Damaris Dean
Wife of Matthew White of Norton and, after his death, of Benjamin Tree, whom she married on 29 Apr 1731 and with whom she moved to Attleborough. Born at Taunton to Benjamin Dean and Sarah Williams, she was the mother of Mary White, who married Daniel Read, and died in her 92nd year, probably in 1780.
Life
- 1689Born4 Sept 1689, Taunton, Massachusettsdocumentedproven
- 1715Married Matthew White1715
Lothrop's date. No record of the marriage was found.
compiledprobable - 1731Married Benjamin Tree29 Apr 1731documentedproven
- 1780Died18 Nov 1780
"TREE, Damiris, Nov. 18, 1786. [1780. P.R.79.], in her 92d y." Only the 1780 reading fits her birth in 1689.
documentedprobable
Family
- Father
- Benjamin Deandocumentedproven
Other claim · Mollie Pfeiffer's typescriptWalter Dean✕disprovenWrong by a generation; Walter was her grandfather.
- Mother
- Sarah Williamsdocumentedproven
- Spouse 1
- Benjamin Tree
His first wife Hannah died at Attleborough on 26 June 1728.
documentedproven - Spouse 2
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Matthew White of Norton, and after his death of Benjamin Tree. Her move to Attleborough with Tree probably explains why her daughter Mary White “lived for some reason, in Attleboro,” as Mollie Pfeiffer put it (inference). With Benjamin Tree she had a daughter, Mary Tree, born 22 Sept 1732, when Damaris was 43 (Lothrop).
The Deane memoir (1849) lists her among the children of Benjamin Deane: “Damaris, b. Sept. 4, 1689, m. Matthew White.” Mollie made her a daughter of Walter Dean; she was his granddaughter.
Mollie's typescript
Mollie's Dean chart makes her a daughter of Walter Dean, married to Matthew White in 1715; she was Walter's granddaughter, a daughter of Benjamin Dean.
DAMARIS DEAN (2) Walter 1) Born Died Married 1715 Matthew White (3)
p. 164 →
Checked against the records
- ProvenMary White lived, for some reason, in Attleboro
True, and the reason has turned up. Her father died before 1731, and on 29 April 1731 her widowed mother Damaris married Benjamin Tree of Attleborough (Norton vital records). Mary presumably moved there with them.
Read it in the book, p. 159 → - DisprovenDamaris Dean was a daughter of Walter Dean
Wrong by a generation. She was born at Taunton on 4 Sept 1689 to Benjamin Dean, Walter's son, and Sarah Williams (Taunton vital records). Walter was her grandfather.
Read it in the book, p. 164 →