Re: Dick family in Frederick County Virginia
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In reply to:
Re: Dick family in Frederick County Virginia
5/19/99
I am a direct descendant of Peter Dick Sr. b. abt 1720 in Germany, d. Oct 1790 Frederick Co., VA.
Peter is believed to have arrived and settled in Phila, PA in abt 1747 when his daughter Catherine was born aboard ship in route to America. He is shown as an original land owner in Manheim Township, York Co., PA and/or was a squatter.
Peter is believed to have arrived and settled in Phila, PA in abt 1747 when his daughter Catherine was born aboard ship in route to America. He is shown as an original land owner in Manheim Township, York Co., PA and/or was a squatter.He received a land grant dated 30 Sep 1789 and surveyed on 4 Jul 1775 in Frederick Co., VA on the Waters of Sleepy Creek. This land grant is online and able to be d/l from the Library of VA. Peter Dick Sr. was in Frederick Co., VA by 1782 the actual date the 1790 census was taken in Frederick Co., VA and is shown as 6 whites and 0 blacks and living next door to Lewis Wills. On the other side of Lewis Wills is Peter Dick Sr.'s son Peter Jr. who also received a land grant dated 3 Oct 1787 for 256 acres adjoining Mathew Trotter on the drains of Sleepy Creek.
He received a land grant dated 30 Sep 1789 and surveyed on 4 Jul 1775 in Frederick Co., VA on the Waters of Sleepy Creek. This land grant is online and able to be d/l from the Library of VA. Peter Dick Sr. was in Frederick Co., VA by 1782 the actual date the 1790 census was taken in Frederick Co., VA and is shown as 6 whites and 0 blacks and living next door to Lewis Wills. On the other side of Lewis Wills is Peter Dick Sr.'s son Peter Jr. who also received a land grant dated 3 Oct 1787 for 256 acres adjoining Mathew Trotter on the drains of Sleepy Creek.Peter Sr. had three wives.
1. unknown
2. m. Mary Elizabeth Linton 30 Sep 1756 in Phil, PA
3. m. Barbara Null 25 Sep 1787 in Rockingham Co., VA.
1. unknown
2. m. Mary Elizabeth Linton 30 Sep 1756 in Phil, PA
3. m. Barbara Null 25 Sep 1787 in Rockingham Co., VA.
My descent is
1. Peter Dick Sr. m. Mary Eliz. Linton
2. Peter Dick, Jr. m. Mary Altrate
3. Elizabeth Dick m. Isaac Bohrer
1. Peter Dick Sr. m. Mary Eliz. Linton
2. Peter Dick, Jr. m. Mary Altrate
3. Elizabeth Dick m. Isaac BohrerThere is much Dick information, documentation etc. in the book "Charles McIntire of Colonial Virginia" by June McIntire Taylor and her sister Lois McIntire Salisbury c. 1981. (They are my distant cousins)and their is more on and off line in Frederick Co., VA and in the Morgan Co., WV (VA) census'.