CHARLESTOWN, NEW HAMPSHIRE
From:	Farns10th@aol.com - Janice Farnsworth

Surname:  DICKINSON
Source:   History of Charlestown, NH - Fort No. 4 by
          Rev. Henry H. Saunderson 1876

p.325-326
Elihu Dickinson son of Josiah and Sibil (Partridge)
Dickinson of Hadley, MA m. Belinda Graves dau of Phineas
and Elizabeth (Parker) Graves b. June 6, 1763. Their
children:
1.  John Dickinson b. Dec 17, 1781
2.  Daniel Dickinson b. May 3, 1784
3.  Sidney (dau) b. Jan 29, 1786
4.  Abigail Dickinson b. Apr 3, 1788
5.  Sally Dickinson b. Aug 13, 1789
6.  William G. Dickinson b. Aug 4, 1791
7.  Lucy Dickinson b. Oct 27, 1792

p.326
George Dickinson b. Aug 10th 1812 at Westminster VT
m. June 5, 1848 Susan D. Willard dau of Joseph and
Susan D. (Clapp) Willard b. Oct 3, 1826 at Westminster
VT.
1. Susie Dickinson b. Jan 20, 1854 m. Oct 12, 1871
   John C. Work son of John C. and Jane C. (Sharon)Work
   He b. Feb. 9, 1841 at Columbus, Ohio 
       l. Georgina Work b. Dec 26 1873
   John C. Work grad. Princeton College 1861 went to
   Germany on graduation until 1862.  He resided at
   Charlestown NH since 1867

George Dickinson was the largest stage coach proprietor in
this part of the country during the eight or ten years
that preceded the opening of the railroads in this
section.  He was chief manager and principal proprietor
of the following lines: the line from Walpole to Windsor
on both sides of the river (Connecticut River) the line
from Charlestown to Woodstock through Springfield, VT;
the line from Charlestown to Chester, VT and Landgrove;
and the Forest Line as it was called, from Charlestown
to Hancock, NH.

Before 1820 but little staging was done in this part
of the country.  There was a line to Hanover, but all
its business was done by a two horse coach.  There was
a one horse line also from Walpole to Rutland.  But
between 1820 and 1840 the business immensely increased
and still more from 1840 to the time of the opening of
the railroads.  Under George Dickinson's management
everything was greatly improve.  Splendid teams took the
place of old, jaded and wind-broken horses, and elegant
and showy coaches were substituted for the weather-worn
and unseemly looking vehicles that had been seen previ-
ously.  Says an eminent physician of Hartford, CT., who,
in his youth used frequently to pass through Charlestown
(NH), "It was  a spendid sight to see the stages as
they used to come in and pass out from your principal
hotel.  I have seen a dozen coaches at a time painted
up in the finest style standing  waiting their
turn to take in passengers and baggage and when they
started out or came in, wasn't it a sight? Talk about
railroads! I have seen hundreds of them, but what is
there in the arrival of a train that can compare with
the coming of the old stage coach?"

Commencement time at Hanover used to make lively work
both for the stage company and for the hotels and the
villagers were often greatly excited over the expecta-
tion of seeing some great man, who they knew had gone
to commencement, on his return.  One time General Cass
happened to be the hero of the occasion and everybody
had turned out for the purpose of getting a look at him.

The General had his dinner and they had the satisfaction
of seeing him, for the purpose of getting a good seat, he
hurried out and got into the stage.  The other passengers
also soon took their seats in the different coaches that
were waiting for them and were just ready to start,
when the clerk of the hotel rushed to the door, at the
same time crying out in a very loud voice: "Mr. Dick-
inson will you please stop the coaches a moment, there
is one man aboard who has not paid for his dinner!"
On this General Cass stuck his head out of the door and
said in reply, "I am sorry to acknowledge that what you
say is true, and I am that man and I hope you will
receive as a truthful apology  that my thoughts were so
occupied on other subjects, that the settling of my bill
entirely slipped my mind."  He thereupon paid for his
dinner, when the announcement "all ready" was given
and the drivers cracked their whips and in their usual
dashing style started away.

George Dickinson removed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1857
and remained west until March 1867 and lies buried in our
village cemetery.

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