Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

Sarah Chapin

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Melvil Dewey — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 261 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Chapin 
  • Mother:
  • Cicely Penney   
  • Birth Date:
  • BY 6 Apr 1630 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Aug 1684 
  • Death Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rowland Thomas
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Apr 1647 
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  • Child:

  Joseph Thomas (Ahnentafel No:130 )

• Sources for Sarah Chapin

  • ¹ Chapin, Gilbert Warren, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: Chapin Family Association (1924), 6.
  • ² Dewey, Adelbert M., et. al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History, Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company (1898), 394.