By his first wife, Mary Yerks, he had three sons, William, Stephen and John. Wiliam died in Canada in the Cafnpaign of 1775. He was buried on the Plains of Abraham in a deep drift of snow. His watch, fob, and quaintly cut silver sleeve-buttons, were brought home by bis brother John, -- sad mementoes which are still preserved in the family. John had accompanied William on this most disastrous march upon Quebec, and had returned ill and suffering, distressed beyond measure

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by the fate of his brave elder brother. Stephen, second son of Thomas who had remained on the paternal farm, died unmarried in 1782. Of the daughters of Isaac Dean, Mary married John Steymets, Margaret, David Concklin, and Eimey, Captain Glode Requa.

The earliest record of the family on the Philipse Manor is the appointment of Isaac Dean as one of the Road Commissioners, 1757, which office he held continously uutilji77i. Isaac Dean was also Assessor in 1760. Samuel Dean's ear mark is recorded in the old Manor book date of Dec. 10, 1758, the record of Isaac Dean's mark being Dec. 25, 1761. The following document, with the autograph of Frederick Philips attached, is preserved among the Dean papers :

Received, this 26th, day of December, 1769, from Isaac Dean, Esq., one of the tenants on the Manor of Philipsburg, the sum of six pounds four and sixpence, for one year's rent due the day7 and date above ; by me