The Ancestors of My Grandchildren

     Thomas Dewey was born on 16 Feb 1639/40 in Windsor, Connecticut.^1,2 Thomas was baptized on 26 Feb 1639/40 at Windsor.⁴ He married Constance Hawes, daughter of Richard Hawes and Anne, on 1 Jun 1663 at Dorchester, Massachusetts.^5,2,6 He died on 27 Apr 1690 in Westfield, Massachusetts,^7,4, and was buried at Westfield.⁴

Other information:

     Thomas Dewey and his brothers Josiah and Jedediah had a saw- and gristmill on Two Mile Brook 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.⁸
     In 1684 Thomas Dewey and Nathaniel Bancroft were involved in a lawsuit against the brothers James and Joseph Sexton (maybe Joseph Sexton?)⁹
The first assignment of houselots in Westfield took place on 16 Mar 1667. David Ashley, John Root, Thomas Root, George Phelps, Thomas Dewey and Thomas Noble were among those who received a piece of land.¹⁰

On 2 Feb 1668/69 Thomas Dewey, Robert Ashley, James Warriner, William Warriner, Thomas Noble, David Ashley and Jonathan Ashley was among the signers from Springfield of a petition protesting the imposition by England of customs on goods imported into or exported from Massachusetts Colony.^11,1213