Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

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Martha West

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Melvil Dewey — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 43 
  • Father:
  • Francis West 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Soule   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1677 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Dec 1765 
  • Death Location:
  • North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jeremiah Fones
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Nov 1710 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Squcie Fones (Ahnentafel No:21 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources have Marth West as the second wife James Card, father of her husband James Card.

• Additional marriages for Martha West

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  • Spouse:
  • James Card
  • Marriage Date:
  • 04 or 24 MAR 1702/1703
  • Marriage Location:
  • North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island

• Sources for Martha West

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1929, Vol. 83, pp. 90-91.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1982, Vol. 58, pp. 39-42.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1943, Vol. 20, pp. 183-184.
  • ⁴ Fernald, Natalie R., ed., The Genealogical Exchange, Buffalo, New York, February 1909, Vol. 5, p. 74.
  • ⁵ 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), 9, 37-39.