Levi Dudley was born in 1753 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America
He appears on a 1784 Tax Digest in Sampson County.[1]
He is listed on the 1790 census[2]
Will
The will of Levi Dudley was recorded in Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, in 1808.
The will of Levi Dudley mentions his brother, Eden, and his children: Elam, Narmey or Nancy, Lydia, Hepzibah , and his four youngest children (probably minors) named Enoch, Lilli, Jenet and John. Young Keen, who married Levi's daughter Lydia, was a witness to the will, and according to oral and written history they were cousins. [3]
Children
Son 1 b: Bef 1774
Daughter 1 b: Bet 1774 and 1784
Elam DUDLEY b: 18 Feb 1786
Nasmey DUDLEY b: Bet 1774 and 1784
Lydia DUDLEY b: Bet 1774 and 1784
Ely DUDLEY b: Bet 1774 and 1784
Hepzibah "Hepsie" or "Happy" DUDLEY b: Bet 1774 and 1784
Lilli DUDLEY b: Bet 1784 and 1790
Enoch DUDLEY b: Bet 1790 and 1795
Jenet DUDLEY b: Bet 1793 and 1798
John DUDLEY b: 1795–d. 1875
Sources
↑ North Carolina Taxpayers, 1679-1790, Vol. 2 by Ratcliff, Clarence E., Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987 (fourth printing, 2002)
↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHK1-KLJ : accessed 14 October 2019), Levi Dudley, Sampson, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 133, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 568,147.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Levi by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Levi: