Experience Dewey

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Note: None of the secondary sources below affirm any other children of this couple. Per FamilySearch, Experience and John Gillette had three children:
1. Experience;
2. John;
3. Gershom

Birth and Marriage

Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U S N , and Dewey Family History. Illustrated... Available at: Ancestry.com: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000:—
Name: Experience Dewey – Gender: Female – Birth: 9 Apr 1682, in Westfield, Mass
Marriage: 3 Jan 1700 in Lebanon, Conn
Parents: Josiah Dewey and Hepzibah Lyman
Spouse: John Gillit
Children: Experience Gillit; John Gillit; Gershom Gillit

Vital Data: Confirming Sources

Family Search

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (14 Jan 2020), Experience Dewey, 1682.
• "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (7 Feb 2023), Experience Dewey; citing Marriage, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut;

Ancestry.com

• "The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011. Available at: Ancestry.com,—Original Source: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston.
• "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988", with Image. Available at: Ancestry.com:— Data: Name: Experiance Dewey; Birth Date: 9 Apr 1682; Birth Place: Westfield, Massachusetts; Father: Josiah Dewey.
• New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Genealogical Publishing; Baltimore, MD, USA. Available at: Ancestry.com.— Data: Name: Experience Gillett: Maiden Name: Dewey: Gender: Female: Birth Year: 1682; Marriage; 3 Jan 1699; Marriage Place: New England; Spouse: John Gillett
• "Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870" (Barbour Collection). Available at: Ancestry.com.
• John and Experience in Gillett in the "Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920". Available at: Ancestry.com:—Residence: 1701, Lebanon, Connecticut.
• Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, eds. (1912) 1995. Colonial Families of the United States of America: In Which Is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. Vol. 2. Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Genealogical Publishing. Ancestry.com.

Source Books

• Hamblen, David, Frederic Kidder, William B. Trask, and Charles Mayo, eds. 1852. “A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700…for the Year 1852.” In The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 6 No. 1. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Thomas Prince. Available at: Google Books,
• "Marriages, Births, and Deaths in Westfield The New England Historical and Genealogical Register".
• Dewey, Adelbert, ed. 1898. “Branch of Josiah.” In Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N.; and Dewey Family History... Westfield, Massachusetts, USA: Dewey Publishing. Available at: Google Books.
• Sherman, Ruth Wilder, ed. 1987. The American Genealogist. Vol. 63. D. L. Jacobus. Snippets Available at: Google Books.
• Aldridge, Bertha Bortle Beal. 1955. Gillet, Gillett, Gillette Families: Including Some of the Descendants of the Immigrants Jonathan Gillet and Nathan Gillet...Also of the Descendants of Barton Ezra Gillet, 1800-1955. Victor, New York, USA. Archive.org.

Book: Page Transcription

"Genealogies of Connecticut Families", page 55 (Snippet View) in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. "The Brothers Jonathan and Nathan Gillett and Some of Their Descendants", compiled by Alice Lucinda Priest, B.L., of Brookline, Mass.

“12. JOHN³ GILLETT (Joseph,² Jonathan¹), of Deerfield, Mass., and Lebanon ,Conn., born in Windsor, Conn., 10 June 1671, died in 1755 (Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, by Virkus, 1925, vol. 1, p. 342). He married in Lebanon, 3 Jan. 1699/1700, EXPERIENCE³ DEWEY, born in Westfield, Mass., 9 April 1682, daughter of Josiah² and Hepzibah (Lyman) Dewey.

“His remarkable experience in the last decade of the 17th century is of high interest to his descendants; and the European part of it was probably duplicated by few New England contemporaries.

“As Sheldon's Deerfield History (vol. I p. 254) states of the year 1696: 'From beginning to end this proved another troublesome year to the town. The Court also provided a garrison; and scouting was continued on the frontiers. Although this dangerous service was performed with boldness and fidelity, sudden inroads of the enemy could not always be averted. Like a whirlwind they came and went, leaving destruction in their track.'

“The detailed story of what happened that year to soldier John³ Gillett is told in the Stephen Williams manuscript, beginning: '7ber 16, 1696, John Smead & John Gillett being in the woods, looking or tracking Bees, were besett by a company of French Mohawks. J. G. was taken prisoner & J. S. escaped — the indians fearing a discovery by S. 16 of them hastened away toward the town, and three were left with J. G. It being lecture day the people were got out of ye meadows, that so ye might attend ye lecture, so that ye enemy came as far as Mr. Dan Beldings house that was within gun shot of ye fort. . . . [Mr.Belding, son Nathaniel, ae. 22, dau. Esther, 13, taken prisoners: wife, 2 sons, dau. killed: 1 son badly wounded: 2 daus. escaped. Other hostilities at fort, in meadow, etc.] . . . the enemy went up Green River & came to their companions that they had left wth Gillett. John Smead came into…'

References

1. Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 Volume 057 Lebanon. Page 79. < AncestrySharing > Gillett, Name Experience & husband John, adm. ch. 1701. Name Experience Gillett Baptism Date 1702