EARLY FAMILIES OF DUDLEY

The most complete record of early families of Dudley might be the 1790 Federal census. The census provides a numerical count of the members (males and females, children and adults) of the households of Dudley.

The households of the first federal census in 1790 included the following names:
Adams, Abbe, Allin, Ammidown, Arnold, Bacon, Barnes, Bates, Bowers, Brackett, Brown, Carter, Chamberlain, Cheney, Coburn, Conant, Coomer, Corbin, Cotterell, Cumings, Curtis, Dalyrmple, Davis, Day, Dodge, Dyer, Eaton, Eddy, Edmonds, Elwell, Fenner, Fisher, Fitz, Flin, Foster, Gore, Haskall, Hayden, Healy, Hill, Hinds, Hovey, Humes, Humphrey, Jeffords, Jewell, Keith, Kidder, Lamb, Larned, Lawton, Lee, Mansfield, Marcy, Marsh, Mawney, May, Millins, Morris, Morse, Nickols, Putney, Reynolds, Robbins, Robinson, Sabin, Sayles, Sheffield, Shepherd, Sly, Smith, Sprague, Sone, Taffs, Taft, Thayer, Timman, Upham, Vinton, Vorce, Wakefield, Walcott, Waldron, Warren, Warrin, White, Whitford, Whitney, Willard, Williams, Witherell, Wood, Wright, Wyman. Seven of the households were Healys and seven were Corbins.

One project for people interested in the families of Dudley would be to find out more about the households listed in this 1790 census. The Dudley Genealogy Club welcomes contributions about these families and would like to post information and links about these families on this blog.

For example, some online references are:
For the Vinton family, see The Vinton Memorial by John Adams Vinton, Boston (1853)

http://books.google.com/books?id=swVaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=vinton+family+dudley+massachusetts&source=bl&ots=zQ57zavCnK&sig=o4EjM-sPyLUEAlFYNqyWmFyu9us&hl=en&ei=oxcVSuYBh8O3B97D_ekM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#PPP1,M1

A list of descendants of George Robinson is found at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~drakerobinson/DNAPages/RobCharts/GeorgeRobChrt.htm

A Souvenir of the Conant Memorial Church its inception, construction and dedication by Hezekiah Conant,Boston (1893) gives some genealogical information about the Conant (and Healy) families.

http://www.archive.org/stream/souvenirofconant01cona/souvenirofconant01cona_djvu.txt
History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Clement Corbin of Muddy River (Brookline) and Woodstock, Conn compiled by Harvey M. Lawson, Hartford (1905) gives the genealogy of the Corbins of Dudley.
http://books.google.com/books?id=l1NHAAAAMAAJ&dq=history+and+genealogy+of+clement+corbin&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=cvxzAzKhTf&sig=DzIkdvBHAw6nnhENzgnRC3PdOVM&hl=en&ei=TdcPSqjpA4ze8wSq7_2hBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
Also, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists has an ongoing project to write sketches of the families found in the 1790 Federal Census for the entire state of Massachusetts. If you would like to write a sketch, these pieces are published in their journal, MASSOG.
Samples:

Costa, S. (2010) “1790 U. S. Census of Massachusetts: Lemuel Corbin of Dudley, Massachusetts.” MASSOG, 33(3), 99-102.

Costa, S. (2009) “1790 U. S. Census of Massachusetts: Lemuel Healy of Dudley, Massachusetts.” MASSOG, 33(1), 19-22.