Sgt. Obadiah Dickinson

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    The History of the Town Whately, Mass. 1661 - 1899, by James M. Crafts, published by D.L. Crandall, Mann's Bloch, Orange, Mass. 1899.

   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 Deerfield, Volume II, by George Sheldon, Published by E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, MA, 1896.

NOTES (1) History of Deerfield, by George Sheldon, Published by E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, MA, 1896. p. 144 & 202 . of Hatfield, Mass. in the attach of Ashpelon, September 19, 1677, his house was burned, his wife wounded and himself and one child were taken and carried to Canada; soon after his return he removed to Wethersfield, where he died June 10, 1698.

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. His house was burnt, and he and child carried in 1677 to Canada. He returned the next year, and removed from Hatfield to Wethersfield, where he died.

Descendents of Nathaniel Dickinson, Compiled by Addie M. Dickinson and The Dickinson Association with Merton F. Dickson, President, Private Printing, 1955. p. 193. Obadiah was a resident of Hartford, Mass. On Sept. 19, 1677, their house was burned by the Indians, Sarah was wounded, and Obadiah and one child taken prisoners and carried to Canada. on his returnee, he settled in Stratford as church records show that Obadiah and his wife were admitted to the Stratford church on Feb. 20, 1680. The church records in Middletown, Conn., state that when his son Noahiah was baptized, Obadiah was in full communion in the church at Stratford. He took up land in Wethersfield about 1679, but did not actually settle there until some time later. In 1693, he received land in the Newington grant. His will which is on file in Harvard, bears the Dickinson coat-of arms.

GEDCOM Note

Biography ==In March 1677 his house was burned by Indians and he was wounded (andhis wife died). With his children he was taken to Canada, but escaped.

: m1. Sarah Beardsley
: m2. Mehitable Hinsdale

Name

: Odediah Dickinson

Military Service

::: September 09, 1677, Captain Train Band, Hadley.

Sources

<references />* Leach, Josiah Granville. Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton (Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894) Page 136

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