1665/66 Adijah Dewey, son of Thomas and Constant Dewey, was born on March 5 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [1]
1670 Sarah Root, daughter of John and Mary Root, was born on September 24 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [2] [3]
1689 An unnamed child of Adijah and Sarah Dewey was born on November 13 and died on November 17 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [4]
1690/91 Thomas Dewey, son of Adijah and Sarah Dewey, was born on January 9 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [5]
1693 Adijah Dewey, son of Adijah and Sarah Dewey, was born on September 30 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [6]
1695/96 Sarah Dewey, daughter of Adijah and Sarah Dewey, was born on March 17 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [7]
1698/99 Hester Dewey, daughter of Adijah and Sarah Dewey, was born on January 20 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [8]
1701 Mary Dewey, daughter of Adijah and Sarah Dewey, was born on September 18 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [9]
1703/04 Abigail Dewey, daughter of Adijah and Sarah Dewey, was born on January 28 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [10]
1706 Bethiah Dewey, daughter of Adijah and Sarah Dewey, was born on August 11 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [11]
1709/10 Ann Dewey, daughter of Adijah and Sarah Dewey, was born on March 22 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [12]
1714/15 Moses Dewey, son of Adijah and Sarah Dewey, was born on January 6 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [13]
1741/42 Capt. A Dewey died on March 24 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [14]
Research Notes:
A biosketch of Adijah Dewey [15] reported:
Adijah Dewey, Capt., son of Thomas, 2d; b. March 5, 1666, at Horthampton, Mass.; d. March 24, 1742, age 76, at Westfield, ...
The town voted "That Adijah Dewey shall be surveyor of the bridge at th e Mill Brook," Sep. 22, 1691; chose him county surveyor in 1693; elected him constable in 1697; tithingman in 1702; Isaac Phelps, Adijah Dewey and Stephen Kellogg were "appointed a committee to determine the place f or a fence about the lower field" May 11, 1702.
"At a Legual Town Meeting, Oct. 31, 1718, those assembled at said meeting made choice of Deacon Noble, Capt. Ashley, Lieutenant Dewey, Daniel Bagg and Ensine Gunn to go and treat with John Gunn senier, and with ye widow Noble concerning a place to set a new meetinghouse and the terms theirof and to bring report thereat unto the town at the next meeting."
There were two companies of militia in old Hampshire County, Mass., at this period; Capt. Adijah Dewey commanded the South Company of fifty men, including Samuel Dewey, Jr., Adijah Dewey, Jr., and Charles Dewey. On a muster roll dated July 20, 1723, they are credited from two to seven weeks' service, were allowed "for Strong Liquors at one gill a day for each man; the men being mostly improved in Scouting the woods and lying a Nights."
In an order dated at Boston, Aug. 20, 1723, they were "to do scouting duty for 14 days;" Sep. 18, "to relieve the Frontiers;" Oct. 11, he was ordered to "get your troop ready and march to the relief of Deerfield and the other river towns," for eight weeks.
He owned 13 acres in the General Field in 1723 and was selectman in 1730 and 1740; joined the church April 20, 1729.
The first settled minister of the town, the much respected Rev. Edward Taylor, having passed his four-score years and five of his life and the forty-sixth of his pastoral care, the townsmen "At a Leguall Town meetin g held May 26, 1726," chose "Deacon Thomas Noble, Deacon (David) Ashley, and Capt. Dewey," "a comitey to go to Mr. Taylor and discors with him to see whether or no he be willing to lay down preaching."
On the 23d of March, 1733, Adijah Dewey of Westfield, a husbandman, for love, etc., deeds to his three sons: To Thomas Dewey of Housatonnock 30 acres on Black Brook next his own land. To Adijah Dewey, Jr, of Westfield, the land where he has built a dwelling and barn, except one acre at the south end of said lot, lying by the mill pond and a convenient way to the mill; another parcel called the mill pond adjoining said pond. To Moses Dewey of Westfield, the house and homelot I now live on with the other buildings; another homelot on the other side the street, with all meadow lands; also all right to my outer and inner commons and land in Springfield, and all my right to the grist mill and stream, together wit h that acre saved out of the south end of the lot given to Adijah above; also my team, viz., 1 yoke of oxen, 1 horse with cart and plows, tackling, and all appurtenances belonging to a team and ten sheep.
The following is the captain's will:
"In the Name of God. Amen, the twenty third day of March one Thousand S even Hundred & thirty three I Adijah Dewey of Westfield in the County of Hampshire Husbandman being Sensible of my own Mortality knowing that its Appointed for all men once to dye & now at this time of Perfect Mind & Memory & in Some Good measure of Health, thanks be given to God for the same I do therefore make & ordain this my last Will & Testament (Viz.) Principally & first of All I Give & recommend my Soul into the hands of God that Gave it & my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a Decent Christian Manner at the Discretion of my Christian friends & relat ions Nothing Doubting but at the resurection I shall receive the Same again by the Mighty Power of God & as touching Such Worldly Estate where with it has pleased God to bless me with in this life I Give demise & Dispose of the Same in the following Manner & form
Imprimus, I Give and Bequeath to Sarah my Dearly beloved Wife I Give th e one third part that is the Improvement of one third Part of all my Es tate both real & Personal excepting what is disposed of off the persona l estate & she is to have it during the Term of her Natural life &c.
Item. I have given to my three sons Thomas & Adijah & Moses by Deed of G ift all my lands belonging to me together with my buildings
Item I Give to my Six daughters, Sarah, Esther, Mary, Abigail, Bethiah & Ann Equally to Share alike and to have all my personal or Movable Estate in Equal Shares excepting what is disposed of by Deed of Gift & it is further my Will & Pleasure that my Son Moses Shall Pay to each of my Daughters five Pounds Apiece which will make thirty Pounds & he shall have Six Years time to Pay the Same in After my Decease. I likewise Constitute & Appoint my well beloved Sons Adijah & Moses to by my Executors of this my last Will & Testament & I do hereby Utterly disallow revoke & Disanul All & Every Other former Testaments Wills & Legacies bequests & Executors by me in any ways before named & Bequeath ratifying & Confirming this & no Other to be my last Will & Testament. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal this day & Year above Written. Signed Sealed, Published pronounced & Declared by the Sd. Adijah Dewey as his last Will & Tes tament in the Presence of the Subscriber.
Stephen Nash Benjn Ashley John Gunn. Adijah Dewey & a Seal.
[1] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].
[2] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 265, [AmericanAncestors].
[3] FamilySearch.org, states date as September 27, [FamilySearchRecord].
[4] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[5] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[6] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[7] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[8] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[9] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[10] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[11] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[12] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[13] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[14] Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 265-71, at 269, [AmericanAncestors].
[15] Life of George Dewey, rear admiral, U.S.N.; and Dewey family history (1898), 241-242, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].