Nathan Dean was born on 28 Apr 1755 in Taunton, Bristol Co, MA, the son of Joshua Dean and Abigail King.
He married Miss Lois Snow in 1778, the daughter of Jesse Snow and Lois Freeman.
Nathan and Lois had five children: Catherine Mary, Nathan L., Joshua, Caleb and Zenas K.
Nathan died in Easton, Northampton Co, PA on 03 Mar 1799 while returning home from a business trip to Philadelphia; aged 43 years 10 months 5 days.
As noted on the gravestone, Nathan is actually buried in Easton, Northampton Co, PA.
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THE DEPOSIT COURIER
WEDNESDAY, OCT 2011
CAPTAIN NATHAN DEAN
By John A. Aiello and Greggory Milk
Not all of Deposit's Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots are listed on the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) Monument, nor are they all buried in the Revolutionary War Cemetery. This is not going to thwart us from honoring them by including them in this series of articles. We are sure that had Mrs. Nancy M. Parke and the D.A.R. known of these great patriots at the time the monument was placed back in 1903 they would have surely been included.
Nathan Dean is one such patriot. A native of Taunton, Bristol Co, MA, and born on 28 Apr 1755, Mr. Dean was the son of Joshua Dean and Abigail King.
He appears with the rank of Private on the Lexington Alarm Roll of Co. F, Massachusetts Minute Men, under the command of Captain James Williams, Jr, which marched to Roxbury, Suffolk Co, MA, on 20 Apr 1775 in response to the alarm of 19 Apr 1775.
Nathan Dean became an officer in the Revolutionary War, stationed near Boston. He was referred to as Captain Dean after the war, but according to all military records we have come across; he never achieved a rank higher than Sergeant. But it was not uncommon in those days, for people to refer to a military man with standing in the community as Captain or Colonel, even if they had not attained those ranks while in the service.
On 28 Jun 1777 he married Miss Lois Snow, of Raynham, Bristol Co, MA, the daughter of Jesse Snow and Lois Freeman.
Lois and Nathan had three children in Massachusetts: Catherine Marie Dean on 13 Sep 1780; Nathan L. Dean on 04 Jul 1782; and Joshua Dean on 27 Jan 1785.
In 1790 with his wife and young family he removed to Kortright, Delaware Co, NY, where he remained until the summer of 1791, here is where Nathan and Lois had another son, Caleb Dean on 05 Feb 1791. In June of 1791, as there were no roads, he lashed two canoes together, and placing his family and goods on them, he floated them down the river to the Cook-house. Finding a log house empty, he lived in it until he could provide one for his family on the place, since known as the Dean farm, consisting of two lots of two hundred acres each, now covering that part of the Village of Deposit in Broome County, of which he was the first settler. His cattle were driven from Kortright on the Indian trail by his son Nathan L., then only ten years old, and his uncle Joshua Dean.
During that summer of 1790 he built a saw-mill, and sawed out lumber for a house into which the family moved into late in December, before the doors were finished, they used blankets and quilts in their places through the winter. It was here that Nathan and Lois had their last child, a son, Zenas K. Dean 07 Jul 1797.
On the 2nd of January 1791, while Mr. Dean was absent at Kingston, the upper portion of the mill was burned; when Mrs. Dean, with the energy which ever characterized her, employed workmen and had it rebuilt and running before her husband's return.
In 1794 Mr. Dean built a grist-mill by the side of the saw-mill, on the site which became the flouring mill of the Whitaker Brothers.
John Radeker, of Colchester, was the millwright for the grist-mill. He was a practical miller, and remained a year or two in charge of the mill. He was called Hans. At one time an old Indian came to Captain Dean's and asked to stay all night, saying he would sleep by the fire on the floor. After the family had retired the Indian crept up stairs and got into Hans' bed, and when Hans came in from the mill he had to sleep on the floor.
In January, 1796, Benjamin and Jeter Gardner brought eight loads of goods from New York by way of Carpenter's Point, from which place they drove up the river on the ice. Their store was in a building then recently erected by Captain Dean, where the Oquaga House formerly stood on Front Street, a couple blocks west of where TDS now stands; it was the first store kept in the place.
Previous to this Captain Dean had done his trading in Kingston, and to secure payment he had signed a note to one Mr. Tappan for $600. Captain Dean was a free mason. Three men of the vicinity, who were also masons, went to Kingston, and representing that they came at Dean's request, bought the note and went to Owego, the county seat of Tioga County, in which county Dean lived, and took out an execution, directing the sheriff to sell without delay. The advertisements were put up at so great a distance that none but the parties involved knew any thing of it till a short time before the day of sale, which was February 26th, 1799.
On learning of this Captain Dean hastened to Philadelphia to raise the money. The day of the sale came and Dean had not returned. In the meantime Mr. Tappan, who was a friend of Dean, hearing what was going on, came in order to prevent the sale. Other prominent men from other places, who were all friends of Dean, also attended, and the sheriff postponed the sale to the 5th of March, on which day, Mr. Dean still had not returned. So on that day, David Hotchkiss, Judge Harper, Major Stow, Captain Buel, Elijah Smith and William MacClure, of the then town of Chenango, now Windsor; Elijah and Asa Stowell, of Bainbridge, and other prominent men attended. Through their aid all the personal property was bid in by the daughter, Catharine (who afterward married James P. Aplington), and Mr. Tappan bid in the real estate for $1,650, to the great disappointment of the Masonic trio.
Mr. Dean was taken sick at Easton, Northampton Co, PA, on his return and died there on 03 Mar 1799, two days before the sale, as it was learned some weeks after. By the advice of David Hotchkiss, William MacClure and others the widow applied to the Legislature for aid, and the sale was set aside and commissioners appointed to sell the farm and settle with the creditors. This was eventually done, and the widow was enabled to buy in and keep the northerly two hundred acres, on which the Broome county part of the village chiefly stands.
Although Mr. Dean died and was buried in Easton, PA, there is a shared marker for him and his wife in Pine Grove Cemetery. Lois Dean died 22 Jul 1841 on the family farm in Sanford, Broome Co, NY aged 86 Years and 4 Days.
Mrs. Dean was a religious woman and brought up her family well, and they all became useful and respectable members of the community; Catherine Marie married Mr James Page Aplington, II, the son of James P. Aplington, Sr and Beulah Turner. James and Catherine raised seven children, and they were charter member of the First Baptist Church of Deposit.
Nathan L. married Miss Eunice Beebe, the daughter of David Beebe and Sarah Beech. They had two daughters and a son: Emeline and Catherine and Addison Beebe Dean. All but Catherine are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Joshua married Miss Sally Hale, the daughter of Oliver Hale and Dorcas Bennett. Sally and Joshua had two sons and a daughter: Artemas H. a lumber merchant, who married Adaline A. Ketchum and had eight children; Bradley, who was listed on the various census reports as being idiotic and/or insane, drowned or froze to death on 21 Feb 1870, his body was found in a jam of ice on 28 Mar 1870; and Jenette E. who died on 21 Aug 1839 and was the first person buried in Pine Grove Cemetery. Joshua was for many years supervisor of Sanford. This entire family is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Caleb married Miss Nancy Pine, the daughter of Daniel Pine and Anna Ogden; she was also the granddaughter of Phillip Pine, a Revolutionary Soldier featured in a previous article. Nancy and Caleb had four children: a son Allen who died in infancy and is buried in the Revolutionary Cemetery, a daughter Betsey, another son named Allen and a daughter Hannah. Caleb died on 30 Oct 1857 at the age of 66 years 8 months 23 days; he and Nancy are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Zenas K. married Mary "Polly" Peters, one of nine children born to John Peters and Elizabeth Smith. Polly and Zenas had five children: John Peters, William N., Lois L., George E. and Charles. Zenas outlived all his siblings and died the day after Christmas 1883 at the age of 86 years 5 months 19 days; Zenas, Polly and most of their children are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge Jacqueline Chamberlain, of the Koo-Koose Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution here in Deposit, for her assistance in identifying our Nathan Dean from the approximately dozen Nathan Deans in the D.A.R. and S.A.R. Rolls.
We would also like to thank the Deposit Historical Society for allowing us to photograph the portraits of Nathan Dean and his wife Lois Snow Dean and publish them with this biography. The photographs do not do the beautiful portraits justice and you should visit the museum to see the original portraits in person. They are in amazing condition and are truly fine works of art, of a quality any metropolitan museum would be proud to include in their galleries.
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He married Miss Lois Snow in 1778, the daughter of Jesse Snow and Lois Freeman.
Nathan and Lois had five children: Catherine Mary, Nathan L., Joshua, Caleb and Zenas K.
Nathan died in Easton, Northampton Co, PA on 03 Mar 1799 while returning home from a business trip to Philadelphia; aged 43 years 10 months 5 days.
As noted on the gravestone, Nathan is actually buried in Easton, Northampton Co, PA.
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THE DEPOSIT COURIER
WEDNESDAY, OCT 2011
CAPTAIN NATHAN DEAN
By John A. Aiello and Greggory Milk
Not all of Deposit's Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots are listed on the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) Monument, nor are they all buried in the Revolutionary War Cemetery. This is not going to thwart us from honoring them by including them in this series of articles. We are sure that had Mrs. Nancy M. Parke and the D.A.R. known of these great patriots at the time the monument was placed back in 1903 they would have surely been included.
Nathan Dean is one such patriot. A native of Taunton, Bristol Co, MA, and born on 28 Apr 1755, Mr. Dean was the son of Joshua Dean and Abigail King.
He appears with the rank of Private on the Lexington Alarm Roll of Co. F, Massachusetts Minute Men, under the command of Captain James Williams, Jr, which marched to Roxbury, Suffolk Co, MA, on 20 Apr 1775 in response to the alarm of 19 Apr 1775.
Nathan Dean became an officer in the Revolutionary War, stationed near Boston. He was referred to as Captain Dean after the war, but according to all military records we have come across; he never achieved a rank higher than Sergeant. But it was not uncommon in those days, for people to refer to a military man with standing in the community as Captain or Colonel, even if they had not attained those ranks while in the service.
On 28 Jun 1777 he married Miss Lois Snow, of Raynham, Bristol Co, MA, the daughter of Jesse Snow and Lois Freeman.
Lois and Nathan had three children in Massachusetts: Catherine Marie Dean on 13 Sep 1780; Nathan L. Dean on 04 Jul 1782; and Joshua Dean on 27 Jan 1785.
In 1790 with his wife and young family he removed to Kortright, Delaware Co, NY, where he remained until the summer of 1791, here is where Nathan and Lois had another son, Caleb Dean on 05 Feb 1791. In June of 1791, as there were no roads, he lashed two canoes together, and placing his family and goods on them, he floated them down the river to the Cook-house. Finding a log house empty, he lived in it until he could provide one for his family on the place, since known as the Dean farm, consisting of two lots of two hundred acres each, now covering that part of the Village of Deposit in Broome County, of which he was the first settler. His cattle were driven from Kortright on the Indian trail by his son Nathan L., then only ten years old, and his uncle Joshua Dean.
During that summer of 1790 he built a saw-mill, and sawed out lumber for a house into which the family moved into late in December, before the doors were finished, they used blankets and quilts in their places through the winter. It was here that Nathan and Lois had their last child, a son, Zenas K. Dean 07 Jul 1797.
On the 2nd of January 1791, while Mr. Dean was absent at Kingston, the upper portion of the mill was burned; when Mrs. Dean, with the energy which ever characterized her, employed workmen and had it rebuilt and running before her husband's return.
In 1794 Mr. Dean built a grist-mill by the side of the saw-mill, on the site which became the flouring mill of the Whitaker Brothers.
John Radeker, of Colchester, was the millwright for the grist-mill. He was a practical miller, and remained a year or two in charge of the mill. He was called Hans. At one time an old Indian came to Captain Dean's and asked to stay all night, saying he would sleep by the fire on the floor. After the family had retired the Indian crept up stairs and got into Hans' bed, and when Hans came in from the mill he had to sleep on the floor.
In January, 1796, Benjamin and Jeter Gardner brought eight loads of goods from New York by way of Carpenter's Point, from which place they drove up the river on the ice. Their store was in a building then recently erected by Captain Dean, where the Oquaga House formerly stood on Front Street, a couple blocks west of where TDS now stands; it was the first store kept in the place.
Previous to this Captain Dean had done his trading in Kingston, and to secure payment he had signed a note to one Mr. Tappan for $600. Captain Dean was a free mason. Three men of the vicinity, who were also masons, went to Kingston, and representing that they came at Dean's request, bought the note and went to Owego, the county seat of Tioga County, in which county Dean lived, and took out an execution, directing the sheriff to sell without delay. The advertisements were put up at so great a distance that none but the parties involved knew any thing of it till a short time before the day of sale, which was February 26th, 1799.
On learning of this Captain Dean hastened to Philadelphia to raise the money. The day of the sale came and Dean had not returned. In the meantime Mr. Tappan, who was a friend of Dean, hearing what was going on, came in order to prevent the sale. Other prominent men from other places, who were all friends of Dean, also attended, and the sheriff postponed the sale to the 5th of March, on which day, Mr. Dean still had not returned. So on that day, David Hotchkiss, Judge Harper, Major Stow, Captain Buel, Elijah Smith and William MacClure, of the then town of Chenango, now Windsor; Elijah and Asa Stowell, of Bainbridge, and other prominent men attended. Through their aid all the personal property was bid in by the daughter, Catharine (who afterward married James P. Aplington), and Mr. Tappan bid in the real estate for $1,650, to the great disappointment of the Masonic trio.
Mr. Dean was taken sick at Easton, Northampton Co, PA, on his return and died there on 03 Mar 1799, two days before the sale, as it was learned some weeks after. By the advice of David Hotchkiss, William MacClure and others the widow applied to the Legislature for aid, and the sale was set aside and commissioners appointed to sell the farm and settle with the creditors. This was eventually done, and the widow was enabled to buy in and keep the northerly two hundred acres, on which the Broome county part of the village chiefly stands.
Although Mr. Dean died and was buried in Easton, PA, there is a shared marker for him and his wife in Pine Grove Cemetery. Lois Dean died 22 Jul 1841 on the family farm in Sanford, Broome Co, NY aged 86 Years and 4 Days.
Mrs. Dean was a religious woman and brought up her family well, and they all became useful and respectable members of the community; Catherine Marie married Mr James Page Aplington, II, the son of James P. Aplington, Sr and Beulah Turner. James and Catherine raised seven children, and they were charter member of the First Baptist Church of Deposit.
Nathan L. married Miss Eunice Beebe, the daughter of David Beebe and Sarah Beech. They had two daughters and a son: Emeline and Catherine and Addison Beebe Dean. All but Catherine are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Joshua married Miss Sally Hale, the daughter of Oliver Hale and Dorcas Bennett. Sally and Joshua had two sons and a daughter: Artemas H. a lumber merchant, who married Adaline A. Ketchum and had eight children; Bradley, who was listed on the various census reports as being idiotic and/or insane, drowned or froze to death on 21 Feb 1870, his body was found in a jam of ice on 28 Mar 1870; and Jenette E. who died on 21 Aug 1839 and was the first person buried in Pine Grove Cemetery. Joshua was for many years supervisor of Sanford. This entire family is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Caleb married Miss Nancy Pine, the daughter of Daniel Pine and Anna Ogden; she was also the granddaughter of Phillip Pine, a Revolutionary Soldier featured in a previous article. Nancy and Caleb had four children: a son Allen who died in infancy and is buried in the Revolutionary Cemetery, a daughter Betsey, another son named Allen and a daughter Hannah. Caleb died on 30 Oct 1857 at the age of 66 years 8 months 23 days; he and Nancy are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Zenas K. married Mary "Polly" Peters, one of nine children born to John Peters and Elizabeth Smith. Polly and Zenas had five children: John Peters, William N., Lois L., George E. and Charles. Zenas outlived all his siblings and died the day after Christmas 1883 at the age of 86 years 5 months 19 days; Zenas, Polly and most of their children are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge Jacqueline Chamberlain, of the Koo-Koose Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution here in Deposit, for her assistance in identifying our Nathan Dean from the approximately dozen Nathan Deans in the D.A.R. and S.A.R. Rolls.
We would also like to thank the Deposit Historical Society for allowing us to photograph the portraits of Nathan Dean and his wife Lois Snow Dean and publish them with this biography. The photographs do not do the beautiful portraits justice and you should visit the museum to see the original portraits in person. They are in amazing condition and are truly fine works of art, of a quality any metropolitan museum would be proud to include in their galleries.
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Nathan Dean was born on 28 Apr 1755 in Taunton, Bristol Co, MA, the son of Joshua Dean and Abigail King.
He married Miss Lois Snow in 1778, the daughter of Jesse Snow and Lois Freeman.
Nathan and Lois had five children: Catherine Mary, Nathan L., Joshua, Caleb and Zenas K.
Nathan died in Easton, Northampton Co, PA on 03 Mar 1799 while returning home from a business trip to Philadelphia; aged 43 years 10 months 5 days.
As noted on the gravestone, Nathan is actually buried in Easton, Northampton Co, PA.
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THE DEPOSIT COURIER
WEDNESDAY, OCT 2011
CAPTAIN NATHAN DEAN
By John A. Aiello and Greggory Milk
Not all of Deposit's Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots are listed on the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) Monument, nor are they all buried in the Revolutionary War Cemetery. This is not going to thwart us from honoring them by including them in this series of articles. We are sure that had Mrs. Nancy M. Parke and the D.A.R. known of these great patriots at the time the monument was placed back in 1903 they would have surely been included.
Nathan Dean is one such patriot. A native of Taunton, Bristol Co, MA, and born on 28 Apr 1755, Mr. Dean was the son of Joshua Dean and Abigail King.
He appears with the rank of Private on the Lexington Alarm Roll of Co. F, Massachusetts Minute Men, under the command of Captain James Williams, Jr, which marched to Roxbury, Suffolk Co, MA, on 20 Apr 1775 in response to the alarm of 19 Apr 1775.
Nathan Dean became an officer in the Revolutionary War, stationed near Boston. He was referred to as Captain Dean after the war, but according to all military records we have come across; he never achieved a rank higher than Sergeant. But it was not uncommon in those days, for people to refer to a military man with standing in the community as Captain or Colonel, even if they had not attained those ranks while in the service.
On 28 Jun 1777 he married Miss Lois Snow, of Raynham, Bristol Co, MA, the daughter of Jesse Snow and Lois Freeman.
Lois and Nathan had three children in Massachusetts: Catherine Marie Dean on 13 Sep 1780; Nathan L. Dean on 04 Jul 1782; and Joshua Dean on 27 Jan 1785.
In 1790 with his wife and young family he removed to Kortright, Delaware Co, NY, where he remained until the summer of 1791, here is where Nathan and Lois had another son, Caleb Dean on 05 Feb 1791. In June of 1791, as there were no roads, he lashed two canoes together, and placing his family and goods on them, he floated them down the river to the Cook-house. Finding a log house empty, he lived in it until he could provide one for his family on the place, since known as the Dean farm, consisting of two lots of two hundred acres each, now covering that part of the Village of Deposit in Broome County, of which he was the first settler. His cattle were driven from Kortright on the Indian trail by his son Nathan L., then only ten years old, and his uncle Joshua Dean.
During that summer of 1790 he built a saw-mill, and sawed out lumber for a house into which the family moved into late in December, before the doors were finished, they used blankets and quilts in their places through the winter. It was here that Nathan and Lois had their last child, a son, Zenas K. Dean 07 Jul 1797.
On the 2nd of January 1791, while Mr. Dean was absent at Kingston, the upper portion of the mill was burned; when Mrs. Dean, with the energy which ever characterized her, employed workmen and had it rebuilt and running before her husband's return.
In 1794 Mr. Dean built a grist-mill by the side of the saw-mill, on the site which became the flouring mill of the Whitaker Brothers.
John Radeker, of Colchester, was the millwright for the grist-mill. He was a practical miller, and remained a year or two in charge of the mill. He was called Hans. At one time an old Indian came to Captain Dean's and asked to stay all night, saying he would sleep by the fire on the floor. After the family had retired the Indian crept up stairs and got into Hans' bed, and when Hans came in from the mill he had to sleep on the floor.
In January, 1796, Benjamin and Jeter Gardner brought eight loads of goods from New York by way of Carpenter's Point, from which place they drove up the river on the ice. Their store was in a building then recently erected by Captain Dean, where the Oquaga House formerly stood on Front Street, a couple blocks west of where TDS now stands; it was the first store kept in the place.
Previous to this Captain Dean had done his trading in Kingston, and to secure payment he had signed a note to one Mr. Tappan for $600. Captain Dean was a free mason. Three men of the vicinity, who were also masons, went to Kingston, and representing that they came at Dean's request, bought the note and went to Owego, the county seat of Tioga County, in which county Dean lived, and took out an execution, directing the sheriff to sell without delay. The advertisements were put up at so great a distance that none but the parties involved knew any thing of it till a short time before the day of sale, which was February 26th, 1799.
On learning of this Captain Dean hastened to Philadelphia to raise the money. The day of the sale came and Dean had not returned. In the meantime Mr. Tappan, who was a friend of Dean, hearing what was going on, came in order to prevent the sale. Other prominent men from other places, who were all friends of Dean, also attended, and the sheriff postponed the sale to the 5th of March, on which day, Mr. Dean still had not returned. So on that day, David Hotchkiss, Judge Harper, Major Stow, Captain Buel, Elijah Smith and William MacClure, of the then town of Chenango, now Windsor; Elijah and Asa Stowell, of Bainbridge, and other prominent men attended. Through their aid all the personal property was bid in by the daughter, Catharine (who afterward married James P. Aplington), and Mr. Tappan bid in the real estate for $1,650, to the great disappointment of the Masonic trio.
Mr. Dean was taken sick at Easton, Northampton Co, PA, on his return and died there on 03 Mar 1799, two days before the sale, as it was learned some weeks after. By the advice of David Hotchkiss, William MacClure and others the widow applied to the Legislature for aid, and the sale was set aside and commissioners appointed to sell the farm and settle with the creditors. This was eventually done, and the widow was enabled to buy in and keep the northerly two hundred acres, on which the Broome county part of the village chiefly stands.
Although Mr. Dean died and was buried in Easton, PA, there is a shared marker for him and his wife in Pine Grove Cemetery. Lois Dean died 22 Jul 1841 on the family farm in Sanford, Broome Co, NY aged 86 Years and 4 Days.
Mrs. Dean was a religious woman and brought up her family well, and they all became useful and respectable members of the community; Catherine Marie married Mr James Page Aplington, II, the son of James P. Aplington, Sr and Beulah Turner. James and Catherine raised seven children, and they were charter member of the First Baptist Church of Deposit.
Nathan L. married Miss Eunice Beebe, the daughter of David Beebe and Sarah Beech. They had two daughters and a son: Emeline and Catherine and Addison Beebe Dean. All but Catherine are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Joshua married Miss Sally Hale, the daughter of Oliver Hale and Dorcas Bennett. Sally and Joshua had two sons and a daughter: Artemas H. a lumber merchant, who married Adaline A. Ketchum and had eight children; Bradley, who was listed on the various census reports as being idiotic and/or insane, drowned or froze to death on 21 Feb 1870, his body was found in a jam of ice on 28 Mar 1870; and Jenette E. who died on 21 Aug 1839 and was the first person buried in Pine Grove Cemetery. Joshua was for many years supervisor of Sanford. This entire family is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Caleb married Miss Nancy Pine, the daughter of Daniel Pine and Anna Ogden; she was also the granddaughter of Phillip Pine, a Revolutionary Soldier featured in a previous article. Nancy and Caleb had four children: a son Allen who died in infancy and is buried in the Revolutionary Cemetery, a daughter Betsey, another son named Allen and a daughter Hannah. Caleb died on 30 Oct 1857 at the age of 66 years 8 months 23 days; he and Nancy are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Zenas K. married Mary "Polly" Peters, one of nine children born to John Peters and Elizabeth Smith. Polly and Zenas had five children: John Peters, William N., Lois L., George E. and Charles. Zenas outlived all his siblings and died the day after Christmas 1883 at the age of 86 years 5 months 19 days; Zenas, Polly and most of their children are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge Jacqueline Chamberlain, of the Koo-Koose Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution here in Deposit, for her assistance in identifying our Nathan Dean from the approximately dozen Nathan Deans in the D.A.R. and S.A.R. Rolls.
We would also like to thank the Deposit Historical Society for allowing us to photograph the portraits of Nathan Dean and his wife Lois Snow Dean and publish them with this biography. The photographs do not do the beautiful portraits justice and you should visit the museum to see the original portraits in person. They are in amazing condition and are truly fine works of art, of a quality any metropolitan museum would be proud to include in their galleries.
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He married Miss Lois Snow in 1778, the daughter of Jesse Snow and Lois Freeman.
Nathan and Lois had five children: Catherine Mary, Nathan L., Joshua, Caleb and Zenas K.
Nathan died in Easton, Northampton Co, PA on 03 Mar 1799 while returning home from a business trip to Philadelphia; aged 43 years 10 months 5 days.
As noted on the gravestone, Nathan is actually buried in Easton, Northampton Co, PA.
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THE DEPOSIT COURIER
WEDNESDAY, OCT 2011
CAPTAIN NATHAN DEAN
By John A. Aiello and Greggory Milk
Not all of Deposit's Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots are listed on the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) Monument, nor are they all buried in the Revolutionary War Cemetery. This is not going to thwart us from honoring them by including them in this series of articles. We are sure that had Mrs. Nancy M. Parke and the D.A.R. known of these great patriots at the time the monument was placed back in 1903 they would have surely been included.
Nathan Dean is one such patriot. A native of Taunton, Bristol Co, MA, and born on 28 Apr 1755, Mr. Dean was the son of Joshua Dean and Abigail King.
He appears with the rank of Private on the Lexington Alarm Roll of Co. F, Massachusetts Minute Men, under the command of Captain James Williams, Jr, which marched to Roxbury, Suffolk Co, MA, on 20 Apr 1775 in response to the alarm of 19 Apr 1775.
Nathan Dean became an officer in the Revolutionary War, stationed near Boston. He was referred to as Captain Dean after the war, but according to all military records we have come across; he never achieved a rank higher than Sergeant. But it was not uncommon in those days, for people to refer to a military man with standing in the community as Captain or Colonel, even if they had not attained those ranks while in the service.
On 28 Jun 1777 he married Miss Lois Snow, of Raynham, Bristol Co, MA, the daughter of Jesse Snow and Lois Freeman.
Lois and Nathan had three children in Massachusetts: Catherine Marie Dean on 13 Sep 1780; Nathan L. Dean on 04 Jul 1782; and Joshua Dean on 27 Jan 1785.
In 1790 with his wife and young family he removed to Kortright, Delaware Co, NY, where he remained until the summer of 1791, here is where Nathan and Lois had another son, Caleb Dean on 05 Feb 1791. In June of 1791, as there were no roads, he lashed two canoes together, and placing his family and goods on them, he floated them down the river to the Cook-house. Finding a log house empty, he lived in it until he could provide one for his family on the place, since known as the Dean farm, consisting of two lots of two hundred acres each, now covering that part of the Village of Deposit in Broome County, of which he was the first settler. His cattle were driven from Kortright on the Indian trail by his son Nathan L., then only ten years old, and his uncle Joshua Dean.
During that summer of 1790 he built a saw-mill, and sawed out lumber for a house into which the family moved into late in December, before the doors were finished, they used blankets and quilts in their places through the winter. It was here that Nathan and Lois had their last child, a son, Zenas K. Dean 07 Jul 1797.
On the 2nd of January 1791, while Mr. Dean was absent at Kingston, the upper portion of the mill was burned; when Mrs. Dean, with the energy which ever characterized her, employed workmen and had it rebuilt and running before her husband's return.
In 1794 Mr. Dean built a grist-mill by the side of the saw-mill, on the site which became the flouring mill of the Whitaker Brothers.
John Radeker, of Colchester, was the millwright for the grist-mill. He was a practical miller, and remained a year or two in charge of the mill. He was called Hans. At one time an old Indian came to Captain Dean's and asked to stay all night, saying he would sleep by the fire on the floor. After the family had retired the Indian crept up stairs and got into Hans' bed, and when Hans came in from the mill he had to sleep on the floor.
In January, 1796, Benjamin and Jeter Gardner brought eight loads of goods from New York by way of Carpenter's Point, from which place they drove up the river on the ice. Their store was in a building then recently erected by Captain Dean, where the Oquaga House formerly stood on Front Street, a couple blocks west of where TDS now stands; it was the first store kept in the place.
Previous to this Captain Dean had done his trading in Kingston, and to secure payment he had signed a note to one Mr. Tappan for $600. Captain Dean was a free mason. Three men of the vicinity, who were also masons, went to Kingston, and representing that they came at Dean's request, bought the note and went to Owego, the county seat of Tioga County, in which county Dean lived, and took out an execution, directing the sheriff to sell without delay. The advertisements were put up at so great a distance that none but the parties involved knew any thing of it till a short time before the day of sale, which was February 26th, 1799.
On learning of this Captain Dean hastened to Philadelphia to raise the money. The day of the sale came and Dean had not returned. In the meantime Mr. Tappan, who was a friend of Dean, hearing what was going on, came in order to prevent the sale. Other prominent men from other places, who were all friends of Dean, also attended, and the sheriff postponed the sale to the 5th of March, on which day, Mr. Dean still had not returned. So on that day, David Hotchkiss, Judge Harper, Major Stow, Captain Buel, Elijah Smith and William MacClure, of the then town of Chenango, now Windsor; Elijah and Asa Stowell, of Bainbridge, and other prominent men attended. Through their aid all the personal property was bid in by the daughter, Catharine (who afterward married James P. Aplington), and Mr. Tappan bid in the real estate for $1,650, to the great disappointment of the Masonic trio.
Mr. Dean was taken sick at Easton, Northampton Co, PA, on his return and died there on 03 Mar 1799, two days before the sale, as it was learned some weeks after. By the advice of David Hotchkiss, William MacClure and others the widow applied to the Legislature for aid, and the sale was set aside and commissioners appointed to sell the farm and settle with the creditors. This was eventually done, and the widow was enabled to buy in and keep the northerly two hundred acres, on which the Broome county part of the village chiefly stands.
Although Mr. Dean died and was buried in Easton, PA, there is a shared marker for him and his wife in Pine Grove Cemetery. Lois Dean died 22 Jul 1841 on the family farm in Sanford, Broome Co, NY aged 86 Years and 4 Days.
Mrs. Dean was a religious woman and brought up her family well, and they all became useful and respectable members of the community; Catherine Marie married Mr James Page Aplington, II, the son of James P. Aplington, Sr and Beulah Turner. James and Catherine raised seven children, and they were charter member of the First Baptist Church of Deposit.
Nathan L. married Miss Eunice Beebe, the daughter of David Beebe and Sarah Beech. They had two daughters and a son: Emeline and Catherine and Addison Beebe Dean. All but Catherine are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Joshua married Miss Sally Hale, the daughter of Oliver Hale and Dorcas Bennett. Sally and Joshua had two sons and a daughter: Artemas H. a lumber merchant, who married Adaline A. Ketchum and had eight children; Bradley, who was listed on the various census reports as being idiotic and/or insane, drowned or froze to death on 21 Feb 1870, his body was found in a jam of ice on 28 Mar 1870; and Jenette E. who died on 21 Aug 1839 and was the first person buried in Pine Grove Cemetery. Joshua was for many years supervisor of Sanford. This entire family is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Caleb married Miss Nancy Pine, the daughter of Daniel Pine and Anna Ogden; she was also the granddaughter of Phillip Pine, a Revolutionary Soldier featured in a previous article. Nancy and Caleb had four children: a son Allen who died in infancy and is buried in the Revolutionary Cemetery, a daughter Betsey, another son named Allen and a daughter Hannah. Caleb died on 30 Oct 1857 at the age of 66 years 8 months 23 days; he and Nancy are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Zenas K. married Mary "Polly" Peters, one of nine children born to John Peters and Elizabeth Smith. Polly and Zenas had five children: John Peters, William N., Lois L., George E. and Charles. Zenas outlived all his siblings and died the day after Christmas 1883 at the age of 86 years 5 months 19 days; Zenas, Polly and most of their children are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge Jacqueline Chamberlain, of the Koo-Koose Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution here in Deposit, for her assistance in identifying our Nathan Dean from the approximately dozen Nathan Deans in the D.A.R. and S.A.R. Rolls.
We would also like to thank the Deposit Historical Society for allowing us to photograph the portraits of Nathan Dean and his wife Lois Snow Dean and publish them with this biography. The photographs do not do the beautiful portraits justice and you should visit the museum to see the original portraits in person. They are in amazing condition and are truly fine works of art, of a quality any metropolitan museum would be proud to include in their galleries.
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Gravestone says he is buried in Easton, Northampton Co, PA
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