BORN OCTOBER 20, 1686.

Son of Governor Joseph Dudley.
DIED AUGUST 10, 1743.

Photographed from a portrait in oil belonging to Mr. Dudley R. Child, of Boston.

With these you shall not be afflicted, save by an outline of the five stages into which her life was divided.

The English period was from her birth, about 1612, to her marriage in 1628, at the age of sixteen, with Simon Bradstreet; who, though ten years her senior, had been an assistant in her father's stewardship, and consequently her daily companion since she was six years old.

The next six years cover what may be called the Emigration stage. With Winthrop, with brothers, sisters, and parental Dudleys, accompanied by the Johnsons, with whom they had already been associated in the noble Lincoln family, the Bradstreets made the severe voyage in the Lady Arbella; though its stormy hardships are not even mentioned in the Bradstreet poems. Awhile they abode in Salem, where they landed; then in Charlestown (Mishawam), and probably, for a brief season, in Boston. Here were fresh trials for an English gentlewoman, the snow falling over her coverlets, and food being scanty; and it was of this time Mrs. Bradstreet, thought in afterwards penning her couplet:

Remember, Lord, thy folk, whom thou

To wilderness hath brought.

Both the Dudleys and Bradstreets lived in Cambridge, then called Newtowne, for two or three years, the new Bradstreet house being on (Harvard Square the site long since occupied by the University Bookstore) and the parental not far away. There Anne presently wrote her first poems; and there were doubtless born her first two children: Dr. Samuel, whose advent gave such delight to the mother-heart in 1632; and, two years later, her daughter Dorothy, subsequently the wife of Rev. Seaborn Cotton, son of their old friend, the Rev. John Cotton, receiving his name from his birth on the voyage, not long before little Dorothy's own appearance on this sublunary

scene.

Now came a third period. It being decided that influential colonists should scatter themselves, the better to possess the broad lands granted by royal charter, the Bradstreets, with Anne's sister, Mrs. Major Dennison, removed to Ipswich, in

1634, where our heroine gently ruled in a house long since vanished. This Ipswich decade, from 1634 to 1644, was full of life for Mrs. Bradstreet, "and that more abundantly." She was now remote from the parental domicil, and had endured sore trials and joys, though only twenty-two when this period began. Their pastor was a son of Rev. Nathaniel Rogers; the father being one of the nine small children, and one at the breast," gazing upon the martyrdom of their father, in the ancient New England Primer illustration. In Ipswich, Anne wrote her longer poems, and three more children were added to her quiver in 1636 or 1638, Sarah, who became successively Mrs. Richard Hubbard and Mrs. Major Samuel Ward; Rev. Simon, who has written of his own birth as occurring in 1640, September 28; Hannah, 1642-1707, who, on June 3, 1659, when barely eighteen, was married to Andrew Wiggin, and lived to be sixty-five.

The grandparents meanwhile, in 1639, had removed from Cambridge to Roxbury, and lived on a spot at the angle of Dudley Street, recently made desolate by the conflagration of the old-fashioned Universalist Church, so long a Roxbury landmark. Mrs. Dorothy Dudley died in 1643, four years after the removal; and soon the stalwart Governor found her successor, who became the mother of perhaps the most distinguished of his many children, Governor Joseph Dudley.

Stage Four. A change had been long considered, but did not reach its climax till 1644, when the Bradstreets removed to Cochitchewick, now known as North Andover. At first they lived in a temporary loghouse, where were born two more children In 1646, Mercy, who married Nathaniel Wade in 1672, and died in 1714; in 1648, Captain Dudley Bradstreet, who became a very prominent citizen of Andover. Presently arose the new big house, opposite the meeting-house, whence the little Bradstreets could run home for their lunch on Sunday noon. Therein was born the last of Anne Bradstreet's children, John, in 1652, about the time of Grandfather Dudley's death, and the Harvard graduation of baby's big elder brother, Samuel. In this house there were domestic troubles with Indian and negro servants; for the family lived in state, and