Ancestry of
John Dewey

Philosopher and Education Reformer

Affia Wright

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• • Grandmother of John Dewey — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • Elijah Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Douglass   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Aug 1794 
  • Birth Location:
  • Shoreham, Addison, Vermont 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 1842 
  • Death Location:
  • Middlebury, Addison, Vermont 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Davis Rich
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1815 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Shoreham, Addison, Vermont 
  • Child:

  Lucina Artemisia Rich (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Affia Wright

  • ¹ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2002, Vol. 3.4, p. 36.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1917, Vol. 71, p. 50, Death record for Affia Rich.
  • ³ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Births W to 1871, p. 18035, Birth record for Affie Wright.
  • ⁴ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Marriages W to 1871, p. 19403, Marriage of Davis Rich and Affia Wright.
  • ⁵ Dewey, Adelbert M., et. al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History, Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company (1898), 910.
  • ⁶ MacIntire, Susan Holt and Sanford Stowell Witherell, A 1992 Supplement to the 1984 Genealogical Register of the Early Families of Shoreham, Vermont, 1761-1899, n. p.: S. H. MacIntire (1992), 406.