Samuel Dickinson UE (abt. 1735 - bef. 1807)

Born about 1735 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York

Ancestors

Died before 23 Mar 1807 before about age 72 in Waterborough, Queens, New Brunswick

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Samuel Dickinson was a United Empire Loyalist.
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Biography

Samuel Dickinson was born in Oyster Bay, New York. About 20 years before the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Samuel obtained 396 acres of land in Fredericksburg on lease for life from Col. Roger Morris. Samuel served as clerk of the South Precinct of Dutchess County in 1763 and was an officer in the militia.

Samuel Dickinson refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to New York on October 1, 1778. To avoid being taken as a prisoner to Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Samuel crossed over to the British lines at Frog's Neck in June 1779. His estate was forfeited. In the fall of 1783, a report on the Loyalists included Captain Samuel Dickinson's company of 25 men, 10 women, 25 children over 10 & 13 children under 10, and 2 servants.^[1]

Samuel received land grants in the new province of New Brunswick. He was one of 55 prominent and wealthy Loyalists who penned a letter to Governor Carleton requesting favour in allocation of land, an act which caused some dissent among loyalist ranks.^[2][3] He had land in Bellisle Bay and as well in Gagetown. Samuel seems to have been a land speculator and merchant.

Capt. Samuel Dickinson's name appears on a list of people that Gilfred Studhome purchased lumber from in March 1784, on behalf of His excellency Governor Parr for the use of the Royal Refugees settling on the Saint John River. David G. Bell in his Early Loyalist of Saint John shows that Samuel Dickinson & his brother Gilbert Dickinson came to Saint John in October of 1783 on the ship called the Mercury. He was shown to have two females and one servant in his group. http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Ships/Fleets-NY-NB.pdf

Samuel was elected a member of New Brunswick's First Legislative Assembly in 1785, serving from 1786-1790 as a member for Queens County. He did not serve in subsequent legislatures. In 1792, he was a magistrate.

He passed away in 1806-1807. His will was probated in April of 1807.^[4]

The 3rd day of January, 1786, the first Session of the Legislature met at the Mallard House. Members Elected:

Saint John: William Pagan, Jonathan Bliss, Christo])hcr Billoj), Ward Chipman, Joiin McGeorge, Stanton Hazard.

York: Daniel Murray, Isaac Atwood, Daniel Lyman, Edward Stelle.

Westmorland: .Vmos Botsford, Charles Dixon, Samuel Gay, Andrew Kinnear.

King's: John Coffin, Ebcnezer Foster.

Queen's: Samuel Dickinson, John Yeomans.

Charlotte: William Paine, James Campbell, Robert Pagan, Peter Clinch.

Northumherland : Elias Hardy, William Davidson.

Sunhury: William Hubbard, Richard Vandeburg.

Speaker: Amos Botsford ; Clerk: William Paine.

Source

1. ↑ [Connecticut Militia Roll], Lists Samuel Dickinson as a deserter.
2. ↑ New York Loyalists' Memorial, Wallace Hale Collection, Public Archives of New Brunswick
3. ↑ Loyalist Record, United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
4. ↑ Probate Announcement, New Brunswick Royal Gazette, April 8, 1807. Transcribed in Johnson, Daniel Vital Statistics From New Brunswick Newspapers, Vol 1 No 821

See Also:

• White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 4: The First Five Generations of Documented Descendants Through His Fourth Child, Elizabeth(2) Howland, Wife of Ephraim Hicks and Capt. John Dickinson, Picton Press, Camden, Maine, 2008, pp. 101-105, 187.

• Samuel Dickinson represented Queens District in the List of members of the First New Brunswick Legislative Assembly between January 3, 1786 and 1792.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_New_Brunswick_Legislature

• Ships List (Jane & John) - Militia Company - Led by Samuel Dickinson
• http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Ships/John-Jane.php

• Tax List Philipse Patent 1777
• https://archive.org/details/historicalgeneal01oxfo/page/84/mode/1up?view=theater

• Military record
• https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/loyalists/loyalists-british-soldiers-1722-1784/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=16834&

• Historical Records of Dutchess & Putnam Counties (Page 100)
• https://archive.org/details/historicalgeneal01oxfo/page/n6/mode/1up?view=theater

• http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nbqueens/land.htm

• https://archive.org/details/footprintsorinci00lawriala/page/67/mode/1up?view=theater