As far as Hendrick Hudson is concerned, he and one son, John, were set adrift to die in Hudson Bay in 1611, but the London records in 1618 speak of a younger son who was in 1614 securing a position with the East India Co. at that time. (G.R.) If Hendrick's surviving son had a boy named John, it could very easily have been John Hudson of Oyster River and Newington.

In 1677 John Hudson, (sometimes spelled Hutson), was on a list of petitioners to keep the New Hampshire colony under Massachusetts Bay jurisdiction, which arrangement had been made for mutual protection. In August, 1701, the archives of Concord show John Hudson to have been accused of slandering the British Governor. Those were the days of bitter colonial dissensions against the Royal governors. He apparently was imprisoned a time, and bound over to the next court of quarter sessions at Portsmouth. He had resisted certain tax collections and told the officials what he thought of them. His bondsmen were his friends, John Dowling, Jr., John Cotton, men of considerable importance. On his will he executed the document with a seal representing a bird beginning its flight from the earth. A few years ago, Mrs. Lulu A. Sweeney of St. Paul, whose grandmother was Lydia [6] Peavey (Bateman), Hopley [5] Peavey, James [4], Hudson [3], Abel [2], Edward [1]) made some silver copies of this seal and kindly presented me with one.

Not much more is known of Abel [2] Peavey, but in 1733 the Durham town records show that he was granted land by the Town of Durham and the archives at Concord show that in 1736 he and his wife of Durham,