Samuel Dickey (abt. 1711)

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Samuel Dickey was doubtless the eldest of William Dickey's children who came to this country. Although the date of his birth has not been preserved, circumstance go to show that he was well advanced toward manhood, and had possibly reached the age of 21 when he first saw the hills of Londonderry (New Hampshire). In 1732 he married Martha Taylor, who died Oct. 15, 1775, aged 71, who was the mother of all his children. He settled on a farm in Londonderry that had been laid out six years before to Gov. Wentworth. It was located on the southerly side of "Moose hill," and the choice of this spot showed his superior judgment, as it was, for beauty of situation and fertility of soil, equal to any in all that region, if not superior. The farm has ever since been will tilled, and is now in the possession of his descendants.

"He was distinguished for his Herculean strength, it being equal to that of two ordinary men." His great physical ability evidently gave him a taste for pioneer life, where he could wield heavy blows and have the satisfaction of noting great changes in a comparatively short space of time. To gratify this propensity, subduing the native forest and bringing his large farm to a good state of productiveness, he disposed of his real estate in Londonderry to his two sons, Adam and Robert. Adam's deed is dated 1764 and Robert's 1765, each coming in possession of about half the original farm.

In 1766, he with sixteen others, all of Londonderry, with the exception of his brother-in-law, John Hall of Derryfield, and his son-in-law James Betton of Windham, purchased a tract of country in "the Society Land," so called (now Greenfield, NH.) containing "five thousand acres, except only one thousand acres which I reserved next to Peterborough line.' The deed was given by Thomas Wallingford of Somersworth, N. H. for the consideration of "200 pounds sterling money." He removed to this hitherto unoccupied region probably soon after his wife's death in 1775, as his son-in-law, Capt. Alexander Parker, settled there in 1771. While in this locality he married, second, a Mrs. Parked, whose history was never learned. The date of his death is not known, but it evidently took place prior to 1781, in which year his possessions are quit-claimed by his heirs.

Sources

• History of Windham in New Hampshire (Rockingham county) 1717-1883, by Leonard Morrison; pg 343. (https://archive.org/stream/historyofwindham83morr#page/341/mode/2up : accessed 04 OCT 2014).

• https://books.google.com/books?id=vdxGAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&dq=Betsey+Dickey+hall+1784&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OQksVbqEG4WlNvCBgegE&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=bestsey%20putnam&f=false