This sketch about John and Elizabeth Dickinson is uncomfortable for me to present to you because there have been some discussions and controversial comments about them. To begin with, our ancestor, Charles Dickinson, may not be their son because he was born in Narragansett, Rhode Island. Their other children were born in Long Island, New York. I see no indication that the family ever lived in Rhode Island, so I am worried about presenting our possible link to this couple that I have entered into our family tree. Some researchers say that this couple did not have a son named Charles. There are other disagreements about John's birthdate and questions about whether he had one, two, or three other marriages, and so on. Having told you all the above, I will go ahead with my original plan to tell you about this family but with a lack of confidence in the strength of their story. If we learn later that our ancestor, Charles Dickinson, was definitely NOT the son of this couple, I will undo my error and try to find Charles' true parents.
John Dickinson/Dickenson emigrated from England to Salisbury, Massachusetts in 1640. He was born in 1602 in Ely, Cambridge, England. He had a wife named Mary Taylor and two wives named Frances, according to some researchers. Frances Foote was the name of one of them. On the 10th of July in 1651, he married Elizabeth Howland Hicks, the widow of Ephraim Hicks in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. John and Elizabeth had at least five children, as follows:
1654 Joseph
1666 Charles, our ancestor
1671 Hannah
1674 Richard
? Elizabeth
In 1658, John bought a lot on Oyster Bay from John Hinksman. In 1677, John is on a list of Freeholders of Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. The Town of Oyster Bay is the easternmost of the three towns which make up Nassau County, .... The town of Oyster Bay extends from Long Island Sound in the north, south to the waters of South Oyster Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, pictured here:
Elizabeth died in Oyster Bay, Long Island in 1683 at the age of 48. She "willed to her granddaughter, Elizabeth Dickinson: 1 pair of sheets and 1 pair of pillowcases. The residue to her 3 daughters, Elizabeth Dickinson, Lidia Browne, and Hannah Bosworth." [Lidia may have been the daughter of Ephraim Hicks]. John died in 1684, at age 82.
JOHN DICKINSON
BORN: 1602 in Ely, Cambridge, England
MARRIED: 1)Mary Taylor, 2) Frances Foote, 3) Elizabeth (Howland) Hicks 10 Jul 1651
DIED: 1684 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY
ELIZABETH HOWLAND
BORN: 11 Oct 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
MARRIED: 1)Ephraim Hicks in 13 Sep 1649 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
DIED: 26 Jan 1683 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY
Sources: John's birth: Pedigree Resource File submitted by Eugene D. Tidwell 3484 E. Summer Hill Dr., Salt Lake City, UT 84121 edtidwell@netzero.net on 21 Jun 2000; Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA;"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQR9-BH3 : 11 February 2018, John Dickenson in entry for Richard Dickenson, 27 Sep 1674); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 504,743; DICKINSON, John (1630-1676) & Frances (FOOTE) (1629-), M/2 Frances BARNARD 1677; B 1648?; Wethersfield, CT/Hadley DICKINSON/DICKERSON?, John (-1680) & 2/wf Elizabeth (HOWLAND) HICKS (-1691, Oyster Bay), w Ephraim; 10 Jul 1641; Plymouth "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:MBT9-BZ9 : accessed 24 December 2018), entry for Elizabeth Howland; file (2:2:2:MM95-RQX), submitted 11 May 1999. Pedigree Resource File submitted by Researcher, Eugene D. Tidwell 3484 E. Summer Hill. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Resided at Oyster Bay Long Island Co. New York John DICKINSON bought a lot from John Hinksman in 1658 of Oyster Bay, Long Island Co., New York.
