Harriet Dickinson

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Census 1850 Census 1870 Marriage Register OH

From Kathy Alvis Patterson, Alvispat@io2online.com Name: Harriet DICKINSON 1 2 Reference Number: 0057 Sex: F Birth: 20 NOV 1802 in Wyoming, Ontario Co NY Note: Source 236 has 20 Nov 1801. 3 4 5 Death: 26 JAN 1873 in Edgar Co IL 5 3 4 Burial: Mt Carmel IL 5 Note: They were married by David's cousin, George C Light, MG MEC, the only apparent Methodists in her family.

Two of Harriet's sons had sons named Francis Dickinson Light. Does this suggest there was a Francis Dickinson in her family? Harriet's grandfather, whom she never knew, had a brother Francis in Worcester Co MA in 1790 and 1800. Her father could have talked of this uncle.

All seven of her children who grew up and married named a daughter Harriet or Hattie.

Marriage 1 David LIGHT b: 5 SEP 1800 in Clermont Co OH Married: 6 DEC 1821 in Clermont Co OH 6 4 Text: Clermont Co OH Deeds, Liber M-2 (1836):252. This deed gives David's wife Harriet and lists him as an heir of Jacob Light, along with his brothers and sisters. Text: Harriet Dickinson was the mother of my grandmother's grandfather and a close enough relation that when I started doing genealogy in the 1960s, my grandmother could give me names and dates and tell me where Harriet had lived and was buried. Although my great-great-grandfather, Oliver Perry Light, had left a great deal of data on his father's family and on the families of both of his wife's parents, all he listed for Harriet Dickinson were the dates and places of her birth, marriage and death. This may be because part of his papers were missing. Harriet's part of the biography in History of Edgar Co IL, 1879, includes details about her family's moves: residence in NY until 1816, then Ohio. The move to OH from NY in 1816 is key. I studied all Dickinsons or variants of the name in Clermont Co OH at the time of Harriet's marriage there in 1821. There were four families in the 1820 census, when Harriet was 18: Joseph Dickson, p 26, a young man with a wife and one son under 10; William Dickson, p 27A, in the household 1 man 26-45, one girl under 10, 5 women 26-45, and one woman over 45 (the spelling Dickinson is sometimes used for this family, but in censuses it is always Dickson); Morgan Dickinson, p 28, 45+ with one son 5-10, three daughters 10-26, and a wife 26-45; and David Dickinson, p 32, who had three sons and 5 daughters (or 4 daughters and a daughter-in-law). It seemed that David was the most likely of the four?with Morgan Dickinson being the only other real possibility. William Dickinson was in Clermont Co as early as 1802, so he was doubly eliminated, since Harriet's family came in 1816, per her published biography. I also found a deed that David Dickinson bought land in New Richmond in 1819. There were no other Dickinson families in Clermont Co through at least 1840, except Peter Dickinson, a free black in 1830. Cemetery records show that Morgan Dickinson Jr (1805-1892) was buried in Hamlet OH; his Clermont Co will mentions by name his 25 nieces and nephews as next of kin, with surnames Hare (5), Fagin (12), Dolin (1), Widmeyer (1), Herget (1), and Porvin (1) and his deceased sisters Mathilda Hare and Minerva Fagin. Not mentioning the third sister indicates that she died without issue. Her children would have to have been named in the will, otherwise the will has untrue statements sworn to be true. Harriet Light was not the sister of Morgan Dickinson. Also, there was no Morgan Dickinson (any spelling) in NY in 1800 or 1810. David Dickinson's family was closer in the county to the Light family than was Morgan Dickin-son's family. David Dickinson made four deeds giving land to his unmarried children in 1832, in which he mentioned without giving last names Nancy and Harriet and also Jacob Light, who was Harriet's father-in-law, and D Light, her husband. Jacob and David Light's land, as well as Harriet's, adjoined David Dickin-son's. Copies of all four deeds are included here. David Dickinson and four members of the Light family, Jacob (Harriet's father-in-law), Daniel, John and George C (a cousin who married Harriet and David Light), were in Ohio Township of Clermont Co in the 1826 tax list. Members of David Dickinson's family and Lights are buried in several of the same cemeteries in Ohio Township. David's family may be assumed to be: Charles, abt 1798, m 1819, 1828 [Harriet's first son was named Charles Dickinson Light.] daughter, 1794/1800, poss m in NY Harriet, b 1802 NY, m 1821 David W, b 1805 NY, m 1833 Nancy, b 1804/10, m bef 1832. Possibly the same Nancy who m 1840 David Kirghan (may be a cousin from Steuben Co NY, see below), or this is more likely a granddaughter Mary Ann, b 1804/10, m 1826 Reuben S Searl (connected with the Gilbert family, see below) Jane, ca 1810 William F, b 1815/20 Elizabeth, ca 1820, m 1842 Samuel Gwynn

This family agrees with his known census record: 1800: Ontario Co NY, David Dickinson, p 322: 10010-10100 1810, Steuben Co NY, David Dickerson, p 64: 21110-31010 (unknown man 16-26) 1820, Clermont Co OH David Dickeson, p 32: 110101-12201-03 1830, Clermont Co OH David Dickison, p 214: 00011?/00021001 (The father is missing from this record, but was still alive.) also Charles Dickinson, p 212: 10001?/02001? 1840, Clermont Co OH Charles Dickinson, p 117: 0010001?/00111? David Dickinson [Jr], p 221: 0001001?/20001? It was by comparing the 1820 census with 1810 NY censuses that I was first able to locate David Dickinson in Steuben Co. As soon as I located the Steuben Co deeds enclosed here, I knew it was the same David who moved to Clermont Co, that his wife's name was Anna, probable data on her brother and sisters, and that her father was probably Elisha Gilbert. At no time in his adult life was David Dickinson living in proximity with any other Dickinsons, who might have been his relatives; this is especially significant in ruling out the possibility that Harriet was, for example, a niece. This has also been a hindrance in trying to determine David's parentage. Kathy Patterson, 1997 Text: 'My Early Light Research': copies of letters Ethel Armstrong allowed me to copy in 1966. Letter from Evelyn (Light) Eichor to her sister Ethel Armstrong, 30 Jan 1930; letter from Beulah (Light) Carmack to 'Cousin' Urma Yontz, 12 Feb 1961. Text: History of Edgar County, Illinois. Wm. LeBaron Co, 1879, 687. Text: Light tombstone, Mt Carmel Cemetery, Edgar Co IL, visited and photographed by Art and Evelynne Alvis. Mt Carmel Cemetery, Brouillets Twp, Edgar Co IL, 6 pages copied 1959, indexed and retyped 1973, Light File. David and Harriet are on page 4, as well as their sons Samuel H, William W, their wives, the first wife of son Reuben S, many of their families and a son of Benjamin Franklin Light. Text: Clermont County Marriage Book 2:018, published on page 133 of Marriage Records, 1800-1850. Also pages 133 and others.