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Born: 1576 Northhampton, England near Castle Ashby |
Died: July 31, 1653 Roxbury, Massachusetts |
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Father: Roger Dudley Mother: Susanna Thorne [?] |
Brothers and Sisters: One sister, probably younger |
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Spouse: Dorothy York(e) m. April 25, 1603 Hardingstone, England |
Children: Samuel Dudley Anne Dudley Patience Dudley Sarah Dudley Mercy Dudley |
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Spouse: Catherine Hackburn m. 1644 |
Children: Deborah Dudley Joseph Dudley Paul Dudley |
Additional Information:
Thomas Dudley emigrated to the America in 1630 aboard the "Arbella". He was the second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, member of the first Board of Overseers of Harvard College and signer, in 1650, of college charter. One of the founders of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Instrumental in the establishment of the Roxbury Latin School, one of the first public schools in the American colonies.
Second wife Catherine Hackburn was the widow of Samuel Hackburn.
He applied the Sutton-Dudley seal and coat of arms to his will (a lion rampant vert, clawed and langued gules and with teeth and eye argent, surrounded by a bordure gules).