Mabel, as she is called in some records, was a daughter of Joel Dickinson and Rachel Coombs. She was born circa 1751, perhaps when her family resided in Hatfield, MA. About 1752 they moved to the part of Hatfield which was later incorporated as Whately, and by 1770 the Dickinsons had relocated to Conway, MA. These towns were in Hampshire County until Franklin County was formed in 1811.
An Intention of Marriage for Mabel Dickinson and farmer Ebenezer Redfield, also of Conway, was recorded Jan. 14, 1774; their first child, Joel, arrived on Sept. 7th, but he lived only one year. Nine more children followed—born between 1776 and about 1796—and they're identified in the 1860 Redfield Genealogy and Conway town records: Rachel, William, Orrin, Joel Dickinson, Silas, Ebenezer Dudley, Sarah, Sophronia, and Nathaniel.
Mabel's husband and father appear in the History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts* (Everts, 1879), and her Dickinson ancestors are chronicled in the town histories of Wethersfield, CT, and Northampton, Hadley, Northfield and Hatfield, MA. Her paternal grandfather was Nathaniel Dickinson (1670-1745), as noted in the History of Whately, Mass. (Temple, 1872). Nathaniel was a son of Joseph Dickinson (slain in King Philip's War on Sept. 4, 1675, at present-day Northfield, MA) and Phebe Bracey; Phebe's medieval ancestry through her father Thomas "Bressey"—including their lines of descent from King Henry II—is documented in the heavily referenced Plantagenet Ancestry (Richardson, 2004) and Magna Carta Ancestry (Richardson, 2005).
*The Dickinson family's loyalties were divided during the American Revolutionary War; Mabel's father, brother Elias, and husband Ebenezer Redfield were classed as Tories, whereas her brother Reuben was a Patriot.
Mabel belonged to the Congregational Church in Conway, and their records list her death as occurring on May 6, 1821, age 70; town records note that "the wife of Ebenezer Redfield" died on May 7, 1821, and her gravestone is engraved as such. Her husband of 47 years lived on until Jan. 4, 1823, when Ebenezer died of consumption at age 73.
An Intention of Marriage for Mabel Dickinson and farmer Ebenezer Redfield, also of Conway, was recorded Jan. 14, 1774; their first child, Joel, arrived on Sept. 7th, but he lived only one year. Nine more children followed—born between 1776 and about 1796—and they're identified in the 1860 Redfield Genealogy and Conway town records: Rachel, William, Orrin, Joel Dickinson, Silas, Ebenezer Dudley, Sarah, Sophronia, and Nathaniel.
Mabel's husband and father appear in the History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts* (Everts, 1879), and her Dickinson ancestors are chronicled in the town histories of Wethersfield, CT, and Northampton, Hadley, Northfield and Hatfield, MA. Her paternal grandfather was Nathaniel Dickinson (1670-1745), as noted in the History of Whately, Mass. (Temple, 1872). Nathaniel was a son of Joseph Dickinson (slain in King Philip's War on Sept. 4, 1675, at present-day Northfield, MA) and Phebe Bracey; Phebe's medieval ancestry through her father Thomas "Bressey"—including their lines of descent from King Henry II—is documented in the heavily referenced Plantagenet Ancestry (Richardson, 2004) and Magna Carta Ancestry (Richardson, 2005).
*The Dickinson family's loyalties were divided during the American Revolutionary War; Mabel's father, brother Elias, and husband Ebenezer Redfield were classed as Tories, whereas her brother Reuben was a Patriot.
Mabel belonged to the Congregational Church in Conway, and their records list her death as occurring on May 6, 1821, age 70; town records note that "the wife of Ebenezer Redfield" died on May 7, 1821, and her gravestone is engraved as such. Her husband of 47 years lived on until Jan. 4, 1823, when Ebenezer died of consumption at age 73.
Mabel, as she is called in some records, was a daughter of Joel Dickinson and Rachel Coombs. She was born circa 1751, perhaps when her family resided in Hatfield, MA. About 1752 they moved to the part of Hatfield which was later incorporated as Whately, and by 1770 the Dickinsons had relocated to Conway, MA. These towns were in Hampshire County until Franklin County was formed in 1811.
An Intention of Marriage for Mabel Dickinson and farmer Ebenezer Redfield, also of Conway, was recorded Jan. 14, 1774; their first child, Joel, arrived on Sept. 7th, but he lived only one year. Nine more children followed—born between 1776 and about 1796—and they're identified in the 1860 Redfield Genealogy and Conway town records: Rachel, William, Orrin, Joel Dickinson, Silas, Ebenezer Dudley, Sarah, Sophronia, and Nathaniel.
Mabel's husband and father appear in the History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts* (Everts, 1879), and her Dickinson ancestors are chronicled in the town histories of Wethersfield, CT, and Northampton, Hadley, Northfield and Hatfield, MA. Her paternal grandfather was Nathaniel Dickinson (1670-1745), as noted in the History of Whately, Mass. (Temple, 1872). Nathaniel was a son of Joseph Dickinson (slain in King Philip's War on Sept. 4, 1675, at present-day Northfield, MA) and Phebe Bracey; Phebe's medieval ancestry through her father Thomas "Bressey"—including their lines of descent from King Henry II—is documented in the heavily referenced Plantagenet Ancestry (Richardson, 2004) and Magna Carta Ancestry (Richardson, 2005).
*The Dickinson family's loyalties were divided during the American Revolutionary War; Mabel's father, brother Elias, and husband Ebenezer Redfield were classed as Tories, whereas her brother Reuben was a Patriot.
Mabel belonged to the Congregational Church in Conway, and their records list her death as occurring on May 6, 1821, age 70; town records note that "the wife of Ebenezer Redfield" died on May 7, 1821, and her gravestone is engraved as such. Her husband of 47 years lived on until Jan. 4, 1823, when Ebenezer died of consumption at age 73.
An Intention of Marriage for Mabel Dickinson and farmer Ebenezer Redfield, also of Conway, was recorded Jan. 14, 1774; their first child, Joel, arrived on Sept. 7th, but he lived only one year. Nine more children followed—born between 1776 and about 1796—and they're identified in the 1860 Redfield Genealogy and Conway town records: Rachel, William, Orrin, Joel Dickinson, Silas, Ebenezer Dudley, Sarah, Sophronia, and Nathaniel.
Mabel's husband and father appear in the History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts* (Everts, 1879), and her Dickinson ancestors are chronicled in the town histories of Wethersfield, CT, and Northampton, Hadley, Northfield and Hatfield, MA. Her paternal grandfather was Nathaniel Dickinson (1670-1745), as noted in the History of Whately, Mass. (Temple, 1872). Nathaniel was a son of Joseph Dickinson (slain in King Philip's War on Sept. 4, 1675, at present-day Northfield, MA) and Phebe Bracey; Phebe's medieval ancestry through her father Thomas "Bressey"—including their lines of descent from King Henry II—is documented in the heavily referenced Plantagenet Ancestry (Richardson, 2004) and Magna Carta Ancestry (Richardson, 2005).
*The Dickinson family's loyalties were divided during the American Revolutionary War; Mabel's father, brother Elias, and husband Ebenezer Redfield were classed as Tories, whereas her brother Reuben was a Patriot.
Mabel belonged to the Congregational Church in Conway, and their records list her death as occurring on May 6, 1821, age 70; town records note that "the wife of Ebenezer Redfield" died on May 7, 1821, and her gravestone is engraved as such. Her husband of 47 years lived on until Jan. 4, 1823, when Ebenezer died of consumption at age 73.
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