Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

Jeremiah Fones

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Melvil Dewey — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 42 
  • Father:
  • John Fones 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1664 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Apr 1747 
  • Death Location:
  • North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha West
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Nov 1710 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Squcie Fones (Ahnentafel No:21 )

• Additional marriages for Jeremiah Fones

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 May 1694
  • Marriage Location:
  • Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island

• Sources for Jeremiah Fones

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1929, Vol. 83, p. 90.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1982, Vol. 58, pp. 39-42.
  • ³ Fernald, Natalie R., ed., The Genealogical Exchange, Buffalo, New York, February 1909, Vol. 5, p. 74.
  • ⁴ 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), 37-39.