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Ann Dickinson
b.6 Aug 1721
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Northfield (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Births, baptisms, marriages, intentions, deaths, 1713-1839, approx. (Salt Lake City, Utah)
p. 239.
Deaths - F
Oct. 16: 1755 - Aannah [sic] Wife to Moses Field
- ↑ Find A Grave.
Here lies buried Mrs
Anne Field wife of
Mr Moses Field,
Who Decd Octobr
ye 16th 1755 in
ye 35th year of
Her age.
[Age 34, so born about 1721. Note: birth location given as Hartford, CT, but parents lived in Hatfield, MA.]
- ↑ Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Field Genealogy : Being the Record of All the Field Family in America, Whose Ancestors Were in This Country Prior to 1700: Emigrant Ancestors Located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia : All Descendants of the Fields of England, Whose Ancestor, Hurbutus de la Field was from Alsace-Lorraine. (Chicago: W.B. Conkey, 1901)
p. 227.
Ensign Moses Field [#343] m. (1) 20 Aug 1740 Ann Dickinson, b. 6 Aug 1721 [note: birth record not located], d. 16 Oct 1755.
- ↑ Ann Dickinson may be the daughter of Samuel Dickinson and Rebecca Barrett of Hatfield. However, there are warning signs that suggest more research is needed. The problem starts with being unable to locate a birth record, so having no idea where Pierce acquired his information. We do not even have a marriage record to show her maiden name was Dickinson. (Was that an assumption based on the History of Sunderland information referred to below?) The gravestone confirms that the birthdate is about right. But the need for a birth record is driven by a desire to see if it names her parents. Snippets of Magazine of Detroit Society for Genealogical Research (e.g., example) refutes that she could be a sister of Joseph Dickinson of Sunderland (i.e., see History of Sunderland, p. 161), but while age makes that clear (Joseph's sister b. 1683, could not be the mother of Moses Field child b. 1755), it is not clear that they showed she was a niece, as claimed, since their whole argument has not been seen. (Did they throw out sister, merely changing it to niece, but keeping everything else as fact, when in fact, none of it may have any basis?) Ann's birth in 1721 is 15 years after Rebecca's marriage to Samuel, which is her second, and 22 years after her first marriage, so Rebecca is on the verge of being too old to be her mother. At least one source that covers this family (e.g., here), shows no such daughter in it.
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