Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Medad Dewey
— married
25 Sep 1788 in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Bethiah (Dewey) Barnes, Elizabeth (Dewey) Barnes, Amiria Dewey, Harvey Dewey, Edmond P Dewey and Lemuel Dewey
Died
at about age 70
in Leyden, Lewis, New York, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 15 Apr 2021
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Biography
Tryphena was born about 1769.[1] She married Medad Dewey 25 Sep 1788 [1] and they had children:
- Bethia 1789 m1. Job Fisk, m2. Col. John Barns
- Elizabeth 1791 m. Ira Barnes, son of Col John Barns
- Almira 1793
- Harvey 1795
- Edmund 1799
- Lemuel 1804
She passed away in 1839. [1]
Research notes
Joseph Root of Westfield named Tryphena Root in his will, but did not specify a relationship.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Life of George Dewey, rear admiral, U.S.N.; and Dewey family history : being an authentic historical and genealogical record of more than fifteen thousand persons in the United States by the name of Dewey, and their descendants by Dewey, Adelbert Milton, 1857 (https://archive.org/details/lifeofgeorgedewe00dewe/page/286/mode/2up)
- Westfield, MA: Marriage Records of the First Church, 1781-1835. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, 2003.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB158/rd/800241856 Tryphena Roberts of Blanford and Medad Dewey of Montgomery.
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75776642/triphena-dewey : accessed 19 November 2021), memorial page for Triphena Roberts Dewey (1769–27 Jan 1839), Find a Grave Memorial ID 75776642, citing West Leyden Cemetery, West Leyden, Lewis County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Kelly Balash (contributor 47723781)
- Dwight, Benjamin W., Brief Notes on The Early History of The Dewey Family, NYGBR (NYGBS, 1875) Vol. 6, Page 171.
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Categories: West Leyden Cemetery, West Leyden, New York
Bethiah Dewey Barnes 1789–1849
Amiria Dewey 1794–1822
Harvey Dewey 1795–1876
Lemuel Dewey 1804–1858