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228. Marie ---— was married second, to William Cole, about 1613, and was alive in 1618.

229. Henry Goldstone, son of Sir William Goldstone, vicar of Bedingfield, Suffolk, by Margaret, and grandson of Roman and Jane Goldstone. was baptized at Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, July 17, 1591; married before 1615, and died at Watertown, July 25. 1638.

230. Anne was born in England; married second, John George, and died at Watertown. April 26, 1670.

231. Rev. John Woodbridge. the much esteemed pastor of a Puritan church in Stanton, Wiltshire, was son of Rev. John, grandson of Rev. John, great grandson of Rev. John, and great great grandson of Rev. John, born about 1492, and a follower of Wickliffe. Our John was buried Dec. 9. 1637.

232. Sarah Parker was a daughter by Dorothy, of Rev. Robert, who fled from persecution to Doesburg, Holland, and died there in 1614.

233. Gov. Thomas Dudley was born in England in 1576; married before 1621, and died in Roxbury, July 31, 1653; was son of Capt. Roger and a lady (possibly Pell) who was a relative of Sir Augustin Nichols, judge and keeper of the great seal. Gov. Thomas was a grandson of John and Elizabeth (Gierke) Dudley; great grandson of Thomas and Margaret Dudley and John Clerke; and by Cecily, daughter of Sir William Willoughby, great great grandson of Edward, seventh baron of Dudley. Knight of the Garter, and brother of John, Duke of Northumberland, and uncle of Ambrose, the good Earl of Warwick, Lord Guilford, the husband of Lady Jane Grey, and Robert, the favorite of Elizabeth, and by her made Earl of Leicester and owner of Kenilworth Castle. Sir Philip Sidney was a grandson of the Duke. The Dudley family rose to power during the time of Henry VII, who conferred the title and estate of the Warwick family upon Sir Edmund Sutton, sixth baron of Dudley, born 1442, and executed in 1510; a celebrated lawyer and speaker in the House of Commons. He married first, sister of the Earl of Worcester, and second, a daughter of Lord Clifford. He was the father of Edward, just named, and son of John de Sutton, M.P., fifth baron of Dudley. Knight of the Garter, and treasurer of the King's household. He was son of John, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who was of the eleventh generation from Harvey de Sutton, tenant of Earl Alan, who lived 1079. Gov. Thomas was educated in the family of the Earl of Northampton; studied law with his mother's kinsman, Judge Nichols; was a captain in England, and at siege of Amiens; became a non-conformist; also steward of the fourth Earl of Lincoln; relieved his estates of incumbrances which had existed two generations; settled at Boston, England, but soon re- turned to the Earl, who could not do without him; emigrated in 1630, as deputy governor of Massachusetts Bay; elected governor four times; in 1644 made commander in chief with rank of major general; lived in Cambridge, Ipswich, and Roxbury; married second, April 14, 1644. Catharine, widow of Samuel Hackburne. He was the father of Mrs. Governor Bradstreet, the poetess; of the wife of Major General Dennison, and of Gov. Joseph Dudley, who was representative of Roxbury. in 1673; assistant, 1675 to 1685; of the two com. of the United Colonies; treaty com. with the Narragansetts; president of New England; chief justice of Massachusetts and New York; lieutenant governor of the Isle of Wight; M.P. and captain-general and governor of Massachusetts Bay. New Hampshire, and Maine, the most brilliant official career on record. Governor Thomas was ancestor of Robert C. Winthrop, LL. D.; Rev. S. H. Tyng, D.D.; Com. Dudley Saltonstall; Tobias Lear, Washington's private secretary; ex-Gov. John Langdon; Judge Nathaniel G. Upham; Hon. Oliver Partridge; George H. Moore, LL. D.; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Rev. Joseph Buckminster, D.D.; Wendell Phillips; Rev. Phillips Brooks; and Mrs. General Gnrdon Saltonstall.

234. Dorothy was born in England in 1582, and died in Roxbury, Dec. 27. 1643.

235. Rev. Nathaniel Ward, A. M., born in Haverhill, Suffolk, in 1570, was a son of Rev. John and Susan Ward, and grandson of Chief Constable Ward; by far the ablest of Mr. Stickney's cis-Atlantic ancestors; educated at Cambridge. England; practiced law; pastor at Standon, Herts, and at Ipswitch, Mass., 1654; appointed in 1038 to draw up a legal code, for which he received six hundred acres of land in Haverhill; the magistrates did not like his election sermon in 1641; he wrote "Simple Cobbler of Agawam," of which copies have brought $155 each, and which "will live as long as Hudibras, which it fully equals in wit and keenness of satire." It was a favorite of Southey. In 1648 he published the "Body of Liberties," the foundation of Massachusetts law; returned to England in 1646; preached to House of Commons; settled in Shenfield, where he died in 1653. By an ap-