Born about in Springfield Township, (Old) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ancestors 
Son of Henry J Dewees
and Rachel (Hufte) Deweese
Brother of
Mary (Deweese) Knorr, Jacob (Deweese) Dewees, Henry Deweese Jr, John (Deweese) Dewees, Charles Deweese, Jonathan Deweese and Sarah (Deweese) Streeper
Husband of
Sarah (Bicking) Dewees
— married
about 1787 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Father of
William Dewees, Sarah (Dewees) Streeper, Henry Dewees, Mary Dewees, Elizabeth (Dewees) Smith, Frederick Dewees, Unknown Dewees and Rebecca (Dewees) Shermer
Died
at about age 62
in Philadelphia County, PA, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 4 Feb 2013
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Contents |
Biography
Inscription PVT 5 CL 6 PA BATT REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Birth
- May have been born in 1752[1]
Church records record his age as 66 years, 11 months and 8 days.
Deweese Family Newsletter and Findagrave shows birth year as 1753.
Inscription aged 70 years, "an honest man" Gravesite Details
- year of birth approximate -- it was calculated from inscription
BURIAL Upper Burial Grounds Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
- Y
- 3 DEC 1815
- Philadelphia County, PA, USA
- Age 62
UPD
- 23 MAR 2011 01:45:57 GMT -0600
Burial
- Upper Germantown Burying Ground
Record ID Number
- ID Number: MH:I325
User ID
- ID: D9AEAE75-7B74-43F1-8701-1C6BAFDE4A2F
Sources
- Source: S16 Author: <unknown> DuckGirl73 Title: DuckGirl73 Web Site Text:
MyHeritage.com family tree
Family site: DuckGirl73 Web Site
Family tree: 7517966-1 Type: Smart Matching Media: 322813-1 Record ID Number: MH:S16 Page: William Deweese Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Data: Date: 22 MAR 2011 Text: Added by confirming a Smart Match Event: Smart Matching Role: 1001097
- ↑ LaMunyan, Mrs. Philip E. (Harriet Belle Parker) Harriet Belle (Parker) LaMunyan, Editor: Roberts, Elwood. The Dewees Family. Norristown, Pa.: William H. Roberts, 1905, pp. 38, 40.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Dick Morse for creating WikiTree profile Deweese-131 through the import of 4j665f_9697919uoe26eoawi65048.ged on Feb 3, 2013.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~3.12%
Russell Deweese
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