1. Walter¹ Deane #1596 was born in Chard, England about 1615.⁽³⁸⁶⁾

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. DEANE Family The name Den or Dene, which is the ancient way of spelling what is now written Deane, makes its appearance in England son after the introduction of surnames. John and Walter Deane, who are the progenitors of many of those now bearing he name DEANE and DEAN in the United States, came to this country about 1637. After stopping in Boston a year they settled at Taunton, Massachusetts. It has been a tradition in the family that John and Walter Deane came from Taunton, England, but an authority states that they were from Chard near Taunton. Another tradition is that a younger brother of theirs came to this country after them and settled in Connecticut, and that from him. Hon. Silas Deane, of Connecticut, descended. (This is the line of the Deanes of Catskill, New York). There was a Thomas Deane in Connecticut in 1643 who possibly may have been the brother referred to. (See Hinman "First Puritan Settlers" p.21). The earliest ancestor of Hon. Silas Deane who is probably the most prominent public character of the Deane family, is his great grandfather, James Deane, of Stonington, Connecticut, who may have been a son of Thomas Deane, the emigrant, 1643, to whom Hinman refers. There is, however, abundant evidence that James Deane, of Stonington, was a son of Walter Deane, of Taunton, Massachusetts. This evidence is so convincing that Arthur D. Dean, compiler of a history of the descendants of Ezra Dean, of Plainfield, Connecticut, so places him in that work. (1)Walter Deane was born I Chard, England, between 1615 and 1620. He took the freeman's oath in Massachusetts, December 4, 1638. He settled in Taunton, Massachusetts, was deputy 1640, and a selectman of Taunton 1679-86. He was by trade a farmer. He married Eleanor, daughter of Richard Strong, of Taunton, England. Children: Joseph, Ezra, Benjamin, James, perhaps two others.

Walter Deane and Eleanor Cogan had the following children:

+ 2 i. James² Deane.

3 ii. Joseph Deane #1612.⁽³⁸⁸⁾

4 iii. Ezra Deane #1613.⁽³⁸⁹⁾

5 iv. Benjamin Deane #1614.⁽³⁹⁰⁾

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