NORTHERN NEW YORK
Genealogical and family history of northern New York: a record of the achievements of her people
in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation.
New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co. 1910.



DEWEY



Transcribed by Coralynn Brown



Thomas Dewey, immigrant ancestor, came from Sandwich, county Kent, England, and was one of the original grantees of Dorchester in 1636. He was here as early as 1633, when he was witness to the noncupative will of John Russell, of Dorchester. He was admitted a freeman May 14, 1634. Aug. 12, 1635 he sold his Dorchester lands and removed to Windsor, Connecticut, one of the first settlers there. He was granted land in 1640 and his home lot was the first one north of the palisade, and extended from the main street to the Connecticut river. He was juryman several years. He died instestate, and the inventory was filed May 19, 1648.
He married, March 22, 1639, at Windsor, Frances, widow of Joseph Clark. She married (third) George Phelps, and died Sept. 27, 1690.
Children:
Thomas, born Feb. 16, 1640.
Josiah, baptized Oct. 10, 1641.
Anna, baptized Oct. 15, 1643.
Israel, born Sept. 25, 1645.
Jedediah, mentioned below.

(II) Ensign Jedediah Dewey, son of Thomas Dewey, was born Dec. 15, 1647, in Windsor, Conn., and died in May, 1718, in Westfield, Mass. The lands in Windsor belonging to him were sold in his twenty-first year, and that same year he is mentioned at Westfield, which was then being settled under the direction of a committee appointed by the town of Springfield. Aug. 27, 1668, he was granted fifteen or sixteen acres of land, and in 1670 he received another grant of six acres. At this time he probably removed. In 1672 he and his brothers Thomas and Josiah, with Joseph Whiting, erected a "saw and cornmill" on a brook then called Two-Mile Brook. They were granted forty acres of land for the use of the mills, and were to give to the town one-twelfth of the corn which they ground. During King Philip's war the settlers of Westfield remained most of the time inside the "Compact dwelling," which they had been ordered to form for protection against the Indians, and it was not until 1687 that they began to receive grants of land and to build houses outside the two-mile limit thus enclosed. February of the latter year Jedediah Dewey, with other proprietors, received a grant of twenty acres without the meeting house. He served in the various town offices of the period; selectman in 1678-86-95-97-99; mentioned as ensign in 1686; was made a freeman Jan. 1, 1680; joined the church Sept. 28, 1680.
By trade he was a wheelwright. He was the only one of the sons of Thomas, the immigrant, to make a will, which was proved May 25, 1718. In it he mentioned sons Jedediah, Thomas, Joseph, Daniel, James; children of his daughters Sarah, Margaret and Hannah, all deceased; and daughters Mary and Abigail.
He married, about 1670, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Pell) Orton. Thomas was probably son of Thomas, of Charlestown, Mass.
She was baptized Aug. 22, 1652, at Windsor. She joined the Westfield church March 24, 1780; died Nov. 20, 1711, in Westfield.
Children, born in Westfield:
Sarah, March 28, 1672.
Margaret, Jan. 10, 1674.
Jedediah, June 14, 1676.
Daniel, March 9, 1680.
Thomas, June 29, 1682.
Joseph, May 10, 1684, mentioned below.
Hannah, March 14, 1686.
Mary, March 1, 1689-90.
James, April 3, 1692.
Abigail, Nov. 17, 1694.

(III) Joseph Dewey, son of Jedediah Dewey, was born May 10, 1684, in Westfield, and died there Jan. 3, 1757. He was a farmer, and lived on the south corner of Elm and Franklin streets. July 4, 1715, his father deeded to him thirty acres of land in Squawfield, at Westfield. He was selectman in 1726; joined the church, April 30, 1727.
He married in 1713, Mrs. Sarah Root, widow of Samuel Root, and daughter of John and Sarah (Ferry) Warner. She was born 1688, in Springfield, and died in Westfield, where she was buried Feb. 19, 1769.
Children, born in Westfield:
1. Joseph (q.v.), Oct. 7, 1714.
2. Sarah, April 15, 1716.
3. Lydia, May 25, 1718.
4. Mary, March 21, 1720.
5. Roger, March 17, 1722-23.
6. Noah, May 3, 1724.

(IV) Roger, son of Sergeant Joseph Dewey, was born March 17, 1722, at Westfield, and lived east of Hebron, Connecticut. He bought one hundred acres of land at Glastonbury in 1764, and was living there in 1773. He had interests in Worthington, Mass. in 1789, where his sons Joseph and Samuel were early settlers. He was also a grantee in Gilsom, New Hampshire.
He married, at Hebron, June 5, 1744, Patience, born there Aug. 12, 1720, daughter of William Rollo.
Children:
Sarah, born July 11, 1745.
John, June 26, 1748, mentioned below.
Mary, Aug. 3, 1750.
Joseph, May 22, 1753.
Lydia, July 3, 1755.
Samuel Rollo, Dec. 25, 1757.
Patience Experience, Sept. 18, 1760.

(V) John, son of Roger Dewey, was born near Hebron, Conn. July 26, 1748, died at Franklin, N.Y., Oct. 1, 1824. He was a farmer and removed to Franklin in 1793-94.
He married, Aug. 20, 1772, Mindwell Kneeland, born May 1753, died Oct. 22, 1834.
Children:
John, born June 7, 1773.
Mindwell, Jan. 6, 1775.
Roger, Oct. 26, 1780.
Benjamin, May 24, 1783.
David, Jan. 27, 1786.

(VI) Roger (2), son of John Dewey, was born Oct. 30, 1777, died at Franklin, Jan. 25, 1859. He was a farmer there. He married, Oct. 24, 1800, Susannah Marsh, who died Dec. 26, 1857.
Children, born at Franklin:
Sarah, April 24, 1802.
David Edwin, July 29, 1807, mentioned below.
William, July 27, 1812.
Talman, Sept. 3, 1814.
Susan, March 9, 1818.

(VII) David Edwin, son of Roger (2) Dewey, was born July 29, 1807, at Franklin, N.Y., died there April 30, 1870. He was a farmer. He married, Feb. 12, 1834, Elishaba Edwards, who died Nov. 13, 1858.
Children:
1. Lyman Beecher, born Sept. 27, 1835, died Jan. 19, 1862 at Key West, Florida, while in the service in the Ninetieth Regiment, New York Volunteers.
2. William Austin, born Feb. 25, 1838, mentioned below.
3. Jonathan Edwards, Sept. 9, 1842.
4. Roger Edwin, Dec. 15, 1844.

(VIII) William Austin, son of David Edwin Dewey, was born Feb. 25, 1838, died 1891 at Potsdam, N.Y. He received a common school education, and taught school as a young man. Later he conducted a general store at Franklin, N.Y., and also dealt leagely in real estate, buying, improving, and selling farms. He removed to Potsdam in 1889. He was a leading citizen, and held various town offices.
He was a Republican in politics and an elder in the Presbyterian church at Franklin.
He married, July 25, 1859, Lodemia, daughter of Elisha B. Jr. and Mary (Fitch) Kilbourne. Her father was born in England, son of Elisha B. and Polly (Seymour) Kilbourne, who came to Connecticut and later to New York state.
Children:
Frederick Lincoln, born May 14, 1860, mentioned below.
Mary Elizabeth, Feb. 16, 1862, died July 25, 1874.

(IX) Frederick Lincoln Dewey, A.B.,A.M., Ph.D., son of William Austin Dewey, was born in Otsego, New York, May 14, 1860. He prepared for college at the Delaware Literary Institute, and graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, in 1882, with the degree of A.B. He went back to the Delaware Literary Institue as teacher of classics, remaining three years, and in 1885 went to Potsdam to take charge of the classical department of the State Normal School. His principal classics were in Latin and Greek, in which studies he won the Hawley prize while in college. He also won the Tompkins mathematical scholarship, and was appointed Clark prize orator, won the McKinney prize debate, and was honored with the valedictory at commencement. Two years after graduation he recieved the degree of A.M., and in 1892, when he retired from his professorship in the normal school, he was honored with the degree of Ph.D. by Hamilton College.
Professor Dewey sent five valedictorians to Hamilton Colege from the normal school. In 1886 he was secretary of the New York Teachers' Association. In 1892 he became treasurer and manager of the Raquette River Paper Mills, being one of the original stock-holders. For three years he was with the Colton Pulp Company, and two years with the Canton Lumber Company. For a year he was with the Hannan Falls Power Company.
In 1906 he was elected president of the Citizens' National Bank of Potsdam, and still (1910) holds that position. He is a director in the Northern Wall Paper Company; president of the Potsdam Building and Loan Association; member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Phi fraternities; trustee of Potsdam State Normal School; president of the Potsdam Public Library; member of Free Masons; president of the Potsdam Club, and member of the Century Club, of Ogdensburg.
In politics he is a Republican, and in religion an Episcopalian.
He married, 1887, Jessie M., daughter of William Y. and Harriet J. (Dayton) Henry, and granddaughter of Hiram Henry (see Henry).
They have one child, Lewis Dayton, born Nov. 15, 1890; educated in public schools, and at Hamilton College.

(IV) Deacon Joseph (2) Dewey, son of Joseph (1) Dewey, was born Oct. 7, 1714, in Westfield, and died there Aug. 25, 1799. He was a farmer, and lived on West Silver street, in a large two-story house. A large, red sandstone slab marks his grave in Mechanic street old burying-ground.
He married (first) Jan. 26, 1738, Beulah, daughter of Joseph and Abigail Sackett. She was born Jan. 30, 1714, in Westfield, and died there Oct. 27, 1769. He married (second) Nov2 5, 1773, Hannah, daughter of Aaron and Rachel (Bagg) Phelps. She was born May 12, 1734, and died Nov. 2, 1815.
Children, born in Westfield:
Beulah, Feb. 5, 1739, died July 18, 1739.
Joseph, born March 5, 1741, mentioned below.
Benjamin, April 5, 1743.
Gad, Jan. 14, 1745.
Eliab, Nov. 2, 1746.
Beulah, Oct. 12, 1748, died Jan. 12, 1752.
Sarah, born Sept.1 2, 1750.
Mary, June 23, 1753.

(V) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Dewey, was born March 5, 1741, in Westfield, and died there Dec. 31, 1815. He was a farmer, and lived in the King Parks house at Fox District. He was drafted to go into the Continental army in 1777; fined twenty pounds for refusing.
He married, Oct. 6, 1762, Ruth, daughter of Aaron and Rachel (Bagg) Phelps. She was born March 12, 1739, in Westfield, and died Jan. 1803. She joined the church June 26, 1763.
Children, born in Westfield:
Ruth, Sept. 18, 1763.
Stephen, Aug. 26, 1765.
Hannah, Jan. 27, 1768.
John, March 14, 1770.
Abner, Dec. 1, 1774, mentioned below.
Caleb, Nov. 6, 1779.

(VI) Abner, son of Joseph (3) Dewey, was born Dec. 1, 1774, in Westfield, and died there Dec. 31, 1835. He married, Dec. 25, 1802, Nancy, daughter of William and Rachel (Shepard) Hisscock. She died Oct. 1, 1816.
Children:
Abner, born 1803, mentioned below.
Merwin, 1805.
Rhoda Maria, 1807.
Pomeroy, buried at Suffield, Conn., Dec. 27, 1876.
child, born June died July 21, 1815.

(VII) Abner (2), son of Abner (1) Dewey, was born in Westfield in 1803. He was educated in the common schools and followed the trade of stone mason. In middle life he rented a farm, on which he was assisted by his sons, and continued to work at his trade at the same time.
He married Cynthia, daughter of Winthrop and Achsah (Loomis) Shepard. She had brothers Winthrop, Noble, George, Chares, Harlow, Eli, DeWitt, and sisters Maria and Achsah Shepard.
Children of Abner & Cynthia Dewey:
DeWitt, Edein Pelton, mentioned below; Mary, Milo, Louisa, Achsah, Charles and Cynthia. The four eldest were born in Massachusetts.

(VIII) Edwin Pelton, son of Abner (2) Dewey, was born in Westfield, Mass., and when he was seven year of age removed to northern New York, where his parents settled. He attended the public schools of Turin, N.Y. He worked on the farm during his boyhood, and when a young man worked out by the month for eight years. Then, in partnership with his brother DeWitt, he bought one hundred and sixty acres of wild land in Leyden, N.Y. They cleared the land and divided it into two farms. Edwin built a house on his portion. After four years, when he had cleared twenty acres of land and greatly improved the property, he sold out. He bought another farm at Turin, consisting of 235 acres of land at $58 an acre, including ten cows. His wife bought twenty-five acres adjoining. He increased his dairy and added machinery and equipment valued at $18,000 of which he owed all but the first payment of $3,000, but by dint of hard work, thrift and enterprise, he managed to pay the mortgage. He retired from active labor in 1901, but still (1910) owns the farm. He resides in a cottage in Turin with his daughter, Mrs. Ralph Payne.
In politics he is a Republican. He was for nineteen years commissioner of highways, and overseer of the poor two years. He is a member of the Baptist church in Turin.
He married, March 23, 1852, Esther, daughter of George and Mary (Staplin) Shepard. She has brothers George, Ashley and Charles, and sisters Mary, Theodora, Sophia, Theresa, Achsah, Eunice and Benecia Shepard. George Shepard, father of Esther, was orderly for his father, Captain Winthrop Shepard, stationed at Sacketts Harbor, N.Y., in the war of 1812. He received a grant of land from the govenment and afterward sold it.
Children of Edwin P. & Esther Dewey:
1. George E., born July 10, 1856; married, June 19, 1886, Ida L. Loyd; children: Helen M., Mable and Harold.
2. Etta M., born June 1, 1864; married, March 7, 1894, Ralph Payne: children: Harold and Alice.
3. Effie M., born March 7, 1867; died May 10, 1867.
4. John M., born July 15, 1870; married, Feb. 23, 1893, Louise Merz.

Hiram Henry (see Dewey IX, ante) was a native of Vermont, and a cabinetmaker by trade. He had three children:
(II) William Y., only son of Hiram Henry, was educated in the public schools, and went when a young man to Madrid, N.Y., where for four or five years he was engaged as clerk in a general store. For a number of years he was engaged in trade in various places. Returning to Madrid, he was station agent there, then passenger conductor, and also carried on a general store in Madrid. In 1863 he entered the employ of the government at Alexandria, Virginia. In 1886 he settled in Potsdam, and in March that year entered the National Bank as bookkeeper. He was afterward teller, and was cashier of the First National Bank for thirty years. He was also vice-president of the Potsdam Electric Light Company.
He died in 1904. He married 1854, Harriet J. Dayton of Madrid, wo died in 1870.
Children:
Frederick D., died Dec. 25, 1872.
Jessie M., married Dr. Frederick L. Dewey (q.v.)
Mr. Henry married (second) 1871, Jane Huntington, of St. Albans, Vermont, and they have one child, Alfred Huntington, born May 23, 1873.

SECOND ENTRY:

(II) Cornet Thomas (2) Dewey, son of Thomas Dewey (1-q.v.), was born Feb. 16, 1640, in Windsor, Connecticut. He was there as late as Jan. 18, 1660; removed to Northampton, Mass., where he was granted a home lot, Nov. 12, 1662, of four acres, on condition that he make improvement on it and possess it three years, also a lot of twelve acres. In August, 1666, he was connected with a mill. He removed to Waranock, then a part of Sprinfield, under the direction of a settling committee in Feb., 1665, and is first mentioned there as third on a list of twenty grantees of land, of which his part was three acres, upon certain conditions. This land was laid out April 24, 1667, and confirmed Jan. 9, 1668. From then on he became an influential citizen of the new town, and was called upon to fill many important positions. Jan. 21, 1669, he was appointed, with others, to go to Springfield to a town meeting there, to lay before the general court matters connection with the boundaries and settlement of their new town, and Feb. 2, 1669, he was again appointed, with others, to lay out an additional grant. The town was incorporated as Westfield, May 28, 1669.
In 1672, with his brothers, Josiah and Jedediah, and Joseph Whiting, he completed the second mill in the town, in the Little River district, and in December of the same year the town agreed to allow them the toll of one-twelfth part of the corn they ground. The Deweys afterward had extended litigation in the court respecting these mills, which terminated in their favor.
March 12, 1677, he was appointed fence viewer for the ensuing year. He was representative to Boston, 1677-79; selectman, 1677 and 1686; licensed by the court to "keep a public house of entertainment," Sept. 26, 1676. He took the freeman's oath Sept. 28, 1680; on a committee to locate the county road to Windsor, March 30, 1680; appointed cornet of Hampshire Troop at general court, July 8, 1685; joined the church, May 9, 1680.
Dec. 17, 1680, he was granted, with his brother Josiah and Lieut. Mosely, the right to set up a saw and grist mill on Two-Mile Brook. Feb. 1, 1681, he was chosen constable. He was chosen "warden for the town ways," Feb. 2, 1686, and with others was appointed to measure the bounds of the town, March 7, 1687, besides holding various other positions of trust and reponsibility.
He married, June 1, 1663, at Dorchester, Constant, daughter of Richard and Ann Hawes. She was born July 17, 1642, at Dorchester, and died April 26, 1703, by town records. She joined the Westfield church March 24, 1680. Her father, Richard Hawes, came to Dorchester in the ship "Freelove." Captain Gibbs, in 1635, with wife and daugher Ann, aged two and one-half years, and son Obadiah, six months. He was twenty-nine years and his wife twenty-six years old. He signed the church covenant in 1636, and was granted land in 1637 and 1646. He died in 1656.
Thomas Dewey died April 27, 1690.
Children, born at Northampton:
Thomas, March 26, 1664.
Adijah, March 5, 1666.
Mary, Jan. 28, 1668.
Born at Westfield:
Samuel, June 25, 1670.
Hannah, Feb. 21, 1672.
Elizabeth, Jan. 10, 1676.
James, July 3, 1678, died Feb. 27, 1682.
Abigail, born Feb. 14, 1681.
James, Nov. 12, 1683, died May 5, 1686.
Israel, mentioned below.

(III) Israel, son of Thomas (2) Dewey, was born July 9, 1686, in Westfield, and died there Jan. 26, 1728. He was a farmer, and lived on his father's place on the Little River road. He was selectman in 1720; Dec., 1722, by vote of the town, he and two other citizens were given a seat of honor in the meeting-house, and the same year he owned twelve acres in the general field. Jan, 1727, his brother Samuel deeded to him, for 100 pounds, the house and homestead which had belonged to their father Thomas, also three acres in the Little Meadow, which adjoined the above.
He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Root, born July 27, 1683, at Westfield. His estate inventoried 812 pounds 6 shillings.
Children, born at Westfield:
Sarah, May 27, 1714.
Constant, March 20, 1716.
child, Feb. 2, 1717, died Feb. 11, same year.
Israel, Jan. 27, 1719.
Aaron, mentioned below.

(IV) Aaron, son of Israel Dewey, was born April 28, 1721, in Westfield, and died there June 11, 1768. He was a farmer on Little River road, southeast of the present (1910) schoolhouse. He left an estate of over 582 pounds, including mansion house, barn and ten acres of land.
He married, June 12, 1747 (family records) Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Root) Noble, born Aug. 11, 1723, in Westfield, died there May 26, 1796.
Children, born at Westfield:
Aaron (second) twin, born June 23, 1748, died Nov. 15, 1748.
Sarah (twin) born June 23, 1748.
Aaron (third), born Jan. 20, 1750, died Jan. 29, 1750.
Aaron (fourth), Jan. 15, 1751, mentioned below.
John, Jan. 20, 1754.
Eunice, March 22, 1758, died Dec. 22, 1772.
Silas, Jan. 9, 1761.
Levi, Jan. 28, 1768.

(V) Aaron (4), son of Aaron (1) Dewey, was born Jan. 15, 1751, in Westfield, and died Feb. 17, 1824, at Franklin, N.Y. He was a farmer in Westfield, but removed to Franklin about 1800. His name appears on a muster and payroll of Captain David Mosely's company, Colonel John Mosely's regiment, Oct. 21, Nov. 17, 1776; marched to re-enforce the Northern army, commanded by Lieut. Colonel Timothy Robinson.
Feb. 12, 1798, he and his wife deeded to Roland Parks a home lot in Westfield, with dwelling house, barn, etc.
He married, March 12, 1777, Sibyl, daughter of Abel and Anna (Dwight) Cadwell, born Aug. 7, 1755, in Westfield.
Children, born in Westfield:
Aaron, Oct. 10, 1777.
Eunice, Dec. 19, 1779, died Aug. 15, 1790.
Charles, Jan. 29, 1782, died Jan. 27, 1783.
Sibyl, born Nov. 7, 1783.
Charles, June 15, 1786.
Anna, Aug. 20, 1788.
Royal Dwight, Oct. 3, 1791, mentioned below.
Eunice, Feb. 24, 1794.

(VI) Royal Dwight, son of Aaron (4) Dewey, was born Oct. 3, 1791, in Westfield, and died Nov. 13, 1839. He was a physician at Turin Four Corners, N.Y.
He married, March 10, 1818, Melinda Hart, daughter of Stephen and Eunice ____, of Torrington, Connecticut. She was born in 1798, and died May 8, 1838.
Children, born in Turin:
1. Son, born and died Feb. 28, 1819.
2. Daughter, born and died April __, 1820.
3. Delia Helen, born Sept. 3, 1821.
4. Son, born and died Nov. 19, 1823.
5. Dwight Carlos, born Dec. 17, 1824.
6. Maria, Feb. 18, 1827; married Emery Bennett Holden (see Holden).
7. Duane, June 17, 1829.
8. Jane, Feb. 7, 1832.
9. Charles, Oct. 12, 1834, died Jan. 23, 1836.
10. George, Nov. 15, 1836, died July 14, 1837.

THIRD ENTRY:

(III) James, fifth son of Jedediah (q.v.) and Sarah (Orton) Dewey, was born April 3, 1692, in Westfield, died June 24, 1756, in Sheffield, Mass. He was a wheelwright, and spent most of his life in Westfield, where he served as selectman and town treasurer, joined the church April 30, 1727, and was chosen deacon in 1741. He resigned the latter position, and was dismissed to the Sheffield church, Nov. 9, 1746. In the latter town he served as moderator and selectman. On Nov. 22, 1745, he sold one acre and twenty rods of land in Westfield for three hundred and twenty pounds, and on Feb. 11, 1748, he bought twenty acres in Sheffield. He purchased fifty-five acres more Feb. 16, 1753, for twenty pounds. He seems to have continued to hold land in Westfield until Oct. 31, 1754, when he deeded all his claims to land in that town to Samuel Fowler in consideration of thirty-four pounds.
He married (first), May 15, 1718, Elizabeth, daughter of David (2) and Mary (Dewey) Ashley, born March 3, 1698, in Westfield; died Sept. 25, 1737, in the same town. He married (second) Dec. 30, 1738, Mrs. Joanna Taylor, daughter of John and Ruth Kellogg, and widow of Samuel Taylor, born June 12, 1694, in Hadley, Mass., died Dec. 1, 1762, in Sheffield.
Children:
Stephen (mentioned below), Elizabeth, Anna, Keziah, Daniel, James, Josiah (died young), Mary and Josiah.

(IV) Stephen, eldest child of James and Elizabeth (Ashley) Dewey, was born March 13, 1719, in Westfield, died July 25, 1796, in Sheffield, where he was a farmer. He served in Captain John Ashley's company in the French and Indian war, 1756. He was selectman in 1768, town clerk in 1791, and an influential citizen, one of the signers of Sheffield's Declaration of Independence.
He joined the Westfield church, Aug. 12, 1741.
He married (first), Oct. 3, 1744, Joanna, daughter of Samuel and Joanna (Kellogg) Taylor, born Oct. 9, 1723, in Hadley, died May 12, 1782, in Sheffield. He had a second wife, whose Christian name was Prudence.
Children:
Joanna, Deidamia, Meriam (died young), Elizabeth, Meriam, Stephen (mentioned below), Silas and Rhoda.

(V) Stephen (2), eldest son of Stephen (1) and Joanna (Taylor) Dewey, was born Sept. 15, 1760, in Sheffield, died Jan. 3, 1826. He appears of record as a private in Captain Spoor's company, Colonel Benjamin Simond's regiment of Berkshire county, in the revolutionary army, and served at Saratoga, April 26, to May 30, 1777. He was in Captain Enoch Noble's company, Colonel Brown's regiment, June 29 to July 28, 1777, ordered into the United States service by Brigadier-General Fellows and committee of safety at the desire of Major-General Schuyler. He also appears as an officer in Colonel Jonathan Smith's regiment.
The following appears on his tombstone:
"His worth exhibited in a life of unwearied effort for the welfare of his family and society is graven on the imperishable soul, convinced that a good education with the fear of God, is the truest inheritance. These were his first care for his children, who all lived to approve his wisdom, and join in the expession of love for his memory."
He married, Jan. 15, 1784, Elizabeth Owen, born Dec. 23, 1759, in Sheffield, died June 10, 1852, in Stockbridge, Mass.
Children:
Chester (mentioned below), Hulda, Frances, Loring D., Eliza, Murcia, Sophia, Mary Anne and Harriet.

(VI) Rev. Chester, M.D., D.D., LL.D., eldest son of Stephen (2) and Elizabeth (Owen) Dewey, was born Oct. 25, 1784, in Sheffield, died Dec. 10, 1867, in Rochester, New York. He was graduated from Williams College in 1806, and was a tutor there from 1808 to 1810, a member of the faculty from 1810 to 1817, filling the chair of mathematics and material philosophy. He established a school at Pittsfield, Mass., 1827, known as the Pittsfield Gymnasium. In 1836 he took charge of the college at Rocheter, N.Y., and thus continued until 1850. From 1850 to 1867 he was professor of natural science in Rochester University. During the months of August and September, of each year, beginning with 1822, he lectured at the Medical College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and for many years, from 1842, he gave the months of March and April, each year, to insturctions in the Medical School at Woodstock, Vermont.
He was an Evangelical Congregationalist.
He married (first), Sept. 13, 1810, at Stockbridge, Mass., Sarah, daughter of Bohun and Mary (Bradley) Dewey, of Hubbardton, Vermont, born June 10, 1783, in Stockbridge, died Dec. 21, 1823. He married (second) Olivia Hart, daughter of Lemuel and Hart (Lester) Pomeroy, born May 13, 1801, died Jan. 25, 1885, at Rochester.
Children of first wife:
Mary Elizabeth, Egbert, Frances Caroline, Edwin and Sophia Louisa.
of second wife:
Chester Pomeroy, Sarah Olivia (mentioned below), Harriet, Theodore (died young), Elizabeth Hart, Emily Dodge, Theodore, Julia Ayrault and Charles Ayrault.

(VII) Sarah Olivia, fourth daughter of Rev. Chester Pomeroy, and second child of his second wife, was born Nov. 30, 1827, in Pittsfield, and was residing in Rochester, N.Y. in 1898. She was married there Feb. 8, 1848, to William Hanford Perkins, of Rochester (see Perkins, VII).

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