Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

Polly Cole

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• • Grandmother of Melvil Dewey — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Cole 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Wightman   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 11 Feb 1789 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Sep 1859 
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Adams State Road Cemetery, Honeyville, Jefferson, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • David Dewey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Feb 1808 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Joel Dewey (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • The Dewey Genealogy gives Polly Cole's birth date as 11 FEB 1788. However, that is less than 5 months after the birth of her sister Susanna. The 1850 U. S. Federal Census places the year at 1789 which seems more likely.

• Additional marriages for Polly Cole

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  • Spouse:
  • James Jenkins

• Sources for Polly Cole

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A024113.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Jefferson County, 1850, Adams, Image 18 of 76.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/13/2023).
  • ⁴ Dewey, Adelbert M., et. al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History, Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company (1898), 516-517.