Part I is here. The son that Josiah Dudley lived with in his old age was Jeremiah. Josiah deeds for life support to Jeremiah at Cheshire County Deeds 68:3 dated 22 March 1806 and recorded 31 December 1814. Jeremiah was alive on 19 October 1836 when he in turn deeded for life support to his son Harvey Dudley. [Sullivan County Deeds 19:209]. Jeremiah's wife is mistakenly given as Mary Robards in this source
Ezra A. Stearns, Genealogical and Family History of
the State of New Hampshire (New York: Lewis Publishing, 1908), 2001-2. However, from Harvey's death certificate we learn her name was Mary (or Polly) Fisher. Just to show you how bizarre this family is, guess where the marriage took place? Boston. Jeremiah Dudley and Polly Fisher were married at the Hollis Street Church in Boston, Mass. on March 26, 1799. Knowing that now, I would make Jeremiah's birth ca. 1779 not 1783.
So, follow this: Josiah Dudley, born in Connecticut, married in Connecticut a woman, born in Connecticut. They moved to Newport, New Hampshire and had eight children: Josiah, who moved back to a different place in Connecticut and married there; Betsey who married in New Hampshire and moved to Vermont; Jeremiah above who married in Mass. a girl from Dedham and moved back to New Hampshire; George who married in Vermont and stayed there; Anna, who married in New Hampshire, and moved to Rhode Island then to Massachusetts; Polly B. [presumably] who married twice in New Hampshire and moved to Maine; Clarissa who married first in New Hampshire, was widowed and moved to Connecticut to marry the second time; and Minerva, who lived and travelled with her sister Anna until her death and then returned to New Hampshire. That means that each child left a vital record in all six New England states.
And you wonder why I drink?
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