David and Lois (Whitney) Dudley of Sutton, Massachusetts

Following up on the wikitree hint on the parentage of Betsey (Dudley) Learned of Vermont, I did some preliminary researching using the Mass. Vital Records to 1850 series which is online.  I used Sutton, Millbury, and Auburn.

David-4 (Rogers-3 Samuel-2 Francis-1) Dudley was born 14 January 1749/50 at Sutton (Sutton VRs) and died 8 August 1814 at Millbury (Millbury VRs).  He married at Sutton as David Jr. Lois Whitney on 16 December 1773 (Sutton VRs), she born say 1750 and died at Millbury 13 January 1822 (Millbury VRs) and whose parentage is unknown despite a prominent New England name.  Both David and Lois have gravestones still extant at the Millbury  Cemetery and on Findagrave.com.  David is consistently given as David and never David Daniel.  Like I said no one had two given names in the 18th century.

They had:

i. Molly born 3 July 1774 at Auburn (Auburn VRs)

ii. Sarah, born 27 July 1777 at  Auburn (Auburn VRs)

iii. John, born 27 January 1780 at Auburn  (Auburn VRs)

iv. David, born 5 June 1781 at Auburn (Auburn VRs)

v. Luther born 12 June 1783 at Auburn (Auburn VRs)

vi. Betsey born 9  February 1787 at Sutton (Sutton VRs)

vii. Joseph born 14 March 1790 at Sutton (Sutton VRs)

viii. Amasa born 17 October 1792 at Sutton (Sutton VRs)

This looks like a full picture of their family.  Here are the problems.  The Betsey Dudley who married Moses Learned did so on 30 May 1802 at Windham, Vermont.  She also lives long enough to be recorded in the 1850 U.S. census at age 73.  (1850 Census of Windham, VT, 2 Oct 1850, page 356).  She cannot be the Betsey born in 1787.  She would be 15 at marriage and her age would be off by 10 years in 1850.

Likewise Polly Dudley (if in fact she is a Dudley) lives to the 1850 census too at age 63 so born in 1787.  She cannot be born much before that since her last child is born in 1830 when she is 43.  So she can't be the Molly Dudley born in 1774.

So this family is a bust and wikitree again proves to have dubious information.  I am still curious about this family and will someday look up David's probate records.