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Husband: John DUDLEY II
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  Birthdate: abt 1756 - Virginia
  Alt Birth: bef 1762 Prince George County, Virginia
 Death date: Mar 8 1820 - Fort Creek, Hancock Co., Ga.
     Father: John DUDLEY I (b Apr 15 1722)
     Mother: Annie Goodrich HAMLIN (b 1727)
 Marr. Date: abt 1780                  Place: Petersburg, Virgina
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   Wife: Elizabeth JONES
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  Birthdate: abt 1760 - Prince George County, Virginia
Death date: Aug 24 1820 - Ford Creek Near Louisville, Jefferson Co
     Father: William JONES RS (b bet 1742 and 1746)
     Mother: Sarah unknown
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Children
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1 F Sarah (Sallie) DUDLEY
  Birthdate: Dec 24 1782 Petersburg, Virginia
 Death date: Aug 24 1865 Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia
     Burial: Hammond Family Cemetery, Baldwin Co. , GA
     Burial: Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Baldwin Co.
     Spouse: Abner HAMMOND Sr. RS (    -    )
 Marr. Date: Mar 27 1803
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2 M Thomas Washington DUDLEY I
  Birthdate: Sep 24 1785 Prince George County, Virginia
 Death date: Feb 2 1868 Hancock County, Georgia
     Spouse: Mary (Polly) INGRAM (    -    )
 Marr. Date: bet 1824 and 1829
     Spouse: Betheny (Thene) DENNIS (    -    )
 Marr. Date: Feb 16 1837
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3 M William DUDLEY
  Birthdate: Jan 14 1788 Prince George County/Dinwiiddie Co., Vir
 Death date: Oct 9 1865 Dudleyville, Russell County, Alabama
     Burial: Soule Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery,
     Spouse: Elizabeth EWING (    -    )
 Marr. Date: Apr 12 1820
     Spouse: Rachael Varner EWING (    -    )
 Marr. Date: Mar 2 1824
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4 M John (Jack) DUDLEY Sr. (III)
  Birthdate: May 4 1789 Princess Ann County, Virginia
 Death date: Mar 29 1871 Collirene, Lowndes Co., Alabama
     Spouse: Julia Ann REESE (    -    )
 Marr. Date: Jun 27 1820
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5 M Edward DUDLEY, Sr.
  Birthdate: Jan 10 1795 St. Augustine, Flordia
 Death date: Oct 26 1873 Farmersville, Alabama
     Burial: Philadelphia Cemetery, Farmersvill, AL
     Spouse: Mary H. THOMPSON (    -    )
 Marr. Date: Jun 18 1823
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Prepared Feb 22 2002

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FAMILY NOTES
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Marriage(1,2):

HUSBAND Notes: John DUDLEY II RS
Birth(3):
Birth(4): Some records say Dinwiddie Co., as a portion of Prince George was renamed this.
Death(5):
General(6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17):
John Dudley is listed in "Georgia Soldiers of the Line, Revolutionary War.
According the the American Gen. Res. Institute, he was a private in a Georgia Unit.

In 1790, at the invitation of Juan Qesdea, the Spanish Governor of Florida, John and his
family, along with other Virginians, migrated to St. Augustine, Florida, to farm the
plantations abandoned by the English.

According to Norris B. Dudley, Jr. the location of the land grant if Florida was on Big
Pottsburg Creek in what is now south Jacksonville.

John Dudley's stay in Florida is confirmed in Richard K. Murdock's book, "Georgia-Florida
Frontier, 1793-1796. A direct reference as follows:
"A Second set of orders came from St. Augustine to supplement the earlier list of rebels.
Several well-known citizens of the province, including George Knolls, JOHN DUDLEY, William
Ashley, James Leslie and Frances Goodwin, all former members of the rural and urban
militia appeared on the new list".

The above men were suspected either of direct participation in the rebel attacks on Juana
and San Nicolas or of having given moral support . As a result they were to be arrested
and their property seized. However, they were able to elude the Authorities and slip
across the St. John's River into Georgia.

In 1800, after trouble between the Spanish and the new settlers, the Georgia Militia was
sent to escort some of them out of Florida. So the Dudleys, with another small child born
to them in Florida, made their way into Hancock Co., Ga., where John's sister, Lucy, and
her husband, Francis Lewis, (I)had settled. "(Collirene)

According to records in the Pension Office he made application for services rendered
during the Revolutionary War.
In the Georgia Land lottery of 1820, now in the office of the Secretary of State in
Atlanta, Georgia. John Dudley Revolutionary Soldier of Scotts District, Hancock County
Georgia, received a bounty grant of land of 250 acres which was located in Early County,
Lot No. 167, Dist 19, Thomas Dudley returned this property for taxation up to 1851.
See "Appendix B List Revolutionary Soldiers compiled by Capt. B. F. Johnson" Senate
Documents Vol XVI page 332 for proof of John Dudley's Revolutionary service.

Letter of Mrs. Louise B. Felton' s Letter of 1961 to Hugh J. Dudley.......
"The Genealogical Committee of D.A.R. has sent me the following information:
"We are returning your Chart on John Dudley. We find that we have one accepted line on his
record National #30683 addition 46. John Dudley was born before 1762 in Virginia, and died
in Hancock County, Georgia, March 8, 1820. His service has been given as Soldier in the
Revolution, and the source of proof is D. A. R. Report to U. S. Congress 1898-1906, page
351" (Dudley Family, Russell Co., AL)

Camden County, Georgia, Grand Jury October, 1799, John Dudley.

Jan. 3, 1801. John Dudley witnessed deed between Stephen Eubank of Camden Co and William
Jones and Abner Hammond of same county. (Camden Co., GA, Deed Book F, p. 346)

In Dec. 1803, John Dudley and three other persons were named to appraise the estate of
Michael Gilbert, dec'd. (Brantley. Hancock Court of Ordinary Minutes)

John Dudley was on Hancock Co. Tax list for 1804, 1808, 1810.

John Dudley was responsible for road repairs on the road "leading from Chambrs Mill on
Shoulderbone to Asa Alexander" in 1809. (Brantley. Hancock Inferior Court Minutes)

John Dudley was appointed Constable for Capt. Sledge's District in 1810. (Brantley.
Hancock Inferior Court Minutes)

Child No. Notes: Sarah (Sallie) DUDLEY
Birth(18): inscription on tombstone says b. Petersburg, VA.
Burial(18): Burial: Marker moved to Memory Hill Cemetery,, West side, Section E., Lot 36,
Person #10
General(19): Family records in the possession of Mrs. Elizabeth Dudley Dunn of Culverton,
Hancock County, Georgia, states that Sarah Dudley was born December 24, 1783; died August
24,1865, in Milledgeville, Georgia. She was Abner Hammond's second wife and was married to
him in 1803..(History)

"Abner Hammond, Esquire, and Miss Sarah Dudley of Louisville, m. 27 March 1803"
(Louisvile, Gazette April 6, 1803)

"Georgia Marriages to 1850" (Ancestry.com) says marriage took place March 27, 1808 in
Jefferson Co., Ga.

Child No. Notes: Thomas Washington DUDLEY I
Birth(20):
Death(21):
General(22,23,13,24,25,26,27,28):
Thomas Dudley appears on the 1810 Hancock Co., Tax List.

Thomas Dudley and Betheny Dennis. Married by J. G. Gilbert M. G. Marriage Book 1806-1850
in Hancock County, Georgia

Will of Thomas Dudley mentions, wife, Thenie, daughter, Josephine, sons, Robert L. &
Charles. dated Oct. 10, 1867. proven March 2, 1868. Executor: Thene Dudley. Wit: Wm. W.
Simpson, T. J. Little, L. Pierce, Jr.

Child No. Notes: William DUDLEY
Birth(29):
Burial: Tombstone: To the Memory of Wm. Dudley, born in Dinwiddie Co., VA,, Jan. ??,
1788, Died ??, ??, 1865, aged 77 years, 8 mos. & 25 days.
General(30,29): William Dudley's first wife, Elizabeth Ewing, died young, he then married
her sister, Rachel.

In 1825 William and his family left Georgia and came to Russell Co., AL

William Dudley settled northeast of Little Uchee Creek on Sandfort Road, known as
Dudleyville, in 1832. William was the first of the Dudleys to live in Russell County,
Alabama. Received land grant of 320 acres.

Plaque, Dudleyville Cemetery

"William Dudley, son of John and Elizabeth Jones Dudley of Dinwiddie, Virginia, of English
ancestry, was one of the pioneer settlers of Russell County, Alabama. He married sisters:
Elizabeth Ewing (Ewens) of Hancock County Georgia in 1820; Rachel in 1824. He had eleven
sons and one daughter. All of this family except five are buried here. His settling in
Alabama in 1825 was the beginning of the Dudleyville community. After a treaty with the
Creek Indians in 1836, William Dudley received land grants sighed by the President of the
United States."

Child No. Notes: John (Jack) DUDLEY Sr. (III)
Birth(31):
Death(32): "An obituary states that Jack Dudley died on March 29, 1871 at the home of his
son, Richard Jones Dudley (on the Benton road near Collirene)"
General(33,29): "John or (Jack ) Dudley was the first Dudley to pioneer into the Black
Belt of Alabama, having come around 1818"

Child No. Notes: Edward DUDLEY Sr.
General(29,34,35): Will probated in Putnam County Georgia. Edward on census for 1820 and
1830.

"Mr. Edward Dudley of Eatonton, merchant, married Miss Mary Thompson in Powelton, Hancock
County, Georgia, June 18,1823 by Rev. Jesse Mercer" (Georgia Journal, Milledgeville July
8, 1823).

Tuesday, July 31, 1827.
"Before tthe courthouse in the town of Sparta, Hancock County, will be sold on the first
Tiuesday in September next...the following property to wit: 550 acres oak and hickory
land....with a tan yard and a good dwelling thereon, a half mile of the Powelton Academy,
to satisfy two fi fas, one in favor of Edward Dudley in right of hiw wife, the other in
favor of John L. Williams and wife vs. London Doney and Richard C. Burch and Isaac
Birdson,,,,," (Georgia Journal)

Edward Dudley was a sadler by trade, moved to Eatonton, Putnam Co., Ga. in 1812 and of
Lowndes Co., A: from 1837.

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Sources
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1. Smith, Elizabeth Wiley. The History of Hancock County, Georgia, 2 volumes. Washington,
   GA: Wilkes Publishing Co., Inc. c1974.
2. American Genealogical Research Institute. Dudley Family History. Washington, DC:
   Heritage Press, Inc., c1978. page 67.
3. LDS IGA file. http://www.familysearch.org
4. American Genealogical Research Institute. Dudley Family History.
5. Ibid.
6. DAR Patriot Index. page 204.
7. Georgia Roster of the Revolution.
8. Smith.. The History of Hancock County, Georgia
9. Hancock County, Georgia: Early Records. Hancock Co., Ga. Tax List 1812.
10. White's Historical Collection and the town of "Wrightsborough".
11. Albaugh, June Middleton, researched by Rosa Lyon Traylor. Collirene: The Queen Hill.
    Montgomery (AL): Herff Jones-Paragon Press. page 166.
12. American Genealogical Research Institute. Dudley Family History.
13. Linda Goetz (lawg@bellsouth.net) (second great granddaughter of Thomas W. Dudley and
    Betheny Dennis).
14. Murdoch, Richard K.. The Georgia-Florida Frontier, 1793-1796: Spanish Reaction to
    French Intrigue and American Designs. Berkeley & Los Angeles : University of
    California Press. c1951.
15. Norris B. Dudley, Jr. Lady Lake, FL (FNDud@aol.com) third great grandson of John
    Dudley and Elizabeth Jones.
16. Brantley, J. Kenneth, compiler. Hancock County, Georgia Inferior Court Minues,
    1809-1833. Powder Springs, GA : The Brantley Association of America. c2000.
    Page 14, 29.
17. Brantley.. Hancock County Georgia Court of Ordinary Minutes, 1799-1817.
18. Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Baldwin Co., Ga.
19. Smith. The History of Hancock County, Georgia.
20. Dudley, Claude William. The Dudley Family. Claude William Dudley, P.O. Box 6474,
    Richmond, VA 23230 (c1971). page 113.
21. Smith. The History of Hancock County, Georgia.
22. Hancock Co., Ga. 1812 Tax List.
23. Hancock County, Georgia 1860 Slave census.
24. Census, 1860, Hancock Co., GA.
25. Hancock County, Georgia, Wills & Administration of Estates, 1862-1881, Book I, FHL
    film #0222081 (microfilm).
26. Brantley. Hancock County, Georgia Inferior Court Minues, 1809-1833.
27. Evans, Tad. Georgia Newspaper Clippings. Hancock County Extracts. Savannah, GA: Tad
    Evans, c2000.
28. Census 1850 Hancock Co., Ga.
29. Dudley, Hugh J.. The Dudley Family of Russell County, Alabama. c1967.
30. Hancock County, Georgia: Early Records.
31. Smith. The History of Hancock County, Georgia.
32. Albaugh.. Collirene: The Queen Hill.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid
35. Evans. Georgia Newspaper Clippings. Hancock County Extracts.

Researching:
Clark(e), Dennis, Dickson, Dudley, Dunn, all of whom were in Hancock County, Georgia by 1800.