Ancestry of Dr.
H. H. Holmes

Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”

Thomas Dickinson

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of H. H. Holmes — 9th Generation
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  • Janet -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1640 
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  • prob. Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  Mercy Dickinson (Ahnentafel No:209 )

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  • Thomas Dickinson's surname is also seen as Dicanson.

• Sources for Thomas Dickinson

  • ¹ Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: Graves and Steinbarger, Publishers (1901), 989.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 61, Birth record for daughter Mercy Dickenson.
  • ³ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 454, Marriage record for Thomas Dicanson and Janet _____.
  • ⁴ Appleton, W. S., Some Descendants of William Adams of Ipswich, Mass., Boston: David Clapp and Son (1881), 2.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ Whipple, Henry Burdette, A Partial List of the Descendants of Matthew Whipple, the Elder, of Bocking, Essex County, England, High Point, North Carolina: Unknown (1965), 8.
  • ⁷ Whittemore, Henry, History of the Adams Family with Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Descendants . . ., New York: Willis McDonald and Co., Publishers (1893), 56-57.