Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

John Dewey

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Melvil Dewey — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 64 
  • Father:
  • Josiah Dewey 
  • Mother:
  • Hepzibah Lyman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Feb 1669 
  • Birth Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Thomas
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Apr 1705 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
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  Jonathan Dewey (Ahnentafel No:32 )

  Moses Dewey

• Sources for John Dewey

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, p. 53, Birth records for children of John and Mary Dewey.
  • 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), 392, 394.
  • ³ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Marriage record for John Dewey and Mary Thomas.