Nathaniel Dickinson

Citations

1. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 2 (Deerfield: E.A. Hall and Co., 1896), Genealogies 144.
2. [S940] Clifford L. Stott, "The Correct English Origins of Nathaniel Dickinson and William Gull, Settlers of Wethersfield and Hadley", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 152 (Apr. 1998).
3. [S940] Clifford L. Stott, "Nathaniel Dickinson and William Gull", widow of John Gull.
4. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield II, Genealogies 144, at Wethersfield 1637. The birth of son Samuel is the first of his children recorded in Wethersfield.
5. [S290] Sylvester Judd and Lucius Boltwood, History of Hadley, including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby Masssachusetts (Springfield, Mass.: H.R. Hunting and Company, 1905), p. 11: "The Agreement or Engagement of those who intended to remove from Connecticut to Massachusetts, is dated at Hartford, April 18, 1659, and is recorded on the first book of Hadley records. The following is a copy of that Agreement and of some proceedings of a later date recorded with the other:
   "At a meeting at Goodman Ward's house, in Hartford, April i8th, 1659, the company there met engaged themselves under their own hands, or by their deputies, whom they had chosen, to remove themselves and their families out of the jurisdiction of Connecticut into the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts, as may appear in a paper dated the day and year abovesaid. The names of the engagers are these [ * indicates did not remove, or stayed but a short time]:
   John Webster [of Hartford]
   John Marsh [of Hartford]
   James Northam [of Wethersfield]
   
   William Goodwin [of Hartford]
   Robert Webster* [of Hartford]
   Samuel Gardner [of Wethersfield]
   
   John Crow [of Hartford]
   William Lewis Jr.* [of Hartford]
   Thomas Edwards* [of Wethersfield]
   
   Nathaniel Ward [of Hartford]
   Nathaniel Standley [of Hartford]
   John Hubbard [of Wethersfield]
   
   John White [of Hartford]
   Samuel Church [of Hartford]
   Thomas Dickinson [of Wethersfield]
   
   John Barnard [of Hartford]
   William Markum [of Hartford]
   Robert Boltwood [of Wethersfield]
   
   Andrew Bacon [of Hartford]
   Samuel Moody [of Hartford]
   Samuel Smith Jr* [of Wethersfield]
   
   William Lewis [of Hartford]
   Zechariah Field [of Hartford]
   William Gull [of Wethersfield]
   
   William Westwood [of Hartford]
   Widow Westly* [of Hartford]
   Luke Hitchcock* [of Wethersfield]
   
   Richard Goodman [of Hartford]
   Widow Watson* [of Hartford]
   Richard Montague [of Wethersfield]
   
   John Arnold* [of Hartford]
   Andrew Warner [of Hartford]
   John Latimer* [of Wethersfield]
   
   William Partrigg [of Hartford]
   Mr. John Russell Junior [of Wethersfield]
   Peter Tilton [of Windsor]
   
   Gregory Wilterton* [of Hartford]
   Nathaniel Dickinson [of Wethersfield]
   John Hawkes [of Windsor]
   
   Thomas Standley [of Hartford]
   Samuel Smith [of Wethersfield]
   Richard Billings
   
   Samuel Porter [of Windsor]
   Thomas Coleman [of Wethersfield]
   Benj. Harbert*
   
   Richard Church [of Hartford]
   John Russell, senior [of Wethersfield]
   Edward Benton*
   
   Ozias Goodwin* [of Hartford]
   John Dickinson [of Wethersfield]
   John Catling*
   
   Francis Barnard [of Hartford]
   Philip Smith [of Wethersfield]
   Mr. Samuel Hooker*
   
   James Ensign* [of Hartford]
   John Coleman [of Wethersfield]
   Capt. John Cullick*, not fully engaged
   
   George Steele* [of Hartford]
   Thomas Wells [of Wethersfield]
   Daniel Warner
   
   1st. We whose names are above written do engage ourselves mutually one to another, that we will, if God permit, transplant ourselves and families to the plantation purchased, on the east side of the river of Connecticut, beside Northampton, therein to inhabit and dwell by the 29th of September come twelve months, which will be in the year 1660. [Meaning Sept. 29th, 1660.]
   2d. That each of us shall pay the charges of the land purchased according to his proportion, as also for the purchase of Hockanum.
   3d. That we will raise all common charges, of what sort soever, for the present, upon the land that men take up: mow, plow land and house lot, according to the proportion of land that each man takes of all sorts; and all charges shall be paid as they shall arise and be due, from the date hereof.
   4th. That if any persons so engaging be not inhabiting there by the time aforesaid, then, notwithstanding their payment of charges, their lands and what is laid out in rates shall return to the town: and yet this article doth not free men from their promise of going and inhabiting.
   5th. That no man shall have liberty to sell any of his land till he shall inhabit and dwell in the town three years; and also to sell it to no person, but such as the town shall approve on.
   Agreed that all those persons that will go up within three weeks shall give in their names by this day fortnight, and then those that are so agreed shall take up a quarter together, and so those that follow shall take up another quarter, so they do it together, or so far as their numbers run.
   Agreed also that no persons shall fell any trees upon any lot of ground lotted out, or to be lotted out, but upon his own ground or lot, or against his own lot within ten rods of the same in the highway. The land to be lotted is either what is for the homelots, or between the homelots and the meadow.
   It is agreed also by the said company, upon the 25th of April, 1659, that they will purchase the lands on the west side of the great river, above Napanset, if it can be bought, and that each of the said engagers will pay their several proportions to the said purchase, according to what they have put in to take up lands by, at the time of their said engagement: witness their hands, dated April the 18th 1659."
6. [S328] Henry R. Stiles, editor, History of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut, Vol. I (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904), p. 163.
   Of the fifty-nine signers, thirty-six or thirty-seven were from Hartford, twenty front Wethersfield, and two or three from Windsor. Those from Wethersfield were:
   John Russell; Sen., Samuel Gardner; Rev. John Russell, Jr.; Nathaniel Dickinson; John Hubbard, son of George; John Dickinson and Thomas Dickinson, sons of Nath'l.; Thomas Edwards, of Hoccanum (Wethersfield); Samuel Smith, son of Rev. Henry, dec'd.; Robert Boltwood; William Gull; Thomas Coleman; Luke Hitchcock; John Colman, son of Thomas; Philip Smith; Thomas Welles, son of Hugh Welles and son-in-law of Thomas Coleman; Samuel Smith, Jr., s. of Samuel, the Felimonger; Richard Montague; James Northam; John Latimer.
   Smith, Montague and Russell had belting-mills at Hadley; Montague was a baker.
   By year end all had moved to Hadley save five who remained in Wethersfield, viz., Edwards, Samuel Smith, Jr., Hitchcock, Montague and Latimer.
   In March of 1661, Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., Thomas Graves and his sons Isaac and John, Samuel Belden, and Samuel Dickinson (son of Nathaniel) "signed another agreement to remove to the West side of the River at Norwottock."
   . Hereinafter cited as Ancient Wethersfield I.
7. [S1114] Frederick Dickinson, To the Descendants of Thomas Dickinson (Chicago: W.D. Grant, Stationer and Printer, 1897),
   I, NATHANIEL DICKENSON. Senior, late of Haytfield, now of Hadley, in ye County of Hampshire, upon Connitticut, doe make and ordaine this my last will and testament, as follows:
   Imprimis. Making a full surrender of myself, soule and body, into ye handes of God, my Creator, and Jesus Christ, my alone Savior & Redeemer, relying on Him for all yt I need & hope for in this world, & yt which is to come, & leaving my body to decent burriell in hope of a blessed resurrection, I do bestow yt portion of outward estate which the Lord in His Fatherlie mercy hath blessed me with, in manner following: my debtes and funerall expenses being first payd.
   Secondly: I doe give unto my son, Nehemiah, my house & barn & homelott, with all the preveledges and appurtenances thereto belonging; as alsoe one-half my meaddow land in Hadley (except what is hereinafter excepted) with the preveledges and appurtenances thereto belonging; to be to him and his heirs forever, besides what was Thomas Webster's.
   I give my daughter-in-law, Dorcas, widdow of my son Azariah, four acres & a half of Meaddow land, bounded by my son, Thomas, his land east; Francis Barnard, west; John Hubbard, north; & ye highway south; so as to be her & her heirs' forever. Further, I give or abate to her all yt was my due for ye rent of the rent of my land from her, & alsoe doe give to her ye rent money that was due to me for my oxen; and also three pounds that was due for a barrell (unpayd) of Pork: all and every of ye premises I give to ye said Dorcas as her own, to be to her and her heirs forever.
   The rest of my meaddow in Hadley, I doe give to be equally devided betweene all my sons (except Nehemiah) and my daughters — Frances Dickenson & Hannah Clary — which my executors shall either equally divide to all my aforesaid children, or else to pay to each their proportion of ye sayd lands, as it shall be prized in Country pay, within two years after my decease, to ym and their heirs forever.
   To my son, Thomas, I give my house & lott I bought of Mr. Wattson; he paying to Mr. Wattson ye Thirty Pounds yt is yet due for the same; or, if he like it not on those terms, then it shall be last in among my devidable estate to my children.
   I give to my son, Samuel, my house & home-lott in Hatfield, to be to him & his heirs forever, together with the preveledges & appurtenances thereto belonging.
   To my son, Obadiah, I give all ye rest of my land in Hatfield, with ye preveledges and appurtenances thereto belonging, to be to him and his heirs forever; and my meaning & will is that these two, my sons, Samuel & Obadiah, shall not come in for a share of my land in Hadley, but this given them in Hatfield shall be instead of itt.
   To my son, William Gull, (Son of his wife by her first husband) I give that Three Pounds which he oweth me for a barrell of pork.
   All ye rest of my estate I give to be equally divided amongst all my sons and daughters. Frances' Dickenson & Hannah Clary having equall shares with their breathren.
   I doe hereby make and ordaine my two sons, Thomas & Nehemiah executors of this, my last will & testament, hereunto as my last will & testament I have subjoyned my hand and scale this present 29th day of May,1676.
   Nathaniel Dickenson.
   In presence of
   Joseph Kellogg,
   John Russell, Junior.
   The desire of ye testator is yt ye share given unto Frances Dickenson, may, if she see meet, be given to Samuel Gillett's children.
   
   footnote: (Frances was their aunt. See note to Family Number Two.). Hereinafter cited as Descendants of Thomas Dickinson.
8. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield II, Gen. 144.