Another notable member of that Dewey family was David Dewey & Polly Cole's grandson Melvil (via their son Joel), born 10 December 1851 in Adams Center. Melvil invented the Dewey Decimal System, founded the American Library Association, started the first library journal in America, and was an advocate of simplifying the spelling of teh ENglish language. Polly Cole's brother Joseph was my 4grt-grandfather. Learn more about this Cole family on my website http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~legends/welcome.html where you can also see a photo of Melvil. Those of you studying the Benjamin Cole family of Honeyville/Adams will be especially interested since material at the Flower Memorial Library has erroneously tagged Benjamin as a member of the Swansea, Bristol Co., Mass. family, but he was actually from the Rhode Island family that came from Boston! Thanks to David Simonds <dsimonds@erols.com> who shared his COLE research with me. David is a descendant of David Dewey & Polly Cole. -- Mark A. Wentling Washington, D.C.