Josiah DEWEY

1641 - 1732  (~ 90 years)

• Name	Josiah DEWEY  [2, 3]
  	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. [1] 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.
  Birth	Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut   [1]
  Christening	10 Oct 1641	Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Sep 1732	Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Burial	Old Cemetery, Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I64169	Main Tree
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2018

  
  

  Father	Thomas DEWEY,   b. England d. 27 Apr 1648, Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Frances ?,   b. 1611, England d. 27 Sep 1690, Westfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	22 Mar 1638/9	Windsor, Connecticut   [2]
  Family ID	F1666	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hepzibah LYMAN,   b. Abt 1644, Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut d. 4 Jun 1732, Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	6 Nov 1662	Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Josiah Lyman DEWEY,   b. 24 Dec 1666, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts d. 1750, Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut (Age 83 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F1663	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 7 Sep 1732 - Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  Josiah Dewey Headstone Josiah, the son of Thomas Dewey and Frances (?), is the husband of Hepzibah Lyman. He is buried in the Old Cemetery in Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut. Created by: Forrest Fothergill Photo Added by: Forrest Fothergill

  
  

• Sources

  [S02329] Find A Grave Website. [S7289] The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1875 Vol. 006 No. 2 April. [S8841] American Ancestor.org, Early New England Families, 1641 - 1700, Vol. 1.