Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

Eleazer Dewey

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• • Great-grandfather of Melvil Dewey — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Aaron Dewey 
  • Mother:
  • Maria Porter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Aug 1761 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Feb 1824 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Freelove Bourn
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Aug 1783 
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  • Child:

  David Dewey (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Eleazer Dewey

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, p. 52, Birth record for Eleazer Dewey.
  • ² Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784, Bourne, Nathaniel (Manchester), p. 4, gives death year as 1823 but cites source with 1824.
  • 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), 414, 444, gives birth date as 18 AUG 1761.