Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

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Thomas Dudley

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5508 
  • Father:
  • Roger Dudley 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Thorne   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Oct 1576 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yardley Hastings, Northampton, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Jul 1653 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Dorothy York
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Apr 1603 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Dudley

  Samuel Dudley (Ahnentafel No:2754 )

  Anne Dudley

  Patience Dudley

  Sarah Dudley

  Mercy Dudley

  • Notes: 

  • Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Additional marriages for Thomas Dudley

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  • Spouse:
  • Katherine Deighton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Apr 1644
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Thomas Dudley

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Samuel Dudley (m. 1632), p. 1.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/23/2013).
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 72.
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, p. 169.
  • ⁵ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1994, Vol. 11, p. 204.
  • ⁶ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2000, Vol. 1.4, p. 43.
  • ⁷ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2000, Vol. 1.2, p. 40.
  • ⁸ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1911, Vol. 65, p. 189.
  • ⁹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1902, Vol. 56, p. 206.
  • ¹⁰ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1893, Vol. 47, pp. 120-121.
  • ¹¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1898, Vol. 52, p. 50.
  • ¹² The American Genealogist, 1932, Vol. 9, pp. 221-222.
  • ¹³ The American Genealogist, 1987, Vol. 62, p. 47.
  • ¹⁴ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 27.
  • ¹⁵ The Cambridge Historical Society, Publications 14, Proceedings for the Year 1919, Cambridge, Massachusetts: by the Society (1926), 83.
  • ¹⁶ Ames, Constance Le Neve Gilman, The Story of the Gilmans and a Gilman Genealogy of the Descendants of Edward Gilman of Hingham, England 1550-1950, Yakima, Washington: Shields Rainier Printing Company (1950), 103.
  • ¹⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 213, 523, 581-588.
  • ¹⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1886, 2040.
  • ¹⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 99.
  • ²⁰ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 505.
  • ²¹ Dudley, Dean, History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 1, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1886), 276.
  • ²² Eldredge, Mrs. Jane Jennings, The Leavitts of America : A Compilation of Five Branches and Gleanings from New England to California and Canada, Woods Cross, Utah: Leavitt Family Association (1924), 47.
  • ²³ Hardy, H. Claude and Rev. Edwin Noah Hardy, Hardy and Hardie: Past and Present, Syracuse, New York: The Syracuse Typesetting Co., Inc. (1935), 341.
  • ²⁴ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ²⁵ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. 2, pp. 476-477.
  • ²⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/29/2014).
  • ²⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 109, 148, 182, 193.
  • ²⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117, 126, 185-188.
  • ²⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 214, 216, 261, 573.
  • ³⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 370, 924.
  • ³¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 360-361, 663.
  • ³² Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 1-3.
  • ³³ Wikipedia, "Thomas Dudley", (accessed 04/27/2011).

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