Mumblings - Simeon and Prudence (Yemans) Dewey

Our seventh generation leaves Connecticut and moves on to Vermont.

Simeon Dewey (7^th generation)

Simeon Dewey was born in Hebron, CT, on August 20, 1770 and died on January 11, 1863 at Montpelier, VT.  He married Prudence Yemans on February 27, 1794 possibly at Berlin, VT.  She was born in Tolland, CT on March 29, 1772 and died in Berlin, VT on April 1, 1844.  Simeon and Prudence are buried in lots E7 and E8 at the Dewey-Wright Cemetery in Berlin.  Many of their children/grandchildren are also buried there.

Simeon and Prudence settled on the Dog River at the southerly end of Berlin.  In the 1790s, one of the town’s first roads, West Hill Road, started at his house.  He moved to Montpelier in 1825 where he was deputy jailer for 8 years.  He returned to his farm in Berlin in 1833 and he remained there until the death of his wife. He died in Montpelier, January 11, 1863, aged 92.  Simeon and Prudence’s grandson (Admiral) George Dewey is my first cousin four times removed.

Prudence Yemans was daughter of Elijah Yemans and Amy Delano.  Through Amy we are directly related to Mayflower passenger Richard Warren, my tenth great grandfather (Amy’s great grandfather Jonathan Delano married Mercy Warren granddaughter of Richard Warren).  Through Richard Warren, we are indirectly related to Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, astronaut Alan Shepard (first American in space), actor Richard Gere, Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, artist Grandma Moses, and author Laua Ingalls Wilder.

Captain Simeon Dewey

   

Simeon and Prudence had eight children:

Silas (1795 – 1813)

Rebecca (1796 – 1872)

Osman (1799 – 1863)*

Julius (1801 – 1877) father of Admiral George Dewey

Zenas (1801 – 1867)

Henry (1806 – 1849)

Isaac (1809 – 1855)

Prudence (1816 – 1875)