Mary Douglass

GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER OF EDUCATOR JOHN DEWEY

NOTABLE RELATIONS

Mary Warner is a distant relation of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Civil War General Joseph Hooker, feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, inventors George Eastman and Philo Taylor Farnsworth (television), Noah Webster (Webster's Dictionary), the Scribner publishers, poets Emily Dickinson and Joel Barlow, writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Mrs. Charles Lindbergh), and actors Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, John Lithgow, and Jane, Peter, and Bridget Fonda.

Mary's father died less than a month after her birth.

"His (Domini's) parents were of Scotch decent and undoubtedly belonged to higher class of society as Domini well remembered that his father was a man of some distinction; had horses and servants and kept up an expensive establishment. But both his parents died when Domini was only six or seven years old leaving him to care of an elder brother who was then an adult, who for motives unknown whether good or bad cannot now be known, placed Domini board a merchant vessel when he was about eight years old, providing him extremely well with clothing suitable for a gentleman's child.

The captain of the vessel made much of him. They sailed to Holland and thence to America--Rhode Island at Providence near which the captain left Domini with orders to have him kept at school until the captain should return, providing for his support and schooling for several months. But the captain never return nor did Domini ever hear from him or of his Irish relation afterwards. In those days a voyage to Europe was a great undertaking and an intercourse by letters or otherwise was a great undertaking.

The lad was kept at school for some time after the funds left were exhausted. When no claim being made for him nor anything heard from the captain or his other friends, little Domini was bound apprentice by the town authorities to a farmer by the name of Wheaton in Seabank, Massachusetts.

In this family he grew up to manhood after which he served several campaigns as a volunteer in the Old French War. Returning at the close of the war from the northern frontier, he stooped at New Milford, Connecticut where he became acquainted with Mary Warner whom he marr ied May 5, 1760. This Mary Warner was a good and most amiable grandmother. She was the daughter of Joseph Warner of New Milford, then deceased, and of Sarah, his wife. She was born at New Milford December 10, 1743. Her father died eleven days after her birth. Her mother remained a widow and died when Mary was about thirteen or fourteen years old.

Domini and Mary settled on a farm three or four miles south of the present village of New Milford Church where they remained about 26 years, (though, I believe, not quite all that time on that farm.) there, all their child were born.

Grandfather Douglas served a number of cam paigns as a militia ,man in the Revolutionary War. In the course of that war he lost nearly all his property by selling his land for Continental bills which soon depreciated to almost nothing. I saw some of those old bills in his old pocketbook. When I was a child in 1785 or '86, they moved with most of their children to Shoreham, Vermont where Grandfather Douglas purchased a new farm of wild land and with the aid if his sons, cleared it up. On this farm he reminded , with a short exception, until his death at the age of seventy-five on 4th of April, 1807." --Laura Hubble Dobell, granddaughter of Domini and Mary.

"Dominie and Mary lie side by side in the small burying ground in the south part of Shoreham, Vermont. A double stone marks the place of their repose. Inscribed on the stone are these words -- 'In memory of Domini who died April 4, 1807, Age 75 years and Mary, Wife of Domini Douglas and afterwards Wife of David Cutting, Died March.'" --Laura Hubble Dobell, granddaughter of Dominie and Mary.

Notes on this website are authored by Larry Overmire, unless noted otherwise. Permission of the author is required to reproduce elsewhere.

Sources:

1) Niswender Ancestry, 24 Nov 2003

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=niswen der&id=I3846

2) Douglass Family Records of Laura Hubble Dobell, courtesy of Sherry Campbell

3) Bonnie J. Wernex Database

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET &db=b12j34w&id=I9033

4) David & Elijah Cutting Old Testament Bible, Published by Mathew Carey with date of August 19, 1805, Wyandot County Museum donated by a Mr. Finkle, courtesy of Bonnie J. Wernex

5) Faith Evjen Database

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET &db=faythandgus&id=I0001

6) Hamish Maclaren Database

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET &db=maclaren&id=I31847

7) Maureen Dilley Database, 15 Nov 2002

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET &db=maureendilley&id=I04239

8) Mary Beth Wheeler Database, 30 Nov 2003

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET &db=mbwheeler&id=I55161

9) Early Connecticut Marriages as found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, Book III, by Rev. Frederic W. Bailey, New Haven, CT: 1896-1906; reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968 pg. 113

10) Broderbund Family Archive CD-Rom #397, Marriage Index: Connecticut, 1635-1860, FHL film #1516559

11) B. J. Wernex Database

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET &db=b12j34w&id=I6779

12) David & Elijah Cutting Bible, Published by Mathew Carey with date of August 19, 1805, Wyandot County Museum donated by a Mr. Finkle

13) Douglass Family files of Dwight Douglass, U.S. Secretary to the 21st Earl of Morton.

GEDCOM Note

Birth was 8 mo. after father's death.

GEDCOM Note