Thomas Rudyard

1640 - 1692  (52 years)

• Name	Thomas Rudyard
  Birth	1640	Leek, Staffordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1670	London, England
  	Lawyer, who successfully defended William Penn and William Meade in 1670 for preaching to large crowds.
  Religion	1670	London, England
  	Quaker
  Occupation	1682	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  	Deputy Governor of East Jersey, Secretary and Chief Register. He was replaced by Gawen Lawrie as Deputy Governor on 27 July 1683.
  Arrival	Nov 1682	Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA
  Occupation	Bef 1 Nov 1684	New York, New York, USA   [1]
  	Attorney-General of New York, appointed by Governor Thomas Dongan
  Occupation	9 Apr 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [2]
  	Member of the Board of Proprietors, until 16 Nov 1685
  Religion	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  	Anglican
  Residence	Dec 1685	Barbados
  Death	2 Nov 1692	Barbados
  	St Michael
  Burial	Barbados
  	St Michael
  Person ID	I45185	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2026

  
  

  Children	1. Margaret Rudyard   d. 1722, Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA  [Father: natural]   2. Anne Rudyard  [Father: natural]   3. Benjamin Rudyard  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F31294	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1640 - Leek, Staffordshire, England Occupation - Lawyer, who successfully defended William Penn and William Meade in 1670 for preaching to large crowds. - 1670 - London, England Religion - Quaker - 1670 - London, England Occupation - Deputy Governor of East Jersey, Secretary and Chief Register. He was replaced by Gawen Lawrie as Deputy Governor on 27 July 1683. - 1682 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Arrival - Nov 1682 - Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA Occupation - Attorney-General of New York, appointed by Governor Thomas Dongan - Bef 1 Nov 1684 - New York, New York, USA Occupation - Member of the Board of Proprietors, until 16 Nov 1685 - 9 Apr 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Religion - Anglican - - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3786] Brodhead, John Romeyn, Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York: Procured in Holland, England, and France - 3, pp351-352. [S3720] Miller, George J., The Minutes of the Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey from 1685 to 1705, p2.