Simon Bradstreet and Anne Dudley
8x Great Grandparents
Simon Bradstreet
Birth 18 Mar 1603 • Horbling, Lincolnshire, England
Death 27 Mar 1697 • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Parents:
Simon Bradstreet (1580-1621)
Margaret Sawyor (1584-1631)
Anne Dudley
Birth 20 Mar 1612 • Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Death 16 Sep 1672 • Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Parents:
Thomas Dudley (1576-1653)
Dorothy Yorke (-1643)
Marriage – about 1628
Anne Bradstreet
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Colonial Family
Arrival: 1630
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Death
Anne Bradstreet
Poet. Born Anne Dudley to nonconformist parents Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke Dudley in Northampton, England. Her father was the steward for the Earl of Lincoln and afforded his daughter an unusually complete education. About 1620 she married Simon Bradstreet, her father’s assistant. On March 29, 1630, Bradstreet and her family sailed for the New World. After several years, they finally settled on a farm in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1644. Simon Bradstreet became a judge, royal councilor, and twice a governor of the colony. Anne Bradstreet became mother to eight children and wrote only privately. She was frequently ill and apparently developed a vaguely morbid mind set and was continually distressed by the culturally ingrained condescension toward women. Her first public work may well have been the epitaph she penned for her mother in 1643. Four years later, her brother-in-law carried a collection of her poems with him to England where he had them published. They appeared as ‘The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts’ in the New World in 1650. While it did sell in England, the volume was not well received in Massachusetts. Although she continued to write for herself and her family, no more of her work was published in her lifetime. She was purportedly buried in the Old Burying Point in Salem, Massachusetts beside her husband, though other locations for her grave have also been proposed. In 1678 her ‘Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning’ was posthumously published followed by ‘The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse.’ She is now considered the earliest of American poets and among the finest of her age. (bio by: Iola)
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Anne Dudley Bradstreet
1612 – 1672
Old Burying Ground, North Andover
Added by Sandy on 15 Sep 2009
Burial:
Old North Parish Burying Ground
North Andover
Essex County
Massachusetts, USA
Added by Barbara Poole on 18 Oct 2013
The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011
Simon Bradstreet
Colonial Governor. Bradstreet received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cambridge’s Emmanuel College. He married Anne Dudley, who was the daughter of Puritan leader Thomas Dudley and later became the first published poet in North America. Dudley and Bradstreet relocated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and Dudley was soon chosen to serve as governor. Bradstreet was involved in numerous business pursuits, most notably land speculation, and founded several new towns. He also filled several important positions in local and colonial government, including deputy governor. In 1661, he was chosen as envoy to the court of Charles II, confirming the colony’s charter when Charles assumed the throne of England after years of civil war. In 1679 Bradstreet was selected to serve as governor and held office until 1686, the last person to hold the position under the colony’s original charter. In 1686 the colony was denied its previously held right to self-rule, and Edmund Andros was appointed governor. After Andros was removed Bradstreet served again as governor from 1689 to 1692. Bradstreet was remarkably active even old age, maintaining his participation in government and his business pursuits almost until his death at age 94. The tomb in Salem, Massachusetts which contains the plaque memorializing Simon Bradstreet is a cenotaph. In the 1790s the Bradstreet family sold the tomb to the Hathorne-Ingersoll family, who removed and disposed of the remains inside to make room for new burials. In the 1890s researcher Robert Rantoul determined what had happened to Bradstreet’s remains. His research was published, which led to placement of a plaque in Bradstreet’s memory on the Hathorne-Ingersoll Tomb. (bio by: Bill McKern)
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Added by: Garver Graver 22 Oct 2002
Family Tree
Simon Bradstreet (1603–1697)
Birth 18 MAR 1603 • Horbling, Lincolnshire, England
Death 27 MAR 1697 • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Anne Dudley (1612–1672)
Birth 20 MAR 1612 • Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Death 16 SEP 1672 • Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
John Bradstreet (1652–1718)
Birth 22 JUL 1652 • Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
Death 11 JAN 1718 • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts
Mercy Bradstreet (1689–1725)
Birth 2 JUN 1689 • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts
Death 22 NOV 1725 • Norwich, New London, Connecticut
John Hazen (1710–1754)
Birth 21 FEBRUARY 1710 • Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts
Death 1754 • Lyme, New London County, Connecticut
Eunice Hazen (1747–1817)
Birth 22 May 1747 • Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States
Death 1817 • Brookfield, Trumbull, Ohio, United States
Jacob Reeder (1782–1848)
Birth 25 JUL 1782 • Luzerne, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
Death 4 AUG 1848 • Springfield, Clark, Ohio
Added: 28 Aug 2006
Find A Grave Memorial 15540405
John L. Reeder (1809–1860)
Birth 1809 • Pennsylvania
Death 1860 • Michigan
Gaylord Hampton Reeder (1842–1918)
Birth 2 FEB 1842 • Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio
Death 18 OCT 1918 • Bushnell Twp, Montcalm, Mid Lothian
Wilson Gaylord Reeder (1885–1964)
Birth ABT 1885 • Michigan
Death OCT 1964 • Michigan
Harold LeRoy Reeder (1932–2004)
Birth 08 JUL 1932 • Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan
Death 14 JUN 2004 • Ilwaco, Pacific, Washington
Parents:
Wilson Gaylord Reeder (1885–1964)
Florence Katherine Knacker (1895–1943)
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