1737 October 3 (Monday). Catechised at the Meeting House. Judge Dudley[1] on his return from Springfield made us a visit, and dined with us. Lydia Cutting left us.
[1]Forbes: Paul Dudley, afterwards Chief Justice of the Province, at this time a judge of the Superior Court, born in 1675, died in 1751. He was the son of Gov. Joseph Dudley, of Massachusetts. He studied law in London. He bequeathed £100 (about $666) to Harvard College for the support of an annual lecture, called, from its founder, the Dudleian lectures. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and wrote on natural history and against the Church of Rome.
Seven years after this visit to Mr. Parkman, Judge Dudley had the famous “Dudley parting-stone” erected in Roxbury, where it still stands, with the inscriptions which has guided so many travelers for more than a hundred and fifty years,
“The Parting Stone. 1744. P. Dudley.”
And on one side, “Dedham and Rhode Island,” on the other, “Cambridge and Watertown.”
He had been Speaker of the House and member of the Executive Council. Judge Sewall writes of him: “Thus, while with pure hands and an upright heart he administered justice in the Circuit thro’ the Province, he gained the general esteem and veneration of the people.”
The town of Dudley is named “in token of respect to William and Paul Dudley.”
Walett: Paul Dudley (Harvard 1690), later Chief Justice of Massachusetts. Sibley, IV, 42-54.