Ancestry of
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner

First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government

Mercy Dudley

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 19 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Dudley 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy York   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Sep 1621 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yardley-Hastings, Northamptonshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jul 1691 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Woodbridge
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1640 
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  John Woodbridge

  Thomas Woodbridge

  Timothy Woodbridge

  Martha Woodbridge (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  Benjamin Woodbridge

• Sources for Mercy Dudley

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  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1994, Vol. 11, p. 204.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1878, Vol. 32, pp. 292-293.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 25.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 585.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 505.
  • ⁷ Dunn, Waldo H., The Life of Donald G. Mitchell: Ik Marvel, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1922), 19.
  • ⁸ Mitchell, Donald Grant, The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge . . ., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, Printers (1883), 6-8, 10-18.
  • ⁹ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. 2, p. 477.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117, 126, 177.
  • ¹² 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), 3, 9-10.