Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

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Hepzibah Lyman

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Melvil Dewey — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 129 
  • Father:
  • Richard Lyman 
  • Mother:
  • Hepzibah Ford   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1644 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Jun 1732 
  • Death Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Josiah Dewey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Nov 1662 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Josiah Dewey

  John Dewey (Ahnentafel No:64 )

  Nathaniel Dewey

• Sources for Hepzibah Lyman

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/08/2016).
  • ² New England Ancestors Magazine, 2007, Vol. 8.5. p. 39.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 314.
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1875, Vol. 6, p. 68.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 539.
  • ⁶ Dewey, Adelbert M., et. al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History, Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company (1898), 391-392.
  • ⁷ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 11, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 226.