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Hello. I haven't researched my DEXTER line back to RI in the 1700's for about 5 years. But, someone has reminded me of them. *
From my posting of 5 years ago, I had come up with a possible line:
Gregory DEXTER and Abigail FULLERTON
Stephen DEXTER and Abigail WHIPPLE
John DEXTER and Mary FIELD
John DEXTER and Mary BROWNE
Jonathan DEXTER and Alice LOWE
Joseph DEXTER and Mary ALLEN
Marvin DEXTER and Mary Anna ALLEN (different families)
John DEXTER and Mary Anna CLARK
Clara DEXTER (m. Abner YOUNG)
From my limited research, I was told that Joseph DEXTER and his brother, Phillip DEXTER, were born in Smithfield, RI, in the 1760's. Joseph served in the Revolutionary War as a teen. And, Joseph and Phillip married and then moved to Killingly, CT, where they started farms.
I was wondering if anyone knew about the other children of Jonathan and Alice DEXTER.
The 1790 census showed also an Andrew DEXTER in Killingly, but I don't know information on him. And, a Thomas DEXTER arrived in 1790, but he came from Rehoboth, MA. Between 1780 and 1810 there seems to have been around 25 DEXTER children born in Killingly, CT.
Betty (near Lowell, MA)
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It is only an "educated guess" that I have DEXTER ancestors. I believe that Mrs. Clara YOUNG was the birth-mother of my maternal grandmother (without benefit of her husband). I believe she had an "unwanted pregnancy" in the summer of 1888, and she went to Boston, MA, to deliver in Feb. 1889.
John and Mary DEXTER had moved to Melrose, MA, around 1886, and in Mar. 1892, they adopted a little girl. The girl was re-orphaned in 1899 upon Mrs. DEXTER's death.
(Mrs. YOUNG went to her dying day proclaiming that she didn't even know her parents had adopted a little girl. And, yet, she and her only son had visited them in MA many times. This is a long, complex story which I've told on the Mailing Lists at www.rootsweb.com many times.)
(John and Mary had lost 2 daughters as children. And, Clara had lost a daughter as a child; one census showed that she had had 3 births.)
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