Nehemiah Dickinson (1643 - 1723)

Born 15 Aug 1643 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Cowles) Dickinson — married 1672 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 9 Sep 1723 at age 80 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts

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Biography

Lt. Nehemiah Dickinson was born on 15 Aug 1643 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut to parents Nathaniel Dickinson and Anna Bincks. His parents were part of the "removers" in the Wethersfield church controversy over the half-way covenant and the congregation's dismissal of Rev. John Russell and left the Wethersfield church in 1655. ^[1]

He married Mary Cowles in 1672 in Hadley, Massachusetts. Children: Nehemiah, William, John, John, Mary, Sarah, Samuel, Hannah, Esther, Nathaniel, Israel, Abigail, Ebenezer, Rebecca.

Nehemiah spent the rest of his life in Hadley. As a lieutenant in the Hadley militia, he was involved in the conflicts between the native people and the colonists who occupied the fertile lands along the Connecticut River in the 1670s-early 1700s. ^[2]

He died on 9 Sep 1723 in Hadley, Massachusetts.

Research note: Many details of the lives of Wethersfield and Hadley Dickinson early generations are available on pages 475-488 of the Judd reference cited below. The genealogy was prepared by Lucius Boltwood.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Dickinson_(pioneer)
2. ↑ Judd, Sylvester. History of Hadley: Including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts. Northampton, MA: Metcalf and Company, Metcalf, 1863. Pages 98, 172, 199 and 278. https://books.google.com/books?id=1q3RY7ns5-8C

• Massachusetts Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1679, Hatfield, MA; 1690, Freeman, MA

• Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

• North America Family Histories, Marsh genealogy giving several thousand descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, p 307, 308

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

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2S8-G23 : 3 December 2014), Nehemiah Dickinson, Aug 1643; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

• New England Marriages prior to 1700

• New England Historical and Genealogical Register

• American Genealogical Biographical Index, Vol 43, p 398

• Burial Record