Name |
Josiah Dewey |
Title |
Sergeant |
Birth |
10 Oct 1641 |
Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA |
Gender |
Male |
Military Service |
1675 |
King Philip's War
Sargent of the Guard at Westfield, MA |
Death |
7 Sep 1732 |
Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut, USA |
Burial |
Old Cemetery, Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut, USA |
Notes |
- The son of Thomas "The Settler" Dewey & his wife Frances, later the wife of George Phelps. Dewey married on 6 Nov 1662 at Northampton, MA to Hepzibah Lyman the daughter of Richard & Hepzibah Ford Lyman. The Deweys located at Northampton, MA about 1663 where Josiah learned the carpenter's trade and became a freeman in 1666. During King Philip's War he was a Sargent of the Guard at Westfield, MA.
He was a Quaker and in his religious discovery he says; "When I was entred into a married state I saw myself now under former ingagemnts of attending heart-searching & hearing Mr. Mather on the hearts hardness assert that there was no plague like unto that, I was affrighted there at & soon after hearing Mr. Eliot (now of Gilford) on a lecture sermon was so awakened as to resolve no longer to delay but to fall to search my own heart. But I found it hard & difficult work to keep my mind to it & sometimes I found that my heart would slip from ye work almost as soon as I was at it. So that I could find little rest."
He seems to have found that rest as he became a Deacon in the church at Westfield. In 1696 he moved to Lebanon, CT where he helped found the town, and where his name appears often in the early records.
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Person ID |
I14474 |
OurNorthernRoots | Andrew's Ancestor |
Last Modified |
16 Nov 2020 |
Family |
Hepzibah Lyman, b. 1644, Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA d. 4 Jun 1732, Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut, USA (Age 88 years) |
Marriage |
6 Nov 1662 |
Northampton, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts, USA |
Children |
+ | 1. Experience Dewey, b. 9 Apr 1682, Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts, USA d. 1755, Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut, USA (Age 72 years) |
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Family ID |
F4359 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |