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Joseph Dudley (September 23, 1647 – April 2, 1720) was a colonial administrator, a native of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the son of one of its founders. He had a leading role in the administration of the Dominion of New England (1686–1689), which was overthrown in the 1689 Boston revolt .
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Joseph Dudley, the first Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court of Judicature, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on September 23, 1647. The fourth son of Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts, he was educated at the Free School in Cambridge and graduated from Harvard College in 1665.
Dudley then rose to become chief justice in New York in which capacity in 1691 he presided at the trial for treason of Jacob Leisler, who had led an uprising in New York in 1690 against the administration appointed by James II. Leisler was attainted and executed.
Cotton Mather and Joseph Dudley were two powerful New England colonists who both hoped to equal their fathers’ accomplishments. Neither succeeded.
The public life of Joseph Dudley; a study of the colonial policy of the Stuarts in New England, 1660-1715, View 258 images in sequence. Download:
Jun 15, 2022 · Joseph Dudley proved to be masterful in holding New England together to win “the long war” and in the end take territory the French had previously used to terrorize British seagoing movements on the Atlantic Coast.
