Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

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Lydia Taber

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Melvil Dewey — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 155 
  • Father:
  • Philip Taber 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Masters   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1648 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Pardon Tillinghast
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Apr 1664 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
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  Joseph Tillinghast

  Hannah Tillinghast (Ahnentafel No:77 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Samuel Mason
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Nov 1718
  • Marriage Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island

• Sources for Lydia Taber

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1859, Vol. 13, p. 282.
  • ² Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 1, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 368.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1793.
  • ⁴ Tillinghast, Rose C., The Tillinghast Family 1560-1971, Unknown: Unknown (1972), 9-12.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Pardon Tillinghast", (accessed 12/02/2014).