Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

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Thankful Badcock

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Melvil Dewey — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 35 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Badcock 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Curtis   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1686 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Jun 1736 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Nathan Hale Cemetery, Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Stanley Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Nov 1707 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Porter

  Maria Porter (Ahnentafel No:17 )

  • Notes: 

  • Thankful Badcock's maiden name is also seen as Babcock.

• Sources for Thankful Badcock

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, p. 136, Marriage record for Thomas Porter and Thankfull Badcock.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, p. 135, Birth record for daughter Mary Porter.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/26/2022).
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1939, Vol. 16, p. 53.
  • ⁵ Appleton, William Sumner, The Family of Badcock of Massachusetts, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1881), 4.
  • ⁶ 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, incorrectly gives Thankful's grandfather as her father.
  • ⁷ Jordan, John W. and James Hadden, Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 410.