Joseph Dudley
Royal governor of Massachusetts (1647-1720) · Politicians · Died at 72
Joseph Dudley was a colonial administrator, a native of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the son of one of its founders. He had a leading role in the administration of the Dominion of New England (1686-1689), which was overthrown in the 1689 Boston revolt.
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Engraving depicting the arrest of Sir Edmund Andros in 1689
William Blathwayt helped further Dudley's career.
Sir William Phips, whom Dudley sought to supplant as governor of Massachusetts
Depiction of the 1704 Raid on Deerfield
Jonathan Belcher was an agent representing Dudley's interests in London. He became governor in 1730.
Elizabeth Davenport (Mrs. William Dudley), 1729, by Smybert Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Catherine Winthrop Sargent married 1744 as the second wife of Col. Epes Sargent, from a portrait by Smybert which is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.About this person
He served briefly on the council of the Province of New York, from which he oversaw the trial which convicted Jacob Leisler, the ringleader of Leisler's Rebellion. He then spent eight years in England in the 1690s as Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Wight, including one year as a Member of Parliament for Newtown. In 1702, he returned to New England after being appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and Province of New Hampshire, posts that he held until 1715.
