faith and trust and hope, are qualities that must imbue our commu- nity and national life, if we are rightly to develop as a people and to have stability as a nation. I do not agree with their theology, but I reverence their spirit. Those who are holding up their faults in a blaze of modern light, are, it seems to me, searching out the lesser things and failing to appreciate the greater. These gatherings, of which I trust there will be more, will best serve their purpose, if they are not only pleasant social occasions, but also awaken in us a spirit of emula- tion and a stronger appreciation of the virtues of those whom we call to mind. Let us then carry away to-night not only the pleasant memories of this hour, but above all else a purpose to cultivate in our hearts, and to carry into our home life, into our occupations, into our public life, into all our walks and ways, the strong virtues of the good man whom we honor to-night. 94 president's Closing IRemarfcs. At the close of Rev. Mr. Woodbridge's address, the President announced that the hour had now come when the meeting should draw to a close. He congratulated the people there assembled, upon the eminent success of the first Dudley Reunion and hoped that it was but a forerunner of other and equally pleasant meetings to come. Though this, the first reunion was adjourned, and it was already late, many lingered to take another look at the many relics, memorials and heirlooms there on exhibition, and handed down in the several branches of the family. Many people had here met for the first time and found very pleasant acquaintance with each other. Many friends had here met to learn for the first time the very pleasing and interesting fact that they were of kin to each other. A pleasanter and more satisfactory family reunion it would be difficult to imagine. All were pleased, all were gratified at the result of so much effort, and all congratu- lated themselves that at last they had had the opportunity to meet their own kin under such happy auspices, and to commemorate and honor the virtues of their common ancestor. Not a little, too, was added to the pleasure of the occa- sion, by the fact that in all that was said and done, not only were the descendants of the second governor of Massachusetts able to appeal to authentic history in their celebration of the virtues of their great ancestor, but fair scope and full opportunity also was given to their feelings of patriotism in thus commemorating likewise the great deeds of one of the founders of New England. May not the hope be expressed that this is in fact but the first of many reunions of our Dudley kith and kin ; that as the generations go by, our children and their chil- dren shall continue the delightful custom here inaugu- PRESIDENT'S CLOSING REMARKS. 95 rated, down to remoter generations ; and that we and they who come after us, shall never forget to hold in tender and appreciative remembrance the virtues of our ancestor, to the end that we and those who follow may be the better therefor, and that the common weal may be thereby enhanced. Memorial to * 213 THE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW. Series 9482 m x%^> ' "'' '*''' " 'III