Ancestry of
John Dewey

Philosopher and Education Reformer

John Bronson

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Dewey — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 162 
  • Father:
  • Roger Brownson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Underwood   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 21 Sep 1602 
  • Christening Location:
  • Holy Innocents' Church, Lamarsh, Essex, England 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 28 Nov 1680 
  • Death Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Frances Hills
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Nov 1626 
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Andrew's Church, Halstead, Essex, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Bronson

  Dorcas Bronson (Ahnentafel No:81 )

  Sarah Bronson

  Jacob Bronson

  John Bronson

  Isaac Bronson

  Abraham Bronson

  • Notes: 

  • John Bronson's surname is also seen as Brunson and Brownson.

• Sources for John Bronson

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, January 1851, Vol. 5, p. 43.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October 1924, Vol. 78, p. 445.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1962, Vol. 38, pp. 198-204.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1996, Vol. 71, p. 207.
  • ⁵ Allis, Horatio D., Genealogy of William Allis of Hatfield, Mass. and Descendants, Hartford, Connecticut: Art Press (1919), 5.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 46.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 413.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 150.
  • ⁹ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 314.
  • ¹⁰ Bronson, Henry, The History of Waterbury, Connecticut; The Original Township Embracing . . ., Waterbury, Connecticut: Bronson Brothers (1858), 138, [Death].
  • ¹¹ Coddington, John Insley, "The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl's Colne, Essex, England, Connecticut, and South Carolina, The American Genealogist, 1962, Vol. 38, Page 196, [Christening].
  • ¹² Coddington, John Insley, "The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl's Colne, Essex, England, Connecticut, and South Carolina, The American Genealogist, 1962, Vol. 38, p. 199, [Death].
  • ¹³ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2005, Vol. 38,. p. 192.
  • ¹⁴ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Third Series, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1915), 453.
  • ¹⁵ Fenno-Gendrot, Almira Torrey Blake, The Ancestry and Allied Families of Nathan Blake 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake, Early Residents of East Corinth, Vermont, Boston, Massachusetts: Published by the Author, at the Stanhope Press (1916), 29.
  • ¹⁶ Griswold, Glenn E., comp., The Griswold Family: England-America, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1935), Vol. 2, p. 129.
  • ¹⁷ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his Wife Frances Helen Miller, Vol. 1, Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press (1948), 367.
  • ¹⁸ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 577.
  • ¹⁹ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 216-217.
  • ²⁰ Lee, Leonard and Sarah Fiske Lee, John Lee of Farmington, Hartford Co., Conn., and His Descendants, 1634-1897, 2nd Edition, Meriden, Connecticut: Republican-Record Book Print (1897), 147.
  • ²¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 202-203.
  • ²² Smith, John Montague, et. al., History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1673-1899: Which Originally Embraced Within Its Limits the . . ., Greenfield, Massachusetts: Press of E. A. Hall and Company (1899), 349.
  • ²³ Wells, Daniel White and Reuben Field Wells, A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts, Springfield, Massachusetts: F. C. H. Gibbons (1910), 369.