Henry, III "The Explorer" HUDSON

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REFN: 892
[Captain John Bunch.ged]
Date of Birth Source: Jennifer Hudson Taylor at
www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/a/y/Jennifer-H-Taylor/.
Hudson, Henry (1570-1611), English navigator, famous for four great
voyages of discovery; a river and a bay in North America are named for
him. Nothing is known of Hudson's life before 1607, the year in which he
undertook his first expedition for the English Muscovy Company.
Commanding a single ship, the Hopewell, Hudson touched the shores of
Greenland and the Svalbard islands, and sailed as far northas 80?23' in
an attempt to find a northeast passage by way of the Arctic Ocean to the
Far East. During the following year he sailed in the same ship under the
auspices of the same company, and again attempted unsuccessfully to find
a passage, this time by way of the islands of Novaya Zemlya in the
Barents Sea. Upon his return, the Muscovy Co. withdrew their support, and
Hudson turned to the Dutch East India Co. for new funds and a ship to
carry on his work. In that company's employ he sailed from the Dutch
island of Texel, on his third voyage in 1609, in the Half Moon, a vessel
of about 73 metric tons, with a mixedDutch and English crew of 18 or 20
men. He again began his exploration off Novaya Zemlya, intending to try a
passage through the ice, but his crew, having endured extremely cold and
harsh weather, mutinied, and Hudson headed west andsouth past Nova
Scotia and down the North American coast, in the belief that the Atlantic
Ocean was separated from the Pacific Ocean only by a narrow isthmus. In
September 1609 he first entered New York Bay, and he spent the following
month exploring the Hudson River to a point about 240 km (about 150 mi)
from its mouth, at about the present site of the city of Albany. Before
the end of the year Hudson and his men returned to England, where they
and their ship were seized by the government. Hudson was commanded from
that time on to serve only the country of his birth.
In 1610 Hudson set out on his final voyage under the patronage of a
newly formed company of English gentlemen. In his new ship, the
Discovery, he decided from the start to search for a northwest passage;
he reached the Hudson Strait by the middle of the year, and passed into
Hudson Bay beyond it, where he spent three months exploring the eastern
islands and shores. By November his ship was frozen in, and a winter of
extreme privation and cold led to dissension among the crew. A part of
the crew mutinied in June 1611 and put Hudson, his son, and seven others
of the company adrift in a small boat. A few survivors from the mutinous
crew reached England, where they were imprisoned, but Hudson and the
others were never seen again.
SOURCE: "Hudson, Henry," Microsoft? Encarta? Encyclopedia 2000. ?
1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Henry III - d. 1611, abandonded at sea after amutiny with his son JOHN.
There have been no other issue (children) found, so, no descendants are
known. Extensive information is available on a web site. An explorer for
the Muscovy Company, Henry HUDSON failed to open a northeast passage to
China on expeditions in 1607 and 1608. A log written by John PLEYCE,a
cremember on the 1607 voyage, includes the following entry: "Anno 1607,
April the nineteenth, at Saint Ethelburge, in Bishops Gate street, did
communicate with the rest of the Parishoners these persons, seamen,
purposing to goe tosea four days after, for to discover a passage by the
North Pole to Japan andChina. First, Henry Hudson, master. Secondly,
William Colines, his mate. Thirdly, James Young. Fourthly, John Colman.
Fiftly, John Cooke. Sixtly, James Beubery. Seventhly, James Skrutton.
Eightly, John Pleyce. Ninthly, Thomas Baxter.Tenthly, Richard Day.
Eleventhly, James Knight. Twelfthly, John Hudson, a boy."
Losing support of the Muscovy Company, Henry the 3rd sailed in the Half
Moon for the Dutch East India Company in 1609, disco

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REFN: 895
[Captain John Bunch.ged]
Henry HUDSON I - b. about 1500, England; d. 1555. One source styles
the father of Henry and William HUDSON as 'Henry HUDSON, Gent., Alderman
of London, Lord of Manors, etc.' Henry was probably a member of the
Muscovy Company, or Association of Merchant Adventurers, which Sebastian
CABOT founded by 1553. The Company, chartered in 1555, sought a northern
route to China, either easterly or westerly.
Although the Hudson Coat of Arms has changed over the years, the
oldest known Hudson Coat of Arms consists of Three Lions in the Rampant
position with three boars heads as supporting badges. The symbolism of
the lions signifies rearing with strength, courage and loyalty as
character traits. My research into heraldry did indicate that three lions
on a coat of arms is very rare but to date I have not uncovered the
significance. The boars' heads were badges that suggested allegiance to
the royalarms of King Richard III. King Richard III utilized boars heads
as his identifying badges to signify bravery and perseverance. Possibly,
the three lions rampant is significant in identifying with King Richard
III also.
The arms of Gentleman Henry Hudson (1st generation recorded here) are
described as "argent,semee of fleurs de lis gules, a cross engrailed
sable. The early Hudson colonists in Virginia utilized a variation of
this arms to mark livestock, lending credence to the relationship to
Henry.
SOURCES:
Virtually all the information on the Hudson family has been received,
either directly or indirectly, from the Hudson Family Association (South)
of Longview, TX. Refer particularly to the lineage in BULLETIN No. 39 (p.
69), with addition in No. 51, and the HUDSONS OF CHESTERFIELD chart in
BULLETIN No. 50. Much of the information on the HUDSONS OF HANOVER
ancestry and the Hudsons of Dickson Co., TN received from Mr. Van. A.
Hudson via the internet. Information on the HUDSONS OF AMELIA has been
received from too many sources to list here. Please see each individual
for Source information (if any listed). Thank you.

"Gentleman" married Barbara in 1525 in St. Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. Barbara was born in 1504 in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England; died in 1568 in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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[Captain John Bunch.ged]
Henry's widow Barbara married an aldermannamed Richard Champion, who was
elected sheriff 1558-9, Lord Mayor 1566. She died in 1568 without further
issue. Source: www.georgian.net/tally/hudson.

Possible last name of Watson but cannot corroborate.

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Married:
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Randolph had eight sons and three daughters, but we only know of
five sons.

The name Hudson was racially a Norman name in origin, the
Hudsons' came to England with William the Conqueror. It had
various spellings such as Oddason and Hoddenson.
The first genealogy is found in the Church of the Grey Friar In
London. Here is the tomb of Randolph Hudson " citizen and
alderman of London".


Muscovy Company or Russia Company,first major English
joint-stock trading company. It began in 1553 as a group
supporting exploration of a possible northeast passage to Asia.
An expedition under Richard Chancellor reached the White Sea,
and Chancellor himself continued overland to Moscow. The company
was chartered in 1555, with a monopoly on the newly opened
Russian trade, and between 1562 and 1579 it financed expeditions
to establish overland trade routes to Persia. In 1646, English
merchants were excluded from Russia, but trade reopened on the
restoration (1660) of Charles II, and the company was
reorganized as a regulated company. It lost its monopoly, long a
subject of political opposition, in 1698 but continued in
existence until 1917.

Was named in Queen Mary's Charter, 6 Feb. 1555, as one of the
founders of the Muscovy Company, which sponsored John Sebastian
Cabot in his expedition to the New World. He was an alderman in
the City of London.