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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.
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