Ipswich in the Mass Colony
High street, East Side
Page 375 & 376
Thomas Dudley.
(Diagram 2.)
"Given and granted to Thomas Dudley Esq. in October, 1635, one parcell of ground containing about nine acres lyeing between Goodman Cross on the West and a lott intended to Mr. Broadstreet on the East. Upon parcell of wch. nine acres, Mr. Dudley hath built an house, " with other lands, "all which premises aforesayd, with the house built thereon and the. palinge sett up thereon, the sayd Thos. Dudley Esq. hath sold to Mr. Hubbard and his heirs &tc." (Town Record). Thos. Dudley is the redoubtable Governor Dudley, who removed his residence from Cambridge at this time, and removed to Roxbury a few years later.
"Mr." Hubbard is undoubtedly Mr. William Hubbard, a prominent character in our early town history, Feoffee, Deputy to General Court) and Justice of the Quarterly Court. He removed to Boston about 1662.
He died in 1670, leaving three sons, William, the Pastor of the Ipswich and Historian of the Indian wars, Richard and Nathaniel.
Johnson's tribute to him was, "a learned man, being well read in State matters, of a very affable and humble behaviour, who hath expended much of his estate, to helpe on this worke. Altho he be slow in speech, yet is hee, downright for the businesse." (Felt, Hist. of lps., p.75).
His son, Richard, sold Symon Stacy the dwelling, and nine acres of land, bounded by High Street on the southwest, by Richard Kemball's land on the northwest, and Robert Collins on the southeast, July 5, 1671 (Ips. Deeds 3: 253). This house-lot was the largest ever granted by the Town, and its size alone would identify it with the Dudley lot.