Nathaniel Dickinson (pioneer)

[3] The family can be traced as early as 1564 in the Billingborough parish register, with the earliest known ancestor a Waters Dickinson, probably born about 1530.

[5] In the late 1650s, he and a group of fellow dissenters from the Wethersfield church organized a new settlement in Hadley, Massachusetts.

Three of Nathaniel's sons, John, Joseph, and Azariah, were killed in King Philip's War in 1675 and 1676.

[8] In Northfield, Massachusetts there is a statue along the side of the road on Route 63, not far from the New England campus of Thomas Aquinas College, that commemorates the location where his grandson, Nathaniel Dickinson, age 47, and Ashael Burt, age 40, were murdered and scalped by Native Americans in 1747.

Nathaniel's ancestry was featured on season two, episode three (Philadelphia – Franklin Institute) of the American version of Genealogy Roadshow.