Jabez Dean of Norwich (Connecticut) and Jedidah Allen "of Chillmarke in Dukes County" (i.e., Chilmark, Massachusetts; on Martha's Vineyard) were married on 28 November 1745.[1]
Jedidah Dean died on 15 January 1787, reportedly at the age of 71 years, and is buried in Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, Connecticut.[2] Her husband died the following day and is buried with her under the same grave marker.[3][4] Her inscription reads: "In memory of Mrs. Jedidah Dean wife of Capt. Jabez Dean. She departed life Jany 15th 1787 in ye 72d Year of her Age."[5]
Died
15 JAN 1787.
Wintonbury, Connecticut, USA. [9][10]
Buried
Windham, Windham County, Connecticut, USA. [11][12]
Sources
↑ Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) Originally published as: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. Hartford, Society of colonial wars in the state of Connecticut, 1913. page 262: Mr Jabez Dean of Norwich & mrs Jedidah Allen of Chillmarke in Dukes County was married to Each other Novr. 28th. 1745:
↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #11447871 Jedidah Dean. [Includes gravestone image, but inscription is not readable on the website.]
↑ "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7ZP-DYX : 3 December 2014), Jabez Dean, 16 Jan 1787; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 3,114.
↑ Windham Center Cemetery Inscriptions from Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions Copied by Joel N, Enos, A.M., of Hartford, Conn, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 71, page 182 (1917). http://www.ctgenweb.org/town/ctcwindham/windhaminscriptions.html#D
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