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Adam Dickinson of Massachusetts
Adam Dickinson (spelled with an i) was born to a prominent New England family on 5 Feb 1701-2.
His birth, like those of all of his siblings, is well documented in Springfield town records.
The marriages of of Adams's siblings, and the births of many of his nieces and nephews are similarly recorded. But there does not appear to be any record of Adam Dickinson in New England after his birth.
Adam Dickinson's ancestors
Adam was the seventh child of
Hezekiah Dickinson (1645-1707)
and Abigail Blakeman (1663-1719).
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Adam Dickenson of Virginia
Adam Dickenson (spelled with an e), my 7x great-grandfather, was one of the first permanent settlers in the Cowpasture Region of central Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
He settled there in 1744, when the Cowpasture (named after a river) was very much on the Virginia frontier.
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Adam Dickenson's Descendants
The window of Adam Dickenson was named
Catherine. Adam died intestate, and court records regarding of his estate establish his wife's given name. According to many poorly-sources accounts, she was named Catherine Stephenson.
Adam and Catharine had three children - two daughters, Abigail and Mary, and a son, John.
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Reconciling the two Adam Dick*nsons as one person
No historical records tied to his time in Virginia reveal his place of birth or parents,
and only one Virginia history book appears to remarks at all on events in his life before he appeared in Virginia.
Nonetheless I am comfortable asserting that Adam Dickinson of Massachusetts and Adam Dickenson of Virginia
are the same person.
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