Roger Nudd

Notes

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Of Henry Dow’s path, the account is fairly ample. Of Joan Nudd we know but very little; not her maiden name. She was twenty-three at her marriage and had a baby boy. Her husband was Roger Nudd, son of John Nudd who died in Ormsby in 1629. It is believed that Henry Dow and Roger Nudd were fellow farmers. The Nudds were numerous in Norfolk, mostly in the Seaward Parish. Vital records from that parish are not existent prior to 1671.

Henry Dow of Ormsby, England married the widow of his friend, a year older than himself, took her baby boy and had three children of his own and was able to start with a servant. This latter does not indicate affluence. Passage to America was very costly. Young men and women of good families gladly indentured themselves for a long term if the employer would pay their passage. It was in this way that Margaret Cole, who became Henry Dow’s second wife came to Dedham, Massachusetts with the family of Mitchill/Mitchell Metcalfe. From Henry Dow are descended nearly three-fifth of all the Dows in America.