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Miller, born July 10, 1666, at Northamp-
ton, daughter of William Miller.
(IV) Josiah (3) Dewey, eldest son of
Josiah (2) Dewey, was born March 2,
1694, in Westfield, and died October 30,
1771, in Lebanon. He was a progressive
farmer for his day, and a deacon of the
church. He married, December 4, 1718,
Sarah Hutchinson, born June 6, 1696, in
Lebanon, and died September 9, 1776,
daughter of Samuel and Sarah Hutchin-
son.
(V) Solomon Dewey, son of Josiah (3)
Dewey, was born April 29, 1724, in Leb-
anon, where he died May 2, 1819, at the
age of ninety-five. He was a skillful cab-
inet maker; was six feet tall, and on his
ninetieth birthday walked a mile to a
neighbor's house, and built a wooden
mould board. He married, August 30,
1770, Elizabeth Cady, who was born June
6, 1736, in Tolland, and died September
5, 1813, daughter of John and Hannah
Cady.
(VI) Asahel Dewey, son of Solomon
Dewey, was born June 15, 1775, in Lebanon,
and died there, April 26, 1846. He
was county surveyor, and teacher of
mathematics, and represented the town
in the Legislature. He married, March
8, 1798, Lucina Fuller, born April 10, 1777,
in Lebanon, and died December 14, 1826,
daughter of Beyaleel and Phebe (Sprague)
Fuller.
(VII) Silas Dewey, eldest child of As-
ahel Dewey, was born June 16, 1801, in
Lebanon, and died December 27, 1836.
He was a farmer on the old homestead,
and later a merchant in Norwich. He
married, October 19, 1828, at Groton,
Sally Ann Brown, born September 27,
1807, at Groton, died December 8, 1893,
at Rockville, daughter of David Palmer
and Fanny Eldridge (Chadwick) Brown.
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(VIII) Silas Henry Dewey, son of
Silas Dewey, born April 27, 1830, lived on
the old homestead which had been in the
family for one hundred and seventy years,
and sold it after reverses of fortune. He
was representative to the Legislature in
1865; was deputy sheriff in New London
county, and afterwards in 1877, in Tol-
land. He went to Fisher's Island in 1879,
and in 1884 to Canada, where he was liv-
ing in 1898. He was a member of the
Eastern Star Lodge, No. 44, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons. He married, April
30, 1851, Nancy Maria Manley, born May
31, 1830, in Columbia, and died November
29, 1897, in Andover, Connecticut.
They were members of the Columbia
Congregational Church. He died July 5,
1909.
(IX) John Stevens Dewey, son of
Silas Henry Dewey, was born February
12, 1869. He was admitted in the public
schools of Columbia and Norwich, Conn-
ecticut. Then went to New York City
and became a commercial reporter for the
Mercantile Protective Agency. He was
thus employed from 1884 to 1890, when
he returned to Connecticut and engaged in
farming in the town of Andover. He remained
there for eight years, when he removed
to East Granby. In 1903 he lo-
cated on the present farm as superintend-
ent for the Indian Head Plantations Cor-
poration. He bought out this farm in
1913, and makes a specialty of shade
grown tobacco, although he does a very
considerable amount of general farming.
He grows about forty acres of tobacco,
about fourteen acres of corn, three and
one-half of potatoes, six of oats, four of
rye, and four of buckwheat. He has alto-
gether about seventy acres under cultiva-
tion, and has two other farms besides the
Indian Head. Besides the growing end