Ancestry of
Mary Thomas

(1679–)

Mary Thomas

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Joseph Thomas 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Dec 1679 
  • Birth Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Some published sources state Mary Thomas was the daughter of Rowland Thomas and his wife Sarah Chapin. This seems unlikely as their daughter Mary died young and their daughter Mercy married John Bagg. The Mary Thomas who married John Dewey was probably the daughter of Joseph and Mary (_____) Thomas.

• Marriages for Mary Thomas

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  • Spouse:
  • John Dewey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Apr 1705
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut

• Sources for Mary Thomas

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, p. 53, Birth records for children of John and Mary Dewey.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 2, p. 1672, Birth record for Mary Thomas.
  • ³ Dewey, Adelbert M., et. al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History, Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company (1898), 394, incorrectly gives Mary's grandfather as her father.
  • ⁴ Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations . . ., Vol. 4, Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1862), 281.
  • ⁵ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Marriage record for John Dewey and Mary Thomas.