Nancy Dickinson: Robin's Roots

1752 - 1799 (47 years)

TNG Ancestor Charts

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a lovely graphical format that shows the name and birth/death years in a box for each person's box. Additional data for each person can be pulled down from that box. They are in the shape of a standard pedigree chart, with empty boxes for ancestors that are not present in the tree.. Unfortunately, they generate so much whitespace that they require a lot of scrolling to read, and are virtually impossible to print. (But see the "PDF" chart below.)
"Vertical" charts are also lovely graphical charts. These flow down up instead of across the page. Since vertical charts do not use blank boxes for ancestors who are missing from the database, they are more compact than the "Standard" charts. But you cannot pull down additional data from each box. And depending on the number of ancestors in the tree, they can be too wide to print.
"Compact" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are much smaller because they contain only names.
"Box" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are bigger because they contain some of the data that is pulled-down from the "Standard" chart boxes. As a result, they are even more unweildy than the "Standard" charts.
"Fan" charts are remarkable. All I can say is "try one".
"PDF" chart are variants of "Standard" chart. They create a one-page PDF file that can hold up to six generations of data.
Most PC's these days can generate PDF printouts of any web page, but PDFs are distinctive because they control the page margins and page breaks,
The "Map" is not a chart. Rather, it is, well, a map. The places of ancestors' birth, marriage, and death are shown as pins on the map. It's pretty remarkable - you should give it a try, though the map would be easier to interpret if the pins were colored or numbered to represent generations.

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll wheel or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts are shaped just like the "Standard" charts, with lines drawn from person-to-person. They just don't put each person's data into graphical boxes.
"Text+" charts are quite distinctive, and unique to TNG. They are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They are much more compact than the text charts, partly because they do not leave blank space where ancestors are missing. The ancestor tree extends to the right like typical charts, stretch vertically rather than horizontally, and can includes upwards of 15 generations in the width of one printed page (albeit sometimes with legal-length paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
"Ahnetafel" charts follow a standard genealogical text format that is descriptive - more like prose than a 'chart'. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they don't give the kind of visual overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Media" charts are not focused on media, and they don't actually show pictures; they just indicate whether each ancestor's record has media item attached to it. (They don't distinguish between photos, scans of documents, and other types of media.) Their presentation of ancestors is very simple, and easy to read and print.

Less detail

Generation: 1

Nancy Dickinson was born in 1752 in Augusta Co, VA (daughter of John Dickinson and Martha Usher); died in 1799 in Greenbrier Co, WV.

Nancy married James McClung in 1772. James was born in 1736 in Greenbrier Co, WV; died on 28 Sep 1790 in Greenbrier Co, WV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
James McClung's brother William "Grandfather Billie" McClung married Nancy Dickenson's cousin Abigail Dickenson Carpenter (daughter of Abigail Dickenson and Joseph Carpenter.

Generation: 2

John Dickinson was born on 4 May 1732 in Cowpasture Region, Alleghany, VA (son of Adam Dickinson and Catherine Stephenson); died on 16 Mar 1799 in Hope, Bath, VA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Probate: Bath County, Virginia, USA

Notes:

John Dickinson was a precocious fighting horseman who, in his early 20's, was named captain of a Virginia Militia company that was dubbed" Dickenson's Rangers" (misspelling 'DIckinson'. Fort Dickenson in central Virginia was named for him when he was still a young solider in command of the fort. He led a company in the Battle of Point Pleasant in what is now West Virginia in 1774.
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I spell his surname "Dickinson" (with an i) because He spelled it that way in his will, and because the historical markers for the fort named after him say "Fort Dickinson". But most Virginia records spell his (and his fathers) last name "Dickenson" (with an e), and his his Virginia Militia company is usually called "Dickenson's Rangers".
I use his will's spelling as evidence that his father was the Adam Dickinson who was born in Massachusetts to Hezekiah Dickinson and Abigail Blakeman.
But his children's names are generally spelled with an e, so that's how I spell them.

John married Martha Usher
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in 1767. Martha was born on 19 Sep 1735 in Hope, Bath, VA; died on 20 Dec 1798 in Hope, Bath, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha Usher was born on 19 Sep 1735 in Hope, Bath, VA; died on 20 Dec 1798 in Hope, Bath, VA.

Children:

1. Nancy Dickinson was born in 1752 in Augusta Co, VA; died in 1799 in Greenbrier Co, WV.
Jacob Dickinson was born on 20 Jun 1752 in Cowpasture Region, Alleghany, VA; died on 25 Dec 1818 in Hampshire Co, WV.
Mary Perry Dickinson was born on 11 Aug 1768 in Bedford, Bedford, VA; died on 5 Feb 1853 in Augusta Co, VA.
Adam Dickinson was born before 1775 in Virginia.
Martha Usher Dickinson was born in 1780.

Generation: 3

Adam Dickinson was born on 5 Feb 1701/02 in Springfield, Hampden, MA (son of Hezekiah Dickinson and Abigail Blakeman); died in 1762 in Augusta Co, VA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1733, Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
Civil: 1742, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA; Entered into a bond in favor of Thomas Lindsay, whereby he was to patent 1,000 acres on Clover Creek, \"otherwise ye Cow Pasture\"; and place two families on the tract.
Residence: 1745, Cowpasture Region, Augusta County, Virginia, USA; 1080 acres were surveyed for Adam Dickenson, in what is now Allegheny County.
Residence: 15 Dec 1756, Augusta County, Virginia, USA; Adam Dickinson gave bond for the adminisration of the estate of Humphrey Madison. Security given by Wallace Estill and Daniel Harrison

Adam married Catherine Stephenson. Catherine died in Feb 1790 in Cowpasture Region, Alleghany, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine Stephenson died in Feb 1790 in Cowpasture Region, Alleghany, VA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1754, Cowpasture Region, Alleghany County, Virginia, USA; 310 acres granted from her husband
Residence: Betw 1782 and 1785, Virginia, USA
Will: 17 Feb 1790

Children:

Mary Dickinson was born in 1725 in Augusta Co, VA; died after 1797 in Augusta Co, VA.
Abigail Dickinson was born in 1728 in Pennsylvania; died in 1750 in Augusta Co, VA.
2. John Dickinson was born on 4 May 1732 in Cowpasture Region, Alleghany, VA; died on 16 Mar 1799 in Hope, Bath, VA.

Generation: 4

Hezekiah Dickinson was born on 28 Feb 1645/46 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT (son of Nathaniel Dickinson and Anne Bincks); died on 14 Jun 1707 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; was buried in Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Hampshire, MA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1679, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Residence: 1693, Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Possessions: 15 Apr 1693, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA; Sold his home property to Stephen Jennings

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=14061944; no headstone. Photo of plaque honoring his immigrant father.

Hezekiah married Abigail Blakeman on 4 Dec 1679 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT. Abigail (daughter of Samuel Blakeman and Elizabeth Wheeler) was born on 11 Nov 1663 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT; died on 30 Mar 1719 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail Blakeman was born on 11 Nov 1663 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT (daughter of Samuel Blakeman and Elizabeth Wheeler); died on 30 Mar 1719 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Hampden, MA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1679, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Residence: 1707, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=27309558; no photo

Children:

Joanna Dickinson was born on 2 Feb 1684 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA; died on 31 Oct 1764 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; was buried in Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden, MA.
Jonathan Dickinson was born on 22 Apr 1688 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA; died on 17 Oct 1747 in Elizabethtown, Union, NJ; was buried in First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabethtown, Union, NJ.
Abigail Dickinson was born on 8 Dec 1690 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA; died on 20 Jun 1775 in Longmeadow, Hampden, MA; was buried in Longmeadow Cemetery, Longmeadow, Hampden, MA.
Elizabeth Dickinson was born on 9 Mar 1693 in Amherst, Hampshire, MA; died in UNKNOWN.
Moses Dickinson was born on 12 Dec 1695 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 1 May 1778 in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT; was buried in East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield, CT.
4. Adam Dickinson was born on 5 Feb 1701/02 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died in 1762 in Augusta Co, VA.


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