Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

Mary Thomas

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Melvil Dewey — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 65 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Joseph Thomas 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Dec 1679 
  • Birth Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Dewey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Apr 1705 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jonathan Dewey (Ahnentafel No:32 )

  Moses Dewey

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources state Mary Thomas was the daughter of Rowland Thomas and his wife Sarah Chapin. This seems unlikely as their daughter Mary died young and their daughter Mercy married John Bagg. The Mary Thomas who married John Dewey was probably the daughter of Joseph and Mary (_____) Thomas.

• Sources for Mary Thomas

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, p. 53, Birth records for children of John and Mary Dewey.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 2, p. 1672, Birth record for Mary Thomas.
  • ³ Dewey, Adelbert M., et. al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History, Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company (1898), 394, incorrectly gives Mary's grandfather as her father.
  • ⁴ Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations . . ., Vol. 4, Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1862), 281.
  • ⁵ 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.