Nathan Dwelley

(19 February 1797 - )
Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=27 Jan 2014
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Descendants of Thomas Josselyn (1591 - 1661)
Nathan Dwelley was born on 19 February 1797 in Pembroke, Massachusetts.1,2 He was the son of Nathan Dwelley and Elizabeth Bonney.1,3

Nathan Dwelley married Huldah B. Eells on 5 December 1822.1

Nathan Dwelley was for a time Captain of the Hanover Rifle Company.4

Nathan Dwelley and Huldah B. Eells lived in 1853 at the Four Corners, Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, in the house that earlier belonged to Huldah's grandfather, Captain Robert L. Eells.5

Alonzo Josselyn wrote in his copy of Barry's history of Hanover, next to Nathan Dwelley's name: My Uncle [Uncles?], and thought a great deal of me (they were actually first cousins.)6

Citations

  1. [S2] Barry, A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., 299.
  2. [S408] Pembroke Vital Records, 78.
  3. [S408] Pembroke Vital Records, 78, citing a Bonney family record.
  4. [S2] Barry, A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., 299-300.
  5. [S2] Barry, A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., 299, 304.
  6. [S388] Note written in pencil by Alonzo Josselyn in his copy of "A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass." by John S. Barry, now (2004) in the possession of Howard DeVoe; 299.

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