Joel Dickinson (aft. 1740)

Born after 1740 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Naomi (Allis) Dickinson — married 4 Sep 1773 in Conway, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Biography

Joel married Naomi Allis on 4 September 1773 in Conway, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay.^[1]

Captain Joel Dickinson married Huldah Strong on 11 April 1778 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States.^[2]

Research Notes

Supposedly from "The History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, Volume II. ...

Founders of Conway MA: The second settler was Josiah Boyden, of Grafton. Israel Gates, of Barre, followed, and after him John Wing, Elijah May, David Parker, James Dickinson, John Bond, Jonas Rice, John Boyden, and Joseph Catlin (who were settlers upon the "Eastern district "), ? [about 20 names later], Joel and Elias Dickinson

In the summer of 1775 the Toryism of some of the inhabitants began to manifest itself, and in July of that year it was Voted "that the town will acquiesce with what the committee have done with respect to Consider Arms, viz ., taking away his arms; also, voted they did right in clearing Messrs . Deacon Dickinson, Jona. Oaks , Sam'l and David Fields; also, in what they did in disarming James Oliver; also , that they did right in what they did Win . Galloway, Elijah Wells, Joseph Catlin, and Elias Dickinson, and that the resolves of the committee respecting Joseph Brunson and Simeon Hawks shall be put into execution, which is to commit them to gaol? August 1777, it was resolved to proceed to some measure to secure "the inimical persons called Tories," it being first voted that those who were "dangerously inimical to the American States" were Joseph Catlin, Elias Dickinson, Joseph Brunson, Elijah Wells, Elijah Billings, James Dickinson, William Billings, John Hamilton, Jonathan Oaks, Capt. Consider Arms, Ebenezer Redfield, and David Field. It was then voted "to draw a line between the Continent and Great Britain," and subsequently, "Voted that all those persons that stand on the line of the continent take up arms, and go on hand in hand with us in carrying on the war against our unnatural enemies Such we receive as friends, and all others treat as enemies. Voted the Broad alley be the line, and the South end of the meeting-house be the continent, and the North end the British side. Then moved for Trial, and found six persons to stand on the British side, viz .: Elijah Billing, Jonathan Oaks, William Billing, Joseph Catling, Joel Dickinson, and Charles Dickinson. Voted to set a guard over those Enemical persons. Voted that the town clerk immediately desire Judge Marther to issue out his warrants against those enemical persons returned to him in a list heretofore."

Sources

1. ↑ Marriage:"Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"
   citing FHL microfilm: 873740;
   FamilySearch Record: FCWP-8ZX (accessed 28 January 2023)
2. ↑ Marriage:"Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook)
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #8032433 (accessed 28 January 2023)

• History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts (Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1879) (?)
• >Vital Records of Conway, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1943), page 119