Husband: John DUDLEY II RS
Birthdate: abt 1756
Birthplace: Virginia
Death date: Mar 8 1820
Place of death: Fort Creek, Hancock Co., Ga.
Father: John DUDLEY I (b Apr 15 1722)
Mother: Annie Goodrich HAMLIN (b 1727)

Marriage date: abt 1780
Marriage palce: Petersburg, Virgina

Wife: Elizabeth JONES
Birthdate: abt 1760
Birthplace: Prince George County, Virginia
Death date: Aug 24 1820
Place of death: Ford Creek Near Louisville, Jefferson Co
Father: William JONES RS (b bet 1742 and 1746)
Mother: Sarah unknown

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Sarah (Sallie) DUDLEY
Sex: F
Birthdate: Dec 24 1782 Petersburg, Virginia
Death date: Aug 24 1865 Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia
Burial: Hammond Family Cemetery, Baldwin Co, GA or Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Baldwin Co.
Spouses' names: Abner HAMMOND Sr. RS
Marriage date: Mar 27 1803

Child No. 2: Thomas Washington DUDLEY I
Sex: M
Birthdate: Sep 24 1785 Prince George County, Virginia
Death date: Feb 2 1868 Hancock County, Georgia
Burial:
Spouses' names: [1] Mary (Polly) INGRAM [2] Betheny (Thene) DENNIS
Marriage date: [1] bet 1824 and 1829) [2] Feb 16 1837

Child No. 3: William DUDLEY
Sex: M
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,
Spouses' names: [1] Elizabeth EWING [2] Rachael Varner EWING
Marriage date: [1] Apr 12 1820 [2] Mar 2 1824

Child No. 4: John (Jack) DUDLEY Sr. (III)
Sex: M
Birthdate: May 4 1789 Princess Ann County, Virginia
Death date: Mar 29 1871 Collirene, Lowndes Co., Alabama
Burial:
Spouses' names: Julia Ann REESE
Marriage date: Jun 27 1820

Child No. 5: Edward DUDLEY, Sr.
Sex: M
Birthdate: Jan 10 1795 St. Augustine, Flordia
Death date: Oct 26 1873 Farmersville, Alabama
Burial: Philadelphia Cemetery, Farmersvill, AL
Spouses' names: Mary H. THOMPSON
Marriage date: Jun 18 1823
 
 
Documentation:
  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.

Notes:
  * Marriage(1,2):
  * John DUDLEY II RS
John II's Alt Birth: bef 1762 Prince George County, Virginia
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 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)
  * 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. .
  * 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.
  * 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."
  * 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"
  * 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.

Prepared Feb 22 2002.
Researching: Clark(e), Dennis, Dickson, Dudley, Dunn, all of whom were in Hancock County, Georgia by 1800.