Capt Peter Dickerson

• BIRTH 27 May 1725 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, USA
• DEATH 10 May 1780 (aged 54)
• BURIAL First Presbyterian Churchyard, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA, MEMORIAL ID 12187075, Photos by P. Reilly & Bonnie1man, Contributed by Dan Silva

He ran a tavern on the corner of Spring and Water Streets in Morristown; this was the site of Benedict Arnold's trial.

Inscription "Member of the First Provincial Congress of N. J. in the year 1775, afterwards Captain of the 2nd Co, 3rd Regt. of the Jersey Brigade of the Revolutionary Army. He was born in Southold, Long Island in the year 1724, removed to Morris County, New Jersey with three brothers Thomas, Joshua, and Daniel, and a sister Elizabeth about the year 1745. Died in the 56th year of his age."

Parents
Thomas Dickerson 1671–1724
Abigail Reeves Dickerson 1686–1737

Spouse
Ruth Coe Dickerson 1728–1763
Sarah (Armstrong) O'Hara m. 1763

Siblings
Elizabeth Dickerson Wager 1722–1821
Peter Dickerson, b. 1725, Southold, Long Island, NY; d. 5/10/1780, Roxbury Twsp., Morris Co., NJ; 1st m. Ruth Coe, 10/20/1745, ,Morris Co., NJ; 2nd m. Sarah O'Harra Armstrong, 11/7/1763.

Children
John Dickerson unknown–1828
Jonathan Dickerson 1747–1805
Esther Dickerson Drake 1757–1819

Descendants of Henry Dickerson