Job Dexter

Job Dexter was born in 1741 to Samuel Dexter and Mary Clark Dexter.  He was in the Revolutionary War and served as a 1st Lieutenant in the Massachusetts Militia.(Glade Ian Nelson, "Identifying Mercy, Wife of Thomas Hinckley of Harwich, Massachusetts, As Mercy (Bangs) (Hinckley) Cole," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 162 (2008): p. 111.)

His wife Mercy Hinkley's great great grandfather is Giles Hopkins, who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620 with his father, Stephen Hopkins, and family. (Mercy6 in our Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 6: Stephen Hopkins book, covering the accepted descendants of Stephen Hopkins).

Job Dexter, 1741-1827, served as Lieutenant in Captain Timothy Page's company at the Bennington Alarm. He was born and died in Hardwick. He married Mercy Hinckley. Source, National Society of the DAR, Lineage Book, P. 276, No. 59815; NO. 40611, Mrs. Carrie Gleason Vaughn.

Job and Mercy Dexter had ten children:

Alms Dexter Ichabod Dexter Jonathon Dexter Ruth Dexter John Dexter Anne Dexter Mercy Dexter Joseph Dexter Sally Dexter Zenas Dexter