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 Virginia Descendants
Adam Dickenson's wife was
Catherine Stephenson. Adam died intestate, and court records regarding of his estate establish his wife's name.
Adam and Catharine had three children - two daughters, Abigail and Mary, and a son, John.
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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