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Dorothy Yorke was born 25 April 1582 in Cotton End, Northhampton, Northhamptonshire (then abbreviated as co. Northants,) England to parents Edmund and Katherine Fairfield Robins Yorke.

Dorothy Yorke married Thomas Dudley on her 21st birthday, 25 April 1603, in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England.

They had five children:

Reverend Samuel Dudley (b. 1608)
poet Anne Dudley Bradstreet (b. 1611/1612)
Patience Dudley Denison (b. 1613/1614)
Sarah Dudley Keayne Pacy (b. 1620)
Mercy Dudley Woodbridge (b. 1621)

[Please note, there has been speculation for some time that a Thomas Dudley, who received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1626 and a Master of Arts in 1630 at Cambridge University in England, was the son of Governor Thomas Dudley and his wife Dorothy Yorke Dudley. It is widely published in historical and genealogical registers that there is no evidence to date of this connection. Please see below bibliography.**]

"Dorothy Dudley the wife of Thomas Dudley" was admitted to the Boston church as member #12 in 1630. She died in Roxbury on 27 December 1643 of colic; "a godly Christian woman & left a religious savor behind her." She is believed to be buried in Eliot Burying Ground, however time and weather has erased the location of this grave.

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* * BIBLIOGRAPHY showing there is no evidence to date of familial connection between Thomas and Dorothy Yorke Dudley and young Thomas Dudley of Cambridge University:

Lucious Robinson Paige, List of Freeman of Masschusetts, 1630--1691, (Baltimore, MD : Genealogical Publishing, 1978), 14.

Robert Dickson Weston, "A Second Roll of Arms Registered by the Committee on Heraldry," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 86:258-286 (July 1932), 86:263.

Dean Dudley, "Gov. Thomas Dudley and His Descendants," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 10:130-142 (April 1856), 10:133-142.

William B. Trask, "Abstract of the Earliest Wills Upon Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (January 1848-July 1866.)

Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (2004), 280-281.

Marston Watson, Royal Families, Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Vol.1 Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants Through Five Generations, Second Edition (2004), 1-3.

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Dorothy married Governor Thomas Dudley on 25 Apr 1603 in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England. Thomas was born before 12 Oct 1576 in Northamptonshire, England; was christened on 12 Oct 1576 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England; died on 31 Jul 1653 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; was buried after 31 Jul 1653 in Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Governor Simon Bradstreet. Simon was born on 18 Mar 1603/04 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England; died on 27 Mar 1697 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts; was buried after 27 Mar 1697 in Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dorothy (Bradstreet) Cotton ~
Birth: 1636 - Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
Death: 6 February 1671 -Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
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Granddaughter of Colonist, Colonial Governor, Thomas Dudley

Father:
Governor Simon Bradstreet ~
Birth: 18 Mar 1603 Horbling, Lincolnshire, England
Death: 27 Mar 1697, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

Mother:
Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet ~ (1st American poet)
Birth: 20 Mar 1612 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Death: 16 Sept 1672 in Andover, MA, USA
was an English-American writer, the first notable American poet, and the first woman to be published in Colonial America. Her work was very influential to Puritans in her time.

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Spouse:
Seaborn Cotton ~
Birth: 1633 in at sea
Death: 1686 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British America.
~ Married ~
Seaborn Cotton - 14 Jun 1654
Age: 21
Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, British America
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Children:
Sarah Cotton
Birth: 2 May 1663 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British America
Death: 1690 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British America
Spouse:
Richard Pierce 1660 Mass.

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Dorothy married Seaborn Cotton on 14 Jun 1654 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. Seaborn was born on 12 Aug 1633; was christened on 8 Sep 1633 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 19 Apr 1686 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; was buried on 23 Apr 1686 in Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mercy Cotton married Peter Tufts Dec. 16, 1684
1/1/2014 Esther Norton Malcolm (#47142712) suggestion:
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Hi Bob, her last name is "Cotton"
Massachusetts, Town Marriage Records, 1620-1850 about Mercy Cotton
Name: Mercy Cotton
Spouse: Peter Tufts
Marriage Date: 16 Dec 1684
Marriage Place: Medford
Source: Vital Records of Medford
Full Text: Mercy and Peter Tufts, Dec. 16, 1684. Intention not recorded. [Mary, ]
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Add'l suggestion:
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Hi Bob, on her birth certificate it states that her name is Mary, but other information states "Mercy". Very confusing. She was born in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire and died in Medford.
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Bio by: BobBoston

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Mercy married Captain Peter Tufts on 16 Dec 1684 in Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Peter was born on 5 May 1648; died on 20 Sep 1721; was buried after 20 Sep 1721 in Salem Street Burying Ground, Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]