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Clarissa Dexter

BIRTH: 17 May 1782, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
DEATH: 25 Sep 1850
BURIAL: Sabin Cemetery, Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut
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Father: Benjamin Dexter (1755 - ____)
Mother: Abigail (1765 - ____)

Family 1: Smith Dexter (1780 - ____)

MARRIAGE: 30 Sep 1801, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island

+Jencks or Jenckes Dexter (1802 - ____)
Anna Dexter (1804 - 20 Jul 1832)
+Henry Dexter (1806 - ____)
+Jesse Dexter (1811 - 17 Mar 1885)
Caroline Dexter (1813 - 11 Apr 1844)

                                                                                         _Stephen Dexter _________________+
                                                                                        | (1647 - 1679) m 1672            
                                                                   _John Dexter ________|_Abigail Whipple ________________
                                                                  | (1673 - 1734) m 1685  (1657 - 1725)                   
                                             _John Dexter ________|
                                            | (1701 - 1780)       |
                                            |                     |                      _Thomas Field ___________________
                                            |                     |                     | (.... - 1717)                   
                                            |                     |_Mary Field _________|_Martha Harris __________________
                                            |                       (1673 - 1727) m 1685  (1643 - 1717)                   
                       _Andrew Dexter ______|
                      | (1723 - 1807) m 1748|
                      |                     |                                            _John Brown _____________________+
                      |                     |                                           | (1630 - 1706) m 1654            
                      |                     |                      _John Brown _________|_Mary Holmes ____________________
                      |                     |                     | (1662 - 1719) m 1696  (1632 - 1690)                   
                      |                     |_Mary Brown _________|
                      |                       (1699 - 1770)       |
                      |                                           |                      _James Mathewson ________________
                      |                                           |                     | (1638 - 1682) m 1663            
                      |                                           |_Isabel Mathewson ___|_Hannah Field ___________________
                      |                                             (.... - 1719) m 1696  (1642 - 1703)                   
 _Benjamin Dexter ____|
| (1755 - ....)       |
|                     |                                                                  _Joseph Jenckes _________________+
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|                     |                                            _William Jenckes ____|_Esther Ballard _________________
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|                     |                      _William Jenckes ____|
|                     |                     | (1703 - 1765) m 1723|
|                     |                     |                     |                      _Jonathan Sprague _______________+
|                     |                     |                     |                     | (1648 - 1740) m 1670            
|                     |                     |                     |_Patience Sprague ___|_Mehitable Holbrook _____________
|                     |                     |                       (1674 - 1770)         (1646 - 1709)                   
|                     |_Lydia Jenckes ______|
|                       (1732 - 1800) m 1748|
|                                           |                                            _Edward Smith ___________________+
|                                           |                                           | (1630 - 1693) m 1663            
|                                           |                      _Christopher Smith __|_Annphillis or Amphillis Angell _
|                                           |                     | (1672 - 1755) m 1697  (1640 - 1694)                   
|                                           |_Anphillis Smith ____|
|                                             (.... - 1770) m 1723|
|                                                                 |                      _Edward Stephens ________________
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|                                                                 |_Mary Stephens ______|_Mary Adams _____________________
|                                                                   (1679 - 1758) m 1697                                  
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|--Clarissa Dexter 
|  (1782 - 1850)
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Notes

!SOURCE: S.C. Newman, Dexter Genealogy: Being a Record of the Families Descended from Rev. Gregory Dexter (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1859), p. 30, 36. Spells name Clarasa Dexter, b. 1782 in Cumberland, R.I.

!SOURCE: "Descendants of John Dexter, Jr.," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 17 Aug 2003. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850 (birth, marriage). Spells name Clarissa Dexter.

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 8 Oct 2007. Spells name Clarissa, citing cemetery records at Sabin Cemetery, Pomfret, Windham, CT. Adds death date and burial place.

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