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Margaret
Whetten Dean
Margaret Whetten/Wheaton was the second wife of reknowned Albany sailor Stewart Dean. She was born in August 1760. She was the daughter of Manhattan-based mariner William and Margaret Todd Whetton.
She
married widower Stewart Dean at the New York Dutch
church in 1787. Dean had recently returned from his
historic voyage to China and Margaret's brother was
his first mate. Stewart Dean brought his bride home
to Albany to help raise the nine-year-old daughter
from his first marriage.
These
Deans lived on the Albany waterfront where their
family continued to grow with the birth of twelve
children. As her husband continued to sail, Margaret
was named head of their third ward household on the
census of 1800. They later relocated to a large home
in Arbor Hill. They also lived in New York City and
elsewhere in New York State.
Stewart
Dean died in 1836. In the care of her children, Margaret
Whetten Dean died in Lima, New York in December 1851
at age 95.
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Notes: The
life of Margaret Whetten Dean is CAP biography
number 6870. This profile is derived chiefly from
family and community-based resources. A portrait
of Margaret appears in William Wilgus's biography.
of Dean - the principal qualitative resource for
this profile as well.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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