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Surname: DICKEY
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 235-236

DICKEY, MATTHEW, John Dickey m. Margaret Reed in county of Antrim, Ireland, and immigrated 
to Londonderry N.H. in the year 1788, with six children; Adam, Matthew, John, Ellen, Isabel and 
Barbara.
	Adam Dickey, of the second generation, married Jane Strahun and settled in Londonderry,
N.H. and had thirteen children, four of whom settled it Acworth, namely John, James, Adam and 
Benjamin, and were the progenitors of the numerous Dickey families who have lived in that town. 
Matthew was the twelfth child and was born April 29, 1772; came to Walpole in 1794, and married 
Betsey Murch, Nov. 8, 1795, and took up wild land of the Atkinson allotment, on Derry Hill, 
where he spent a long life of industry economy and thrift. He had a family of eleven children,
eight of whom survived to adult age.
I. Sophia, b. Jan. 23, 1797, m. Calvin Fay, in 1815, and settled in Prattstown, N.Y. He died 
leaving two children, Calvin, and Lucas. She afterwards m. Henry Goodenow of Keene, and 
had three children: viz. Henry George, residence Chicago, Ill., and Horace, residence, Keene. 
She died June, 1872.
II. Betsey, b. Jan. 20, 1800; m. Jacob B. Burnham and lived in Walpole, during life, died July 
18, 1863. Ch. 1st, Nancy, m. David A. Russell. (See Russell.) 2d, Antoinette, m. Edward 
Wellington and removed to Saginaw, Mich. 3d. Laforest.
III. John, b Aug. 3, 1801, and died very suddenly, while chopping underbrush on the farm now 
owned by J. M. Comstock, Dec. 22, 1722.
IV. George M., b. Feb.3, 1808, went to Mentor, Ohio, and m. Rachel Corning in 1833. Ch. 1st, 
Warren. 2d, Viola. 3d, George 4th, Matthew.
V. Cyrus, b. Oct. 14, 1804; d. Aug. 8, 1841, unm.
VI. Clement S., b. Mar. 12, 1806; m. Betsey P., dau. of Thomas and Eunice (Alexander) Russell, 
Nov. 14, 1839. Ch. 1st, Josie H., b. July 26, 1842, d. Feb. 3, 1877. 2d. Albert C., b. Dec. 
11, 1843, lives with his father in town, unm .
VII. James, b. Oct. 31, 1807, removed to Ohio in 1831; m. Harriet Corning in 1834, d. at 
Walpole, Sept. 1855. Ch. Helen, Wallace C., residence, Cleveland, O., and Edward J., 
residence, Mentor, O.
VIII. Lewis, b. Nov. 1, 1820, and lives on the old homestead unm.
Matthew’s wife d. Dec. 15, 1860, aged 88.