Franklin County NcArchives Obituaries.....Dickinson, Matthew September 17, 1809 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Shank Carolynshank@msn.com December 7, 2008, 11:44 am Thurs., Sept. 21, 1809, Raleigh Minerva I have to inform you of the melancholy tidings of the death of MATTHEW DICKINSON, ESQ., late the Principal of the Franklin Academy, aged 28 years. This dissolution took place on Sunday, the 17th inst. at eight o’clock a.m. at the house of ALEXANDER FALCONER ESQ. of Franklin County. Having obtained a license to practice law – at the last Supreme Court, he was cut off when his prospects to shine were just beginning to brighten. MR. DICKINSON was a native of Connecticut, and educated at Yale College – a man of extensive literary acquirements and real worth. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/franklin/obits/d/dickinso2322gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb