James Dickson

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Husband James Dickson ¹

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           Born: Abt 1751 - near Dumfries, Scotland
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           Died: 3 Aug 1825 - Hayfield Twp, Crawford Co, PA 2
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1 F Jeanette Dickson ⁴

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            AKA: Janet Dickson 3
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         Spouse: James Culbertson (1773-1831) 4 5
           Marr: 25 Aug 1803 3

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2 M Robert Dickson ¹

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3 M James Dickson ²

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4 M Joseph Dickson ⁶

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           Born: 12 Feb 1790 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 7
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         Spouse: Mary Frazier (1800-      ) 7

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5 F Barbara Dickson ²

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6 F Mary Dickson ²

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         Spouse: [Unk] Andrews (      -      ) 2

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7 M William Dickson ²

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8 M John Dickson ²

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General Notes: Husband - James Dickson

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In Hayfield township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, he bought a farm in 1794 and settled there in 1796, purchasing a tract of 800 acres for 20 cents an acre.

He was born near Dumfries, Scotland, and in 1785 emigrated with his wife and two children to America. Landing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he proceeded at once to Pittsburgh, where he remained till the spring of 1793. He resolved to secure a home under the provisions of the act of the Legislature passed the year previous, and accordingly traveled on foot from Pittsburgh to Meadville, and located a tract of 400 acres on the west bank of French Creek, four miles above Meadville, in what later became Hayfield Township. He also located 400 acres just south of it for his eldest son, Robert, and afterward purchased it. He remained at Meadville during the summer of 1793 cultivating, in connection with William Jones, a field of corn and potatoes on the island, and in the fall returned to Pittsburgh. In the spring of 1794 he removed his family by keelboat up the Allegheny and French Creek, and the boat capsizing, lost all his household goods and clothing on the way. For two years he remained at the old block-house at Meadville, and August 10, 1794, was severely wounded by the Indians near the block-house. In the spring of 1796, Wayne's Treaty of Greenville having rendered settlements possible, he removed with his family to a little cabin on his tract and remained till his death, which occurred in his seventy-fourth year. He was a member of the Meadville Presbyterian Church.

1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 560, 732.

2 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 560.

3 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 23.

4 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1114.

5 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 20.

6 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 560, 731.

7 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 732.