Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

Francis West

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Melvil Dewey — 7th Generation
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  • 86 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1634 
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  • AFT 6 Sep 1687 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Soule
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1661 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  Susanna West

  Martha West (Ahnentafel No:43 )

• Sources for Francis West

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 13, 474, 747.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 615.
  • ³ 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), 8-10.