Andrew Dewing (1655 - 1718)

Born 26 Nov 1655 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 14 Jan 1718 at age 62 in Needham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

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Andrew Dewing, 26 November 1655 – 14 January 1718 (LDS Profile L58Y-P74)

Descendants of Andrew Dewing of Dedham, Mass., pg 12-13

2. Andrew Dewing (Andrew1), born 26 d. 11 m. 1655; died Jan. 14, 1717/18; married 27 d. 10 m. 1682, Dorothy Hyde. He resided in that part of Dedham which was set off as Needham, Mass., in 1711, and was a husbandman. He inherited land from his father's estate, and also had some small parcels of land granted him from the town of Dedham. He was one of the petitioners for the incorporation of Needham. His will is recorded in Suffolk Co. Probate, No. 3938; it is dated Jan. 14, 1717, names son Edmund, and wife Dorothy, executors; his elder sons, Andrew and Henry, having received their full shares in his lands and meadows by deeds, are to receive ???5 each, and his daughters Esther and Dorothy the same amount, which is to be paid three years after his death, by son Edmund, who is to share the remainder of the estate with the widow until her death, when he is to have the whole. No record of an inventory.

Children, born in Dedham: i. 4 Andrew, b. Sept. 25, 1683 ii. Martha, b. Nov. 30, 1685; d. Mar. 24, 1686. iii. 5 Henry, b. Oct. 16, 1690. iv. Esther, b. Sept. 21, 1692; d. before 1753; m., by Mr. Hubbard, of Dorchester, Mass., Sept. 15, 1714, John3, son of John2 (John1) and Mary (Turner) PArker, b. Aug. 17, 1687; he . (2), in 1753, Hannah Pierce, of Weston, Mass. He d. in 1762; will offered for probate June 15, 1762. He resided in Newton Mass., and was a farmer. v. 6 Edmund, b. Sept. 9, 1694. vi. Dorothy, b. July 26, 1697.

Sources

• familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L58Y-P74

• Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook) Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988

• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)

• Fiske, Joseph. History of the Town of Wellesley, Massachusetts (Pilgrim Press, Boston, 1917) Page 69