David Hudson (August 23, 1782

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- January 12, 1860

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) was an American lawyer, writer and politician from

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Life

He was the son of Asa Hudson (b. 1749) and Mary (Scott) Hudson (1752–1825). On January 16, 1816, he married Hester (Hetty) Schuyler Dey (1792–1863). In 1821, he published a ''History of Jemima Wilkinson''
on-line version
, a biography of the

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, described by historians as "hostile and inaccurate", and accused of having been written to influence a then-ongoing court case over land owned by the Society of Universal Friends.Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer, ''Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary'' (1971): "David Hudson's ''Hist. of Jemima Wilkinson'' (Geneva, N.Y., 1821) was inspired by malice and self-interest and is inaccurate as to fact." He was a Whig member from Ontario County of the

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in 1838. In 1840, he was elected a

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, and remained in office until 1842. He, his wife, and three of their children who died in infancy were buried at Pulteney Street Cemetery in Geneva, NY.

Sources

Death notice in ''Ontario Messenger'' on January 25, 1860 (gives January 13 as death date)

Burial record (gives January 12 as death date)

Family tree (gives January 13 as death date)
''The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America: With the Related Families of Mack, Dey, Board and Ayers''
by Ebenezer Mack Treman & Murray Edward Poole (Press of the Ithaca Democrat, 1901) ives January 12 as death datebr>''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 42, 222 and 282; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hudson, David 1782 births 1860 deaths Politicians from Geneva, New York Erie Canal Commissioners Members of the New York State Assembly Politicians from Dutchess County, New York New York (state) Whigs 19th-century American politicians