Eleventh Generation

125. Adjutant Russell DEWEY^6,20 was born on 7 August 1754 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁴⁴ He served in the military about 1776.⁵² At the entrance to the Mechanic Street Cemetery in Westfield, Hampden County, MA, is a plaque "In Honor the the Men Who Served in the American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783." Listed on that plaque is Russell Dewey. He appeared in the census in 1790 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.⁴¹ Russell died on 18 February 1827 at the age of 72 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.^16,44 He has Ancestral File Number J19B-CS. He was buried in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.¹⁶ in the Mechanic Street Cemetery (the Old Burying Ground).

Gravestone Inscription: "Sacred To the memory of Adjt. Russell Dewey who died Feb. 18, 1827 Aged 72 years.

He was a lover of his
Country and fought for
her independence."

Sophia CHAPIN¹⁰ was born on 14 April 1748 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁰ She died on 13 August 1830 at the age of 82 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.¹⁰ She was buried in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.¹⁰ in the Old Burying Ground.