Philip Dickinson (1770 - 1859)

Born 22 May 1770 in Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Husband of Phoebe (Hutchinson) Dickinson — married 19 May 1791 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 15 Apr 1859 at age 88 in Fowler, Trumbull, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Philip Dickinson was born on 22 May 1770, Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut. He was married on 19 May 1791, Lebanon?, Connecticut, to Phebe Hutchinson (b. 27 April 1772, Lebanon, Connecticut; d. 10 September 1858, Fowler, Ohio), daughter of Ezra Hutchinson and Elizabeth Chapman. He was made executor In the 1807 will of his father-in-law.

Philip Dickinson appears at Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in the Censuses of 1800 (p. 180), 1810, and 1820. In the War of 1812 (apparently when the capture of Washington D.C. was eminent), Philip enlisted as a Private in Captain Stiles Company of the Marine Artillery (this fact appears on his tombstone).

He lived during the time (1816) of the "year without a summer" due to the cold summer weather caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora volcano the previous year. "On June 25, 1816, The Franklin Repository in Pennsylvania reported that snow blanketed the area. Around the same time, The Evening Post in New York described freezing temperatures and nearly a foot of snow. Farm animals in Vermont succumbed to the freezing temperatures as long-time residents said they’d never seen anything like it!" "As fall approached, the Hartford Courant noted that 1816 would go down in history because there had been frost every month of the year. European papers complained that constant rains had ruined crops and created a famine."

In 1824, he conveyed property to his son-in-law, Noah Calkins, and it was probably soon after that when he moved to join his sons Ezra and Elisha at Johnston, Trumbull County, Ohio, where he built a log house on property between their farms. He moved to Fowler, Ohio, with his son Elisha in the 1840s, and he died at the house of Elisha on 15 April 1859. Both Philip and wife Phebe were buried in the Fowler Cemetery.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=80962194

• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:39S1-6WR

• Census records.

• 1820 Census: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/843476:7734?_phsrc=rSq1013&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Phillip&gsln=Dickinson&ml_rpos=1&queryId=9c92a8d21bebad86a4d57d4d5aea244e

• https://www.fold3.com/image/307526736?terms=247,dickinson,philip

• https://www.fold3.com/page/630489404-philip-dickinson/stories

• Made executor In the 1807 will of his father-in-law: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9049/images/007629223_00312

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Cemetery Stone inscription: Philip Dickinson, War 1812, Marine Art. MDMil.

Children

1. Philip DICKINSON

2. Irena DICKINSON b: 20 Nov 1792

3. Eliza DICKINSON b: 1 May 1794

4. Nathaniel DICKINSON b: 9 Mar 1796

5. Delana W DICKINSON b: 9 May 1798

6. Ezra DICKINSON b: 26 Aug 1800

7. Martha DICKINSON b: 17 Mar 1802

8. Laura DICKINSON b: 25 May 1803

9. Amanda DICKINSON b: 16 Jul 1805

10. Elisha DICKINSON b: 29 Oct 1808 in Sharon, Litchfield, CT

11. Samuel DICKINSON b: 15 Aug 1811

12. Amelia DICKINSON b: 9 May 1814

13. Mary DICKINSON b: 22 Apr 1817 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, CT

14. William DICKINSON b: 29 Nov 1819 in Litchfield, Litchfield, CT

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