Person:David Deming (4)

As his father had before him, David Deming spent his entire life in Wethersfield. The Indians remained a concern during his early years but the anxiety they caused had gradually receded by the time he was married in 1725.

    His wife Martha Russell, also a lifelong resident of Wethersfield, was the daughter of Sergeant John Russell and his wife Martha Graves. David and Martha were married in 1725 and became the parents of a prodigious family of twelve children over the next 22 years. Two of their sons moved to Sandisfield, Massachusetts; another son helped establish a nearby community in western Massachusetts.
    David is referred to in the family pedigree as Lieutenant David Deming but the connotation of that military title is unknown, perhaps a ranking in a defense militia in Connecticut. One researcher notes that he served in John Patterson's Company, 1st Regiment in 1761 and 1762 during the last of the French and Indian Wars, which had gone on periodically since 1689 between the British and French and their Indian allies. Although possible, this seems questionable as he would have been in his mid-sixties then. The person referred to could have been a son, also named David, who at one point was a Lieutenant in the local militia.
    David Deming died in 1771 at age 74, Martha in 1763 at 62. (Taken from: A Family History, by Donovan Faust)

1. ↑ A. Donovan Faust (Foust). A Family History: The Ancestors of Thomas Wilson Faust. (1997).
2. ↑ Wethersfield Vital Records, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   1:108.

   DEMING, David, s. Sam[ue]ll & Sarah, b. Dec. 29, 1696