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. 
 
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 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, " 
 
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 Roxbury, " 
 
 Augusta, Me. 
 
 WoBurn, Mass. 
 
 
 
 Roxbury, " 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Brentwood, N. H. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
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 Boston, Mass- 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Wakefield, Mass. 
 Cambridge, " 
 Auburndale, " 
 
 Cambridge, " 
 
 a <i 
 
 Haverhill, " 
 
 Boston, " 
 East Cambridge, " 
 
 Exeter, N. H. 
 
 11 
 
 Haverhill, Mass. 
 
 Orange, N. J. 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
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 Dedham, Mass. 
 
 a 
 
 Cambridge, " 
 
 Medford, " 
 
 Cambridge, " 
 
 West Newton, " 
 
 East Boston, " 
 
 Norfolk, Conn.
 
 26 
 
 RECEPTION AND REUNION. 
 
 ROSE L. DEXTER, .... 
 ELIZABETH A. DOWNIE, . . 
 
 NANCY WOODBRIDGE FAVOR, . . 
 JAMES H. FULLER, . . . 
 MRS. MARY ELIOT FARLEY, . ' . 
 JAMES P. FARLEY, ... 
 E. J. DUDLEY FENNO, . . . 
 
 CORNELIA FROST, .... 
 J. P. FENNO, . * . . . . 
 ELIAS DUDLEY FREEMAN, . . 
 DANIEL DUDLEY GILBERT, M. D., . 
 MRS. AMELIA AUGUSTA GILBERT, 
 ADA A. GILBERT, ... 
 
 HELEN SEWALL GILBERT, . . 
 
 HARRIET E. HENSHAW, . . 
 
 MRS. EDGAR HARDING, . . . 
 ALBERT F. HAYDEN, . . . 
 MRS. ALBERT F. HAYDEN, 
 MRS. A. HAMILTON, . . . 
 SARAH T. HAMILTON, ... 
 REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D. D., 
 ORINDA A. DUDLEY HORNBROOKE, . 
 REV. FRANCIS B. HORNBROOKE, . 
 HENRY A. HUTCHINSON, . . . 
 HENRY FRANCIS HARRIS, . . 
 EMMA D. HARRIS, .... 
 H. A. HUTCHINSON, . . . 
 CORNELIA COLLINS HUSSEY, . . 
 FREDERICK HUSSEY, ... 
 JAMES H. HUMPHREYS, . . . 
 MRS. JAMES H. HUMPHREYS, . 
 AUGUSTINE JONES, .... 
 SARAH E. D. JELLESON, . . 
 CAROLINE DUDLEY JOHNSON, . . 
 HENRY WELD JOHNSON, . 
 H. AUGUSTUS JOHNSON, ... 
 MARY LESLIE JOHNSON, . . 
 THEO. M. KOUES, . . . . 
 GEORGE ELLSWORTH KOUES, . 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Charlestown, " 
 
 Waltham, " 
 
 Cambridgeport, " 
 
 Boston, " 
 
 " " 
 
 Milton, " 
 
 Boston, " 
 
 Milton, " 
 
 Yarmouth, Me. 
 
 Dorchester, Mass. 
 
 Leicester, 
 
 Boston, 
 
 Roxbury, 
 
 " 
 Dorchester, 
 
 " 
 
 Me. 
 Mass. 
 
 N. J, 
 
 R. I. 
 Me. 
 
 Readfield, 
 Worcester, 
 
 " 
 
 Walnut Hill, 
 E. Orange, 
 
 " 
 Dorchester, 
 
 " 
 
 Providence, 
 Biddeford, 
 
 Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
 
 New York, N. Y, 
 
 Elizabeth, N. J.
 
 RECEPTION AND REUNION. 
 
 27 
 
 LOUISE WINTHROP KOUES, 
 ELIZABETH L. KOUES, . 
 CARKIS L. D. KIMBALL, . 
 
 H. F. KlTTREDGE, 
 
 CHARLES DUDLEY LEWIS, 
 MRS. CHARLES L. LANE, . . 
 LAURA WILDER LANE, 
 ELLEN J. LANE, 
 CHARLES C. MORGAN, 
 KATHARINE BROOKS .MARSHALL, 
 MRS. MARY A. MASON, 
 PIERRE McCoNviLLE 
 MARY E. D. MINICK, 
 GEORGE DUDLEY MASON, . . 
 MRS. GEORGE DUDLEY MASON, 
 FREDERIKA B. MASON, . 
 
 MRS. SAMUEL MASON, 
 KATHARINE L. MORRILL, 
 MARIETTA MORRILL, 
 MARY MARQUAND, 
 SARAH W. MAY, . ... 
 GEORGE W. MAY, . . . 
 
 CLARA ISABEL METCALF, . 
 MARY K. MIXTER, 
 JOSEPH B. MOORS, . 
 MARY W. NICHOLS, . -. . 
 DUDLEY LEAVITT PICKMAN, 
 ELLEN RODMAN PICKMAN, . 
 Lucius R. PAIGK, D.D., 
 JOHN DUDLEY PERRY, . 
 MRS. S. A. D. PENHALLOW, 
 EDWARD J. PEARSON, . 
 GRANVILLE B. PUTNAM, . 
 AUGUSTUS PARKER, 
 MRS. AUGUSTUS PARKER, 
 MAY PARKER, 
 MARY A. PARKER, . 
 LAURIS J. PAGE, . 
 MRS. LAURIS J. PAGE, . . . 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
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 Dorchester, Mass. 
 
 North Andover, " 
 So. Framingham, " 
 Boston, " 
 
 Brighton, " 
 
 Boston, 
 Brattleboro, 
 New York, 
 Bangor, 
 Paris, 
 
 Vt. 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 Me. 
 
 111. 
 
 Cambridgeport, Mass. 
 
 Exeter, N. H. 
 
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 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Dorchester, Mass. 
 
 K 
 
 Boston, " 
 
 Asylum Station, " 
 
 Beverly, " 
 
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 Cambridgeport, " 
 
 Biddeford, Me. 
 
 Montreal, P. Q. 
 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Roxbury, " 
 
 Dorchester,
 
 28 
 
 RECEPTION AND REUNION. 
 
 HENRY COLE QUINBY, . . . Lakeport, N. H. 
 
 HELEN KOUES EEYNOLDS, . . Lancaster, Pa. 
 
 DUDLEY EGBERTS, . . . Waltham, Mass. 
 
 WM. CHARLES KOGERS, . . . New York, N. Y. 
 
 JOSEPHINE LOUISE EICHARDS, . West Medford, Mass. 
 
 PERCIVAL DAVENPORT EICHARDS, . . " " " 
 
 WILLIAM S. EUMRILL, . . . Eoxbury, " 
 
 SARAH E. EUMRILL, l y . . " " 
 
 MRS. WILLIAM EUMRILL, . " " 
 
 ELLEN W. EUMRILL, . . . " " 
 
 LUCY DUDLEY EUMRILL, . . Lexington, " 
 
 GEORGE EOPES, . . . . Lincoln, " 
 
 HORACE E. STOWE, . . . . Hudson, " 
 
 MRS. HORACE E. STOWE, .,..** " 
 
 ARTHUR SEARLE, .... Cambridge, " 
 
 E. W. STEVENS, . . . . Eoxbury, " 
 CAROLINE PHELPS STOKES, . 
 OLIVIA EGLESTON PHELPS STOKES, 
 CHARLES EMERY STEVENS, 
 JOHN A. STAPLES, 
 CHARLES ANSON SHELDON, . 
 WINTHROP DUDLEY SHELDON, . 
 OILMAN H. TUCKER, . . . 
 MARY C. TUCKER, ....'< 
 
 ANNA ELIOT TICKNOR, . . Boston, Mass, 
 
 MARY KINGSBURY TALCOTT, . . Hartford, Conn. 
 
 DUDLEY TALBOT, . . . Boston, Mass. 
 
 AUGUSTA E. DUDLEY TALBOT, . . Dorchester, " 
 
 E. H. TURNER, .... Portland, Me. 
 
 ISAAC NEWTON TUCKER, . . . Allston, Mass. 
 
 MRS. ISAAC NEWTON TUCKER, . " " 
 
 WALTER BROWNELL TUFTS, . . New York, N. Y. 
 
 MARY B. WHITE, . . . Lawrence, Mass. 
 
 ISRAEL H. WASHBURN, . . . Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 JENNIE FAVOR WHEELER, . . Lawrence, Mass. 
 
 JAMES HENRY WIGGIN, . . . Eoxbury, " 
 
 JAMES BARTLETT WIGGIN, . . Boston, " 
 
 MRS. J. H. WIGGIN, ..." " 
 
 MRS. C. E. WIGGIN, JR., . " 
 
 New York, 
 
 N. Y. 
 
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 Worcester, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 Chavlestown, 
 
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 New Haven, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 No. Cambridge, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 New York, 
 
 N. Y.
 
 RECEPTION AND REUNION. 
 
 MRS. A. C. WIGGTN, .-'.. Boston, 
 
 CHARLES E. WIGGIN, . . . Boxbury ,_ 
 
 ARTHUR C. WIGGIN, . . . Boston, 
 
 S. HOMER WOODBRIDGE, . . " 
 
 WILLIAM F. WOODBRIDGE, . . Cambridge, 
 
 EMILY M. WOODBRIDGE, . . " 
 
 SAMUEL F. WOODBRIDGE, . " 
 
 BEV. WARREN S. WOODBRIDGE, . Medford, 
 
 MRS. WARREN S. WOODBRIDGE, . " 
 
 ELIZABETH B. WILLIS, . . . Somerville, 
 
 HENRY WILLIAMS, . . . Boston, 
 
 CAROLINE L. WATSON, , . Boxbury, 
 
 MAURICE P. WHITE, . . . Boston, 
 
 LAURA BRADSTREET WHITE, . Boxbury, 
 
 FRANKLIN S. WILLIAMS, . . " 
 
 MARY E. WILLIAMS, '. " 
 
 SARA E. DUDLEY WALWORK, . . Salem, 
 
 EDWARD HAMILTON WHITMAN, . Boston, 
 
 JAMES E. WALKER, M. D., . . Brookline, 
 
 LIZZIE BIDGEWAY WALKER, . " 
 
 LILA BIDGEWAY WALKER, . . " 
 
 MRS. WILLIAM E. YOUNG, . . Boxbury, 
 
 29 
 
 Mass.
 
 Dinner, 
 
 After several hours spent in social intercourse, in the 
 examination of the relics, heirlooms, pictures, manuscripts, 
 ancient clothing, tankards, and many other memorials 
 handed down in the various lines of the Dudley family ; 
 many acquaintances having been made or renewed among 
 the descendants, and many surprises, too, happening where 
 old friends then for the first time learned the pleasing fact 
 that they were of the same distinguished lineage, the 
 throngs in the parlors of the great hotel assembled in the 
 large dining room where tables had been set for them ; but 
 the great throng overflowed into the adjoining rooms where 
 tables had also been set for those who might not be able to 
 find places at the principal tables. 
 
 As the great assembly stood about the tables the presi- 
 dent rapped to order and said: " I will ask the ladies and 
 gentlemen to remain standing a few moments." 
 
 " It was ever the custom of our Puritan ancestors never 
 to embark in any important undertaking, whether of a 
 sober or of a festive character, without invoking the assist- 
 ance of Divine Providence. Following that ancient custom 
 I will ask Rev. Dr.. Edward Everett Hale to invoke the 
 Divine Blessing." 
 
 After grace was said, all were invited to be seated. 
 Here were gathered people who had never seen each 
 other before, distinguished in every profession and walk in 
 life, representatives of many states and localities, who had 
 come from far and near to celebrate the virtues of their 
 great ancestor. Here for the first time were met around
 
 THE DINNER. 31 
 
 the family board those who bore or represented a great and 
 honorable name. Two hundred and sixty-two years before, 
 Thomas Dudley and his compeers came to Boston, laid its 
 foundations and gave it a name, and now in happy reunion 
 his descendants gathered in his honor. And as one looked 
 about the assembly it was from something more than a 
 mere fancy that family resemblances were observed, and 
 that the reunion seemed to become more and more a reality. 
 Thus, for an hour or more, the assembly remained at the 
 tables, comparing notes, tracing near or distant relation- 
 ships, or discussing the remarkable exhibits they had pre- 
 viously examined in the parlors, or wondering why such a 
 reunion as this had never been held before, meanwhile giv- 
 ing particular attention to the menu set before them. All 
 were pleased, all were glad that now at last they were met 
 together. 
 
 MENU. 
 Blue Points on Deep Shell. 
 
 Mock Turtle aux Queenelles. Consomm^ Royal. 
 
 Boiled Red Snapper & la Hollandaise. 
 Potatoe Natural. Radishes. 
 
 Sirloin of Beef aux Champignons. 
 
 Young Turkey, Cranberry Sauce. 
 Browned Potatoes. Cauliflower. Spinach. 
 
 Chicken Croquettes aux Petits Pois. 
 
 Princess Fritters au Vanille. 
 
 Baked Macaroni au Parmesan. 
 
 Lady Pudding with Whipped Cream. 
 Golden Cream. Wine Jelly. 
 
 Candied Oranges. Trutti Frutti. 
 
 Ice Cream. Orange Sherbet. Assorted Cake. 
 
 Apples. Pears. Bananas. Tokay Grapes. 
 
 Black Coffee.
 
 32 THE DINNER. 
 
 After the tables were cleared away, the president again 
 called the assembly to order and spoke as follows : 
 
 PRESIDENT S SALUTATORY. 
 Ladies and Gentlemen : 
 
 The pleasing duty having been given to me to preside 
 over your festivities this evening, let me first of all extend 
 to you a hearty greeting and congratulate you all upon 
 this auspicious occasion. Not since our great ancestor be- 
 queathed to the world his great work and achievements, 
 not since this fair land was a wilderness with but a hamlet 
 here, or at Salem, or Pascataquack, or Pemaquid, or Ply- 
 mouth, or Aquidney ; not since Dudley and Winthrop and 
 Saltonstall, Hugh Peter, John Cotton and Endecott, and 
 Harry Vane, labored and prayed, and did the work God 
 gave them to do in laying deep and strong the foundations 
 of this great nation, have the posterity of the great Puritan 
 joined in taking concerted action to do him honor, till now. 
 
 And it is an honorable and dutiful service we do in thus 
 commemorating Dudley's virtues and achievements. We 
 may well congratulate ourselves that the opportunity is 
 present and that we feel a pride in doing the service. A 
 man of birth, of culture in the learning of the day, of per- 
 severance and indomitable will, of severe integrity and 
 public spirit, of special adaptation to the successful man- 
 agement of affairs, and to do the right as it was given him 
 to see it, regardless of friend or foe, such was the man we 
 are met to honor. And I congratulate you that such was 
 the fact, that his rivals and ofttimes antagonists always 
 gave him that meed of praise ; for Winthrop, speaking of 
 the dissensions in the general court under Bellingham's ad- 
 ministration, says, " These continual oppositions and delays, 
 tending to the hindrance and perverting of justice, afforded 
 much occasion of grief to all the magistrates, especially to 
 Mr. Dudley, who being a very wise and just man, and one
 
 SALUTATOKY. 33 
 
 that would not be trodden under foot by any man, took 
 occasion (alleging his age, etc.) to tell the court that he 
 was resolved to leave his place, and therefore desired them 
 against the next court of elections to think of some other. 
 The court was much afflicted with it and much entreated 
 him," &c. Indeed, he was a man 
 
 " Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, 
 Nor paltered with Eternal God for power." 
 
 He was the man, who at an early age, scarcely above 
 that of a stripling, when his Queen called for volunteers 
 to help maintain the honor and dignity of her crown in 
 Flanders, and no volunteers were forthcoming, stepped 
 forth at the call of duty, and because he did it others fol- 
 lowed in such numbers that he was at once surrounded with 
 a body of men whom he was proud to command. Who 
 knows what thanks the great Elizabeth bestowed upon him 
 and his fellows in arms? Who knows what valiant deeds 
 he did ? Who knows how much his country, good old 
 England, the birthplace and home of great men, that glo- 
 rious soil whence we all have sprung, owed and owes to 
 him? And yet I am aware what Cotton Mather says. 
 Dudley was a modest man, as well as brave, and he wrote 
 no letters, or diaries or histories, in the sense of being a 
 writer of such, and so we shall never know. Dudley 
 deemed it unnecessary, as we may well believe, to record 
 his own good deeds, to publish his own praises, or to write 
 his name on the historic page of the country he sought to 
 found and to build, except, indeed, in the acts he did. 
 
 It has been recently said that Columbus was not a writer 
 of letters or of history, that Americus Vespucius was, and 
 that thereby people who were ignorant of the facts (and 
 they could not well be otherwise), were led to suppose 
 that Americus discovered the great western continent be- 
 cause he could write a few letters to distinguished persons 
 about his achievements there, and because somebody be- 
 thought himself to make a sketch of the new continent
 
 34 SALUTATORY. 
 
 and to write thereon the word America, after the analogy 
 of Europa, Asia, Africa, etc., while the great discoverer 
 who found the way to the new world and pointed it out to 
 others, Vespucius among them, was doomed to lose the 
 honor of affixing his name to a great continent now peopled 
 by so many millions. And thus, while we sing, " Hail 
 Columbia," we can only do so as Americans, for there are 
 no Columbians in that great and noble sense. 
 
 I said Dudley was not a letter writer. He did write 
 one famous letter, so terse, so clear, so modest, and yet so 
 truthful, that it has furnished historians an original author- 
 ity on the facts there recorded, which no historical contro- 
 versy has ever touched. One taste of that compels us to 
 wish for more, and to regret that the history of that day 
 and of New England's beginnings is found substantially 
 within the covers of one book. 
 
 Would that we had a history of that far-a-way time 
 written by Dudley's pen, with the garrulities and super- 
 fluities of other writers left out ; clear and direct, as his 
 character was ; and some of the controversies which still 
 exist would never have existed. Would that we had a 
 history of that time written by some other, impartial pen, 
 as we have not, handing down to us in the present a rec- 
 ord of the events of that day, untinged and uncolored by 
 the transmitted prejudices and caprices and credulities of 
 so many of our forefathers. But I forget. We may hear 
 something of that kind here to-night. 
 
 I have already referred to Dudley's independence of 
 spirit, even when the expression of it meant, or might 
 have meant, loss of official position and power. I might 
 call your attention to other instances of the same kind, for 
 he was compelled more than once by his high sense of 
 duty and by his self-respect to decline responsibility for 
 the policy demanded or about to be pursued. A way was 
 always found to comply with the conditions he imposed, 
 which was the invariable result of the expression of his 
 strong will.
 
 SALUTATORY. 35 
 
 It is clear that for some reason or other Dudley had a 
 place in the hearts of the people, and that they would not 
 permit themselves to forego his great services in their be- 
 half. And the reason is not far to seek. We may well 
 believe his friend and rival when he says that Dudley "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 be- 
 stow." No wonder that he was in the service of his coun- 
 try for twenty-three years continuously, from the very birth 
 of the colony till age and its infirmities forbade such service 
 longer. From 1630 to 1653 he was either governor, dep- 
 uty governor or assistant. He died in 1653 at the age of 
 76, only two months after his last official year expired. 
 
 Such is his public record. There is none other like it 
 among the men of that early day, nor is there to-day. 
 Meantime, when the colony was in difficulty or danger 
 from the French on the east, or from the Indian tribes or 
 the Dutch on the west, who was it whose wisdom and dis- 
 cretion and experience, whose strong will and decisiveness 
 were needed to meet the situation and deal with it effec- 
 tively? Who was it who took a leading part in that 
 earlier confederation of the colonies, precursor and example 
 of that later confederation of states which we now call the 
 United States of America ? Need I name the name of 
 Dudley ? Three times was he a member of the commis- 
 sion which had to do with the affairs of the confederacy 
 while deputy-governor of the colony of Massachusetts 
 Bay. Twice was he president of that commission or, if 
 you please, president of the United Colonies. No other 
 man of Massachusetts Bay was called to that presidency a 
 greater number of times, except his son-in-law, Simon 
 Bradstreet. 
 
 I think I have shown you something of the great public 
 service our great ancestor did, and I know that in this 
 presence I may speak directly and frankly on that ques-
 
 36 SALUTATOEY. 
 
 tion. We shall, I trust, hear something more about it 
 this evening. I would gladly pursue this theme longer, 
 but time fails me, and I must leave it to better hands. 
 
 I have already touched upon Dudley's private virtues. 
 He was a man of such directness, precision and strict 
 integrity, that he abhorred any base act, any time-serving 
 or tergiversation. He was a man who might well have 
 been the author of the saying, " millions for defence, not 
 a farthing for tribute." If he made a bargain he expected 
 to perform it; and what is more, he expected the other 
 party to do likewise. Doubtless his exactness seemed hard 
 at times, but it was the exactness of honesty and integrity, 
 not of the man who desires to obtain an advantage ; and 
 all business experience shows that his rule was the right one. 
 His great wisdom in private and domestic affairs is illus- 
 trated by his advice to a son-in-law, and I quote a single 
 expression : " Every man ought, as I take it, to serve God 
 in such a way whereto he hath best fitted him by nature, 
 education or gifts, or graces acquired." The letter in 
 which this wise saying is found is addressed, " To my very 
 loving son, Mr. John Woodbridge, at his house in New 
 bury." 
 
 It ill becomes me, as your presiding officer, to trespass 
 upon your patience longer in dwelling on this delightful 
 theme. You desire to hear the speakers of the evening, 
 not me. But do I need to apologize for thus taking a few 
 moments of your time ? Do I need to apologize for speak- 
 ing somewhat in terms of eulogy on' the theme of the 
 evening ? Let any man go to the fountains of authority 
 and analyze the facts there recorded, fairly examine the 
 springs of human action, impartially compare fact with 
 fact, event with event, and take into account the rivalries 
 and partisanship of that ancient time, and I will challenge 
 him to contradict me. Let me assure you, without the 
 slighest reservation, that you have a grand theme to con- 
 sider and to discuss.
 
 SALUTATORY. 37 
 
 I will not weary your patience longer, but will proceed 
 at once to introduce to you the speakers of the evening. 
 
 But our first duty is to the Commonwealth, and I will 
 read to you a letter from His Excellency, the latest succes- 
 sor of Governor Dudley. 
 
 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, ) 
 
 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, BOSTON, Oct. ist, 1892. 
 
 S. H. DUDLEY, ESQ., 95 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS. 
 My Dear Mr. Dudley : 
 
 I have received your kind invitation to attend the reunion of 
 the descendants of Gov. Thomas Dudley, on Oct. 25th. I regret 
 exceedingly to say that imperative engagements at that time 
 will prevent my being with you. Were it not for this, I gladly 
 would accept your invitation to meet the descendants of one of 
 the earliest and most distinguished of the Colonial Governors. 
 Wishing a pleasant reunion to you all, I am, 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 WM. E. RUSSELL. 
 
 In response to an invitation, the Lieutenant-Governor 
 sends the following : 
 
 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, f 
 
 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, BOSTON, OCT. igth, 1892. > 
 
 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 <the 
 life and public services of this common ancestor of ours 
 may be carefully studied and adequately presented to us 
 by a competent hand, for I am confident that any petty 
 slurs upon his memory will be found to have very little to 
 support them. Indeed, I am sure, that he will then be re- 
 garded as one of the noble figures who have done most to 
 give character to our American history. 
 
 But let us pause for a moment and examine Mr. Fiske's 
 source of information with regard to Governor Dudley's 
 character. He says that the man's character his "nar- 
 row-minded, straight-laced Calvinism," and the rest is 
 plainly visible in his portrait, and he goes .on to compare 
 this portrait, very much to its discredit, with that of Gov- 
 ernor John Winthrop. The genuineness of the likeness 
 he appears, however, to have taken no pains to verify. 
 Now it appears that the portrait to which he refers is that 
 of a person represented as wearing a large, curly dress 
 wig, whereas no one should know better than Mr. Fiske 
 that in the days of narrow-minded, straight-laced Calvin- 
 ism, of which he says that Governor Dudley was typical, 
 there was nothing that the Puritans detested more than a 
 dress wig. They were Round Heads. It is plainly 
 improper that the public, and particularly that we, his 
 descendants, should base our estimate of the character of 
 Thomas Dudley, upon the size of the nose, or the color of 
 the eyes, of a portrait clearly that of another man, painted 
 many years after Governor Dudley's death, and dressed in 
 a wig which the worthy governor would have abominated, 
 without being half so " bleak and stern " as Professor 
 Fiske would have us believe. 
 
 The truth is, that no portrait or other contemporaneous 
 representation of Governor Dudley remains to us. Should 
 we, however, desire one, we might follow the example of
 
 40 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOOES. 
 
 the State of Connecticut when erecting recently a statue 
 in their State capitol in honor of Thomas Hooker, a con- 
 temporary and friend of Governor Dudley. In order to 
 obtain a representation of the face, they compared the 
 likenesses of various widely-separated members of Hooker's 
 lineal posterity. Among ourselves, I am quite sure you 
 will all agree with me, that, though the history of our 
 family may not have been " altogether creditable," still we 
 might, if we followed the ingenious method of the State 
 of Connecticut, obtain a most flattering picture of the face 
 of Governor Dudley. 
 
 Thomas Dudley, second Governor of Massachusetts, was 
 descended from a noble family of that name in England, 
 the ruins -of whose castle may now be seen in Stafford- 
 shire. He was born in 1576, probably in Northampton, 
 England, at any rate it was here that he spent his early 
 years. He was fifty-three years old when leaving for 
 America, and appears to have been in the prime of vigor- 
 ous manhood. 
 
 During the days preceding the immigration from Eng- 
 land, of our Puritan forefathers, while the Puritans as 
 such were still forbidden to worship and could not legally 
 hold office, while it was heresy not to conform t the 
 usages and ceremonies of the established church, these 
 descentors found a devoted friend in the Earl of Lincoln, 
 and it was under the patronage of this distinguished 
 Nobleman that we first hear distinctly of Thomas Dudley 
 hi connection with the undertaking that led to planting a 
 colony in New England. 
 
 He was plainly a man of some social position, and he 
 had shown himself a man of ability by freeing the Earl's 
 estate from the heavy debt, for the time, of twenty thousand 
 pounds, a legacy left by the excesses of the Earl's father. 
 That he was a man of education, is suggested by the fact 
 that in his boyhood five hundred pounds were left in trust 
 for his tuition by an unknown hand, and that he was also
 
 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOOBS. 41 
 
 known to be a good Latin scholar, and by the further fact 
 that at one time he studied law with a relative, an eminent 
 jurist of his day. That he was a man of war is shown by 
 his having abandoned the practice of the law before enter- 
 ing the service of the Earl of Lincoln, and by his becoming 
 a captain in Her Majesty's, Queen Elizabeth's service. 
 
 An interesting account of Dudley's life prior to his 
 embarking for New England, is to be found in the record 
 of the Council for New England. His good judgment 
 and his strength of character are therein clearly shown, 
 and his importance to the Earl of Lincoln. The story 
 states that Dudley was to the Earl of Lincoln very much 
 what Joseph had been to Pharaoh in Egypt, for not only 
 during a nine years' stewardship did he free the Earl's 
 estate from a heavy debt, as already remarked, but he was 
 of the utmost service to that hot-headed nobleman in dis- 
 suading him from going over into Germany with Count 
 Mansfelt upon an ill-advised expedition for the recovery of 
 the palatinate. 
 
 August 26th, 1629, Dudley, with the others, signed in a 
 hall of the venerable University of Cambridge, in Eng- 
 land an agreement that they would be ready with their 
 families to emigrate to America the following Spring. 
 
 When the emigration to America was proposed, Dudley 
 was made one of the undertakers of the enterprise, and was 
 soon after chosen Deputy Governor. 
 
 He was, indeed, the business man of the proposed colony, 
 and from what we know of his life in England, we can 
 easily perceive his fitness to be the undertaker of such an 
 enterprise. In his immediate circle of emigrants were to 
 be found such leading persons as Lady Arbella, daughter 
 of the Earl of Lincoln, and Isaac Johnson, her husband, 
 the richest man among the colonists, and Rev. John 
 Wilson, their minister, and two or three years later Mr. 
 John Haynes and Rev. Thomas Hooker, both leading men 
 among the Puritan Colonies, came out as his guests.
 
 42 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 
 
 The story of his first year in the colony is told in a most 
 frank and interesting manner by himself in a letter to the 
 Countess of Lincoln, dated Boston, March the 12th, 1631, 
 nine months after their arrival in Salem. I would ask you 
 to let me read a portion of this letter to you as furnishing 
 not only the best contemporary description of the early life 
 of the colony, but as giving you an insight, between the 
 lines, into the character of Dudley himself. 
 
 GOVERNOR DUDLEY'S LETTER TO THE COUNTESS OF LJNCOLN. 
 To the Right Honourable, my very good Lady, the Lady Bridget, 
 Countess of Lincoln, 
 
 Madam : 
 
 Your letters (which are not common nor cheap) following me 
 hither into New England, and bringing with them renewed tes- 
 timonies of the accustomed favours you honored me with in the 
 old, have drawn from me this narrative retribution, which (in 
 respect of your proper interest in some persons of great note 
 amongst us) was the thankfullest present I had to send over the 
 seas. 
 
 For the satisfaction of your Honour, and some friends, and for 
 the use of such as shall hereafter intend to increase our planta- 
 tion in New England, I have in the throng of domestick, and not 
 altogether free from publick business, thought fit to commit to 
 memory our present condition, and what hath befallen us since 
 our arrival here ; which I will do shortly, after my usual manner, 
 and must do rudely, having yet no table, nor other room to 
 write in, than by the fire-side upon my knee, in this sharp winter ; 
 to which my family must have leave to resort, though they break 
 good manners and make me many times forget what I would 
 say, and say what I would not. 
 
 Our four ships which set out in April, arrived here in June and 
 July, where we found the colony in a sad and unexpected condi- 
 tion, above eighty of them being dead the winter before ; and 
 many of those alive, weak and sick ; all the corn and bread 
 amongst them all hardly sufficient to feed them a fortnight ; 
 insomuch that the remainder of an hundred and eighty servants 
 we had the two years before sent over, coming to us for victuals
 
 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 43 
 
 to sustain them, we found ourselves wholly unable to feed them, 
 by reason that the provisions shipped for them were taken out 
 of the ship they were put in ; and they who were trusted to ship 
 them in another, failed us, and left them behind ; whereupon 
 necessity enforced us to our extreme loss, to give them all 
 liberty ; who had cost us about sixteen or twenty pound a per- 
 son, furnishing and sending over. But bearing these things as 
 we might, we began to consult of the place of our sitting down. 
 
 And thereupon unshipped our goods into other vessels, and 
 with much cost and labor, brought them in July to Charlestown. 
 
 Some at Charlestown, which standeth on the north side of the 
 mouth of Charles river ; some on the south side thereof, which 
 place we named Boston (as we intended to have done the place 
 we first resolved on). 
 
 Before the departure of the ships, we contracted with Mr. 
 Peirce, master of the Lion of Bristol, to return to us with all 
 speed, with fresh supplies of victuals and gave him directions 
 accordingly ; with this ship returned Mr. Revil, one of the five 
 undertakers here, for the joint stock of the company ; Mr. 
 Vassal, one of the assistants and his family ; and also Mr. 
 Bright, a minister sent hither the year before ; the ship being 
 gone, victuals wasting, and mortality increasing, we held diverse 
 fasts in our several congregations, but the Lord would not yet be 
 deprecated ; for about the middle of September died Mr. Gager, 
 a right Godly man, a skillful chyrurgeon, and one of the deacons 
 of our congregation. And Mr. Higginson, one of the ministers 
 of Salem, a zealous and a profitable preacher; this of a 
 consumption, that of a fever. And on the 3oth of September 
 died Mr. Johnson, another of the five undertakers (the Lady 
 Arbella, his wife, being dead a month before). This gentleman 
 was a prime man amongst us, having the best estate of any ; 
 zealous for religion, and the greatest furtherer of this planta- 
 tion ; he made a most Godly end, dying willingly, professing his 
 life better spent in promoting this plantation than it could have 
 been any other way. He left to us a loss greater than the most 
 conceived.
 
 44 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 
 
 And of the people who came over with us, from the time of 
 their setting sail from England, in April, 1630, until December 
 following, there died by estimation about two hundred at the 
 least ; so low hath the Lord brought us. Well, yet they who sur- 
 vived were not discouraged, but bearing God's corrections with 
 humility, and trusting in his mercies ; and considering how after 
 a lower ebb he had raised up our neighbors at Plymouth. 
 
 I should before have mentioned how both the Indian and 
 English corn, being at ten shillings a strike, and bever being 
 valued at six shillings a pound ; we made laws to restrain the 
 selling of corn to the Indians, and to leave the price of bever at 
 liberty, which was presently sold at ten and twenty shillings a 
 pound. I should also have remembered how the half of our 
 cowes, and almost all our mares and goats, sent us out of 
 England, died at sea in their passage hither ; and that those 
 intended to be sent us out of Ireland, were not sent at all ; all 
 which, together with the loss of our six months' building, occa- 
 sioned by our intended removal to a town to be fortified, weak- 
 ened our estates, especially the estates of the undertakers, who 
 were three or four thousand pounds engaged in the joint stock, 
 which was now not above so many hundreds ; yet many of us- 
 labored to bear it as comfortably as we could, remembering the 
 end of our coming hither, and knowing the power of God, who- 
 can support and raise us again ; and useth to bring his servants 
 low that the meek may be made glorious by deliverance'. 
 
 I have no leisure to review and incert things forgotten, but out 
 of due time in order, must set them down as they come to 
 memory. About the end of October, this year, 1630, I joined 
 with the governor and Mr. Maverick, in sending out our pinace 
 to the Narragansetts, to trade for corn, to supply our wants ; but 
 after the pinace had doubled Cape Cod, she put into the next 
 harbour she found, and there meeting with Indians, who showed 
 their willingness to truck ; she made her voyage there and 
 brought us an hundred bushels of corn, at about four shillings 
 a bushel, which helped us something. From the coast where 
 they traded they saw a very large island, four leagues to the 
 East, which the Indians commended as a fruitful place, full of 
 good vines, and free from sharp frosts, having one only entrance 
 into it, by a navigable river, inhabited by a few Indians, which,.
 
 ADDKESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 45 
 
 for a trifle, would leave the island, if the English would set 
 them upon the main ; but the pinace having no direction for dis- 
 covery, returned without failing to it, which in two hours they 
 might have done. Upon this coast they found store of vines 
 full of grapes dead ripe, the season being past ; wither we pro- 
 posed to send the next year sooner, to make some small quantity 
 of wine, if God enabled us ; the vines growing thin with us, and 
 we not having yet any leisure to plant vineyards. 
 
 But now having some leisure to discourse of the motives for 
 other men coming to this place, or their abstaining from it ; after 
 my brief manner, I say this : That if any come hither to plant for 
 worldly ends that can live well at home, he commits an error of 
 which he will soon repent him ; but if for spiritual, and that no 
 particular obstacle hinder his removal, he may find here what 
 may well content him, viz., Materials to build, fewel to burn, and 
 ground to plant, seas and rivers to fish in, a pure air to breathe, 
 good water to drink, till wine or beer can be made ; which 
 together with the cowes, hoggs and goats brought here already, 
 may suffice for food; as for fowl and venison, they are dainties 
 here as well as in England. For cloaths and bedding, they must 
 bring them with them, till time and industry produce them here. 
 In a word, we yet enjoy little to be envied but endure much to 
 be pitied in the sickness and mortality of our people. And I 
 do the more willingly use this open and plain dealing, least other 
 men should fall short of their expectations, when they come 
 hither, as we to our great prejudice did ; by means of letters 
 sent us from hence into England ; wherein honest men, out of a 
 desire to draw over others to them, wrote somewhat hyperbol- 
 ically of many things here ; if any godly men out of religious 
 ends will come over, to help us in the good work we are about; 
 I think they cannot dispose of themselves, nor of their estates 
 more to God's glory, and the furtherance of their own reckoning ; 
 but they must not be of the poorer sort yet, for divers years. 
 For we have found by experience that they have hindered, not 
 furthered the work ; and for profane and debauched persons, 
 their oversight in coming hither is wondered at, where they shall 
 find nothing to content them. 
 
 If there be any endued with grace, and furnished with means 
 to feed themselves and theirs for eighteen months, and to build 
 and plant, let them come into our Macedonia and help us, and 
 not spend themselves and their estates in a less profitable em- 
 ployment ; for other, I conceive they are not yet fitted for this 
 business.
 
 46 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 
 
 Touching the discouragement which the sickness and mortal- 
 ity which every first year hath seized upon us, and those of 
 Plymouth, as appeareth before, may give to such who have cast 
 any thoughts this way (of which mortality it may be said of us 
 almost as of the Egyptians, that there is not an house where 
 there is not one dead, and in some houses many), the natural 
 causes seem to be, the want of warm lodging and good diet, to 
 which Englishmen are habituated at home ; and in the sudden 
 increase of heat, which they endure that are landed here in 
 summer ; the salt meats at sea having prepared their bodies 
 thereto ; for those only these two last years died of fevers who 
 landed in June and July ; as those of Plymouth, who landed in 
 winter, died of the scurvy ; as did our poorer sort, whose hous- 
 ing and bedding kept them not sufficiently warm, nor their diet 
 sufficiently in heart ; other causes God may have, as our faithful 
 minister, Mr. Wilson (lately handling that point) shewed unto 
 us ; which I forbear to mention, leaving this matter to the further 
 dispute of physicians and divines. 
 
 The ship now waits but for wind, \\hich when it blows these 
 are ready to go aboard therein for England, Sir Richard Salton- 
 stall, Mr. Sharp, Mr. Coddington and many others ; the most 
 whereof purpose to return to us again if God wills. In the 
 mean time, we are left a people poor and contemptible, yet such 
 as trust in God ; and are contented with our condition, being 
 well assured that he will not fail us or forsake us. I had almost 
 forgotten to add this, that the wheat we received by this last 
 ship stands us in thirteen or fourteen shillings a strike, and the 
 pease about eleven shillings a strike, beside the adventure, which 
 is worth three or four shillings a strike ; which is an higher price 
 than I ever tasted bread of before. 
 
 Thus, Madam, I have as I can, told your honor all our mat- 
 ters ; knowing your wisdom can make good use thereof. If I 
 live not to perform the like office of my duty hereafter, likely it 
 is, some other will do it better. 
 
 Before the departure of the ship (which yet was wind bound) 
 there came unto us Sagamore John, and one of his subjects, re- 
 quiring satisfaction for the burning of two wigwams, by some of 
 the English ; which wigwams, were not inhabited, but stood in 
 a place convenient for their shelter, when upon occasion, they 
 should travel that way.
 
 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 47 
 
 By examination we found that some English fowlers having 
 retired into that which belonged to the subject ; and leaving a 
 fire therein carelessly, which they had kindled to warm them, 
 were the cause of burning thereof. For that which was the 
 Sagamore's, we could find no certain proof how it was fired : 
 Yet lest he should think us not sedulous enough to -find it out, 
 and so should depart discontentedly from us, we gave both him 
 and his subject satisfaction for them both. 
 
 Upon the 25th of this March, one of the Watertown having 
 lost a calf, and about ten of the clock at night hearing the howl- 
 ing of some wolves not far off, raised many of his neighbors out 
 of their beds, that by dischargings their muskets near about the 
 place where he heard the wolves, he might so put the wolves to 
 flight, and save his calf ; the wind serving fit to carry the report 
 of the muskets to Roxbury, three miles off, at such a time ; the 
 inhabitants there took an alarm, beat up their drums, armed 
 themselves, and sent in post to us to Boston, to raise us also ; so 
 in the morning, the calf being found safe, the wolves afrighted, 
 and our danger past, we went merrily to breakfast. 
 
 I thought to have ended before, but the stay of the ship, and 
 my desire to inform your honor of all I can, hath caused this 
 adition ; and everyone having warning to prepare for the ship's 
 departure to-morrow, I am now the 28th of March, 1631, sealing 
 my letters. 
 
 Your Honours 
 
 Old Thankful Servant, 
 
 THOMAS DUDLEY. 
 
 We of this generation who have been taught, as children, 
 almost as early as we have been told of Santa Glaus, that 
 this band of Puritans came to this rock-bound coast, as 
 martyrs, for the sake of religious freedom, are impressed 
 with the prominence in this letter from Dudley of the bus- 
 iness side of the undertaking. As children, we were not 
 taught that the first Puritans were a stock company, organ- 
 ized, with rather visionary ideas of pecuniary profit. They 
 were certainly martyrs, and it would be unfair to deny 
 them the greatest courage and perseverance in their bold 
 undertaking : but they had been forehanded enough to arm
 
 48 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 
 
 themselves with a very valuable charter, which allowed 
 them to govern themselves without interference from the 
 home government, so long as they did nothing contrary to 
 the laws of England. Indeed, they obtained at once free- 
 dom of worship, exemption from taxation and a monopoly 
 of the fur trade. 
 
 These two elements, religious fervor and self-govern- 
 ment, are curiously combined in their subsequent union of 
 church and state. The worship of God and the collection 
 of taxes were felt to be equally matters for them to con- 
 trol, and the magistrates had supervision over both, be- 
 coming thereby masters over men's souls as well as over 
 their bodies, and making possible such episodes as those of 
 Roger Williams and of Hester Prynne. 
 
 In such a colony, a man of Dudley's capacities was in 
 his element. He was one of the first to push ahead from 
 Salem, leaving behind the colony of servants whom he 
 mentions with regret, for the loss incurred by himself and 
 the other undertakers, in giving them their freedom. Indeed, 
 he and the more robust of his associates were drawn, as if 
 by destiny, to the Hub of the Universe. They landed at 
 Charlestown where it is reported there was at the time a 
 single frame house, that appears to have been standing 
 upon the site of the present Square in Charlestown. 
 
 Here the first religious services were held under the 
 branches of a spreading oak. Here the church covenant 
 was signed by John Winthrop, Thos. Dudley, John Wil- 
 son and Isaac Johnson. You may read this simple and 
 solemn compact and the names of these first four signers 
 on one of the painted windows of the First Church in this 
 city. 
 
 It was natural that the first interest of the four signers 
 of this covenant and their associates should have been the 
 erection of a place of worship and a house for their minis- 
 ter. They built a house for Wilson, their pastor, which 
 stood upon the spot now occupied by the Merchants Bank
 
 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 49 
 
 building, near the corner of what was always known as 
 Wilson's Lane, before Devonshire Street was extended in 
 1874. The cost of this house, together with the church 
 opposite, was about six hundred dollars, which shows how 
 small their worldly treasures really were. They also voted 
 Wilson twenty pounds, or a hundred dollars a year salary. 
 It was however, given upon the express condition that 
 the bargain was only in force until such a time as his wife 
 should come over. Whether they intended to increase 
 the salary after the arrival of his wife, we are left to con- 
 jecture. Perhaps the opportunities at that time being 
 somewhat fewer than now for wives to spend their hus- 
 band's money may have had an influence in determining 
 this question. It would be very instructive to some of us, to 
 learn how Mrs. Wilson managed her pin money out of this 
 salary of one hundred dollars a year, when we consider 
 that it was not unlikely to have been paid in maize, beans, 
 cider and a portion perhaps in cord wood. 
 
 They at once voted one hundred and twenty pounds to 
 be expended for the purpose of building this house for 
 their pastor and their meeting house. The cost of these 
 two buildings, as I have already said, about six hundred 
 dollars, was thought at the time to be "a liberal expense." 
 Their little meeting house was erected immediately and 
 stood near the corner of what is now State and Devonshire 
 Streets, about where Braziers building now stands. It was 
 a lowjbuilding, constructed of wood, plastered outside with 
 clay. It had a thatched roof, with probably oiled paper, 
 windows to admit the light, but was without any chimney 
 or other means of heating whatever. 
 
 It is fair to say that it was the best building they were 
 able to erect. Happily for them, their simple faith needed 
 none of the costly appliances, which were deemed so impor- 
 tant with Christian worshippers elsewhere. 
 
 To this rude and bare edifice all the people were sum- 
 moned for two long services on Sunday, one at nine o'clock
 
 50 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 
 
 in the morning, and one at two o'clock in the afternoon, 
 called together, not by a church bell so common in New 
 England towns at a later date, but by a drum, beaten as the 
 drummer walked through the then unnamed roads or paths 
 of the village. Here they were summoned to listen to the 
 exhortation of Mr. Wilson, who, had he been so minded, 
 it is believed might have held a high position among the 
 surpliced clergy of England. And here the worshippers 
 came just the same during Mr. Wilson's long absence in 
 England, and listened, alternately, to the preaching of Mr. 
 Winthrop and of Mr. Dudley, for this steward of the Earl 
 of Lincoln and Captain in Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's 
 service, and undertaker in the new stock company, which 
 was to be so profitable a venture in New England had "a 
 very good pen," (in the opinion of Cotton Mather), and 
 in his own time he was spoken of as "a man of approved 
 wisdom and of much good service to the state." 
 
 The houses of the first settlers were chiefly log cabins, 
 covered with thatch, though those that Johnson, Winthrop 
 and Dudley subsequently built, were frame houses of wood. 
 The very earliest houses however, that Dudley and the 
 others built at Newtown, afterwards Cambridge, appear 
 also to have been of logs. 
 
 If we could have entered the house of Governor Dudley, 
 or indeed that of any of the leading families in the Colony, 
 we should find only one room with even an opportunity 
 for a fire ; which fire was made in a large open fire-place of 
 stone, plastered on the inside with clay. We should also 
 find hanging over his fire of logs, the rudest cooking uten- 
 sils while upon each side of the fire place, the members of 
 the family would be seen seated upon high, straight, solid 
 backed wooden settles, made to serve the additional pur- 
 pose of protecting the occupants from cold in other parts 
 of the room. The only other furniture would probably be 
 a deal table and a few chairs with rush seats. The table 
 furniture consisted of plates and dishes of pewter, with
 
 ADDEESS BY JOSEPH B. MOOES. 51 
 
 knives and spoons of iron. Meat for the most part 
 they ate with their fingers ; those useful articles, table 
 forks, were unknown among the early colonists. Very 
 little silver was to be found in the colony. The floors 
 were probably bare, except covered in part by one or two 
 mats made from corn husks braided and then sewed to- 
 gether. 
 
 We must not overlook the fact that Dudley as well as 
 many of those early settlers, before leaving England had 
 been accustomed to the luxuries of life. Everything at 
 that time was very abundant in England. That country 
 was prosperous ; it was an era of expansion and general 
 prosperity in England. 
 
 No one adapted himself better than Dudley, to these 
 changed conditions. We shall see presently what his views 
 were on toleration, which came to a head in his activity 
 against Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams. These 
 were the virtues of the time, not the vices, and no one en- 
 deared himself more than Dudley to the other colonists by 
 his public spirit in defending the colony from the dangers 
 without, and the apparently as great danger from heresies 
 within. Remember, that this was a community which en- 
 gaged a carpenter to build some stocks, and then sentenced 
 him to be the first man to sit in them because his bill was 
 too high, a community in which alchoholic drinks were re- 
 garded with especial favor at ordination dinners, and yet 
 where if a man was found drunk, he was compelled to wear 
 the letter "D" round his neck for a year. Perhaps the 
 most prominent of the many humorous features of old New 
 England Puritanism, are to be found in the attitude of the 
 people toward the use of tobacco. The use of tobacco was 
 regarded by them as a bad habit, and any one found smoking 
 was fined two and six pence, but if several men happened to 
 be caught having a quiet smoke together, the fine was 
 increased. Imagine the expression upon their faces had 
 they some Sunday afternoon looked into one of our modern
 
 52 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 
 
 clubs. Nevertheless they openly encouraged the cultiva- 
 tion and sale of tobacco, being quite ready that all others 
 outside their little colony should have an opportunity to 
 practice freely the wicked habit of smoking, thus continu- 
 ing as ever to lay up treasures in heaven and on earth. 
 
 Of all men in this community, Dudley was the most 
 typical. Business man that he was, he was not the richest 
 man in the colony ; Isaac Johnson was the richest man and 
 was consequently entitled to the best pew in the church. 
 He was not the religious leader. The Rev. John Wilson 
 and later Rev. John Cotton held that position. Dudley did 
 not, when coming to this country, hold at first so exalted an 
 office as Winthrop. But no man was more in touch with 
 the spirit of his time. Looking back at him from our own 
 time, we see, in what glimpses we have of his life, the very 
 essence of the Puritan, an upright, devout man, loyal, per- 
 severing, intelligent, intolerant. 
 
 A certain popular impression against Dudley has sprung 
 up as much as anything from a dispute which arose be- 
 tween him and Winthrop, with regard to an agreement 
 made between them, that each should build a house at 
 Cambridge, which was first fixed upon as the Capital of 
 the colony. It seems that Winthrop, shortly after begin- 
 ning to build his house, moved to Boston and that a sharp 
 controversy followed, which caused a breach in the hitherto 
 friendly relations between these two men. In this contro- 
 versy Winthrop maintained that he had fulfilled the word 
 of his promise to Dudley, but as evidence of the justice of 
 Dudley's side of the dispute, we have a decision of the 
 Elders in his favor. It is interesting to note that Winthrop 
 soon after this, wrote to Dudley as follows : " I am un- 
 willing to keep such a cause of provocation by me." To 
 which Dudley replied, "Your overcoming yourself hath 
 overcome me." Contrary to the popular notion, we find 
 numerous instances of the friendship and love which pre- 
 vailed between these men. After the dispute with regard
 
 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOOES. 53 
 
 to the Cambridge houses took place, Winthrop sent Dud- 
 ley twenty pounds, which the latter returned, stating that 
 he was so well persuaded of the "Governor's love for him 
 and prized it so highly," that if he had given him one 
 hundred pounds instead of twenty, he would not have 
 taken it. Their children soon married, and, though they 
 differed at times on matters of public and church policy, 
 their friendship continued ever after. By this marriage 
 Gov. Winthrop's daughter Mary, became Ex-Governor 
 Dudley's daughter-in-law. In 1638 the year of this mar- 
 riage, Winthrop and Dudley took a trip together to Concord 
 to examine some farms. They each selected about one thou- 
 sand acres. At the place where Dudley's land began were 
 two great stones, still to be seen there, which they named 
 "The Two Brothers" in remembrance, as they said, that 
 they were brothers by virtue of the marriage of their chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Winthrop, before leaving England, was chosen Gover- 
 nor of the Colony. He had then an income of seven 
 hundred pounds, or about thirty-five hundred dollars a 
 year, a sufficient sum to entitle him, at that time, to be 
 counted a man of wealth. When Winthrop left Dudley 
 and moved from Cambridge to Boston, he built a house at 
 the corner of what is now Washington and Milk streets, 
 near the spot where the Old South Church now stands. 
 Having lost a large portion of his property through the 
 mismanagement of his trusted agent in England, he in 
 consequence, sold most of his land in the town. Winthrop 
 appears early to have owned quite an amount of land 
 beside that at Concord and an island in the harbor, after- 
 wards taken by the government, upon which Fort 
 Winthrop now stands. He retained, however, a small 
 piece of land upon Washington street, nearly opposite 
 School Street, where he erected a wooden house which is 
 now supposed to have been destroyed by the British troops 
 in 1775. In this house, opposite what is now School Street,
 
 54 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOOES. 
 
 and the one adjoining, Winthrop lived 17 years, and died 
 18 years after the settlement of Boston, leaving a widow, 
 his fourth wife, to whom he had been married but a few 
 months. He was first married when he was but 16 years 
 old. We have ample evidence that he had an undying af- 
 fection for each of his wives, and it was with profound 
 grief that he in turn met with the loss of each, but his 
 sorrow, queerly enough, in every instance, seems to have 
 been very speedily turned into joy in the company of 
 another wife. 
 
 At his own house, Winthrop, and presumedly, Dudley 
 at his, when he held the place of governor, had frequent 
 consultations with regard to the affairs of the colony, and 
 here they acted as magistrates at trials where offences had 
 been committed that involved good morals among their 
 people. Here they also listened to the bodily ailments, 
 and administered physic to their neighbors, though it 
 appears somewhat later that an act was passed forbidding 
 any one to practice as a surgeon or give medicine unless 
 he was skilled in the art. Dudley, either at his own 
 house or at those of his neighbors, performed the marriage 
 ceremony. The ministers of that time following the 
 English law, were not, unless they belonged to the 
 established church, authorized to perform this service. 
 Severe restrictions, it appears, were also placed upon the 
 other learned professions. It is known that for a time 
 there was but one lawyer in Boston, and that he was 
 regarded with suspicion. Anyone, before bringing an 
 action at law and employing this lawyer, must first submit 
 his case to the elders, that they might determine before- 
 hand, whether he had cause of action or otherwise. 
 
 In 1634, John Cotton, who had recently arrived from 
 England, and was not fully in sympathy with the demo- 
 cratic tendency of his time, preached a sermon declaring 
 his objection to the prevailing belief that a public officer 
 should not be removed from office, and affirming that a
 
 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOOES. 55 
 
 magistrate once elected, had the same right to remain in 
 office that he had to the undisputed possession of his land, 
 or other private property. A heated controversy was the 
 result of this sermon ; but, when the election was held, 
 Dudley was chosen Governor in place of Winthrop, which 
 office he held, at that time, but one year. At this elec- 
 tion we find the first recognition and adoption of the plan 
 of popular government, the choice being by papers or 
 ballot, the first on record ; an important event in the his- 
 tory of the colony. 
 
 Abundant cause as they had to admire Winthrop, a 
 feeling adverse to his long continuance in office had crept 
 in. In fact, Cotton is said to have become convinced of 
 the decline of the Governor's popularity, while Dudley 
 had the confidence of the people to a great degree. 
 
 Dudley was re-elected Governor in 1645, with Winthrop 
 as Deputy-Governor, and again their places changed in 
 1646, 1647, 1648, during which years Winthrop became 
 Governor and Dudley again Deputy-Governor. 
 
 Having served as Governor four years, Dudley, when 
 seventy years of age, was chosen Sergeant Major-General, 
 the highest military office in the gift of the colony. 
 
 The Massachusetts Colony, as it came', to be called, grew 
 rapidly at first ; many families of wealth and influence 
 cast their fortunes with the settlers, so that the Massachu- 
 setts Colony finally absorbed the colony at Plymouth, the 
 former having soon far outstripped the latter in material 
 prosperity. This growth, however, was checked the last 
 year of Dudley's administration. The times were then 
 what is popularly known as hard times. Money became 
 so very scarce that debts had to be paid, if at all, in corn, 
 cattle, etc. Indian corn at this time was declared a legal 
 tender, at the price of four shillings a bushel, and the 
 price then fixed was a standard for the payment of debts 
 for a long time afterwards. 
 
 There is much that is suggestive in the fact that when
 
 56 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 
 
 Dudley moved from Cambridge to Ipswich in 1634, the 
 colonists soon found the need of his wisdom in that storm 
 of trouble which began to arise after his removal from 
 Cambridge. He therefore was importuned by his friends 
 to return, which he did, and finally settled in Roxbury. 
 What better evidence than this, of the place in the colony 
 held by this steward of the Earl of Lincoln. Dudley's 
 house in Roxbury stood opposite the end of Shawmut 
 Avenue, where a wooden church now stands. His resi- 
 dence here was long remembered for the number of distin- 
 guished guests he entertained. Miantonomoh, the Narra- 
 gansett chief, was entertained at this house in 1640. This 
 house, like Winthrop's, singularly enough, was torn down 
 during the war of the Revolution. He had deemed it 
 best to finish it with a little more regard to comfort than 
 was the custom among his neighbors, and he was, in con- 
 sequence subjected to some sort of public censure, but he 
 stated in his own justification, that the only innovation 
 that he had made upon the prevailing custom was that his 
 house was clapboarded inside to keep out the cold, while 
 the others were -not. Here his wife, Dorothy Dudley, died 
 in 1643, at the age of 61 years. The Governor, 
 however, seems soon to have dried his tears, for we find 
 him four months later, when over 70 years of age, married 
 to the widow of one of his neighbors in Roxbury by the 
 name of Hockson ; after this he had three children. When 
 his death occurred, nearly seven years later, his widow 
 appears to have hazarded matrimony for the fourth time, 
 taking the youngest set of the Dudley children with her- 
 The Governor must have been the owner of quite a farm, 
 for it is known that he paid his sons' dues, while they were 
 at Harvard College, in farm products. With characteristic 
 Puritan thrift he is said to have loaned seven and a half 
 bushels of grain to one of his fellow colonists in the 
 Spring, with the understanding that he should be repaid 
 ten bushels in the Autumn. For doing this he was
 
 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 57 
 
 taunted with usury, though it would seem that the charge 
 he made was not unfair, as he took the risk of the 
 borrower's crop. We have other ample evidence that he 
 was thrifty in the conduct of his private affairs. 
 
 He was said to have had the largest library in the 
 colony, chiefly theological works and histories. It con- 
 tained, however, only about fifty volumes, as it was a time 
 when the number of books was very limited. 
 
 If we are still in danger in being persuaded that this 
 man was not typical of what was best among the Puritans, 
 or had vices which were not the virtues of his own time, 
 we should bear in mind that one among his eight children, 
 his daughter Anne, who married Simon Bradstreet, was the 
 first American poetess, though her poems were first printed 
 and published in England. She was a poetess of much 
 beauty and gentleness of thought and expression. She is not 
 the kind of child we should expect from a " bleak and stern " 
 father, nor are the following lines about him, written after 
 his death, indicative of any such conception of him upon 
 her part. Indeed, she entertained for him the greatest 
 respect and affection. In an old volume of her poems, 
 which I have, she says of her father : 
 
 TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR AND EVER HONORED FATHER, 
 THOMAS DUDLEY, ESQ. 
 
 By duty bound, and not by custom led, 
 
 To celebrate the praises of the dead, 
 
 My mournful mind, prepared in trembling verse, 
 
 Presents my lamentations at his herse ; 
 
 Who was my father, guide, instructor too, 
 
 To whom I ought whatever I could do ; 
 
 Nor it's relation, near, my hand shall tie, 
 
 For who more cause to boast his worth than I 
 
 Who heard or saw, observed or knew him better, 
 
 Or who alive than I a greater debtor ?
 
 58 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 
 
 Well known and loved where'er he lived by most, 
 
 Both in his native and in foreign coast ; 
 
 These to the world his merits could make known, 
 
 So needs no testimonial from his own. 
 
 But now or never I must pay my sum ; 
 
 While others tell his worth I'll not be dumb ; 
 
 One of thy founders, him New England know ; 
 
 Who staid thy feeble sides when thou wast low. 
 
 Who spent his state, his strength, and years with care 
 
 That after-comers in them might have share. 
 
 True patriot of this little common weal, 
 
 Who is't can tax thee aught but for thy seal ? 
 
 Thy love to true religion e'er shall shine, 
 My father's God be God of me and mine. 
 
 Forgotten never be his memory. 
 His blessing rest on his posterity. 
 
 A real benediction for us, and that she herself was a 
 loving, tender woman, is plain from the following lines, 
 published in a later edition of her poems, about a son who 
 was about to leave to go to England and back. She 
 dreaded the long, dangerous journey that she felt that he 
 was about to undertake ; her own voyage, when coming 
 out, was seventy-six days from the time they left Cowes 
 until she arrived in Salem. he says : 
 
 " Thou Mighty God of sea and land 
 
 I here resign unto thy hand 
 
 The son of prayers, of vows, of tears, 
 
 The child I stayed for many years, 
 
 Thou heard'st me then and gav'st him me, 
 
 Hear me again, I give him thee." 
 
 Among the descendants of Anne Dudley, afterwards 
 Anne Bradstreet, there have been and are still to be found 
 the names of some of our most distinguished citizens^
 
 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOOES. 59 
 
 Who need doubt that the graceful folds of her mantle 
 descended and again rested upon the shoulders of Wendell 
 Phillips and Doctor Holmes ? 
 
 Gov. Dudley died July the 31st, 1654, at the ripe age 
 of seventy-seven, and was buried in the old burying- 
 ground, corner of Washington and Eustis Streets. An 
 oval slab of white marble there bears the name of 
 "Dudley." The plate of metal was believed to have been 
 taken and melted into bullets by the soldiers, about the 
 time of the Revolution. 
 
 Gov. Dudley, if we may take the statements of all his 
 contemporaries, possessed great discretion, as well as firm- 
 ness and courage. He was not afraid to do right, nor 
 could he be induced to do what he believed to be wrong. 
 
 It is hard for us to imagine a stronger character than 
 that of the author of the letter to the Countess of Lin- 
 coln ; of the successful manager of the Earl of Lincoln's 
 estate ; of this undertaker of the New England Colony ; of 
 this watchful counselor throughout the first days of the 
 founding of our Commonwealth ; and yet I cannot bear to 
 close this paper without mentioning to you a single item 
 which suggests the possibility of the softer kind of human 
 weakness in this stern breast. After his death, there was 
 found in the pocket of this father of Anne Bradstreet, and 
 ancestor of our own Dr. Holmes, a poem. Perhaps he had 
 never admitted his weakness to any one of his steeple- 
 hatted Puritan brethren, but had cherished it in his 
 pocket, a weakness known only to himself. The poem- 
 runs as follows : 
 
 " Dim eyes, deaf ears, cold stomach show 
 
 My dissolution is in view ; 
 
 Eleven times seven near lived have I, 
 
 And now God calls, I willing dye, 
 
 My shuttle's shot, my race is run, 
 
 My sun is set, my deed is done. 
 
 My span is measured, my tale is told ; 
 
 My flower's faded and grown old.
 
 60 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 
 
 My life is vanished, shadows fled, 
 My soul's with Christ, my body dead ; 
 Farewell dear wife, children and friends, 
 Hate heresy, make blessed ends, 
 Bear poverty, live with good men, 
 So shall we meet with joy again, 
 Let men of God in courts and churches watch 
 O'er such as do a toleration hatch, 
 Lest the ill egg bring forth a cockatrice,* 
 To pay you all with heresy and vice, 
 If men be left and otherwise combine 
 Mine epitaph's, I did no hurt to thine." 
 
 In this poem the old Governor speaks for himself. In 
 one sense it is very interesting to us, his descendants, to 
 consider how near we can come to shaking hands with 
 him. Taking the full life of man as a standard, it is 
 really but a short time since Gov. Dudley was living here 
 in Boston. 
 
 There are probably persons now living, at any rate, I 
 personally know people who have died within a very few 
 years, in fact, within six or seven years, who distinctly 
 remembered persons who, if they did not know Dudley 
 personally, they did know people who were living here in 
 Boston at the time he was alive. But in another and 
 deeper sense, how far he is from us. In the contemplation 
 of his quatrain on toleration, and comparing it with our 
 own time, we behold the whole history of New England. 
 In these modern days it is almost an axiom in ethics that 
 every man's honest convictions shall be respected, however 
 much they may differ from our own. In his own time, 
 this strong man was very close to the popular heart when 
 he wrote 
 
 " Let men of God in courts and churches watch, 
 O'er such as do a toleration hatch, 
 Lest the ill egg bring forth a cockatrice 
 To pay you all with heresy and vice." 
 
 *A cockatrice is a serpent fabled to rise from an egg, and so venomous as to be 
 able to kill with its look.
 
 ADDKESS BY JOSEPH B. MOORS. 61 
 
 One of the results of this gathering, I believe, will be a- 
 statue of Gov. Thomas Dudley, and without anticipating 
 the action of the association, I hope that such a statue will 
 be erected in one of the new, and soon to be, beautiful 
 public parks of this city. 
 
 I would like, however, to improve this opportunity to 
 call the attention of those in charge of a memorial to Gov. 
 Dudley, to something that to my mind is full of sugges- 
 tion and importance. Many carefully prepared volumes, 
 and papers without number, have been furnished us, 
 mainly from the skilful pens of his descendants, com- 
 mending Gov. Winthrop to us, giving him the credit of 
 being the founder of our Commonwealth, while of Gov. 
 Thomas Dudley, who occupied perhaps as important a 
 place in the early history of this region as any one, not 
 excepting Winthrop himself, no adequate or even pass- 
 able memoir has ever been written by any one. If we 
 should erect a monument to his memory, let us see to it 
 that it is accompanied by one or more volumes from a 
 competent hand, giving us an impartial account of Dudley's 
 character, as well as his public and private life. Let us 
 erect a monument of stone or of bronze, but still spare no 
 effort to the end that a no less important and enduring 
 monument may be found in all our libraries in the shape 
 of a full, adequate and satisfactory account of the life of 
 Governor Thomas Dudley.
 
 letters of IRegret, 
 
 The President: 
 
 It is fitting that I should now read you a letter from an- 
 other descendant of Anne Bradstreet. I will read a letter 
 from Dr. Holmes. 
 
 296 BEACON STREET, > 
 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 <Bov. Gbomas JDuMeg. 
 
 [The following extract from a letter written by one of 
 the Committee on Memorial to our distinguished ancestor 
 is published, in order that the minds of all reading this vol- 
 ume may be set to thinking upon this most important sub- 
 ject.] 
 
 I have been pondering the question "What shall we 
 recommend?" Of course in Article II of the Constitu- 
 tion, the Association binds itself as its first active duty and 
 work, to protect the place where rest the ashes of our cele- 
 brated ancestor, as may be found most " fitting and appro- 
 priate. " 
 
 To me, the " fitting and appropriate " seems to be mere- 
 ly care of the plot and tomb, keeping it in its original sim- 
 plicity, with nothing added to the existing inscription, 
 cleaning the stone if necessary and doing whatever can be 
 done to preserve it, etc., etc. and, if the plot is large 
 enough to admit of, a small space in fine grass well tended. 
 I think nothing could be finer than the original tomb thus 
 preserved, and set off. Nineteenth century monuments 
 would be sadly incongruous in such a case and such a 
 place. 
 
 I think that a sufficient fund should be set apart for 
 such care of the tomb, and its expenditure entrusted to a 
 committee, members of the Association living in Boston, or
 
 96 MEMORIAL TO GOT. THOMAS DUDLEY. 
 
 in its immediate vicinity, which committee shall be appoint- 
 ed by the Association and shall report thereto at the annu- 
 al meetings. 
 
 But I think that our great ancestor should have a memo- 
 rial to his memory erected by his descendants in this As- 
 sociation, and I rise and propose that, as Governor Dudley 
 signed the Charter for Harvard University, what more fit- 
 ting and appropriate form could that memorial take on, 
 than that of a building connected with that great seat of 
 learning and further I propose that the building be in 
 some way for the use of women students at Harvard, and 
 that it be called " The Governor Thomas Dudley Hall " - 
 
 That would indeed be something great to achieve and a 
 memorial worthy of a great ancestor. 
 
 My proposition in full therefore is provide first for the 
 perpetual care and preservation of the tomb and burial 
 plot in their original character and then start on the 
 college which will give the Association a living work to 
 do which will never be done, but always capable of en- 
 largement and greater beneficence from year to year. 
 
 Perhaps you will think me visionary or audacious in 
 making a proposal requiring so much money and time to 
 carry it out. But Dudleys should not be content to do 
 only small things. Therefore I say " Undertake and 
 achieve, " as did our ancestor. 
 
 I hope to hear from the committee shortly and to know 
 in brief, if you will kindly inform me what the other mem- 
 bers propose, and what action is taken. 
 
 With kind regards, 
 
 I am, yours and theirs in the clan, 
 
 LOUISE WINTHROP KOUES.
 
 97 
 
 '0 IReport 
 
 L. EDWIN DUDLEY, TREASURER. 
 
 IN ACCOUNT WITH THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WHICH ORGAN- 
 IZED THE RE-UNION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF GOVERNOR 
 THOMAS DUDLEY. 
 
 DR. 
 
 
 CR. 
 
 
 To amount received 
 
 
 By disbursements as 
 
 
 from contributions to de- 
 
 
 per schedule annexed. 
 
 748 3 
 
 fray the expenses. 
 
 374 So 
 
 By cash on hand. 
 
 203 55 
 
 To amount received 
 
 
 
 
 from the secretary for 
 
 
 
 
 sale of dinner tickets. 
 
 
 
 
 
 559 85 
 
 
 
 To amount received 
 
 
 
 
 for the preservation of 
 
 
 
 
 the tomb, etc. 
 
 17 50 
 
 
 
 All as per annexed 
 
 
 
 
 schedule. 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $951 85 
 
 Total 
 
 $951 85 
 
 Respecfully submitted, 
 
 L. EDWIN DUDLEY, Treasurer. 
 
 BOSTON, DEC. 1892. 
 
 The undersigned, Auditing Committee, have examined the ac- 
 counts of the Treasurer of the Executive Committee and find 
 them correct in all particulars. Signed. 
 
 Auditing Committee. 
 
 D. D. SLADE, 
 W. P. DUDLEY, 
 A. M. DUDLEY.
 
 98 TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 SCHEDULE NO. 1, 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSES OF THE 
 DUDLEY RE-UNION, HELD OCTOBER 25, 1892. 
 
 Sanford H. Dudley, . . . $1000 
 
 E. G. Dudley, 5 oo 
 
 Dudley R. Cnild, . . . . 5 oo 
 
 Warren P. Dudley, . . . . 10 oo 
 
 Dean Dudley, . . . . 5 oo 
 
 L. Edwin Dudley, . . . .1000 
 
 }. F. Dudley, . . . . 10 oo 
 
 . B. Moors, . . . . 25 oo 
 
 C. V. Dudley, . . . . 10 oo 
 
 E. Dudley Freeman, . . . 5 oo 
 
 Dr. Eliz. A. Carleton, . . . 5 oo 
 
 Mrs. Sarah W. Chandler, . . 2 oo 
 
 Katherine L. Morrill, . . . 2 oo 
 
 Richard M. Jones, . . . .1000 
 
 Frank Dudley, . . . . 20 oo 
 
 Rev. G. M. Searle, . . . 5 oo 
 
 Mrs. Edw. E. Hale, . . . 5 oo 
 
 Mrs. R. S. Fay. . . . 5 oo 
 
 Dr. A. M. Dudley, . . . 5 oo 
 
 Mrs. M. S. Child, . . . .1000 
 
 Mrs. Harvey A. Jones, . . . 10 oo 
 
 Mrs. A. H. Dudley, . . . . 5 oo 
 
 Annie O. Bangs, . . . . 5 oo 
 
 Col. Henry Lee, . . . 50 oo 
 
 Orinda Dudley Hornbrook, . . 5 oo 
 
 C. M. Hierginson, ... 2 oo 
 
 C. K. Babb, . . . . 2 oo 
 James Dudley, . . . 5 oo 
 J. H. Dudley, . . ... 5 oo 
 Mrs. Hannan Chase Wheeler, . . 2 oo 
 
 D. D. Slade, . . . . 5 oo 
 Chas. Head, . . . . .1000 
 Maurice P. White, . . . 5 oo 
 Chas. Anson Sheldon, . . 5 oo 
 Mrs. Mary E. Brigham, . . . 5 oo 
 D. C. Gilman, . . . 5 oo 
 D. Dudley Johnson, . . . 5 oo 
 Melissa D. Atterbury, . . 5 oo 
 Theo. H. Sheldon, . . . 2 oo 
 Sara Dudley Sears, . . . 2 oo 
 Woodbury Gersdprf Langdon, . . 25 oo 
 Mrs. Lucy Rumrill, . . . 2 oo 
 Gilman H. Tucker, . . . 10 oo 
 Ariana S. Dudley, . . . .100 
 Albert W. Child, . 5 oo 
 Miss Lily Dudley, . . . . 2 oo 
 John Dudley, . . . . i oo
 
 TREASURER'S REPORT. 99 
 
 Joseph P. Dudley, . . - . c oo 
 
 F. E. Dudley, . . . . 2 50 
 
 Mrs. Augusta Dudley, . . 5 oo 
 
 Dudley B. Seaver, . . . 2 oo 
 
 Jas. S. Dudley, . . . 3 oo 
 
 S. Henry Dudley, . . . . 5 oo 
 
 H. C. Dudley, 2 oo 
 
 Total $374.50 
 
 To amount received from Mr. 
 
 Dudley R. Child for dinner tickets, . 559 85 
 Mrs. Hollis for the preserva- 
 tion of the family tomb,. . . 10 oo 
 Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes 
 toward a monument, . . . 7 50 
 
 #577 35 
 
 Total receipts, . . . $951 85 
 
 SCHEDULE NO. 2, 
 
 EXPENSES INCURRED BY THE DUDLEY RE-UNION, HELD 
 OCTOBER 25, 1892. 
 
 By cash paid to (Voucher) 
 
 Oct. 7, Dudley R. Child, (i) $40 05 
 
 " 8, Brown & Clark, (2) 8 25 
 
 " 13, H. C. Whitcomb & Co., (3) 86 
 
 " 22, L. K. Brown, (4) 20 oo 
 
 " 22, Dudley R. Child, (5) 20 96 
 " 25, Return of Mrs. Russell's 
 
 dinner tickets, (6) 2 50 
 
 " 26, H. A. Brooks, (7) 2 50 
 
 " 26, L. Edwin Dudley (8) 10 13 
 
 " 26, Brown & Clark, (9) 19 45 
 
 " 26, J. F. Merrqw & Co., (10) 52200 
 Nov. i, Ladies' Philharmonic 
 
 Orchestra, (11) 15 oo 
 
 " 2, John H. Thurston, (12) 7 80 
 
 " 2, Samuel G. Robinson, (13) 22 25 
 
 " s, Dudley R. Child, (14) 10 49 
 " 5, Levi Redden, Sexton 
 
 Bowdoin Street Church, (15) 10 oo 
 
 " 17, Dean Dudley, (16) 21 05 
 
 " 17, G. A. & S. W. Brackett, (17) 4 oo 
 
 Exchange on Checks, (18) i 51 
 
 Dec. 7. Moore & Co., Teaming, (19) 9 50 
 
 Total expenditure, #748 3 
 
 Balance on hand, 203 55 
 
 Total, $95 i 85 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 L. EDWIN DUDLEY, Treasurer.
 
 100 APPENDIX. 
 
 jfinal flDeeting of Executive Committee* 
 
 BOSTON, Dec. i, 1892. 
 
 The final meeting of the Executive Committee "of the de- 
 scendants of Governor Thomas Dudley, was held at the New 
 England Historic Genealogical Society's Building, No. 18 
 Somerset St., Boston, Dec. i, 1892. Mr. Dean Dudley, 
 Chairman of the Committee presiding. The records of all pre- 
 vious meetings of the Committee were read and approved. The 
 Treasurer submitted his report and it was referred to an 
 Auditing Committee, which later reported the Treasurer's ac- 
 counts correct in all particulars. The report of the Auditing 
 Committee was accepted. It was voted that the funds 
 held by the Treasurer of this Committee should be transferred 
 to the Treasurer of " The Governor Thomas Dudley Family 
 Association." It was also voted that the records and all books 
 and papers, now in the hands of the Secretary of this Commit- 
 tee, should be turned over to the Secretary of said Association. 
 
 The thanks of the Committee were extended, by vote, to all 
 all who had sent family memorials and relics to the Reunion 
 for exhibition, and to the Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer, 
 for their services. The record of this final meeting was 
 read and approved. The Committee then adjourned sine die. 
 
 of Boarfc of Directors. 
 
 The first meeting of the Board of Directors of " The Governor 
 Thomas Dudley Family Association," was held at the residence 
 of the President, in North Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 17, 1892. 
 This meeting proved to be a very interesting and social 
 gathering. Various matters relating to the future of the Asso- 
 ciation were discussed and it was voted that all the money 
 received from the Executive Committee, which organized the 
 Reunion, should be placed on desposit and kept intact for the 
 preservation and care of the Dudley tomb. It was also voted 
 that the Committee authorized to publish the Report of the Re- 
 union should make further endeavors to have Mr. Dean Dudley 
 unite with them in the publication of said Report as per vote of 
 the Association. 
 
 The second and last meeting of the Board of Directors, was 
 held at the residence of Mrs. Dr. Elizabeth A. Carlton, Boston, 
 Mass., Jan.3ist, 1893. Th? Publication Committee reported that 
 efforts to secure reconciliation with Mr. Dean Dudley had 
 proved futile and that he had refused to recognize the Commit- 
 tee or Association in any manner. By vote, the Publication 
 Committee were authorized to complete the Report of the Re- 
 union. A vote was passed declaring the office of Historian of 
 the Association vacant.
 
 COV. THOMAS DUDLEY'S SEAL- 
 
 This cut represents the seal of the Governor 
 that was attached to his will bearing date 
 Apr. 26, 1652, and which may he seen at the 
 Suffolk Probate Office, in Boston. It is a 
 Lion Rampant, with a crescent for difference. 
 
 LION RAMPANT. 
 
 The lion rampant seems to have been borne 
 by the family as early as the 9th of Edward 
 II. Some of the Dudleys bore the single- 
 tailed green lion, as Gov. Thomas Dudley did. 
 
 SEAL Or COV- JOSEPH DUDLEY. 
 
 Joseph Dudley was horn at Koxbury, Mass.' 
 Sept. 23, 1647, and was the second son of Gov 
 Thos. Dudley. He was appointed Governor 
 of the Provinces of Massachusetts and New 
 Hampshire, in 1702. 
 
 His term of office expired Feb. 1, 1714-15. 
 He died April 2, 1720, and was buried in his 
 father's tomb. 
 
 ARMS OF THE SUTTON DUDLEYS- 
 QUARTERING MALPAS AND 
 SOMERY- 
 
 1. Button of Notts. 
 
 2. Malpas of Cheshire. 
 
 3. Malpas of Cheshire. 
 
 4. Somery of Staffordshire.
 
 APPENDIX. 101 
 
 fln flfeemoriam. 
 
 THEODORE MITCHELL KOUES (KEOUS), 
 BORN AT PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 
 
 JANUARY 31sT, 1811. 
 
 DIED AT No. 10 EAST 75TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY, 
 MAY 24TH, 1893. 
 
 "An honest man. One that loved God and never defrauded his brother." 
 
 Mr. Koues (Keous) was the eldest descendant of Governor 
 Thomas Dudley present at the first Reunion Dinner of the 
 Gov. Thomas Dudley Family Association, at the Revere House, 
 Boston, on the evening of October the twenty-fifth, 1892, and 
 is the first member of the Association to pass from the scenes 
 of earth to those of the Heavenly Home, of whose glories he 
 had a most remarkable vision several days before his departure, 
 "glories which no language is adequate to describe." 
 
 Mr. Koues' descent from Gov. Thomas Dudley is as follows: 
 
 GOV. THOMAS DUDLEY 1 . 
 
 REV. SAMUEL DUDLEY*, marr. 1633 at Cambridge, Mass., Mary, 
 only daughter of John Winthrop, ist Governor of Massa- 
 chusetts Bay Colony. 
 
 ANN DUDLEY", marr. Col. Edward Hilton of Exeter, New 
 Hampshire, son of Edward Hilton of Exeter, N. H. 
 
 COL. WINTHROP HILTON*, marr. Jane Wilson. 
 
 DEBORAH HILTON S , marr. Benjamin Thyng, of Exeter, N. H. 
 
 WINTHROP THYNG 6 , marr. Judith Fowler, of Epping, N. H. 
 
 DEBORAH THYNG : , marr. in 1774, WILLIAM KEOUS, who was 
 born, June 20, 1741, in the Parish of Kirkcolm, Wigton- 
 shire (Galloway), Scotland. A graduate of Harvard 
 University, class of 1768, afterward in 1775 a member of 
 the Brentwood, New Hampshire, " Committee of Corre- 
 spondence " and clerk of trie same. (American Archives. 
 Fourth Series. Vol. I, Page 1222.) Died in Ohio, Sept. 
 ist, 1814. 
 
 THEODOSIUS KEous 8 , 4th son and fifth child of William Keous 
 born April 6th, 1784, marr. Margaret Wallace Smith, of 
 Dover, N. H., daughter of Josiah Smith and Abigail Bell, 
 his wife. 
 
 THEODORE MITCHELL KouES 9 (Keous), marr. in New York 
 City, Aug. 8th, 1838, Louisa Henderson Monroe Board, 
 daughter of Joseph Board, Esq., and Elizabeth Bancker 
 Board, nee Leaycraft and grand-daughter of two officers 
 of the Revolutionary War, viz : 
 
 Major David Board, of New Jersey, paymaster of the 
 New Jersey troops during the war, ana Lieutenant William 
 Leaycraft, of Col. John Lamb's New York Regiment of 
 Artillery. After the war Lieutenant Leaycraft was one
 
 102 APPENDEX. 
 
 of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati. 
 
 His membership being now held by one of his great 
 
 grandsons. Their eight children were : 
 LOUISE WINTHROP KouES 10 (Keous), unm. 
 HELEN KOUES ]O , marr. Geo. Nelson Reynolds, son of Nelson 
 
 Bradford Reynolds, Esq., of Lewiston, Maine. A lineal 
 
 descendant of Governor Bradford, of the Plymouth, 
 
 Mass., Colony. 
 THEODORE LEACRAFT KOUES I() , died aged five years and eight 
 
 months. 
 
 ELIZABETH LEAYCRAFT KouES 10 , unm. 
 WILLIAM HENDERSON KouES 10 , died aged eleven months. 
 GEORGE ELLSWORTH KouES 10 , marr., January 3rd, 1878, at 
 
 Elizabeth, N. J., Mary Parmly Toby, only daughter of 
 
 Simeon Toby, Esq., of New Orleans, La., and Lavinia 
 
 Parmly, his wife. 
 FRANK BLEECKER KouES 10 , marr. January 2nd, 1889, Jennie, 
 
 daughter of Robert Burgess, Esq., of Rutherford, N. J. 
 MARY MACAULAY KouES 10 , marr. January 8th, 1878, at Kear- 
 ney, N. J., Thomas Toby, eldest son of Simeon Toby, 
 
 Esq., of New Orleans, La. 
 
 Mr. Koues' long life was crowded with varied and interest- 
 ing experiences. Until past middle age he was actively en- 
 gaged in a business with large interests, and had intimate rela- 
 tions and friendships with many leading men of affairs of his 
 time. North and south, east and west of his own country were 
 all familiar to him, as at different periods of his life he had 
 lived in the several sections, and studied closely the differing 
 phases of American development. He also made several ex- 
 tended visits to Mexico and became a great admirer of the 
 better class of Mexicans j and later a trip to England gave him 
 the great pleasure of seeing English people in their own homes. 
 Mr. Koues, by nature, belonged to that choice minority of 
 high-tuned souls, " Seekers after Truth," that are ever widen- 
 ing, extending, their mental and spiritual horizon and who 
 know within themselves that " one and God are a majority." 
 
 In sentiment and principle, he was staunchly and truly Amer- 
 ican, but his sympathies were world-wide, bounded only by 
 the brotherhood of man and the many lands in which men live 
 under various aspects and conditions. Such a life and character 
 can lead to but one sort of old age. Mr. Koues outlived nearly 
 all his early associates and in his later years he gradually with- 
 drew from active pursuits, and became largely a looker on, al- 
 ways a keenly interested and appreciative one at the quickly 
 shifting scenes of the great panorama of the world. 
 
 His family and a small circle of intimate and congenial 
 friends were his dear companions and, a student to the last, his 
 books and papers filled many a quiet hour. 
 
 All subjects at home or abroad interested him and he kept 
 himself thoroughly abreast of the questions of the day. He 
 grew old most gracefully, the quiet geniality of his nature seem- 
 ing to ripen with each added year. His well-stored mind, and
 
 APPENDIX. 103 
 
 wide and varied experience of life made him an interesting com- 
 panion to old and young alike, and to the latter he was ever a 
 ready sympathizer, a wise counsellor and a valued friend. 
 
 A thoroughly domestic and religious man, he died as he had 
 lived with his family about him ; " in the Communion of the 
 Catholic Church ; in the confidence of a certain faith ; in the 
 comfort of a reasonable, religious and holy hope, and in per- 
 fect charity with the world." And the end was Peace. 
 
 To the memory of a dearly loved father this brief sketch is 
 affectionately dedicated by his eldest daughter. 
 
 Hppeal for pbotograpbs* 
 
 50 BROMFIELD ST., BOSTON, July 5, 1893. 
 To the descendants of Grovernor Thomas Dudley. 
 
 Dear friends : It seems to me that if every descendant 
 of Governor Thomas Dudley will send his or her photo- 
 graph to be placed in an album to be the property of 
 " The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association," it 
 will make a very valuable collection that will be most high- 
 ly prized by future generations. 
 
 If my kinsfolk will send their pictures, with their 
 own names and those of their ancestors, I will place them 
 in albums which I will transmit to my successors in office. 
 
 I sincerly hope that all who can, will make an early re- 
 sponse to this circular. 
 
 In addition to pictures of living descendants, it will add 
 much if each member of the family will send photographs 
 of relatives and ancestors and especially of family portraits 
 which they may possess. 
 
 With an earnest desire to serve the family, I am, affec- 
 tionately, 
 
 Your kinsman, 
 
 L. EDWIN DUDLEY, 
 
 Treasurer.
 
 ttable of Contents. 
 
 Frontispiece, (Original portion of Dudley Castle) 
 Introduction, ...... Page 3 
 
 Proceedings, ....... 7 
 
 Organization, . . . . . . .13 
 
 Constitution and By-Laws, . . . . .14 
 
 List of Officers, . . . . . . .18 
 
 List of Memorials, and Relics exhibited, . . .19 
 
 List of Persons at Reunion, . . . . .23 
 
 The Dinner and Menu, ... 30 
 
 President's Salutatory, . . . . . .32 
 
 Letters of Governor and Lieut. Governor, . . 37 
 
 Address by Joseph B. Moors, . . . . .38 
 
 Letters of Regret, . . . . . .62 
 
 Explanatory, ...... 64 
 
 Picture of Tomb of Gov. Thomas Dudley in present condition. 
 Col. L. Edwin Dudley's Address, .... 66 
 
 Col. Henry Lee's Letter, ..... 77 
 
 Remarks of Dr. Albion M. Dudley, ... 82 
 
 Address of Edward Everett Hale, D. D. . . .85 
 
 Address of Hon. Elias Dudley Freeman* ... 87 
 Address of Rev. W. S. Woodbridge* . . . .92 
 
 President's Closing Remarks, .... 94 
 
 Memorial to Gov. Thomas Dudley, . . . .95 
 
 Treasurer's Report, ...... 97 
 
 Final Meeting of Executive Committee, . . .100 
 
 Pictures of seals of Gov. Thomas Dudley, Gov. Joseph 
 
 Dudley, and Edmund Dudley's Lion Rampart. 
 
 Arms of the Button Dudley's. 
 Appendix, ....... 101 
 
 In Memoriam (Theodore Mitchell Keous,) . . . 101 
 
 Appeal for Photographs, . . . . .103 
 
 Table of Contents, . . . . . .104 
 
 *A.n error was made in transposing the order of the addresses of Hon. Eliai 
 Dudley Freeman and Rev. Mr. Woodbridge and was not discovered until too 
 late to rectify.
 
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