Frances Randall was married to a Joseph Clark before Thomas Dewey. Thomas died in April of 1648 and Frances married George Phelps in November, 1648. Frances and George continued raising Thomas II, Anna, Israel and Jedediah as well as having three more boys.

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Thomas Dewey married in Windsor 22 March 1638/9 Frances (_____) Clark. 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. They had five children: Thomas, Josiah, Anna Woodward, Israel, & Jedediah.

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.

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.

She married (3) Windsor [2] November 1648 GEORGE PHELPS, and had three Phelps children with him: Jacob, John, & Nathaniel. -------------------- page 228: had several children [with George Phelps] and moved to

Waranoak, now Westfield, MA, with the first settlers on the Fort

Side in 1667. 1

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Was she a daughter of Philip & Joanne Fush? 'Widow of Joseph Clark" at time of her marriage to Thomas Dewey. --------------------

b. Abt 1610, England ,   d. 27 Sep 1690, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

-------------------- Francis Dewey was a widow when she married Thomas Dewey. Maiden name unknown, married name Francis Clarke. See history of the Dewey family under Martin Dewey for more info.