Josiah Lyman DEWEY

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: A farmer at Lebanon, Connecticut

Josiah married Mehitable MILLER on 15 Jan 1690/1. Mehitable was born on 10 Jul 1666 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dea. Josiah DEWEY, III was born on 1 Mar 1696/7 in Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts; died on 30 Oct 1771 in Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut; was buried in Old Yard Cemetery, Columbia, Tolland Co., Connecticut.

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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.




The "Brief Notes of the Early History of the Dewey Family in America" states that Hepzibah had died about 1670/1 and that Josiah married as a 2d wife, Experience. However, the inscription on Hepzibah Lyman Dewey's headstone states she died in 1732. So I will will using that as Hepzibah's death and will removing be removing Josiah's 2d wife, Experience.

Josiah married Hepzibah LYMAN on 6 Nov 1662 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Hepzibah (daughter of Richard LYMAN and Hepzibah FORD) was born about 1644 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 4 Jun 1732 in Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Richard Lyman and Hepzibah Ford

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Inscription:
Here lies ye body of ye worthy Mrs Hepzibah ye wife of Den Josiah Dewey She was the daughter of Mr Richard Lyman of Hartford She was one that feared ye Lord & slept in Jesus June ye 4, 1732 in ye 89 year of har age.