My Descent from Stephen Dummer

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Stephen Dummer-Alice Archer
Jane Dummer-Henry Sewall, Jr.
Anne Sewall-William Longfellow
Nathan Longfellow-Mary Green
Jonathan Longfellow-Mercy Clarke
Jacob Longfellow-Mercy Page
Mercy Longfellow-Levi Johnson
Levi Johnson, Jr.-Elizabeth Lincoln
Elizabeth L. Johnson-Horatio N. Keene
Anna Evelyn Keene-Francis Woods Darling
Laura Keene Darling-Edward Payson True
Edward Keene True-Mildred Louise Richenburg
James Duncan True
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Stephen Dummer

Husband:
Stephen Dummer		Born: in Bishopstoke, Hants, England, circa 1603.
Died: in Bishopstoke, Hants, England, 6 September 1670.
Parents: Thomas and Joane (-----) Dummer of Bishopstoke, Hants, England.
Wife:
Alice Archer		Born: probably in England, circa 1603.
Died: probably in England before 1661.
Parents: Unknown.
Married: Place and date unknown.

Stephen, with his wife and children, came to America for political reasons in the ship Bevis out of Southhampton, England, in 1638, and settled in Newbury, MA. Here he was a freeman, May 1639, and by 1645 he owned 300 acres of land. As the climate disagreed with them, he and his wife and children, including daughter Jane, and he husband, Henry Sewall, Jr., returned to England in 1647.

Stephen and his wife Alice (Archer) Dummer had at least five children, the first four born in England:

  • Jane, b. ca. 1627; m. Henry Sewall, Jr., son of Henry and Anna (Hunt) Sewall.
  • Dorothy, b. ca. 1631.
  • Richard, b. 1634; d. 1695; unmarried.
  • Thomas, b. 1636.
  • Mehitable, b. in America, 1 Jan. 1640.
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Jane Dummer

Wife:
Jane Dummer		Born: in England, circa 1627.
Died: in Newbury, MA, 13 January 1701.
Father: Stephen Dummer.
Mother: Alice Archer.
Husband:
Henry Sewall, Jr.		Born: in Manchester, England, 1614, baptized in Manchester Cathedral 1 July 1616.
Died: in Newbury, MA, 16 May 1700.
Father: Henry Sewall.
Mother: Anne Hunt.
Married: in Newbury, MA, 25 March 1645/6.

See the entry for Henry Sewall, Jr. for details of this family.

Henry Sewall, Jr. Prior Page Line of Descent Pedigree Chart Index of surnames The Dummer Bibliography Other sites of interest Home Page

The Dummer Family Bibliography

Savage, James, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986, Vol. IV, p. 79.

Sherman, Jeanette Johnson, Johnson-Mitchell Ancestry with Allied Families, 1967, pp. 63-64. Book located in the Free Library, Belfast, ME and The Appleton Public Library, Appleton, ME.

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