son of Simeon Dewey and Elizabeth Turner Bridgman
When he was seventeen years old, he carried the mail on horseback from Hanover to Portsmouth, making the trip and return in about a week, and afterward for many years he owned and managed the old stage route between Concord and Hanover. He become later a farmer and speculator. His home paper said, at the time of his death:
“In the last years of his life his memory was remarkably active and he would rehearse the experiences of his boyhood, giving the minutest details of his journeyings with the mail to and fro from Portsmouth. He was endowed with remarkable persistence, and whatever reverses came he always kept up good courage and took a cheerful aspect of life and death. How lonely these old hills and vales must be without this sturdy son to tread them. Thousands have sprung from them only to leave as soon as maturity should come but this noble product of the soil has been faithful to his birthplace, and now lays down to rest amidst the scenes where his energies and life have been spent.”
He was one of those relics of the past which mark in each community the rapid flight of time — no one now living in Hanover being a resident there when he commenced business."
Height, 5 ft. 8 in., weight, 170 lbs., brown eyes, white hair, dark complexion
m1 Betsey Walker in 1815 at Hanover, NH
Children:
- Gardner Walker Dewey (22 Jan 1816-23 May 1872) m Marcia Ann Clark
- Claudia (Cornelia) Elizabeth Dewey (1 May 1821-16 Aug 1823)
- Joseph Boydon Dewey (25 May 1824-2 Sep 1825)
- Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Dewey (5 Apr 1826-) m Jesse Appleton Melcher
m2 Betsey Pierce in 1830 at Hanover NH
Children:
- Sarah Ann Dewey (27 Mar 1831-6 Mar 1861)
- Joseph Willard Dewey (14 Jan 1833-22 Jan 1896)
1870 Census: Joseph L. was counted aged 80, farmer by occupation, living with his second wife, Betsey, aged 70 and keeping house.
Value of Real Estate: 3000 and value of Personal Estate: 500
died of kidney disease
Source:
- vital records
- Life of George Dewey, rear admiral, U.S.N.; and Dewey family history; by Adelbert Milton Dewey (1898)
- New England families, genealogical and memorial, Volume 3; edited by William Richard Cutter
- Lilian Wheeler Huhn (#48038554)
- 1870 Census
When he was seventeen years old, he carried the mail on horseback from Hanover to Portsmouth, making the trip and return in about a week, and afterward for many years he owned and managed the old stage route between Concord and Hanover. He become later a farmer and speculator. His home paper said, at the time of his death:
“In the last years of his life his memory was remarkably active and he would rehearse the experiences of his boyhood, giving the minutest details of his journeyings with the mail to and fro from Portsmouth. He was endowed with remarkable persistence, and whatever reverses came he always kept up good courage and took a cheerful aspect of life and death. How lonely these old hills and vales must be without this sturdy son to tread them. Thousands have sprung from them only to leave as soon as maturity should come but this noble product of the soil has been faithful to his birthplace, and now lays down to rest amidst the scenes where his energies and life have been spent.”
He was one of those relics of the past which mark in each community the rapid flight of time — no one now living in Hanover being a resident there when he commenced business."
Height, 5 ft. 8 in., weight, 170 lbs., brown eyes, white hair, dark complexion
m1 Betsey Walker in 1815 at Hanover, NH
Children:
- Gardner Walker Dewey (22 Jan 1816-23 May 1872) m Marcia Ann Clark
- Claudia (Cornelia) Elizabeth Dewey (1 May 1821-16 Aug 1823)
- Joseph Boydon Dewey (25 May 1824-2 Sep 1825)
- Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Dewey (5 Apr 1826-) m Jesse Appleton Melcher
m2 Betsey Pierce in 1830 at Hanover NH
Children:
- Sarah Ann Dewey (27 Mar 1831-6 Mar 1861)
- Joseph Willard Dewey (14 Jan 1833-22 Jan 1896)
1870 Census: Joseph L. was counted aged 80, farmer by occupation, living with his second wife, Betsey, aged 70 and keeping house.
Value of Real Estate: 3000 and value of Personal Estate: 500
died of kidney disease
Source:
- vital records
- Life of George Dewey, rear admiral, U.S.N.; and Dewey family history; by Adelbert Milton Dewey (1898)
- New England families, genealogical and memorial, Volume 3; edited by William Richard Cutter
- Lilian Wheeler Huhn (#48038554)
- 1870 Census
son of Simeon Dewey and Elizabeth Turner Bridgman
When he was seventeen years old, he carried the mail on horseback from Hanover to Portsmouth, making the trip and return in about a week, and afterward for many years he owned and managed the old stage route between Concord and Hanover. He become later a farmer and speculator. His home paper said, at the time of his death:
“In the last years of his life his memory was remarkably active and he would rehearse the experiences of his boyhood, giving the minutest details of his journeyings with the mail to and fro from Portsmouth. He was endowed with remarkable persistence, and whatever reverses came he always kept up good courage and took a cheerful aspect of life and death. How lonely these old hills and vales must be without this sturdy son to tread them. Thousands have sprung from them only to leave as soon as maturity should come but this noble product of the soil has been faithful to his birthplace, and now lays down to rest amidst the scenes where his energies and life have been spent.”
He was one of those relics of the past which mark in each community the rapid flight of time — no one now living in Hanover being a resident there when he commenced business."
Height, 5 ft. 8 in., weight, 170 lbs., brown eyes, white hair, dark complexion
m1 Betsey Walker in 1815 at Hanover, NH
Children:
- Gardner Walker Dewey (22 Jan 1816-23 May 1872) m Marcia Ann Clark
- Claudia (Cornelia) Elizabeth Dewey (1 May 1821-16 Aug 1823)
- Joseph Boydon Dewey (25 May 1824-2 Sep 1825)
- Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Dewey (5 Apr 1826-) m Jesse Appleton Melcher
m2 Betsey Pierce in 1830 at Hanover NH
Children:
- Sarah Ann Dewey (27 Mar 1831-6 Mar 1861)
- Joseph Willard Dewey (14 Jan 1833-22 Jan 1896)
1870 Census: Joseph L. was counted aged 80, farmer by occupation, living with his second wife, Betsey, aged 70 and keeping house.
Value of Real Estate: 3000 and value of Personal Estate: 500
died of kidney disease
Source:
- vital records
- Life of George Dewey, rear admiral, U.S.N.; and Dewey family history; by Adelbert Milton Dewey (1898)
- New England families, genealogical and memorial, Volume 3; edited by William Richard Cutter
- Lilian Wheeler Huhn (#48038554)
- 1870 Census
When he was seventeen years old, he carried the mail on horseback from Hanover to Portsmouth, making the trip and return in about a week, and afterward for many years he owned and managed the old stage route between Concord and Hanover. He become later a farmer and speculator. His home paper said, at the time of his death:
“In the last years of his life his memory was remarkably active and he would rehearse the experiences of his boyhood, giving the minutest details of his journeyings with the mail to and fro from Portsmouth. He was endowed with remarkable persistence, and whatever reverses came he always kept up good courage and took a cheerful aspect of life and death. How lonely these old hills and vales must be without this sturdy son to tread them. Thousands have sprung from them only to leave as soon as maturity should come but this noble product of the soil has been faithful to his birthplace, and now lays down to rest amidst the scenes where his energies and life have been spent.”
He was one of those relics of the past which mark in each community the rapid flight of time — no one now living in Hanover being a resident there when he commenced business."
Height, 5 ft. 8 in., weight, 170 lbs., brown eyes, white hair, dark complexion
m1 Betsey Walker in 1815 at Hanover, NH
Children:
- Gardner Walker Dewey (22 Jan 1816-23 May 1872) m Marcia Ann Clark
- Claudia (Cornelia) Elizabeth Dewey (1 May 1821-16 Aug 1823)
- Joseph Boydon Dewey (25 May 1824-2 Sep 1825)
- Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Dewey (5 Apr 1826-) m Jesse Appleton Melcher
m2 Betsey Pierce in 1830 at Hanover NH
Children:
- Sarah Ann Dewey (27 Mar 1831-6 Mar 1861)
- Joseph Willard Dewey (14 Jan 1833-22 Jan 1896)
1870 Census: Joseph L. was counted aged 80, farmer by occupation, living with his second wife, Betsey, aged 70 and keeping house.
Value of Real Estate: 3000 and value of Personal Estate: 500
died of kidney disease
Source:
- vital records
- Life of George Dewey, rear admiral, U.S.N.; and Dewey family history; by Adelbert Milton Dewey (1898)
- New England families, genealogical and memorial, Volume 3; edited by William Richard Cutter
- Lilian Wheeler Huhn (#48038554)
- 1870 Census
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Joseph L. Dewey
died
June 30, 1873
Aged 83 yrs, 10 ms.
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