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Submitted: 10/16/11 • Approved: 10/17/11 • Last Updated: 11/9/15 • R45366-G45289-S3
Josiah Dewey
[27 Feb 1758]*
14 Jan 1838
In Memory of Josiah Dewey who died Jan. 14, 1838,
in the 80. year of his age.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.
[He “was a soldier in the Revolutionary War about ten months, from Lebanon, Conn., in Capt. Daniel Dewey's co., Col. Obadiah Johnson's Regt. of militia, R. I. service, in 1778; also in Wyoming Valley company under Capt. Durkee; in 1805 moved to W. Leyden, Lewis Co., N. Y. . . .”]**
[He was the contributor’s great, great, great, great grandfather.]
* Dewey, Louis Marinus, et al., comp., Dewey Family History (Westfield, MA, Dewey Publishing Company, 1898), (1357) 432.
**Dewey, Louis Marinus, et al., comp., Dewey Family History (Westfield, MA, Dewey Publishing Company, 1898), (1357) 432.
Contributed on 10/16/11 by jnagy
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