Dickinson Family

Generation 1

Gabriel Dickinson died c7 February 1569/70, the day he was buried at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England.  Perhaps he was the father of the following children:

1.  Waters Dickinson

2.  Henry Dickinson

3.  Thomas Dickison

Generation No. 2

Waters Dickinson was born c1530 at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England and
died c9 April 1591, the day he was buried at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England.  He married Alice, surname unknown.  They had the following children:

1.  Edward Dickinson

2.  William Dickinson 3.  John Dickinson

Generation 3

John Dickinson was baptised 4 December 1564 at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England and was buried 19 April 1637 at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England.  He married Elizabeth, surname unknown.  They had the following children:

1.  John Dickinson

2.  Nathaniel Dickinson 3.  Joseph Dickinson 4.  Elizabeth Dickinson

Generation 4

Nathaniel Dickinson, Sr. was baptised 3 May 1601 at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England and died 16 June 1676 at Hadley, Hampshire, MA. He married Anne, surname unknown, 27 November 1623 at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England. This marriage has been reported as having occurred at East Bergholt, Suffolk, England but, according to Stott, record of this marriage is not found in the records of East Bergholt as they begin in 1653 and the bishop's transcripts begin in 1685.  Anne was born in England and died between 1671 - 1676 in Massachusetts. She had married first c1620 to John Gull in England.  John Gull was the son of Elizabeth Dickinson, grandson of Thomas Dickinson and great-grandson of Gabriel Dickinson, Generation 1 on this page.  He was baptised 26 August 1599 at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England and was buried 8 July 1621 at Billinborough, Lincolnshire, England.  Nathaniel and Anne resided in Wethersfield, CT 1635-1659. In 1659, following a religious dispute in the Hartford, CT area, they settled with a group at Hadley, MA and Nathaniel was one of the founders of the town. Nathaniel Dickinson, Sr. was buried in Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, MA. His original stone was lost but a memorial boulder has been placed near the grave of his son Nehemiah.

Child of Anne and John Gull:

  1. William Gull
Children of Anne and Nathaniel Dickinson, Sr.:

1.  Sgt. John Dickinson

2.  Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr. 3.  Elizabeth Dickinson 4.  Joseph Dickinson 5.  Thomas Dickinson 6.  Samuel Dickinson 7.  Hannah Dickinson 8.  Samuel Dickinson 9.  Sgt. Obadiah Dickinson 10.  Lt. Nehemiah Dickinson 11.  Hezekiah Dickinson 12.  Azariah Dickinson

Generation 5

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. They had the following children:
  1. Nehemiah Dickinson, Jr.
  2. William Dickinson
  3. John Dickinson
  4. John Dickinson (twin)
  5. Mary Dickinson (twin)
  6. Sarah Dickinson
  7. Samuel Dickinson
  8. Hannah Dickinson
  9. Esther Dickinson
  10. Nathaniel Dickinson
  11. Israel Dickinson
  12. Abigail Dickinson
  13. Ebenezer Dickinson
  14. Rebecca Dickinson

Generation 6

Nehemiah Dickinson, Jr. was born 5 June 1672 at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA and died 1 October 1715 in the part of Hadley that is now South Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. He married Mehitable Church before 1701 in Massachusetts. She was born 11 January 1671/2 at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA and died 25 September 1748 in the part of Hadley that is now South Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. For further information on her ancestry see the Church Family. They had the following children:
  1. Mary Dickinson
  2. Nehemiah Dickinson III
  3. Mehitable Dickinson
  4. Hannah Dickinson
  5. Sarah Dickinson
  6. Daniel Dickinson
  7. John Dickinson

Generation 7

Nehemiah Dickinson III was born 6 November 1702 at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA and died 20 March 1776 at Granby?, Hampshire Co., MA. He married Mary Moody 4 June 1730. She was born 28 December 1705 at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA and died 15 November 1787 at Granby, Hampshire Co., MA. For further information on her ancestry see the Moody Family. They had the following children:
  1. Nehemiah Dickinson IV
  2. Mary Dickinson
  3. Joseph Dickinson
  4. Azubah Dickinson
  5. Joseph Dickinson
  6. Editha Dickinson
  7. Mehitable Dickinson
  8. Mehitable Dickinson
  9. Mary Dickinson

Generation 8

Joseph Dickinson was born 15 December 1738 in the part of Hadley that is now Granby, Hampshire Co., MA and died 2 November 1817 at Granby, Hampshire Co., MA. He was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. He married Susannah Church 13 April 1769. She was born 14 July 1745 and died 8 February 1837 at Granby, Hampshire Co., MA. For further information on her ancestry see the Church Family. They both were buried in the West (Old) Cemetery, Granby, Hampshire Co., MA. They had the following children:
  1. Mary Dickinson
  2. Sarah Dickinson
  3. Azubah Dickinson
  4. Joseph Dickinson
  5. Zenas Dickinson
  6. Levi Dickinson
  7. Amelia Dickinson
  8. Asa Dickinson

Generation 9

Zenas Dickinson was born 8 October 1778 near Granby, Hampshire Co., MA and died 19 November 1859 at Ottawa or Utica, LaSalle Co., MA. He married Mehtible Clark in Massachusetts. She was born 12 November 1789 in MA and died 9 Aug 1846 in IL. For further information on her ancestry see the Clark Family. They removed in 1836 from Granby, MA to Illinois. Both were buried in Ottawa, LaSalle Co., IL. They had the following children:
  1. Caroline Dickinson
  2. Samuel Church Dickinson
  3. Samantha Dickinson
  4. Amelia Dickinson
  5. Zenas Clark Dickinson
  6. Olive Dickinson
  7. Susannah Dickinson
  8. Margaret Dickinson

Generation 10

Zenas Clark Dickinson was born 18 February 1818 near Granby, Hampshire Co., MA and died 1901 at Utica, LaSalle Co., IL. His occupation was Farmer. He moved with his parents from Granby, MA to Illinois in 1836. He married Harriet Donaldson in 1851 at Utica, LaSalle Co., IL. She was born 11 August 1834 at Rochester, Monroe Co., NY and died September 1909 at Utica, LaSalle Co., IL. For further information on her ancestry see the Donaldson Family. About 1890 Clark and Harriet Dickinson moved from their farm into Utica, IL. They had the following children:
  1. Mary Frances Dickinson
  2. Amelia Dickinson
  3. Harriet E. Dickinson
  4. Zenas Clark Dickinson, Jr.
  5. James Dickinson
  6. William W. Dickinson
  7. John J. Dickinson
  8. Samuel Charles Dickinson
  9. Mabel M. Dickinson

Generation 11

Mary Frances Dickinson was born 22 December 1852 at Utica, LaSalle Co., IL and died 14 December 1937. She married James Thurston Lowers 9 March 1881 in Illinois. He was born 18 January 1857 in NY and died 5 June 1947 at Havana, Mason Co., IL. For further information see the Lowers Family. They had the following children:
  1. James Donaldson Lowers
  2. Harry Thurston Lowers
  3. Earle Dickinson Lowers

Sources

Descendants of Nathaniel Dickinson by Elinor V. Smith, Dickinson Family Association, 1978

Dickinson Family Association 1994 Annual Report

1900 Census, LaSalle Co., IL, Dist. 89, Sheet 6

Interview with Alice Lowers Clore by Cathleen Clore Frost, supplemented with notes

Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century 1915-1975 by Mary Louise M. Hutton,Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1991

New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1985

Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England by John Farmer, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994

History of Hadley, Massachusetts by Sylvester Judd, Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1993 ed (including Family Genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood)

To the Descendants of Thomas Dickinson, son of Nathaniel Dickinson and Anna Gull Dickinson of Wethersfield, Connecticut and Hadley, Massachusetts by Frederick Dickinson, 1897

Obituary of Mino C. Lowers in the Fargo (ND) Forum, 2 November 1989

Obituary of Orville P. Haisley

Dickinson Cemetery Tour by Joanne and William Wheeler, Dickinson Family Association, 1995

The Zenas and Nellie Dickinson Story by Zenas Clark Dickinson et.al., Privately Printed, 1970

Cemetery visitation, Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, MA by Cathleen Clore Frost, April 1996

Cemetery visitation, West (Old) Cemetery, Granby, MA by Cathleen Clore Frost, April 1996

Obituary of Amy Dickinson Worthley

"The Correct English Origins of Nathaniel Dickinson and William Gull, Settlers of Wethersfield
and Hadley," by Cifford L. Stott in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1998, p 162-174 - **** The lastest research, a must read as it disproves previously published ancestry!

E-mail correspondence from Phil Burnett , 15 July 1999, Re: Jonathan Burnet Family.

History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, Volume 2 - Genealogies and Biographies by Henry R. Stiles, Grafton Press, New York 1904.

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