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Joseph Dudley

Joseph Dudley
Joseph Dudley attributed to Peter Lely.jpg
Portrait believed to be of Dudley, by Sir Peter Lely
President of the Council of New England
In office
25 May 1686 – 20 December 1686
Preceded by Simon Bradstreet (as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
Succeeded by Sir Edmund Andros (as governor of the Dominion of New England)
Member of Parliament
for Newtown, Isle of Wight
In office
1701–1702
Serving with Thomas Hopsonn
Preceded by James Worlsey
Succeeded by John Leigh
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
In office
11 June 1702 – 4 February 1715
Preceded by Massachusetts Governor's Council (acting)
Succeeded by Massachusetts Governor's Council (acting)
In office
21 March 1715 – 9 November 1715
Preceded by Massachusetts Governor's Council (acting)
Succeeded by William Tailer (acting)
Personal details
Born 23 September 1647
Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died 2 April 1720(1720-04-02) (aged 72)
Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Relations Father Thomas Dudley, son Paul Dudley
Religion Church of England
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Joseph Dudley (23 September 1647 – 2 April 1720) was an English colonial administrator. A native of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and the son of one of its founders, Dudley had a leading role in the administration of the Dominion of New England (1686–1689), overthrown in the 1689 Boston revolt, and served briefly on the council of the Province of New York. In New York, he oversaw the trial that convicted Jacob Leisler, the ringleader of Leisler's Rebellion. He then spent eight years in England in the 1690s as Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Wight, including one year as a Member of Parliament for Newtown, (Isle of Wight). In 1702 he returned to New England after being appointed governor of the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, posts he held until 1715.

His rule of Massachusetts was characterized by hostility and tension, with political enemies opposing his attempts to gain a regular salary, and regularly making complaints about his official and private actions. Most of his tenure was dominated by Queen Anne's War, in which the two provinces were on the front lines with New France and suffered from a series of major and minor French and Indian raids. He orchestrated an unsuccessful attempt to capture the Acadian capital of Port Royal in 1707, raised provincial militia forces for its successful capture in 1710, and directed an unsuccessful expedition against Quebec in 1711.


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