Ancestry of Dr.
H. H. Holmes

Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”

Mercy Dickinson

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of H. H. Holmes — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 209 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Dickinson 
  • Mother:
  • Janet -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • Oct 1646 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Dec 1735 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Adams
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Jun 1668 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Adams (Ahnentafel No:104 )

  Mercy Adams

• Sources for Mercy Dickinson

  • ¹ Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: Graves and Steinbarger, Publishers (1901), 989.
  • ² Essex Antiquarian, 1898, Vol. 2, No. 6, p. 88.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for Nathaniell Addams and Mercy Dickenson.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 61, Birth record for Mercy Dickenson.
  • ⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #6394, Membership application for John Milton Adams.
  • ⁶ Appleton, W. S., Some Descendants of William Adams of Ipswich, Mass., Boston: David Clapp and Son (1881), 2.
  • ⁷ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1850-1851.
  • ⁸ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 5.
  • ⁹ Whittemore, Henry, History of the Adams Family with Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Descendants . . ., New York: Willis McDonald and Co., Publishers (1893), 56-57.