Collections > Dean Family Folders

Introduction

The Society maintains a filing drawer with information about Westmoreland founder, James Dean, and his family.

Below is a preliminary list of the folder contents. If you find an item of interest, please stop by the Historical Society Room during open hours or contact us to make other arrangements. If you do not see the records you need, feel free to ask for assistance.

Dean Family Folder List

Commemorations
James Dean Day
- Script and article
James Dean Marker
- Application materials

Genealogies
Dean Family
- Begins with James Deane of Stonington
Dean Genealogy
- Numbered genealogy that begins with Gertrude L. Morrison and includes Luke Camp Dean and James Dean
Dean Research Notes
- Possibly compiled by Ernie Norton

James Dean
Alumni List
- includes James Dean
Census
- 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830
House
- Newspaper article
Patent
- Transcript of original deed taken from History of Oneida County (Everets & Fariss, 1878
- James Dean agreement with John Morse, 1812
- James Dean agreement with John Waters, 1808
- James Dean agreement with Samuel Laird and Noah Merrill, 1807
- Philip Schuyler to Jonathan Trumball, 1780
- James Dean agreement with John Joslin, 1810
Photocopies
- From Our County and Its People regarding Dean’s Patent
- 1874 Westmoreland Map; map of Dean’s Patent)
Will
- Photocopy

Individuals
Bingham, Jonathan
- Pension file printouts from Fold3
Dean, Charlotte — Daughter of John and Lucinda
- Diary transcripts
Dean, Ellen — Daughter of John C. Dean; married Hiram James Graham
- Family history; typed obituary; transcripts of letters from 1850
Dean, Laura — Daughter of John S. Dean; married Fred Stone
- Brigham, Dean, Garratt, Jones, Judson, Richardson, Stone, and Townsend
Dean, John C. — Son of James; married Lucinda Morrison
- Title page from “The Life of Rev. Adoniram Judson”; photocopies of Dean family bible pages
- Photocopy of a letter from George White to Mr. Dean, ‘67
- Photocopy of wedding invitation; Helen to Sheldon Judson, 1884
- DAR application for a descendant of James Dean
- Photocopies from Pomroy Jones's Annals and Recollections
Dean, John L. — Son of Luke Dean
- Photocopy of obituary)
Dean, Jonathan — Brother of James Dean; married Eunice Follans Lee
- Pension file printouts
- Photocopies from Cookinham’s History of Oneida County New York
- Photocopy of will
Dean, Mary
- Transcript of diary beginning 1839
Judson, Miss
- Transcript of bible page
Judson, Nancy Dean — Married Martin Brown
- Photocopy of photograph, probably of Martin Brown
- Records of Nancy Judson Brown including transcript related to James Dean’s Northern Turnpike dividend in 1809
- An 1815 survey of a Dean lot in Hampton
- Transcript of a petition from Dean and others to the New York State Legislature, 1790, related to acquiring Oneida land for settlement
- Transcript of Gaius Dean’s 1806 will

Authored Works
Camp, Phineas, et. al. “Rescue of Judge Dean,” Poems of the Mohawk Valley (Utica: Curtiss & White, 1859). PhotocopY.
Dean, James. “Mythology of the Iroquois." Many typed copies.
Dean, John Candee. “Genealogy of the Dean Family." Photocopy.
Dean, Sidney Norton. “A New England Pioneer Among the Oneida Indians.”
Ernenwein, R. P. Letter to the Editor regarding Oneida Tribe, James Dean, etc.
Foster, Georgia. “The Old Homestead (James Dean).” 1959.
Gerlach, Don R. “Philip Schuyler and the American Revolution.” Bibliography pages.
Graham, Roderick M. “Graham Family Facts Sheet (1962).” Copy of facts sent to Helen Judson; includes photograph.
Hadcock, Dewitt C. “Early History of James Dean.” 1912.
Norton, Ernie. “Biography of James Dean.”
Norton, Ernie and Pomroy Jones. “Special Notes” and “Biography of James Dean.” Typed information regarding the Dean Family citing “Earnie” Norton and Pomroy Jones.
Taylor, Alan. The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006). Photocopies.
Tiro, Karim M.. “James Dean in Iroquoia,” New York History (October 1999), 391-422. Includes transmittal letter.
Unknown. “The Deane Family.” New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1849, pgs. 375-387.
Unknown. “Genealogy of the Dean Family.” Includes family tree.
Unknown. “Incidents in the Life of James Dean.”
Unknown. “James Dean: The Squire of Westmoreland. This appears to be a script for a talk.

Hooks Files


Past town historian Edward G. Hooks did extensive research into the Dean family. Some of his research notes are housed with the Dean Family Folders.

James Dean references in Kirkland Papers held by Hamilton College
Dean mentions in Pomroy Jones’s Annals and Recollections
Research notes in folder labeled “Dean, James” and “John and Lucinda Morrison Dean”
Excerpts from “The Roman Citizen, Sept 1840”
Letter to Mrs Murray Smith Jr, Cincinnati, regarding Stephen Webster and Rhoda Dean, 1988
Dean family tree (handwritten)
Newspaper clipping: "Early Days in Westmoreland"
Notes on James Dean property with references to Albany records
Notes on Oneida mythology from Whites's 1832 History of the State of N.Y.o
“Physicians & Surgeons Records, On Co, 1824-1887" referencing Oneida County Historical Society records
Notes on James Deane, from Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography
Notes from "A Memorial of the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Hamilton College"
Dean family history by Susan W. Struckrath, 1949.
List of letters sent to John Deane
Research notes on Dean property transactions
Transcripts of Dean famil letters also mentioning Eleazar Wheelock
Journal of Isaac Morris
Memoir of Lieut Col Tench Tilghman
Annals and Occurrences: New York City and State
From “Poems of the Mohawk Valley and on Scenes in Palestine”
Letter from J Dean to Rev Eleazar Wheelock, 1775
Gansevoort papers with information related to James Deane
Letter from Eleazar Wheelock to Much Hond Sirs, 1775
Letter from Eleazar Wheelock to Revd & dear Sir, 1775
Letter to Daughter (Miss Charlotte Dean), 1833
Letter from Eleazar Wheelock regarding James Dean, 1775
Typescripts of Mohawk Valley History, etc.
“Life of James Dean” outline

Dean-Judson Files


Photocopies from Hamilton College Archives
- Letter (original) from Benjamin Dean Merritt asking for copies of published works on Westmoreland and the Dean family (front page missing
- Gazetteers, 1813 & 1836, for Westmoreland
- Notes on Town History from Hamilton College archives file
- "Ghosts of a Famous House in Westmoreland," mentioning Jean Miskiel Smith; Mrs Foster; Miskiel children
- "Manumission Chronology for New York State," a typed summary of laws