Jonathan Watson was first noted as being in Dover, New Hampshire in 1672. He married (1) Abigail Dudley, ca. 1675 in Exeter, New Hampshire. He married (2) Elizabeth Beard by 1678. Descendants lived primarily in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts.

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Thomas Dudley was born in 1576 in Yardley-Hastings, Northampton, England. His parents were Roger Dudley and Susanna Thorne. He was a nineteenth generation descendant of William the Conqueror. He married Dorothy Yorke (1582-1643) 25 April 1603 in Hardingstone, Northampton. They had five children. They emigrated in 1630 and settled in Massachusetts where he was assistant governor and governor from 1630 to 1653. He married Katherine Deighton, daughter of John Deighton and Jane Bassett, 14 April 1644. They had three children. He died 31 July 1653 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New York.

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