THOMAS DEWEY (son of SIMEON DEWEY)332 was born 1603 in SANDWICH KENT ENGLAND, and died 27 April 1648 in WINDSOR CT. He married (2) Frances Randall on 22 March 1638/39 in Windsor, Hartford, CT333, daughter of PHILIP RANDALL and JOANE FUSH.
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The first settler of the name Dewey in this country was Thomas Dewey, who came to Dorchester, MA in 1630-33 from Sandwich, Kent, England. He enrolled there, a freeman, 14 May 1634. He removed to Windsor, CT about 1638, where he married 22 May 1638/39, Frances Randall Clark, window of Joseph Clark. He was Cornet of the Town Troop of Mounted Light Infantry; Juror and Deputy to the General Court; he died at Windsor 27 April 1648.
From: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633.
ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester REMOVES: Windsor 1635
OCCUPATION: Inventory indicates only agricultural activity at a subsistence level. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Membership in Dorchester church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369]. EDUCATION: Signed will of John Russell by mark, 3 September 1633 [MBCR 1:153]; signed deed of 12 August 1635 by mark [DTR 12]. OFFICES: Jury member for Particular Court of Connecticut on six occasions between 2 March 1642/3 and 22 November 1647 [RPCC 18, 23, 29, 36, 39, 48]. (Most sources say that Thomas Dewey was cornet of the troop, but the evidence for this has not been found.) ESTATE: Granted 8 acre lot in Dorchester, 1 December 1634 [DTR 9]. Granted 2 acres of mowing ground, 5 July 1635 [DTR 11]. Granted 4 acres, Lot #64, in Meadow beyond Naponset [DTR 321]. On 12 August 1635 "Thomas Duee" sold to Richard Jones five parcels in Dorchester: "4 acres of ground with my house and all thereto belonging, also 8 acres of ground of my great lot, also ten acres of meadow on the side Naponset, and 4 acres of meadow on the other side, and 2 acres of meadow in the fresh marsh" [DTR 12]. In the Windsor land inventory Thomas Dewey held on 28 February 1640 five parcels which he had received by grant: seven acre homelot; four acres and a quarter in Great Meadow; a planting lot over the Great River, eighteen rods wide; thirteen acres and a half in the Northwest Field; and a parcel of sixteen acres (the last two parcels annotated in the margin "sold to Thomas Stouton") [WiLR 1:89]. The same inventory (including additions after 28 February 1640) showed that Thomas Dewey had purchased several pieces of land: from Eltweed Pomeroy, a parcel of meadow; from William Hosford, an acre and eighteen rods in Norwest Field, and six rods in the Great Meadow; from Thomas Stayres, three acres and a quarter, and a parcel in Norwest Field; from John Mason, a lot over the Great River (in exchange for five acres in the Great Meadow); of Nicholas Denslow, half an acre in Norwest Field; and of Michael Try, three-quarters of an acre in the Great Meadow [WiLR 1:89]. The inventory of the estate of Thomas Dewey, taken 19 May 1648, totalled œ213, of which œ118 was real estate: "one house and barn with the homelot, in quantity about one acre & quarter," œ40; seven acres of meadow adjoining the houselot, œ20; four acres and a quarter in the Great Meadow, œ13; three acres and a quarter in the Great Meadow, œ10; five acres, eight rods and a half in the Great Meadow, œ15; and "two parcels of upland about 29 acres & half," œ20 [Manwaring 1:6; Dewey Gen 225]. The distribution of the estate was made on 17 October 1648: to the relict, œ60; to "his eldest son by name Thomas Dewy," œ30; and to the other five children œ20 apiece [Manwaring 1:7; Dewey Gen 226]. The children were listed as follows: "Six children, 4 boys, 2 girls: one girl Mary Clark 12 years old; one son Thomas Dewye 8 years [old]; Josiah Dewey 7 years old; Annah Dewey 5 years old; Isreall Dewey 3 years old; Jydidiah Dewey 3 quarters of a year old." At Hartford Court on 4 June 1663 three men judged "the difference of the land of Thomas Dewey deceased for an equal division amongst the children of the said Dewey," and they agreed that "Thomas Dewey the eld~est son" should have five acres and a quarter in the Great Meadow (accompanied by the marginal notation that this was sold to Samuel Marshall), one acre and fifty-three rods of meadow (accompanied by the marginal notation that this was sold to John Strong), and "a quarter part or four acres and half in a parcel of swamp land as it is to be divided betwixt him and his three brothers Josia, Isrell, Jededia" [WiLR 1:89; Dewey Gen 226].
BIRTH: By 1613 based on freemanship (and consistent with date of marriage). DEATH: Windsor 27 April 1648 [Grant 30]. MARRIAGE: Windsor 22 March 1638/9 Frances (_____) Clark [Grant 30]. She was a widow, but the name of her first husband is unknown, and she had one daughter with him, the Mary Clark in Dewey's estate distribution [NYGBR 59:214-15]. She married (3) Windsor [2] November 1648 GEORGE PHELPS [Grant 56], and had three children with him. CHILDREN: i THOMAS, b. 16 February 1639/40 [Grant 30]; m. Dorchester 1 June 1663 Constant Hawes [DVR 21]. ii JOSIAH, bp. 10 October 1641 [Grant 30]; m. Northampton 6 November 1662 Hepzibah Lyman [Pynchon VR 141]. iii ANNA, bp. 15 October 1643 [Grant 30]; m. Northampton 18 May 1671 John Woodward [Pynchon VR 142]. iv ISRAEL, bp. 25 September 1645 [Grant 30]; m. Northampton 20 August 1668 Abigail Drake, daughter of Job of Windsor [Pynchon VR 142]. v JEDEDIAH, b. 15 December 1647 [Grant 30]; m. by 1672 Sarah Orton (eldest child b. Westfield 28 March 1672 [Pynchon VR 23]; in the 1688 testamentary deed of Thomas Orton of Farmington is a gift to "my three daughters Mary Root, Sarah Duee and Elisabath Lewis" [Farmington LR 1:106]).
COMMENTS: The statement has been made [e.g., NYGBR 6:63] that Thomas Dewey was from Sandwich, Kent, but this has no documentary foundation. Dewey was more likely from the West Country, as were so many of the other early settlers of Dorchester. Since Thomas Dewey first appears in Dorchester in 1633, he may have arrived on the unnamed ship from Weymouth, Dorsetshire, that landed in New England in July of 1633 [GMN 3:9]. Many secondary sources identify Thomas Dewey's wife as the widow of Joseph Clark of Windsor, but Clarence Almon Torrey demolished this claim in 1928, and demonstrated that the identity of the first husband of Frances (_____) (Clark) (Dewey) Phelps remains unknown [NYGBR 59:214-15; TAG 35:151].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The Dewey family was treated extensively by Louis Marinus Dewey, et al., in Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History (Westfield, Mass., 1898), cited herein as Dewey Gen. This volume includes extensive transcripts from probate and land records of the immigrant Thomas Dewey.
More About THOMAS DEWEY: Date born 2: Abt. 1606, Sandwich, Kent, England.334, 335 Died 2: 27 April 1648, Windsor, Hartford, CT.336, 337
More About THOMAS DEWEY and <Unnamed>: Marriage 1: 22 March 1638/39, WINDSOR HARTFORD CT. Marriage 2: 22 March 1638/39, Windsor, Hartford, CT.338
More About THOMAS DEWEY and Frances Randall: Marriage: 22 March 1638/39, Windsor, Hartford, CT.339
Children of THOMAS DEWEY are:
+ANNA DEWEY, b. 15 October 1643, WINDSOR HARTFORD CT, d. 14 January 1706/07, LEBANON CT.
THOMAS DEWEY (b. 1603, d. 27 April 1648)
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