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Note: Martha may or may not have been a sister to Matthew. However, her brother's name was John Hall of Derryfield. There was a Jonathan Taylor living nearby in the same time period so she may have been related to him. I placed her as sister to Matthew simply because the Taylor's and Dickey's have a long association, even naming their children the same names. 20. Samuel Dickey He married 21. Martha Taylor 1732 in Londonderry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. 21. Martha Taylor More About Samuel Dickey: Emigration: Among the 1st settlers of Londonderry, NH per Parker pg.267 Family Genealogy: Parkers"History of Londonderry" pg 267 Residence: South side of Moose Hill. Farmland More About Samuel Dickey and Martha Taylor: Marriage: 1732, Londonderry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire Children of Samuel Dickey and Martha Taylor are: 10 i. Robert Dickey, born February 10, 1747/48 in Londonderry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; died in Londonderry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; married Hannah Woodburn June 10, 1776 in Londonderry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. ii. Sarah B. Dickey, born 1733. iii. Elisabeth Dickey, born May 29, 1733; married James Betton. SECOND GENERATION. 2. Samuel 2 Dickey {William") was doubtless the eldest of William 1 Dickey's children who came to this country. Although the date of his birth has not been preserved, circumstances go to show that he was well advanced toward manhood, and had possibly reached the age of 2 1 when he first saw the hills of Londonderry. 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 supe- rior. The farm has ever since been well tilled, and is now in possession of his descendants. " He was distinguished for his Herculean strength, it be- ing 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, after 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 in 1764 DICKEY GENEALOGY. 13 and Robert's in 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 Green- field, N. H.), containing " five thousand acres, except only one thousand acres which I have reserved next to Peter- borough 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 1 77 1 . While in this locality he married, second, a Mrs. Parker, whose history has never been learned. The date of his death is not known, but it evidently took place prior to 1 781, in which year his possessions are quit-claimed by his heirs. Children 7 Born in Londonderry. 3. Elisaheth 3 (12), b. May 27, 1733. 4. Sarah 3 , b. 1735; d. in infancy. 5. Joseph 3 , b. October, 1737; d. Nov. 26, 1746. 6. Adam 3 (23), b. April 17, 1740. 7. Janette 3 (29), b. April 17, 1742. 8. Nancy 3 (30), b. June 2, 1744. 9. Mary (37), b. Sept. 3, 1746. 10. Robert (38), b. Feb. 10, 1748. 11. Martha (50), b. March 17, 1750.
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