Hinsdale Genealogy,
Author: Herbert C. Andrews
Call Number: CS71.H665. MEHITABEL HINSDALE3 (Samuel2 Robert1), daughter of
Samuel Hinsdale and Mehitabel Johnson, his wife, born at
Medfield, October 18, 1663; married SERGEANT OBADIAH
DICKINSON, born at Wethersfield, Conn., April 15, 1641,
and died there June 10, 1698; the sixth child of Nathaniel
and Anna Dickinson. His house was burned by the Indians
September 19, 1677, his wife wounded, and he and
one child were captured and taken to Canada, whence
he returned the next year. Their home was at Hatfield,
Mass. The renowned Rev. Jonathan Dickinson,
the First President of Princeton College, was a nephew of
Obadiah Dickinson.
Children:
63. i. SARAH.
64. ii. NOADIAH, born at Wethersfield, Conn., Aug. 2, 1694.
65. iii. MEHITABEL, born at Wethersfield, June 16, 1696; married
Nathaniel Frary.
