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Nehemiah Dickinson

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony
Death: September 09, 1723 (80)
Hadley, Hampshire County, Province of Massachusetts
Place of Burial: 12 Cemetery Road, Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 01035, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Nathaniel Dickinson; Anne Dickinson and Mrs. Anna Gull, widow Wm Gull
Husband of Mary Dickinson
Father of Nehemiah Dickinson; Capt William Dickinson; John B. Dickinson; Mary Gaylord; Sarah Mighill and 8 others
Brother of Sgt. John Dickinson; Elizabeth Dickenson, died young; Deacon Joseph Dickenson; Thomas Dickenson; Samuel Dickenson, # 1 died young and 7 others
Half brother of William Gull

Occupation: Married: 1671 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, army lieutenant
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About Lt. Nehemiah Dickinson

Survivor of Falls Fight, King Philip's War. Fought under Capt. William Turner.



Lt. Nehemiah Dickinson was born 16 August 1643 at Wethersfield, (now in Hartford Co.), CT and died 9 September 1723 at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. He is buried at Old Hadley Cemetery and the original stone still marks his grave. He was one of the first settlers of Hadley, locating there in 1659 with his parents and siblings. In 1676 he was brought to court and fined for "wearing silk in a flaunting manner" ie wearing a red tie. He was made Coronet in the Hampshire Troop Militia in 1685 and Lieutenant in 1702. He married Mary Cowles in 1670 or 1671 at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. She was born 24 June 1654 at Farmington, (now in Hartford Co.), MA and died after 2 April 1699 probably in MA. She also married Thoms Ingersoll (c1654-) For further information on her ancestry see the Cowles Family.

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Nehemiah Dickinson b.Aug 1643 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States d.9 Sep 1723 Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Family tree▼

Parents and Siblings (edit) F. Nathaniel Dickinson 1601 - 1676 M. Ann Gull est 1605 - aft 1670/71 m. 27 Nov 1623 Sgt John Dickinson 1624 - 1676 Nathaniel Dickinson 1626/27 - 1710 Elizabeth Dickinson 1628 - 1631 Joseph Dickinson 1630 - 1675 Thomas Dickinson 1632 - 1712/13 Samuel Dickinson 1634 - bef 1638 Hannah Dickinson 1636 - 1723 Samuel Dickinson 1638 - 1711 Obediah Dickinson 1641 - 1698 Nehemiah Dickinson 1643 - 1723 Hezekiah Dickinson 1646/47 - 1707 Azariah Dickinson 1648 - 1675

Spouse and Children (edit) H. Nehemiah Dickinson 1643 - 1723 W. Mary Cowles 1654 - aft 1699 m. bef 1672

Nehemiah Dickinson, Jr. 1672 - 1715 William Dickinson 1675 - 1742 John Dickinson 1675/76 - 1675/76 Mary Dickinson 1677/78 - John Dickinson 1677/78 - Sarah Dickinson 1680 - 1712 Deacon Samuel Dickinson 1682 - 1747 Hannah Dickinson 1684 - Esther Dickinson 1686/87 - Nathaniel Dickinson 1689 - 1719 Israel Dickinson 1690/91 - 1733 Abigail Dickinson 1692/93 - Deacon Ebenezer Dickinson 1696 - ABT 1780 Rebecca Dickinson 1699 - 1726

▼References ↑ Dickinson, Nehemiah, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 2/48-9. NEHEMIAH, Hadley, br. of the preced. whose gr.stone marks his d. 1723, aged 79, by w. Sarah had Nehemiah, b. 1672; William, 1675; John, 1676, d. soon; Mary, and John, again, tw. 1678, of wh. John d. soon; Sarah, 1680; Samuel, 1682; Hannah, 1684; Esther, 1687; Nathaniel, 1689; Israel, 1691; Abigail, 1693; Ebenezer, 1696; and Rebecca, 1699. He was freem. 1690.

↑ Judd, Sylvester, and Lucius M. Boltwood. History of Hadley (Massachusetts): including the early history of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts. (Springfield, MA: H.R. Huntting & Co., 1905), Genealogies:36. 'Nehemiah [Dickinson], s. of Nathaniel, (1) freeman, 1690, d. Sept. 9, 1723, in 79th yr. M. Mary, prob. Cowles, dau. of John.'

↑ Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Wethersfield Vital Records:95 (typescript). 'Dickinson,...Nehemiah,s.Nath[an] & Ann,b.about Aug.middle,1643'


    The History of the Town Whately, Mass. 1661 - 1899, by James M. Crafts, published by D.L. Crandall, Mann's Bloch, Orange, Mass. 1899.
   LDS Ancestral File
   Genealogies of Hadley Families, Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Compiled Sylvester Judd, published in 1905. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, Maryland, 1979.
   Descendents of Nathaniel Dickinson, Compiled by Addie M. Dickinson and The Dickinson Association with Merton F. Dickson, President, Private Printing, 1955.
   History of The Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts (which originally embraced within its limits the present Towns of Montague & Leverett), by John Montague Smith, prepared by Henry W. Taft & Abbie T. Montague. Press of E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, Mass., 18
   History of Deerfield, Volume II, by George Sheldon, Published by E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, MA, 1896.

NOTES (1) Genealogies of Hadley Families, Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Compiled Sylvester Judd, published in 1905. p. 34. Freeman, 1690.

Descendents of Nathaniel Dickinson, Compiled by Addie M. Dickinson and The Dickinson Association with Merton F. Dickson, President, Private Printing, 1955. p. 263. He was an early settler of Hadley, Mass.


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Beardsley-Spouse

Puritan Great Migration

Biography ==The seventh son of Nathaniel Dickinson, the American pioneer, himself named Nathaniel Dickinson, lived in Wethersfield, Conn., and Hadley and Hatfield, Mass., being a selectman and surveyor of the latter town.He died in 1710.

Married #1 Hannah Beardsley, #2 Elizabeth (Hawks) Gillett, #3 Elizabeth (Burt) Wright.
: Christening: :: 18 March 1626/27 Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England

Sources

<references/>* The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Massachusetts, Volume 2, by BenjaminWoodbridge Dwight, page 771

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Biography

Name

: Nehemiah Dickinson

Birth

:: AUG 1643 Wethersfield, CT :: ABT 15 Aug 1643 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut :: 1643 Connecticut

Marriage

:: 1670/1 Hadley MA to Mary Cowles

Military Service

:: Lieutenant of the Train Baule.

Death

:: 9 Sep 1723 Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Sources

<references />* Leach, Josiah Granville. Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton (Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894) Page 136* "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2S8-G23 : 3 December 2014), Nehemiah Dickinson, Aug 1643; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

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Lt. Nehemiah Dickinson's Timeline

1643
August 15, 1643
Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony
1672
June 5, 1672
Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1675
May 18, 1675
Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
1676
February 14, 1676
Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
1677
January 4, 1677
Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
1679
April 19, 1679
Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
1682
August 16, 1682
Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
1684
September 6, 1684
Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, United States
1687
March 3, 1687
Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States