Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

Maria Porter

View famous kin of Maria Porter

• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Melvil Dewey — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 17 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Stanley Porter 
  • Mother:
  • Thankful Badcock   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Jun 1731 
  • Birth Location:
  •  
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  •  
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Aaron Dewey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Jan 1758 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Eleazer Dewey (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  • Notes: 

  • This Maria Porter should not be confused with her older sister Mary who married John Sargent, nor should she be confused with her cousin Mary Porter, daughter of her father's brother Ichabod Porter.

• Sources for Maria Porter

  • ¹ Dewey, Adelbert M., et. al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History, Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company (1898), 413, gives name and birth date as Mary, 18 JUN 1721.
  • ² Jordan, John W. and James Hadden, Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 410.