Manuscript Group 1425 Dickinson/Dickerson Family Collection

 

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Manuscript
Collection

 

 

 

Manuscript
Group # 1425

 

Dickinson/Dickerson
Family Collection

 

6
Boxes

 

 

 

Transcribed by Stephen M. Sullivan

 

February 2000

 

 

 

 

Provenance:

 

 

This collection is thought to have donated
by Wesley L. baker of Douglaston, New York.  These documents
were collected by him during his research on the family for his
book, Descendants of Philemon Dickerson, Adams Press,
Chicago, 1978.

 

 

Scope and Content Notes:

 

 

The Dickinson/Dickerson Family Collection
contains notebooks, correspondence, family genealogical charts
and other materials used during the research of the above
mentioned book.  The materials have been left in the order
in which they were received.

 

 

Inventory

 

 

 

Box     Folder
Description
Dates

 

 

 

1
Box 1 Contains 5 notebooks, labeled as follows:
A – Dickersons born in the 1790’s

 

B
– Dickersons, A -J, born 1800 or later in New York City
–
New Jersey area

 

C
– Dickersons, K – Z, born 1800 or later

 

D
– Dickersons born in the 1900’s

 

E
– Dickinsons of New Jersey : Peter (4), John(4) of
Springfield, NJ

 

 

2
1     Daniel(4) Dickerson
2     Daniel(4) Dickerson of Denville
3     Elizabeth Dickerson who married Andrew
Wager
4     John(4) Dickerson of Mendham who
married Hannah Bray
5     John(5) of Indiana who married Grace
Lindley
6     John(6) of Philadelphia (1792-1836) who
married Eliza Ann Stokes
7     John Stiles Dickerson of New York City,
1879-1949

 

8
Joshua(4) Dickerson

 

 

3
1    Peter(4) Dickinson
2    Correspondence with John L. Ely, re:
publishing
3    Correspondence : Miscellaneous and
Philemon(3)
4    Thomas(4) Dickerson
5    Walter and Noahdiah Dickerson

 

6
Unbound copy of Revised History, 1939, by Mrs. Thelma Price
(1965-1966)

 

 

4
1    Correspondence with B.
Sipus of Michigan
2    Correspondence with Glenn P. Smith,
1975-1983, of South Michigan
3    Correspondence with Carl Fisher of New York
State
4    Correspondence with Doctor J. Kirc Seaton of
Pennington, NJ
5    Historical and biographical articles, re:
Dickerson

 

6
Lineage charts

 

 

5
1    Families related to Dickinson-Dickerson:
Baldwin,   Banta,   Bayles,   Brainare,
Brookfield,   Coe,   Condit,   Coolidge,
Corwin,   Genung,   Halsey,   Hathaway,
Holcombe,   Landon,   Lindsley,   Sayre,
Slaght,   Stiles,   Stokes,   Squier,
Van Winkle,   Wade,   Youngs,   Zabriskie

 

2
Cemetary, church, death, and marriage records

 

3
President Warren Harding’s Dickerson Ancestry in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania

 

4
Morris County, New Jersey Military files

 

5
Dickerson catalog cards in the Gardner Collection at Rutgers,
1975

 

6
Canfield, Frederick A. – notebook about Dickersons from
newspapers, charts, ect.

 

7
Morristown, New Jersey data from town library

 

 

6
1   Early records of New Jersey : Perth Amboy,
Rutgers, Trenton, and Historical Society

 

2
Deeds and Surrogate’s records from Morris, Essex and Union
counties

 

3
New Jersey tax rateables from GMNJ

 

4
Correspondence from Newton, New Jersey

 

5
Remnants not used in published book

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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