Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

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Joseph Thomas

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Melvil Dewey — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 130 
  • Father:
  • Rowland Thomas 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Chapin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Mar 1651 
  • Birth Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 May 1715 
  • Death Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Mary -----
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  (probable) Mary Thomas (Ahnentafel No:65 )

• Sources for Joseph Thomas

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, p. 162, Death record for Joseph Thomas.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 13, Birth record for Joseph Thomas.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 2, p. 1672, Birth record for daughter Mary Thomas.
  • 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.