MEHITABEL HINSDALE' (Samuel' Robert1), daughter of Samuel Hinsdale and Mehitabel Johnson, his wife, born at Medfield, October 18, 1663; married Sergeant Obadiah Dickinson, born at Wethersfield, Conn., April 15, 1641, and died there June 10, 1698; the sixth child of Nathaniel and Anna Dickinson. His house was burned by the Indians September 19, 1677, his wife wounded, and he and one child were captured and taken to Canada, whence he returned the next year. Their home was at Hatfield, Mass. The renowned Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, the First President of Princeton College, was a nephew of Obadiah Dickinson.

Children:

1. SARAH.
2. NOADIAH, born at Wethersfield, Conn., Aug. 2, 1694.
3. MEHITABEL, born at Wethersfield, June 16,1696; married

Nathaniel Frary.

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