Mercy Dickinson
Wife of Thomas Underhill of Purchase and Nine Partners, sometimes called Mary, and mother of nine children born between 1755 and 1774, probably among them Sarah (Underhill) Frost, wife of George Frost. Probably the eldest known child of Zebulon Dickinson and Joyce Hance, later of North Castle, Westchester County, she was born in 1733 and was still living in 1801.
Life
- 1733Born20th of 6th mo. 1733
The Quaker 6th month, before 1752, is August: 20 Aug 1733 ("Mercy, born 20, 6, 1733," Underhill Genealogy 2:138).
compiledprobable - aft. 1801Diedaft. 8 Nov 1801
Named as "Wife Mary" in her husband's will of the 15th of the 10th month 1800; her daughter Deborah's will of the 8th of the 11th month 1801 "mentions mother, but does not name her."
documentedprobable
Family
- Father
- Zebulon Dickinson
"daughter of Zebulon and Joyce (Hance) Dickinson" (Underhill Genealogy 2:138). Her sisters Hannah (1764) and Deborah (1771) married at Purchase as daughters of Zebulon, of North Castle.
compiledprobableSources
- Josephine C. Frost, ed., Underhill Genealogy, vols. 1-2 (1932)
- Charles W. Baird, "Marriage Records of the Society of Friends in the Town of Harrison, N. Y.," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 3 (1872): 45-50
- Reasoning:
research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md
- Mother
- Joyce Hance
Married Zebulon Dickinson at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, "March 5, 1733 (Stillwell's N. J. Miscellany, Vol. 1, p. 273)" (Underhill Genealogy 2:139).
compiledprobable - Spouse
- Thomas Underhill
His will calls her "Wife Mary"; the Underhill Genealogy: "His wife at times is called 'Mary.'" No record of the marriage was found; it is not in the Purchase marriages of 1742-1785.
compiledprobable1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Mother of Sarah (Underhill) Frost: the wife of Thomas Underhill of Purchase and Nine Partners, and the eldest known child of Zebulon Dickinson and Joyce Hance, who married at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, in 1733 and were later of North Castle, Westchester County (source, 2:138-139). “His wife at times is called ‘Mary,’” the Underhill Genealogy notes of her husband, and his will of 1800 names “Wife Mary.”
She had nine children between 1755 and 1774 (see Thomas Underhill). Her sister Deborah married her husband’s brother John Underhill at Chappaqua in 1771; another sister, Hannah, married John Hallock of Cortlandt Manor in 1764, and her brother Zebadiah married Elizabeth Powell in 1775 (source).
Research: research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md.
Open questions
- Her marriage to Thomas Underhill (not in the Purchase marriages of 1742-1785).
- Her birth and her parents’ wedding are hard to fit together: the Underhill Genealogy has the wedding on “March 5, 1733” and her birth on the 20th of the 6th month (August) 1733. One of the dates may be misread; the Purchase or Shrewsbury Friends’ records would show.