Three of the four Dudley men venerated on the plaque at Roxbury’s Eliot Burial Ground were enslavers.

Thomas Dudley’s grandson William enslaved Quam, Peter, Caesar, and Flora in Roslindale.

Brill’s duties included transporting the family & local dignitaries, delivering messages, and transporting Hannah Sewall’s corpse.

In which the Dudleys defend charges of a clandestine slave purchase and Dudley’s enslaved maid is baptized.

Cato, Hannah, Billah, and Kate: looking further afield from Roxbury, we uncover 4 more people enslaved under Thomas Dudley’s intergenerational legacy of bondage.

The Eleven Names Project is an independent digital research project first published by Wayne Tucker on August 22, 2021.