William Tudor
William Tudor | |
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Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth | |
| In office 1808–1810 | |
| Preceded by | Jonathan L. Austin |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin Homans |
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| Born | March 28, 1750 |
| Died | July 8, 1819 (aged 69) |
| Spouse | Delia Jarvis |
| Alma mater | Harvard College, 1769. |
William Tudor (March 28, 1750 – July 8, 1819) was an American politician, military officer and lawyer from
Life
Tudor received a Bachelor of Arts degree from
He married Delia Jarvis on March 5, 1778, and resigned from the army on April 9, 1778, to re-establish himself as a lawyer. His practice flourished, and upon his father's death in 1796 he inherited an estate worth the then-considerable sum of $40,000. Six of their children survived infancy and early childhood:
Tudor served as a
The Tudors' summer estate in Lynn (now Nahant), Massachusetts, was accumulated over the course of 25 years. In August 1787, Tudor bought the first 6 acres (24,000 m2) of farmland plus 31 acres (130,000 m2) of woodland. In May 1788, his father John Tudor purchased 3 acres (12,000 m2) of land as well as 6 acres (24,000 m2) of salt marsh in May 1788. William Tudor then purchased 2 acres (8,100 m2) more salt marsh in 1790, 16 acres (65,000 m2) of farmland in 1793, 8 acres (32,000 m2) of pine grove in 1799 and 3 acres (12,000 m2) more in 1801. After subsequent improvement by Tudor's son Frederic, the property has become the Nahant Country Club.
Tudor also owned a country estate in
References
- ^ ^ Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Harvard University 1636–1900. University Press 1900.
- ^ Atherton, Horace H. (1916). History of Saugus, Massachusetts. Saugus, Massachusetts: Citizens Committee of the Saugus Board of Trade. pp. 56–57.
- ^ Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1887). History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Volume 1, Part 1. J. W. Lewis & Co. p. 398.
- ^ "Saugus Collectibles". The Friends of Town Hall. FOTH. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
- ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
Bibliography
- A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, containing Boston Births from A.D. 1700 to A.D. 1800. (Boston, Mass., Rockwell & Churchill, 1894), p. 275.
- A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, containing Boston Marriages from 1752 to 1809. (Boston, Mass., Municipal Printing Office, 1903), p. 374.
- Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, (Waynesboro, TN., National Historical Publishing Co., 1992) 3:3552.
- Clifford K. Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, 1768–1771. (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1975), p. 252.
External links
Media related to William Tudor at Wikimedia Commons- "Tudor, William, 1750–1819", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788–1825, American Antiquarian Society, 2007 – via Tufts University
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