Family residing in Connecticut and Illinois.
Little is known about the Dean family, except that several members lived in and around Windam County in Killingly, Connecticut. Lucy Bond, whose 1798 letter is the earliest in the collection lived in Watertown, Connecticut and had daughter Lucy Mason. Lucy Mason had daughter, Lucretia Mason around 1785. Lucretia Mason was close to several young Bond family cousins, Hitty, Lucy, and Betsey, but the exact relationship between them is unclear. Lucretia Mason married a member of the Dean family (possibly a Phillip Dean) around 1809 and had at least two daughters, Lucretia and Hannah. Her daughter Lucretia Dean married Reverend Darius Gore around 1848 and they moved to Groveland, and later LaMoille, Illinois where he was a Congregationalist minister. The Gores had least four daughters, Mary, Carrie, Anna, and Lucretia. An uncle Ezra Dean and his wife Pamelia are also present in the collection, but again, the exact family relationship is difficult to discern.
From the description of Dean family papers, 1779-1893. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 640550319
