1. James Dean
1. Will on file at Delaware Archives: written and dated 2 Jun 1787. Proved 26 Jun 1787. Recorded in book M folio 144 1787. James living in Little Creek Hundred. Left 10 acres of land on the west side of the great road and dwelling house to wife Sarah and daughter Rebeccah during their natural lives, at their deaths to revert to son Jesse. To Jesse all lands on the east side of the great road forever.
2. Biog. Dir. of Kent Co., DE (This document can be read at http://www.mitsawokett.com/HeiteReport1.htm#Biographical DirectoryDEAN, JAMES (d.c. 1790) Married to Sarah HEWES, dau. of Isabel HEWES; brother-in-law of John HEWES and John DURHAM, Sr., (d.1788). He appears in Kent Co. tax lists in 1755. Bought land from Jeremiah REES of Little Creek Hd. In estate accounts of neighbor Samuel WHITMAN in 1783. Wrote will in 1787 in a very shaky hand. Died sometime before 1793. Will mentions wife Sarah HEWES and daughters Rebecca and Keziah DEAN, also son Jesse DEAN.
James Dean (before 1740 - 1787) appears on the Kent County tax list by 1755. He bought land from Jeremiah Rees of Little Creek Hundred. He married Sarah Hewes, daughter of Isabel Hewes, who died in 1757. In the 1782 state census he was shown without racial designation. He appears in the estate accounts of neighbor Samuel Whitman in 1783. He wrote his will in 1787 and signed with a very shaky hand. His wife, Sarah, and his daughter, Rebecca, were to share the house by the great road, and his son Jesse was to receive land on the east side of the road. Jesse was to receive the property after the death of his wife and daughter. There was also a daughter Keziah.
3. James Dean (before 1775 - ) appears in the 1798 tax list with three acres in Little Creek Hundred. In the 1820 census he is in Duck Creek Hundred as a head of household.
4. Probate Index, Kent County, Del.DEAN/DEANE/DEEN
Dean, David 1828-1831
Dean, Edward Kemp 1912
Deane, Eliza A. 1888-1892
Deane, Ida H. 1903
Dean, James 1720
Dean, James 1787-1800
Dean, Jessie 1839-1840
Dean, Jessie 1843-1851
Dean, Jessie 1869
Dean, Purnell 1897-1898
Dean, Robert 1874-1876
Dean, Robert 1888-1889
Dean, Sarah 1917-1918
Dean, Saulsbury 1864
Dean, Thomas 1769-1770
Dean, Thomas 1810
Dean, William 1905
1. Will of Isabel Hewes, c 1739: mentions daughter Sarah Hewes. Final administration report mentions Sarah, wife of James Dean, formerly known as Sarah Hewes.
2. Biographical Directory of Kent County, DE
This document can be read at http://www.mitsawokett.com/HeiteReport1.htm#Biographical DirectoryDEAN, SARAH HEWES. Sarah was mentioned in the will of her mother Isabel HEWES in 1757. Sarah married James DEAN after 1757 and is mentioned in James's will in 1787. She and daughter Rebecca retained the family home for use during their lifetime, the property then to revert to her son, Jesse DEAN, Sr.
1. Will of Jesse Dean, written 5 Dec 1839, probated 17 Dec 1839.
2. Biog. Dir. of Kent Co., DE
This document can be read at http://www.mitsawokett.com/HeiteReport1.htm#Biographical DirectoryDEAN , REBECCA. Daughter of James and Sarah HEWES Dean, mentioned in James's will in 1787 when she and her mother were granted the main family house for use during their lifetimes.
4. Keziah Dean
1. Will of Jesse Dean, written 5 Dec 1839, probated 17 Dec 1839.
2. Biog. Dir. of Kent Co., DE
This document can be read at http://www.mitsawokett.com/HeiteReport1.htm#Biographical DirectoryDEAN , KEZIAH. Daughter of James and Sarah HEWES Dean, mentioned in James's will in 1787.