Chief Justice Paul Dudley

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Paul Dudley: September 3, 1675-January 25, 1751

Parents: Joseph Dudley 1647-1720 and Rebecca Tyng 1651-1722

Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts, was born in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

After graduating from The Roxbury Latin School and then Harvard in 1690, he studied law at the Temple in London, and became attorney-general of Massachusetts (1702 to 1718). He was associate justice of the superior court of that province from 1718 to 1745, and chief justice from 1745 until his death in 1751.

He was a member of the Royal Society (London), to whose Transactions he contributed several valuable papers on the natural history of New England, as well as the founder of the Dudleian lectures on religion at Harvard University. He died in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dudley ____________________________________________________________________________________ Dudley was first settled in 1714 and was officially incorporated in 1732. The town was named for landholders Paul and William Dudley.[1] In April 1776, on his way to New York City from Boston after his victory in the Siege of Boston, General George Washington camped in the town of Dudley with the Continental Army along what is now a portion of Route 31 near the Connecticut border. During the trip, it is rumored that a "large cache" of captured and recovered British weaponry and supplies was ordered "concealed in the grounds" in the rural area along the route. The cache, hidden to resupply reinforcements from Massachusetts or to cover a retreat from the south, were never used or recorded as having been recovered.[2] Union soldiers from Dudley, the 15th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, suffered heavy casualties inflicted by the Confederacy during the Battle of Gettysburg.[3] Dudley was the primary manufacturer of "Brogan boots" worn by the Union Army and produced the majority of the standard issue Union uniforms worn during the Civil War.[4]

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Paul Dudley BIRTH 3 Mar 1675, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA DEATH 21 Jan 1751 (aged 75) BURIAL Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA, MEMORIAL ID 39085208

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Parents Joseph Dudley, 1647–1720 Rebecca Tyng Dudley, 1651–1722

Siblings Rebecca Dudley Sewall, 1681–1761 William Dudley, 1686–1743 Mary Dudley Atkins, 1692–1774

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