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name. Her homely virtues are thus simply recorded by her daughter : —

"An EPITAPH On my dear and ever honoured Mother

Mrs. DorotJiy Dudley,

who deceafed Decemb. 27. 1643. and of her age^ 61 ;

Here Ives, Worthy Matron of unf potted life.

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��A loving Mother atid obedient -vife, A friendly Neighbor, pitiful to poor. Whom oft fl/c fed, and clothed ivith her fiore ; To Servants -wijely axveful, but yet kind, And as they did,fo they rctvard did find: A true Inflruder of her Family, The ivhich fJie ordered xvith dexterity. The publick meetings ever did frequent. And in her Clofet conflant hours fke fpent; Religious in all her tvords and -cvayes. Preparing fl ill for death, till end of dayes : Of all her Children, Children, US d to fee. Then dying, left a bleffed memory." *

After the death of this lady, Governor Dudley married, on the 14th of the following April, Catherine, widow of Samuel Hackburne.-f He died on the 31st of July, 1653,


 * See page 369.

t Governor Dudley had the following children bj his first wife : —

1. Samuel; born in England, in 1610. Married three times, first in 1632 or '33, Mary, daughter of Governor Winthrop. Settled minister at Exeter, N.H., in 1650, where he died in January, 16S2, O.S. Had eighteen children.

2. Anne ; married Governor Bradstreet.

3. Patience; married Major-General Daniel Denison. Died Feb. 8, 1690, O.S. Had two children.

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