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Thomas Dexter (1745 - bef. 1842)

Thomas Dexter
Born in Rochester, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of , , , , , , and
Husband of — married 31 Oct 1765 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
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Died before before age 97 [location unknown]
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Biography

Thomas Dexter was born on 07 March 1745 in Rochester, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay the son of Constant and Meribah (Delano) Dexter.[1]

He married Hannah Higgins on 31 October 1765 in Eastham, Barnstable County.[2] Hannah was born on 08 July 1747 in Eastham, the daughter of Ebenezer and Martha (Burgess) Higgins.[3]

Hannah died a widow on 14 October 1842 in Rochester.[4]

Thomas and Hannah baptised two children in Rochester, Massachusetts, in March 1780:[5]

  1. Meribah Dexter
  2. Thomas Dexter

Research notes

No probate records are found in Plymouth County for either Hannah or Thomas Dexter.[6]

Sources

  1. ↑ NEHGS, Vital Records of Rochester, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : NEHGS, 1914), Vol. 1:117
  2. ↑ Bowman, George Ernest. "Eastham & Orleans, Mass., Vital Records." Mayflower Descendant Vol. 32:64.
    "Thomas Dexter and Hannah higgins both of Eastham war marrid In Eastham Octo : the 31th 1765 By mr Joseph Crocker Minster Entred by me Joshua Doane Town Clerk"
  3. ↑ Bowman. "Eastham & Orleans, VRs." MD. Vol. 20:95
    "hanah higgens the Dafter of Ebnezar and martha higgens was Born in Eastham July 8 : 1747"
  4. ↑ VRs of Rochester, Vol. 2:374.
  5. ↑ NEHGS, Vital Records of Rochester, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : NEHGS, 1914), Vol. 1:114.
  6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-HBJ?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-HNL%3A337918601 : 20 May 2014), Dockets 1685-1881 Bur-Dre > image 419 of 473; State Archives, Boston.
See also:
  • Warden, William A. b. 1852. Genealogy of the Dexter Family In America: Descendants of Thomas Dexter, Together With a Record of Other Allied Families. Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co., 199.




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