Hepzibah Dewey

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Hepzibah Lyman January 1644–4 June 1732

Birth: (2 Sources) January 1644 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Death (Age 88) (2 Sources) 4 June 1732 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, British Colonial America

Hephzibah in entry for Mary Dewey, "Delaware, Church Records, 1707-1939"

Spouse: Deacon Josiah Dewey 1641-1732
Marriage: 6 November 1662 Northampton, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
Children (14)
Hebzibah Dewey 1663-1732
Mary Dewey 1665-1666
Josiah Dewey Jr 1666-1750
John Dewey 1668-1718
Sarah Dewey 1670-
Ebenezer Dewey Sr. 1673-1711
Nathaniel Dewey 1673-1717
Joseph Dewey 1674-1675
Elizabeth Dewey 1674-1677
Elizabeth Dewey 1677-1757
Joseph Dewey 1682-1682
Experience Dewey 1682-1755
Benjamin Dewey 1685-1685
Mindwell Dewey 1686-

Parents and Siblings
Richard Lyman 1618-1662
Marriage: 1641 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Hepzibah Ford 1625-1683
Children (7)
Sarah Ann Lyman 1643-1732
Hepzibah Lyman 1644-1732
Richard Lyman 1647-1708
Thomas Lyman 1649-1725
Johannah Lyman 1658-1659
Hannah Lyman 1660-1736
John Lyman 1662-1727
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To see a close up photo of the monument inscription, go to the Media section.

In Source:NEHGR, p. 6:266 (1852)n, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700.", lists the children of Josiah born in Westfield from 1672 to 1685 with wife "Experience". The same list of children [except Joseph, see below] is shown again on p. 6:267 with wife unknown.

In an article "The Brothers Jonathan and Nathan Gillett and Son me of Their Descendants", by Alice Lucinda Priest, it notes that then the 1875 Dewey Genealogy contained the error of Josiah's second marriage to Experience about 1671. This was fixed in Source:Dewey, Adelbert Milton. Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N. and Dewey Family History, published in 1898. The conclusive evidence is the tombstone of Josiah's wife Hephzibah showing that she died in 1732, ruling out any second marriage. Also, the baptism record of daughter Mindwell 19 Dec 1686 at the Westfield Church of Christ naming parents as Josiah & Hephzibah Dewy.

The gravestone is pictured in the Dewey Family History, p. 384ff: "Here lies ye Body of ye Worth Mrs Hephzibah ye Wife of Dc'n Josiah Dewey. She was the Daughter of Mr Richard Lyman of Hartford. She was one that feared ye Lord & Slept in Jesus June ye 4 1732 in ye 89 year of her age."

The Westfield records printed in NEHGR reported on p. 6:266 and p. 6:267 differ in one other detail besides the mother's name. The list on p. 266 shows a son Joseph b. 11 Aug 1674, then a second Joseph, twin with Experience, born 9 Apr 1682, and then Joseph d. June 1682. The list on p. 266 omits the first fact, and only records the birth and death of twin Joseph. There is a death listed in June 1675 for Ebenezer in both copies of the family's records, but the The Dewey Family History, p. 392, applies this to the first Joseph. This is justified by a gravestone for Ebenezer identifying him as Josiah's son and dying in his 38th year in 1711, so born about 1674. So the Dewey Family History appears to have it right.

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 14 2018, 7:19:13 UTC