Have you checked out this website on Burlingham Rudd genealogy? Walter Rudd and others have put a lot of work into it: http://homepage.hitter.net/wrudd/ I also come from Burlingham Rudd abt 1705 to abt 1770, George Loundsdale Rudd abt 1745 to ?, George Loundsdale Rudd Jr abt 1770 to ?, Elias David Rudd 1790 to 1876, Samuel Rudd 1824 to 1892. Samuel Rudd was a brother to Seth Rudd 1816 to 1894. One of your many, many Rudd cousins, Merle Rudd Harms