Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

Benjamin Cole

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Melvil Dewey — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 20 
  • Father:
  • William Cole 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Pinder   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1716 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Jan 1812 
  • Death Location:
  • North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Squcie Fones
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 17 FEB 1746/1747 to 16 FEB 1747/1748 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Benjamin Cole (Ahnentafel No:10 )

• Sources for Benjamin Cole

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 37476, Membership application for Grace June Culver Duell.
  • ² Throop, Louise Walsh, et. al., Mayflower Families in Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 6th ed., Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 174-176.