Dudley Woodbridge papers 1773-1789 1778-1789 Woodbridge, Dudley papers

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Dudley Woodbridge papers 1773-1789 1778-1789 Woodbridge, Dudley papers

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The Dudley Woodbridge papers contain incoming correspondence related to the Connecticut merchant's business affairs in the late 18th century.

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Woodbridge, Dudley, 1747-1823.

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Dudley Woodbridge was born in Stonington, Connecticut, in 1747, and graduated from Yale in 1766. Following his graduation, he worked as a lawyer in Norwich, Connecticut, and by 1778 had become a merchant, along with his brother Samuel, dealing primarily in rum and other foodstuffs. He served as the city's first postmaster from 1782-1789, and then moved to Marietta, Ohio, where he again became an attorney. He died in 1823. Woodbridge and his wife, Lucy Backus, married in 1774; their son William (...