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BNL.720.007
4-11 Apr 1720:21,22 (834)
Boston, On Saturday the 2d currant, dyed the very honourable
Joseph Dudley, Esq; at his seat in Roxbury, in the 73d year
of his age, being born, September 23d 1647; and on Friday
the 8th current he was interred in the sepulchre of his
father, with all the honour and respect his country was
capable of doing him; there being two regiments of foot with
two troops of horse in arms, and while the funeral was
passing, the guns at His Majesty's Castle William were
fired; and on the occasion all the bells of the town of
Boston were tolled. . . [4 lines]
The late Governour Dudley was the son of the honourable
Thomas Dudley, Esq; (for many years Governour of New-
England) and the son of his Old Age, being born after his
father was 70 years old.-- During his childhood, he was
under the care of his excellent mother, and the Rev. Mr.
Allen the minister of Dedham, who marryed her. . .
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