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- All Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England,
1620-33
ROGER LUDLOW
ORIGIN: Wiltshire
MIGRATION: 1630 in the Mary and John
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Windsor 1635
RETURN TRIPS: To Dublin, Ireland, September 1654
OCCUPATION: Magistrate.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Although there is no explicit record of his church membership, he was undoubtedly a founding member of the church at Dorchester and remained with the church when it move to Windsor.
EDUCATION: Matriculated at Oxford from Balliol College 16 June 1610, aged 19 (did not graduate) [Foster 3:948]; admitted to Inner Temple November 1612 [Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 29:352].
OFFICES: Deputy Governor, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:118]. Assistant, 10 February 1629/30, 9 May 1632, 2 July 1633 [MBCR 1:69, 95, 105]. Justice of the Peace, 23 August 1630 [MBCR 1:74]. Committee to oversee Castle Island fort [MBCR 1:124, 145, 158].
Appointed by Massachusetts Bay as Windsor delegate to commission to govern Connecticut River towns, 3 March 1635/6 [MBCR 1:171].
Assistant, Connecticut Colony, April 1636, September 1636, March 1637, May 1637, November 1637, February 1638, March 1638, April 1638, April 1640, April 1641, April 1643, April 1644, April 1645, April 1646, May 1647, May 1649, May 1650, May 1651, May 1652, May 1653 [CT Civil List 34]. Deputy Governor, April 1639, April 1642, May 1648 [CT Civil List 34]. Commissioner to Saybrook, Pequot War, June 1637 [CT Civil List 34]. Commissioner for United Colonies, May 1648, May 1651, May 1652, May 1653 [CT Civil List 34].
Dorchester selectman, 27 June 1636 [DTR 16].
ESTATE: On 7 November 1632 Roger Ludlow was granted one hundred acres of land at the mouth of the Naponsett River [MBCR 1:102].
On 3 April 1633 Mr. Ludlowe had two cows and was responsible for forty feet of fence at Dorchester [DTR 1]. On 5 August 1633 Mr. Ludlow and other prominent men of Dorchester were granted four acres apiece [DTR 2]. On 27 June 1636 Mr. Ludlow was granted "straight down to the sea the marsh that lies next the four acres to his homelot" [DTR 17] and the land at Rocky Hill was to be his and that of his neighbors "in community amongst them" [DTR 18].
BIRTH: Baptized Dinton, Wiltshire, 7 March 1590, third son of Thomas and Jane (Pyle) Ludlow [TAG 13:114, 15:143].
DEATH: By about 1666 [NGSQ 51:233].
MARRIAGE: After 1623 Mary Cogan, daughter of Philobert and Anne (Marshall) Cogan [NEHGR 110:270-71; NGSQ 51:150, 233]. She was buried at Dublin on 3 June 1664 ("Mrs. Mary Ludlow, wife of Roger Ludlow" [TAG 15:143, citing parish registers of St. Michan's, Dublin; NGSQ 51:233]).
CHILDREN:
i THOMAS, b. say 1624; witnessed a deed 26 February 1641[/2] [Windsor Hist 463]; no further record. (It should be noted that Roger Ludlow had a brother and a nephew named Thomas, each alive and of age when this deed was witnessed, so this Thomas need not be son of Roger [Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 29:351-52].)
ii JONATHAN, b.say 1626 (eldest son in father's deposition); probably he who on 17 June 1665 took out a license to marry Sarah Davis [NGSQ 51:233].
iii JOSEPH, b. say 1628; bur. St. Michan's, Dublin, 30 April 1667 [NGSQ 51:233].
iv ROGER, b. say 1630; living 1660, no further record.
v ANNE, b. say 1632; living 1660, no further record.
vi MARY, b. say 1634; living 1660, no further record.
vii SARAH, b. say 1636; perhaps m. by about 1660 Rev. Nathaniel Brewster [TAG 13:113-16].
ASSOCIATIONS: Brother of GEORGE LUDLOW. A concise account of the Ludlow family, published in 1921, now somewhat outdated but still useful, provides a good overview of the immediate family connections of Roger and George Ludlow [Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 29:350-54].
COMMENTS: In his list of those "being gone yet had children born here" Matthew Grant credited Mr. Ludlow with having one child born in Windsor [Grant 93].
In respect to his brother George's will leaving considerable legacies to Roger's children, the following document was recorded with George's estate: "On the first day of August, in the year of Our Lord God 1656, there issued forth letters of administration to Roger Ludlow Esq. the father of and curator lawfully assigned to Jonathan, Joseph, Roger, Anne, Mary and Sarah Ludlowe, minors, the nephews and nieces and residuary legataries in this will, during the minority of the said minors; [blank] [blank] for that no executor is therein named as touching the said deceased's estate in England" [Waters 172-73].
A Chancery suit in February 1660[/1?] calls Roger Ludlowe of Dublin, Esquire, "the natural and legal father of Jonathan, Joseph, Roger, Anne, Marie and Sarah Ludlowe and administrator in the right of his said children of the personal estate of George Ludlowe of Yorke river in Virginia, Esquire, deceased ... that whereas about the year 1629 your orator with many hundreds more did transplant themselves & families into America to a certain tract of land there, called New England" [R.V. Coleman, Roger Ludlow in Chancery (Westport, Connecticut, 1934), 17-26].
Attempting to assign dates of birth to the children of Roger Ludlow has exercised several genealogists in the past, and we will attempt a new chronology here. Several criteria need to be met. First, George E. McCracken pointed out that Mary Cogan was still unmarried at the time of the 1623 Visitation [NEHGR 110:270]. Second, Thomas Ludlow must have been at least fourteen when he witnessed a deed early in 1642. Third, at least one of the children should have been still a minor at the time of the 1656 law suit [TAG 13:114 (note that the children are called minors in 1656 and not 1660)]. Fourth, Sarah need only be old enough to permit the possibility that she married Nathaniel Brewster by about 1660 [TAG 13:155]. Fifth, we assume that the boys and the girls are named in birth order in the chancery suit (although it is not necessarily true that all the boys were born before all the girls). Sixth, Matthew Grant tells us that only one child was born to Roger Ludlow during his residence at Windsor. The arrangement given above meets all these criteria, and does not generate other chronological problems.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1936 and 1937 Donald Lines Jacobus considered certain aspects of the life and family of Roger Ludlow in his article on Rev. Nathaniel Brewster [TAG 13:113-16, 154-63]. In 1939 Meredith B. Colket Jr. developed a line of royal ancestry for Roger Ludlow, and in the process discussed many of the difficult points in his family, concluding with a brief but excellent bibliography of what was available at that date [TAG 15:129-43]. In 1956 George E. McCracken included a brief treatment of Roger Ludlow in his massive study of the Cogan family [NEHGR 110:270-71]. In 1963 Herbert F. Seversmith published a lengthy biography of Roger Ludlow, reflecting only a fraction of the research that he has undertaken on this man and his genealogical connections [NGSQ 51:150-64, 224-34].
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Bef 1590 - Abt 1666 (~ 75 years)
