Jedediah Dewey

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• Reference Number: 624

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Jedediah married Sarah Orton before 1672. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Orton) was born in 1652; died in 1711. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5731
• Birth: Bef 1613, England

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The first record of Thomas Dewey in the new world is 1633 in Dorchester. Speculation is that since he first appears in a record in 1633, he may have arrived in July 1633 on an unnamed ship which sailed from Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England. But again that is speculation.

It has been claimed that he was from Sandwich, Kent, but there is no evidence. And most of the early settlers of Dorchester were from the West Country of England, not Kent.

He married Frances Unknown, widow of Unknown Clark, in Windsor on 22 Mar 1638/39. It has been stated that her first husband was Joseph Clark of Windsor, but Clarence Torrey proved in 1928 that this was not the case.

Thomas died 27 April 1648 in Windsor.

His widow Frances remarried Nov 1648 the widower George Phelps, another of our ancestors.

Thomas Dewey appears in the "Great Migration Begins: Series" and the above information is from that source.

Among the descendants of Thomas Dewey are Mamie Eisenhower, Admiral Thomas Dewey and three of the "Beach Boys" Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson.


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baptism date

Thomas married Frances Unknown on 22 Mar 1638/39 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Frances was born between 1610 and 1615 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 4306

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Many online genealogies show Frances Randall Clark as the daughter of Philip Randall. She allegedly married 1) Joseph Clark 2) Thomas Dewey and 3) George Phelps. We have been unable to confirm this through the Dewey Family History, as Thomas Dewey's wifes maiden name is not mentioned.

Philip Randall in his will mentions the children of his dau Phillury and George Phelps, but he does not mention the children of Frances and Thomas Dewey. That would imply that the Frances who married Thomas Dewey was not his daughter.

Also, Clarence Torrey in the NYGBR 59:214-215 shows that the wife of Joseph Clark died before he did. And that the widow Frances Clark who married Thomas Dewey was not previously married to Joseph Clark, her first husband being unknown. Her maiden name is unknown, I can find no valid citation for the use of Randall as a maiden name.

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• Reference Number: 5735

Thomas married Mary Moore on 12 Oct 1601 in Hinton Martell, Dorset, England. Mary (daughter of Thomas Moore) was born in 1586; died in 1637. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5740

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• Reference Number: 5714

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Birth:
based on birth of child