Gilman · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Elizabeth Gilman

Born 1727. Died 1806.

Elizabeth Gilman (7 August 1727 – 14 May 1806) was the wife of John Dudley (1725–1805), a grocer and farmer of Exeter and Raymond, New Hampshire, who became a judge of the New Hampshire Superior Court. She was the fifth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Nathaniel Dudley (1763–1844).

Parentage and marriage

A family history published in 1886 gives her birth as 7 August 1727. According to the family history, John Dudley and Elizabeth Gilman, a daughter of Caleb Gilman of Exeter, were married at Exeter on 22 June 1749. It gives her father’s birth as 1678 and his death as 22 March 1766, aged eighty-eight, and makes him a son of Moses Gilman, an early townsman of Exeter.

Her mother was probably Susanna Folsom, Caleb Gilman’s wife. Caleb and Susanna Gilman are named together in the Folsom estate agreements of 1720 and 1737, which span Elizabeth’s birth in 1727, and no other wife of Caleb appears in those years; the link is an inference from those dates and from compiled genealogies, since no record names Elizabeth’s mother. Her brother David Gilman was a legatee under their uncle David Gilman’s will of 1735 and was then a minor, and on 22 May 1735 his father Caleb was granted his guardianship.

Lines of descent

Moses was a brother of John Gilman (1624–1708), whose daughter Sarah was John Dudley’s grandmother, so the couple were second cousins once removed.

Family and death

The family history prints a deed of 1764 in which John sold land at Exeter that he had bought from his “father-in-law, Mr. Caleb Gilman”, and Elizabeth released her right of dower in it. The family history lists eight children born to the couple at Exeter, two of whom died as infants, and the family moved to a farm at Raymond in 1766. A history of Raymond published in 1875 says that little is known of her beyond her family, the Gilmans of Exeter; her husband was away at the legislature and the courts for much of the Revolution and the years after it. A granddaughter, Sarah Tucker of Raymond, remembered her in the family history as a woman of middle height who wore a “strapped cap”, was short-sighted when young and blind at the end, and walked up and down the long hall of the house for exercise. She died on 14 May 1806, a little less than a year after her husband; one passage of the family history gives 13 May 1806 at Raymond, aged seventy-nine.

Family time line

◉ Elizabeth Gilman 1727–1806

◉ John Dudley 1725–1805 ⚖

Married 22 Jun 1749, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, Exeter, New Hampshire

○ Betsy Dudley 1750–

○ John Dudley 1751–

○ John Dudley 1754–1826

○ Elizabeth Dudley 1756–1832

○ Susanna Dudley 1759–

○ James Dudley 1761–1844

◉ Nathaniel Dudley 1763–1844 ⚭⚖

○ Moses Dudley 1766–1843

Recorded events

Event	When	Where	Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth	7 Aug 1727		from a compiled source
Death 'His widow survived him till May 14, 1806'	14 May 1806		from a compiled source

17271806 1740175017601770178017901800

Sources

Dean Dudley, History of the Dudley Family, vol. 1 (Wakefield, Mass., 1886) — Birth, Death, about this person, family with John Dudley, Marriage (John Dudley)
Gilman, Arthur. The Gilman Family Traced in the Line of Hon. John Gilman, of Exeter, N.H. (Albany, 1869) — Birth, about this person, Marriage (John Dudley)
Rockingham County, N.H., Probate Estate Files, old series, file No. 7416, John Dudley of Raymond, 1805 — about this person, family with John Dudley
Joseph Fullonton, The History of Raymond, N.H. (Dover, 1875) — family with John Dudley
U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA M804), Nathaniel Dudley (widow Harriet), Maine — family with John Dudley
Kennebec County, Maine, Registry of Deeds, Land Records 1801-1803, v.3-4 — family with John Dudley
New Hampshire, Rockingham County, Deeds (recorded 1806-1807), FamilySearch 'New Hampshire, Wills and Deeds, ca. 1700s-2017', image group 'Rockingham. Deeds 1807, 1806-1807' — family with John Dudley

Line of descent

Caleb Gilman 1678–1766 ⚔
1. Moses Gilman 1631–bef 1702 ⚓
  1. Edward Gilman 1587–bef 1655
    1. Edward Gilman 1557–
      1. Edward Gilman 1525–1573
        Unknown Gilman 1500–
        Unknown (surname unknown) 1504–
      2. Rose Rysse –1613
        John Ryse 1510–1551
        Rose (surname unknown) 1510–1565
    2. Margaret James
      1. Robert James –1603
      2. not yet known
  2. Mary Clarke –1681
2. Elizabeth Hersey
  1. William Hersey –1658
    1. Nathaniel Hersey 1575–1629
      1. Nathaniel S Hersey 1540–1629
      2. not yet known
    2. not yet known
  2. Elizabeth (surname unknown) –1671
Susanna Folsom
1. Peter Folsom 1649–bef 1718
  1. John Folsom –1681
    1. Adam Foulsham 1589–1627
      1. John Adam Foulsham 1560–1620
      2. Grace Foulsham 1564–1630
    2. Agnes Smith 1593–1627
  2. Mary Gilman 1615–bef 1693
    1. Edward Gilman 1587–bef 1655
      1. Edward Gilman 1557–
        Edward Gilman 1525–1573
        Unknown Gilman 1500–
        Unknown (surname unknown) 1504–
        Rose Rysse –1613
        John Ryse 1510–1551
        Rose (surname unknown) 1510–1565
      2. Margaret James
        Robert James –1603
        not yet known
    2. Mary Clarke –1681
2. Susanna Mills
  1. Thomas Mills
  2. Mary Wadleigh
    1. John Wadleigh –1671
    2. Mary (surname unknown) –bef 1671

Descendants

Betsy Dudley 1750–
John Dudley 1751–
John Dudley 1754–1826
1. John Dudley 1773–
2. Caleb Dudley 1779–
3. James Dudley 1782–1866
  1. Alvin Dudley 1805–
  2. Almira Dudley 1807–
  3. Eliza Dudley 1809–
  4. Sarah Dudley 1811–
  5. Rosella Dudley 1814–1849
  6. James L. Dudley 1816–
  7. Lucinda Dudley 1818–
  8. Mercy A. Dudley 1820–1844
  9. Caroline F. Dudley 1823–
  10. Albion K. P. Dudley 1825–1826 ✧
  11. Mary A. Dudley 1827–
  12. Hariet M. Dudley 1829–1858
4. Gilman Dudley 1788–1853 ⚭
  1. Hannah L. Dudley 1812–
  2. Henry F. Dudley 1816–1833
  3. Hiram H. Dudley 1818–1842
  4. John Hancock Dudley 1821–
  5. Susan Jane Dudley 1823–
  6. Cyrus T. Dudley 1825–
    1. Eugene Manderville Dudley 1853–1940
    2. Addison R Dudley 1860–1936
    3. Alonzo P Dudley abt 1863–1937 ⚭
  7. Ward Spooler Dudley 1829–
  8. Gilman Stillson Dudley 1831–
  9. Emeline L. Dudley 1833–
  10. Sarah Elizabeth Dudley 1836–
  11. Henry H. Dudley 1838–
  12. Nancy Gilbert Dudley 1840–
  13. Orin Plummer Dudley 1843–
5. Eliza Dudley 1791–
  1. Susan J. Pillsbury 1816–1817 ✧
  2. Caleb Dudley Pillsbury 1818–
  3. William King Pillsbury 1820–1836
  4. Daniel Wing Pillsbury 1822– ⚭
  5. Eben Fernando Pillsbury 1825– ⚭
  6. Charles F. Pillsbury 1828–
  7. Lucien B. Pillsbury 1830–1886
  8. Eliza E. Pillsbury 1833–
Elizabeth Dudley 1756–1832
Susanna Dudley 1759–
James Dudley 1761–1844
1. Mary Dudley 1791–1835
2. Elizabeth Dudley 1795–
3. James Dudley 1799–1837
4. John Dudley 1800–
  1. Guilford Dudley
5. Moses Dudley 1803–
6. Susanna Dudley 1806–
Nathaniel Dudley 1763–1844 ⚭⚖
1. Edmund Dudley 1784–
  1. Laura Augusta Dudley 1807–
  2. Elkanah Bangs Dudley 1809–
  3. Harrison Dudley 1811–1816 ✧
  4. Julia O. Dudley 1815–1864
  5. Albion Smith Dudley 1816–1882 ⚭
  6. Eunice Sparrow Dudley 1818–
  7. Mary Leavitt Dudley 1820–1885
  8. Dean Dudley 1823–
  9. Rebecca Bangs Dudley 1825–1885
2. Betsey Dudley 1786–
3. Mary Dudley 1787–1791 ✧
4. Nathaniel Dudley 1789–1790 ✧
5. Anna Dudley 1790–
6. Mary Dudley 1792–1793 ✧
7. Areana Dudley 1793–1812
8. Sarah Dudley 1795–1839
  1. Mary Ann Blanchard abt 1823–
  2. Elizabeth Trueworthy Blanchard 1825–1884
    1. Adaline Blanchard 1841–1861
    2. Wesley Blanchard 1844–1908 ⚔
    3. Frank Leroy Blanchard 1858–1936
    4. Minnie M. Blanchard 1860–1891
    5. Ida Alice Blanchard 1868–1900
  3. Alexander Blanchard 1828–
  4. Marcellus Blanchard 1831–
  5. Horatio Nelson Blanchard 1834–1863
9. John Gilman Dudley 1797–
10. Nathaniel Dudley 1799–1869
  1. Franklin Augustus Dudley 1836–1851 ✧
  2. George Wilson Dudley 1839–
  3. Jane Grey Dudley 1840– ⚭
  4. Milton L. Dudley 1843–
  5. Nathaniel Marcus Dudley 1849–
11. John Gilman Dudley 1806–
  1. Elvira S. Dudley 1831–1843 ✧
  2. Nathaniel Dudley 1833–
  3. Thirza S. Dudley 1835–
  4. John Gilman Dudley 1837–
  5. Olive Dudley 1840–
  6. Matilda Dudley 1842–
  7. Joseph Leroy Dudley 1845–1847 ✧
  8. Warren Trueman Dudley 1847–
  9. Arvilla Melvina Dudley 1851–
12. William K. Dudley 1810– ⚭
  1. Anna Smith Dudley 1833–
  2. Harriet Gilbert Dudley 1834–
  3. Llewellyn K. Dudley 1836–
  4. James P. Dudley 1838–
  5. William F. Dudley 1840–
  6. Mary P. Dudley 1843–
  7. Lucien P. Dudley 1845–
  8. Infant Dudley
  9. Alice Dudley
13. Miriam S. Dudley –1876 ⚭
  1. Susan Jane Dudley 1823–
  2. Cyrus T. Dudley 1825–
    1. Eugene Manderville Dudley 1853–1940
    2. Addison R Dudley 1860–1936
    3. Alonzo P Dudley abt 1863–1937 ⚭
  3. Ward Spooler Dudley 1829–
  4. Gilman Stillson Dudley 1831–
  5. Emeline L. Dudley 1833–
  6. Sarah Elizabeth Dudley 1836–
  7. Henry H. Dudley 1838–
  8. Nancy Gilbert Dudley 1840–
  9. Orin Plummer Dudley 1843–
Moses Dudley 1766–1843
1. Betsey Dudley 1788–
2. John Dudley 1789–1873
  1. Eliza Gilman Dudley 1816–
  2. Nancy Glidden Dudley 1818–
  3. Moses Dudley 1820–
  4. Lydia A. Dudley 1822–
  5. Sarah Althea Dudley 1824–1882
  6. Andrew J. Dudley 1830–1852
  7. John Dudley 1834–
  8. Susan L. Dudley
3. Gilman Dudley 1790–1835
  1. Hannah B. Dudley 1816–1864
  2. Parthenia A. Dudley 1818–
  3. John Goldthwait Dudley 1821–1862
  4. Nancy G. Dudley 1824–1861
    1. Gerry Dudley Miller 1858–
  5. Mary E. Dudley 1827–
  6. Emily B. Dudley 1830–
  7. Sarah G. Dudley 1832–1851
4. Moses Dudley 1792–1853
  1. Virginia Dudley 1837–1872
    1. Mary Edith Boyer 1862–
    2. Elmer Ellsworth Boyer 1865–
    3. Orson Dudley Boyer 1868–
5. James Dudley 1794–1867 ⚭
  1. Mahala Dudley 1836–
6. Guilford Dudley 1795–1864
  1. Florence Dudley 1832–
  2. James Dudley 1833–1845 ✧
  3. Hannah Dudley 1836–1867
  4. John Dudley 1838–
  5. Eli W. Dudley 1840–
  6. Elizabeth S. Dudley 1844–
  7. Nancy J. Dudley 1846–1880
  8. Philena S. Dudley 1848–
  9. Moses Gerry Dudley 1851–1868
  10. J. Elbridge Dudley 1856–
7. Sally Dudley 1797–
8. Franklin Dudley 1799–1870
  1. Benjamin Franklin Dudley 1827– ⚭
    1. Eva D. Dudley 1857–
  2. Moses G. Dudley 1828–1861
  3. Guilford Augustus Dudley 1830–1830 ✧
  4. Olive E. Dudley 1831–
  5. Annie D. Dudley 1834–
    1. Louise Dudley Davis
  6. Margery R. Dudley 1836–1842 ✧
  7. Caroline O. Dudley 1838–1838 ✧
9. Nancy Dudley 1805–1884
10. Elbridge Gerry Dudley 1811–1867
  1. Susan Ida Dudley 1850–
    1. Christine Dudley Clapp 1886–
    2. Dorothy Dudley Clapp 1888–
  2. Christine Maria Louise Dudley 1852–