Click on image for larger version. Setting the boundary between Pennsylvania did not happen until more than a decade after the end of the Conojocular War. Today, this boundary is better known as the "Mason-Dixson" line; the line that divided the north and south during the civil war.

John Mudge (1713-1762) John Mudge is the fourth great grandfather of Rachel Wilcox Liberacki. John Mudge was born in Malden, Massachusetts on 30 December 1713. On 4 May 17381, the Reverend Joseph Emerson officiated officiated at his wedding to Mary Waite. Because the descendants of William Penn and Cecilius Calvert both claimed the land between the 39th and 40th, hostility over the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland began around 1681. In 1736, a series of armed conflicts between the Maryland and Pennsylvania militias began; conflicts that became known as the Conojocular War. King George II ordered a cease fire the year that John and Mary were married. In 1748, he and his family moved to Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Throughout his live he worked as a farmer. John died of numb palsy on 26 November 1762.

¹Although the family data collection lists May 14 as her wedding date, I am using the date found in the collection of Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 which is a more credible source. The May 14 date is the one accepted by other genealogists.

Documents

• Massachusetts Marriage Record (Mary Waite and John Mudge)
  
• Family Data Collection--Individual Record (Mary Waite)
  
• American Genealogical-Biographical Index (John Mudge)
  

Library

Brown, Abraham English. History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts From Its Earliest Settlement to the Year of Our Lord 1891, Embracing an Account of Indian Claims and Troubles; Colonial Grants; Sketches of Its Heros; Its Past in the Struggle for Independence and the War for Nationality; Its Burial Grounds and Epitaphs; Its Industrial Success; and a Record of Its Whole Progress with a Genealogical Register of Its Old Families. Bedford, MA: By the Author, 1891.

Cutter, William Richard. (ed.)New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Advancements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation.. Vol. 3. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1914.

Emmerton, James Arthur. Materials Toward a Genealogy of the Emmerton Family. Salem, MA: Privately Printed, 1881.

Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: J. Lewis and Company, 1888.

Lawrence, Robert Means. The Descendants of Major Samuel Lawrence of Groton, Massachusetts with Some Mention of Allied Families. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1904.

Mudge, Alfred. Memorials: Being a Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Account of the Name Mudge in America, from 1638 to 1868.. Boston: Alfred Mudge and Son, 1868.

Mudge, James. "The Mudges of Malden." The Register of the Malden Historical Society Malden, Massachusetts. Number 4. Lynn, MA: Frank S. Witten Printer, 1916.

Sargent, Aaron. "Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Malden." New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 12 (1848): 84-87, 239-244.

Usher, Edwin Preston. A Memorial Sketch of Roland Greene Usher, 1823-1895 to which is added a Genealogy of the Usher Family in New England from 1638 to 1895. Privately Printed for the Family, 1895.

INDEX: The connection to Thomas Mudge is found on pages 121.