19. Zephaniah⁶ Dean (Silas⁵ Deane, Silas⁴ Dean, John³ Deane, James², Walter¹) #1479 birth date unknown.

The following is unedited from: REYNOLDS, Cuyler editor Hudson-Mowhawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs which is a four volume work published in 1911 in New York by Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Zephaniah, son of Hon. Silas (2) Deane, settled first in Pennsylvania, where he owned a large farm of four hundred acres. This he sold to a syndicate who later opened upon it one of the first coal mines. Other members of his wife's family (Abbott), holding smaller areas of land, leased their coal lands on a royalty that made them very wealthy. After selling his Pennsylvania lands he settled in New York on the shores of Lake Skaneateles on a farm, now the site of a large paper making plant. He later settled in Coxsackie, Greene County, New York, and still later in Connecticut, where he died. He married Catherine Abbott, of Brooklyn, New York. They had sons Zephaniah and Silas.

Zephaniah Dean and Catherine Abbott had the following children:

21 i. Zephaniah⁷ Dean #1636.⁽⁴⁰⁹⁾

+ 22 ii. Silas Dean was born July 24, 1798.⁽⁴¹⁰⁾

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