Dickinson is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States.

[3] The town was named after Philemon Dickinson, a brigadier general of the New Jersey militia during the American Revolutionary War.

Dickinson is on the western border of Franklin County, southwest of Malone and east of Potsdam.

The name originally proposed for the area was "Annastown", after the daughter of a local landowner; but another influential landowner, Jonathan Dayton, prevailed in naming the town after his friend and fellow member of congress Philemon Dickinson.

The creation of the towns of Moira in 1828 and Waverly in 1880 cost Dickinson more territory.

20.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.