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 liv INTRODUCTION.

in the seventy-seventh year of his age.* He moved from Ipswich to Roxbury about the year 1639, f and resided there during the rest of his hfe. From the time of his arrival in America he had been a magistrate ; he had held the offices of Governor, Deputy-Governor, Assistant, and Justice of the Peace; he was in May, 1636, together with Winthrop, chosen Councillor for life ; in 1644 he was elected the first Major-General ; he had been appointed to hold court in various places, and had received many other tokens of the regard and confidence of the people.:]: He has been charged with bigotry and intolerance, faults which certainly did not distinguish him from most of his contemporaries,

4. Sarah ; baptized July 23, 1620, at Sempringham ; married Major Benjamin Keayne, of Boston, and was divorced from him in 1647. She afterwards married Pacye, and died Nov. 3, 1659.

5. Mercy; born Sept. 27, 1621 ; married the Rev. John Woodbridge in 1639; and died in July, 1691. Had twelve children.

6. Dorothy; died Feb. 27, 1643. <

By his second wife he had, —

1. Deborah; born Feb. 27, 1644-5; died unmarried Nov. i, 1683.

2. Joseph ; born Sept. 23, 1647 ; married in 1668 Rebecca, daughter of Edward Tyng, and died April 2, 1720. He was Governor of Massachusetts, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Wight, and first Chief-Justice of New York. He had thirteen children, one of whom, Paul, was also a distin- guished man; being Attorney-General, and afterwards Chief- Justice of Massachusetts, Fellow of the Royal Society, and founder of the Dudleian Lectures at Harvard College.

3. Paul; born Sept. 8, 1650, married Mary, daughter of Governor John Leverett, and died 1681-82. Had three children."*


 * See page 365.

t Felt's Ipswich, p. 72.

X Massachusetts Colony Records, Vols. I. -III.

o " Sutton-Dudleys," p. 97. Dudley Genealogies, p. 18. N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, Vol. i. pp. 71-2; Vol. X. pp. 130-6. Mass, Hist. Soc. Proceedings (1860-62), pp. 93, 95.

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