Israel Dewey1,2

M, #2723, * 25 Sep 1645, + 23 Oct 1678
FatherThomas Dewey1,2 * c 1608, + 27 Apr 1648
MotherFrancis1,2 * 1610, + 27 Sep 1690
     Israel was baptized on 25 Sep 1645 at Windsor, Connecticut.1,2 He married Abigail Drake on 28 Aug 1668 at Northampton, Massachusetts.2,3 He died on 23 Oct 1678 in Windsor, Connecticut.4

Other information:
Israel Dewey and Abigail Drake had at least one son Israel (b. 30 Dec 1673 in Westfield, prob. married Lydia Quimby, widow of William Holdridge(?) b 23 Feb 1696/7 in Stonington, CT).5,6,4
     Josiah, Thomas, Israel and Jedediah move north from Windsor, CT. Josiah, Thomas and Jedediah teamed up with Joseph Whiting to establish the first successful saw- and gristmill in Westfield on Two Mile Brook, now Great Brook in the Little River District of Westfield, on the road from Westfield to Windsor. Circa 1680 some other men set up a rival mill upstream on the same river, and the brothers sued them. This case was finally settled in the fall of 1685. The Deweys helped move the rival mill to another location, and established again their right to that particular portion of the stream.78

Citations

  1. [S407] Samuel Parsons, 5 , Vol. 5, (Jan. 1851): pg. 65. Thomas Dewey.
  2. [S340] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration, 1620-1633, Vol. 1, pg. 537-539. Thomas Dewey. Available online at http://www.americanancestors.org
  3. [S409] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marr., pg. 217. Has 3 dates (20, 23 and 28 Aug) and 3 places (Windsor, CT, Northampton, MA and Westfield, MA).
  4. [S395] Dunham, etc, online http://dunhamwilcox.net/, Descendants of Thomas Dewey (<http://dunhamwilcox.net/source_files/dewey.htm>).
  5. [S411] Rev. Emerson Davis,"Westfield, MA" 6 , pg. 267. Israel Dewey.
  6. [S409] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marr., pg. 217.
  7. History of the Dewey House, Westfield, MA <https://thedeweyhouse.org/history/
  8. [S472] John H. Lockwood, Westfield, MA, pg. 99. Online at http://archive.org/details/westfieldandits00lockgoog